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The Austrian woman: Aka Marie Antoinette, Queen Of Versailles
By Vinny Stoppia. 2016
Did you ever wonder what it might be like to be a big queen? Maybe you visualize gorgeous gowns, baskets…
bulging with jewels, and fawning admirers. That sounds dreamy but for the real scoop just ask Marie Antoinette, one of the biggest queens ever. She can tell you that the glitz is the first thing to go..The last days of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
By Rupert Furneaux. 1990
The butterfly and the stone: a son, a father, God's love on a prodigal journey
By Dan N Mayhew. 2011
Hope is a butterfly. Fear is a stone. As the father waits for his son to come home. For anyone…
who has been or has loved a prodigal child, here is a voice in the night that says you are not alone. 'The Butterfly and the Stone' is a story of fear and hope on a journey that leads from the safety of home to Iraq, and home again to face a fiercer enemy: post-traumatic stress and addiction. Woven throughout is God's love...found in a most unexpected place...What, no baby?: why women are losing the freedom to mother, and how they can get it back
By Leslie Cannold. 2005
What, No Baby? takes us on a journey into the lives of contemporary women whose plans to have it all…
- marriage, motherhood and work - have been derailed by reluctant men, insatiably demanding jobs and ever-climbing expectations of what it takes to be a "good" mother. Leslie Cannold argues that this is the twenty-first century's 'problem without a name' and that the unprecedented obstacles modern women face in achieving the life most of them want are tragically real. Women want to mother as much as they ever did. What has changed is their willingness to sacrifice everything they've built - everything they are - to do so.The end of equality: work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia
By Anne Summers. 2003
Among the most contentious issues Australia faces at the beginning of the 21st century is one that many thought had…
been dealt with in the '70s: the condition of Australian women. Debate still rages over their position in the workplace, their alleged failure to 'breed' sufficiently, their lack of true economic equality, and their inability to penetrate in any real numbers the proverbial glass ceilings in corporate and public life. What happened to the so-called feminist revolution? Why do most women feel exhausted and trapped? Is there real choice in women's lives today?How to get there: a memoir
By Maggie MacKellar. 2014
After Maggie Mackellar’s acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to…
Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of settling there. In 2011 Maggie Mackellar moved from her family’s farm in Central West New South Wales to the east coast of Tasmania with her children and assorted menagerie to live with a farmer. ’In the book she explores learning to love again after living through grief, and the complexities of doing this in a community with which she is unfamiliar, with two young children. She reflects on love after grief, juggling being a mother and negotiating a burgeoning relationship, the rhythms of country life, displacement and the writing life. This is a book for anyone who has imagined taking a risk, for anyone who has moved to a new place and struggled with feelings of homesickness and displacement. It is a story about making a life in a remarkable setting - the east coast of Tasmania, on a sheep farm in a stone house built by convicts in 1828.Anna's story
By Bronwyn Donaghy. 2006
On 21 October 1995, Anna Wood went to a party and took an ecstasy tablet. Three days later she was…
dead. A life destroyed. A family devastated. She was just fifteen. She was leaving school to start the job of her dreams. She was beautiful, she had a loving family and countless friends. Bronwyn Donaghy interviewed friends, family members and numerous professionals in order to write the story of the circumstances surrounding Anna's death and of her family's decision to try and turn tragedy into a positive force for good.It is a story of our times, a story with powerful resonances for Anna's generation and their parents, for counsellors, doctors and teachers, for anyone who values the sanctity of life.Bloodhound: searching for my father
By Ramona Koval. 2015
"I looked up the name in the phone book and rang the number. I tried to imagine the conversation that…
might ensue. ‘Hello? I was wondering if you’re the man who was recently at an auction and asked a woman named Mary if I was married and had children and was happy-and if you are, are you my real father?" Ramona Koval’s parents were Holocaust survivors who fled their homeland and settled in Melbourne. As a child, Koval learned little about their lives - only snippets from traumatic tales of destruction and escape. But she always suspected that the man who raised her was not her biological father. One day in the 1990s, long after her mother’s death, she decides she must know the truth. A phone call leads to a photograph in the mail, then tea with strangers. Before long Koval is interrogating a nursing-home patient, meeting a horse whisperer in tropical Queensland, journeying to rural Poland, learning other languages and dealing with Kafkaesque bureaucracy, all in the hope of finding an answer.