Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta

For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it's her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn't be any stricter--but that doesn't seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world values o...

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor...

Civilization and its Discontents: Pocket Hardbacks

Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud...

Monster Island

George Ivanoff

Jurassic Park meets Stranger Things in a story where the creatures are out of this world! After following his mum to her top-secret new job, Bernie finds himself on a mysterious remote island inside the Bass Strait Triangle. The scientists working there call it Monster Island, and Bernie soon discovers...