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Makeshift Galaxy by Tash TurgooseIntroducing Mawson. A bear that will take care of you.
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It's a Bright World to Get Lost In
by MawsonWelcome to the weird and wonderful world of Annabelle Lee.
Not for kids!
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[[The original and the worst.]]
[[Superheroes Re-imagined.]]It's very punny.
Octopus and Family by Annabelle Lee
http://publisherobscura.com/book/octopusandfamily/Marvel and DC unite in a mass of tentacles.
Super Arm-ey Heroes
by Annabelle Lee
http://publisherobscura.com/book/super-arm-ey-heroes/[[Middle Grade]]?
Written for kids in Year 5-8, and read by anyone and everyone.
[[Young Adult]]?
Written for 12-18 year-olds. . . and read by anyone and everyone.
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Written for both young adults and not-so-young adults.
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Don't worry. Ain't no one gonna check your ID.Double-click this passage to edit it.[[The Sidhe series by Cindy Cipriano]]
[[Historical]]
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[[Climate Change Fiction]][[Historical..]]
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[[Climate Change Fiction.]]Artefacts and Other Stories
by Rebecca Burns
http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781925652093/
That dandelion. A flash of stubborn yellow in a dark box of space. It had promised sunshine but had tasted sour.
Artefacts.
A dandelion. A mayfly. A family, bereft.
Items and mementos of a life, lived hard and with love, or long, empty, bitter.
In these sharply drawn and unflinching short stories, Rebecca Burns unpicks the connection between the lives we live and what we leave behind.http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781922200914/ [Book 3]
http://thesidheseries.com[[Esme's Wish]]
Everyone else has given up on Esme's mother: lost at sea. Not Esme.
[[The Tides Between]]
A journey of self-discovery as a group of people in need of a fresh start travel to the distant land of Australia.
[[Harlequin's Riddle]]
Renaissance-inspired historical fantasy.http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781925652246/
www.elizabethfoster.com.au
<i>This was her last chance.</i>
<i>Her hand twisted high in the air.</i>
When fifteen-year-old Esme Silver objects at her father’s wedding, her protest is dismissed as the actions of a stubborn, selfish teenager. Everyone else has accepted the loss of Esme’s mother, Ariane – so why can’t she?
But Esme is suspicious. She is sure that others are covering up the real reason for her mother’s disappearance – that ‘lost at sea’ is code for something more terrible, something she has a right to know.
After Esme is accidentally swept into the enchanted world of Aeolia, the truth begins to unfold. With her newfound friends, Daniel and Lillian, Esme retraces her mother’s steps in the glittering canal city of Esperance, untangling the threads of Ariane’s double life. But the more Esme discovers about Ariane, the more she questions whether she really knew her at all.by Rachel Nightingale
http://www.rachel-nightingale.info
<i>The Gazini Players are proud to present
For your Edification and Enjoyment
Tales of great Joy, and of great Woe</i>
Ten years ago, Mina’s beloved older brother disappeared with a troupe of travelling players, and was never heard from again.
On the eve of Mina’s own departure with a troupe, her father tells her she has a special gift for story telling, a gift he silenced years before in fear of her ability to call visions into being with her stories.
Mina soon discovers that the travelling players draw their powers from a mysterious place called Tarya, where dreams are transformed into reality.While trying to solve the mystery of her brother’s disappearance, she discovers a dark secret to the players’ onstage antics. Torn between finding her brother or exposing the truth about the players, could her gifts as a story teller offer a way to solve Harlequin’s riddle?
<i>“Woven from shining threads of history, myth and the Commedia dell’Arte, Harlequin’s Riddle memorably explores the magic of creativity and the power of story against the background of an intriguing and vividly-realised world.”
— Sophie Masson, Author of international bestseller Forest of Dreams</i>http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781925652222/
www.elizabethjanecorbett.com
In 1841, on the eve of her departure from London, Bridie’s mother demands she forget her dead father and prepare for a sensible, adult life in Port Phillip. Desperate to save her childhood, fifteen-year-old Bridie is determined to smuggle a notebook filled with her father’s fairy tales to the far side of the world.
