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Dream Baby Guide
Sheyne Rowley
A complete program for caring and interacting with your baby aged 0-2 years, particularly focusing on sleep, play, communication and routine, by the original Australian 'baby whisperer' and early childhood expert, Sheyne Rowley. |
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Dead Line
Stella Rimington
The new high-tension, high-stakes thriller from the first female Director General of MI5, Stella Rimington. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby, head of the Service’s Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source. It's Liz’s job to find out exactly what is going on and avert disaster. But, as she discovers, this time the real threat is far greater than she or anyone else could have imagined. |
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Kill Khalid
Paul McGeogh
September 1997. In an Amman street, five men purporting to be Canadian tourists accost a Palestinian and inject a mysterious chemical into his ear. Within 48 hours it should kill him and leave no trace. The assailants were Mossad agents their target was Khalid Mishal, head of Hamas's political bureau in Jordan. But, after 48 hours, Khalid was not dead instead, the Prime Minister of Israel, the President of the United States and the King of Jordan were locked in intense negotiations to save his life. Kill Khalid begins with one of the most bizarre assassination attempts in the last quarter century and follows its participants as they grapple with the unforeseen outcome of this drama. Paul McGeough uses unprecedented interviews with Mishal himself and the key players to tell the definitive, inside story of the rise of Hamas. |
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Paths of Glory
Lord Jeffrey Archer
This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals. But what if one man had such a dream, and when he'd achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition? Paths of Glory, is the story of such a man. But not until you've turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to this list of legends, because if he were, another name would have to be removed. |
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GRAHAM KENNEDY TREASURES: FRIENDS REMEMBER THE KING
Mike McColl-Jones
In this insider portrait of Graham Kennedy, Mike McColl-Jones offers a never-before-seen side to the life of the King of Television. This lavishly illustrated memoir tells Kennedy's remarkable story, from his childhood in suburban Melbourne to the radio years, and his eventual dominance of television with programs such as In Melbourne Tonight, Blankety Blanks, Coast to Coast and Graham Kennedy's Funniest Home Videos, to his life in the country after he retired.Included are insight, gossip and stories from all of Kennedy's friends, including Bert Newton, Noeline Brown, Tony Sattler, Philip Brady, and the people who took care of him towards the end of his life. Written by Mike McColl-Jones, a Kennedy insider and one of the original writers on In Melbourne Tonight, Graham Kennedy Treasures will present a glimpse of the private Kennedy, and dispel some of the myths surrounding him. The book will feature at least 300 photographs, scripts, letters, reviews and the ephemera from a life lived in full. |
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From Russia With Lunch: A Lithuanian Odessey
David Smiedt
Eighty-two years after Moses Dibobis escaped from the Lithuanian hamlet of Birzai with nothing but a packed lunch, his grandson David Smiedt journeys back to the former Soviet enclave looking for a link to his grandfather that extends beyond a receding hairline and shared sense of humour. What he finds there is that premium vodka is cheaper than water, spa treatments are more than a little invasive and that Stalin theme parks and eccentric museums are just the beginning of the charms of this beguiling nation. By the end of his journey, David finally has an answer to his mother-in-law's question: Who are your people? In From Russia with Lunch, David Smiedt takes all that is irreverent about Molvania and combines it with a love of history and the bizarre to reveal a land unknown by many. Better still, he eats pigs' ears so you don't have to. |
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Prince Charming – How to Pick the Stayers from the Players
David Smiedt & Valerie Khoo
While some of us may be able to conquer careers and win at sports, the world of love and romance is a different story. Prince Charming is every girl's guide to finding the right guy, keeping the relationship exciting once you've found him, and remembering to pay attention to yourself. First off, relax. Don't be in such a hurry to tie the knot. Enjoy the process if you can. Nurture your own self-esteem. Explore your own needs. But not to worry: help is here in the form of four easy steps: banish bad attitudes (1) with a positive attitude (2) because you're worth it (3), so trust your intuition (4).Valerie and David tell it like it is: If he seems too good to be true he probably is. With advice about who they are vs. who they say they are, what to look for--and NOT.This book is a mile-a-minute, non-stop advice track to keep a gal's confidence up and her radar in working order. Not to mention, turning to the pages on Male-Speak and what he really means when he can't say I'm sorry. Fun, full-color format with snappy illustrations at an affordable price. Dispenses savvy and sensitive advice for lasting relationships. A perfect gal-pal gift for your sister, your best friend, or yourself.To get onto the right path, all you have to do is nurture your natural gifts, trust your intuition, and give yourself permission to let your inner goddess shine. |
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The Brass Verdict
Michael Connelly
Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch team up in this new novel by Michael Connelly. Things are finally looking up for defence attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realise their only choice is to work together. |
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True Colours
Adam Gilchrist
Many critics believe Adam Gilchrist is the greatest wicketkeeper/batsman to have played the game, but Adam's huge popularity does not rest solely on his incredible track record. To his millions of fans around the world, it is the way he plays the game – rather than simply the sum of his achievements – that marks him out as one of the best-loved cricketers of his generation. He is both a swashbuckling batsman and record-breaking wicketkeeper, yet perhaps his true impact has come from the manner in which he plays his cricket – with an integrity and sense of values that many thought had departed the game forever.
