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After You (Me Before You #2) by Jojo Moyes

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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good

Jojo's new book, Still Me, the next book featuring Louisa Clark from Me Before You and After You, is available now "We all lose what we love at some point, but in her poignant, funny way, Moyes reminds us that even if it's not always happy, there is an ever after." --Miami Herald"You're going to feel u ncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will." How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living?   Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started.   Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding--the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will's past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .   For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await. ...Show more

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Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre

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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery

Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never forget. One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what happened. And whatever the truth, her side of the story is no match for the evidence piled against her. Her only hiding place is in a new identity. A new life, with a man she has met online. But Sophie is not the only one keeping secrets ... ...Show more

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Amazinger Face by Zoe Foster

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Category: Fashion & Textiles

Sometimes a lady just needs to know the most flattering lipstick for her skin tone, or how to correctly use sunscreen, or a very quick hairstyle to conceal her unwashed hair. And there's no reason she shouldn't know which foundation or mascara is best for her, either. All the answers are here, in this t op-to-toe beauty extravaganza. Former Cosmopolitan and Harper's BAZAAR beauty director, and the founder of Go-To skin care, Zo Foster Blake suggests makeup colors and brands for every occasion; useful, practical skin care routines and products for every age; and step-by-step instructions for winged eyeliner, arresting red lips, foolproof tanning, simple updos, sexy-second-day hair, and much, much more. ...Show more

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The Toymaker by Liam Pieper

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Category: Fiction

'A person is defined by the secrets they keep.' Adam Kulakov likes his life. He's on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of millions of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he can reasonably hide from them. And he is not the only one with secrets. In 1944, Adam's grandfather, Arkady, was imprisoned in Auschwitz and given an impossible choice. Now, as he reaches the end of his life, he has to keep the truth from his family, and hold back the crushing memories of his time with one of history's greatest monsters. As a mistake threatens to bring Adam's world tumbling down around him, the past reaches for Arkady. Everything he's spent a lifetime building will be threatened, as will everything Adam and his family think they know of the world. Bold, dark and compelling, The Toymaker is a novel about privilege, fear and the great harm we can do when we are afraid of losing what we hold dear. 'His writing is electric' Weekend Australian 'Pieper is a sharp, smart and classy writer' Saturday Paper ...Show more

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Ten Leadership Lessons Your Teenager Must Learn by Tim Hawkes

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Category: Parenting Pregnancy Childbirth | Reading Level: near fine

Over many years, renowned educator Dr Hawkes has taught thousands of students on the subject of leadership. He has learnt what's effective - and what's not - when talking to young people about leadership. Now Dr Hawkes brings that wisdom to the parents of teenage boys and girls, and to teenagers themsel ves. This book includes chapters on: - Making the right choices - Following the right examples - Finding a calling - Working with a team - Formulating strategies - Learning discipline. Dr Hawkes uses examples from ancient and modern history to illustrate his points about leadership and offers readers practical steps so that they can learn these leadership lessons. This book gives parents the information they need to instil leadership in their children, so they can learn how to take responsibility for themselves - whether to lead others or become the leader of their own lives. It is an essential book for any parent wanting to help their child navigate the many challenges that confront teenagers in the twenty-first century. ...Show more

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SALE - The May Beetles - My First Twenty Years by Baba Schwartz

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Category: Biography & Memoir

