9 Best indigenous books like Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance by Howard Pedersen

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Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

By: Howard Pedersen

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

This is the thrilling true story of the great Aboriginal resistance fighter, Jandamurra - a legend,…

If you liked the indigenous plot in Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance by Howard Pedersen , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Is That You Ruthie?

By: Ruth Hegarty

4.17

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Is that you? Matron's voice would ring out across the dormitory. In that pause sixty little girls w… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel

4.26

Format: 1165 pages, Hardcover

Table of Contents Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass Sylvie and Bruno … read more

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"Only the insane equate pain with success." "The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die." _Cheshire Cat"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

"She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box …"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories

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3. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Women, Race & Class book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • history
  • nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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4. Carpentaria

By: Alexis Wright

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous awa… read more

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  • australia
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5. Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14)

By: Kathy Reichs

1.50

Format: None pages,

A body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to Lowes Motor Speedway near Charlotte just as 200,000 … read more

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6. Requiem for a Dream

By: Hubert Selby Jr. , Richard Price , Darren Aronofsky

4.14

Format: None pages, Trade Paperback

In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight a… read more

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7. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

By: غسان كنفاني , None

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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8. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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9. Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Kathy Reichs--#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones--re… read more

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10. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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  • australia
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11. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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12. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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13. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Too Much Lip

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.06

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • australia
  • indigenous
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15. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • australia
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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16. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • australia
  • indigenous
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17. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

By: Louisa Lim

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with … read more

Similar categories in Louisa Lim's Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Acid for the Children

By: Flea

4.08

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more

Similar categories in Flea's Acid for the Children book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Bein famous don't mean shit"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

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20. Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia

By: Victor Steffensen

4.47

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country i… read more

Similar categories in Victor Steffensen's Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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21. Another Day in the Colony

By: Chelsea Watego

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Watego's Another Day in the Colony book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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22. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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23. The Visitors

By: Jane Harrison

3.86

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more

Similar categories in Jane Harrison's The Visitors book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • australia
  • indigenous
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24. The Midwife

By: Tricia Cresswell

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1830. After a violent storm, a woman is found alone, naked, near death on the Northumberland moors.… read more

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25. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

By: Thomas Mayo

4.52

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mayo's The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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26. Notes on Heartbreak

By: Annie Lord

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lord's Notes on Heartbreak book and Howard Pedersen's Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

  • nonfiction
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

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27. Hopeless Kingdom

By: Kgshak Akec

3.81

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Akita’s family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelo… read more

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  • australia
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28. The Queen Is Dead

By: Stan Grant

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to M… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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29. Jandamarra and the Bunuba Resistance

By: Howard Pedersen

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

This is the thrilling true story of the great Aboriginal resistance fighter, Jandamurra - a legend,… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • indigenous
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30. Always Will Be

By: Mykaela Saunders

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question:… read more

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