A book for book lovers, The Last Bookshop is a uplifting novel that reminds us never to underestimate the power of people who love books. Cait is a bookshop owner and book nerd whose social life revolves around her mobile bookselling service hand-picking titles for elderly clients, particularly the grandmotherly June. After a tough decade for retail, Book Fiend is the last bookshop in the CBD, and the last independent retailer on a street given over to high-end labels. Profits are small, b...

The first book in the new Capybara Kingdom series with magic, mischief and so much fun!Cara the Capybara can't help but get herself into trouble... Whether it's splashing about and disturbing her sister's peace, or stealing a slice of the cake, mischief seems to follow her everywhere. So when Cara is helping Dad collect some vegetables for dinner, it's no surprise when she wonders off and disappears down a magical hole. When she wakes up, Cara discovers she's landed in Capybara Kin...

The memoir of a dyed-in-the-wool racist forced to change his beliefs to succeed in the progressively changing times of twentieth-century America.This true story is about George O'Hare and his upbringing in a segregated, White, Irish Catholic, Chicago neighborhood. As an adult moving up the corporate ladder at a time when America was transitioning from Jim Crow to Civil Rights, George was asked by his manager to join the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which often worked...

Where there’s heat...there’s fire.   Roxy Marshall’s life isn’t glamorous. Stuck in a rural area that recently became home to a biker gang called ‘Cascade Heat’, she feels trapped by the small town that she grew up in. Her dead-end job at Hungry Pete’s Diner isn’t much to brag about, either. All of that changes when she finds herself naked and alone with the gang’s leader, David “Boss” Rivera. But when David’s wife, Brooke, emerges and asks to turn the sinful twosome i...

Brainology: The Curious Science of Our Minds is a fast‑moving popular science collection that takes you inside the most mysterious place you'll ever live: your own brain.Why can pain feel unbearable even when tests show "nothing wrong"? How can a simple mirror calm phantom limb pain? What does neuroscience reveal about the interpreter's brain when thoughts become speech in real time? Why do dark winters affect mood and sleep for some people but not others? Are smartphones ...

Sci-fi meets romance in this young adult novel in which a teen girl receives a full-body transplant and develops complicated feelings about her new self.Ever since Rosa's nerve disease rendered her quadriplegic, she's depended on her handsome, confident older brother to be her rock and her mirror. But when a doctor from Boston chooses her to be a candidate for an experimental brain transplant, she and her family move from London in search of a miracle.Sylvi...

'Accessible and fun ... truly a kind of genius!' Bill Bryson----Everything you thought you knew about your senses is wrong!How many senses do you have? I bet you said five. But you'd be wrong. You have THIRTY-TWO!This SENSE-ational human body book explores the thirty-two amazingly awesome, broccoli-hating, wee-sniffing senses that help you figure out the world around you. They tell you ...How some people can SMELL sick...

An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas.Issue #7: July 2019Featuring Ideas by:Gaia Vince, Michael Regnier, Jenny Diski, Geoff Watts, Lucy Maddox, Emma Young, Jo Marchant, Peter Aldhous, Mary O’Hara, Shayla Love, and Will Storr

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #6: June 2019Featuring Ideas by:Alex O’Brien, Hayley Birch, Catherine de Lange, Carl Zimmer, Moheb Costandi, Virginia Gewin, Emma Young, Samira Shackle, and Kendall Powell

What if you had a birthday party on a spaceship? Or if you planted a tree on Mars? Or planets were made of diamond? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with science author Emma Young!Prepare to learn all about the Universe from supernovas to satellites and astronauts to aliens. However, this isn't another dry textbook. You'll be drawn into each topic with one of 33 amusing questions that are guaranteed to make you think about space in a whole new ...

The next installment in this fun and adorable series about magical capybaras!Mia the capybara has just moved to Capybara Kingdom and her new two friends, Sophia and Amelia, are planning a welcome party for her at Cafébara!While exploring, Mia discovers something special-a rare, purple sparkling Capybara Crystal! Legend says if you find all four crystal colors, they grant a special wish when placed into a capybara tiara.And when a sparkle storm destroys everything th...

In the next installment of this fun and adorably illustrated chapter book series, can Luna rescue the dance showcase with the help of her magic ribbon?Luna is excited for the Cafébara Dance Showcase! She goes to rehearsals with Miss Splash and the Capybara Dance Crew but Luna struggles with the fast dance steps. Her mind gets the steps, but her body spins out of control and she crashes into the lead dancer, Mia. Oh no! Mia can't perform and it's all Luna's fault.To make thi...