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SEPTEMBER NEW RELEASES!
	Twilight Abidi Azhar In Karachi, Bilqis Ara Begum, matriarch of the Khan family, prepares for the wedding reception of her only son Samad. The family has gathered and the servants have been given their instructions. All is in order, but Bilqis's heart is heavy. Her son has married Kate, an Australian, in Melbourne, where they both now live. They have returned to Karachi only for a visit, so that the family can meet Samad's bride... More
	The Torn Messiah Yvonne Fein, Tom O'Lincoln Set in contemporary Melbourne this tale tells of a charismatic New York rabbi who arrives with his guitar and a beautiful voice. He teaches sweet seductive Torah to the wild and vulnerable youth of Melbourne, brought up on an austere diet of Holocaust survival and Zionism... More
	DEAF SENTENCE David Lodge When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the purposeful routine of the academic year, and has lost his appetite for research... More
	Standard Operating Procedure Philip Gourevitch Standard Operating Procedure is an utterly original collaboration by the writer Philip Gourevitch (We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families) and the film-maker Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War). They have produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib.... More
	PEELING THE ONION Gunter Grass Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. Grass' parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him towards books and music... More
	My Dog Eats Better Than Your Kids ...and what you can do to change this Dr Peter Dingle The foods we feed our children and what we eat now will determine disease patterns in the future. Most of the chronic illnesses of today were either rare or unheard of just 100 years ago and still doesn't exist in many countries where people live on traditional diets... More
	THE HORSE IN AUSTRALIA Fiona Carruthers From Phar Lap to Makybe Diva, Garryowen to Picasso, and Our Solo to Peppermint Grove, Australians adore their horses. Be it a pony club mount, an Australian Stock Horse descendant of the mighty Waler or a Snowy Mountains brumby, such is our love for the horse, we have virtually granted him honorary native status. When the First Fleet arrived in 1788, they brought a collection of rough pony-sized horses purchased at South Africa's Cape of Good Hope... More
	WHY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE Stephen Post Dr. Stephen Post has been making headlines by funding studies at the nation's top universities to prove once and for all the life-enhancing benefits of caring, kindness, and compassion. The exciting new research shows that when we give of ourselves, especially if we start young, everything from life-satisfaction to self-realization and physical health is significantly affected. Mortality is delayed. Depression is reduced. Well-being and good fortune are increased... More
	Hot, Flat, and Crowded Why the world needs a green revolution - and how we can renew our global future Thomas Friedman Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy — both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all who are concerned about the state of the world in the global future... More
	Trade Unionism in Australia A History from Flood to Ebb Tide Tom Bramble In the late 1960s Australian unionism was on the flood tide: growing in strength, industrially confident and capable of shaping the overall political climate of the nation. Forty years on, union membership and power is ebbing away despite community support for trade unionism and the continuing need for strong unions. Even the unprecedented mobilisation against WorkChoices, which defeated a government and lost the prime minister his own seat, has done little to turn the tide. With compelling rigour, Tom Bramble explores the changing fortunes of what was once an entrenched institution... More
	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Tim Weiner All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective...this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality behind the glamorous myth: a blundering, chaotic and dangerously incompetent organization, so ineffective it was nicknamed 'Can't Identify Anything' by Nato forces... More
	The Other Country Michael Whelan Michael and Helen Whelan believed that life after the birth of their first child would be the most amazing adventure. But at 14 months of age, their precious son Charlie's development seemed to stall and Michael and Helen began to realise that something was wrong. Referred to a paediatrician by their GP, they were given the shattering news: Charlie was autistic... More
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