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  Life Is Rosi: Grandma Me and Our...

  Jess Robinson

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  'I loved every word of it. Funny, fascinating, infuriating and so deeply personal. It's quite the achievement to create something so raw, so funny, and so clever.' – Adam Hills  
  A fresh, funny family history following the lives of comedian Jess Robinson and her German Jewish grandmother Rosi 
  When Grandma Rosi was 23, she was expelled from Nazi Germany and interned as a refugee in Zbąszyń, Poland. She used her diary to document every detail of her experiences, from being deported by the Gestapo to stolen conversations with her first love. 
  When Jess was 23, she was living in London, struggling with a fledgling acting career, a failed love life and rock-bottom self-esteem. She used her diary to rant about her mum and track her daily calories. Well, it was the noughties… 
  Rapidly approaching her 40th birthday – and, honestly, wanting an EU passport to beat the airport queues – comedian and impressionist Jess Robinson finally digs into the archives of her German Jewish ancestry. With each freshly translated page of her grandmother’s wartime diaries, Jess sets out to discover who Grandma Rosi really was – and maybe learn a thing or two about herself. After all, it’s easy to forget who you really are when you spend every day pretending to be other people… 
  Bravely reopening her own diaries (which had been very securely locked away for nearly two decades), Jess follows the two young women as they navigate life at 23, finding a shared sense of identity despite their entirely different circumstances. 
  Exploring everything from lessons in resilience to the traits we inherit from our matriarchs – and not forgetting trying to make new friends at the German embassy – Life Is Rosi is a warm, witty and wise book that gets to the heart of who we are, wherever we are. 
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  Mephobia - The Fear of Becoming...

  Hayden Pearton

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  Do you like autobiographies filled with life-changing events, death-defying tales and powerful personal achievements? No? Well then Mephobia is just what you need! 
  Chronicling the first 30 years of Hayden Pearton's love, loss and Labradors! So if you want to read 30 brand new poems written by a South African independent author, poet and physiotherapist, check this out!

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  Adolphe Tonduz and the Golden...

  Gregorio Dauphin-López

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  Certain eras in the development of humanity have been characterized by their effervescence and diversification of artistic, technical, intellectual, and scientific activities; one of them occurred at the end of the 19th century in Europe and North America. At that time, currents of change were generated that would later define many of the trends in today's world. 
  
  The once endless virgin forests and impassable rural roads, plains, rivers, and mountains of Costa Rica, as well as the city of San José, were also the scene of such effervescence. Here, botanical explorers such as Adolphe Tonduz, Henri Pittier or Paul Biolley, with sweat, effort, and collaboration, laid the foundations for the scientific exploration of this small Central American republic, and made it stand out in Latin America. 
  
  In the second edition of the work Adolphe Tonduz and the golden age of botany in Costa Rica, reference is made to this feat by incorporating, in addition to the pleasant stories of the Swiss naturalist, his agronomic texts, which represent the beginnings of the fight against pests of economically important tropical crops, such as coffee, bananas and cocoa. New and updated images of the actors, settings and correspondence have also been included, which constituted the primary source of the work. 
  
  Aimed not only at professionals in botany, natural sciences, and history, but also at agronomists, anthropologists and the public, this book transports us directly to the context of Tonduz, as well as to the dawn of modern Costa Rica.

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  A Widower's Walk - From Desert...

  Danny White

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  On December 14, 1997, Marine Corps Captain Danny White thought he had it all. He had married his high school sweetheart and they had three children and another on the way, when an accident on an Arizona highway shattered his life and left him and two of his children stranded in a desert of the soul. Through his faith in God, Danny eventually found his life and a new love to lead him to his destiny.

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  Hear Me Roar

  Erna Walraven

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  A memoir about zookeeping, and what animals taught me about feminism. 
   
  In the early 1980s, when Erna Walraven decided to follow her dreams and become one of the first female zookeepers in Australia, she thought her biggest challenges would be feeding big cats and subduing irate gorillas. In fact, it was her male colleagues who made work miserable, harassing and humiliating her for doing a 'man's job'. So, she looked to the animals under her care to prove them wrong. 
   
  Despite what Erna's colleagues seemed to think, the females of the animal world were far from weak and demure. Elephant matriarchs led their herds; female bonobos revelled in sexual exploration; emu mothers abandoned their chicks to the care of their fathers. Her colleagues wouldn't dare tell a female tiger that hunting was a 'male's job' - why were they so intent on limiting Erna? 
   
  In this insightful and delightful book, Erna blends memoir and pop science to tell a fiercely female story. She recounts a life spent caring for animals in a fast transforming industry, and dives into scientific evidence and evolutionary history to debunk the myths that once held her back.

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  Love's Journey Home

  Gabi Coatsworth

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  Decades after falling passionately in love, alcoholism had finally torn Gabi and Jay apart. Then a drastic diagnosis forced them both to make decisions. Without love this final journey would be lonely and hard. But when Jay’s illness forced him to stop drinking, they found themselves with a second chance at love. 
  This romantic memoir doesn’t shy away from the realities of life, but the relationship between these two lovers, tested to its ultimate limit by pancreatic cancer, proves that love—and a sense of humor—can conquer anything, even death.

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