True Colours is his autobiography, and like the man himself it's incomparable. With unflinching honesty, intelligence, compassion and humour, Adam takes you into the world of cricket that few outside of the Australian team have ever seen. From his early struggles to establish himself, through to the giant achievements of the Australian test and one-day sides, True Colours offers an extraordinary window on Adam, on cricket's major stars and on the game itself. |
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A Stream of Dreams
Leon Nacson
More than just a dream dictionary or a thesaurus, A Stream of Dreams is the definitive dream decoder. It presents the meanings behind modern-day symbols such as mobile phones, stereos, and DVD players. For example, spiders are becoming more common in dreams because we spend more time on the World Wide Web. Traditional dictionaries might simply describe spiders as a symbol of danger and entrapment. Ultimately, this book will become the benchmark for accurate dream interpretation. |
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The Six Sacred Stones
Matthew Riley
The end of the world is here... Unlocking the secret of the ‘Seven Ancient Wonders’ was only the beginning. The world is in mortal danger.
For Jack West Jr and his loyal team of heroes, the challenge now is to set six legendary diamonds known as "the Pillars" in place at six ancient sites around the world before the deadline for global destruction arrives. The location of these sites, however, can only be revealed by the fabled Six Sacred Stones.
Their quest will involve the death-defying hijack of a mountaintop railway in China... A midnight expedition to Stonehenge... A headlong chase across the deserts of Egypt... And a trek into the dark realm of an African tribe forgotten by time...
With only the riddles of ancient writers to guide them, and time rapidly running out, Jack and his team must fight their way past traps, labyrinths and a host of deadly enemies – knowing that this time they cannot, will not, must not fail.
The mission is incredible. The consequence of failure is unimaginable. The ending is unthinkable. |
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Life & Beyond
Anthony Grzelka
Have you ever wondered what spirituality really means? Has the passing of a loved one rocked your life? Has a broken marriage, retrenchment, or a major disappointment caused an overwhelming sense of loss? Anthony Grzelka has brought spiritual healing to hundreds of people, and now he shares his secret of spiritual wellbeing. |
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The Naked Truth
Graeme Blundell
THE NAKED TRUTH is the very personal story of Graeme Blundell.
Australia's first sex icon (by chance), a founder of the Melbourne's theatre groups La Mama and Playbox, which showed audiences that actors could speak in Australian English, and now an acclaimed writer and journalist. Actor, director, producer, biographer, critic and journalist, Blundell established theatre companies and was there when they closed, watched the film industry through its many renaissances, and television as it became an addictive digital environment. In THE NAKED TRUTH Blundell writes about Australian life in the 40s, 50s and on with the insight of someone who was always part of the action ? whether he wanted to be or not. He also takes us into his life ? the early years of truly independent Australian theatre, the wild local film industry in the 1970s, to the rise of local television programs. |
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In Harm's Way
Brian Corrigan
In late 2006, Brian Corrigan led an SAS team into Lebanon to retrieve the two small children of Melissa Hawach. While the children, Cedar, 3 and Hannah, 5, were successfully reunited with their mother, Brian and another member of his team were detained at the airport and thrown into a Lenanese prison for the next three months. In Harm's Way is Brian's story of what really happened in Lebanon - their daring rescue mission and subsequent capture - as well as the inside story of life in Roumieh, Beirut's notorious maximum security prison, and how Brian used his innate courage, mental discipline and military training to stay focused and alive. |
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Naked
Kylie Ladd & Leigh Langtree
'It's one of the oldest stories in the world. It's in Shakepeare, the Bible, literature of every age and nation it's in the gossip mags and the agony pages. Boy meets girl, but sometimes, a little while later, boy meets another girl. Or girl marries boy but finds herself drawn to someone else. Does she stay or does she go - resist or give in?'Pretty much anyone who's been in a relationship has been tempted to stray at some time or another. Or perhaps found themselves the ones being strayed from. Nakedis the ultimate confessional: a collection of anonymous confessions of infidelity and adultery, exploring all sides of the equation and from a variety of perspectives: male/female gay/straight the cheating, wronged and third parties friends or children embroiled in the situation even those who got no further than temptation.Call it what you like, aspirational erotica, pure voyeurism, living vicariously, cheap thrills or projecting, there is no doubt that this topic has been hot since Helen took off on Menelaus and launched 1,000 ships and a world of pain. It's a universal topic that is now universally discussed. affairs even by those who got no further than temptation.Searing confessions from the unrepentant, the guilt-stricken, the bewildered, the forgiven, the abandoned and the damned, Naked is a breathtaking, enthralling and painfully honest glimpse into the heart at its most vulnerable, by writers both published and unknown, all anonymous.
