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My China: - A Feast for All the Senses
Continuers Kylie's exploration of the culinary delights of the land of her ancestors, while taking a a deeply personal journey into the history, culture and peoples of China and Tibet. Whether searching for the perfect dumpling in Shanghai, exploring the contemporary art scene in Beijing and Hong Kong o...
This Side of Paradise
Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world....
Blast Off (Aussie Nibbles)
Adam wants to be an astronaut. He reads books about astronauts, he watches TV shows about astronauts, he talks about astronauts at home, and he talks about astronauts at school. When Adam meets Mad Marvin, who has a spacecraft in his shed, Adam might just get his wish - but is being an astronaut quite w...
The Shelly Beach Writers' Group
What do you do when your husband dumps you for his PA, your company goes broke and your nearly published novel is cancelled? Gina, a barely 50-something corporate high-flier, is counting her losses when a chance meeting throws a sea change her way. A job as a house/dog-sitter - albeit in a minus one-sta...
The Elizabethans
England under Elizabeth I: A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block. But it was also an age that encouraged literary geniu...
Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir
In the tradition of Anne Lamott's "Bird by Bird," a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir. Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant turning p...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all...
An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Mini Modern Classics)
Ryszard Kapuscinski; William Brand
Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland....
The Little Prince
The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a p...
Jack at the Zoo
From New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett and Geisel Award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli, an uproarious early reader series about a mischievous rabbit, a cranky old lady, and a lovable dog. Jack, Rex, and the Lady visit the zoo. But when Jack gets hungry, he sneaks into a koala's cage to st...
Dinosaur Atlas (What's Where on Earth?)
Journey back in time and find out where dinosaurs roamed. This unique children's atlas explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map. Dinosaur Atlas is packed with maps of early Earth and more than 40 profiles of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Stare down a T Rex in N...
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving...
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