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    Clare Reilly

    Clare Reilly: Eye of the Calm is a celebration of artist Clare Reilly’s life and work. Reilly’s passions for coastal New Zealand and the country’s wildlife are brought to life in this beautiful collection, which explores themes of habitat destruction and...
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    The Women Who Changed Architecture

    A 2022 ALA Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic TitleA visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders.Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural...
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    Four Red Sweaters

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz weaves together the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly intertwined by everyday garments. ...
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    She Shapes History

    She Shapes History is a series of walking tours and vignettes that celebrate the accomplishments of women who made an impact on the small towns and big cities of Australia. Author Sita Sargeant has travelled the country to uncover tales of women who have...
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    Words from a Fashion Icon: Guccio Gucci

    The Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations.Words from a Fashion Icon: Guccio Gucci is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with Megan Hess' iconic and...
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    Words from a Fashion Icon: Marilyn Monroe

    The Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations.Words from a Fashion Icon: Marilyn Monroe is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with Megan Hess' iconic...
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    Words from a Fashion Icon: Christian Dior

    The Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations.Words from a Fashion Icon: Christian Dior is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with Megan's iconic and hugely...
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    Words from a Fashion Icon: Coco Chanel

    The Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations.Words from a Fashion Icon: Coco Chanel is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with Megan's iconic and hugely...
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    Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960
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    Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960

    A thorough exploration of Salvatore Ferragamo’s life and work: an inescapable opportunity to analyze the importance of his creativity and entrepreneurial instinct.One hundred years have passed since Salvatore Ferragamo opened his first store, the...
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    Dior: Style Icon
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    Dior: Style Icon

    Christian Dior's era-defining designs and enduring legacy are captured here in more than 50 of the fashion house's most iconic pieces. Dior redefined what fashion looked like in the post-war age and demanded glamour, femininity and excess to be the...
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    Philip Glass Piano Etudes
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    Philip Glass Piano Etudes

    A stunning, deluxe boxed set of composer Philip Glass’s most important and historic body of work, his collection of twenty Piano Etudes, along with a book of reflections by notable artists and musicians.Philip Glass is one of the most influential artists...
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    Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen

    Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Created with big Bronx energy, Black Power Kitchen combines 75 mostly plant-based, layered-with-flavour recipes with immersive storytelling, diverse voices, and striking images and photographs that celebrate Black...
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  • To Me, He Was Just Dad
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    To Me, He Was Just Dad

    “The lowdown on what it’s like to be raised by a legend. Frequently funny and consistently intimate. . . . A great read.”  —BookPage“Those searching for a moving Father’s Day gift need look no further.” —Publishers WeeklyMen like John Wayne and John...
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    Being Bad

    What happens when you stop giving a f*ck about what your parents, partners, and society expect of you and ask yourself what you really want? Salon's inaugural sex and love advice columnist and author of the viral LinkedIn sex work post, Arielle Egozi,...
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    Kasey Chambers Just Don't Be a D**khead
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    Kasey Chambers Just Don't Be a D**khead

    Kasey Chambers Just Don’t Be a D**khead and Other Profound Things I’ve Learntis a whirlwind of great stories, rock-solid life lessons and Kasey Chambers at her most heartfelt and honest. From her childhood in the Australian outback to the heights of...
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    Tom Hawkins
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    Tom Hawkins

    Celebrating the amazing career of AFL star Tom Hawkins, from his family background, with his dad also a champion player, through to his contribution to Geelong's ongoing success on the football field, we learn what has made Tom a star. From a scholarship...
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    Bunny Mellon Style
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    Bunny Mellon Style

    This fascinating story of an American style icon Bunny Mellon, an art collector and philanthropist with her husband Paul Mellon, reveals how her style developed and how she became a self-confident, hands-on designer of homes and gardens in a privileged...
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    My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag
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    My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag

    ‘A perfect three-part harmony of exultant joy, heartbreaking tragedy, and pant-wetting comedy.’ – Osher GünsbergYour future is not guaranteed. And isn’t that f*cking freeing? If you found out you had less time to live than the average bear, how...
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    Queer Power Couples
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    Queer Power Couples

    This photographic celebration of queer love and excellence gathers fourteen LGBTQ+ power couples, offering a glimpse into the journeys that led to their meaningful relationships and thriving careers.From designer Debbie Millman’s ardent courtship of...
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    Life as We Know It (Can Be)
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    Life as We Know It (Can Be)

    Award-winning journalist and CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir takes readers through time and around our changing world to confront the biggest threats to life as we know it and search for proven ways to build happier, healthier, and more resilien
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    Power of Balance
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    Power of Balance

    Power of Balance is the landmark memoir from Dr Kerryn Phelps AM that explores the events and ideas that have inspired her to create change throughout her lifetime. From medicine, media, politics, advocacy and activism, Kerryn has led a remarkable...
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    Girl Friday
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    Girl Friday

    Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office chick, shit-kicker, donkey worker, general dogsbody or gofer (go for this, go for that).   Girl Friday:...
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    Art Is Art
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    Art Is Art

    Creativity Explored celebrates its 40th anniversary with a collection of powerful artwork and perspectives from its talented neurodiverse artists. This vibrant book uplifts the voices of the artists of Creativity Explored, a nonprofit that gives people w
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    The Man Who Tried to Prove Too Much
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    The Man Who Tried to Prove Too Much

    In The Man Who Tried to Prove Too Much, Philip Hills provides an unflinching account of what it takes to reflect on one’s life and achievements. Philip Hills had an unquenchable thirst for success. Always driving forwards without stopping to reflect,...
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    Oh My Gosh, I Love Your Shoes!
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    Oh My Gosh, I Love Your Shoes!

