The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals by Sami Bayly
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Category: Children's Reference | Series: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020. Marvel as you enter the fascinating hidden world of ugly animals in this encyclopaedia of the animal kingdom's most unusual and beauty-challenged species. It's time for ugly animals to shine! With more than sixty ugly animals to explore, this compendium of the unusual celebrates ...Show more
Shell by Kristina Olsson
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Category: Fiction
A big, bold and hauntingly beautiful story that captures a defining moment in Australia's history. Everywhere he looked he saw what Utzon saw. The drama of harbour and horizon, and at night, the star-clotted sky. It held the shape of the possible, of a promise made and waiting to be kept ... In 1965 as ...Show more
Bowraville by Dan Box
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Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 2 Crime
A true crime story cannot often be believed, at least at the beginning. In Bowraville, all three of the victims were Aboriginal. All three were killed within five months, between 1990 and 1991. The same white man was linked to each, but nobody was convicted. More than two decades later, homicide detecti ...Show more
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
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Category: Fiction
Terra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man's land "Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was ...Show more
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
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Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"I absolutely loved The Lost Man. I devoured it in a day. Her best yet!" Liane Moriarty The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman''s gra ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
Bearskin - A Novel by James A. McLaughlin
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Category: Crime Fiction
"Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling--filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It's a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin's writing had me doing just tha ...Show more
Down the River unto the Sea (King Oliver #1) by Walter Mosley
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Category: Crime Fiction
Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that lands him in the notorious Rikers Island prison. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his ag ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of t ...Show more
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
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Category: Children's Reference | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsiderati ...Show more
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "One of the year's strongest fantasy novels" (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.NEBULA AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more