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    Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Ohio Poets

    A celebration of American poetry

    Unabridged

    58 min

    Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anzac Girl: The War Diaries of Alice Ross-King

    It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn't have imagined what she would see. She served four long years and was brave, humble and endlessly compassionate.Using extracts from Alice's actual diaries kept in the Australian War Memorial, this true story captures the danger, the heartache and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tiki and Jill and the Great Australian Camel Race

    The amazing true story about a remarkable camel called Tiki from two CBCA award-winning creators, the author of How to Move a Zoo and the illustrator of The Wobbly Bike.Tiki was a desert-born camel and still more than half wild when he met his rider, Jill.Jill was an accomplished horse rider who had never ridden a camel.Tiki and Jill had entered the Great Australian Camel Race a three-month trek ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • How to Move a Zoo

    The incredible true story

    The true story of how at the beginning of the 20th century Jessie the elephant walked from Moore Park Zoo to her spacious new home in the Taronga Zoological Park.It was still dark when Mr Miller opened the gates of the old zoo, but he wasn't scared because he wasn't alone. He was with Jessie the elephant and together they were going to walk from Moore Park, through the city streets, to the ferry ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Tiki and Jill and the Great Australian Camel Race

    The amazing true story about a remarkable camel called Tiki from two CBCA award-winning creators, the author of How to Move a Zoo and the illustrator of The Wobbly Bike.Tiki was a desert-born camel and still more than half wild when he met his rider, Jill.Jill was an accomplished horse rider who had never ridden a camel.Tiki and Jill had entered the Great Australian Camel Race – a three-month trek ... Read more

    $12.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ouch: Tales of Gravity

    A funny story about gravity that explains why apples fall from trees, from an exciting new partnership in picture books.Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he got hit on the head by an apple.People might tell you this is the moment gravity was first discovered, b**ut the truth is people had been discovering gravity long before Isaac.You might have even discovered it yourself ... Ouch ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Dear Grandpa

    A picture book about the special relationship between a boy and his grandfather, who stay close even when they are separated by distance.Grandpa, did you know that if you rub a needle with a magnet, one end will point to the north and the other end to the south? In the south there's an apartment building 160 metres tall. From the balcony, you can see the entire city. There are cinemas and ice ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Paper Museum

    In a world where paper is obsolete and magic is all but forgotten, Lydia has moved into the Paper Museum with her Uncle Lem following the disappearance of her parents. Convinced the key to finding them lies in the museum’s book collection, Lydia spends her days digitally scanning her way through the museum’s library.But when Uncle Lem is called away and her Uncle Renald is put in charge of the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Oxford Bookworms Library Level 2: Anne of Green Gables

    Series Book 2 - Oxford Bookworms Library
    Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn’t want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Life After COVID-19

    The Other Side of Crisis

    What might the world look like in the aftermath of COVID-19?Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change.A rapid intervention into current commentary and debate, Life After COVID ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Oxford Bookworms Library Level 4: Three Men in a Boat

    Series Book 4 - Oxford Bookworms Library
    ‘I like work. I find it interesting… I can sit and look at it for hours.’ With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends – and Montmorency the dog – decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning. This famous ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Anywhere But Here

    by Mona Simpson ...
    Narrated by Kate Rudd ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 13 min

    Anywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that is a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound disorientation. Simpson's first novel is ultimately a ... Read more

    $64.57 CAD