What’s it Like to be Chased by a Cassowary? Fascinating answers to perplexing questions: The most informative and entertaining explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
By: Felicity Lewis (ed.)
3.47
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical… read more
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2. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (Agatha Raisin, #4)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Agatha Raisin joins Dembley hiking club to pursue handsome Cotswold neighbor James Lacey. Angry mem… read more
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3. Moshi moshi
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Gala Maria Follaco
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Dopo aver perso il padre in quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere stato un doppio suicidio d'amore, … read more
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4. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more
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5. Murder and Mendelssohn (Phryne Fisher, #20)
By: Kerry Greenwood
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
To the accompaniment of heavenly choirs singing, the fearless Miss Phryne Fisher returns in her 20t… read more
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6. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
7. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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8. Honeybee
By: Craig Silvey
4.40
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more
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"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"-Craig Silvey, Honeybee
9. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
10. Here One Moment
By: Liane Moriarty
4.15
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more
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11. The Body: A Guide for Occupants
By: Bill Bryson
4.32
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more
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12. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
By: Julia Baird
3.78
Format: 320 pages, ebook
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more
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"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
13. The Castaways
By: Lucy Clarke
3.97
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A SECRET BEACH. A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE? THINK AGAIN… It should be like an… read more
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"For so long I believed that I should only feel pleasure when I no longer feel all the other things: the sadness, the loss, the fear. But emotions don't come parcelled neatly. They're shaken together …"-Lucy Clarke, The Castaways
14. Kill Your Husbands
By: Jack Heath
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect f… read more
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"Burn your bras. Kill your husbands."-Jack Heath, Kill Your Husbands
15. Termush
By: Sven Holm
3.31
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more
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"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."-Sven Holm, Termush
"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."-Sven Holm, Termush
"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"-Sven Holm, Termush
16. Home Before Night
By: J.P. Pomare
3.38
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until 8pm to get to the… read more
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17. A Room Made of Leaves
By: Kate Grenville
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more
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"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
18. The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood
By: Lucy Cooke
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Librarian Note: Newer editions of this book have released with a different title: The Truth About A… read more
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"I joined Claudio on an expedition in search of one of the country’s most fabulous freaks, the incredibly rare Southern Darwin’s frog, which was discovered by the big beard himself in 1834 on his epic…"-Lucy Cooke, The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood
19. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks
By: Wil Anderson
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more
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20. Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
By: Michael Blencowe
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories … read more
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21. What’s it Like to be Chased by a Cassowary? Fascinating answers to perplexing questions: The most informative and entertaining explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
By: Felicity Lewis (ed.)
3.47
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
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