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  • Jog On
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    Jog On

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Bella’s brilliant love letter to running turns into an extraordinarily brave and frank account of her battle with anxiety. A compassionate and important book’ Joe Lycett‘Perfect for resetting a glum January mindset’ Alexandra...
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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Joan Didion’s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never...
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    Nancy Wake
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    Nancy Wake

    The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve,...
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    The Agile Executive The Agile Executive
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    The Agile Executive

    Marianne Broadbent is a leadership and executive search consultant who works every day with women and men making career decisions and life choices. She provides sharp and informed insights, through her work with organisations and teams, to build and...
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    The Widow Clicquot The Widow Clicquot
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    The Widow Clicquot

    "Narrative history that fizzes with life and feeling." -- Benjamin Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's VinegarThe New York Times bestselling biography of the visionary young woman who built a champagne empire, became a legend,...
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  • Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
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    Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.

    "So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn"--PeopleCoinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capote's Breakast at Tiffany's, the acclaimed, New York Times bestseller that is the definitive account of...
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    Rebellious Daughters
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    Rebellious Daughters

    Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite. In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia’s most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories...
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    Save our Sons
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    Save our Sons

    *Victorian Community History Awards : History Publication Commendation*Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965,...
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  • Time to Reboot
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    Time to Reboot

    Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same...
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  • Towards Reproductive Justice
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    Towards Reproductive Justice

    In June 2022, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that overturned Roe v Wade, declaring that the American Constitution did not protect the right to abortion. Several US states immediately banned abortion, while others were quick to...
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  • Rape Culture
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    Rape Culture

    The recent revelations and allegations of sexual harassment and assault in the Australian Parliament have prompted furious responses. Political leaders have attempted to limit the damage by referring to the lack of criminal charges, resisting a...
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    The Market in Babies
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    The Market in Babies

    This book tells the history of adoption in Australia from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to its decline at the beginning of the twenty-first. The authors find that a market in babies has long existed. In the early years supply outstripped...
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    Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories
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    Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories

    A wave of life stories and autobiographical narratives by Aboriginal women began in the late 1970s and gained momentum a decade later with the publication of Sally Morgan's My Place (1987), which became a bestseller. While some of the books of the first...
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    When Grandma Burnt Her Bra
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    When Grandma Burnt Her Bra

    In When Grandma Burnt Her Bra, author Samantha Tidy and illustrator Aśka depict the world as seen by a child whose own grandma, a loud and proud feminist, was part of the revolution that now benefits us all. Readers of all types will enjoy this...
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    One Woman’s War and Peace
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    One Woman’s War and Peace

    In 1999, idealistic 23-year-old Registered Nurse Sharon Bown left her comfortable family life in Tasmania and joined the Royal Australian Air Force with the aim of providing humanitarian aid to the world. Through her 16-year military career she deployed...
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    Trailblazing Women Printmakers

    A visual history of the Folly Cove Designers (1941-1969)—one of America’s longest-running block printing collectives. The Folly Cove Designers (officially 1941-1969) was a grassroots collective of predominantly women block printers founded by Caldecott...
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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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    Walk Her Way New York City
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    Walk Her Way New York City

    Walk Her Way New York City is a collection of 10 curated walking tours through New York neighbourhoods, each celebrating the city's history and the women that have made their mark here. Authors Jana Mader and Kaitlyn Allen have meticulously researched...
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  • Why We Cook
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    Why We Cook

    Inspiring, empowering, beautiful, and moving, Why We Cook explores the place where food meets feminism. In it, artist Lindsay Gardner brings together stories, essays, kitchen profiles, interviews, and more, featuring 112 women restaurateurs, food...
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  • Strong Is the New Pretty
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    Strong Is the New Pretty

    Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs,...
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    Dogs are a Woman’s Best Friend
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    Dogs are a Woman’s Best Friend

    The paw-some follow up to Behind Every Great Woman is a Great Cat, Dogs are a Woman’s Best Friend showcases empowering stories of dog-loving women who changed the world.Dogs are humankind’s oldest and loyalist companions, bringing friendship, joy and...
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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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    Camo
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    Camo

