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As the conference participants settle in with their name tags and satchels, as they sort out amongst themselves their seating arrangements and gently jostle for positions at the bar bistro, as they brace themselves for the first confrontation between opposing faction, he wryly observes the subtle shifts in their allegiances.

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Curly gets in trouble enough already, but when the monster in the cupboard turns out to be a Fent, Curly is about to find out where the trouble really starts! Ages 7-9.

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Curly's visiting his Grandma Rose by the ocean. His friend Pook, the mischievous Fent, has come along too. They soon discover that Mr Smythe, the man offering to buy Grandma's house, will do anything to get it, so that he can build a new marina. Ages 7+.

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Alex Thaler can't wait to start her dream work experience placement at Virk. But when an employee is found murdered, the dream becomes a nightmare - because Alex is the prime suspect. Can a hippy chick, a goth girl in a lab coat and two guys with a taste for blowing things up really help solve the mystery - before Alex becomes the next victim

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After the break up of a long relationship, Lou takes refuge in a North London house, and becomes drawn into an esculating series of personal dramas. This is about women behaving badly. About love and loyalty, deceit and disaster, and the onset of moral choices.

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Explores the tempo and shifts in mores and style of a dynamic decade - the 70s - in Australias cultural development. Deftly interweaving literature and documentary history, the author traces, the sub- cultural movements towaqrds sexual liberation, cultural identity and a new creative and intellectual confidence.

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Joy Hester was the only woman member of the Angry Penguins, Melbourne's radical art coterie of the war years. Sunday Reed was her closest friend, a wealthy and charismatic patron of the arts. Their correspondence includes such names as Albert Tucker (Hester's husband), Sydney Nolan, Max Harris.

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Emerging from her white middle-class existence in a sleepy Tasmanian town, the author marries a charismatic actor and the turbulent Dingo tribe. She finds much to love and much to cry about. In this book, she writes about her experiences.

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Twelve barktastic dog stories for children! Featuring stories from bestselling Australian children's authors this collection will make dog-lovers of any age smile. Funny, touching, cute, fantastical, weird, disgusting - there's a dog story in here for everyone!

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A story of family, growing up and keeping secrets that is nail-biting and heartwarming in equal measure. Ages 9+.

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Papyrus Press was a respectable, old-fashioned publishing house. Until Eve arrived. Eve is quickly discovered to be a devil who doesn't know how to wear Prada. She's been told she must turn the company's flagging finances around, and believes she has everything under control. But she hasn't counted on interference from the enigmatic Jess.

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On his tour of Australia Birmingham meets the dope smokers of Australia - and finds that they're not what you might expect. Yes there are some science-fiction geeks, some student activists, and the obligatory Nimbin ferals, but he also finds himself smoking with conservative politicians, lawyers, cops, bankers and school teachers.

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'She wished to study the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of television, cars and underground transportation. There had to be in the world of mechanical efficiency some mystery of transaction, the summoning of remote meanings, an extra dimension - supernatural, sure. There had to