Books that made us cry in 2018

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Bob

Wendy Mass,Rebecca Stead

A charming middle-grade novel about friendship and the power of imagination, told in alternating chapters by Rebecca Stead, the Newbery Medal winning author of When You Reach Me, and Wendy…

$16.99

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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

Robert Hillman

A compelling and heartbreaking tale of grief and memory set in a small Victorian town in the 1960s.

$29.99

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We Are Okay

Nina LaCour

After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her…

$40.99

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Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

Examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice. This book includes essays, images and poetry together to form a testament…

$22.99

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Between Us

Clare Atkins

Winner of the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers 2019. Ana’s in a detention centre and Jono’s life is spiralling out of control. Can their growing romance…

$24.99

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The Heart’s Invisible Furies

John Boyne

‘By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad, this is a novelist at the top of his game.’ Mail on SundayForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin…

$22.99

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Catching Teller Crow

Ambelin Kwaymullina,Ezekiel Kwaymullina

Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.  Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence…

$19.99

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If Cats Disappeared From The World

Genki Kawamura

A million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking Japanese tale that asks what it really is that makes life worth living.

$19.99

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Crudo

Olivia Laing

A blisteringly funny and remarkably tender debut novel from Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation.

$34.99

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The World Was Whole

Fiona Wright

The follow-up to Fiona Wright’s essay collection Small Acts of Disappearance - winner of the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction, shortlisted for the Stella…

$29.95

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The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do…

$23.99

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