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Hours after rejecting the Corrowa People's native title claim on Brisbane's Meston Park, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered in his home. Days later, lawyers against the claim are also found dead. The Corrowa's matriarch, Ethel Cobb, is convinced the murders are the work of an ancient assassin.

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At seventeen, Rachel Hill was the girl most likely to succeed. At twenty-seven, one rash decision changes everything. As she confronts her idea of perfection, she finds that happiness is living the life you want to live, rather than the one you are expected to.

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The Secret War is the latest salvo in the History Wars that sees historians, politicians and writers arguing over the extent of Indigenous deaths in frontier clashes. It is an authoritative and groundbreaking contribution to Australia's white settlement history. Australian author.

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Akira is sent by his family in Japan to learn English in Australia, a journey into a world very different from his own. A tender and evocative tale for young adults which takes us into two cultures, into lives connected by grief and uncertainty but, finally, with hope in common. Ages 13+.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A moment in time, an Australian country town and characters to remember, all brought to life in engaging verse. 1953 is a unique verse narrative composed of monologues and verse portraits. Together, these build towards the story of an Australian town, Eurandangee, and its people on a particular summer's day in the 1950s.

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Merri, John, Leigh and Nick are positioned like the four points of a gameboard. Gentle John is Dungeon Master and a craftsman of wood, but can he master the manipulative and ambitious Leigh His sister Merri is seduced by the glamour of the stage, but her attention turns to Nick and his email haikus.

(Hardback, Academy ed.)

From the mid-1830s until the end of the nineteenth century hundreds of plays were written and staged in the Australian colonies. The first known of these, Henry Melville's The Bushrangers , was performed by a mixed amateur and professional cast at Hobart's Argyle Assembly Rooms on 29 May 1834.

(Paperback, Academy ed.)

Contains the scripts of nine colonial plays, each script has been carefully edited or reconstructed from unique manuscripts or rare colonial printed editions.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

(Paperback)

Since her mother died it had been just her, her dad, and her guinea pigs, Lulu and Fifi. A perfect non-nuclear family, but nothing stays the same forever. Ages 9-12.

(Hardback, 3rd edition)

Records details of all separately published creative literature by Australian writers over the last two centuries. Covering poetry, drama, fiction and children's writing.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

Records details of all seperately published creative literature by Australian writers over the last two centuries. Genres covered are poetry, drama, fiction and children's writing.

(Paperback)

When the Principal's prized rose garden was vandalised, Rex and his mate tony copped the blame. But it was a set up and Tony is "making enquiries". Rex's cousin Natalie is on the case as well... Shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Younger Readers 1999.

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In this timeless story, a boy struggles to come to terms with the loneliness of the Australian outback and the ruthlessness of living and working on a remote property. With Brolga the cattle dog and her pup Rags as his only companions, the boy begins a journey of self- discovery. Ages 9-14.

(Paperback)

Takes the reader on a tour through the wonders of nature in its full regalia, resisting forces of damage and indifference that would see it destroyed. This is a book of hope and redemption that nonetheless faces up to the terrors and traumas in all of us, terrors and traumas we play out on the world, often unwittingly.

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The latest book in UQP's internationally acclaimed New Approaches to Peace and Conflict series. Ending Holy Wars explores how religious dimensions affect the possibilities for conflict resolution in civil war.

(Paperback, 4th edition)

Sarah Worthington's lectures in the McPherson Lecture Series examine the role of equity in modern commercial markets.

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A young man is released from prison, his hands empty, his identity gone. He catches a train out of town, then hitchhikes west. He hasn't been home for 15 years. Out of the past, as memories surface, something is coming that will tear through his fragile hold on reality. Chilling, suspenseful, Gone is a crossing into one man's splintered world.

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Ben Robertson was a successful journalist when he and his wife decided to have children. Ben's story covers the raising of his two sons over five years. As a stay-at-home dad Ben is pushed to the depths of tiredness, frustration and despair, moments shared equally with the heights of great joy and energy.

(Hardback)

A collection of five new tales of contemporary families, exploring the fascinating, and often fraught, relations between fathers and daughters. Love, loss, lust, loyalty and betrayal drive these stories. But it is longing, a matchless yearning, that completes them.

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The Hope family live by the sea, in a house with its hands in its pockets and a puppy named Princess Sassy. But when Mr Mortlock and his brother Selwyn decide to build some apartments, everything is suddenly different. The wind goes away, the ocean vanishes from their windows, and that's not even the worst bit... Ages 5+.

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Max Lamm, a young tennis player, arrives in London to escape the internet sex scandal that has destroyed his career. One night, in Camden Town, he accidentally kills a Pakistani boy who tries to mug him and finds himself on the run once again. A darkly humorous exploration of family loyalty, disgrace and collective hysteria in the age of terror.

(Paperback)

Engages with the notion of Australia's lack of a sense of cultural history and the ways in which critical engagement with it do not complement or reinforce each other. It reflects upon Australia's still-neglected film heritage, the achievements of Australian TV in recent decades and engages with the debate on mutli-ethnic society.