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New Happy
Stephanie Harrison. Hachette Australia. $39.99.
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We all want to be happy. This goal drives everything that we do. Why, then, are so many of us so unhappy? It's not your fault. You have been told a lie: that achieving your own success will make you happy. This is "old happy," society's incorrect definition of happiness. The truth is that happiness comes from helping other people to live happier lives. Uncover your own gifts and use them to both improve your life and the world at the same time. If you have ever asked yourself, "Who am I really?" "When will I be happy?" or "What am I supposed to do with my life?", this book is for you.
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Everest, Inc.
Will Cockerell. Simon & Schuster. $34.99.
This book tells the story of how a few daring entrepreneurs paired raw courage and naked ambition to get paying clients safely up and down Everest. Until the late 1980s, such a thing was considered impossible. Within a few years, Everest guiding was a burgeoning industry. Today, 90 per cent of the people on the mountain are clients or employees of guided expeditions. Studded with quotes from Western and Sherpa climbers, clients, writers, and filmmakers, the book foregrounds the colourful voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today.
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My Efficient Electric Home Handbook
Tim Forcey. Murdoch Books. $29.99.
Here is everything you need to know to transform your home - old, new or rented - for an efficient, comfortable, cheaper electric future. Subtitled "How to slash your energy bills, protect your health & save the planet", this book provides tips and strategies Forcey gleaned from working with thousands of Australians in their homes, as well as from hands-on experience modifying his own home. He explains best-practice heating and cooling, hot water heat pumps, induction cooktops, draught-proofing, insulation, solar energy and much more.
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Underestimated: the wisdom and power of teenage girls
Chelsey Goodan. Scribe. $35.
Academic tutor Goodan has worked with hundreds of girls from different backgrounds who have shared with her their innermost concerns, doubts, and what they wish they could communicate to their parents and the world at large. With topics and language directly chosen by the girls, Goodan reveals how the solutions to a girl's wellbeing lie within her. She offers parents ways to help find solutions and how adults can better support a teenage girl's voice to create positive change. Goodan encourages parents and society to help girls unleash their power and celebrate their intrinsic wisdom, creating more healing and connection for everyone.
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Fool Me Twice
Benjamin Stevenson. Penguin. $34.99.
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Antiquity
Hanna Johansson (trans. Kira Josefsson). Scribe. $27.99.
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Woman, Missing
Sherryl Clark. HarperCollins. $32.99.
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The Good Women of Fudi
Liu Hung. Scribe. $29.99.
In the aftermath of the Opium Wars, Wu Fang is jealous of her best friend Jiali's marriage to Yanbu. Charles has arrived in Fudi to start a new life. He eschews the company of his fellow foreigners, preferring to spend time with new colleague Yanbu, Jiali, and her friend, Wu Fang. Over the course of several months, he grows close to them all, in increasingly confusing ways, but what will happen when he is forced to choose between his country and his friends? As tensions between the Manchu rulers and the people rise, and foreign battleships gather out to sea, loyalties will be tested.
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