The Star on the Grave: A novel inspired by the 'Japanese Schindler' by Linda Margolin Royal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A novel inspired by 'the Japanese Schindler', written by a woman who owes him her life. In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and secretly issues thousands of visas to Jewish refugees desperate to flee. After the war, Sugihara is dismis ...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
Your Utopia by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. "Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung's terrors, which will shrivel you to a boui ...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
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the s ...Show more
Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out 2024 Indie book winner by Melissa Kang, Yumi Stynes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Welcome to You
This introductory guide to sex and sexuality for readers who are 14+ is age-appropriate, frank, shame-free and fun. It will help young readers navigate their developing sexual debuts with confidence! Welcome to Sex is a frank, age-appropriate introductory guide to sex and sexuality for teens of all gend ...Show more
The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
It's the first day of Grade Ten, and Winifred is going to reinvent herself. Now that her two best (and only) friends have transferred to a private school, Win must navigate high school on her own. Luckily, she isn't alone for long. In art class, she meets Oscar and April. They don't look or act like the ...Show more
The Other Side of Tomorrow by Hayley Lawrence
$15.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
What if you thought you had forever ... To live your life. To tell your story. But what if forever was taken from you? When your tomorrows are counted, all you have is this moment. And this story you wish was never yours to tell. When Abby traded her life in the city for a wholesome new life on the coas ...Show more
Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin Gough
$45.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult
A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can't stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school. Harriet Price is the perfect student: smart, dutiful, over-achieving. Will Everhart is a troublemaker who's neve ...Show more
Girls in Boys' Cars by Felicity Castagna
$18.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Rosa was never really trying to kill anyone, no matter what they said in court. But she's ended up in juvenile jail anyway, living her life through books and wondering why her best mate Asheeka disappeared. A page-turning novel about a complicated friendship; a road trip through NSW in a stolen car; the ...Show more
How to Repaint a Life (CBCA Honours 2022) by Steven Herrick
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2022 Notables
A powerful prose novel from one of Australia's most awarded authors.Isaac is running from his old life when he steps off the bus in a small town. He doesn't plan on sticking around and has nowhere to stay, but a local cafe owner's kindness offers him a chance to change his story. Then Isaac meets Sophie ...Show more