All posts tagged "Book"
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49Books & LiteratureBook Review: Defy the Night, by Brigid Kemmerer
YA: From New York Times bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer comes a brand-new blockbuster fantasy series about a corrupt kingdom, a star-crossed romance and a girl who will do anything for justice.
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67Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Breakup Monologues, by Rosie Wilby
SELF-HELP: A love letter to breakups & a celebration of what they have taught, peppered with anecdotes from friends and interviews with specialists.
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82Books & LiteratureBook Review: Nelson 3: Eggplants and Dinosaurs, by Andrew Levins and illustrated by Katie Kear
CHILDREN'S BOOK: The third book in the totally outrageous adventures of Nelson Hunter – the boy who hates vegetables. Featuring a serious spy mystery and an epic dinosaur disaster!
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114Books & LiteratureBook Review: Road Tripping with Pearl Nash, by Poppy Nwosu
YA: The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friendship with a whirlwind end-of-year road trip that is definitely, absolutely, most positively going to solve all her problems.
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126Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Things We See in the Light, by Amal Awad
ROMANCE: Eight years ago, Sahar married Khaled and followed him to Jordan, leaving behind a thriving cake business. But married life didn’t go as planned and, haunted by secrets, Sahar has returned home to Sydney without telling her husband.
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84Books & LiteratureThe Sleuth Down Under, by Rosemary Ayles
CRIME: Henrietta Copeland accompanied by Compass, her chocolate brown Labrador, begin this fictitious crime tetralogy.
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132Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Wolf’s Howl: A Maven and Reeve Mystery, by A.L.Tait
MIDDLE GRADE: Maven and Reeve find themselves at the far-flung and gloomy Glawn Castle while Sir Garrick secretly searches for supporters of the rebellion. But when a cook goes missing and the Airl's personal guards take more than a passing interest in the disappearance, danger looms and the potential for discovery grows.
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98Books & LiteratureBook Review: Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
GENERAL FICTION: Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a famous family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.
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108Books & LiteratureBook Review: Beyond the Hero’s Journey, by Anthony Mullins
CREATIVE WRITING: BAFTA award–winning screenwriter Anthony Mullins presents an accessible, versatile and highly visual alternative to writing that dramatically expands the range of narratives open to writers, both emerging and experienced.
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126Books & LiteratureBook Review: Sea Country, by Aunty Patsy Cameron & illustrated by Lisa Kennedy
PICTURE BOOK: In this delightful children’s picture book, Aunty Patsy Cameron generously shares the stories and traditions from her family’s seasonal island life in Tasmania.
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150Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Eighth Wonder, by Tania Farrelly
HISTORICAL FICTION: The Suffragette meets The Greatest Showman in this story ofpassion and courage, as a young feminist fights against the rules of society to find her place in the world.
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156Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel Van Der Kolk
SELF-HELP: A world expert presents a sympathetic exploration of the causes of trauma and the new treatments making it possible for sufferers to reclaim their lives.
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157Books & LiteratureBook Review: Trouble is my Business, by Lisa Walker
YA: Lisa Walker's second Olivia Grace novel is another rip-roaring excursion into madcap sunshine noir, with nods to Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes, and a flavour of Veronica Mars meets Elmore Leonard.
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262Books & LiteratureBook Review: Double Deal, by John M. Green
THRILLER: After top-secret talks in Barcelona, ex-spy Dr Tori Swyft wakes beside two dead bodies. A nameless voice phones her, taunting her and revealing a shocking video that shows Tori as the murderer, yet she has no memory of what happened.
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293Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Keeper of Miracles, by Phillip Maisel
BIOGRAPHY: For more than 30 years, Phillip Maisel has worked selflessly to record the harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors. But, for Phillip, confronting and overcoming trauma is also personal. A Holocaust survivor himself, he too has unthinkable stories of triumph and tragedy, cruelty and hope.
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293Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Perfect Family, by Robyn Harding
THRILLER: Thomas and Viv Adler, together with their two teenage kids, have a picture-perfect family. But each member of this family has a secret, and their ‘perfect’ façade is crumbling.
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220Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Enemy Within, by Tim Ayliffe
ACTION: Journalist John Bailey has been investigating the rise of a global white supremacist group and suspects that a notorious neo-Nazi in the United States has been directing deadly racist attacks on Sydney’s streets. Now someone wants to stop him doing what he does best – exposing the truth.
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162Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Women’s Circle, by Karyn Sepulveda
WOMEN'S FICTION: Anna has just completed an eight-year prison sentence for selling drugs. Now she must find a new path and her search takes her to the Women’s Circle, a safe space where women can be together, confide in one another, and begin to heal.
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203Books & LiteratureBook Review: Off the Charts, by Georgie Carroll
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Award-winning comedian Georgie Carroll delivers a riotously funny autobiography told through the lense of her nursing career.
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182Books & LiteratureBook Review: Heaven, by Mieko Kawakami
CONTEMPORARY: Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a fourteen-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye.The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment.
