A Confederacy of Dunces (Popular Penguins) by John Kennedy Toole
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Category: FICTION | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly: flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . . The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has ...Show more
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The Sea Wolves by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Isaac Bell returns for another thrilling mission in a new book from the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler Praise for Clive Cussler- 'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 'Just about the best in the business' New York Post 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
Faithless by Alice Nelson
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
A passionate love story and an honest depiction of the deceptions woven to sustain the idea of connection. Set between England and India, Faithless tells the story of Cressida, a writer and translator, and her consuming love for Max, an enigmatic older writer - and a married man. Faithless charts the co ...Show more
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
A beautiful new Vintage Classics edition to celebrate the 15th anniversary, and 10 million copies sold worldwide, of this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel 'A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy' Ian McEwan It was 7 minutes after midnight ...Show more
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: 13
The entrancing story of a reclusive Hollywood starlet as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine - from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about ...Show more
The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse. Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey--Ameri ...Show more
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
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Category: FICTION
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award // Finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction "A powerfully expansive novel...Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor." --New York Times Book Review "In a single year, my father left us ...Show more
The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
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Category: FICTION
In the first year of the doomed German invasion of Russia in WWII, a German military doctor, Paul Bauer, is assigned to establish a field hospital at Yasnaya Polyana - the former grand estate of Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of the classic War and Peace. There he encounters a hostile aristocratic Russia ...Show more
Flames by Robbie Arnott
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Category: FICTION
"A strange and joyous marvel" Richard FlanaganFor readers of Jennifer Egan, Evie Wyld, Sara Baume and David Szalay.Robbie Arnott's mad, wild debut novel is rough-hewn from the Tasmanian landscape and imbued with the folkloric magic of the oldest fireside storytellers.A young man named Levi McAllister de ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: good
The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the best-selling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl . 'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it ... This book ... is the culm ...Show more