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Vanished: The Truth About the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Danny Collins
On the evening of 3 May 2007, Gerry and Kate McCann returned to their holiday apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve to every parents' worst nightmare: their daughter, three-year-old Madeleine Beth McCann had vanished from her room.
Her disappearance sparked a worldwide manhunt, the like of which had never been seen before. Poster campaigns, distraught pleas from the parents and frenzied media coverage all ensued - but still Madeleine's whereabouts remained a mystery.
Portuguese police initially commenced a search for Madeleine's abductor, but as the case dragged on the waters became muddied and controversy dogged the investigation: British police were called in; suspects entered and departed the frame; sightings of Madeleine were reported from around the world; accusations about the thoroughness and competency of the Portuguese police were made; and the McCanns were scrutinised in the full glare of the media spotlight - with the Portuguese police even declaring Gerry and Kate suspects.
A year after Madeleine disappeared, Spanish-based veteran investigative journalist Danny Collins looks at the clues and false leads gathered over 12 months of meticulous in-depth investigation in an attempt to piece together just what happened on that fateful night. |
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Cardinal Mahony
Robert Blair Kaiser
An American bishop gets kidnapped outside his cabin in the High Sierras one snowy morning in November 2008 by three liberation theologians who look like terrorists. They take him off to southern Mexico in his own helicopter and put him on trial for his sins in front of an international television audience. A jury of his peers, six retired Latin American bishops, find him guilty, and give him a surprising sentence. He falls in love with his kidnappers and leads the American Catholic Church into a radical new way of being, still Catholic, but aggressively accountable to the people, which is to say aggressively American. The fictional bishop in this novel is, obviously, based on Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles in a piece of reality fiction that pushes the envelope. It is set in the reality of the current priest-sex-abuse scandal, and it projects ahead in time to tell the story of a colorful crewand a new Cardinal Mahony working to give Catholics a voice, a vote, and citizenship in their Church. |
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When Friendship Hurts
Dr Jan Yager
For everyone who has ever wondered about friends who hurt or reject them, this authoritative book provides invaluable insights and on-target advice on taking actions to understand and effectively deal with problematical friendships. Based on extensive original research, When Friendship Hurts: How to Deal With Friends Who Betray, Abandon, or Wound You by sociologist and friendship expert Jan Yager demonstrates how, why, and when to let go of bad friends and how to develop the positive friendships (or put more time and energy into existing good friendships) that enrich our lives on every level. |
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Families Behind Bars
Kay Danes
Explores the journeys of several families, from the UK, Australia, Canada and the US, who bear horrendous burdens having loved ones detained in foreign prisons. Includes interviews with some of the Bali 9, Schapelle Corby, and families who have children on Death Row. |
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Elvis is Titanis
Ian Klaus
In the spring of 2005, Ian Klaus, a twenty-six-year-old Rhodes Scholar, traveled eight hours from Turkey, via broken-down taxi and armed convoy, to reach Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan. Elvis Is Titanic is the poignant, funny, and eye-opening story of the semester he spent there teaching U.S. history and English in the thick of the war for hearts and minds. |
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MAKEUP: The Ultimate Guide
Rae Morris
Rae Morris has been described as one of the world's most creative artists, but her work is not hanging in museums, it's seen on the faces and bodies of some of the best-known international models and actors.In Makeup: The ultimate guide, Rae brings the world of fashion makeup to you. With her simple step-by-steps she makes even the most sophisticated and creative makeup easy to achieve. She also reveals all the tricks, techniques and trade secrets that have seen her awarded Australian Makeup Artist of the Year four times over. |
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Warrior Brothers
Keith Fennell
For the first time, an ex-Australian SAS soldier tells his story. This breathtaking memoir gets behind the cliched perceptions of the SAS and tells it how it really is, from the intensity of the training to the friendships forged among the men. Warrior Brothers is an edge-of-your seat non-fiction thriller -- Keith Fennell takes you through his training, first missions and the shocking, nerve-jangling experiences he had in East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq. |
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Material Obsession
Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke
Quilters Sarah Fielke and Kathy Doughty, owners of popular patchwork shop Material Obsession, share their distinctive, colourful and contemporary designs. They explain how anyone, even those who don't think they are 'creative', can confidently choose colours and patterns to create bold, easy-to-make quilts - perfect for today's busy craftspeople. Also included are instructions on the basics of patchwork and quilting. |
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LAW OF ATTRACTION
Michael J. Losier
We all want to have a great love life, lots of friends and plenty of money. According to one Canadian author, it's simple, you just have to know how to apply the laws of attraction.
