Mystic City - Mystic City #1 (Theo Lawrence)

Mystic City - Mystic City #1

Theo Lawrence

Blurb: Manhattan lies underwater.

The corrupt rulers of this new city live high above the flood and survive by channelling the energy of the mystics - a magic-wielding underclass who are forced to live amongst the poor in the squalor of the Depths.

High in the Aeries, Aria Rose's fiance has promised that their marriage will unite two of the city's ruling dynasties. But the gaps in Aria's memory tell her that this romance isn't all it seems - and the appearance of Hunter, a gorgeous revel mystic and passionate revolutionary, is about to change the course of her life for ever.

ISBN: 9780857532473 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Doubleday

Pages: 397 (Fiction)

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1. Goodreads page

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3. Review of the book

4. Another review

5. Another review!!

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

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4. Review of the essay

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City of Lost Souls - The Mortal Instruments Book Five (Cassandra Clare)

City of Lost Souls - The Mortal Instruments Book Five

Cassandra Clare

Blurb: Jace is now a servant of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of Shadowhunters believe he can be saved. To do this they must defy the Clave. And they must act without Clary. For Clary is playing a dangerous game utterly alone. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace's soul.

Clary is willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?

What price is too high to pay, even for love?

ISBN: 9781406339147 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Walker Books

Pages: 540 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page for the book

2. Author's official site

3. Official site for the series

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5. Wikipedia page for the series

Invisible City - The Joshua Files #1 (M.G. Harris)

Invisible City - The Joshua Files #1

M.G. Harris

Blurb: One boy. One deadly prophecy. One heart-stopping adventure.

Joshua's life was pretty cool - until his father was reported dead in an air crash in Mexico.

Was it simply a tragic accident? Why was the plane miles off course? Were there really UFOs in the sky at the time of the crash?

In the depths of the Mexican jungle, with a deadly international hit man on his trail, Josh must find the truth about an incredible, dangerous secret - and try to stay alive.

ISBN: 9781407104027 (Paperback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 363 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the series

2. Official site for the series

3. Review of the book

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Work This Farm! Lego City (Michael Anthony Stelle illustrated by Chuck Primeau)

Work This Farm! Lego City

Michael Anthony Stelle illustrated by Chuck Primeau

Blurb: It's a busy day on the farm! The farmers feed the animals and harvest the crops. A big farm needs big machines!

ISBN: 9780545298575 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

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City of Glass: The Mortal Instruments Book Three (Cassandra Clare)

City of Glass: The Mortal Instruments Book Three

Cassandra Clare

Blurb:

Amid the chaos of war, the Shadowhunters must decide to fight with the vampires, werewolves and other Downworlders - or against them. Meanwhile, Jace and Clary have their own decision to make: should they pursue the love they know is forbidden?

ISBN: 9781406322873 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Walker Books

Pages: 541 (Fiction)

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