Hannah Gordon has always wanted to be someone important, yet she's stuck in an inner-city back street, fighting to keep hold of her children, her home and her sense of self. Then a devastating accident sets off a chain of events that will rock the family foundations to the core and change live forever.'Beautifully told and steeped in the culture of its time, Australia Street and its people. Their love, frustrations and experiences touch the heart.'LAUNCESTON EXAMINE...

The truth matters.As our elected representatives make vital decisions on our behalf, an essential requirement of a functioning democracy is that the people in governance are honest with the electorate. Vote for Honesty and Get Democracy Done: Four Simple Steps to Change Politics seeks solutions to the increasing problem of dishonest behaviour by some UK politicians. It is an action plan: simple and politically neutral to force political change.This...

When Isabelle Barnes leaves home one morning, never to return, the streets of country Carwell are awash with rumour and innuendo. And her bewildered daughter, Abbie, is left to find her way in the world without her mother's guiding hand.Four years later, seventeen-year-old Abbie finds herself pregnant to the browbeaten son of the devout and intimidating Henrietta. She's thrown into a life that quickly ceases to be her own, down to the choice of dress for her wedding day. These two w...

In the tradition of Downtown Abbey comes a vivid story of life in the servant's quarters.Waratah House, a beautiful mansion in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, is the only home Marina has ever known. Orphaned at a young age, Marina finds a new family in the colourful characters that occupy the bustling servants' quarters of this stately house.But not every resident of Waratah House has Marina's best interests at heart and she finds herself forced into exi...

Friday the thirteenth of February 1948 is Hannah Gordon's thirty-sixth birthday. Her daughter Allie turns sixteen on the very same day. What's more, it's a full moon. Hannah doesn't need Grandma Ade's warning that bad luck is coming to realise the odds are against them. Hannah Gordon has always wanted to be someone important, yet she's stuck in an inner-city back street, fighting to keep hold of her children, her home and her sense of self. Then a devastating accident sets off a chain of e...

Learn to graph while following the growth of T.J., an orphaned Siberian tiger cub who is hand-raised at the Denver Zoo.T.J. is a Siberian tiger cub born at the Denver Zoo. One day he stops eating. The zoo staff tries to tempt him with treats, but he refuses them all. The staff doesn't give up, and finally their love and persistence pay off. T.J. grows up to be a huge, healthy tiger.The delightful pictures of T.J. and the heartwarming story of his life will charm young reade...

Learn about different ways to measure time by following the growth of a baby chimpLate one night, a tiny chimpanzee is born at a zoo in Kansas. He seems very weak, and the staff is worried. Will he survive? When the mother shows no interest in her baby, a pediatrician comes in to care for the little chimp. The baby grows strong and healthy, and soon he is big enough to be moved to the Denver Zoo. He is named Jiggs after the doctor who saved him.Jiggs is a l...

Learn about subtraction with the San Diego Zoo's famous baby pandas in Panda MathHua Mei was the first giant panda cub born in the United States that survived more than a few days. She was born at the San Diego Zoo, and four years later her mother had another baby, Mei Sheng. Hua Mei and her brother, Mei Sheng, spend their days climbing on logs, lounging in trees, and eating bamboo.A lot of things the pandas do can be thought of in terms of subtrac...

That night Cindy took the tiny cubs home with her. She didn't sleep at all-she was too busy feeding milk to the twins, cleaning them, and checking on every little cry.When dawn came, the small bears were still clinging to life.Children learn about fractions while following the Denver Zoo's baby polar bears, Klondike and Snow, in Polar Bear MathEarly one morning at the Denver Zoo, a polar bear gives birth to two tiny babies,...

Cheetahs are very fast—and very shy. When two young cubs come to the nursery at the San Diego Zoo, the staff hopes they will help visitors learn more about the plight of cheetahs in the wild. Majani and Kubali are shy, but with the help of their dog buddies they become perfect animal ambassadors.In Cheetah Math, kids can learn all about division from these baby cheetahs and their canine friends.A Junior Library Guild Selection

Part history, part travelogue, all riveting story, Paradise Mislaid is historian Anne Whitehead’s award-winning account of her quest to discover the story of the 500 idealistic Australians who attempted to establish a socialist Utopia in the jungles of Paraguay at the end of the nineteenth century.‘One of the most bizarre stories in Australian history - splendidly told by one of our master story-tellers.’ — Frank Moorhouse‘An exhaustive yet ente...

Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future reconsiders Robert Casillo’s definition of Italian-American cinema as “appl[ying] to works by Italian-American directors who treat Italian-American subjects” to expand this classification. Contributors situate Italian-American cinema and media within the contemporary and intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies. This book links past scholarship to theoretica...