Star Trek Book of Opposites (David Borgenicht)

Star Trek Book of Opposites

David Borgenicht

Blurb: Explore strange new words!

With the help of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and two dozen colourful pictures from across the galaxy, teach your children the meaning of big and little, hot and cold, apart and together, and much more!

ISBN: 9781594745195 (Hardback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Quirk Books

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

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LEGO Ninjago Official Guide (Greg Farshtey)

LEGO Ninjago Official Guide

Greg Farshtey 

Blurb: Masters of Spinjitzu: A new force to save the world!

This handbook is THE official guide to all the most important stats from the world of Ninjago, including exclusive info you can't get anywhere else. Each ninja's strengths and weaknesses? CHECK. The lowdown on all the Golden Weapons? CHECK. Details and specs for Bonezai's incredible vehicles? CHECK!

Want even more? You've got it! There's a guide to ninja training with tips from Sensei Wu, and an exclusive piece of the Ninjago story featuring all-new action!

ISBN: 9780545382854 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 122 (Fiction)

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2. Goodreads page

3. Wiki page

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5. Official LEGO site for Ninjago

Stickmen Book of Rugby (Peter Vegas)

Stickmen Book of Rugby

Peter Vegas

Blurb: 100-plus hilarious drawings for rugby fans! Featuring drawings covering all aspects of rugby; commentators, fans, referees and of course players are all given the famous Stickmen treatment.

ISBN: 9781869796075 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Random House

Pages: 120 (Fiction)

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4. Buy from Angus and Robertson

5. Wikipedia page for the sport of rugby

Fair Share: Country and City in Australia - Quarterly Essay Issue 42 (Judith Brett)

Fair Share: Country and City in Australia - Quarterly Essay Issue 42

Judith Brett

Blurb: Once the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to feed it, to earn its export income, to fill the empty land, to provide it with distinctive images of the nation being built in the great south land. But Australia no longer rides on the sheep's back, and since the 1980s, when 'economic rationalism' became the new creed, the country has felt abandoned, its contribution to the nation dismissed, its historic purpose forgotten. 

In Fair Share, Judith Brett argues that our federation was built on the idea of a big country and a fair share, no matter where one lived. We also looked to the bush for our legends and we still look to it for our food. In late 2010, with the country independents deciding who would form federal government, it seemed that rural and regional Australia's time had come again. But, as Murray-Darling water reforms shows, the politics of dependence are complicated. The question remains: what will be the fate of the country in an era of user-pays, water cutbacks, climate change, droughts and flooding rains? What are the prospects for a new compact between country and city in Australia in the twenty-first century?

ISBN: 9781863955263 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Black Inc.

Pages: 91 (Non-Fiction)

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1. Official site for the issue

2. Buy from Readings

3. Buy from Penguin Books

4. Review of the essay

5. Blog on the essay

Sci-Fi Movie Freak (Robert C. Ring)

Sci-Fi Movie Freak

Robert C. Ring

Blurb: Sci-Fi Movie Freak is a celebration of some of the greatest science-fiction movies of all time. Your inner geek will freak finding everything from classics like Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, and 2001: A Space Odyssey to modern movies including Avatar, Moon and Inception, and even the entertaining 'failures' like Robot Monster, Gammera the Invincible, and Battlefield Earth.

Movies are divided into various chapters including Best of the Best, Further Essentials, and Lesser-Known Gems.

-Features more than 100 movies

-250+ photos of movie stills and posters

-Top 10 lists of the best directors, female characters, villains and more

-Free DVD of the cult classic Plan 9 From Outer Space

ISBN: 9781440228629 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Krause Publications

Pages: 256 (Non-Fiction)

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3. PDF preview of the book

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5. A list of great Sci-Fi movies

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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3. Review of the book

4. Fan page for the book

5. Author's official site

Fifty Shades of Grey - Fifty Shades #1 (E L James)

Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades #1)

E L James

Blurb: Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, this is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

When literature student Anastasia Stelle interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out.

Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more.

But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view...

ISBN: 9780099579939 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Arrow Books

Pages: 514 (Fiction)

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1. Interview with the author

2. Author's official site

3. Review of the book

4. Goodreads page

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An Eye For Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark (Mark McKenna)

An Eye For Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark

Mark McKenna

Blurb: Manning Clark (1915-1991) was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna's compelling biography of this giant of Australia's cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark's extensive private letters, journals and diaries - many that have never been read before.

An Eye for Eternity paints a sweeping portrait of the man who gave Australians the signature account of their own history. It tells of his friendships with Patrick White and Sidney Nolan. It details an urgent and dynamic marriage, ripped apart at times by Clark's constant need for extramarital love. A son who wrote letters to his dead parents. A historian who played narrative ahead of facts. A doubter who flirted with Catholicism. A controversial public figure who marked slights and criticisms with deeply help grudges.

To understand Clark's life is to understand twentieth century Australia. And it raises fundamental questions about the craft of biography. When are letters too personal, comments too hurtful and insights to private to publish? Clark incessantly documented his life - leaving notes to biographers he knew would pursue his story. He had a deep need to be remembered and this book means he will now be understood in an unforgettable way.

ISBN: 9780522856170 (Hardback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Pages: 793 (Non-Fiction)

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3. Story on the book from ABC

4. Review from The West

5. Another review

Smokin' Seventeen - Stephanie Plum #17 (Janet Evanovich)

Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum #17)

Janet Evanovich

Blurb: The dead bodies are mounting up on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds and one's addressed to Stephanie Plum...

As she struggles to find out who the killer is and what connects the victims, Stephanie is faced with further complications as her friends and family add fuel to her romantic fire. Should she choose long-time off-again-on-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli; the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger; or a former high school football star who's just returned to town?

With a cold-blooded killer after her, a handful of hot men, and a capture list that includes a dancing bear and a senior citizen vampire, Stephanie's life looks like it's about to go up in smoke.

ISBN: 9780755384907 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Headline

Pages: 341 (Fiction)

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1. Goodreads page

2. Author's official site

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4. Review of the book

5. Another review

Meet Captain America: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! (Elizabeth Rudnick)

Meet Captain America: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!

Elizabeth Rudnick

Blurb: Avengers: Assemble!

News from the front! HYDRA extends its reach over the world, and one by one, countries are falling to its great power. But one man stands in the way! Captain America, the world's first Super-Soldier! Can Captain America save the world from Red Skull and HYDRA by himself?

ISBN: 9781742833262 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Marvel

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

Links

1. Google books page

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Find more Avengers books

4. Youtube clip of the animated Captain America

5. TV shows page on the story