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Bestselling Fiction |  The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay
It's 1942 and seventeen-year-old Nicholas Duncan is in Indonesia in pursuit of the exotice Magpie Crow butterfly. Suddenly, Duncan finds himself in danger with an imminent Japanese invasion and the approaching monsoon season leaves Duncan with few options of escape. Admist this fear and chaos he falls in love with Anna, who nicknames him Mister Butterfly.
|  Road to Paradise by Paullina Simons
Love, passion and the road trip of a lifetime from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN TIMES SQUARE. It's 1981 and Shelby Sloane gets a canary yellow Mustang convertible as a graduation present. She plans an odyssey to find her mother who left her many years earlier. When Shelby's former best friend Gina asks to come along, Shelby reluctantly agrees. When they see a young woman hitchhiking on the side of a country road, they don't want to pick her up. They turn their gaze away. But days later, they find her again. Candy gets in. She needs to get to Paradise -- that's Paradise, California. But she is beset by dangers on a scale beyond the wildest imaginings of Shelby and Gina. She sucks them into her treacherous world and her own frightful journey. The ride that began with high spirits and good humour proceeds into the darkest backroads of America, when Shelby, Candy and Gina are forced to make real moral choices that have critical consequences for their future, and by their ordeals they take a very different journey.
|  Monsoon by Di Morrissey
Sandy Donaldson has been working in Vietnam for a volunteer organisation, for four years. Reluctant to leave when her contract is up, she invites an old friend to come and explore a new tourist destination. A chance meeting with an Australian journalist encourages her to explore her past.
|  Those Faraday Girls by Monica Mcinerney
When the youngest of five lively sisters announces that she is pregnant at sixteen, her four sisters vow to stand by her and help raise her child until she reaches school-age. But five years after young Maggie's birth, one of the sisters does the unthinkable, and tears the family apart.
|  Floodtide by Judy Nunn
'There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune' Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare Judy Nunn's ninth novel Floodtide, is a brilliant picture of life in the 'Iron Ore State', Western Australia. It follows a journey from the idyllic, carefree 1950s, through the mineral strikes of the 1970s when vast wealth is acquired and men become powerful beyond their dreams. The avarice of the 1980s sees a new breed arise, and the 90's issues in an age when innocence is lost. The mighty State is brought to its knees by greed, lust, and corruption of such magnitude that it threatens the downfall of the Australian Federal Government. Four young Western Australians travel this journey. Each has their story to tell, and each contributes, for better or for worse, to the changing face of their State. One fights to save the wild and beautiful Pilbara region from the careless ravaging of mining conglomerates, another leads the way in the growth of Perth from a sleepy town on a pretty river, to a glittering citadel of skyscrapers. But each of the four knows one thing - the tides of change are irreversible.
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Bestselling Non Fiction |  Guinness World Records 2008 2008 by
Guinness World Records 2008 is packed with more records than ever making it the perfect gift! It contains fantastic Glow-in-the-Dark features, brand-new categories including Forensic Science and 100% new photography.
|  Please Explain by Karl Kruszelnicki
This is the latest in Dr. Karl's mega-selling science series. Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions on life, the universe and everything. No-one conveys the excitement and wonder of science quite like Dr. Karl, and this takes us on another thoroughly entertaining exploration of the world around us.
|  The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz
THE DARING BOOK FOR GIRLS is the manual for everything that girls need to know &ndash&ndash and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note&ndashpassing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers &ndash&ndash although that's included, of course Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly&ndashgirls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.
|  Ricky Pontings Captains Diary 2007 by Ricky Ponting
The 2006â 07 Ashes series was eagerly anticipated, and for Ricky Ponting's Australian team it played out like a dream, as they destroyed England 5â 0.
Ponting described the series as 'the best period of my cricketing life'. Yet, an even more commanding performance was just around the corner. In a drawn out and controversial World Cup in the West Indies, the Australians were supreme, winning all their matches easily. Not even the fact that the final against Sri Lanka ended in near darkness after officials misinterpreted the playing conditions could hide the fact that this triumph was one of the most dominant in the history of Australian sport.
The only sobering thought for the Aussie skipper was that in future he would have to go into battle without some of his most famous teammates â Warne, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and Damien Martyn â and also without longtime coach John Buchanan. All retired during the 2006â 07 season, and in this diary, Ponting pays tribute to the massive contribution each of these men made to their sport. But though they may be gone, the captain refuses to be pessimistic. While there may never be another season of success quite like the one covered in this book, in Ricky Ponting's eyes the future of Australian cricket still looks very good indeed.
|  Vietnam by Paul Ham
This extraordinary, sweeping account draws on hundreds of unpublished sources and interviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people to reconstruct the epic history of a campaign that disfigured a country and divided the world, nations, families and friends.
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