Title // Magnificent Creatures: Animals on the Move Author // Anna WrightPublication Month // January 3, 2017Publisher // FaberAustralian RRP // $24.99 AUDGenre // Children’s Book, Non-Fictionsynopsis.Both informative and visually stunning, this beautiful introduction to the animal world will sit alongside the best of Faber's heritage publishing as well as other masterpieces of illustration such as …
Book Review | Third Time Lucky by Karly Lane
Title // Third Time LuckyAuthor // Karly LanePublication Month // December, 2016Publisher // Allen & Unwin (Arena)Australian RRP // $29.99 AUDGenre // Fiction, Australiansynopsis.When her marriage ends, December Doyle returns home to Christmas Creek. Will she conquer her fear of heartbreak? A heart-warming novel about betrayal, ambition and the power of love. After a disastrous …
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Book Review | Star Wars – Aftermath: Life Debt
Title // Star Wars: Aftermath - Life DebtAuthor // Chuck WendigPublication Month // July 2016Publisher // Del ReyGenre // Sci-Fi, Film Tie-Insynopsis.Set between the events of "Return of the Jedi" and "The Force Awakens, "the never-before-told story that began with "Star Wars: Aftermath" continues in this thrilling novel, the second book of Chuck Wendig s …
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Book Review | Star Wars: Aftermath
Title // Star Wars: AftermathAuthor // Chuck WendigPublication Month // September 2015Publisher // Del ReyGenre // Sci-Fi, Film Tie-Insynopsis.Journey to The Force Awakens.The second Death Star is destroyed. The Emperor and his powerful enforcer, Darth Vader, are rumored to be dead. The Galactic Empire is in chaos.Across the galaxy, some systems celebrate, while in others …
Book Review | Fairest
Title // Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles 3.5)Author // Marissa MeyerPublication Month // February 2015Publisher // St. Martin’s Press (Pan Macmillan Australia)Genre // Young Adult, Sci-Fi & Fantasysynopsis.In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told.Mirror, mirror on the wall,Who is the fairest of them all?Fans of the Lunar …
Book Review | Lost Stars or What Lou Reed Taught Me About Love
Title // Lost Stars, or What Lou Reed Taught Me About LoveAuthor // Lisa Selin DavisPublication Month // October 26, 2016Publisher // Hotkey (Allen & Unwin)Australian RRP // $19.99 AUDGenre // Young Adult, Contemporarysynopsis.A heartbreaking, wryly funny story of love, longing, music and one very special comet. In the aftermath of her older sister's death, sixteen-year-old …
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Book Review | Radiance
Title // RadianceAuthor // Catherynne M. ValentePublication Month // August 2016Publisher // Little Brown Book GroupGenre // Science-Fictionsynopsis.Severin Unck’s father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father’s films of passion, intrigue, and …
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Blog Review | How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Title // How the Grinch Stole Christmas Author // Dr. SeussPublication Month // June 1999 Publisher // Random House USAGenre // Children’s Book, Christmassynopsis.Dr. Seuss's small-hearted Grinch ranks right up there with Scrooge when it comes to the crankiest, scowling holiday grumps of all time. For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on …
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Book Review | The Chemist
Title // The ChemistAuthor // Stephenie MeyerPublication Month // November 2016 Publisher // Hachette AustraliaGenre // Young Adult, Contemporarysynopsis.She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And …
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