The Dictionary of Difficult Words by Jane Solomon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Educational | Reading Level: near fine
What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in the Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book ...Show more
Tenth of December by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
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Slaughterhouse Five (50th Anniversary Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VINTAGE CLASSICS
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but ...Show more
Fox 8 by George Saunders
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea CardinalFox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children's bedtime ...Show more
Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough
$21.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
From Ampersand Prize-winning author Erin Gough comes this ferociously funny romp through an elite private school, and a brilliant feminist hoax that could change - or ruin - everything. Harriet Price has the perfect life: she's a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girl ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
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Category: First Nations Voices | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Category: Series | Series: Earthsea
One of the classic works of fantasy by renowned writer of the genre, Ursula K. Le Guin. As a young dragonlord, Ged, whose use-name is Sparrowhawk, is sent to the island of Roke to learn the true way of magic. A natural magician, Ged becomes an Archmage and helps the High Priestess Tenar escape from the ...Show more
The Vampire Knife (#1 The Witching Hours) by Jack Henseleit
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Category: Middle Fiction | Series: The Witching Hours
The Spiderwick Chronicles meets Stranger Things in this thrilling new series for only the bravest of children. After a chance encounter in a dark and stormy forest, two siblings are caught up in the dangerous underworld of fairies and must fight their way free. A storm is raging around the forests of ...Show more
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gender and Society
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more
Anatomy: A Cutaway Look Inside the Human Body by Jean-Claude Druvert; Hélène Druvert
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science and Technology
Anatomy is a gorgeous, large-format book filled with clever cutouts exploring every detail of the organs, systems and senses that make up that most marvellous of machines, the human body. This fact-filled journey is illustrated by Hélène Druvert, the acclaimed creator of the award-winning Paris Up, Up a ...Show more
Charlotte's Web (Puffin Classics) by E. B. White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read. This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." This high-quality paperback features vibrant illus ...Show more
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (#1 Harry Potter PB) by J.K. Rowling
$16.99 AUD
Category: Series | Series: Harry Potter | Reading Level: very good
Strange things always seem to happen when Harry Potter is around. Things that unsettle his guardians, the Dursleys. They strongly disapprove of strangeness. It's only when a letter arrives, delivered by a shaggy giant of a man called Hagrid, that Harry learns the truth that will transform his entire fut ...Show more