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'Dares to teeter on the edge between pleasure and pain' -Weekend Australian 'This unflinching debut novel delves deep into the darkest realms of terror' -Publishers Weekly Brilliant and brutal, Stacking...

Over the last twenty years David Lyons has e stablished himself as a location and travel photographer of international standing. In this book he combines colour phot ographs with classic...

Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750-1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has...

Bestselling YA thrillers from Natalie D. Richards have a fresh new look! Keeping secrets ruined her. But telling the truth might kill her. From Natalie D. Richards, the New York...

Dating The Italian - Ally Blake Do opposites really attract? Band manager Sutton has heard her parents' love story hundreds of times. Only, when she arrives at the bar where...

One Night On The Virgin's Terms She's chosen him... to awaken her! Demure Ivy Kennedy is determined to lose her virginity by her thirtieth birthday. And there's only one man...

An easy-to-read guide to allow everyone to feel comfortable speaking to a large group, an informal report in a meeting, a community group, social gathering, or whatever. Samples of the...

After the Civil War, stalwart warriors struggle to keep the Marine Corps alive. Their one hope may lie in Zachary O'Hara, the son of their hero, Paddy. But Zachary is...

Put Downs is a pithy collection of insults you wish you'd said yourself, but didn't think up in time. Proving that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword, the...

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere...

Outside the school gates of Farquhars school, the gossip hums, the SUVs swarm and Boden abounds. But, here, three women are about to discover that friends are the only accessories...

This is a powerful novel exploring the effects of autism on a young family from Marti Leimbach, author of the international bestseller "Dying Young", who has experienced and dealt with...

In this sophisticated, suspenseful debut reminiscent of Laura Lippman and Chloe Benjamin, two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously...

Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus...

Acclaimed author Sam Sykes returns with the second thrilling novel in his Bring Down Heaven series. The heart of civilization bleeds. Cier'Djaal, once the crowning glory of the civilized world,...

Once upon a time, "networking" meant shaking hands and passing out business cards. But in a sell-saturated world of junk faxes and telemarketing, virtually everyone - from sales reps to...

An affectionate satire, The Little Boat on Trusting Lane is a story of human connection and the potential of community and friendship to heal. Rashida Murphy, author of The Historian's...

'We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared . . . traditional authority is lapsing into brute force . . . and we ourselves must take...

Lost in Translation is 140 wacky, weird and wonderful snapshots of the English language being abused abroad and at home. Whether it's dodgy grammar, bad spellings or just plain old...

If you are interested in unusual pets, this is just the book for you. Did you know that: ferrets can be house-trained, and taught to sit, stay and retrieve, just...

Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, and then he becomes a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms...

A drug addict and debaucher of women, Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, indulged in all the vices and libertinism was exceptional even in his age and rank. Having married one...

Overwhelmed by the realities of first-time motherhood and disillusioned with the corporate world, Jane trades in her Manolos for nappies, nipple shields and the foot spread of a yeti: a...

In 1940 John Martin was appointed Private Secretary to Winston Churchill. He remained at Churchill's side throughout the war and was promoted, in May 1941, to Principal Private Secretary. During...

"What do you and your spouse have in common?" "We got married on the same day." Many women can identify with that sentiment. They want their marriages to be happy...

Stuff. It's everywhere. In your bedroom, in the kitchen, in the lounge room, everywhere is full of stuff. I'm talking about the ordinary stuff like chairs and carpet and dishwashing...

This title aims to: situate child and family health and nursing within the environmental, social, economic, and political contexts; acknowledge diversity and difference as they influence child and family health...

These days we feel almost as young at fifty as we did at thirty - give or take the odd twinge. However, we are also becoming increasingly aware that the...

Uranium is a common element in the Earth's crust and the only naturally occuring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After WWII, it reshaped the...

In the Village of Basketeers, the soil is too rocky for farming and the sea too rough for fishing.Luckily, the grasses and reeds that grow nearby are ideal for making...

The characters on Norminton's purgatorial 'Ship of Fools' - a ship that's going nowhere fast - bicker and struggle for attention; telling tales that bounce off one another to form...

Woman, 36. WLTM man who doesn't try to high-five her after sex.Personal ads - men and women of all ages, backgrounds and aspirations, laying their souls bare and their hearts...

Preparing dinner for her husband's colleagues, tipsy, and listening to a woman complain about domestic slavery on the radio, Helen Robbins begins to stare hard at the peas. For thirteen...

The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent (1%) broke away from the rest of us to...

Ehud Barak's election as Prime Minister of Israel on 17th May 1999 and his determination to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians inspired both Israeli voters and the international...

As the survivors of the hunting party are picked off one by one and fire rages through the mountains, Miles embarks on a desperate rescue mission, driven by love for...