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Being Bee by Catherine Bateson
Category: Junior Fiction
Since her mother died it had been just her, her dad, and her guinea pigs, Lulu and Fifi. A perfect non-nuclear family, but nothing stays the same forever. Ages 9-12.
COMPOSING A LIFE by BATESON MARY CATHERINE
Category: Biography Memoir
Profiles of five women that aim "to shed light on personal and career obstacles women face in achieving success" by a cultural anthropologist (Publishers Weekly). Mary Catherine Bateson has been called "one of the most original and important thinkers of our time" (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is plea ...Show more
Composing a Further Life - The Age of Active Wisdom by Mary Catherine Bateson
Category: Biography Memoir
Mary Catherine Bateson--author of the landmark bestseller Composing a Life--gives us an inspiring exploration of a new life stage that she calls Adulthood II, a result of the longer life spans and greater resources we now enjoy. In Composing a Further Life, Bateson redefines old age as an opportunity to ...Show more
Hanging Out: Mates Series by Catherine Bateson and Adam Carruthers (illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: Mates
When cousin Weston comes to stay, Ben is worried. He's told a lot of big fat lies about his life in Melbourne, and Weston is about to find him out.
His Name in Fire by Catherine Bateson
Category: unmapped
A celebration of community in a country town. A beautiful novel about love, relationships and trust, with each of the characters confronting a major crisis in their lives and trying to make sense out of it.
Lisette's Paris Notebook by Catherine Bateson
Category: Young Adult Fiction
What do you wear to Paris? Ami and I discussed it for hours but I still couldn't think of anything suitable. Ami said a trench coat with nothing underneath but your best underwear. That was only if some boy was meeting you at the airport, I said...Eighteen-year-old Lisette has just arrived in Paris (Fra ...Show more
Magenta McPhee by BATESON Catherine
Category: Children's
For Magenta McPhee, life is good. It would be almost perfect if she could sort out her dad, who quite possibly needs saving - from himself. Desperate times call for desperate measures, even if those measures involve identity fraud on a dating site, and replying, as your father, to emails he doesn't eve ...Show more
Magenta McPhee by Catherine Bateson
Category: Children's
For Magenta McPhee, life is good. It would be almost perfect if she could sort out her dad, who quite possibly needs saving - from himself. Desperate times call for desperate measures, even if those measures involve identity fraud on a dating site, and replying, as your father, to emails he doesn't even ...Show more
Millie & the Night Heron by Catherine Bateson
Category: Fiction
"The daughter of an artist and a scientist, and your own interesting self, Millie. What more could you need?” But Millie isn’t sure that Tom, her mum’s boyfriend, is right about that. A new town, a school project due, an enemy called Tayla, a boy with the initials RH and Tom himself.... It’s all too muc ...Show more
Mimi and the Blue Slave by BATESON Catherine
Category: Junior Fiction
When grief strikes, you need an ally. For Mimi, that ally is Ableth, the wildly disobedient blue slave. He comes, he goes, he says and does whatever he likes, but he's always there when Mimi needs him most, offering his own brand of crooked wisdom. Ableth says, "You need to learn to look under the surfa ...Show more
Painted Love Letters by Catherine Bateson
Category: Fiction
An honest and moving account of one family's struggle when dealing with cancer. It details Chrissie Grainger's life after her father's diagnosis; she has to start a new school, which she hates, and she feels alienated from the other children. Ages 14+.