2nd Hand The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
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Category: Literature
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
2nd Hand The Tattooist of Auschwitz: The international bestseller, soon to be a major Stan series by Heather Morris
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival-literally scratching numbers into his fell ...Show more
2nd Hand The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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Category: Literature
This modern classic and New York Times best seller was a finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and has become a staple of American classrooms. Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried's portrayal of the boots-on-the-gr ...Show more
2nd Hand The Two Towers: The Lord of the Rings, Part 2 by J R R Tolkien
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Category: Literature | Series: The Lord of the Rings | Reading Level: very good
The second part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring an exclusive cover designed to complement the new 'History of Middle-earth' series. This edition, styled to complement the new 'History of Middle-earth' series, tells the story of Frodo and the Companions of the Ring, who ha ...Show more
2nd Hand The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Catle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awake ...Show more
2nd Hand The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Roald Dahl - the grand master of the short story - turns his pen to anything, twisting everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies. Seven superb stories, full of Roald Dahl's usual magic, mystery and suspense: meet the boy who can talk to animals, the man who can see with his eyes cl ...Show more
2nd Hand The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood - a manmade plague - has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a y ...Show more
2nd Hand The Yield by Tara June Winch
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2020. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2020. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020. Just tell the truth and someone will hear it eventually. The Yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the langu ...Show more
2nd Hand Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam
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Category: Literature
It's the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic, paranoid and conflicting emotions. The ensuing journey spans decades and offers a sharp-eyed perspective on a hardscrabble future as a boy jettisons his family an ...Show more
2nd Hand Typhoon and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad; Paul Kirschner (Editor, Foreword by)
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Category: Literature | Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Ser.
Joseph Conrads long experience as a working seaman enriched and deepened his literary gifts, making him the most brilliant and convincing writer of seafarings greatest age. In the three sea stories collected here, he makes deft use of the maritime setting to enact moral dramas of men tested
2nd Hand What the Family Needed by Steven Amsterdam
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Category: Literature
"Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?" And so begins the tale of one particularly gifted family as it finds itself. Amsterdam lets each member speak, opening up an intimate wilderness. From a mystified teenager to an over-tired night nurse to a conflicted exile, he capt ...Show more
2nd Hand When We Were Orphans by Ishiguro Kazuo
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, more than twenty years later, returns to Shanghai, where the ...Show more