Second-hand Books

The American healthcare system has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of non-physician providers practicing medicine without the schooling of a medical doctor. Do you know who your "doctor"...

Lethal operative Scot Harvath is dispatched to avenge the killing of American citizens abroad in #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor's new pulse-pounding...

A thriller, largely based on fact, that tells the inside story of the Rosenberg spy network and the fate of the famous couple that was sentenced to die on the...

Age range 15 There's no backspace key for life's decisions. Samantha and Dylan are in - everyone knows it. So it's no big deal when they leave a party for...

One hot morning, Grug decides to go to the creek for a swim. On his way there, he spots a strange creature lying on a rock. It looks like a...

'Leong serves up her raw, vibrant truth. Now that takes real guts.' - Kylie Kwong 'Utterly delectable' - Narelda Jacobs 'Melissa Leong is an Australian culinary and cultural treasure.' -...

'I was sitting bolt upright in bed breathing fast and staring at the wall. The daylight was streaming into the motel room through the slats of the blinds. I seemed...

Collection Stories features some of the most significant and intriguing objects from the National Museum of Australia's collection. From glass and ceramic spear points made by Aboriginal people to the...

This is one title in a series of short, illustrated biographies. They tell the stories of those who have shaped our present and our past, from Beethoven to Dietrich, from...

Assertiveness is the ability to maintain the right balance between your own needs and other people's needs. It empowers those who use it. In The Assertiveness Pocketbook author Max Eggert...

The Top 10 bestseller - a woman swaps her far-flung travels for her biggest adventure yet: a relationship Kat has never wanted to live a small, everyday sort of life....

In mid-life Tim Menzies finds himself surrounded by a sheaf of letters and photographs he has never seen before - words and images that completely refigure his past and sense...

In this important, entertaining book, one of the world's most celebrated psychologists, Martin Seligman, asserts that happiness can be learned and cultivated, and that everyone has the power to inject...

Could you ski to the South Pole? That was the challenge that British Adventurer, Felicity Aston put to women from around the Commonwealth as she set out to create the...

Your writer, in conjuring this tale of murder, adultery, incest, ghosts, redemption and remorse, takes you first to a daffodil-filled garden in Highgate, North London, where, just outside the kitchen...

What is assertiveness, and what are its benefits? This book will help you find out, allowing you to overcome passive behaviour and take ownership of your own thoughts and feelings...

This Practical Guide shows you how raising your self-esteem can make you feel better about yourself; let you stop you worrying about whether you are doing the right thing or...

Positive psychologists seek to find and nurture genius and talent, and to make normal life more fulfilling, rather than treat mental illness. This Practical Guide explores how we can all...

Hildegard Wolf is a German psychiatrist who lives a comfortable life in Paris. When she encounters a client who claims to be Lord Lucan, she can't help but be intrigued....

Described by Gore Vidal as 'a novel written at the top of her form and so unique', Reality and Dreams concerns the delirious, egocentric film director Tom Richards, who is...

It's a world where everything seems pretty normal. But the weird, the sinister and the truly terrifying are lurking just out of sight. Like an ordinary-looking camera with evil powers,...

This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many ... The...

UNCOVERED is an oral history of the stories behind the most ground-breaking and controversial magazine covers ever published, as told by the people who created them. Compiled by industry veteran...

A fascinating celebration of our love for all things horticultural, with a selection of garden-related entries from diaries, letters and articles for every day of the year. Garden Voices captures...

The utterly addictive new YA thriller with a twist you'll NEVER guess... A nail-biting summer mystery, for fans of WE WERE LIARS and ONE OF US IS LYING.Seven liars in...

A fresh, relatable story with a sprinkling of magic, about a girl who just wants to fit in but her magic powers make her stand out, from award-winning journalist and...

This sturdy board book is specially designed to stimulate toddlers through creative pictures and help them learn first words. Each page has a colourful illustration made up of footprints, handprints,...

Jules Evans is lying at the bottom of a mountain after a skiing accident. But he's not thinking about his broken femur. He's having an ecstatic revelation. Jules's brush with...

Their story always begins this way. This time she'll decide how it ends. Rory's plan for her post-grad trip to England? Cute villages. Cozy pubs. A little history on the...

Em Rusciano - singer, stand-up comedian and podcast maven - didn't mean to write a memoir. She meant to write something fun. Light. Maybe erotic. Instead, she bled onto the...

Transform your life and your career with the four steps to adapt effectively to change: Engage, Accept, Activate, Release. 'A powerful playbook to lead and master change.' Dominic Price, Atlassian...

'This great little book will be a very practical guide for so many of us.' Dr Saul Griffith, Co-founder Rewiring Australia 'At the national level there may have been the...

Arnold Dix became an unlikely hero when he promised to save forty-one men trapped after a tunnel collapse in the Himalayas. This is his unforgettable story. In rural Victoria, Arnold...

Claris loves to be kind - and knows you do too! Practice your manners and some stylish French words with the chicest mouse in Paris. Inspired by the best-selling Claris...

Already struggling to come to terms with the tragic death of her husband, Sophie Bryant nearly loses her own life while attending a domestic dispute as a paramedic. Diagnosed with...

Girls are pretty ... BRAVE. Girls are pretty ... STRONG. Girls are pretty ... CLEVER. Inclusive, uplifting and celebratory, Girls are Pretty challenges the value that is placed on beauty,...

1791. In the midst of the French Revolution, unwed mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her baby son before entrusting him to her friend, the revolutionary Olympe de...

Olive Corbett is definitely not crazy. Not anymore. These days she takes her meds like a good girl, hangs out with her best friend Ami, and stays the hell away...

This book reflects on the simple things, the moments that are meaningful, and the big questions that have concerned Bob Brown. It is a powerful book as well as a...

"Happiness at someone else's expense came at a price. Tia had imagined judgment from the first kiss that she and Nathan shared. All year, she'd waited to be punished for...

A soaring novel of resilience, hope, strength and tenderness, The Taliban Cricket Club reveals how love can overcome, and outwit, even the power of tyrants.Rukhsana, a spirited young journalist in...

Dancing divinely through the murder and mayhem of her fifth adventure, the elegant Phryne Fisher remains unflappable. Gorgeous in her sparkling lobelia-coloured georgette dress, delighted by her dancing skill, pleased...

'Capricious, the nature of ice; as impetuous as faithless deeds. So easy to forget that sea ice is only a veneer, inherently flawed, skin-deep as desire, so transitory as to...

*Now an AFI award-winning film directed by Neil Armfield and starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish* Joint winner, Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists' Award 'There were good times...