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If I Stay / Gayle Forman
If I Stay is told in the present after the car accident as Mia watches herself in a coma. Her family and friends arrive at the hospital to wait, hope and pray for her. The story also unfolds by flashbacks of Mia and her family. It’s in these flashbacks where the reader comes to understand the intensity of her relationship with her parents, younger brother Teddy and Adam.When Mia overhears an ICU nurse speaking with her grandparents, she realizes she can either choose life or death.
They told me I had to write this / Kim Miller
Infidel / Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
An extremely enlightening and thought-provokingbook, this is one I wouldn't have normally picked uphad we not read it for our book group. Ayaan Hirsi Aliis an amazing woman who has the guts to bring to The forefront what almost no other women of the Muslim faith have managed to do. Not only was I enlightened but I was truly horrified by the brainwashing that women of Islam are victims of. No matter what faith or nationality you originate from, submission to such the degree that is prominent in Islamic countries is just wrong and a human cruelty. While war is not the answer, I realize that after reading this, awareness of the problem needs to expand.
The Immortal / MichaelPanckridge
In 1957, a secret operation takes place to recover powerful elixir. The elixir, stolen from a family in Japan, has the power to give immortality to anyone who is injected with the potion. Jeremy Brighton, the Agent responsible for recovering the potion, fails in
his mission. Further, he is accidentally injected with the elixir. There is only one witness to the scene at Channel Point – a small boy who has left Sea
Cottage, a holiday home for children, in the dead of night to explore the cliff tops that look out to sea. Jeremy manages to kill the courier who is bringing the potion into the country, but finds himself trapped in a tunnel deep below the sand dunes. The small bottle of potion is left with him in the tunnel. Left to rot without food or water, Jeremy discovers that he is not dying.
Last of the Braves / Archimede Fusillo
A young adult novel about an Australian-Italian teenage boy Alex, whose mother is dying. Alex is a painter, and all his life his mother has encouraged him to learn about Michelangelo Caravaggio’s life and works. Can Alex come to terms with his mother’s death, his relationships with his brother, his father and friends, and his acceptance of who he really is? Unflinching, realistic dialogue, vivid imagery, streaks of black humour and accessible prose characterize the writing style.
Fire Song / Libby Hathorn
Fire Song is set in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney in the 1950’s. Twelve-year-old Ingrid
Crowe’s family is desperately poor. Ingrid, her four-year-old sister Pippa and their mother have come to live at their late grandmother’s house in Blackheath, near the highest point in the Blue Mountains. Ingrid’s beloved brothers, Freddy and Charlie, have been sent to a foster home on the other side of the mountains at Wallerawang, because her mother simply can’t support them. The Blackheath house is one Ingrid has always loved. So when her mother tells her that she must help burn the house down to get the insurance money, it seems like a double betrayal: first, of Ingrid’s sense of right and wrong; and secondly of her grandmother’s memory, and all the magical times they have shared there in the past.
Fill out this application and wait over there / Ruth Starke
Trotsky. Lenin.
Trotsky: Using archival footage and personal memories, this documentary looks at the life and ideas of the revolutionary who was Stalin's first and greatest enemy.
Lenin: documents the rise of Lenin, the 1917 Marxist revolution in Russia and the foundation of the Soviet Union.
Liberal rule: the politics that changed Australia
The 1996-2007 Howard government made the most determined attempt to change Australian society since the brief and revolutionary Whitlam era of the early 1970s. Was it successful?.
View introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQaNr000yMI
The path to nuclear fission:
the story of of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn
A portrait of the tumultuous times and the lives of two remarkable scientists, whose extraordinary collaboration culminated in the discovery of nuclear fission, the splitting of the atom and changing the future.
Gattaca As one of the last "natural" humans born
into genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the "pre-ordered" DNA that will guarantee him success. Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete in order to gain employment at the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. View introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6zvCmQAHQc
Einstein’s big idea
This documentary helps viewers understand the equation by showing where it came from and how it has changed the world.
View introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEVEBzNSwTU
To Russia with love: the great radio war
The story of the Cold War from a most unusual perspective: Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: a radio station for the countries behind the Iron Curtain.
Atoms of fire
An introduction to organic chemistry, this program looks at the basic facts using storytelling, demonstration, graphics and documentary.
Lord of the rings: fellowship of the ring
Based on the book by J.R.R Tolkien.
View theatrical trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPT6B9X-Wsg
Erak’s Ransom / John Flanagan
The best John Flanagan to date, bar none... This is a chunky volume (compared to the others in the series) and it goes like a rocket! Will and Halt's relationship is fleshed out beautifully, Evanlyn (one of my fave characters!) features, and it's a really brilliant adventure story. I lovethis entire series, but this is definitely my fave – head and shoulders above the others!
The lake of tears / Emily Rodda
I enjoyed this book at least as much as the first one - I like the characters, and Ifound myself caught up in the story. I'm also finding that the plot isn't all that predictable of course, the main points are pretty easy to figure out, since we know enough about the boy's quest to know where he's heading next, but there have been some twists and turns that surprised me. So far, this is a very nice fantasy series which is appropriate for young people (my son is seven and is loving it), but grown-ups can enjoy it, too.
City of the Rats / Emily Rodda
I'm still enjoying this series, and I find that although there is a clear formula, the detail has been nicely varied from book to book. The characters are also gaining depth as the story progresses.
The night they stormed Eureka / Jackie French
It’s 1854 and the Ballarat goldfields are a place of dreams and rebellion as Sam, a homeless teenager, is called back to the past to join the Puddlehams, who run ‘the best little cook shop on the diggings’. The Puddlehams dream of buying a hotel with velvet seats, while others dream of freedom from the British crown, away from the rule of wealthy landowners and corrupt officials.Once again Jackie French takes a fresh look at the history we thought we knew and recreates an event entrenched in our
national heritage.
Letters to Leonardo / Dee White
On his fifteenth birthday, Matt receives a card from his mother – the mother he grew up believing was dead. Feeling betrayed by both his parents, Matt is in disarray and begins writing letters to Leonardo daVinci as a way to sort out the ‘mess’ in his head. Through the connections he makes between his own life and that of Leonardo, Matt unravels the mystery that his life has become and discovers his mother’s secrets and the reasons behind his abandonment.