Category: General
Once inseparable, the Michelet sisters were driven apart by war and by the men they married: a German aristocrat who loved his country and a British diplomat working alongside Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms. Laila Embelton describes the extraordinary lives of her mother and aunt in a moving story th ...Show more
Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers | Series: Treehouse
Andy and Terry's amazing treehouse has thirteen new levels! They've added a chocolate waterfall you can swim in, a volcano for toasting marshmallows, a bulldozer-battling level, a baby-dinosaur-petting zoo, a not-very-merry merry-go-round, a boxing elephant called the Trunkinator, an X-ray room, a disco ...Show more
Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers | Series: Treehouse Ser. | Reading Level: 8+
Come on back to the most amazing treehouse in the world You're probably wondering just how Andy and Terry met. Well, it's a long story, but a pretty exciting one, and it's mostly true Come on up, choose a hammock, and they'll tell you all about it.Andy and Terry's newly expanded treehouse now features 1 ...Show more
Category: History
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments t ...Show more
Category: Chefs & Cooks
15-Minute Mealsis Jamie's simplest and most straightforward book yet. It pushes the concept of fast, everyday food to a new level, without compromising on flavour. It's designed to excite and inspire people to prepare a balanced, nutritional, no-nonsense meal every night of the week.It covers everything ...Show more
Category: Parenting/Adolescence
Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys was a global phenomenon. The first book in a generation to look at boys' specific needs - parents loved its clarity and warm insights into their sons' inner world. But today, things have changed. There has been a sudden and universal deterioration in girls' mental health, ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: General Adult
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The #1 New York Times Bestseller On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and ...Show more
Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: Robert Langdon
'Seek and ye shall find.' With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life wi ...Show more
Category: General
Madness is a real world for the many thousands of people who are right now living within it. It never apologises. Sometimes it is a shadow, ever present, without regard for the sun. Sometimes it is a well of dark water with no bottom, or a levitation device to the stars. Madness, a Memoir is an insight ...Show more
Category: General
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more
Category: Fiction Paperback | Series: Don Tillman Ser.
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his ...Show more
Category: Politics
This is the story of one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent Australian political history, of how a powerful media pack, a vicious commentariat and some of those within her own party conspired to bring down Australia's first woman prime minister.
