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A Quaker astronomer reflects: Can a scientist also be religious?: Backhouse Lecture 2013
$8.00 (GST-inc)A Quaker astronomer reflects asks the questions: Can a scientist also be religious? How, and with what limitations?
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As If!
$15.00 (GST-inc)“Pumping life, the teenagers in As If! jump off the page. From the intelligent but physically abused Gray Morrow, to his heroic but temperamental older brother, Gordon, and his tragic relationship with the city-wise but sexually abused Dusty Jones, this is a world many of us fail to recognise as very much our own.
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Blood
$15.00 (GST-inc)It’s 1991. Rob Ross, an ad executive, is suffering a moral crisis in his high rise office when his dead father slips through the window to ask Rob to help film an exposé of the Darwin bombing. Rob finds himself catapulted back to 1942…
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Finding Our Voice: Backhouse Lecture 2010
$8.00 (GST-inc)The Young Friends (Quakers) give their views on the key issues facing youth today in an effort to encourage spiritual discovery and deep bonding within and outside the Quaker community.
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Frenchmans Cap: Story of a Mountain
$14.99 (GST-inc)Frenchmans Cap tells the story of Australia’s most majestic mountain and ‘one of the world’s great wilderness walks’ – a must for any modern day adventurer in Tasmania.
Named by convicts in Macquarie Harbour’s infamous prison in the 1820s, Frenchmans Cap has captured the public imagination as an icon of freedom, adventure, and terrifying danger.
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From Ashes to Ashes
$15.00 (GST-inc)From Ashes to Ashes tells the story of Peter Morrison, son of a school teacher in rural New South Wales. When Peter’s beloved teacher is pushed to enlist in World War II by his father, his boyhood is fractured by trauma and doubt.
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Global Cooling
$9.00 (GST-inc)The second in the Project Earth-mend Series of environmentally conscious but enjoyable novels for kids who want to learn about how to save the Earth. After their early success with Project Earth-Mend in Canberra in The Greenhouse Effect, Tiger the Cat bids farewell to his owner, Alexander, and heads off to the coast with his friend Wanda the Blue-tongue and the frog Tark (who is really an extraterrestrial from the Planet Griffon) to spread the word about how to save the Earth.
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Harold The Owl Who Couldn’t Sleep
$7.00 (GST-inc)After hunting all night, Harold the Owl is ready for a snooze, but just as he starts to fall asleep, the birds start chirping. And then the gardener starts his leaf blower. What’s a sleepy owl to do?
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In Between the Dancing
$12.00 (GST-inc)This impressive first poetry collection traverses time and place with ease. Acute in her ability to juxtapose cultures in a breath, Gleeson is as much at ease adopting a perspective on Tongan women as on the wife of the Desert Fox, Irwin Rommel. In Between the Dancing was the winner of the 2008 IP Picks Best First Book Award.”
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Platon El Ornitorrinco Plomero
$8.00 (GST-inc)Platon al servicio de clientes, repara problemas acuosos como fugas de agua, grifos pero tambien da servicio a la gente gruñona. De su caja de herramientas, usa aereosol para sonreir, una pluma de aves o una que otra broma.
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Stepping Over Seasons
$12.00 (GST-inc)Stepping over Seasons artfully depicts the finer details of life, encapsulating change within people and places as the seasons unfurl. In ‘Overlook’, Capes argues that it’s much easier for great poets to romanticise the world’s most classic cities by poetically and playfully ridiculing his own not-so-romantic Australian hometown.
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The Australian Dream & $1 Properties
$18.00 (GST-inc)Could you turn $100 into 2,000 properties and land-bank lots? Ridiculous? This book shows you how.
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The Girl with the Cardboard Port
$33.00 (GST-inc)This shocking tale of one young woman’s fight for survival and connection is not for the faint of heart.
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The Greenhouse Effect (2nd ed)
$9.00 (GST-inc)Project Earth-mend Series, Book 1. When Tiger the cat moves to Canberra with his owner, he befriends a local, Wanda the blue-tongued lizard, who is suspicious of introduced species. A delightful children’s novel with an environmental conscience!
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Wings of the Same Bird
$25.00 (GST-inc)Wings of the Same Bird is an impressive collection grown from the mythological idea linking birds and the human world with divine realms just beyond ordinary experience.
