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Welcome to the Baby Boost book store. These titles have been hand picked to cover such topics as diet, post-pregnancy exercise and child development. Add these books to your personal library!
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2005 Man Booker Prize Winner |  The Sea by Banville, John
When max morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The grace family appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the grace twins, chloe and myles, max soon finds himself entangled in their lives.
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Recently Released |  Whitethorn by Bryce Courtenay
The time is 1939. White south africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the english. The world is also on the brink of war and south africa elects to fight for the allied cause against germany. Six-year-old tom fitzsaxby finds himself in the boys farm, an orphanage in a remote town in the high mountains, where the afrikaners side fiercely with hitler's germany. Tom's english name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised, marking him as an outsider. And so begin some of life's tougher lessons for the small, lonely boy. Like the whitethorn, one of africa's most enduring plants, tom learns how to survive in the harsh climate of racial hatred. Then a terrible event sends him on a journey to ensure that justice is done. On the way, his most unexpected discovery is love.
|  Lovers And Players by Collins, Jackie
Three dynamic brothers, a billionaire media mogul father, a young heiress and a beautiful bi-racial girl meet in this steamy title from a mistress of sexy fiction.
|  Drought by Mckernan, Michael
At any one time, there is a drought wreaking havoc with the land and the people who depend on it. Drought is a fact of life in australia but not readily acknowledged as an integral part of the landscape. This is a story told through the eyes of those who have lived through numerous droughts, telling of their suffering and endurance.
|  Much Love, Jac by Weaver, Jacki
Jacki weaver is an australian icon. Raised in clive james's territory (kogarah), she is the daughter of an australian air ace, whose parentage is a matter of conjecture, and of a gentle north country english woman he chatted up in the pub between bombing raids. Jacki was drawn to showbiz at a very young age. She was talent-scouted by keith smith for his popular pied piper radio programs and was spelling champion on the quiz kids. By age 15 she was a star in a highly successful stage production of hansel & gretel. Jacki was film-struck as a young teenager. As she writes: 'even though a horrible boy once vomited on my best kilt when i was waiting in the queue outside the carlton odeon, i used to love going to the pictures every saturday. In fact i was drummed out of the brownies for wagging three saturdays in a row to catch the esther williams festival at the kogarah victory. I would skulk off with my shilling for brownies and hand it over to mgm. When i was found out, the brown owl said there was no place for a deceitful brownie in the bexley chapter and i was stripped of my epaulettes.'
|  A Series Of Unfortunate Events Book 12: The Penultimate Peril by Snicket, Lemony
Lemony snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his bestselling series of unfortunate events. Scream and run away before the secrets of the series are revealed! Very little is known about lemony snicket and a series of unfortunate events. What we do know is contained in the following brief list: the books have inexplicably sold millions and millions of copies worldwide, people in more than 40 countries are consumed by consuming snicket, the movie was as sad as the books, if not more so, and like unrefrigerated butter and fungus, the popularity of these books keeps spreading. Even less is known about book the twelfth in this alarming phenomenon. What we do know is contained in the following brief list: in this book, things only get worse, count olaf is still evil, the baudelaire orphans do not win a contest, and the title begins with the word, 'the'. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. Ages 10+
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