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Niuatoputapu: Story of a Tsunami
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The Music Room
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'Fiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory' - "Sunday Telegraph". William Fiennes' childhood was one of imagination and curiosity, bounded only by the horizon he saw from the roof-tiles of his ancient family home. His older brother Richard, known for his towering presence, his inventiveness, his great passion for Leeds United, and his suffering due to severe epilepsy, was an adored and charismatic figure in his life. Years later, eager to understand his brother's mind as fully as the ancient trees and secret haunts of his own journey towards adulthood, William Fiennes has written a profoundly moving account of his home, his family's care, and above all, of Richard. "The Music Room" is a luminous testament to the miracle of consciousness and to the permanence of love. 'On putting the book down I felt as if I had been hypnotised. It held me entranced, afraid ...
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When Hungry, Eat
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The story of one woman's journey through the emotional minefield that is women's relationship to food - a celebration of small portions, unexpected spiritual wisdom and the gifts of hunger.
First published 2010.
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Committed : A sceptic makes peace with marriage
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At the end of her bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love", Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous horrific divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the U.S. government, who - after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing - gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving completely into this topic, trying with all her might to discover (through historical research, interviews and much personal reflection)what this stubbornly enduring old institution ...
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Lives Like Loaded Guns : Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
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Though in her lifetime only ten of Emily Dickinson's poems were published, her death revealed 1,789 poems, many of them in hand-sewn booklets, secreted in a locked chest. She is now regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come down to us as a woman disappointed in love, an odd and pathetic woman who dressed in white and shut herself away. Lyndall Gordon sees instead her volcanic character, a mystic, and lover, whose family harboured a hothouse drama of sex, scandal and devastating betrayal. Emily Dickinson was a woman beyond her time who found love, spiritual quickening and immortality all on her own terms.
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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother : Stories of loss & love
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Xinran (tr from Chinese Nicky Harman)
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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously, because they were too painful and close to home. In the footsteps of Xinran’s
Good Women of China
, this is personal, immediate, full of both harrowing, tragic detail and uplifting, tender moments.
Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women – students, successful business women, midwives, and peasants, all with memories that have stained their lives.
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The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
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Siri Hustvedt
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While speaking at a memorial event for her father, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. She managed to finish her talk and the paroxysms stopped, but not for good. Again and again she found herself a victim of the shudders. What had happened?Chronicling her search for the shaking woman, Hustvedt takes the reader on a journey into contemporary psychiatry, neurology and psychoanalysis. She unearths stories and theories from the annals of medical history, literature and philosophy, and delves into her own past. In the process, she raises fundamental questions: what is the relationship between mind and body? How do we remember? What is the self?In a seamless synthesis of personal experience and extensive research, Hustvedt conveys the often frightening mysteries of illness and the complexities of diagnosis. As engaging as it is thought-provoking, The Shaking Woman brilliantly illuminates the age-old dilemma of the ...
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Trust : A true story of women and gangs
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Winner 2010 NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction.
In 1977 an idealistic young doctor’s daughter, fresh out of university, knocked on the door of a run-down old house in inner-city Wellington. She was greeted by a woman in a Black Power T-shirt with metal in her nose and a spidery tattoo on her left cheek. ‘Whaddya want?’ the woman growled.
So began Pip Desmond’s extraordinary time as a member of Aroha Trust, a work cooperative set up in the heady years of feminism, community activism and the first stirrings of the Maori renaissance. For three years this unique, unruly group of girls did physical ‘men’s work’, lived together, and stood side by side against a backdrop of gang violence, police harassment and a society that didn’t want to know. When the government changed the rules for relief work, Aroha Trust folded, but the friendships endured. Trust tells the women’s stories – much of it in their own ...
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Barbie and Ruth
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"Barbie and Ruth" is the entwined story of two exceptional women. There's Barbie: the diminutive yet arrestingly voluptuous doll unveiled at the 1959 Toy Fair who became the treasure of 90 per cent of American girls and their counterparts in 140 countries. She went on to become an Olympic athlete, an air force pilot, a boutique owner, a presidential candidate, and a cultural icon. Then there's Ruth Handler, Barbie's creator: the tenth child of Polish-Jewish immigrants; a passionately competitive and creative business pioneer; and a mother and wife who wanted it all. After Ruth was forced out of Mattel, the company she founded, she used her breast cancer as an impetus to start a business that changed women's lives. She was ultimately honored as a pioneer, humanitarian, and masterful entrepreneur. Based on previously unavailable material, original research, and extensive interviews, "Barbie and Ruth" is the fascinating story of two ...
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Blue Museum
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Peter Finlay describes life with schizophrenia in this unflinching and funny memoir. Currently a fifty-two year old university student, he tells the story of what he's endured, lost and overcome.
In a seclusion room at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital, Peter writes,
My mind was independent of my surroundings. It raced, it dived, it ducked, it soared. Full of wild imaginings of world power, of super intelligence, of supreme goodness, of reward. Twice someone poked a cigarette into the room, through little holes in the window… although I didn’t smoke, I took these as offerings, portents, of what was to come.
Twenty years ago, Peter Finlay spent time at Lake Alice, the psychiatric institution. Shortly after leaving, he wrote the story of his hospitalization and his re-entry to civilian life. There’s a police beating, medication haze, nefarious inpatient characters, strange thought-processes, and through it all, the calm voice ...