When Rhys Bevan, a soft-voiced young storyteller and fellow traveller realises Bridie is hiding something, a magical friendship is born. But Rhys has his own secrets and the words written in Bridie’s notebook carry a dark double meaning.
As they inch towards their destination, Rhys’s past returns to haunt him. Bridie grapples with the implications of her dad’s final message. The pair take refuge in fairy tales, little expecting the trouble it will cause.[[Sentinels of Eden]] series of four.[[The Afghan Wife]]http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781925652277/
https://www.facebook.com/cindydavies.author.18
During the volatile times that followed the Iranian revolution in 1979, Zahra, her husband and son are forced to leave their homeland of Afghanistan with her revolutionary activist cousin, Firzun.
Zahra’s life becomes embroiled with Firzun’s, as her cousin joins the violent opposition to the new regime in Iran. Complexities increase as she again meets Karim, a man she’s loved since she was a teenager.
As the political turmoil unfolds, Zahra must choose between love and family loyalty.
If you enjoyed reading The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seirestad and The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez, you’ll love The Afghan Wife.[[Steampunk]]Double-click this passage to edit it.Double-click this passage to edit it.Heart of Brass by Felicity Banks
http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781922200587/
Emmeline Muchamore is a well-bred young lady hiding explosive family secrets. She needs to marry well, and quickly, in order to keep her family respectable. But when her brass heart malfunctions, she makes a desperate choice to steal the parts she needs to repair it and survive.
She is unable to explain her actions without revealing she has a steam-powered heart, so she is arrested for theft and transported to Victoria, Australia – right in the midst of the Gold Rush.
Now that she’s escaped the bounds of high society, iron manacles cannot hold her for long.
The only metal that really matters is gold.
Silver and Stone by Felicity Banks
http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/silver-and-stone-available-10-october/
Getting into prison is easy.
Getting out is hard.
Getting away is nearly impossible.
Getting the power to control your own destiny might cost everything you have.
Emmeline, Matilda, and Patrick are sworn to rescue Patrick’s mother from the infamous Female Factory prison, but when a vengeful police officer tracks down their hideout, things get worse fast.
Soon they’re framed for a double murder and fighting a magical monster in the eerie and unfamiliar island of Tasmania. Patrick’s mother hides crucial papers in a tin under her prison smock, and her best friend Fei Fei is dying in the overcrowded prison.
More than one woman’s life hangs in the balance.
https://www.facebook.com/Antipodean-Queen-Fantasy-Steampunk-Books-1123139861084253/[[The Drago Tree]]by Isobel Blackthorn
http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781922200365/
Haunted by demons past and present, geologist Ann Salter seeks sanctuary on the exotic island of Lanzarote. There she meets charismatic author Richard Parry and indigenous potter Domingo, and together they explore the island.
Ann’s encounters with the island’s hidden treasures becomes a journey deep inside herself as she struggles to understand who she was, who she is, and who she wants to be.
Set against a panoramic backdrop of dramatic island landscapes and Spanish colonial history, The Drago Tree is an intriguing tale of betrayal, conquest and love, in all its forms.
Spanish (?) translation at
http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781925652116/Double-click this passage to edit it.by Carolyn Denman
Songlines
http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781922200600/
<i>We belong to the Earth, Lainie-Bug. We were sent here in human form for a reason. If you don’t know what to do, then just be human.</i>
Right. Like that was ever a simple thing to do.
In the heart of the Wimmera region of Victoria, an ancient gateway to Eden is kept hidden and safe by a creature so powerful that even the moon would obey her commands – at least it would if she had any idea that she wasn’t just a normal girl about to finish high school.
When a mining company begins exploratory sampling near Lainie’s sheep farm, a family secret is revealed that makes her regret not having learnt more about her Indigenous heritage.
