How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It takes courage to survive in a world full of trouble... In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of ...Show more
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of those around her, and suffers as a result. When Lala grows ...Show more
How to Love Your Daughter: The 'excellent and unforgettable' prize-winning novel by Hila Blum
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A woman stands on a dark street, thousands of kilometers from her home in Israel, and peeks through the windows of a home in a city in northern Holland. The two little girls she sees through the window are her granddaughters, whom she has never met, the daughters of her only daughter. At the center of ...Show more
How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: 9 YA
'A BOOK AS FIERCE, TENDER, AND RARE AS ITS APTLY NAMED HEROINE, TIGER.' - Meg Leder, author of Letting Go of Gravity It's the brightest day of summer and it's dark outside. It's dark in your house, dark in your room, and dark in your heart. You feel like the darkness is going to split you apart. Here is ...Show more
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
From the author of The Midnight Library and The Humans. HOW MANY LIFETIMES DOES IT TAKE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE?Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-yearold history teacher, but he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the So ...Show more
I Am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A powerful memoir about a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. She squeezes my hand and smiles. "I am here to feed hungry children in the village, because as Africans we must uplift each other." I don't understand what it means to uplift others, but I nod ...Show more
I Couldn't Love You More by Esther Freud
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Rosaleen is young, beautiful and still a schoolgirl when, in the early Sixties, she meets the famous sculptor Felix Lehmann. Felix is Jewish, bohemian; Rosaleen, the tearaway middle daughter of Irish publicans. So their affair – running away to France to gorge on oysters, boozing and eating cakes in Soh ...Show more
I Fell in Love with Hope by Lancali
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy who became my only joy in that desolate place. That’s what made it all the more soul-crushing when he committed suicide in front of me. Since then, I've sworn never to love anyone again. With three exception ...Show more
I Heard You Paint Houses: Now Filmed as The Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese by Charles Brandt
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that ...Show more
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
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Category: International Fiction | Series: P.S. | Reading Level: very good
Being released soon as a TV series starring Mark Ruffalo. On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. ...Show more
I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
I saw it. He smothered her, pressing his hands on her face. The police don't believe me, they say it's impossible but I know what I saw. Xander Shute - once a wealthy banker, now living on the streets - shelters for the night in an empty Mayfair flat. When he hears the occupants returning home, he scra ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume o ...Show more