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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442977280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427084467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Tara June Winch
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702250562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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In 2006, Tara June Winch's startling debut Swallow the Air was published to acclaim. Its poetic yet visceral style announced the arrival a fresh and exciting new talent. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates its important contribution to Australian literature. When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, but it is the people she meets, not the destinations, that teach her what it is to belong. Swallow the Air is an unforgettable story of living in a torn world and finding the thread to help sew it back together.

Author: Melissa Lucashenko
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN: 0702250953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbors, and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo unexpectedly finds love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life. Told with dark humor and a sharp, satirical eye, "Mullumbimby "is a modern novel about romantic love and cultural warfare set against an ancient land.

Author: Sally Morgan
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 0949206318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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My Place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - a mystery of identity, complete with clues and suggested solutions. Sally Morgan's My Place is a deeply moving account of a search for truth, into which a whole family is gradually drawn; finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.

Author: Melissa Lucashenko
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702229350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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A racy, thoughtful tale of love and abuse, survival and triumph.

Author: Melissa Lucashenko
Publisher: Iad Press
ISBN: 9781864650488
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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If you are black, overweight and incredibly self-conscious, life sucks, and it sucks even more when your single, white mum moves you to the city, where learning to fit in is even harder than before. Age 12+.

Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480457175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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DIVDIVWinner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie’s brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock ’n’ roll, and redemption/div Coyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State—and the entire rest of the world. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. The band sings its own brand of the blues, full of poverty, pain, and loss—but also joy and laughter.DIV It all started one day when legendary bluesman Robert Johnson showed up on the Spokane Indian Reservation with a magical guitar, leaving it on the floor of Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s van after setting off to climb Wellpinit Mountain in search of Big Mom./divDIV In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock. DIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection./div/divDIV/div/div

Author: Melissa Lucashenko
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN: 9780702266089
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip. Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he can fight, and he can run like the clappers. In the inner-city's harsh code there are losers and survivors, and Roo's a survivor. He's made it through foster care, juvenile detention and poverty. He's an athlete, aching towards the dream of Olympic qualification. He's even coping with being white in the turbulent Aboriginal family of his girlfriend. But when cousin Stanley dies in custody, and Roo finds his father in the same week, trouble starts biting at his heels.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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