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Silk & Venom: The incredible lives of spiders
Author: James O'Hanlon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular belief,...
The Good-Enough Life
Author: Avram Alpert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society. We live in...
Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift
Author: Nadia Wheatley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'I know it's a daring suggestion, but I'll make it anyway.' Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical...
Dirrarn: Daisy Utemorrah Award Winner
Author: Carl Merrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Age range 10+ Mia could hear the squarks of her Jarriny before she saw them. Her eye's had flicked to the...
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism
Author: Diogenes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity. The Cynics were...
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK
Author: Brett Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in...
The Australian Schoolkids' Guide to Debating and Public Speaking
Author: Claire Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Age range 10+ Welcome to the world of school debating and public speaking, the best training ground for speaking, reasoning, arguing...
Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia's biggest business scandals
Author: Quentin Beresford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Crown Resorts, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten's Allied Medical Group, 7-Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes...
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began...
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
Humpback Highway: Diving into the mysterious world of whales
Author: Vanessa Pirotta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 I entered the water quietly and saw two humpback whales sleeping diagonally in the distance. Two school buses just hanging in...
Kin: Family in the 21st century
Author: Marina Kamenev Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Here's an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon - any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw...
Gum: The story of eucalypts & their champions
Author: Ashley Hay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 No matter where you look in Australia, you're more than likely to see a eucalyptus tree. Scrawny or majestic, smooth as...
Curlews on Vulture Street: Cities, Birds, People and Me
Author: Darryl Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Darryl Jones, author of Feeding the Birds at Your Table, reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share...
The Little Red Writing Book
Author: Mark Tredinnick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 The Little Red Writing Book is a lively and readable guide to lively and readable writing. A book on technique, style,...
I Can Count
Author: Sally Morgan Format: Board book Number of Pages: 20 Age range 0 to 5 'I can count to ten! Can you count to ten with me?' Another testament to...
The Relationship is the Project: A guide to working with communities
Author: Jade Lillie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Community-engaged practice is not an art form. It's not an add-on. It's a way of working; a deep collaboration. The Relationship...
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
Author: David M. Pena-Guzman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming. Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What...
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed
Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Eric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilisations of the...
ABC Origami: Learn Your Alphabet and Numbers Through Origami! (80 Cute & Easy Paper Models!)
Author: Naoko Ishibashi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Age range 5 to 8 Learn your letters and numbers by folding cute paper origami models! Naoko Ishibashi is Japan's #1...
Sydney Brutalism
Author: Heidi Dokulil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 ** Shortlisted for the Australian Book Design Awards 2024, Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book under $75 ** Big and bold or soft...
Brother Moon
Author: Maree McCarthy Yoelu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 *Shortlisted for the 2021 Environment Award for Children's Literature: Picture Fiction* Great-Grandpa Liman lives in a small house by the...
The Little Corroboree Frog
Author: Tracey Holton-Ramirez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 The Little Corroborree Frog is a wonderful children's story that gently introduces the serious plight of one of Australia's most endangered...
False Claims of Colonial Thieves
Author: Charmaine Papertalk Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal 2019 'A gentle whisper from the past Visits me in my dreams Or is...
The End of the Morning
Author: Charmian Clift Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift. 'In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle...
Translating Myself and Others
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects...
Kindred
Author: Kirli Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 100 *Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* *Shortlisted for the ABIA 2020 Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year* This...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
The River
Author: Sally Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Early childhood* *Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year* Age...
Sharing
Author: Aunty Fay Muir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Early childhood* Age range 3 to 6 When we share, there is plenty for all. A...
Open Your Heart to Country
Author: Jasmine Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 **Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Indigenous Writers' Prize** **Shortlisted for the 2023 Karajia Award for Children's Literature** Age range 4+...
Our Flag, Our Story: The Torres Strait Islander Flag
Author: Bernard Namok, Jnr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 5 to 12 'We are many different people in Australia, and we all live in one big country....
Gurril: Storm Bird
Author: Trevor Fourmile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 4+ Based on a traditional story from the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji First Nations people of Cairns, it has been...
Super Snake
Author: Gregg Dreise Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 5 to 10 'You can't have a rainbow without water. Dhurraluwi guuma-li - Come together! Wantima - Rise up!...
Stolen Girl
Author: Trina Saffioti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 36 Stolen Girl is a fictionalised account of the now universally known story of the Stolen Generation and tells of an Aboriginal...
Birds of Australia: A Photographic Guide
Author: Iain Campbell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 Australia is home to a spectacular diversity of birdlife, from parrots and penguins to emus and vibrant passerines. Birds of Australia...
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
Author: Nick Dyrenfurth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Acclaimed historians Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno tell the story of the Australian Labor Party's rich history of more than 130...
Uncle Xbox
Author: Jared Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Age range 7 to 12 'Nooooo,' I yelled and then Mum ran into the room in panic. 'What is it, what...
Sea Country
Author: Aunty Patsy Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 *CBCA 2022 Notable Book: Early childhood* Age range 0 to 9 Summer is the season for ripening wild cherries, tatas,...
Growing Media for Ornamental Plants and Turf
Author: Kevin Handreck Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 For 25 years, Growing Media for Ornamental Plants and Turf has been a core text for horticulture students and an essential...
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2: The Second Bakery Attack; Samsa in Love; Thailand
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies...
Origami Paper 500 sheets Japanese Washi Patterns 6" (15 cm): Double-Sided Origami Sheets with 12 Different Designs (Instructions for 6 Projects Included)
Author: Tuttle Studio Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 0 This pack contains 500 high-quality origami sheets printed with colorful and traditional Japanese Washi Patterns. These paper patterns...
The Little Green Grammar Book
Author: Mark Tredinnick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, and where is your verb, and what is its tense,...
Origami Paper 500 sheets Kimono Flowers 6" (15 cm)
Author: Tuttle Studio Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 0 This origami paper pack contains 500 high-quality origami papers printed with colourful floral patterns from a variety of...
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
Author: Cher Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and...
The Chipilly Six: Unsung heroes of the Great War
Author: Lucas Jordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 On 9 August 1918, at Chipilly Spur overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German...
Animals in my Garden
Author: Bronwyn Houston Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Age range 0-3 Bronwyn Houston makes counting from one to ten so much fun! From kookaburras to ants to dragonflies,...
Two Mates
Author: Melanie Prewett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 5 to 9 Two Mates is the true story of the special mateship between two young boys who have...