What she’s told by their farmhand, Harry – an Aboriginal Elder – can’t possibly be true, but then the most irritating guy in class, Bane, begins to act even more insanely toward her than ever, until she can no longer deny that something very unusual is going on.
When Harry doesn’t return from his quest to seek help to protect the area from the miners, Lainie sets out to discover the truth of her heritage, and of the secret she’s been born to protect.
Sanguine
http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781922200884/
Lainie Gracewood has turned her back on the world she used to call home. But who can blame her? After all, the sweet bliss of paradise is hard to resist.
But there’s a restlessness inside her that yearns to be set free. When a native Edenite discovers the boundary between Earth and Eden, Lainie promises herself a return will be short and sweet.
As always, Earth is more complicated than that. When a Guardian is abducted, the urge to protect the sacred knowledge will see her faced with the ultimate choice: life, death or paradise?Salvage by Martin Rodoreda
http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781922200624/
www.martinrodoreda.com
Excessive mining, human pollution and war have left the earth devastated and all but inhabitable to humans. A Dome built over the city of Sydney and controlled by the tyrant Silmac protects what is possibly the last bastion of civilisation.
When Silver is abandoned out in the badlands by her salvage crew, she must fight for survival to make it back to safety. But she soon finds that the Dome no longer offers the protection it once did, as she faces betrayal, makes new alliances and uncovers secrets that will bring her into conflict with Silmac himself.Double-click this passage to edit it.Mud and Glass by Laura Goodin
http://odysseybooks.com.au/titles/9781922200860/
www.lauraegoodin.com
Life is fairly workaday for Dr Celeste Carlucci, a professor at Krasnia’s finest university, until her best friend and colleague Pace involves Celeste in her research.
Before long, Celeste is being shot at from a hovering helicopter, attacked on a moonlit mountain path, and followed by shadowy minions – on the trail of the Littoral Codex, an ancient and indecipherable book.
The race is on to figure out its secrets. On one side are Celeste and her colleagues, armed with nothing but enthusiasm, brilliant minds, and the principles of geography. Against them are the repressive university governors and their jackbooted campus security guards; the rich and power-hungry Praxicopolis family; and a renegade group of researchers, the Littoral League.
Will this ragtag bunch outwit their foes before it’s too late?
<i>“High-jinks in the groves of academe! Concerning matters of tenure, footnotes and postgrad research, along with a secret underground society of librarians, a mysterious Codex in need of a key and an evil Board of Governors seeking total domination of (first) the university and (then) the universe. Shades of Tom Sharpe! A barrel-load of fun!” — Richard Harland, award-winning author of Worldshaker and The Black Crusade
“Mud and Glass is a glorious comedic romp, scything through the sententiousness of the academic world while showcasing modesty, courage and cleverness as virtues. Storytelling rules aren’t so much ignored as imprisoned, beaten up and twisted into outrageous new shapes. Our hero finds love in the arms of a lecturer in the Dramatic Arts – of course she does – but, more importantly, learns to love herself. And through it all Goodin captures perfectly, and with affection, the absurdity of academic life. I’ve not read comedy this clever since Jasper Fforde.” — Russell Kirkpatrick, author of the acclaimed science-fiction trilogies Fire of Heaven and Husk
“Mud and Glass is a glorious screwball comedy that propels readers headlong through college classrooms, mysterious underground passages, and the halls of a retirement home with insouciant abandon. Along the way we meet a charming cast of heroes and rogues all chasing after a lost manuscript, which may either be a McGuffin or the font of all knowledge. A motley cast of wacky academics, rogue librarians, ninja students, insubordinate security guards and clueless bureaucrats is presided over by the winsome geographer Celeste, a protagonist who puts the luck in pluck. Join her for romance and intrigue, purloined theses and homemade cookies in Laura E. Goodin’s hilarious new novel.” — James Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards</i>