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# Nonfiction recommended by our booksellers
## Elkin is the essayist who I feel most lucky to exist at the same time as; we get to read her books as they come out and should pay attention to their messages instantly. ### Grace Gooda In Vocal Break, critically acclaimed author Lauren Elkin blends memoir, feminist manifesto and cultural history to explore female singing voices and how women have used them to defy convention, genre, capitalism, racism and sexism.
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## What an incredible, raw, gut-wrenching and important book this is. ### Pauline Hopkins Detention is a moving memoir about Ralph Jackman, a former sports reporter who quit his job to become a teacher and went on to fight the youth detention system on behalf of Australia's most desperate and damaged kids.
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## Equal parts memoir, true-crime exposé and relentlessly researched treatise on our struggling health system, Wormhole reveals just how close our systems of support are to the precipice of oblivion. ### Tamuz Ellazam Inspired by the personal experience of losing a family member to alternative therapies, Wormhole is an urgent and wide-ranging exploration of medical misogyny, wellness culture and misinformation.
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# Bestselling nonfiction to discover
Lena Dunham's frank and deeply personal reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between.
A collection of essays investigating what it means to be a traveller, a brother, a lifelong friend.
A moving guide to finding joy and meaning in a world that seems to be falling apart.
A brilliant inquiry into how we will be changed by the rise of artificial intelligence.
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