Maitland Living Library Catalogue
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| Title |
Themes |
Dates |
| Surviving |
Surviving childhood abuse
Changing the law
Living with a partner with cancer |
July
August
September
November |
| Hope |
Loss of both teenage sons in a car accident
Starting HOPE
Starting high school driver education program |
September
November
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| Beer & Baklava |
Unions and developers in Wooloomoooloo 1970
A woman lawyer on life, love and work
Travel, urban life and how to be alone |
September
October
November |
| Being an Aspergian/ Autistic person |
Being an ASDian person
Demystifying autism |
August |
| Young & trans |
Growing up in the wrong body
Sexual orientation
Being a young father |
TBA 2010 |
| Activist |
Human Rights activist
Animal Rights activist
Ex-MCC Councillor |
July
August |
| Moving on |
Living with an alcoholic
Living with a hearing impediment
Life as an immigrant in the 1960's |
July
August
December |
| Success at 63! |
Living in a third world country
University at 63!
Succeeding in business |
July
October
November
December |
| Argentina and canasta |
Immigrating from Argentina
Working with refugees
Winning canasta |
September |
| Loving local history |
Living Maitland's history from 1945 |
September |
| An accidental life |
Accidental owner of a private zoo
Coping with blindness from a simple operation
World travel, life with the stars |
July
October
November |
| Stolen |
Growing up as part of the stolen generations
Meeting her 'mob' and birth mother
Healing through writing |
October
November |
| Smiling & giving |
Fostering children
Near death from childhood asthma
Coming out of depression |
October |
| Destiny select.. |
British boarding school: life at Hogwarts?
Fitness 50
Dying to guide you |
November
December |
| An Australian story |
Growing up in the Australian country
Droughts, floods and fresh bread
Adjusting to city life |
August
October
December |
| Anyone can |
Life with an alcoholic father with PTSS
Living with agoraphobia & daughters teenage pregnancy
Accepting brothers homosexuality and death from AIDS |
July
August
September
October |
| The bloody new Australian |
Life as a teenager in occupied territory during WW2
The 'bloody new Australian'
Making Australia home |
July
October
December |
| The other side of the story |
Making do in Sydney during the Great Depression
Teaching experiences 1940 - 1980 at Greta Migrant Camp and Polish Camp at Beresfield |
August
December |
| Military man |
Life in an army intelligence unit
Discovering military history
A life of travelling to exotic destinations |
August
December |
| Getting out & getting on with it |
Poor upbringing with single parent
Travelling the world with sport
Following dream despite upbringing |
September |
| Suicide & cults |
Married to a man who joined a cult
Watching her son go with him
Living with her son's suicide in the cult |
July
September
October
December |
| Courage will conquer |
Living with multiple sclerosis for 35 years
Embracing life despite disability
Courage to pursue dreams |
September |
| Circuses & the couchsurfing project |
Growing up in a Swedish circus
Couchsurfing project: travel the world sleeping on peoples couches |
November |
| Virginia |
Surviving the loss of a child
Overcoming depression
Assertiveness, communication and self esteem in your 70s |
TBA 2010 |
| Living through the Great Depression |
Living in Sydney during the Great Depression |
September |
| Same sex married couples |
Love and marriage
Gay couples and children
Fighting for same sex rights with NIB |
TBA 2010 |
| Child evacuee in WW2 |
Life as a child evacuee in WW2
Member of British Special police
Living without sight |
November |
| Deciding our destiny |
Life after losing a leg
Surviving against the odds
Becoming a role model |
TBA 2010 |
| The thin blue line.. |
A Police Officer's life in Maitland 1985 -
The good, the bad and the ugly side of law enforcement |
TBA 2010 |
| Survivor |
HIV long term survivor
Caring for terminal partner
Loss of friends & history |
TBA 2010 |
| Gay out & proud |
Living as an out gay man
Supporting people with HIV
Living with a person with mental illness |
TBA 2010 |
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