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The Talking Cure: Normal people, their hidden struggles and the life-changing power of therapy by Gillian Straker, Jacqui Winship
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.' Carl Jung The essence of successful therapy is the relationship between the therapist and the patient, a dance of growing trust and understanding. It is an intimate, messy, often surprising and sometimes c ...Show more
The Tall Man - Penguin Australian Classics by Chloe Hooper
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest ...Show more
The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Classics
The year 1788: the very beginning of European settlement. These were times of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all, they were times of conflict between the Aborigines and the white settlers. Eleanor Dark brings alive those bitter years with moments of tenderness and conciliation amid the brutality an ...Show more
The Tram to Bondi Beach 40th Anniversary Edition by Libby Hathorn
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A story of a young boy's adventures working as a paperboy on the busy trams, travelling to Bondi Beach. Keiran wants nothing more than to be a paperboy on the busy trams, to Bondi Beach. What he discovers along the way, through daring and friendship, is a deep love of the trams themselves. Rattle and hu ...Show more
There Was an Old Sailor by Claire Saxby
Category: No Category | Series: Australian
A delightful new twist on an old tale! There was an old sailor who swallowed a krill. I don't know why he swallowed the krill - it'll make him ill ... A nautical take on a much-loved rhyme.
Thriving on Plants: by Cherie Tu by Cherie Tu
Category: Cooking | Food | Drink | Series: AUSTRALIAN WOMENS WEEKLY
Since becoming vegan on 20 January 2014, Cherie Tu has made it her mission to help inspire others through cooking.Whether you're looking to incorporate more vegies in your diet or simply curious about plant-based foods, Thriving On Plants allows you to learn, create and have fun in the kitchen. This boo ...Show more
To the Top End: Our Trip Across Australia by Roland Harvey (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Roland Harvey Australian Holidays Ser.
This fabulous Roland Harvey holiday book explores some of the most spectacular landscapes of Australia. Full of adventure, mishaps, and madcap activity, this is a hilarious, entertaining and delightful companion to At the Beach, In the Bush and In the City.
Trump in Asia : Australian Foreign Affairs issue 2 by Jonathan Pearlman
Category: No Category | Series: AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
'We've hidden behind a hope that American power and resolve will again prevail. Trump tears away any excuse for wishful thinking.' MICHAEL WESLEY The second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the United States' sudden shift from the Asia Pivot to America First. It provides insights into Do ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian
Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia.Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man's discovery, in Vietnam and back home in the Northern Territory, Sh ...Show more
Tyenna: Through My Eyes (Australian Disaster Zones) by Julie Hunt, Terry Whitebeach
Category: Teen | Series: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones
An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl's experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires. They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost. It's the summer holidays, and Tye ...Show more
Vietnam (My Australian Story) by Deborah Challinor
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Here we are, fighting alongside the so-called mightiest nation on earth with all the firepower you could ask forjets, B52s, tanks, gunships, rockets, napalm, you name itand the VC are creeping around with a rifle each and we still can't beat the buggers! And it's getting worse, not better. It's 1969. Th ...Show more
Vincent and the Grandest Hotel on Earth by Lisa Nicol
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
Vincent is an ordinary boy - he lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary town. But Vincent's life changes dramatically when he meets young Florence from The Grandest Hotel on Earth. From shining shoes next to a dirty train station, to working in a hotel where your wildest dreams can come true, Vincent ...Show more