A Mutiny in Time - Infinity Ring Book One (James Dashner)

A Mutiny in Time - Infinity Ring Book One

James Dashner

Blurb: When best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste stumble upon the key to time travel - a handheld device known as the Infinity Ring - they're swept up in a centuries-old war for the fate of humankind. Recruited by a secret society named the Hystorians, the kids learn that history has gone disastrously off course. Now it's up to Dak, Sera, and young Hystorian Riq to travel back in time to fix the Great Breaks.

ISBN: 9780545386968 (Hardback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 190 (Fiction)

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4. Review of the book

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Bond on Bond - The Ultimate Book on 50 Years of Bond Movies (Roger Moore)

Bond on Bond - The Ultimate Book on 50 Years of Bond Movies

Roger Moore

Blurb: There are not many people in the world who would fail to recognise the name James Bond, and this fabulous book celebrates fifty years of Bond movies - making it the longest continually running film series in movie history. However, while it may be true to say there have been several Bonds, in reality the longest-serving 007, and the one considered to have the most charisma and panache, is undoubtedly Sir Roger Moore, KBE.

This lavishly illustrated book celebrates all fifty years of Bond in all his guises, from the debonair flourish of Sean Connery to the beautiful beefcake of Daniel Craig. However, most excitingly, Roger Moore provides a distinctive and highly personal tribute that takes in all the films, along with a wonderfully witty account of his part in them. From the girls to the locations, from the gadgets to the villains, from the cars to the cocktails, this handsome book is illustrated with many iconic images from all of the Bond movies, plus previously unseen shots from the author's personal collection.

All in all, it's the ultimate James Bond book written by the ultimate James Bond himself. No true aficionado should be without it.

ISBN: 9781742704135 (Hardback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Pages: 224 (Non-Fiction)

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3. Article on the book

4. Review

5. Interview with Moore

Crossfire (James Moloney)

Crossfire

James Moloney

Blurb: When the Deputy Principal opens Luke Aldridge's school locker, he finds a .22 calibre rifle. Fourteen-year-old Luke is in big trouble at school and at home. When he joins his dad on a forbidden hunting trip he thinks all his dreams have come true, but have they? The guns, the killing, even his father, aren't quite as Luke imagined.

Back home, Luke finds an unexpected understanding with his mother. Then his parents' verbal warfare explodes into confrontation, and a shot is fired...

ISBN: 0702223840 (Paperback)

Year: 1992

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Pages: 151 (Fiction)

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1. Author's Official site

2. Publisher's page

3. Wikipedia page for the author

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James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Quentin Blake)

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Blurb: Something is about to happen. James told himself. Something peculiar is about to happen at any moment.

James has lived with his two beastly aunts ever since the day his parents were eaten up outside London Zoo by an angry escaped rhinoceros. Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are really horrible people. They make poor James's life a misery. 

Then something very peculiar happens - something magical that is to completely change James's wretched existence and take him on the most amazing and unbelievable journey!

ISBN: 0140382348 (Paperback)

Year: 1961

Publisher: Puffin Books

Pages: 156 (Fiction)

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2. Teacher's notes for the book

3. Random House page for the book

4. Page celebrating 50 years of the book

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Return of the Jedi - Star Wars (James Kahn)

Return of the Jedi - Star Wars

James Kahn

Blurb: It was a dark time for the Rebel Alliance...

Han Sola, frozen in carbonite, had been delivered into the hands of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt. Determined to rescue him, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian launched a hazardous mission against Jabba's Tatooine stronghold.

The Rebel commanders gathered in all the warships of the Rebel fleet into a single giant armada. And Darth Vader and the Emperor, who had ordered construction to begin on a new and even more powerful Death Star, were making plans to crush the Rebel Alliance once and for all...

ISBN: 0751515477 (Paperback)

Year: 1983

Publisher: Warner Books

Pages: 218 (Fiction)

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10th Anniversary - Women's Murder Club #10 (James Patterson & Maxine Paetro)

10th Anniversary - Women's Murder Club #10

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Blurb: Detective Lindsay Boxer finally gets married. But two violent crimes push the Women's Murder Club back to full throttle before the wedding gifts are even unwrapped.

For every secret.

Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous attack: A teenage girl is badly injured and left for dead, and her newborn baby is missing. Lindsay discovers that there is no trace of the criminals - and the victim may be keeping secrets as well.

For every lie.

Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life: A woman stands accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki's career rests on a guilty verdict. But when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, Yuki must choose between trusting her best friend - or following her instinct.

There's a different way to die.

With her every move watched by her new boss and the pressure to find the baby interfering with her new marriage to Joe, Lindsay wonders if she'll ever be able to start a family...or solve her two cases. With James Patterson's white-hot speed and unquenchable action, 10th Anniversary is the most deliciously chilling Women's Murder Club book ever.

ISBN: 9780446585163 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing 

Pages: 395 (Fiction)

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4. Fan page for the book

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Liquid Gold - Lachlan Fox #4 (James Phelan)

Liquid Gold - Lachlan Fox #4

James Phelan

Blurb: Who is Lachlan Fox?

-Graduate ADFA

-Ex-Australian Navy Clearance Diver

-Served in Iraq, East Timor & Afghanistan

-International investigative journalist

-The right man for the wrong place

Water. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th...and some people will do anything to control it.

When investigative journalist Lachlan Fox blows open the story of the decade, simmering tensions between India and Pakistan hit boiling point. 

A continent's water - liquid gold - s at stake and one man thinks nothing of a potential all-out war when there is money to be made.

Before helpless millions die, Fox is determined to expose the corrupt Umbra Corporation and the man behind it, to the world. With hefty prices on their heads, Fox and his trusted man-at-arms, Al Gammaldi, are pitted against time and a ruthless web of terrorist cells, rogue secret agents and dirty money. Flanked by news agency GSR and the FBI, Fox and Gammaldi are going to give as good as they get, but nothing can preparethem for the ferocity of this fight.

Fox knows that the truth alone triumphs...and it's going to hurt.

ISBN: 9780733622595 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Hachette

Pages: 407 (Fiction)

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1. Author's official site

2. Review of the book

3. Wikipedia page on the author

4. Buy from Angus and Robertson

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Chasers: Alone #1 (James Phelan)

Chasers: Alone #1

James Phelan

Blurb: Four teenagers. One destroyed city. Thousands of infected predators.

Jesse is on a UN Youth Ambassadors camp in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion. Jesse and his three friends, Dave, Mini and Anna, crawl out from under the wreckage to discover a city in chaos.

Streets are deserted. Buildings are in ruins. Worse, the only other survivors seem to be infected with a virus that turns them into horrifying predators...

Outnumbered. No sign of life. Just them. And you...ALONE.

ISBN: 9780733624797 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Lothian

Pages: 247 (Fiction)

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2. Blog on the book

3. Official site for the series

4. Review of the book

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