Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne's two daughters, Ruth and Jane. But in the...
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Author: Greenwood, KerrySummary: -
Author: Gregson, J. MSummary:New Year's Eve is, traditionally, a time of hope and dreams for the year ahead. But for 19 year-old Hannah Woodgate, it is to be her last. She is the latest victim of the Lancashire leopard....
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Author: Harris, A.m.Summary:This is a dramatic suspenseful and splendidly written story of Australians at war. The author tells the story of his early years on the Buronga Ridge near Mildura, of his army service with the...
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Author: Goddard, RobertSummary:
Lance Bradley's old friend Rupert Alder has vanished leaving a trail of chaos behind him. Lance decides it's too risky to get involved but, finding he is already involved, soon realises...
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Author: Crowley, F. KSummary:Documents Forrest's career as inland explorer, public servant and politician. "After being actively involved in the drafting of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Sir...
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Author: Harris, A.m.Summary:
After three years of war, the tall man knew the shell-pocked ground in Korea as well as he knew the Blue Mountains of his home outside Sydney. The tall man had to organize more missions, to send...
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Author: Higgins, JackSummary:
It's a trip that agent Paul Chavasse will never forget. His destination: the isolated republic of Albania on the Adriatic coast, at a time when the regime is at its most repressive and the...
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Author: Hutson, ShaunSummary:
Amy is an ex-model and now has her own talk radio show with a popular phone-in slot. People talk about their fantasies mostly, all of which is cheerful stuff until, one night, a man says he...
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Author: Allbeury, TedSummary:John Rennie is an uncomprimising, principled man. When his Intelligence superiors order him to lie, to pervert, to execute he does it because his country's security demands it. That is,...
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Author: Curtis, Christopher PaulSummary:Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils. Twelve-year-old Charlie is down...
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Author: Headley, Maria DahvanaSummary:The stunning sequel to Maria Dahvana Headley's critically acclaimed Magonia tells the story of one girl who must make an impossible choice between two families, two homes-and two versions of...
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Author: Connolly, MarcyKate; Haring, DanSummary:Neil Gaiman meets How to Train Your Dragon in this beautifully illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy, his trusted dog, and his best friend, as they race to save the stars before their light...
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Author: Saeed, Aisha; Albertalli, BeckySummary:
When it comes to speaking to strangers, Jamie's a choke artist. There's no way he'd ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes, until he meets Maya. Maya Rehman's having...
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Author: Statovci, PajtimSummary:
April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile...
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Author: McTiernan, DervlaSummary:
In this mother and daughter story, one is running from a horrible truth and the other fighting to reveal it. And the first rule is: Make them like you. Second rule: Make them need you. Third rule...