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The Shiralee (Popular Penguin) by D'Arcy Niland
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Everyone has their cross to bear – their swag, their shiralee – and for Macauley, walking across New South Wales in search of work, it is his young daughter who has to suffer his resentment at having her in tow. But then, he discovers that the ties that bind can be as much a comfort as a burden, and wha ...Show more
The Skinny Louie Book (Popular Penguin) by Fiona Farrell
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: Very Good
Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura finds the baby and takes it home. Tia grows up with magical powers into the brave new world of the twenty-first century. Fiona Farrell's The Skinny Louie Book - always moving, often hilarious - i ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins by Simon Winchester
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper- ...Show more
The Thin Man (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dashiell Hammett
9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julia's lover ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps: Popular Penguins by John Buchan
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Richard Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns la ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
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Category: No Category | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In prohibition-era New York, Nick Charles plans to enjoy a quiet Christmas with his glamorous wife, Nora, their Schnauzer, Asta, and a case of good scotch. But the bullet-riddled corpse of a former lover, a missing inventor and a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns force him out of retire ...Show more
The Time Machine: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels bene ...Show more
The Trial: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Trial (Der Process in German) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavi ...Show more
The War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilization is under thre ...Show more
The Well: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1986 (Popular Penguins) by Elizabeth Jolley
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farthe ...Show more
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as leader of a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir - only Kahu. ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more