Children's Books

The Island with No-Name, a four-day eastward sail from Chennai, and 170 miles west of the Ten Degree Channel, has been bypassed by the Age of Discovery. Unlike her equally...

In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix,...

Cissy Cahill's world is unravelling fast. One by one, her family are dying. Cissy's right to be afraid but not for the reasons she thinks. The truth is much more...

Danny's mother died three weeks before his graduation. She had cancer for 5 years, and all she ever wanted to do was to make it to Danny's graduation, she said....

What kinds of minds are there,and how do we know? The first question is about what exists - about ontology, in philosophical parlance - and the second question is about...

You're a whirlwind. A success. You're living life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends....

A brilliant heart-tugging romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists. When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF WE ARE FAMILY Friends. You can't live with them - and you can't live without them. Or so Matt is discovering. His best mate is getting...

"[Israel's] fish-out-of-water dilemmas and encounters with kooky locals will resonate with Alexander McCall Smith fans." -- Publishers Weekly Author Ian Sansom "clearly loves a good laugh" ( Washington Post ),...

'Amazing' Meg Rosoff 'Extraordinary' Maggie Alderson 'What some might call beauty, I find monstrous' In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lord Francis Rodermere starts to lay waste...

'Guglani is the real deal' Michael Faber 'Profound . . . Poetic . . . Humane' Gabriel Weston 'Shows rare skill . . . Power and fear and morality' Sarah...

When did busy become a badge of honour? In 10 on-the-couch sessions, New Zealand clinical psychologist Karen Nimmo diagnoses, explains and treats Busy as F*ck syndrome, the condition that's consuming...

When good natured Charles Western inherits a multi-million-dollar fortune he uses the money to set up a literary magazine. But when the amateur writers he employs conspire against him, he...

Celeste was a friendly, happy little giraffe. She had a kind heart and she made others laugh. But Celeste sometimes worried that she wasn't enough. It seemed like other animals...

"I will never forget my first flight, the feeling of being pushed back in the seat, the rumbling that suddenly turned into silence. It fascinated me then, it does now."...

The child has no name, she's a little girl...lost and forgotten. 1867. Named by the wife of the paddle steamer captain who finds her half drowned in the Murray River,...

This bumper collection of jokes is full of horrible howlers and gruesome giggles, from zits to zombies, bums to beheadings.Get ready to gross-out and out-gross your friends. But be careful...They...

From the drama of its geological wonders to its unique flora and fauna, the abundance of its birdlife and the stark beauty of its arid interior, Australia's remarkable diversity is...

RAW Is a compilation of true stories form nine resilient women "Here are a few other things the world doesn't owe us: Shame, Guilt, Ridicule, Poverty, Horror, Impotence, Violence, Fear....

Vegan women everywhere are banding together in their efforts to be healthy, cruelty free, and environmentally responsible. This is their handbook. Melisser (known to most as "The Urban Housewife") presents...

Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we re facing a great deflation after five years of desperate stimulus and what to do about it now Throughout his...

A self-proclaimed golf nut, who's played in more than 100 Irish, British, European, and American championships, shares his opinions and insights on golf's best players--and most unusual characters--that he's met...

traces the 1864 campaign and leads readers on a driving tour of Sherman's path. Franklin Garrett of the Atlanta Historical Society calls it "a difficult job well done" A History...

A handy and compact guide to the ROM BIOS services of IBM PC, PC/AT, and PS/2 machines that is perfect for every assembly-language C programmer at any level of experience.

The magical follow-up to The Monster Who Wasn't . The second book in this brilliantly rich and strange fantasy series will make us all believe in monsters - be they...

Do you sometimes feel your life is one endless rollercoaster of busy busy? Would you like to be in control of your life? Have you ever asked yourself 'who am...

Straighten your cape and ready your fangs . . . the ghosts are biting back. The spookiest story you'll read this year is the ghoulish follow-up to Alex Foulkes's highly...

Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World. Despite a clash of cultures,...

Frightened for her life after her father, a British spy, is murdered, Giselle Barrington flees with the secret document her father gave her for safekeeping. Needing to hide from those...

Snapshot: A Portrait of Success is a beautifully photographed book that focuses on 18 prominent Australian entertainment, business and sports personalities. It tell a key story for each person that...

Rayne is still enjoying life at remote Morton's Keep, an escape from the city life she hated so much. But there are hints of something creepy and out of kilter...

For once a book that hotels can't pay to go in! The author cries at the thought of the number of offers she's turned away but has stood her ground...

175 photos illustrate this account by photographer Ponting of his journey with Capt. Robert Scott to the Antarctic, a voyage from which Scott did not return.

Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in South Africa in the fifties - a time of dreadful changes. Dinah is weedy and doesn't much like eating. Lisa is...

On THE BIGGEST LOSER, Bob Harper gives contestants the practical tools and psychological insights they need to get into the best shape of their lives. The key to his success...

Robin Dawes spares no one in this powerful critique of modern psychotherapeutic practice. As Dawes points out, we have all been swayed by the "pop psych" view of the world--believing,...