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Their lives couldn't be more different, but Emmie can't help liking Bertha Schippan. She's funny and knowing and wild, and she distracts Emmie from the monotony of farm life in their tiny, isolated community. But, as Emmie soon discovers, Bertha has secrets. Terrible secrets. This heartbreaking story...

Ginger tries to be good, but it's not easy when your mum puts cat food in your breakfast bowl and the school principal is trying to kill your best friend. A funny and exciting story about a kid who's allergic to cats - and possibly her family as well.

Elite superhero team Vanguard Prime has a new recruit ... Sam Lee was just a normal teenager ... until the disastrous emergence of his superpowers. Now he has the chance to join his childhood heroes and become the youngest-ever member of Vanguard Prime. But when the time comes, will Sam have what is takes to save the world?

In February 2003, Adam Ramanauskas was living every boy's dream.�At twenty-two he'd been noted as a star of the future and already had�one AFL premiership under his belt. He was having the time of his life. Then the bottom fell out of his world. The discovery of an unusual lump in Adam's right...

Some family secrets are best set free. When Lucy Hunter stumbles upon her grandfather Harry's World War II memorabilia, she finds a faded photograph of a stunning young woman known simply as 'George' and a series of heartfelt letters. They are clues about the secret years, a period of Lucy's...

Rescuing endangered species, piloting choppers and coming nose-to-snout with some of Australia's deadliest creatures is all in a day's work for Matt Wright. With his mates by his side, Matt ventures into the outback and beyond, managing to get into (and, remarkably, out of) some insanely nail-biting...

Life is too short for compromise . When Maggie, Fran and Rose met in their youth, they had dreams and ambitions. Forty years later, the three friends are turning sixty, each of them restless and disenchanted with their lives. Fran works in a second-hand bookshop. Her lover, one of a...

Are you struggling to clear your credit card debt? Are you afraid to open those monthly bills? Does your mortgage weigh you down? Would you like to know how to use loans for growing your wealth? Whatever your situation, Paul Clitheroe - one of Australia's most trusted financial experts - shows...

Criminal, murderer, raconteur, author . . . mythmaker? Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is undoubtedly Australia's best-known criminal. Author of many bestselling books about the underworld he inhabited, and subject of a smash-hit film, his story has become part of the country's culture. And Read certainly...

When you're half boy, half machine, it's hard not to be a hero. Andy's just a regular kid with a normal, everyday life. Or is he? Why is a sinister scientist out to kidnap him? And who are his parents really? He's about to find out, but this superhuman secret will change everything!

When Poppy bids on a wild, beautiful brumby at an auction, she doesn't think about the consequences. Everyone believes she's crazy trying to take on a wild horse - although Poppy is sure she can help him. But Poppy had no idea how difficult a wild brumby can be, and she's heartbroken that he just...

This highly illustrated book tells the story of the godwits and their migrations - why and how they do it.� It follows the birds on their intrepid journeys, examining the places they visit, be it an estuary in northern New Zealand, a mudflat on the Chinese-North Korean border, or a tundra nesting...

Hannah Gordon has always wanted to be someone important, yet she's stuck in an inner-city back street, fighting to keep hold of her children, her home and her sense of self.� Then a devastating accident sets off a chain of events that will rock the family foundations to the core and change live...

This second novel by the author of The Widow's Daughter confirms Nicholas Edlin's growing reputation as one of New Zealand's finest young novelists. Mae Glass is the daughter of a once-famous American novelist. From New York to Auckland via post-war Korea, her colourful childhood was itself the stuff...