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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
Peter Cameron

$19.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )

It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real-estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twen...

The Truth About Forever
Sarah Dessen

$17.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

On the outside, Macy queen is cool and calm. On the inside, she's breaking.

Silently struggling with her dad's death, and spending the summer apart from her oh-so-perfect boyfriend, Macy is smiling her way through - she'...


Screw Loose
Chris Wheat

$17.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

I can catch tennis balls in my mouth! - Matilda



You may sneer, but they all adore me. - Chelsea Dean



She's cute, but if she bites try rubbing her tummy - Craig R



Go Cockies! - A. Tarano - chick magnet



I do own an ele...

Against The Tide
Irini Savvides

$16.95 (Paperback book / )

Katie and Matt are champion ocean swimmers, who love nothing better than a challenge that will test their training and skills to the limit. But even the toughest Sydney beach is nothing compared with the course of events...


The Dangerous Days Of Daniel X
James Patterson

$27.95 (Trade paperback / Doubleday )

Daniel X works alone. Having watched from the shadows as the brutal murder of his own parents unfolded before him, he has been forced to make his own way in a dark and unforgiving world with a heavy task handed to him. D...

Juno Of Taris
Fleur Beale

$17.95 (Paperback book / Random House )

Don't give up. Don't let them kill your spirit. Things will change. You need to be strong. You need to be ready. And you will need courage.' Juno is young; she has no authority, no power, and to question the ways of Tari...


A Good Arriving
David Mcrobbie

$19.95 (Paperback book / Puffin )

'I'm in it good and proper, worse than sweeping out the tallest, muckiest chimney. But I learnt there are two sorts of kindness. One of them's nice to look at for a time, but it's rotten inside. The other one's true and ...

Flitterwig
Edrei Cullen

$17.00 (Paperback book / Scholastic )

Ella has felt different all her life, with her pale, almost translucent skin, wild hair, pointed ears and gangly limbs. Her father has wanted nothing to do with her since her mother's death, and her grandparents hide her...


Cathy's Key
Jordan Weisman

$27.95 (Hardcover book / Bloomsbury )

When the laboratory technicians working for Ancestor Lu discover the key to the immortality genetic structure, Victor names it the Cathy Key in honour of his quest to make Cathy immortal. Ancestor Lu humours him. But whe...

A Brief History Of Montmaray
Michelle Cooper

$17.95 (Paperback book / Random House )

I need to write down what has just happened. I need to set down the truth. If I write lies or if I write nothing at all, this journal is worthless. I must do this, in case anything happens. All right. This is what happen...


Superior Saturday: Keys To The Kingdom Book Six
Garth Nix

$15.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

The sixth book in Garth Nix's blockbuster fantasy-adventure series, The Keys to the Kingdom. Arthur Penhaligon has defeated five of the seven Trustees, but his week is getting worse and worse. Can he stop Saturday's bid ...

The Stone Crown
Malcolm Walker

$19.95 (Paperback book / Walker Books )

Emlyn and Maxine's paths cross in modern day Scotland when they are both drawn to the ancient site known as Sleeper's Spinney, and together they unleash an unearthly power by removing a wooden carving. Containing the tra...


Paper Alice
Charlotte Calder

$16.95 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )

"It was in the Metro section of the Saturday paper - one of those 'what people are wearing in the street'-type segments, featuring a photo of the person and a paragraph underneath describing what she (it was always a gir...

The Eyes Of A King
Catherine Banner

$19.95 (Paperback book / Corgi Books )

Five-year-old Cassius escaped the brutal assassination of his parents, the king and queen of Malonia, and was exiled to modern-day England. Now fifteen, Cassius continues to be hidden in England under the protection of h...


Broken Soup
Jenny Valentine

$15.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )

When the good–looking boy with the American accent presses the dropped negative into Rowan"s hand, she"s sure it"s all a big mistake. But next moment he"s gone, lost in the crowd of bustling shoppers. And she can"t affor...

Genesis
Bernard Beckett

$19.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )

What is it to be human? What is consciousness? What makes a soul?

2075. Change brought fear and fear brought destruction. The island-state of the Republic had risen up from the destroyed world: isolated, ordered and repr...


Mahtab's Story
Libby Gleeson

$15.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Mahtab was hollow. Empty, as if her flesh and blood, her energy, that kept her breathing and running, thinking and talking, was gone. Nothing was in its place. She was hungry. Hungry for water, for her father, for her gr...

Invisible City: The Joshua Files
Maria Harris

$18.00 (Paperback book / Scholastic )

An ancient civilization is awakening. An ancient Maya prophecy is unfolding. One boy – Joshua – holds the key. When his archaeologist father goes missing in Mexico, Josh suspects alien abduction. But when he realises his...


The Pearl Hunters
Kim Wilkins

$19.00 (Paperback book / Omnibus Books )

In the warm waters of the Indian Ocean Alexandre dives for pearls - but they are not his to keep. His talents are far greater than the ability to hold his breath longer than all the other divers. He is an artist, and whe...

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