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With a keen eye and a pair of goalkeeping gloves, Dave Bidini followed a ragtag group of soccer players, homeless residents of the Canadian streets, to Melbourne for one of the humblest, yet purest, expression of the world game: the Homeless World Cup. What he found there was the ultimate underdog sporting event.

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Mama Kuma is the biography of the daughter of a New Guinea highland Chimbu chieftan who defied tradition and married a white Australian man.

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When Rose's 18-year relationship ends in a shocking and unexpected way, she realises the extent to which she was being emotionally manipulated and controlled. While trying to pick up the threads of her life, she meets a charming and elusive new man. But as Rose is drawn into Gary's life, she starts to wonder if he is the man she thought he was.

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All nannas are different. But what if your nanna was really different What if your nanna was a ninja This fun, poetic picture book portrays the many different guises, faces and personalities that nannas can have and demonstrates the significance of their role in the modern family.

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A gorgeous and gregarious picture book celebrating snails and the heartache of unrequited love. Sylvia Snail is in love with Simon Green and his luscious lettuce, choice cucumbers and buttery beans. But Sylvia is just a small snail in a gigantic garden, so how can she get him to notice her

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Lulianne the Airdancer and Egan the Hunter have led very different lives. They meet in the crowded contamination of Tip, where the flames of revolution smoulder. Together anything is possible, and the world they know will be altered forever.

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A touching and funny novel about ten-year-old Jennifer Day living in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers.

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Over two hot weeks one summer, cracks emerge in the veneer of a small coastal town. Laura has returned home for her mother's funeral after years in exile, only to discover her upbringing was based on a lie; Cress, the moral compass of the community, conceals her own vices; while young Abby walks the streets, her bruises wrapped in baggy clothes.

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A novel brimming with mystery, confessions, food and philosophy. Two strangers meet in a restaurant in a piazza in the Italian city of Trieste. Stephen, an Australian engineer living in Paris, and Irena, an Italian translator, share a meal and exchange stories in an atmosphere of geniality and refinement.

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The author takes naturalistic evolutionary theory and new developments in economics and applies them to creativity and identity. This approach changes assumptions about how a capitalist economy works, from the relation between producers and consumers to the functioning of intellectual property rights.

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An atmospheric and chilling ghost story debut from a talented young adult author. If you haven't been to Gideon, you're lucky. It's this boring little town about two hours from the city. When Lily Frost's parents make her move from the only home and best friend she's ever known to a country town, things are dire.

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Nile (Australian studies, Curtin U. of Technology, Australia) offers a narrative history of the Australian novel. He argues that the novel's development in the Australian context was closely related to a nation-building project that portrayed the writer as public intellectual. However, in the 1970s,

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When a teenage girl disappears, a small town is awash with rumours: everyone is talking about the dress she wore, a midnight-blue dress made from the remnants of other dresses, a dress of stories ...

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In the mid-1940s, writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart submitted a series of poems to the modernist literary magazine, "Angry Penguins", under the fictitious name Ern Malley. This book not only offers an account of the Ern Malley hoax, but also presents a study of literary hoaxes and poetry in general.

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Since Archie Weller was runner-up for the first Vogel Award for his novel The Day of the Dog in 1980, he has become an important voice in contemporary Indigenous writing. The Window Seat is a collection of his best short fiction - some award-winning and some previously unpublished. These stories are honest, brutal and often moving.

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17-year-old Rachel Hills is about to be faced with her worst nightmare, the most popular boy in school is coming to live with her family for the term. The strain of looking good at breakfast, and her embarrassing childhood photos is too much. But a mysterious secret from her past will make the year one that Rachel will never forget.

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Dumb things become important when you're old. At least that's what Tom reckons: like living in a guarded gated community. When Tom meets Cleo the snake charmer, together they break out, discover a bull that hasn't become a hamburger, visit Tom's forbidden grandfather, and much more! Ages 8+