    "A vibrant, inspiring celebration of fashion, family and passion. I love this colourful celebration of all things shoes." – Fearne Cotton"I really enjoyed the personal insights into what makes Sophia so unique and wonderful. A brilliantly bold, colourful...
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    Nance Grant: A Life of Curtain Calls
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    Nance Grant: A Life of Curtain Calls

    Nance Grant’s world has been a rich tapestry of musical and operatic performances, in the company of many great singers, producers, musicians and conductors, renowned both in Australia and internationally. Nance Grant: A life of curtain calls breathes...
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    Lance Franklin
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    Lance Franklin

    Lance Franklin: My Football Journey is a stunning celebration and companion to the career of one of Australia’s most revered AFL players, Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin.   Lance Franklin has held AFL fans in awe since his early days in the game –...
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    Sons of Beaches
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    Sons of Beaches

    ‘For all the sadness and the ruthlessness of the music industry, Sons of Beaches captures the camaraderie behind the band's best songs.’ - Sydney Morning HeraldFamily, fame and tragedy, the story of Australian Crawl’s Bill and Guy McDonough...
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    One-Armed Jack
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    One-Armed Jack

    This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time. Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies...
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    Charles III
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    Charles III

    Getty Images Royal Photographer Chris Jackson has accompanied the British royal family on tours and engagements throughout the world. This book marks the historic occasion of the accession of King Charles III.From the excitement of royal tours to...
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    Shaun White
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    Shaun White

    The recently retired 3-time Olympic gold medalist shares his favorite action-sports photographs and family albums in this personally curated illustrated autobiography.White chronicles his evolution from his childhood in California into becoming the...
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    Joel Selwood: All In
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    Joel Selwood: All In

    In his long-awaited, official autobiography, All In, Joel Selwood reveals the grit, determination, and personal sacrifice behind his AFL success at the Geelong Football Club. Joel Selwood's remarkable leadership is well-known across AFL football...
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    Per Amore
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    Per Amore

    This is the only autobiographical text written by designer Giorgio Armani, in which he speaks about himself, his youth, his early career, and the people close to him, and shares his ideas about creativity and what fascinates him in today’s world.Based on...
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    Chateau Reawakening
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    Chateau Reawakening

    Chateau Reawakening is the story of the highs and lows of one couple’s journey to save an eighteenth century French chateau.   When former Australian politician Tim Holding and his fiancee Felicity Selkirk discovered a crumbling French chateau...
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    Tissue
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    Tissue

    ‘wide-ranging, defiant and impassioned’ – Fiona Wright, author of The World Was WholeWhat does it mean to terminate a pregnancy?In Tissue, Madison Griffiths turns her keen eye to the topic of abortion in a meditative and personal look at a procedure...
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    Full of Myself
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    Full of Myself

    Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journey from being anxious and unhappy to learning to love herself as she is. I’m proud of the person I’ve become because I fought to become her. At the age of...
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    Dua Lipa
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    Dua Lipa

    Discover the fascinating story behind the rise of a new pop icon: Dua Lipa.When Dua Lipa was eleven, her music teacher told her she wasn’t good enough to join her school choir – her husky voice couldn’t reach the high notes.Now, she’s a global star. Her...
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    Strange Little Girl
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    Strange Little Girl

    ‘Every word in this considered and beautifully written memoir deserves its place on the page.’ –Graziher My father tells it because he made it up. A little bedtime story of my origin. They are not really my parents, the people who I call Mum and Dad...
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    Grace Kelly
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    Grace Kelly

    Grace Kelly: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is a stunning illustrated biography of style and screen legend Grace Kelly, from internationally renowned fashion illustrator Megan Hess.   Oscar-winning actress, muse to one of the...
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    Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man
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    Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man

    In this first biography of the man and his music, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man tells the incredible story of one of Australia’s most acclaimed Aboriginal pop and country music legends and icons, Jimmy Little. At just 16 years of age, Jimmy Little...
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    A Joyful Life
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    A Joyful Life

    A Joyful Life is the astonishing memoir of Rosemary Kariuki, one of Australia's most beloved Local Heroes. Long before she was advocating for refugee and migrant women just like herself, Rosemary was a survivor like no other.    As a...
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    King & Godfree: The Corner Grocer

    In the 1950s when Carlo Valmorbida bought King & Godfree, a grocery store that had only two other owners since opening on the corner of Lygon and Faraday Streets in Carlton in 1871, the newly arrived immigrant from Italy helped drive a culinary...
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    Rainbow History Class
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    Rainbow History Class

    Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, sharing queer and trans stories from Ancient civilisations all the way up to the internet. So much of queer and trans history and culture has been erased, but Hannah McElhinney, writer...
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    Sultan
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    Sultan

    Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket. For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking – his electrifying left-arm pace, his explosive...
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    Sensory: Life on the Spectrum
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    Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

    A colourful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences – from diagnosis journeys to finding community – from contributors with autism.From artist and curator Bex Ollerton comes an anthology featuring comics from thirty...
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    Everything Is OK
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    Everything Is OK

    From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant collection of comics about anxiety and depression – because sometimes even the simple things like getting out of bed every day feel like an uphill battle...
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    Be Not Afraid of Love
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    Be Not Afraid of Love

    Be Not Afraid of Love is a stunning collection of interconnected essays and affirmations that follow Mimi Zhu’s journey toward embodying and re-learning love after a violent relationship.In their early twenties, queer Chinese-Australian writer and...
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