Baba Schwartz's story began before the Holocaust could have been imagined. As a spirited girl in a warm and loving Jewish family, she lived a normal life in a small town in eastern Hungary. In "The May Beetles," Baba describes the innocence and excitement of her childhood, remembering her early years wi th verve and emotion. But then, unspeakable horror. Baba tells of the shattering of her family and their community from 1944, when the Germans transported the 3000 Jews of her town to Auschwitz. She lost her father to the gas chambers, yet she, her mother and her two sisters survived this concentration camp and several others to which they were transported as slave labour. They eventually escaped the final death march and were liberated by the advancing Russian army. But despite the suffering, Baba writes about this period with the same directness, freshness and honesty as she writes about her childhood. Full of love amid hatred, hope amid despair, "The May Beetles" is sure to touch your heart. 'Put down whatever you are reading and read this book. Baba, a charming, gifted and lively young companion, will take you back to a luminous childhood in Hungary before the war, will show you the darkening, and finally lead you to the gates of Hell. The human perversity on the other side of those gates remains incomprehensible, impenetrable to reason. But what Baba and her family embody - their antidote - is the durability of ordinary love.' -Robyn Davidson 'Baba Swartz is a storyteller whose voice is so natural you swear you are hearing it. When it tells of her joyful discovery of the wonders of the natural world, of human creativity and of human beings as the come, in all sorts, into her life as a child in Hungary, it's a voice of strong, but delicate, vitality. Soon she was to suffer and witness the worst crimes known to human kind. Yet the voice that tells of those crimes is recognisably the same one that tells of the wonders of her childhood. She will not renounce her fidelity to those wonders and to the gift of happiness later in her marriage and children. That is the miracle of this book. It would not have been possible were it not for Baba's mother and sisters who suffered all with her, but especially her mother. As much as anything, "May Beetles" is an elegy to her.' -Raimond Gaita 'Told with the tempered calm of a born writer, Baba Schwartz's memoir evokes the world of a Jewish Hungarian childhood, and brings us one of the great survival stories of the Second World War.' -Joan London 'A calmly personal account of a mighty cataclysm; astonishing in its dignity and composure, unforgettable in its sweetness of tone' -Helen Garner 'This book is testament to two miracles. First, of Baba's survival. And second, of the survival within her of the girl - now an old woman - who nevertheless perceives the world, utterly without sentiment, as a place of "inexhaustible sources of delight." An important document of witness, survival and the quiet triumph of loving life despite what it has shown you.' -Anna Funder 'Her memory is astonishing and from the point of a reader, in its nuance and recall of detail, this makes the story utterly trustworthy throughout ... Baba's love of life shines through at every moment.' -Robert Manne Baba Schwartz was born in Hungary in December 1927. A survivor of the Holocaust, she migrated in the 1950s with her family to Australia, where they settled in Melbourne. ...Show more

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Nomad by James Swallow

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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery

Marc Dane is a MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor - and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6 - he's forced into the front line. However the evidence seems to poin t towards Marc as the perpetrator of the attack. Accused of betraying his country, he must race against time to clear his name. With nowhere to turn to for help and no one left to trust, Marc is forced to rely on the elusive Rubicon group and their operative Lucy Keyes. Ex US Army, Lucy also knows what it's like to be an outsider, and she's got the skills that Marc is sorely lacking. A terrorist attack is coming, one bigger and more deadly than has ever been seen before. With the eyes of the security establishment elsewhere, only Lucy and Marc can stop the attack before it's too late. ...Show more

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The Machine the Inside Story of Football's Greatest Team by Glenn McFarlane; Michael Roberts

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Category: Sport

"Has there ever been a better quarter of footy teams than those that took the field in Collingwood jumpers between 1927 and 1930? The statistics and history books would say not. They remain the only team in VFL/AFL history to have won four Premierships in a row. The 1929 team is the only one to have gon e through a home-and-away season undefeated. The teams and the players set records and benchmarks that stood for decades. And they did it all with such brilliant teamwork that they became universally known as 'The Machine'. But while the records and achievements of the Machine Team are well known, the stories behind them are less so. This book takes us inside the dressing rooms and behind the committee-room doors to see the dramas and sensations that the players had to deal with during their tilt at history - from threatened strikes and allegations of bribery to financial scandals and controversial sackings. The Machineis more than just a football book- it's also a book about football within a social context. There heroics of those Collingwood teams were played out against a backdrop of social upheaval, bleakness and gloom. The Depression was hitting hard when these teams were at their best - and it hit hardest in suburbs like Collingwood. As with other Depression-era sporting heroes like Don Bradman and Phar Lap, the grim social circumstances of the time seemed to elevate the significance of Collingwood's achievements. The relationship between club and suburb, between the players and their fans, is central to the story of the Machine. This book also gives us a rare glimpse into the personal stories of the men who comprised the Machine. Most football followers would know of the Colliers, the Coventrys and coach Jock McHale. But there were 44 other players who pulled on the Guernsey for the club during that heady four-year period. Some enjoyed long careers, others only a handful of games. But each one played a part, and their personal stories are as varied as they are fascinating. The result is a rich, vibrant and absorbing account of football in a different era - when Collingwood was king of football and the Machine reigned supreme." ...Show more

