The Little Stowaway by Vicki Bennett
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
France. Winter. 1918. The First World War is over. An brave and determined little French orphan, Honore, wanders through the snow, cold and hungry and lost. When he stumbles on the Australian Flying Corps and meets airman, Tim Tovell, his life is changed forever. This is a story of a remarkable little s ...Show more
Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 by Richard Broome
$39.99 AUD
Category: Adult
The story of how Victoria's First Nations people survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. This second edition has been fully updated, and covers the Yoorrook Justice Commission and treaty negotiations. Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix-happy ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Adult | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
When the Blitz threatens the heart of a London neighbourhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to keep their community together in this heartwarming novel from the author of The Kitchen Front. On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn ...Show more
Jacqueline: A Soldier's Daughter by Pierre-Jacques Ober, Jules Ober
$24.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
From the studio of Pierre-Jacques and Jules Ober's Little Soldier Stories and Ford Street Publishing comes a new book -- Jacqueline. An only child, Jacqueline always dreamt of having a sister. Amid the turmoil of a world at war when the adults have seemingly gone mad, she embarks on a perilous journey a ...Show more
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
$12.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukaemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Holocaust by Hugh Dolan
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category
Adolf Hitler's regime has enveloped Europe, and now David, along with all Jews in the Nazi's reach, are in danger. This extraordinary graphic novel traces the story of the rise of Nazism and Hitler's persecution of the Jews, merging historical imagery and documents with the haunting tale of David and hi ...Show more
Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan by Dr Sima Samar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
'I have three strikes against me. I'm a woman, I speak out for women and I'm Hazara, the most persecuted tribe in Afghanistan.' Dr Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and had to agree ...Show more
The History of a Difficult Child by Mihret Sibhat
$34.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
An exhilarating and tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution. Selam is the youngest child in a large turbulent family. Even before she is born, her omniscience animates life in a Small Town in 1980s south ...Show more
Nicky & Vera: A quiet hero of the Holocaust and the children he rescued by Peter Sís
$32.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: near fine
In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia--a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthu ...Show more