Product Description: Join Pearlie on her fourth adventure, as she tries to solve a ghostly mystery in WWII-era AustraliaIt's 1942. . . and Darwin is under attack. While bombs are falling, Pearlie is doing all she can to save her beloved pets and help the wounded soldiers...read more

Product Description: A grandmother's story of her experiences during World War II-era Australia help her granddaughter face her own modern-day problems Let me tell you a story. A story about friendship and sisters, about grief and love and danger, and about growing up ...read more

Product Description: "Indisputably one of the century's greatest writers." ―Annie Proulx"The Hanging Garden is a novel for our time--a story about parentless children, mistreated by a world that, by its lights, intends no harm but nonetheless does enduring damage...read more

Product Description: Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful, and impetuous. She plays saxophone in an all-girl jazz band at the Trocadero and occasionally sits in on underground gigs with her twin brother Martin, who also plays the sax. On one such evening black GI and jazz legend James Washington blows into her life, and nothing is ever the same again, especially not Pearl...read more

Product Description: Brisbane, 1943. A provincial Australian city has turned almost overnight into the main Allied staging post for the war in the Pacific. The social, sexual, and racial tensions stirred up by the arrival of tens of thousands of US troops provoke all kinds of mayhem, and Brisbane’s once quiet streets are suddenly looking pretty mean...read more

Product Description: In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer...read more