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6 best books like Dark Roots (Cate Kennedy): Growing Up Asian in Australia, Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back, Lenny's Book of Everything, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, Where the River Runs, Too Much Lip

Growing Up Asian in Australia
AuthorAlice Pung
ISBN1863951911
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The...
Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back
AuthorBri Lee
ISBN1760295779
'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen Garner

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness...
Lenny's Book of Everything
AuthorKaren Foxlee
I knew my brother. I knew when he talked too much about Timothy his imaginary pet eagle. He was scared.
'Whatever you do,' I said to Davey on the walk to school, 'Do not tell people about your eagle. Do not tell Miss Schweitzer about your eagle.'
He looked crestfallen. His shoulders slumped. He...
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
AuthorChloe Hooper
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs....
Where the River Runs
AuthorFleur McDonald
Chelsea drove slowly through the small country town of Barker, her eyes searching to see what had changed in the last nine years...She's been in two minds about going home. Part of her wanted desperately to sit on the riverbank and breathe in the peace. But why would she put herself through all the pain...
Too Much Lip
AuthorMelissa Lucashenko
ISBN0702259969
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger.

Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding...
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