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The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger

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A New York Times BestsellerWhen America's sweetheart, Charlotte "Charlie" Silver, makes a pact with the devil -- the infamously brutal tennis coach Todd Feltner -- she finds herself catapulted into a world of celebrity stylists, private parties, charity matches aboard mega-yachts, and secret dates with Hollywood royalty.Under Todd's new ruthless regime, Charlie the good girl is out. Todd wants "Warrior Princess" Charlie all the way. After all, no one ever wins big by playing nice.Celebrity mags and gossip blogs go wild for Charlie as she jets around the globe chasing Grand Slam titles and Page Six headlines. But as the Warrior Princess's star rises on and off the court, it comes at a cost. In a world obsessed with good looks and hot shots, is Charlie Silver willing to lose herself to win it all? ...Show more

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In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi

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Category: Biography & Memoir

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of 'Backlash', an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. "In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a gr ievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things - obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness..." So begins Susan Faludi's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father - long estranged and living in Hungary - had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new parent who claimed to be 'a complete woman now' connect to the silent, explosive and ultimately violent father that she had known, the photographer who'd built his career on the alteration of images? Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her suburban childhood and her father's many previous incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fanciful - and virulent - nationhood. The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as treacherous for nations as for individuals. Faludi's struggle to come to grips with her father's reinvented self takes her across borders - historical, political, religious, sexual - to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you 'choose' or is it the very thing that you can't escape? ...Show more

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Nordic Light: Lighter, Everyday Eating from a Scandinavian Kitchen by Simon Bajada

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Category: Food Cooking Wine | Reading Level: General Adult

Wholesome Scandinavian recipes with a healthy, modern twist   Presenting a new angle to the trends in Scandinavian recipes and techniques, Nordic Light shies away from the classics and instead presents lighter, cleaner, and modern recipes. Focusing on seasonal fresh produce and vegetables, Simon prepa res dishes with clever touches to make them interesting and diverse in our daily diet. Putting a Nordic twist on food from all cuisines, recipes include rye crepes with banana and salted caramel; flourless almond tea fiber balls rolled in pollen and hemp; Icelandic flatbread served with cashew cream and caviar; flourless matcha millet and blueberry buns; kelp noodles, smoked mackerel, radish, elderflower vinaigrette; and many more.   Simon's exquisite photography, styling, and design are a standout feature, with incredible landscape shots to denote the changing seasons. Nordic Light will take readers on a delicious Scandinavian journey towards a healthier lifestyle. ...Show more

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Blue Roses by Peter Salmon

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In 1922 Percy Grainger was the most famous musician in the world, a pioneer of the recording age who celebrated his wedding at the Hollywood Bowl in front of 20,000 people. When his mother committed suicide, jumping from a New York skyscraper, it made the front page of the New York Times. Blue Roses is a story of obsessive love, of grand ambition and grand failure, celebrating the life of the virtuoso pianist and avant-garde composer: an artist who pushed against every boundary, until he lost everything. Peter Salmon charts Grainger's fall from celebrity and success, through artistic and sexual obsession, toward the figure of tragedy he became, railing against a world that had forgotten him. Told in a series of narrative voices, particularly that of his mother, this is a brilliant fictional re-imagining of the life of one of the Australia's most fascinating and enduring artists. ...Show more

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