Michael Losier explains, "'Vibe' comes from the word vibration. By learning how to purposely send out 'good' vibrations, people deliberately attract more positive things than negative ones. This is really a simple science and that's what I teach, you get what you vibrate".
The science behind the law of attraction is presented in the three step process - identify your desire, give it attention (more than once) and allow it to happen. |
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PUPPY PARENTING
Dr Scott Miller
Give your dog the best start to life with TV vet Dr Scott Miller's guide to raising the perfect puppy. All your questions are answered and concerns quelled with this friendly and authoritative guide to puppy care, which also contains features on puppy psychology, health problems - how to prevent or cure them - and debunking popular myths.
The book starts with advice on how to ensure that your new charges family and environment are completely canine-friendly. There's guidance on what to buy in preparation of a new puppy, how to have a stress-free journey home and how to survive the first night, as well as an easy-to-follow guide to vet procedures. |
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DEATH CHAMBER
Sarah Rayne
Calvary Gaol exerts a curious hold over Georgina Grey. Her family's history is closely bound up in its dark and terrible past. It's where her great-grandfather worked as a prison doctor in the 1930s – and where his involvement in a bizarre experiment would change the course of his life forever. TV presenter Chad Ingram is fascinated by Calvary too. He plans to conduct a new experiment in the now-disused gaol – an experiment that will take place in the brooding desolation of the old execution chamber. Chad's experiment and Georgina's curiosity will have horrifying consequences. Death Chamber is a dark and mesmerising psychological thriller set against a richly drawn backdrop. |
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CERTAIN GIRLS
Jennifer Weiner
From the bestselling author of In Her Shoes (made into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine) and Good in Bed comes a funny and tender novel about the enduring bonds between mothers and daughters, husband and wives. This sequel to Good in Bed finds Cannie Shapiro older, wiser and (a little) thinner, raising a lovely but rebellious 13-year-old daughter, Joy. With memorable characters and Weiner’s trademark whip-smart dialogue and sharp observations about modern life, family, love and loss, Certain Girls is a story that will appeal to women of all ages. |
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WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
Mary Higgins Clark
Ten years ago, Carolyn Mac Kenzie’s older brother Mac went missing. On the eve of his university graduation, he walked out of his room and has never been seen again. He ritually calls his mother three times a year, but refuses to answer her frantic questions as to his whereabouts. Even the death of his father on 9/11 does not bring him home. Seeking closure for their mother and herself, Carolyn sets out to discover what happened to Mac. Her journey into the world of people who willingly disappear from their own lives leads her ultimately to a deadly confrontation with someone close to her who suddenly becomes a deadly enemy. The latest thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the undisputed 'Queen of Suspense' will not disappoint her legion of fans. |
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DON’T BE THAT GIRL
Your Foolproof Plan to Get That Man
Travis L. Stork
Agenda Girl, Drama Queen Girl, Bitter Girl, Desperate Girl, Yes Girl, Insecure Girl, Lost Girl, Working Girl. Stop being your own worst enemy! This upbeat, confidence-boosting book shows how to identify self-defeating behaviour and get the most out of your life and relationships. |
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THE MADNESS OF A SEDUCED WOMAN
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
An unforgettable novel of passion and betrayal, set in Vermont at the end of the 19th century and based on true events. A young woman’s love for a stonecutter turns into a destructive obsession and her life spirals out of control. |
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CHILD 44
Tom Rob Smith
The Soviet Union, 1953. Under Stalin's regime the only crimes recognised are those against the State. When the mutilated body of a young boy is discovered on train tracks in Moscow, Officer Leo Demidov – a war hero, utterly devoted to the Ministry – blatantly ignores the evidence and the protests of the grief-stricken family and dismisses it as a possible crime because he is told to. But something in him knows there is more. His confidence that he serves a greater good is shaken when he is forced to watch the brutal torture of a man he knows is innocent, and then told to investigate his own wife for treason. Punished for his doubt, the Ministry exile him to a town deep in the Ural Mountains, where he stumbles on the murder of another child. And then another. On the run and risking everything, Leo pursues a horrifying serial killer, even though doing so makes him an enemy of the State.
Intimately connected with real events, Child 44 is a thriller of extraordinary power and a harrowing portrayal of the terror inflicted upon people by their own governments, examining the disturbing truth of what it means to survive beneath a dictatorship – and what happens when one man decides to fight back. |
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