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“Lengard is a secret government facility for extraordinary people,” they told me. “It’s for people just like you.” I believed them. That was my mistake. There isn’t anyone else in the world like me. I’m different. I’m an anomaly. I’m a monster. For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hou...

This interactive peekaboo board book is just right for babies and toddlers! The little ones in the story are playing peekaboo, and young readers can search for the children by finding their eyes, ears, noses, and toes!

Learn about the Indian Peafowl, Rainbow Lorikeet, Galah, Golden Pheasant, Superb Lyrebird, Cockatiel, and Magpie is this board book of simple sentences and beautiful artwork. Pete Cromer is one of Australia's most popular artists, and his art is instantly recognisable. His artwork is renowned for...

Break free from anxiety and manage stress with simple strategies and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques in this straightforward and encouraging handbook. Keeping up with friendships, relationships, school, extracurriculars, and social media is already a lot of work. And when anxiety s...

For her entire life, Lucinda's mission was to look as hot as possible. She nipped, tucked, bleached, cut, plucked, plumped, shaved, lasered, tanned, crunched, squatted and starved. Then, she broke. This is a funny, provocative retrospective on the last thirty years of Western beauty standards. Fr...

Little people love to explore little worlds! Explore the hidden spaces and sounds across the sand dunes.

In Dog Man: Big Jim Begins, discover the origin of our beloved characters from the Dog Man series as they join forces to stop the Space Cuties from destroying the city. Will the past predict the future for Dog Man and his friends? Will goodness and bravery prevail? Can anything happen if you trul...

Once upon a time there was a narrator named Bitsy, and all she wanted to do was tell a story. Thankfully, she had just the right protagonist to help her with that -- Boozle, a grumpy old wizard without a lot to say. Join them both on the adventure of a lifetime as they make the journey up Story M...

Skin cancer is this country's most common cancer, and melanoma the deadliest form of it. Richard, together with his colleagues at Melanoma Institute Australia, has dedicated years to groundbreaking research and succeeded in transforming even the most advanced forms of melanoma into a largely cura...

Amy, Jin and Lucie are leading isolated lives in their partially renovated, inner city home. They are not happy, but they are also terrified of change. When they buy a pet rabbit for Lucie, and then Amy's mother, Pauline, comes to stay, the family is forced to confront long-buried secrets. Will o...

Detective Beans is available 24/7 for all your mystery solving and ice-cream taste testing needs. Except on school days, and after bedtime. Today he's investigating the case of the missing hat. His missing hat. The clues take Beans all over Cat Town. He encounters philosophical pigeons, dodgy str...

A new biography chronicling the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory.

A guide to growing fresh, local, nutritious produce, regardless of the size of your patch, or your level of experience. Whether you've got a balcony, a tiny courtyard, or a patch of reclaimed dirt in a shared neighbourhood space, this book offers inspiration -- and instruction -- for growing good...

Lost in the depths of the Underworld, Percy and Annabeth's lives rest in the hands of their friends and fellow demigods -- Jason, Piper, Leo, Hazel and Frank. If the five can fight their way through Gaea's forces, and Percy and Annabeth can survive the House of Hades, then they will be able to se...

When all school holidays are cancelled at Ella Mentry School, A.J. and the gang work with teachers to figure out weird-but-real holidays they can observe, in a book featuring pages of puzzles, games and more.

How does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels in Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Eweizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how they have transformed Gaza and the West Bank into a war zone. This is essential reading for underst...

Best friends Alice and Leo love making things, and they're never happier than when they're working together in Leo's garden shed, which they've turned into an arts and crafts studio. Then one day they are transported to a miniature world where magical creatures - the Pixies and Glitterbugs - use ...

Get ready for the best jokes in the woods! From the world of Bunny vs Monkey, this joke book is jam-packed with japes! Chock-full of chuckles! Guffaws guaranteed!

Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who lived from 1746 to 1817, is the most famous person Australians probably know absolutely nothing about. A military engineer, freedom fighter, and champion of human rights, this extraordinary revolutionary was crucial to the success of the American War of Independence, then ...

Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Ann Baker's childhood friend was murdered by convicted killer Ethan Oswald. Haunted by what happened, Ruth has long been convinced Oswald had other victims. But no one has ever believed her. After dropping out of college and failing to prove her serial killer theory, Ruth...

Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's favourite characters are now available as this gorgeous board book with soft felt flaps, perfect for little hands. Lift the colourful felt flaps in this delightful chunky board book while your little one is having fun playing with the felt, this board book wil...

Explains how the Nakba was marked not just by forced expulsions but also widespread looting of Palestinian property.

Australia's own 'Minister of Defence', Mackenzie Arnold, shares the inspiring story of the winding road that led to her becoming the Matildas' top goalkeeper, including the magical World Cup run that captivated a nation, and what it takes in your heart to take on the world.

Banished to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Unwanted Girls, Maggie Fishbone is sure she's in for a life of drudgery. But she quickly discovers there's more to the Midwatch than meets the eye... The city shimmers with jewels and secrets, and soon Maggie is thrust into an adventure...

In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, fo...

Eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying dreams of becoming a brilliant engineer just like her beloved father - but her life is torn apart when she arrives a moment too late to stop his murder, and worse, lets the killer slip out of reach. Left with only a journal containing his greatest engineering secrets ...

Out of the Blue is an utterly compelling and honest memoir reaching back into Anthony's family and his childhood to starting up his first band, The Cockroaches, with his two brothers while still a teenager himself. Anthony's university studies in early childhood education led him to forming the e...

When lockdown led busy professional Chloe to leave the city and return to the countryside of her childhood, she never expected to find herself custodian of a newly born hare. Yet when she finds the creature, endangered, alone and no bigger than her palm, she is compelled to give it a chance at su...

Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, against the threats of prison, violence, and death, faced with misogyny and repression, Asmaa Alghoul has spoken her truth by any means necessary. She has continued to live and to love, to laugh and to protest...

Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen tha...