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This strikingly original thriller and international best-seller is the first book of a trilogy which introduces a provocatively odd crime-solving couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libelling a shady businessman, and the multi-pierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable hacke. Together they must solve this mystery
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A moving tale of post-war friendship, love and books, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a captivating and completely irresistible novel of enormous depth and heart. |
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In his first novel for seven years, Tim Winton has achieved a new level of mastery. Breath confirms him as one of the world's finest storytellers, whose work is both accessible and profound, relentlessly gripping and deeply moving.
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Follows the gradual disintegration of two families living in a small Australian coastal town. It is as much the story of the individuals in each family as it is a portrait of a generation and a place. Each story comliments and interweaves with the next, so that the overall effect is cummulative and powerful. |
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The Slap is a novel about the relationships between children and adults, and the new Australian multicultural middle-class from the controversial cult author of Loaded and Dead Europe. |
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Maddy yearns for her life to be mystifying, to be as magical as a fairy story. And then one day, on the beach, she meets the strangest young man she has ever seen. The Ghost's Child is an enchanting fable about the worth of life, and the power of love. |
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Based on historic events, Wanting is a novel about art, love, and the way in which life is finally determined never by reason, but only ever by wanting. Set in 1839 Wanting tells the story of a young aborginal girl adopted by the Governor of Van Diemans land. |
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The Spare Room tells a story of compassion and rage as the two women - one sceptical, one stubbornly serene - negotiate their way through Nicola's gruelling treatments. Garner's dialogue is pitch perfect, her sense of pacing flawless as this novel draws to its terrible and transcendent finale.
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People of the Book crosses continents and centuries to bring stories of hope amidst darkness, compassion amidst cruelty, all bound together by the discoveries made by a young Australian woman restoring an ancient Hebrew book.
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Take one Shakespearean tragedy: Macbeth, add Andy, Danny and Lisa the Just trio, whose madcap exploits have already delighted hundreds of thousands of readers for the last ten years. Mix them all together to create one of the most hilarious, most dramatic, moving stories of love, Whizz Fizz, witches, murder and madness. Ages 9+.
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Eric Carle's - The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 40. This all-time favorite not only follows the very hungry caterpillar as it grows from egg to cocoon to beautiful butterfly, but also teaches the days of the week, counting, good nutrition and more. Striking pictures and cleverly die-cut pages offer interactive fun. |
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Wonderful characters and wonderfully illustrated. 2005 Children's Book of the Year for Early Childhood. Ages 3+. |
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Scar Tissue far transcends the typical rock biography, because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. The result is a surprisingly honest and moving account of a man who almost destroyed himself, and the band that helped him rebuild his life.
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To have Billy Connolly as a personal tour guide through some of the world's most dramatic landscapes in the vast wilderness of the Arctic is to enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience only he can offer. |
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