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Speaking From The Heart ebook
by Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia & Blaze Kwaymullina
Eighteen Aboriginal Australians from across the country share powerful stories that are central to their lives, family, community or country. Stories which provide readers with a very personal picture of the history, culture and contemporary experience of Aboriginal Australia Read more »
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An Easeful Death ebook
by Felicity Young
Someone is killing beautiful young women and taking extraordinary risks to carefully pose their painted bodies in public places. The first is bronze, then silver — who will be gold? Detective Sergeant Stevie Hooper, young, hard-edged and newly seconded to the Serious Crime Squad, finds herself haunted by increasingly disturbing flashbacks as the bizarre…Read more »
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Hal Spacejock 3: Just Desserts ebook
by Simon Haynes
Space pilot for hire! Hal Spacejock Guaranteed Cheap.
A mysterious sealed crate, a pair of shady mercenaries with more guns than brain cells and an amnesiac robot which may or may not be on a secret mission … Only interstellar ignoramus Hal Spacejock and the unflappable Clunk could turn a straightforward cargo delivery into a space opera with clowns…Read more » -
Destroying Avalon ebook
by Kate McCaffrey
I stared at the email in disbelief, the skin around my mouth prickling in horror … I had to know what they were saying. I shut my eyes and clicked on the link …
When Avalon moves to the city her life is turned upside down. Starting at a new high school, she finds herself at the centre of a brutal cyber-bullying campaign. She is inundated with…_Read more »
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Hal Spacejock 2: Second Course ebook
by Simon Haynes
A beautiful and mysterious female passenger, a loony inventor with a basement full of deadly weapons, and a dangerous run-down teleporter built by a long-lost alien civilisation. These are just some of the challenges facing Hal Spacejock as he fights for survival in the cut-throat interstellar cargo businessRead more »
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Bluff Rock ebook
by Katrina Schlunke
“The past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our longing for certainty cannot be satisfied … we tell stories about where we come from and who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically …
This is an original and courageous book. Schlunke, who grew up in the New England…Read more » -
All That Glitters ebook
by Ron Bunney
Martin Graham loves and understands horses. Stable lad at the Travellers Inn just out of Guildford, he also longs to join the thousands making for the goldfields around Coolgardie. Chance throws good fortune his way, and Martin knows just how to ride it. On the long journey east he joins forces with Beth Wilkes, a girl with a serious chip on her shoulder…Read more »
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Babes in the Bush ebook
by Kim Torney
A powerful exploration of the making of a uniquely Australian image — the evocative and enduring image of the child lost in the Bush. Along with drought, fire and flood, the stories of children lost in the bush became central to the Australian colonial experience (even though there were any number of more likely, and more gruesome ways a child could…Read more »
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Hal Spacejock ebook
by Simon Haynes
Bored with on-time deliveries? Want your valuable cargo strewn across the nearest planet? Call Hal Spacejock! Partial deliveries, non-arrivals and total write-offs a specialty.
An incompetent, accident-prone pilot is given one last chance to save his shipRead more » -
Horse Mad ebook
by Dianne Wolfer
On her eighth birthday Alice wakes up to discover she is no longer a horse. This is a problem as her best friends are in the Pony Club, and her world is now turned upside down. She tries all kinds of strange ways to get her horsiness back, and then she finds a new solution … Read more »
From the Catalogue
Ten Tiny Things on Wilderness Society shortlist
Ten Tiny Things author Meg McKinlay was pleasantly surprised to be shortlisted for the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature, just one day after winning a Crystal Kite award.
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