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From Ella Bailey comes another tale of how one young animal friend spends his day. He's only a little kangaroo in the middle of the vast Australian outback, but that doesn't stop him being curious and learning all about life in his corner of our blue planet.

James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one simple question: What is the meaning of life? Then he waited. Slowly but surely their responses arrived through his ...

Suspense fiction. Love stories. Eden Miller's world is crumbling. Her husband blindsided her with divorce, and her daughter barely speaks to her. In an impulsive decision to escape her present and revisit the past, she sends a friend request to her college crush, Justin Ward. One night twenty-thr...

In a split second, Morgan's life changes for ever. A stranger hands her a baby, then jumps in front of a train. Morgan has never seen the woman before and she can't understand what would cause a person to give away her child and take her own life. When the police question Morgan, she discovers no...

Christmas. Love stories. Tessa Bailey delivers a sexy, hilarious standalone holiday rom-com about the adult children of two former rock stars who team up to convince their estranged mothers to play a Christmas Eve concert... Melody Gallard may be the daughter of music royalty, but her world is fa...

Fantasy fiction. Graphic Novel. Card tricks, clever illusions--Cooper can do them all. His dad, also known as the Great Eduardo, taught him the tricks of the magical trade before he passed away. When a talking rabbit appears from his dad's old top hat, and reveals there is a place where Cooper mi...

Whether using dried flowers or tiny shells, spaghetti or postage stamps, Jeannie Baker draws from the world around her to make work that is singularly beautiful and imaginative. Incorporating a wide range of textures, her arresting collage pieces have earned her international acclaim. Now she sha...

Peppa and her family are visiting the zoo! What animals do you think they'll see? Join them as they play I-spy and choose which animal to visit next. This chunky tabbed board book is the perfect introduction to the zoo. Follow the tabs and meet the monkeys, parrots and penguins with Peppa. I spy ...

When Dwayne and Alice Odom are killed, the police report states clearly that it was a drug overdose. So why is their daughter, who was there when they died, claiming that's not the truth? Betsy Odom doesn't trust the police, but when she finds herself in the FBI's custody after her parents' death...

Adventure fiction. Graphic Novel. Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in Elm Hills, New Jersey. But Chet's summer is interrupted by shocking news. A great white shark has been attacking swimmers along the Jersey shore, not far from Elm Hills. So when Chet sees something in the creek, he's sure...

For 40 years, Murray Ball's 'Footrot Flats' has ruled both the New Zealand and Australian comic strip roost. In fact, Dog - the central character in the Footrot Flats cartoon strips - has been voted New Zealand's best-loved fictional character. Now, for the final time, Upstart Press presents 'The...

FICTION & RELATED ITEMS. Footrot Flats is back! This treasury includes the very best of that hugely successful Kiwi icon - the Footrot Flats cartoon series. Selected by author and illustrator Murray Ball, these cartoons take us back to the classic Footrot Flats, introducing all of the lovable c...

Mammoth's protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She's inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles st...

Meet Lewis Snow. He has the worst case of nits in world history. Everyone wants him to shave his head. But Lewis thinks of his nits as pets. He's determined to keep his hair and his nits, whatever it takes. Ned lives on Lewis's head. He's the first-ever jumping nit. His dad wants Ned to help nits...

Are you ready to embrace the extraordinary? Dive into 50 Best Adventures on Earth and embark on a life-changing expedition as you unleash your spirit of adventure with renowned explorer Richard Bangs. As the visionary founder of Sobek Expeditions, the worlds leading adventure travel company, Bang...

I am brown. I am beautiful. I am perfect. I designed this computer. I ran this race. I won this prize. I wrote this book. A joyful celebration of the skin you're in -- of being brown, of being amazing, of being you.

Aust'n. Fantasy fiction. This includes two magical Shirley Barber Fairy stories. Children will have hours of fun listening to the CD as they read the story. As they do, they can turn the pages and view Shirley's magical illustrations. 4 yrs+.

Yoann Barbereau was a promising official at the head of the Alliance Fran aise in Irkutsk, in Siberia, when he was imprisoned on charges of a crime he had not committed. The FSB, heir to the KGB, created a set of false evidence to incriminate him and confine him to 15 years in a Siberian prison c...

One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most people assumed Andy had got away with murder, but the police couldn't build a strong case against him. For a while, Andy hit rock bottom - he drank too much, was abandoned by his friends, nearly ...

Picture book. Since their first publication in 1923, Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies have enchanted both adults and children alike around the world. The botanically accurate drawings in the illustrations, coupled with the enchanting fairy images based on real children from Cicely's sister's n...

A fabulous journey through the mind of the master of dark imaginative fiction, Clive Barker.

Historical fiction. Mythological Fiction. Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors rem...

I'm Edie and I'm obsessed with science. So I was sure that Annie B and I would win the Eco Fair competition. Then Dean Starlight arrived and started sabotaging our project. Now the competition has become an epic science battle of robotic spider attacks, exploding foam and sneaky spying. Dean thin...

After finding a stray kitten who is blind, Amy learns how to take extra care of her, soon discovering little Sherlock can do lots of things on her own, and is ready for the Critter Club to find her a loving forever home.

Fantasy fiction. Horror fiction. Graphic Novel. Legendary rock acts are finding themselves attacked by demonic forces. The police investigate, but there's little to nothing they can do to stop the problem. At the same time, Alice Cooper has a new album out and is in the midst of a promotional tou...

Christmas. Picture book. Don't ask how it happened, but there's an elf stuck in this book! Kids will be entertained by the escapades of the cheeky and adorable elf, as he tries to get out of the book and get on with preparations for Christmas. All new illustrations and story make a fun read-aloud...

Adventure fiction. Animal Stories. Humorous fiction. 4.5 billion years ago . . . an AI paperclip named CheckMate was designed to fix grammatical errors. Exhausted of correcting ''who' vs. 'whom,' it concocted a plan to eliminate spelling errors once and for all. All life-forms would be turned int...

Like many kids her age, Carolyn loves animals, castles, and building with blocks. She helps out her mom and dad, and even her baby brother. But when Carolyn was born, her body did not work like most people's. She cannot use her legs to walk and so she uses a wheelchair. But she can do almost ever...

A uniquely Australian story about the power of dreams and resourcefulness, Outback Astronomer is a corrugated-iron love story of the universe. Born and raised in the iconic mining town, Trevor spent his life deep in the earth, surrounded by the vast lead-zinc-silver ore deposits that had formed m...

Learn all about an adorable little cow! A perfect first baby book, this high-quality finger puppet book is the first-ever designed specifically for babies with its black, white, and red high-contrast art. Help your baby's developing eyesight make visual connections while also stimulating their fo...