    Camo, by photographer Thandiwe Muriu, is the first publication to chronicle the work of this international artist, celebrating the vibrant portraits she creates that combine cultural textiles and beauty ideologies. Muriu takes us on a colorful,
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    What’s Her Name
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    What’s Her Name

    Journey through thousands of years of human history (now with the women put back in).From the earliest human civilizations through to the present day, the stories of countless influential women – leaders, artists, warriors, scientists and more – have...
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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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    Real Clothes, Real Lives
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    Real Clothes, Real Lives

    An unprecedented look at women’s everyday clothes—from Sylvia Plath’s Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, modern suits, and fast-food workers’ uniforms—this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background have lived, worked,...
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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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    Women of Good Fortune
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Three women. One daring plan. A wedding heist to remember.Lulu has always been taught that money is the ticket to a good life. So, when Shanghai’s most eligible bachelor surprises her with a proposal, the only acceptable answer is yes, even if the voice...
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    Find Your Wild Feminine
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    Find Your Wild Feminine

    A gorgeously illustrated guided journal to discovering and embracing the Wild Feminine within.When we reconnect with our Wild Feminine, we learn to hold firmly onto her power. She enriches life, creativity, relationships, and sexuality
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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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    Dark Mode
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    Dark Mode

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA FOR GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE DANGER AWARD - BEST DEBUT CRIME FICTION Once you’re online, there’s nowhere to hide   Is it...
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    How to Age Against the Machine
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    How to Age Against the Machine

    How to Age Against the Machine is a joyous, information-packed ride through ageing as a woman, in all its complexity and diversity. Melissa Doyle and Naima Brown, co-hosts of the popular Age Against the Machine podcast, ask all the right questions on...
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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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    Jokes to Offend Men
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    Jokes to Offend Men

    A modern, feminist take on the classic joke book to amuse and empower readers who are tired of being the punchline. A man walks into a bar. It’s a low one, so he gets a raise within his first six months on the job.   Four comedy writers...
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    The Teal Revolution
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    The Teal Revolution

    The Teal Revolution is essential reading on the unprecedented Teal wave of the 2022 election, a movement with the potential to change Australian politics. From experienced political journalist Margot Saville, this is the fourth book in The Crikey...
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    Leaning Out
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    Leaning Out

    In Leaning Out, respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has led to a breakthrough. As the historic 2020 Women's March attests, a generation of younger women are speaking...
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    Do I Feel Better Yet?
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    Do I Feel Better Yet?

    If you've ever expressed even the slightest bit of dissatisfaction with the current state of your life, you've inevitably gotten the response, 'Have you tried meditation? Exercise? Joining a cult? Joining an exercise cult?' And a variety of other helpful...
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    You'll Be a Wonderful Dad
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    You'll Be a Wonderful Dad

    You’ll Be a Wonderful Dad is your practical and emotional guide on fatherhood in the lead up and months following the birth of a baby. Once a letter to a dear friend and quickly passed on from dad to dad, Ailsa Wild’s warm and encouraging words of...
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    Elizabeth II
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    Elizabeth II

    As a Getty Images royal photographer, Chris Jackson has been granted privileged access to the monarch and the British royal family. He has documented the Queen’s official engagements over the past two decades, during a period of seismic changes in the...
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    Not Just the Wife of the General Manager
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    Not Just the Wife of the General Manager

    Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback cattle stations, and an homage to the many unsung women like her.    It was the 1980s and Sally was in her mid 20s when she returned from a...
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    My Tidda, My Sister
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    My Tidda, My Sister

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It's a culture that manifests itself as the ultimate example of resilience, strength and beauty. It’s also a culture that has consistently been led by...
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    The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion
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    The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion

    Diane Von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood, Sarah Burton, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Donna Karan, and Iris van Herpen are among the great women designers to emerge in the last few decades. We now live in an age when no one would dare call them "that little...
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    Future is Feminist
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    Future is Feminist

    Brilliant, funny, and thought-provoking, this is an anthology of not-to-be-missed feminist writing in an unmissable package. The 21 pieces span generations and backgrounds and cover topics ranging from financial independence to "resting bitch face."...
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