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Conspirator : Lenin in exile
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Conspirator
is the compelling story of Lenin's exile: the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th-century history. It tells the story of Lenin in the long and difficult years leading up to the Russian Revolution - years that were spent constantly on the move in and around Europe in the company of his loyal and long suffering wife Nadezhda Krupskaya.
Conspirator
strips away the arid politics of Lenin's official life and reveals the real man, as well as describing his many conflicts - personal and political - with those who shared his exile. It also looks at the loyal circle of women who unquestioningly supported Lenin, at Russian emigre lives in the enclaves of the cities in they lived and the risks taken in support of Lenin's vision by the wider network of Russian revolutionaries in the underground movement, both at home and abroad.
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Frances Partridge
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Anne Chisholm
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Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century. She became part of the Bloomsbury group encountering Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, the Bells, Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, Dora Carrington and Ralph Partridge. She and Ralph fell in love and married in 1933. During the Second World War they were committed pacifists and they enjoyed the happiest times of their lives together, entertaining friends such as E.M. Forster, Robert Kee and Duncan Grant. Despite losing both her husband and son, Frances maintained an astonishing appetite for life, whether for her friends, travelling, botany, or music. Her diaries (which she continued to write until her death in 2004) chronicle her life from the 1930s onwards. Their publication brought her recognition and acclaim, and earned her the right to be seen not as a minor character on the Bloomsbury stage but standing at the centre of her own.
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Look Back in Hunger
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Jo Brand
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Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice, she tells her story for the first time. What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy after ten years as a psychiatric nurse? How did she deal with late night drunken audiences? From her early years growing up in a small south coast town with two brothers who toughened her up, to emerging on stage as 'The Sea Monster', Jo Brand tells it like it is with wit and candour.
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Mad, Bad and Sad : A History of Women and the Mind Doctors From 1800 to the Present
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Lisa Appignanesi
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Mad, bad and sad. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud and Jung and the radical breakthroughs of psychoanalysis to Lacan's construction of a modern movement and the new women-centred therapies. This is the story of how we have understood mental disorders and extreme states of mind in women over the last two hundred years and how we conceive of them today, when more and more of our inner life and emotions have become a matter for medics and therapists.
First published 2008.
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Nothing Was the Same: A memoir
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Kay Redfield Jamison
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From the internationally acclaimed author of
An Unquiet Mind
, comes a haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.
Perhaps no one but Kay Jamison - who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion - could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled severe dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with characteristic honesty, she describes his slow surrender to cancer, her own struggle with overpowering grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression. But she also recalls the joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together.
Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving - ...
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Open : An autobiography
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Andre Agassi
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Andre Agassi, former tennis World No. 1 tells his story – in his own words. Not only will this book cover his tennis career but also some extraordinary insights into his personal life.
Did you know . . .
He won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments throughout his career and is one of only five male players to have won all four separate Grand Slam singles titles.
He won an Olympic gold medal in singles
AND he is the only male player to have won a career Golden Slam. (The only female player to have won a career Golden Slam was Steffi Graf.)
Which brings us to Agassi’s personal life . . .
-He dated Barbara Streisand in the early 90s before eventually marrying Brooke Shields. But unfortunately that didn’t last and they divorced after just two years of marriage. That same year, Steffi Graf and Andre were both winners at the French Open and started dating. They were married in 2001 and now live in Las Vegas with their two ...
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Tales of Anna Hoffmann Volume One
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Anna Hoffman
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Tales of Anna Hoffman
is an autobiographical tale of a typical New Zealand girl growing up in a typical small town in New Zealand in the forties and fifties.
Anna Hoffman, born in Taumaranui, was a teenager searching for love who fell in the gay and bawdy Auckland of the fifties, rubbing shoulders with the bright, the liberal and disjointed, an independent woman who became the stuff of tabloid scandals.
It is a confession of life through the eyes of a growing girl, her emerging sexuality and how she assesses adults' behaviour in relation to her own growing rebelliousness.
She recognises the stifling conformity and repressiveness of the era and vows to break out - not only of her caring, closeting and happy home - but also out of Auckland and eventually New Zealand altogether. She concentrates on her music studies as a way out.
This story relates the twists and turns that her life takes while she follows her dream of ...
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The Winter of Our Disconnect
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Susan Maushart
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True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took On the World
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Jessica Watson
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Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want to know: the planning, the itinerary, what she did to prepare and how her parents came to terms with her decision; what she thought about as she sailed, what she read, what she ate and how she lived in that tiny ten-metre boat; how she managed not seeing anyone for months at a time, the elements and the inevitable technical problems; how Jessica actually felt as she tackled perilous waters alone and how the experience changed her life. This is the book that will answer many of the questions raised by the followers of Jessica's blog as well as those who have seen her on television, heard her on the radio, or read about her amazing adventures in the papers and magazines.
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Tsunami Box
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Tsunami Box
tells the story of an architectural journey into the heady tropics of emergency housing in Sri Lanka , following the asian tsunami of 2004.
With tenacious commitment, an eye for detail, and a reckless sense of humour, architect and author Gerald Melling launches fundamental ideas about architecture onto the troubled waters of post-tsunami re-construction and hopes to see them float.
They sink, of course, but not without a trace – this book offers genuine insight into the nature of ‘good intentions’ and the anatomy of a useful architecture.
"At little over a hundred pages and generous with its image content,
Tsunami Box
does well to break with tradition in order to provide an interesting, positive and insightful read with a fresh perspective on how an architect with a strong desire to make a difference might apply his skills to provide a low-cost solution to the noble cause of disaster relief housing." ...
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