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By Clinton Caward
Australian Fiction
Paperback
Kings Cross is a circus of desire, and Spencer has a ringside seat. In an underground sex shop he sees it all: the buck's parties and streetwalkers, the drunks and the judges, the trannies, the junkies, the chokers. All types come through the doors and it's Spencer's poorly paid job to sell them what they want. A love story set in a sex shop, Love Machine is a candid, confronting but also very funny first novel about the strange and familiar business of desire.
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By Aatish Taseer
Contemporary Fiction
Paperback
A young man returns home to Delhi after several years abroad and resumes his place among the city's cosmopolitan elite - a world of fashion designers, media moguls and the idle rich. But everything around him has changed - new roads, new restaurants, new money, new crime - everything, that is, except for the people, who are the same, only maybe slightly worse.
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Non-Fiction
By Barbara Demick
Paperback
Journalist Barbara Demick has spent a decade covering North Korean politics. One day she meets a young woman defector, Mi-ran, who tells her about growing up there. Through her story and others, Demick glimpses another, more human side of North Korea. They form a haunting portrait of a bizarre society and the cost it exacts on its citizens.
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This book by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and actor Rhys Muldoon is based on the real-life cat and dog Jasper and Abby and follows their adventures at an Australia Day function at the Lodge.
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Everyone's got a bottom is a story about Ben and his brother and sister learning and talking together about bodies. It is a tool for parents and carers to gently start a conversation with children about self protection.
Everyone's got a bottom is a collaboration between Family Planning Queensland, writer Tess Rowley, illustrator Jodi Edwards and experts from the early childhood and child protection sectors.
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The following titles were chosen as the best reads for 2009 by the staff at Candelo Books.
Young Adult Fiction
By Patrick Ness
Paperback
Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run.
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Australian Fiction
By Craig Silvey
Paperback
Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress.
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Australian Fiction
By Louis Nowra
Paperback
Ice tells the story of Malcolm McEacharn, the man who brings joy to early Sydney in the form of an iceberg and who later pioneers the first successful refrigerated voyage from Australia to London. He is a brilliant businessman who will later bring electricity to Melbourne, become its Lord Mayor and be one step away from becoming Prime Minister - but he is driven by an obsession that threatens to destroy him and his world.
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Australian Fiction
By Sofie Laguna
Paperback
A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and they all speak to her. Her imagination is informed by one book, an illustrated child's bible, and its imagery forms the sole basis for her capacity to make poetic connection. One day Hester takes a brave Alice in Wonderland trip into the forbidden outside (at the behest of Handle - 'turn me turn me'), and this overwhelming encounter with light and sky and sunshine is a marvel to her.
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Manga
By Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata
Paperback
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Teen 16+
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