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Limpy’s family reckons humans don’t hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise. He’s spotted the signs: the cross looks, the unkind comments, the way they squash cane toads with their cars. Limpy is desperate to save his species from ending up as pancakes. Somehow he must make humans see how fabulous cane toads really are. Risking everything, he sets off on a wart-tinglingly dangerous and daring journey to . . .... (more)

Murder in Montparnasse: A Phryne Fisher Mystery (Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback))

Murder in Montparnasse: A Phryne Fisher Mystery (Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback))

by Kerry Greenwood

Always enticing in divine twenties fashion, Phryne, one of the most exciting and likeable heroines in crime writing today, leads us through a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia. The divine Phryne Fisher returns to lead another dance of intrigue. Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences.... (more)

Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)

Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)

by Kerry Greenwood

The second in the classic Phryne Fisher series from Kerry Greenwood, featuring the irresistible heroine Phryne. Whether she’s foiling kidnappers, seducing beautiful young men or simply deciding what to wear for dinner, Phryne handles everything with her inimitable panache and flair. Danger, excitement and love--this is how the glamorous Phryne Fisher is determined to live her life in her second enticing... (more)

Murder on the Ballarat Train (A Phryne Fisher Mystery)

Murder on the Ballarat Train (A Phryne Fisher Mystery)

by Kerry Greenwood

When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save lives. As the passengers sleep, they are poisoned with chloroform. Phryne is left to piece together the clues after... (more)

Death before wicket

by Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that celebrated young modernist, Chas Nutall. She has the costume of a lifetime and she's not afraid to use it. When she arrives there, however, her maid Dot finds that her extremely respectable... (more)

Remembering Steve (wt)

by Terri Irwin

Few celebrities touched the world as Steve Irwin did. Beloved by people from all walks of life, his vast efforts at conservation continue to make a difference all over the globe. His wife Terri's commitment to carrying on his legacy is not only admirable, but inspirational to so many others who can benefit from her strength and conviction. Their story is not just one of taking a noble cause to new heights of... (more)

Follow the Blue

by Brigid Lowry

Life isn't neat and tidy. It's like a whole lot of balls of brightly colored wool thrown in a basket, with stray beginnings and endings and possibilities everywhere. Let's follow the blue.Fifteen-year-old Bec has always been the good girl. Growing up with an eccentric celebrity chef mother and a father who suffers from depression, Bec is used to taking care of her two younger siblings and being labeled "the... (more)

Boy Overboard

by Morris Gleitzman

Naked Bunyip Dancing

by Steven Herrick

Herrick delves into the murky waters of a Year 6 classroom, complete with nerdy vegetarian teacher, Mr Carey. What a crazy class! And what a funny, unpredictable year the year of Naked Bunyip Dancing when the kids in class 6C find out who they are, what they re good at, and how to put on a fantastic show. This cast of likeable characters includes Mr Carey the Hairy, Billy the punk genius, J-man the rapper, Sophie... (more)

Those Faraday Girls

by Monica McInerney

From the bestselling author of "Family Baggage" and "The Alphabet Sisters" comes a warm and captivating story of family secrets, traditions and ties. As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional household with her young mother, four very different aunts and her eccentric grandfather. With her mother often away, her aunts took turns to look after her - until, just weeks before Maggie's sixth... (more)

Carpentaria

by Alexis Wright

Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review , Carpentaria is the luminous award-winning novel by Australian Aboriginal writer and activist Alexis Wright. Alexis Wright employs mysticism, stark reality, and pointed imagination to re-create the land and the Aboriginal people of Carpentaria . In the sparsely populated northern Queensland town of Desperance, loyalties run deep and battle... (more)

Murder In The Dark: Library Edition (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)

Murder In The Dark: Library Edition (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)

by Kerry Greenwood

It’s Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins, Isabella and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they caused a sensation. Phryne is in two minds about going. But when threats begin arriving in the mail, she promptly decides to accept the invitation. No one tells Phryne Fisher what to... (more)

One Whole and Perfect Day

by Judith Clarke

Sometimes Lily wishes she weren't so sensible. If she were less reliable, then perhaps she'd have more fun. As it is, her hardworking but flaky mom and her dreamy older brother count on her to run the house. She wishes things could be different, but how can she change her responsible ways? Perhaps, she thinks, she should fall in love! Meanwhile, her scheming grandmother is planning a family party and, as is... (more)

Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee

by Chloe Hooper

In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured. The main suspect was Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, a charismatic cop with long experience in Aboriginal... (more)

The Thornbirds

by Colleen McCullough

by John Marsden

Ellie is a fighter. She has faith in her own abilities. But she's not Superwoman. Not all battles can be won with a gun and bullets, and never has she faced enemies so ruthless or so brutal. Whether she has friends at her side or stands alone, for Ellie, enemies are everywhere. Life as she knows it is about to change. John Marsden's explosive finale to The Ellie Chronicles pushes Ellie to the edge in a tense,... (more)

On the Beach

by Nevil Shute

Orpheus Lost

by Janette Turner Hospital

In this powerful and passionate new novel, Janette Turner Hospital tackles head-on questions of national security, art, terrorism, and love. Leela is a mathematician who has escaped her Southern hometown to study in Boston. She meets an Australian musician, Mishka, and from the moment she first hears him play his music grips her; they quickly become lovers. Then one... (more)

Blood and Circuses: Phryne Fisher Mystery

Blood and Circuses: Phryne Fisher Mystery

by Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. It is Alan Lee from the carnival. Alan and his friends want her to investigate strange happenings at Farrell’s Circus, where animals have been poisoned and ropes sabotaged. Mr. Christopher has been found with his throat cut in... (more)

Spell Book Of Listen Taylor

by Jaclyn Moriarty

The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret -- one so huge it draws the family to the garden shed for meetings every Friday night. Into their world comes socially isolated middle grader Listen Taylor, whose father is dating a Zing. Enter Cath Murphy, a young teacher at the... (more)

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