Category: Politics & Society
Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows ...Show more
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Bad Guys | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
THE SKY GOES DARK. THE CITY TREMBLES. THE SCREAMS BEGIN. ...and everyones favourite Wolf has a LOT of explaining to do. Big? Yep. Bad? You betcha. Unmissable? YESSSSSSSSSSS. But seriously, will someone tell those whiny Three Little Pig dudes to stop saying 'We told you so'? Get under a table and put o ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Crime & Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
In the 28th novel in Donna Leon's bestselling Commissario Brunetti series, Brunetti's father-in-law, the Count Falier, urges Brunetti to investigate and intervene in the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejeda, to adopt a much younger man as his son. U ...Show more
Category: Politics & Society
It's compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake stalls at polling stat ...Show more
Category: Fiction - General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A beautiful, bittersweet and magical tale about the distance one man will travel for the sake of love from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop On his way to meet his son for the first time, hardened former war correspondent Henry Skinner is hit by a car after rescuing a c ...Show more
Category: Fiction - General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'You look the type to break your father's heart.''Yeah, but he broke mine first.' When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years lat ...Show more
Category: Travel Stories | Series: Travel Literature Ser.
Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys over land and sea captivated audiences and gave them a glimpse into countries, cities and cultures like never before. Tales include Robert Falcon Scott's doomed Antarctic ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Crime & Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
A brilliant young doctor is dead … and someone has to take the blame. Former refugee David Tran becomes the Golden Boy of Australian medical research and invents a drug that could transform immunology. Eight volunteers are recruited for the first human trial, a crucial step on the path to global ...Show more
Category: Fiction - General | Reading Level: 1
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WIMMERA.An urban crime novel that slowly and masterfully hooks you in... then shocks with the horrific crime and the dread that the characters you care about aren't going to make it out alive.'It's funny how quick it happens and without ...Show more
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Real Pigeons | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Ever wonder why pigeons always act so weird? It's because they're out there chasing the bad guys and saving your butts! In this hot new series for fans of Bad Guys and Dog Man, the crime-fighting birds known as the REAL PIGEONS have some mega mysteries to solve. Someone has been ...Show more
Category: Children's Picture Books
A hilarious picture book from award-winning picture book duo Meg McKinlay and Leila Rudge. When Amos starts counting sheep, there's one thing he doesn't quite count on - how's he supposed to sleep when the sheep land - THUD! THUD! - in his bedroom?
Category: Politics & Society | Reading Level: 3 Biography
When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and to work from her home in Beijing writing a book, she quickly realised that childcare and housework would consume the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and ...Show more
