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The Swiss Family Robinson by
Following a wild and raging storm, the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea. But the thundering waves sweep them off to a tropical island, where a new life awaits them. Their ship is laden with supplies and the island is packed with treasures, so they soon adapt and discover new delights - and dangers every day . . .
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Oliver Twist by
'Please, sir, I want some more.' Oliver Twist sent out shock waves when it appeared in 1838. With a half-starved orphan for a hero, it was Dickens' first attempt to rouse the public conscience over the social evils of his day. A parade of memorable characters drives the author's message home: Mr Bumble, the workhouse beadle; Fagin, who runs a den of child thieves; Oliver's streetwise friend, the Artful Dodger; Nancy, the prostitute; and her lover, brutal Bill Sikes. The adventures of the innocent Oliver - from workhouse to London's underworld, and how he was rescued.
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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by
When the Pevensie children - Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy - step through a wardrobe door in the strange country house where they are staying, they find themselves in the land of Narnia. Frozen in eternal winter, Narnia is a land of snow and pine forests, and its creatures are enslaved by the terrible White Witch.
Tempted by the promise of endless Turkish Delight, Edmund becomes the White Witch's servant - and its up to his brother and sisters to release him from his enchantment and to rid Narnia of the witch. But just when it seems that all hope is lost, the Great Lion Aslan returns to help the children to save Narnia.
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The Wind in the Willows by
The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside - Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
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Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and surprisingly humorous, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
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Ray Bradbury Stories: Volume 1 by
Contents:
A Medicine for Melancholy • (1959) • short story by Ray Bradbury
A Piece of Wood • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
A Scent of Sarsaparilla • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
A Sound of Thunder • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
A Story of Love • [Green Town] • (1976) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of These Things Happen 1951)
All Summer in a Day • [All Summer in a Day] • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
And So Died Riabouchinska • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! • (1962) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Calling Mexico • [Dandelion Wine] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Drunk, and in Charge of a Bicycle • (1980) • essay by Ray Bradbury
Embroidery • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Exorcism • [Dandelion Wine] • (1957) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Farewell Summer • [Green Town] • (1980) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Fever Dream • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Frost and Fire • (1946) • novella by Ray Bradbury
Gotcha! • (1978) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Hail and Farewell • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You! • (1973) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Homecoming • [The Elliott Family] • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming 1946)
I Sing the Body Electric! • (1969) • novelette by Ray Bradbury
Interval in Sunlight • (1954) • novelette by Ray Bradbury
Invisible Boy • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Jack-in-the-Box • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Kaleidoscope • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Long After Midnight • (1963) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Marionettes, Inc. • [Marionettes, Inc.] • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Mars Is Heaven • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1980) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Mars Is Heaven! 1948)
McGillahee's Brat • [The Irish Stories] • (1970) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Night Call, Collect • (1969) • short story by Ray Bradbury
No Particular Night or Morning • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Powerhouse • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Punishment Without Crime • [Marionettes, Inc.] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Skeleton • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Some Live Like Lazarus • (1960) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Anthem Sprinters • non-genre • [The Irish Stories] • (1963) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The April Witch • [The Elliott Family] • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Aqueduct • (1979) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Best of All Possible Worlds • (1960) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Better Part of Wisdom • (1976) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Big Black and White Game • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Black Ferris • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Blue Bottle • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The City • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Coffin • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Crowd • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Day It Rained Forever • (1957) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Earth Men • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Emissary • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The End of the Beginning • (1956) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Fire Balloons • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Fog Horn • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Fox and the Forest • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Golden Apples of the Sun • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Great Fire • [Green Town] • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Great Wide World Over There • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Happiness Machine • [Dandelion Wine] • (1957) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Haunting of the New • [The Irish Stories] • (1969) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Woman • (1961) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Inspired Chicken Motel • (1969) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Jar • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Lake • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Last Night of the World • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Leave-Taking • [Dandelion Wine] • (1957) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Long Rain • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Man Upstairs • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Million-Year Picnic • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Million Year Picnic 1946)
The Murderer • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Next in Line • (1947) • novelette by Ray Bradbury
The Night • [Dandelion Wine] • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The October Game • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Off Season • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The One Who Waits • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Parrot Who Met Papa • (1972) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Picasso Summer • (1980) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of In a Season of Calm Weather 1957)
The Playground • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Rocket Man • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Screaming Woman • [Green Town] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Scythe • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Shoreline at Sunset • (1959) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Silent Towns • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Small Assassin • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Strawberry Window • (1955) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place • [The Irish Stories] • (1969) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Tombling Day • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Town Where No One Got Off • (1958) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Traveler • [The Elliott Family] • (1976) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Traveller 1946)
The Utterly Perfect Murder • (1971) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Vacation • (1963) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Wilderness • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Women • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit • non-genre • (1958) • short story by Ray Bradbury
There Was an Old Woman • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Tomorrow's Child • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Touched with Fire • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Tyrannosaurus Rex • (1962) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Uncle Einar • [The Elliott Family] • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Yes, We'll Gather at the River • (1969) • short story by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury Stories: Volume 2 by 
The Lottery and Other Stories by
This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King.
In these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story, a small farming village comes together for a terrible annual ritual. The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story.
Scission by
In this, Tim Winton's first collection of short stories, the world he paints is often harsh and disturbing, inhabited by isolated, unforgiving characters. It is a world at once familiar, filled with the trappings of home and family, and yet also strangely twisted; a world where casual brutality and unexpected death are never far from the surface. Evident in a young girl's violent temper once the eggs she has so jealously guarded finally hatch, or in the careless indifference of the woman stepping over a soldier's spreadeagled body, Tim Winton's world is a place where dysfunction and disorder constantly threaten the equilibrium. But there is compassion and beauty there too - whether it's in the brush of a father's hand against his young son's cheek, or the neighbours who wait patiently to celebrate the arrival of a new baby.
Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology
The YA event of the year. Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars. This anthology has them all. With entertaining short stories from young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson and Danielle Binks, this collection will show the world exactly how much there is to love about Aussie YA.
Meet Me at the Intersection by
Own Voice memoir, poetry and short fiction by writers who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability, exploring life from each author's unique perspective.
Amelia Westlake by
Two very different girls, and one giant hoax that could change – or ruin – everything.
Harriet Price has the perfect life: she's a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girlfriend is a future prime minister. So when she risks it all by creating a hoax to expose the school's many problems – with help from notorious bad-girl Will Everheart, no less – Harriet tells herself it's because she's seeking justice. And definitely not because she finds Will oddly fascinating.
But as Will and Harriet's campaign heats up, it gets harder for them to remain sworn enemies – and to avoid being caught. As tensions burn throughout the school, how far will they go to keep their mission – and their feelings for each other – a secret?
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The Hate U Give by
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.
But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.
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Jasper Jones by
Late on a hot summer night in the tail-end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him through town and to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu. And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.
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The Harp in the South by
The Harp in the South is a nostalgic and moving portrait of the eventful family life of the Darcys of Number Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street in Surry Hills, a Sydney slum. There grow the bitter-sweet first and last loves of Roie Darcy, who becomes a woman too quickly amid the brothels and the razor gangs, the tenements and the sly-grog shops.
Ruth Park is a classic storyteller. In this novel she brings to life a community where, despite the odds, life is always exuberant and full of promise.
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The Help by
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
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The Inheritance of Loss by
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai’s brilliant novel, published to huge acclaim, is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequences of colonialism as it collides with the modern world.
