The Travel Activity Book.
Hunt, Phil.
These games, puzzles, and quizzes will keep kids happy while on holidays, and there are do...
Mental: Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know about Mental Health.
Ellen, Steve and Deveny, Catherine.
Mental illness is not the end of the road. Almost everyone improves with help, and most of...
Asia's Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance.
McGregor, Richard.
Traces the evolution of the three-way relationship among China, Japan and the United State...
Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook.
Thomas, Nicholas.
Cook's voyages took him to the South Seas, towards the South Pole, and to the North Pacifi...
Rain Birds.
McKnight, Harriet.
Alan and Pina have lived in isolated Boney Point for 30 years, and are devastated to find ...
Wink Poppy Midnight.
Tucholke, April Genevieve.
A mesmerising and suspenseful story with unexpected twists that will intrigue and entertai...
Turtle Trackers.
Wheeler, Samantha.
Isaac is 10 years old and helps his Mum run a caravan park on the Queensland coast. He fin...
Writers on Writers: Kate Jennings.
Jensen, Erik.
Award-winning journalist and author, Erik Jensen, takes us into the world of the novelist,...
Australian Foreign Affair sIssue 3 July 2018: Australia and Indonesia: Can We Be Friends?
Pearlman, Jonathan (ed.).
We have had a turbulent relationship over the years with 'the country upstairs', and we ne...
Fox, Susi.
A haunting psychological thriller in which a woman wakes up after an emergency caesarean, ...
A Universe of One's Own.
Hayes, Antonia.
These three powerful essays trace a life in language, from the rhythms of first language -...
Kangaroo.
Lawrence, D. H.
It was first published in 1923, and written while he and his wife Frieda lived in Thirroul...
Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure.
McGirr, Michael.
He has chosen 40 or so texts that he has found enriching, and says he could easily have fo...
It's Not Scribble to Me.
Ritchie, Kate.
The author is known to many of us as Sally from the TV series Home and Away
. She is ...
Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder: Adventures in Science Round the Kitchen Table.
Shaha, Alom and Robertson, Emily.
Science teacher and father, Mr Shaha, teaches about sound by making wine glasses sing, inv...
Some Boys.
Thomas, Nelly.
Challenges stereotypes about boys, showing that everyone is different and special in their...
Why I Love Summer.
Wagner, Michael.
A young boy explains all the beaut things about summer and why he loves it so much...no sc...
Trace: Who Killed Maria James?.
Brown, Rachael.
Rachael is the creator, investigator and host of the ABC's true-crime podcast Trace
Island Story: Tasmania in Object and Text.
Crane, Ralph and Wood, Danielle (eds.).
The authors have selected around 60 unusual objects from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gall...
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations.
Friedman, Thomas L.
Technology, globalization, and climate change seem to be reshaping our world and speeding ...
Being Ecological.
Morton, Timothy.
You might think you don't care about ecology, but this is not an ordinary book about the s...
First Confession: A Sort of Memoir.
Patten, Chris.
Though he is now Chancellor of Oxford University, Patten is probably best remembered for b...
The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It.
Quick, Jonathan D. and Fryer, Bronwyn.
We have seen the Spanish 'flu, SARS, AIDS, Ebola, Bird 'flu and other epidemics wipe out m...
The Making of Martin Sparrow.
Cochrane, Peter.
In 1806 a great flood devastated the Hawkesbury's farming community. It ruins Martin Sparr...