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A good book is a must-have for any road trip. Here’s a quick look at some of the latest titles on the bookstore shelves
SETTING BOUNDARIES
In the face of ever-increasing professional and personal demands, we risk using our energy in ways that don’t serve who we want to be. Many of us, raised to be people pleasers, find ourselves giving in to draining colleagues, friends, partners and relatives. We sabotage our Inner Leader and fail to trust our instincts. Dr Rebecca Ray, Australian clinical psychologist and author, shows how boundaries are the key to many of the emotional and practical difficulties we encounter in daily life. In Setting Boundaries, Dr Ray shares science-based advice and tools to help us: identify our boundaries and when they have been crossed; recognise the patterns and habits that have failed to support us to feel empowered; engage in difficult conversations from a place of strength and self-kindness. Accessible, inspiring and deeply practical, Setting Boundaries ignites us to rethink our relationships, reclaim our lives and protect our mental health and wellbeing. Rebecca Ray MacMillan RRP $39.99
THE PREMONITION – A PANDEMIC STORY
In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really understood the magnitude of what was happening. Except, that is, a small group of scientific misfits who in their different ways had been obsessed all their lives with how viruses spread and replicated – and with why the governments and the institutions that were supposed to look after us, kept making the same mistakes time and again. This group saw what nobody else did. A pandemic was coming. We weren’t prepared. The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a group who anticipated, traced and hunted the coronavirus; who understood the need to think differently, to learn from history, to question everything; and to do all of this fast, in order to act, to save lives, communities, society itself. It’s a story about the workings of the human mind; about the failures and triumphs of human judgement and imagination. It’s the story of how we got to now. Michael Lewis Allen Lane (UK) RRP $55
ORA NUI 4, MĀORI LITERARY JOURNAL
According to the Austronesian Migration Theory, Māori descend from the indigenous tribes of Taiwan, who migrated widely. As a result of this migration, New Zealand and Taiwan share genealogical, linguistic, and cultural connections. In this ground-breaking special edition of the Māori literary journal Ora Nui, writing and artwork by the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and Taiwan are presented side by side. The resulting journal is a rich offering of short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, essays and visual art. Author Anton Blank says, “This issue of Ora Nui is a jewel; light dances across the words and images, sparking joy and wonder. It is filled with contributions from my favourite Māori and Taiwanese writers and artists.” Contributors include Nigel Borell, Hinemoa Jones, Arihia Latham, Vaughan Rapatahana, Apirana Taylor, Briar Wood, Joshua Hema and Etan Pavavalung. Anton Blank Oranui Press RRP $45
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