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Real Name

Edwina & Mark Hyman

About Me

A mix of non-fiction and fiction
Edwina prefers classics, books about animals and human relationships, mostly non fiction, some children's literature and Literature European, American, Architecture, Art, Cultural history, Psychology, Pastoral Care, Biographies, Human experiences, Books about animals
Mark prefers fiction, science fiction, Poetry

Location

Canberra, Australia

Currently Reading

Czeslaw Milosz: A Book of Luminous Things : An International Anthology of Poetry (Paperback); 1998 Edition by Czeslaw (editor) Milosz

The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy by John Brehm

The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry by Stephen Mitchell

The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You by Karla McLaren

Cook for Your Life: Delicious, Nourishing Recipes for Before, During, and After Cancer Treatment by Ann Ogden Gaffney

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life (South Dakota Biography Series) by Pamela Smith Hill

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Updated and Expanded) by Susan Wise Bauer

Mastering the Craft of Writing: How to Write With Clarity, Emphasis, and Style by Stephen Wilbers

When Professionals Weep: Emotional and Countertransference Responses in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement) by Renee S. Katz

Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino

The Alzheimer's Solution: A Breakthrough Program to Prevent and Reverse the Symptoms of Cognitive Decline at Every Age by Dean Sherzai

The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation by Richard Rohr

Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin

Personhood and Presence: Self as a resource for spiritual and pastoral care by Ewan Kelly

What Do I Say?: Talking with Patients about Spirituality by Elizabeth Johnston-Taylor

The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman

Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair by Miriam Greenspan

The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman

The Penguin Book of Haiku (Penguin Classics) by Adam L. Kern

New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann

Written in History: Letters that Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore

South : the last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance by Ernest Shackleton

The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation by Thomas Merton

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession by John Cornwell

The Pocket Thomas Merton (Shambhala Pocket Library) by Thomas Merton

HIDDEN AGENDAS by JOHN PILGER (1998-08-01) by John Pilger

Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas

Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner

Beaumarchais: A Biography by Maurice Lever

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman

Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita

Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn

Into the Abyss by Benedict Allen (21-Jun-2007) Paperback

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle Freedman

The Vatican Diaries: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Power, Personalities, and Politics at the Heart of the Catholic Church by John Thavis

Night (Night) by Elie Wiesel

The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pushkin

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

Dubliners & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Other Works (Word Cloud Classics) by James Joyce

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss

The Yield: A Novel by Tara June Winch

Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today by Alison Whittaker

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe

Not Just Black and White by Lesley Williams

Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writings By Indigenous Australians by Michele Grossman

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond by Lahiri, Jhumpa New Edition (2000)

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition by Ernest Hemingway

Nam Le on David Malouf: Writers on Writers by Nam Le

Modern Classics Room of Ones Own Three Guineas (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories vol. 1 : From Marie de France to Marcel Proust /anglais

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