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Bestselling Fiction |  The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay
It's 1942 and seventeen-year-old Nicholas Duncan is in Indonesia in pursuit of the exotice Magpie Crow butterfly. Suddenly, Duncan finds himself in danger with an imminent Japanese invasion and the approaching monsoon season leaves Duncan with few options of escape. Admist this fear and chaos he falls in love with Anna, who nicknames him Mister Butterfly.
|  Road to Paradise by Paullina Simons
Love, passion and the road trip of a lifetime from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN TIMES SQUARE. It's 1981 and Shelby Sloane gets a canary yellow Mustang convertible as a graduation present. She plans an odyssey to find her mother who left her many years earlier. When Shelby's former best friend Gina asks to come along, Shelby reluctantly agrees. When they see a young woman hitchhiking on the side of a country road, they don't want to pick her up. They turn their gaze away. But days later, they find her again. Candy gets in. She needs to get to Paradise -- that's Paradise, California. But she is beset by dangers on a scale beyond the wildest imaginings of Shelby and Gina. She sucks them into her treacherous world and her own frightful journey. The ride that began with high spirits and good humour proceeds into the darkest backroads of America, when Shelby, Candy and Gina are forced to make real moral choices that have critical consequences for their future, and by their ordeals they take a very different journey.
|  Monsoon by Di Morrissey
Sandy Donaldson has been working in Vietnam for a volunteer organisation, for four years. Reluctant to leave when her contract is up, she invites an old friend to come and explore a new tourist destination. A chance meeting with an Australian journalist encourages her to explore her past.
|  Those Faraday Girls by Monica Mcinerney
When the youngest of five lively sisters announces that she is pregnant at sixteen, her four sisters vow to stand by her and help raise her child until she reaches school-age. But five years after young Maggie's birth, one of the sisters does the unthinkable, and tears the family apart.
|  Floodtide by Judy Nunn
'The denuded earth of the iron-ore loading yards, the huge jetties thrusting their way out into the clear blue sea, the endless ponds of the solar salt farm, stretching stark and white over hundreds of hectares ...all appeared a hideous invasion upon nature. But to Mike McAllister, there was something faintly ludicrous about it. Man's interference seemed petty in the face of such unconquerable timelessness. In millions of years, mankind would cease to exist, but this terrain would not. This was the Pilbara.' Floodtide is a brilliant observation of turbulent times in the mighty 'Iron Ore State' - Western Australia. The novel traces the fortunes of four men and four families over four memorable decades: The prosperous post-war 1950s when childhood is idyllic and carefree in the small, peaceful city of Perth ...The turbulent 60s when youth is caught up in the conflict of the Vietnam War and free love reigns ...The avaricious 70s when Western Australia's mineral boom sees the rise of a new young breed of aggressive entrepreneurs ...The corrupt 80s and the birth of 'WA Inc', when the alliance of greedy politicians and powerful businessmen brings the state to its knees, even threatening the downfall of the federal government.
Each of the four who travel this journey has a story to tell. An environmentalist fights to save the primitive and beautiful Pilbara coast from the careless ravaging of mining conglomerates a Vietnam War veteran rises above crippling injuries to discover a talent that gains him an international reputation and an ambitious geologist joins forces with a hard-core businessman to lead the way in the growth of Perth from a sleepy town to a glittering citadel. But, as the 90s ushers in a new age when innocence is lost, all four are caught up in the irreversible tides of change, and actions must be answered for. Floodtide is a character-driven, merciless rush of blood from the pen of Judy Nunn, one of Australia's master storytellers.
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Bestselling Non Fiction |  Guinness World Records 2008 2008 by
Revolutionary new cover design, 100 per cent new photographs, new glow-in-the-dark features. Over 1,500 new and fully updated records, more of your favorite giant gatefold features, insightful interviews from celebrity record holders, including Elijah Wood, Stephen King and, in a world exclusive, Michael Jackson! A unique, behind-the-scenes look at how we approve records, looking at the people, the equipment and guidelines that make up Guinness World Records. Fantastic new contemporary categories including Forensic Science, Incredible Stunts and a??Home Entertainment and Consumer Technologya??
|  Please Explain by Karl Kruszelnicki
This is the latest in Dr. Karl's mega-selling science series. Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions on life, the universe and everything. No-one conveys the excitement and wonder of science quite like Dr. Karl, and this takes us on another thoroughly entertaining exploration of the world around us.
|  The Daring Book for Girls by Miriam B. Peskowitz
The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know--and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers--although that's included, of course Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.
|  Ricky Pontings Captains Diary 2007 by Ricky Ponting
The 2006a??07 Ashes series was eagerly anticipated, and for Ricky Ponting's Australian team it played out like a dream, as they destroyed England 5a??0. Ponting described the series as 'the best period of my cricketing life'. Yet, an even more commanding performance was just around the corner. In a drawn out and controversial World Cup in the West Indies, the Australians were supreme, winning all their matches easily. Not even the fact that the final against Sri Lanka ended in near darkness after officials misinterpreted the playing conditions could hide the fact that this triumph was one of the most dominant in the history of Australian sport. The only sobering thought for the Aussie skipper was that in future he would have to go into battle without some of his most famous teammates a?? Warne, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and Damien Martyn a?? and also without longtime coach John Buchanan. All retired during the 2006a??07 season, and in this diary, Ponting pays tribute to the massive contribution each of these men made to their sport. But though they may be gone, the captain refuses to be pessimistic.
While there may never be another season of success quite like the one covered in this book, in Ricky Ponting's eyes the future of Australian cricket still looks very good indeed.
|  Vietnam by Paul Ham
This extraordinary, sweeping account, draws on hundreds of unpublished sources and itnerviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people to reconstruct the epic history of a campaign that disfigured a :country and divided the world, nations, families and friends.
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