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Did you know about BorrowBox?BorrowBox is a free app that allows
library members to borrow eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines directly to their devices. It features books from top authors, allowing users to browse, borrow, and read/listen instantly on smartphones, tablets, or computers. Due to such popular demand, we now have access to 500 audio copies of The Let Them Theory on BorrowBox. If you have this book on hold, you can listen to it now on BorrowBox. Project Hail Mary is also available on BorrowBox right now. Listen to the book before you see the movie! Download BorrowBox to get started.
How To Kill A Guy in Ten Dates & The Last PoemOn the Book Matters podcast today Courtney speaks with Brisbane writer Shailee Thompson about her debut novel “How to kill a guy in ten dates” – a sharp and entertaining novel that blends humor, suspense and modern-day dating in unexpected ways. Sam then chats to Courtney Peppernell about her new
novel “The Last Poem” - a moving and heart-rending debut about a grieving woman who moves to a charming small town and finds healing, friendship and love. Search Book Matters on your favourite podcast platform today.
How To Kill a Guy In 10 Dates
by Shailee ThompsonWhen cinephile Jamie Prescott attends a speed-dating event– she doesn’t expect one of her dates to have his throat slit at her table during a blackout. When the lights come on, there are bodies on the floor and the doors are locked. Armed with makeshift weapons, Jamie has to make it out of the building alive. Jaime soon suspects the killer is committing the slayings to woo their date. And why can’t Jamie stay focused on not getting murdered, instead of being distracted by a few hot guys?
The Last Poem
by Courtney PeppernellWren Paisley is living her dream: she’s a successful author and poet and she’s about to marry the love of her life. But everything changes when her fiancée, Lucy, dies in a car crash that leaves a bystander paralysed. Unable to escape the media frenzy, Wren goes on a road trip, winding up in a charming small town in Colorado.
It feels fortuitous when she learns that the local library hosts a grief support group that reads, of all things, poetry. She joins and gets to know Henry, who is mourning the loss of his brother, a young woman recovering from a car accident; and Olivia, a reporter who gives Wren butterflies.
A Far-Flung Life
by M.L. SteadmanWestern Australia, 1958. A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moment’s inattention, and the lives of the MacBride family are shattered.
Instead of leaving them to heal, fate comes back for them in a twist of consequences that will cause one of them to lose their life, and another to sacrifice theirs for the sake of an innocent child.
Capturing a family, a community, A Far-Flung Life tells of the many ways humans can do each other wrong and how we move on when things can’t be put right. With shimmering prose and a delicious wit, the mysteries of being human are laid bare in this hopeful meditation on time and resilience and the lengths we go to protect what we love.
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The Postcard Bandit
by Derek PedleyFully revised and updated with exclusive anecdotes and pictures, this is the story of the man who became Australia's most feared bank robber and notorious prison breaker. Three times Brenden Abbott escaped custody, and for more than six years he evaded capture, hoodwinking the nation and strongarming millions of
dollars. After escaping gunfire, he became the nation's most-wanted man, and following his recapture he was incarcerated in solitary confinement for perhaps longer than any other Australian.
Lunch Box Bible
by Julia Tellidis and Lauren Skora Written by a qualified nutritionist and baby nutrition consultant, this book is for parents who want to properly fuel their children and are looking for reliable recipes and kitchen hacks.
Recipe chapters include lunchbox heroes, snacks, small bites and spreadable’s - so there are recipes to fuel your child all day long. You'll also find smart ways to meal prep and batch cook on the weekend to make weekday lunchbox packing easier, plus a handy low-waste guide with clever tips for using up uneaten food. Food safety is always front of mind when it comes to lunchboxes, so all recipes are nut-free with suggested swaps for other common allergens.
Kids, Wait Til You Hear This
by Liza MinnelliIn this memoir, Liza pulls back the curtain on her life, from her rise to Broadway and Hollywood stardom to the high-profile marriages and scandalous affairs, as well as the private heartbreaks of multiple miscarriages and lifelong struggle with substance use disorder. As told to her most beloved confidant, music icon Michael Feinstein, Liza relives the liberated nights at Studio 54, the activism and friendships with Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Princess Diana - and the fearless way she defied conventions and battled bigotry at a time of limited public understanding.
As she turns 80 years old, Liza is reclaiming her truth, dispelling tabloid myths and setting the record straight with stories she's never shared before.
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Smother
by Eve ThompsonBruce College, a private school for winners. Affectionately known as Bruisers, its boys' football program has a reputation for pumping out superstars. But when its girls' team pushes for glory, Grace Dooley is left with a brain injury, and her parents want someone held accountable. The school points the finger at the coach, Brick Hannaford. Brick says he was coaching the kids exactly as the parents and school demanded: hard.
In a rut, questioning her single-minded pursuit of a career at the expense of her personal life, lawyer Romola Cross takes on Brick's case. She soon finds herself caught up in the complex and disturbing fallout of school sport turned toxic.
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No Stress Recipe Queen
by Steph De SousaPut major taste on the table with delicious, easy and stress-free recipes by the queen of simple, fun and fuss-free cooking. Steph de Sousa brings you fast and flavour-packed recipes and brilliant hacks for effortless dinners - so you can feed your family and friends with meals that virtually cook themselves, with no stress and major taste. From speedy dinners that are on the table in 30 minutes, to set-and-forget meals for your oven, slow cooker or air fryer, and clever double-duty dinners that will fill your belly and your freezer, to weekend showstoppers that don't sap all your downtime - even sweet and simple desserts that are big on taste and low on effort - Steph makes it easy to put delicious
food on the table in no time. Delicious dinner without the drama ... What's not to love?
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