Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing hum ...Show more
My Government means to kill me by newson rasheed
$51.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE The debut novel from television WRITER/PRODUCER OF THE CHI, NARCOS, and BEL-AIR tells a fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young, gay, Black man in 1980s New York City. Consistently engr ...Show more
Legacy of Violence - A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
$68.00 AUD
Category: History
**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022** 'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass ...Show more
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hamalainen
$65.95 AUD
Category: History
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cann ...Show more
An Immense World - How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
$54.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "thrilling" (The New York Times), "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong "One of this y ...Show more
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Brilliant wit, real heart and electric humour' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 'A compelling hurricane of a book' Ann Patchett 'A welcome reminder of what fiction can do’ Rumaan Alam A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism, generatio ...Show more
The Hurting Kind: The new collection from the US Poet Laureate by Ada Limon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,' writes Limón. 'I am the hur ...Show more
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water - A Novel by Angie Cruz
$51.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK (The TODAY Show, The Millions, LitHub, Ms. Magazine, and more)"One of my FAVORITE BOOKS I ...Show more
Hokuloa Road: A Novel by Elizabeth Hand
$51.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawai?i, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he's flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island's idyllic reputation: it has lon ...Show more
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew Delmont
$59.99 AUD
Category: American
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segre ...Show more
The Grimkes - The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge
$60.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read ...Show more
G-Man - J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
$80.00 AUD
Category: Political
"Masterful...This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"--The Washington Post"This is a monumental work about power, responsibility, and democracy itself." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of American Li ...Show more