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GAYBCs
Rae Congdon
October 2018
A cheeky, progressive adult alphabet book that celebrates and illuminates LGBTQIA+ terminology.
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The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
Edited by
Peter Burness
October 2018
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The Getting of Garlic
John Newton
October 2018
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Diving for Seahorses
Hilde Østby
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Ylva Østby
October 2018
What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory?
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Misfits & Me
Mandy Sayer
October 2018
'I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, and smother him with kisses.'
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Turmoil
Robyn Williams
September 2018
Robyn Williams, presenter of The Science Show on ABC Radio, reveals all in Turmoil
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The Future of Everything
Mr
Tim Dunlop
September 2018
'A powerful and realistic message of hope for the future' — Professor John Quiggin, University of Queensland
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City Life
Seamus O'Hanlon
September 2018
'Our cities are changing fast. Seamus' O'Hanlon tells us how and why, with a keen historian's eye for both the big picture and the local scene. An indispensable guide to the contemporary Australian city.' — Professor Graeme Davison
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A Certain Style
Jacqueline Kent
September 2018
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Hunter Wine
Julie McIntyre
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John Germov
September 2018
Shortlisted for 2019 NSW Premier's History Award: NSW regional and community history prize
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Tatau
Sean Mallon
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Sébastien Galliot
September 2018
A strikingly designed and richly illustrated retelling of the unique history of Samoan tattooing, from 3000 years ago to today.
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Adani and the War Over Coal
Quentin Beresford
August 2018
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics – and our country – into the fossil fuel age.
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The Rapids
Sam Twyford-Moore
August 2018
'The Rapids is beautifully written: brimming with humour, empathy, pathos and heart. This book is an earnest, generous, and important contribution to ongoing global dialogue around mental health .' — Maxine Beneba Clarke
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This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
Henry Reynolds
August 2018
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?'
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Beyond Combat
Edited by
Tristan Moss
,
Tom Richardson
July 2018
'Even a military that is solely dedicated to preparing for war creates, simply by existing, a suite of responsibilities that has very little to do with combat.' — Tristan Moss and Tom Richardson
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Serving in Silence?
Noah Riseman
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Shirleene Robinson
,
Graham Willett
July 2018
For the first time, Serving in Silence?
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Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre
Edited by
Jane Lydon
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Lyndall Ryan
June 2018
Marking its 180th anniversary, this book explores the significance of one of the most horrifying events of Australian colonialism. Thoughtful and fearless, it challenges us to look at our history without flinching as an act of remembrance and reconciliation.
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Wild Sea
Joy McCann
June 2018
SHORTLISTED for ACT Book of the Year Latitude 54° 02′ South, Longitude 37° 14' West:
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The Sydney Wars
Dr
Stephen Gapps
May 2018
*Winner of the Les Carolyn Literary Prize* *Longlisted for the 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize*
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Desperately Seeking Banksy
Xavier Tapies
April 2018
'People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish…but that's only if it's done properly.' Banksy
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An Australian Band of Brothers
Mark Johnston
April 2018
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II.
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Serving our Country
Edited by
Joan Beaumont
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Allison Cadzow
April 2018
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces.
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Populism Now!
David McKnight
April 2018
Populism can be a dirty word. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump have certainly given it a bad name. But rather than associating it with demagoguery and exclusion, might we better see it as a backlash against free market globalisation? Might it be harnessed as a positive force able to thrive in difficult times?
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River Dreams
Ian Tyrrell
March 2018
In the beginning, there was the river — before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream.
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The Birds At My Table
Darryl Jones
February 2018
Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers, scatter the crumbs or seeds, or leave the picnic scraps behind for the birds.
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The Battle Within
Christina Twomey
February 2018
Head-aches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just don't seem to make a success of our return — ROBERT, A RETURNED POW
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A Timeline of Australian Food
Jan O'Connell
December 2017
A Timeline of Australian Food takes readers on a tasty and sometimes surprising culinary journey through 150 years of Australian food. Lavishly illustrated, this tasty book looks at what we've eaten, how we've shopped, and how we've produced and prepared our food, decade by decade, through depression, war, and decades of abundance.
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Widening Minds
Tom Frame
December 2017
Since 1967 more than 25,000 students have graduated from UNSW after studying at Duntroon, HMAS Creswell , the Australian Defence Force Academy. Tom Frame examines the productive 50-year partnership between UNSW and the Australian Defence Force.
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2017
Edited by
Michael Slezak
, foreword by Emma Johnston
November 2017
The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.
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Hearts and Minds
Alan Atkinson
November 2017
Founded in 1856, St Paul's College is the original college of Sydney University and the oldest institution of its kind in Australia. Hearts and Minds
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Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901
Tim Rowse
November 2017
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no-one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation.
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The Secret Life of Whales
Micheline Jenner
November 2017
Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales
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Signs of Australia
Mr
Brady Michaels
, Mr Dale Campisi
November 2017
A keen photographer of the everyday, Brady Michaels has recorded an impressive array of signs from across Australia — from the earliest ads for household goods and services, to more recent but now defunct video lending libraries and internet cafés.
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The Ascent to Power, 1996
Edited by
Tom Frame
November 2017
The Ascent to Power, 1996 takes a critical look at the Howard Government's rise to power; its policies and priorities, successes and shortcomings in what Paul Kelly calls the 'foundational year'.
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Painting by Numbers
Mr David J Mabberley
November 2017
This fascinating new study of Bauer's work includes reproductions of never-before-published works from collections in Europe and Australia. Written by one of the world's foremost botanical scholars, Painting by Numbers reveals Bauer's innovative colour-coding technique for the first time.
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Australian Gypsies
Mandy Sayer
October 2017
Since the arrival of the First Fleet there have been Gypsies in Australia, yet their experiences have never been included in any official histories. In Australian Gypsies
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