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Like many adult children of first generation Australians, I have grown to appreciate more deeply the momentous decision made by my parents in leaving their homes, their families and everything familiar to come to a new land. I believe Australia has benefited in so many ways from the trust and optimism of those who migrated to our shores.

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"Oh Lord, I know we are the Chosen People but just for once couldn't you choose somebody else" is an old plea, and with it these stories lift off on their journey around the world. An enthralling, entertaining and compelling collection of short stories tackling life's questions with an evocative, humorous and thought-provoking authority.

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A collection of poignant stories and poems of seven East Timorese families living in Melbourne's City of Casey whose experiences belong to that long history of human tragedy created where violent conflict of power, land and resources takes place, inevitably visiting on ordinary people, disruption and loss.

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With her career down the toilet, a husband who was never home, a baby screaming non-stop and her cries for help falling on deaf ears, Megan Blandford spent years saying, "I'm fine". Spoiler alert (not really): she wasn't fine. This is a touching true story of motherhood: the challenges it presents, and the hope that can be found within it.

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Olfat Mahmoud, a stateless refugee, is a descendant of the 'forgotten Palestinians', forced from their homes by the Israeli military in 1948. A former nurse, NGO director and academic, Mahmoud's confronting autobiography asks when the world will deliver on its promise and allow her people to return home.

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Para was barely five years old when civil war erupted in Sri Lanka. Nearly three decades later it ended in appalling horror and bloodshed. Tens of thousands of innocent civilians died. Survival required courage, ingenuity - and the kindness of strangers. This is Para's story of survival against all odds.

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John Watt's Crooked Vows is not only a compulsive read, it is an evocative, almost poetic survival story conjuring up the beauty, power and destructiveness of the West Australian bush, coast and the ocean. The narrative grapples with issues of sexual abuse in the Catholic church, and is also a story of self-discovery.

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"From the winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction"--Cover.

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A unique memoir of a wealthy Viennese family whose fate was disrupted with the Nazi occupation. In 2000, Sue Course discovers a suitcase from her mother's house crammed with letters from her large Jewish family, dating back to 1938. They reveal incredible journeys of struggle, survival and adaptation, as they lose all control over their futures.

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A portrait of growing up Aboriginal on the fringes of outback towns in New South Wales in the mid-twentieth century. The Cherry Picker's Daughter is a window into the day-to-day experience, an insight into the strength, resilience and ingenuity of Aboriginal families, women in particular, to survive seemingly insurmountable adversity.

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This book is a powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality.