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Rhonda and Barbara "Baby" Bird are half-sisters -- and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts. But when they take a controversial case of ...

Meet Stick Man! He lives in the family tree, with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three. Get to know Stick Man in this fun shaped board book for children of all ages.

"The year is 1912, and the famed ocean liner Titanic has just hit an iceberg. Twelve-year-old Annie has left her home in Ireland to begin a new life in America with her widowed mother. The peaceful journey across the sea comes to an end when Annie discovers the ship is sinking. As she scurries to...

When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum and a dead body is found nearby the newly established Lockwood Antique Hunters Agency, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole, are called to investigate. Following a lead that takes them aboard a glamorous antiques cruise sailing toward the Red Sea in J...

Yarning across history and into the future, Joshua Gilbert explores a new approach to Indigenous culture and farming, combining ancient knowledge and practices with new technology and insights. Starting from his own Worimi country, where his family history is captured in the journals of the Austr...

From the gwardar to the python, and from sea snakes to the red-bellied black snake, slither through the stories of Australia's most dangerous snakes. Packed full of detailed illustrations, beautiful images from Australian Geographic, interesting fact files and information about what snakes eat, w...

From big, hairy spiders and intricate, delicate spiders to pointy fangs and sticky webs welcome to the world of Australia's creepy-crawly spiders! With fast facts, full-colour illustrations and images from Australian Geographic, this book has everything you need to know about spiders, such as how...

The creatures in this book are the superheroes of Australia's animal world, beating all the records when it comes to size, speed, length, strength, intelligence and survival.

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, an everyman hero with a penchant for stepping into trouble, works with his resourceful wife and three daughters, and an outlaw falconer to protect Twelve Sleep country from hunters, ecoterrorists, cowboy hitmen, and rogue federal agents, among others.

On a weekend away with his dad and his heavily pregnant stepmother, Xavier Oak wakes up to discover his family’s cottage has seemingly been moved… overnight. Cut off from the world they knew and with no answers to be found, Xavier has nearly given up on ever getting back home when, out of nowhere...

In ancient times, the vast area that stretches across what is now modern-day Iraq and Syria saw the rise and fall of epic civilizations who built the foundations of our world today. It was in this region, which we call Mesopotamia, that history was written down for the very first time.

Bladers are ready to battle it out! They've set their sights on the top of The X tower and prepare to fight their way to victory. With new technology and powerful opponents entering the arena, Beyblades are pushed to their extremes as they race through a new era. Amateur Blader Robin Kazami is le...

Bill and Ben both love to sing, but each one sings a different thing! Welcome to the School of Monsters: the funniest, silliest and most accessible series for first readers, by Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin! Start by reading only the last word on every line and work your way up to r...

Bee makes a wish. The monsters stare. What's that growing from her hair? It's Bee's birthday, and her friends have given her a special wishing cake! But what will they do when Bee's wish gets out of control? Welcome to the School of Monsters.

Throughout his three years as a pirate, Bartholomew Roberts, aka Black Bart, ruled the Atlantic Ocean. He plundered more than 400 ships in three years, making him one of the most successful captains of piracy's golden age. Learn how Roberts went from a humble farmer to Black Bart, daring pirate o...

"The year is 1937, and the Hindenburg airship is about to land! Twelve-year-old Bonnie has enjoyed her journey across the Atlantic Ocean on the Hindenburg. She's amazed by the sight of New York City when she hears a big THUD! In the moments that follow, she and the other passengers realize the sh...

This endearing picture book in rhyme is a love letter to bookshops and the space they provide for discovery and delight. A little boy adores visiting the old bookshop down Lemon Tree Lane with his grandpa - its nooks and crannies, its endless stories, and even the bookshop dog at the back. That i...

Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook. Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook's potential and knew it could ch...

Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn't know how to make them into a story. Howard loves to draw, but he struggles to come up with ideas and his dad thinks comics are a waste of time. Lynda constantly draws in her sketchbook but keeps focusing on what she feels are her mistakes, and Art simply...

Welcome to Creature Clinic, where a team of dedicated doctors and nurses at the world's finest -- and only -- hospital look after mythical creatures. Here, everyone from trolls and unicorns, to tooth fairies and giants, can expect the very best treatment. Well, with one exception: humans are abso...

After receiving a life-saving heart transplant, Rosie Lachlan knows her health is precious and precarious. She suspects her donor is Daphne Thorne, the wife of local celebrity author Morgan Thorne, who she begins messaging via an anonymous service called DonorConnect, ostensibly to learn more abo...

Most people think that when they meet Death, it'll be a skeleton in a black potato sack. Maybe with a scythe. Truth is, she's just a woman doing a job, and she's very good at it. But when Death takes a much-needed break to live on Earth, things start to go terribly wrong. Someone's killing people...

What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first? Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small-town New Zealand, but as the 40th Prime Minister of her country, she commanded global respect for her empathetic leadership that put people first. This is the remark...

An introduction to opposites, with fun textures to touch and explore.

Instead of marrying well like other women born to wealth, Phoebe Atkinson chose to be a schoolteacher. When her most promising pupil goes missing, she has only one option: beg her sister's best friend, the Duke of Ellis, for help. The last thing William Margrave expected was to inherit a dukedom....

Papa says we're going to a special place today. 'If we djinang look, ni listen, goordoo feel, we might hear boodjar wangkiny earth speak. We might even feel her heartbeat.' I wonder what that will sound like? Will the earth's heart beat just like ours? A bush walk becomes a heartfelt invitation f...

One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a lif...

Everyday Permaculture is the only guide to sustainable living for renters and those in apartments or with limited space. This book gives practical and simple ways for people to incorporate permaculture and other eco-friendly habits into their lifestyle, no matter where they live.

In the Dreamtime there lived the Goodoo and Thuggai peoples. They looked different to the Murri people who lived near by. While the Murri's lived in the rocky overhangs and hunted bigger animals, the Goodoo people lived under the shade of the Coolabah trees and would dig up witchetty grubs. The M...

In this brand new lift-the-flap adventure, Spot and his friends are helping out in the garden. They dig and plant seeds, but then Spot disappears! Where could he have gone? Toddlers will love searching for Spot and discovering plants and animals in the garden along the way.