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Librarian Recommended Reads
Future Jaw-Clap: The Primitive Art Group and Braille Collective Story
by Daniel Beban
Future Jaw-Clap tells the story of a highly influential movement in New Zealand music: the self-made musicians of pioneering free jazz ensemble Primitive Art Group, who carved out their own radical musical language in the cold, hard reality of 1980s Wellington, and have gone on to richly diverse careers in music.
Ngā Kūaha
by Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush and David Epston
Following on from the successful Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy, the authors explore the specific topic of voices, visions and other experiences in Māori and indigenous mental health therapy. The book looks at why this is topic is of particular importance in mental health care with indigenous peoples.
Some Strange Music Draws Me In
by Griffin Hansbury
Some Strange Music Draws Me In is a compassionate, gripping and emotionally charged narrative, peopled by an unforgettable cast of characters bound in electrifying relationships. Griffin Hansbury's elegant and fearless prose dares to explore taboos around gender and class as he offers a deeply moving portrait of friendship, family and a girlhood lived sideways.
Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation
by Eleanor Barnett
A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingenious ways in which our ancestors sought to extend the life of food through preservation, the culinary reuse of leftovers and the recycling of food scraps