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Amra’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Amra Pajalic
Goodreads Author
Born
in Melbourne, Australia
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
May 2011
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Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia
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2014
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Sabiha's Dilemma (#1 Sassy Saints Series)
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2009
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Things Nobody Knows But Me
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The Climb
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Time Kneels Between Mountains (Seka Torlak Mystery Book 1)
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Alma's Loyalty (#2 Sassy Saints Series)
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Jesse's Triumph (#3 Sassy Saints)
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The Cuckoo's Song
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Amir: friend on loan (The Third Space #2)
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2014
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Siege
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2011
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article: the day a teacher walked away
I spoke to Kellie Nissen about the moment she quit teaching.Not with a plan.
Not at the end of the year.
Just… “I think I might resign.”
“And when?”
“Now.”
And I felt that in my bones.
Because if you’ve been a teacher long enough, that thought lives somewhere inside you.
This conversation turned into something bigger:
– why teachers think they have no transferable skills (we do)
– how aspiring writers get Read more of this blog post »
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| Kill Your Husbands is the kind of crime novel that reminds you why the genre works so well when it leans into tension, character, and just enough chaos. Set in the regional town of Warragul, the story drops three couples into a remote country house f ...more | |
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Ghosts Among the Gumtrees:
This novel explores justice versus retribution—if you seek retribution, will you lose your humanity? Memory of war and how it haunts survivors. Genocide denial and the way communities unite under this banner. Refugee displacement and the difficulty i
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Ghosts Among the Gumtrees:
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I listened to this as an audiobook and absolutely loved it. Told through dual perspectives, the story follows DeShona—passive, frustrating, but ultimately effective as a character—and Reid, an insurance investigator returning to his hometown to determ ...more |
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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
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| A fun read that satirises the genre of crime fiction and yet is so satisfying. Ernest is an accidental writer after a series of unfortunate events occur that lead him to write his first true crime novel. Now he's fighting to write a second book on a ...more | |
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I met Emma at an event where she read an extract of her book and was immediately intrigued. I knew I wanted to buy her book for my daughter, and after she read it, she urged me to read it. I loved this interrogation of witches in society, and her sear ...more |
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“She was a victim of her own brain chemistry, and as her daughter my role was to accept and love her for who she was, not who I wanted her to to be.”
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
“Our mother was different, but that’s what we liked about her. While other children had strict routines and consequences, we had freedom and frivolity— and we didn’t want the party to end.”
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
“While I’d had many upheavals during my young life, the one constant and been my mother. Now that she was in another country and completely lost to me, I realised how much she was a part of me. Missing her was like a physical ache that I could not assuage.”
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
― Things Nobody Knows But Me
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| Nothing But Readi...: Karen's Reading Challenges | 10 | 177 | Feb 07, 2015 02:23PM | |
| Nothing But Readi...: New 2 U Authors: 2015 | 164 | 590 | Jan 12, 2016 05:53PM | |
| Aussie Readers: Discussion and New Releases! Do you love Young Adult Fiction? | 412 | 735 | Feb 28, 2019 06:28PM | |
| Around the World ...: Calzean's Frequent Flyer 2019 | 82 | 121 | Dec 18, 2019 08:38PM | |
| Around the World ...: Australia | 64 | 1182 | Jan 08, 2025 10:04PM | |
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“God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.”
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
“I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!”
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
“It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.”
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
― The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
“Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something — anything — to begin.”
― Dare Me
― Dare Me
ARC Of Authors
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Advanced Review Copies (ARC) of Fiction Titles made available to Reviewers and Readers before official launch direct from the Authors. ARCs are provid ...more
On the Broomstick
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This group is dedicated to reading fun and witchy books. Join me on my blog to see featured books and topics for conversation.
Australian Women Writers Challenge
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AS AT JANUARY 1st 2022, THIS GROUP IS NO LONGER IN OPERATION. This group is for participants in the Australian Women Writers Challenge. Everyone who ...more
Escape Club YA Bookclub
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Australian author Marianne de Pierres started this young adult book club in 2012 at www.burnbright.com.au. We've only just moved to GoodReads. Join Kr ...more
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Discover and share your discovery of the most recently published literary fiction. If you love reading novels before anyone else decides they are good ...more
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Hello Amra, it is a pleasure to meet you. If you ever have any questions about Harlequin or our books, please feel free to ask.Kim S, Harlequin Books ambassador
