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Book Cover:  LEGO® Ninjago Ultimate Sticker Collection
By Dorling Kindersley
LEGO Ninjago Ultimate Sticker Collection is a must-have for fans of the Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu.
LEGO Ninjago Ultimate Sticker Collection is a must-have for fans of the Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu.
Published: 30/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405398251
RRP: $17.95
Book Cover: The Little Old Man Who Looked Up At The Moon
Playful and thought-provoking by turns, The Little Old Man Who Looked Up at the Moon touches on universal themes and will spark many a  conversation between young and old.
Playful and thought-provoking by turns, The Little Old Man Who Looked Up at the Moon touches on universal themes and will spark many a  conversation between young and old.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670075812
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Our Australian Girl: Meet Nellie (Book 1)
It's 1849 . . . and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind, and are full of hopes and dreams for the future. 
It's 1849 . . . and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind, and are full of hopes and dreams for the future. 
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143306238
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover: The No Excuses Cookbook
With easy-to-follow menu plans and over 80 delicious, low-calorie recipes for everyday eating, Michelle Bridges will help you take charge of your weight loss. 
With easy-to-follow menu plans and over 80 delicious, low-calorie recipes for everyday eating, Michelle Bridges will help you take charge of your weight loss. 
Published: 25/01/2012
Format:
ISBN: 9780670076376
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Food in a Minute: Everyday Cookbook
By Watties

Food in a Minute , the much-loved and well known New Zealand TV cooking show brings us their most recent cookbook - Food in a Minute: Everyday Cookbook.  

With more than 100 recipes, the book is divided into the easy-to-read sections of brunch; lunch and soups; salads and vegetables; mains; slow cooking; and desserts and baking. Each recipe has an accompanying photograph and...

Food in a Minute , the much-loved and well known New Zealand TV cooking show brings us their most recent cookbook - Food in a Minute: Everyday Cookbook.  

With more than 100 recipes, the book...

Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143566984
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero
By Rick Riordan

THREE NEW HEROES.
ONE MISSING DEMIGOD.
A CURSE THAT THREATENS TO DESTROY THEM ALL . . .

'What do you want from me?' she screamed.
'What have you done with him?'

'Annabeth,' said the bald dude, Butch, 'we gotta leave.  Let's get these three to camp and figure it out there.  Those storm spirits might come back.'

She fumed for a moment.  'Fine.'  She fixed Jason with a resentful look. ...








THREE NEW HEROES.
ONE MISSING DEMIGOD.
A CURSE THAT THREATENS TO DESTROY THEM ALL . . .

'What do you want from me?' she screamed.
'What have you done with him?'

'Annabeth,' said the bald dude, Butch, 'we...






Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141325491
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Gates of Rome: TimeRiders
Project Exodus - a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to ad 54 to overthrow the Roman Empire - has gone catastrophically wrong.
Project Exodus - a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to ad 54 to overthrow the Roman Empire - has gone catastrophically wrong.
Published: 23/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141336497
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury

'It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence.
Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgehammers . . . when the sounds went away I worried they weren't coming back.'
- Ann Bodkin, trapped for 25 hours

The Canterbury...


'It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence.
Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as...

Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143567233
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Chemistry of Tears
The Chemistry of Tears is a portrait of love and loss that is both wildly entertaining and profoundly moving, simultaneously delicate and anarchic, at its heart is an image only the masterful Peter Carey could breathe such life into . . . 
The Chemistry of Tears is a portrait of love and loss that is both wildly entertaining and profoundly moving, simultaneously delicate and anarchic, at its heart is an image only the masterful Peter Carey could breathe such life into . . . 
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781926428154
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  One for the Money Film Tie In

Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job at New Jersey's most down-market lingerie store, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life who runs a bail-bond company. If Stephanie can bring in vice cop turned outlaw Joe Morelli, she stands to pick up $10,000. But tracking down a cop wanted for murder isn't easy...

Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job at New Jersey's most down-market lingerie store, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter...

Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241957035
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Tansy Magill: Aussie Nibbles

The narrator loves to stay with her grandmother in her house on Huffingup Hill. Most of all she loves Grandma's stories about Tansy Magill, a llittle red-haired girl who once also lived in this house, and who slept in the same bed under the same patchwork quilt. The story she likes to hear most of all is Grandma's tale about how Tansy Magill met Billy Higgins and became part of the Huffingup Hill Gang...

The narrator loves to stay with her grandmother in her house on Huffingup Hill. Most of all she loves Grandma's stories about Tansy Magill, a llittle red-haired girl who once also lived in this house...

Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143306399
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Paris Versus New York
By Vahram Muratyan

When graphic designer Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal, Paris versus New York , he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most buzzed-about sites on the Internet-it garnered more than a million and a half page views in just a few months, and the attention of savvy online critics. Now Muratyan presents his unique observations in this delightful book, featuring visually striking...

When graphic designer Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal, Paris versus New York , he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most buzzed-about sites on the Internet-it garnered...

Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670076567
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Keeper of the Realms: Crow's Revenge
Charlie Keeper has been forced from her home by a bloodthirsty and terrifying stranger. But in escaping she discovers her house holds the gateway to the Realm of Bellania - a place of myth, magic . . . and an evil Lord with a very bad attitude.
Charlie Keeper has been forced from her home by a bloodthirsty and terrifying stranger. But in escaping she discovers her house holds the gateway to the Realm of Bellania - a place of myth, magic . . . and an evil Lord with a very bad attitude.
Published: 23/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141339771
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Vietnam and Angkor Wat: Eyewitness Travel Guide
By Dorling Kindersley

The  Vietnam & Angkor Wat Eyewitness Travel Guide is the perfect companion for exploring the cultural and natural richness of these beautiful places, with clear maps and up-to-date coverage of the best attractions. Discover Vietnam and Angkor Wat's highlights with this new look guide, packed with photographs and illustrations of all the best attractions. Covering everything from temples to...

The  Vietnam & Angkor Wat Eyewitness Travel Guide is the perfect companion for exploring the cultural and natural richness of these beautiful places, with clear maps and up-to-date coverage of...

Published: 19/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405360814
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover: The Gun: The Story of the AK-47
By C.J Chivers

'The final word on one of the most iconic weapons of our times' 
Independent on Sunday

The AK-47, or 'Kalashnikov', is the most popular weapon on earth. It never jams. It is so light and efficient a child can fire it. It is the everyman's gun, used by guerrillas, terrorists and dictators everywhere.

Featuring villains and idealists, profiteers and killers, superpowers and revolutionaries, The...

'The final word on one of the most iconic weapons of our times' 
Independent on Sunday

The AK-47, or 'Kalashnikov', is the most popular weapon on earth. It never jams. It is so light and efficient...

Published: 20/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141020631
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Double Life of Herman Rockefeller: The true story of the multimillionaire who didn't come home and the swingers who led him to the wrong sid
Rockefeller has taken some answers to the grave, but Hilary Bonney takes us right inside the world of the killers and behind the scenes of the investigation to bring us the story of the multimillionaire who fell from grace.
Rockefeller has taken some answers to the grave, but Hilary Bonney takes us right inside the world of the killers and behind the scenes of the investigation to bring us the story of the multimillionaire who fell from grace.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921901201
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Gladiator: Fight for Freedom
By Simon Scarrow

'THIS IS YOUR NEW HOME.
FORGET YOUR PAST LIVES.
ALL THAT REMAINS IS TO LEARN HOW TO FIGHT AND SURVIVE.'

ROME, 61 BC

RECRUITED as a gladiator, young Marcus Cornelius Primus faces a new life of brutal training, governed by strict rules, as he learns the skills of an elite warrior.






'THIS IS YOUR NEW HOME.
FORGET YOUR PAST LIVES.
ALL THAT REMAINS IS TO LEARN HOW TO FIGHT AND SURVIVE.'

ROME, 61 BC

RECRUITED as a gladiator, young Marcus Cornelius Primus faces a new life of brutal training...




Published: 20/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141328584
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion

WHAT IF RELIGIONS ARE NEITHER ALL TRUE NOR ALL NONSENSE?

The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world.


WHAT IF RELIGIONS ARE NEITHER ALL TRUE NOR ALL NONSENSE?

The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues...

Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241144770
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Rif and the Riddle: Aussie Bites
Rif is in deep trouble with his fellow villagers. On his quest to make things right, he must face a mountain troll, a pair of tricksters, a terrifying dog – and a very tough riddle.
Rif is in deep trouble with his fellow villagers. On his quest to make things right, he must face a mountain troll, a pair of tricksters, a terrifying dog – and a very tough riddle.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143306375
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Our Australian Girl: Meet Alice (Book 1)
It's 1918 . . . and Alice lives with her big family by the Swan River in Perth, while on the other side of the world, the Great War rages. Meet Alice and join her adventure in the first of four stories about a gifted girl in a time of war.
It's 1918 . . . and Alice lives with her big family by the Swan River in Perth, while on the other side of the world, the Great War rages. Meet Alice and join her adventure in the first of four stories about a gifted girl in a time of war.
Published: 25/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143306290
RRP: $14.95

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08 Feb 2012
USBBY annual list of outstanding international books

Selected for the 2012 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults.

The Garden of Empress Cassia by Gabrielle Wang

The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett

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