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10 best books like The Loss That Is Forever: The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father (Maxine Harris): The Dovekeepers, Diary of a Wombat, Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children, A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, Possum Magic, Koala Lou, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing, Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer, In the Presence of Absence

The Dovekeepers
AuthorAlice Hoffman
Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel.

In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert....
Diary of a Wombat
AuthorJackie French
ISBN0618381368
Wombats are cuddly-looking, slow-moving Australian animals. Their favorite activities are eating, sleeping, and digging holes. Here, in the words of one unusually articulate wombat, is the tongue-in-cheek account of a busy week; eating, sleeping, digging holes . . . and training its new neighbors,...
Where the Forest Meets the Sea
AuthorJeannie Baker
ISBN0688063632
“My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years,” Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest in North Queensland, Australia.

We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago,...
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children
AuthorJan Pinborough
Once upon a time, American children couldn’t borrow library books. Reading wasn’t all that important for children, many thought. Luckily Miss Anne Carroll Moore thought otherwise! This is the true story of how Miss Moore created the first children’s room at the New York Public Library, a bright,...
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
AuthorJen Bryant
ISBN0375867120
As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Even during WWI, Horace filled...
Possum Magic
AuthorMem Fox
ISBN0152632247
A sparkling story steeped in Australian "magic" about Grandma Poss and little Hush, two possums from the country. Grandma works her magic so Hush is invisible, which allows the little possum to do lots of fun things (like slide down kangaroos' backs) and also stay hidden from snakes (which is why Grandma...
Koala Lou
AuthorMem Fox
ISBN0152000763
Oh, Mem Fox. I'm really not sure about the message this book sends to children. I *think* it is supposed to be that trying is more important than succeeding and that your parents will love you even if you fail. What it actually says is that working mothers ignore and neglect their children and that the only...
Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0156619180
Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing. In "Reminiscences," the first of five pieces, she focuses on the death of her mother, "the greatest disaster that could happen," and its effect on her father, the demanding Victorian patriarch. Three of the papers were composed...
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
AuthorArthur Lubow
ISBN0062234323
The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer brings...
In the Presence of Absence
AuthorMahmoud Darwish
ISBN1935744011
"Darwish is to be read with urgency, in the night, when nothing else moves but his lines." —The Village Voice

By one of the most transcendent poets of this generation, a remarkable collection of prose poems that explores themes of love, pain, isolation, and connection. In this self-eulogy...
The Woman Next Door
AuthorYewande Omotoso
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility which they prune with a zeal that belies the fact that they are both over eighty.

But...
Born Survivors
AuthorWendy Holden
ISBN0062370251
The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death...
A Platypus, Probably
AuthorSneed B. Collard III
ISBN1570915849
This is two books in one: a poetic rendering of a platypus' life cycle, with beautiful illustrations. In smaller print are scientific facts about the fascinating platypuses. By asking a question in the beginning, and then tying it together with the silhouette image of a little boy and his fisherman...
Over in Australia: Amazing Animals Down Under
AuthorMarianne Berkes
ISBN1584691352
Put to the rhyme of one of Raffi's songs, children will enjoy looking at the various Australian animals and learning their numbers too. Plus, each page has a little hidden creature. Can you find them?

Ages: 3 - 7

#geography #australia

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The Lost Mother
AuthorMary McGarry Morris
ISBN0143036459
The lost mother is the riveting chronicle of the Talcotts, a family in rural Vermont during the Great Depression. Abandoned by his beautiful wife, Irene, Henry and their two young children, Thomas and Margaret, spend that summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond. Henry, an itinerant butcher, struggles...
The Story of Rosy Dock
AuthorJeannie Baker
ISBN0688114911
Jeannie Baker is a collage artist. many are created to illiustrate her children's books, but they also stand alone as works of art, and there are some in art galleries. like 'Where The Forest Meets The Sea' the technique is employed to illustrate an environmental theme - this time the introduction of...
The Hidden Forest
AuthorJeannie Baker
ISBN0688157602
Jeannie Baker, incomparable creator of intricate collage illustrations, invites you to take a plunge with Ben, into the sea ... to see.See what?
Underwater forests of kelp.
Rocks with strangely beautiful textures.
A myriad of fish.
The hidden splendour of one of the Earth's last,...
Queenie: One Elephant's Story
AuthorCorinne Fenton
ISBN1876372974
There was a time when for tuppence you could ride on the back of an elephant at a zoo. Queenie was one such elephant. Until her death in 1945, she patiently carried up to 500 people a day. Queenie: One Elephant's Story is an exquisite evocation of a time when elephants were giving rides in zoos all over the...
Taylor's Gift: A Courageous Story of Giving Life and Renewing Hope
AuthorTodd Storch
ISBN0800721888
In March 2010, thirteen-year-old Taylor Storch's life was tragically cut short by a skiing accident. With only a few minutes to consider their options, her grieving family made the life-changing decision to donate her organs. Knowing Taylor's caring spirit, they were sure this was what she would...
The Middle Ages
AuthorMorris Bishop
In this single indispensable volume, one of America’s ranking scholars combines a life’s work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoriatative and beautifully told, THE MIDDLE AGES is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance...
The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
AuthorVirginia Sole-Smith
ISBN1250120985
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.

Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important job...
Truth Worth Telling
AuthorScott Pelley
ISBN1982647477
An inspiring memoir from the front lines of history by award-winning 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.

Don’t ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what’s the meaning of you?

With this provocative question, Truth Worth Telling introduces us to unforgettable people...
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