OLIVER
CRUMP IS NOT A GRUMP
Written and Illustrated by: Lisa Smith
ISBN: 1-55278-596-3
Price: $19.99
Children: Ages 3+
Oliver Crump was an old man. He had a wife, three children and eight grandchildren. He had a warm house and plenty to eat, but it had been a long winter and Oliver Crump felt like a grump. Oliver Crump had trouble hearing, a memory that didn’t work too well and suffered the aches and pains of growing old; life wasn’t so much fun anymore. Finally spring arrives and Oliver Crump decides to get out for a little adventure where, through a series of events, he finds delight in new experiences and rediscovers the joy of living.
Based on a true story, this heart-warming book introduces children to the process of aging (and perhaps an understanding of their grandparents) and how fulfillment can be found at any age if you look in the right places.
ON
OFF
Author: Colleen McCullough
ISBN:1-55278-571-8 / 978-1-55278-6420
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction
It is 1965, and in Holloman, Connecticut, someone is preying on the innocent.
At a prestigious research centre for the neurosciences, fondly known by its staff as the "Hug", parts of a mutilated body are discovered. Very soon Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico of the Holloman Police learns that a string of horrifying murders, each fitting the same modus operandi as the body found at the Hug, has been occurring throughout the state. Then another body is found and the medical staff become prime suspects....
With the Hug's hierarchies of power in turmoil and every member of its staff hiding something, Delmonico delves into the lives and pasts of each and every employee. It is the case of his career, and he is determined to solve it. But how do you find a monster who leaves no clues and is always two steps ahead?
Colleen McCullough was born in western New South Wales in 1937. A neuroscientist by training, she worked in various Sydney and English hospitals before settling into 10 years of research and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in the USA. In 1974 her first novel, Tim, was published in New York, followed by the bestselling The Thorn Birds in 1977 and a string of successful novels. In 1980 she settled in Norfolk Island, where she lives with her husband, Ric Robinson.
ONE
UNDER
Author: Graham Hurley
ISBN:9780752875507
Price: $24.95
Fiction/Mystery
Faraday and Winter investigate a world of desperate love and brutal violence.
A man is chained inside a tunnel to be dismembered and scattered along the tracks by the early morning train from Portsmouth to London. The beginning of DI Joe Faraday’s most gruesome case yet. A bizarre suicide? The cruelest of murders?
Checking the list of missing persons as the police attempt to identify the body, DC Winter comes across a different missing man, someone who stepped out of his ordered life with no hint of leaving. Can Faraday and Winter untangle two tales of emotion and thwarted love?.
OUTCAST
Author: Michelle Paver
ISBN: 9781842551738
Price: $18.95
Children
Dazzling entertainment, seamless storytelling – the fourth adventure in Torak's quest to vanquish the Soul-Eaters. The dreadful secret that Torak carries with him at the end of Soul-Eaters is revealed and he is cast out from the clans. He's alone, cut off even from Wolf and Renn, when he takes refuge in unknown territory. But the haunted reedbeds of Lake Axehead hold nothing but danger and his battle with the Soul-Eaters is far from over.
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