Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to live a normal American life.
For the next thirty years Olivia endures visits from Kwan and her ghosts, who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage. But, just when she cannot bear it any more, the revelations of a tragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truths hidden in Kwan's unorthodox vision of the world.

At only seventeen, Monica Seles became the number one female tennis player in the world. As she won championship after championship, leaving established stars in her wake, it seemed nothing could stop her. Nothing, but a nine-inch knife wielded by a crazed fan of Steffi Graf.

Politicians lead strange lives, but nothing is odder than the adventures of an ex-politician. In this wise and funny book John Button tells us what he's been up to since leaving the Senate in 1993. He declares himself psychotic in China and recalls a love affair in Rome. He exchanges letters with the mysterious Hannah Prisk, and visits the fourteenth most profitable restaurant in the United States.
We see him failing to do his Christmas shopping, jogging in New York and losing his money at the Melbourne Cup. Along the way reflects on everything from technological change and political correctness to election campaigns and Australia's relationship with Asia. And he meets the oddest people on aeroplanes.

Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion. There, among the tennis racquets, they discover the body of an unpopular games mistress. Can there really be a link between a Middle Eastern revolution and an English girl's school? Julia Upjohn knows something. She also knows that without Hercule Poirot's help, she might be the next victim of a cold-hearted killer.

New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War takes Dr Kay Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A scuba diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the medical examiner's office. Was Edding's probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story, or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified?

Wentworth, Ohio: just a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets and writer Johnny Marinville is about the only resident who minds his own business. And on Poplar Street it's just a normal summer's day with lawnmowers humming, Little League bats 'tinking', frisbees flying and barbecues being readied. But for young Cary Ripton on his paper round it won't be a normal day at all... He notices something weird about the way Audrey Wyler is standing inside the glass door - and he always thought there was something creepy about that nephew of hers, Poplar Street's best kept secret. But Cary doesn't notice the chrome red van idling up the hill. Soon it will begin to roll, the killing will begin, and the regulators wil arrive in force. And by the time night falls on the block, the surviving residents will find themselves in a wasteland of devastation and desperation.

Lorenzo, Michael, John and Tommy shared everything– the laughter and the bruises of an impoverished childhood on New York’s violent West Side. Until one of their pranks misfired and they were sent to a reformatory school. Twelve months of systematic mental, physical and sexual abuse left the boys transformed for ever. Eleven years later, one of them had become a journalist, one a lawyer – and the other two killers for the mob. In a chance encounter they came face to face with one of their torturers and shot him dead in front of several witnesses. The trial that followed brought the four friends together again in one last, audacious stand – and a courtroom climax as gripping as any John Grisham novel.

Enter the world of warring kingdoms, magic and marvels, political intrigues - enter the enthralling world of The Elenium. In this second volume, Ehlana, young Queen of Elenia, clings to life by a thread, preserved within a diamond-like block of crystal conjured by the sorceress Sephrenia. But there is a price to pay - twelve Pandion knights must sacrifice their lives to keep her alive for just one year.

This is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums - too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brought the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds.

Vincent Ball was born in Wee Waa, New South Wales, on the 4th Decenber, 1923. His dream of becoming a 'cowboy on the fillums' took him on adventure that includedserving in the RAAF in World War II, working his way to England on a tramp steamer and winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. He worked as an actor in England for twenty-five years, before returning to Australia.