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I Have Loved Me a Man: the Life & Times of Mika
by Sharon Mazer
From the Old Mill Disco in Timaru to San Francisco’s ACT UP protests, through Jazzercise and drag, AIDS and homosexual law reform, I Have Loved Me a Man takes readers inside the social revolution that has moved New Zealand from the 1960s to the present day through the story of the one, the only, queer Māori performance artist: Mika.
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Memory Pieces
by Maurice Gee
Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. ‘Double Unit’ tells the story of Maurice Gee’s parents – Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man’s man. ‘Blind Road’ is Gee’s story up to the age of eighteen, when his apprenticeship as a writer began. ‘Running on the Stairs’ tells the story of Margaretha Garden, beginning in 1940, the year of her birth, when she travelled with her mother Greta from Nazi-sympathising Sweden to New Zealand, through to her meeting Maurice Gee when they were working together in the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1967.
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The Heart of Jesús Valentino : a Mother's Story
by Emma Gilkinson
During a routine 12-week scan, Emma Gilkison thinks it looks as though her unborn baby has a marble rolling on his chest. In fact, it is his heart growing outside his body - an extremely rare and fatal condition called ectopia cordis. Emma and her partner Roy now face two heartbreaking options. Should they end the pregnancy? Or continue in the knowledge their baby will die?
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| After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet by Julie DobrowRelatively unknown during her lifetime, much of Emily Dickinson's work was published posthumously by family friend Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent, who attracted controversy with their strong editorial oversight of Dickinson's manuscripts. Author Julie Dobrow utilizes the pair's diaries and correspondence to illuminate their relentless drive to bring Dickinson's work to wider public recognition, arguing that the poet and her editors alike were "women pushing up against the boundaries of their times." |
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| Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese LaymonIn this compelling and complex memoir, Kiese Laymon examines the burdens of the frequently policed and politicized black male body. Growing up obese in 1980s Mississippi, his was no exception, and he grappled with abuse, anorexia, and addiction.
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Challenge Accepted!
by Celeste Barber
Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber's Challenge Accepted! is a hilarious and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas and how to rock a sexy scar. It's real, like totally, really real. Actor, writer and comedian, Celeste Barber is one very funny woman, not to mention a global social media comedy phenomenon. Amassing over 3.8 million followers in three years with her hilarious #celestechallengeaccepted pics, she has been dubbed 'Australian Comedy Queen' by ABC Online.
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| Reagan: An American Journey by Bob SpitzAn evenhanded cradle-to-grave biography of America's 40th president, extensively researched to include numerous interviews and personal family documents.
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The Gospel According to Luke
by Steve Lukather
The Gospel According To Luke is the outrageous and hilarious autobiography of Steve Lukather, leader of the multi-million selling band Toto.
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A Mother's Choice
by Elle Halliwell
In May 2016 Elle Halliwell, the young, dynamic and hugely popular Daily Telegraph Fashion and Entertainment Reporter, was diagnosed with leukaemia. A few days later, just as she was telling friends and family about the grim diagnosis, she found out she was four weeks pregnant. She was faced with an impossible choice: either terminate her unborn baby and begin the treatment that gave her the best chance of survival, or continue with the pregnancy and delay effective intervention for her cancer, a course that could lead to her death.
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Tessa & Scott : Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold
by Tessa Virtue
Now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair's stunning performances at the Sochi and PyeongChang Olympic Games and beyond. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the world's most decorated ice dancing duo, share the incredible and inspiring story of their path to gold.
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Flocks
by L. Nichols
Nichols, a trans man, artist, engineer and father of two, was born in rural Louisiana, assigned female and raised by conservative Christians. Flocks is his memoir of that childhood, and of his family, friends and community, the flocks of Flocks, that shaped and re-shaped him. L.'s irresistibly charming drawings demonstrate what makes Flocks so special: L.'s boundless empathy.
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Every day is extra
by John Kerry
John Kerry tells the story of his life—from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state for four years.
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Drinking from the Trough : A Veterinarian's Memoir
by Mary E. Carlson
Mary Carlson didn't start out to become a veterinarian, let alone the owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two, both huskies), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado. She was a suburban Chicago girl; all she knew of the American West came from the stories her uncle, who had settled in northern Colorado, told her during his annual visits.
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Where the ashes are : the odyssey of a Vietnamese family
by Quí Đâưc Nguyäên
Documents how the author's life as the son of a high-ranking civil servant in South Vietnam was destroyed by the Viet Cong's Tet offensive, his escape from Saigon in 1975 and his life in America before he was reunited with his struggling family years later.
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| Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace by Bana AlabedA gripping chronicle of the ongoing Syrian Civil War as told by eight-year-old Bana Alabed, whose now-famous Twitter account brings much-needed attention to the conflict. While this brave child's-eye portrait provides little context for the violence, it offers striking descriptions and photos juxtaposing her happy home life with the devastation of bombed-out Aleppo. |
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An Iranian Metamorphosis
by Mana Neyestani
Neyestani exposes the complex interplay between art, law, politics, ethnic sensitivities, and authoritarian elements inside of Iran's Islamic Republic. In his journey to escape imprisonment, the artist travels from Iran to Dubai, Turkey, Malaysia, all the way to China. Along the way he shines a light on the dangerous and convoluted measures taken by refugees in their attempts to find safety and freedom. Mana Neystani's story is at once unique, universal, and truly Kafkaesque.
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| The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi BuiFaced with a life of poverty and constant surveillance in postwar Vietnam, author Thi Bui's family immigrated to America in 1976. In present day New York City, Bui, now a mother herself, reflects on her parents' complicated reasons for leaving their homeland.
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| The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth WeilIn 1994, six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya escaped the Rwandan genocide with her older sister Claire. Separated from their parents, the pair spent the next six years in refugee camps throughout Africa before they were granted asylum in the United States. Settling in Chicago, Clemantine and Claire were featured on a 2006 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, where they were reunited with the parents they believed to be dead.
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