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  Foundations

  Karin Speedy

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  In Foundations, Karin Speedy takes us on a whirlwind journey through time and space as she navigates intersecting personal, local, family and global histories, stories that help her reckon with who she is and where she stands in this complicated (post)colonial world. If colonialism, slavery, violence and heartbreak feature heavily in her memoir so too do friendship, love, poetry, books, music, laughter and resistance. Warm, funny, quirky yet also confronting and, at times, shockingly brutal, her childhood and young adult memories bring to life the scenes and sounds of 70s, 80s and 90s New Zealand. At university, Karin's unquenchable thirst for knowledge and social justice see her embark on her first research project, a decolonial study of Louisiana Creole, research that cements her future as an anti-racist, activist scholar. Forever questioning the master narratives, digging deeper and peeling back layers to expose what lies hidden beneath and behind, Karin reminds us that history and trauma are all around us, ingrained in our lives, etched into our landscapes and at the very foundations of our cities and infrastructure. When she begins to examine her own family stories, rooted in colonisation and working-class struggle and embedded in the national histories of Aotearoa and Australia, she uncovers astonishing inter-generational palimpsests and starts to grasp the importance of listening to her ghosts. 
  About the Author 
  Karin Speedy is an interdisciplinary academic whose research weaves together her expertise in history, literature, linguistics and translation. She has published extensively on colonial and decolonial Pacific and Francophone history and literature, as well as on Creole languages, slavery and African and Indian Ocean diasporas in the Pacific. In 2013, she was awarded the John Dunmore Medal for research, recognising her major contribution to knowledge of French language and culture in the Pacific.

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  The Shed That Fed 2 Million...

  Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow

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  Speaking Volumes Christian Book of the Year 2016 
  In 1992, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint with his brother when he got an idea that would change his life – and radically change the lives of others. 
  After watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia, the two brothers agreed to take a week’s hiatus from work to help. 
  What neither of them expected is that what began as a one-time road trip in a beaten-up Landrover rapidly grew to become Magnus’s life’s work – leading him to leave his job, sell his house and direct all his efforts to feeding thousands of the world’s poorest children. 
  Magnus retells how a series of miraculous circumstances and an overwhelming display of love from those around him led to the creation of Mary’s Meals; an organisation that could hold the key to eradicating child hunger altogether. This humble, heart-warming yet powerful story has never been more relevant in our society of plenty and privilege. It will open your eyes to the extraordinary impact that one person can make. 
  Previously published as The Shed That Fed a Million Children 
  Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow's autobiography is not just a personal memoir, but a testament to the power of charity and philanthropy. His journey from a simple idea in a pub to the creation of a top social initiative that feeds millions, is a story that resonates with the best of humanity. 
  For fans of Bear Grylls (Never Give Up), Amy Liptrot (The Instant), Sean Bloomfield (My Heart Will Triumph), Elizabeth Sherrill (The Happiest People on Earth), and Dean Nicholson (Nala's World).

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  Vedanta or The Science of Reality

  K. A. Krishnaswami Ayer

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  Vedanta different from philosophical speculations and Theology, in its study based on the Three States. Vedantic method. The source of Vedanta is the Upanishads, in the main. Vedanta not depending for its truth on Authority, but on reason and experience. Vedanta is a study of the three independent expressions of Life.

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  Adolescent Psychotherapy - A...

  Bronagh Starrs

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  Counsellors and psychotherapists are faced with ever-increasing complexity in their work with adolescents. In this book, Bronagh Starrs offers an understanding of developmental and therapeutic process from a relational-phenomenological Gestalt perspective. 
   
   
   
  Starrs shows how the adolescent's presenting symptom issues are statements of compromised life space integrity and demonstrates therapeutic sensibility to the adolescent's first-person experience. Throughout the book, the clinician is offered extensive relational and creative strategies to support integrity repair for the adolescent. The developmental impact of various life space contexts are discussed, including parental separation, complex family configuration, grief, adoption, and emerging sexual orientation and gender experience. Therapeutic responses to common creative adjustments are explored including anxiety, school refusal, depression, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, alcohol and drug use, and sexual trauma. 
   
   
   
  Adolescent Psychotherapy will help counsellors and psychotherapists to develop deeper levels of competency in their work as adolescent psychotherapists, as they navigate the complex and fascinating experience of therapy with teenagers. This exceptional contribution is suitable for both experienced practitioners and students of counselling and psychotherapy.

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  A Terrible Secret

  Cathy Glass

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  Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him. 
  Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go into foster care and is placed with Cathy. Tilly arrives with a graze on her cheek and Cathy becomes increasingly concerned by Dave’s behaviour, especially when she learns he has been showering Tilly with gifts. While she’s busy looking after Tilly and trying to keep her safe, Cathy is also worried about her own daughter, Lucy. She has a very difficult decision to make that will affect the rest of her life, and Cathy hopes she makes the right choice. 
  Cathy Glass, the bestselling author and top social worker, presents a heart-wrenching tale of fostering and adoption in this Sunday Times bestseller. The book delves into the complexities of family dynamics and the long-term effects of abusive relationships on a child's developmental psychology. 
  For fans of Ann Cusack (The Convent), Kat Ward (KERI 4), Linda Watson-Brown (Please Save Me), Rachel Murphy (Loose Head), and Joe Cusack (Please Don't Leave Me).

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  Untangling The: Volume 2 - Essays

  Tiffany Chu

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  Some griefs have names. Others don't. 
  There are five dates Tiffany Chu carries like stones in her chest. A best friendship that ended not with a fight, but with silence. A mother's apology that came thirty years too late. A faith dismantled by the very church that built it. 
  And underneath all of it: a son who existed for eighteen years, and then didn't. 
  The Untangling, Volume 2 is for everyone who has sat in the rubble of something they loved—a person, a belief, a relationship—and had to figure out what to do next. In essays that move from miscarriage to purity culture to the slow death of a grandmother who still asks have you eaten?, Tiffany writes with the kind of unflinching tenderness that makes you feel less alone at 2 a.m. 
  This is not a book that ties grief into a bow. It is a book that stays in the room with you. 
  For readers of The Year of Magical Thinking, When Breath Becomes Air, and Crying in H Mart—and for anyone who has ever loved someone they couldn't save.

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