Colour Your World This Christmas
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
colour your world this Christmas Frankston | Greensborough | Chadstone | Emporium | Highpoint | Northland | The Glen Eastland | Fountain Gate | Werribee | Plenty Valley | Hobart | Canberra Check our website for extended trading hours www.robinsonsbooks.com.au [email protected] Ph: 03 9783 6488 Fiction Non-Fiction Young Adult THE TATTOOIST OF SUBTLE ART OF NOT SIMON VS THE AUSCHWITZ GIVING A F*CK HOMO SAPIENS Heather Morris Mark Manson AGENDA PB $29.99 PB $29.99 Becky Albertalli Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, For decades, we’ve been told PB $17.99 a charmer... and a Jew. On the that positive thinking is the key to Sixteen-year-old and not-so- first transport from Slovakia a happy, rich life. Mark Manson, openly gay Simon Spier prefers to Auschwitz in 1942, Lale however, doesn’t sugar-coat or to save his drama for the school immediately stands out to his fellow prisoners. In the equivocate. Manson makes the argument that improving musical. But when an email falls into the wrong best sellers camp, he is looked up to, looked out for, and put to our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into hands, his secret is at risk of being suddenly thrust work in the privileged position of the tattooist. lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. into the public spotlight. THE ALCHEMIST THE BAREFOOT INVESTOR A COURT OF FROST 25TH ANNIVERSARY Scott Pape AND STARLIGHT #4 Paulo Coelho PB $29.99 Sarah J. Maas PB $22.99 This book will show you how to PB $16.99 A story about an Andalusian create an entire financial plan that Feyre, Rhys and their shepherd boy named Santiago is so simple you can sketch it on the companions are still busy who travels from his homeland in back of a serviette … and you’ll be rebuilding the Night Court Spain to the Egyptian desert in able to manage your money in ten and the vastly changed world search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. What minutes a week. This is the only money guide you’ll beyond. Winter Solstice is finally near, and with starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns ever need. it a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive into a discovery of the treasure found within. atmosphere can’t keep the shadows of the past MY GRAMMAR AND I (OR from looming. THE SUN AND SHOULD THAT BE ME?) HER FLOWERS Caroline Taggart LEAH ON THE OFFBEAT Rupi Kaur PB $14.95 Becky Albertalli PB $24.99 This book offers amusing examples PB $17.99 From Rupi Kaur, the top ten of awful grammar, while steering An anomaly in her friend group, Sunday Times bestselling author you in the direction of grammatical Leah is the only child of a of Milk and Honey, comes her greatness. Taking you on a tour young, single mum, and her life long-awaited second collection of the English language through the minefield of rules is decidedly less privileged. And of poetry. A journey of wilting, falling, rising and and conditions that can catch you out, it highlights the even though her mom knows blooming. It is a celebration of love in all it’s forms. common pitfalls that every English language user faces she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage on a day to day basis. to tell her friends - not even her openly gay BFF, THE WOMAN IN Simon. THE WINDOW 12 RULES FOR LIFE A J Finn Jordan Peterson TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE PB $29.99 PB $35 LOVED BEFORE It’s been ten long months since Jordan Peterson combines ancient Jenny Han Anna Fox last left her home. One wisdom with decades of experience PB $16.99 evening, a frenzied scream rips to provide twelve profound and Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean across the silence, and Anna challenging principles for how to live keeps her love letters safe witnesses something no one was supposed to see. a meaningful life, from setting your in a hatbox. But these aren’t Now she must do everything she can to uncover the house in order before criticising others to comparing love letters that anyone else truth about what really happened. yourself to who you were yesterday. has written for her; these are ones she’s written herself. One for every boy she’s ever loved. MILK AND HONEY LEATHER SOUL Rupi Kaur Bob Murphy RED QUEEN #1 PB $24.99 HB $39.99 Victoria Aveyard The book is divided into four In this unique memoir, Murphy takes PB $16.99 chapters, and each chapter the reader inside his seventeen-year This is a world divided by blood serves a different purpose. career, including his three years as - red or silver. The Reds are Milk and Honey takes readers captain of the Western Bulldogs, commoners, ruled by a Silver through a journey of the most exploring the people, places and elite in possession of god-like bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them events that shaped him. The man described as the spirit superpowers. And to Mare because there is sweetness everywhere if you are of the Bulldogs has soul, and it’s made of leather. Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl, it seems just willing to look. like nothing will ever change. That is, until she HOW TO TELL IF YOUR finds herself working in the Silver Palace. NINE PERFECT CAT IS PLOTTING TO STRANGERS KILL YOU KINGDOM OF ASH Liane Moriarty PB $24.99 Sarah J. Maas PB $32.99 If your cat is kneading you, that’s not PB $19.99 Nine stressed city dwellers are a sign of affection. Your cat is actually Years in the making, Sarah J. keen to drop their literal and checking your internal organs for Maas’s #1 New York Times mental baggage and absorb the weakness. If your cat brings you a bestselling Throne of Glass blissful meditative ambience at a dead animal, this isn’t a gift. It’s a warning. How to Tell series draws to an epic, health-and-wellness resort. The resort’s director is If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You is a hilarious collection unforgettable conclusion. on a mission to reinvigorate these tired bodies and about crazy cat behaviors. Aelin Galathynius’s journey from slave to king’s minds. But to what lengths will she go to achieve assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom her goal? SAPIENS A BRIEF HISTORY reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts OF HUMANKIND across her world. THE LOST FLOWERS OF Yuval Noah Harari ALICE HART PB $24.99 WAR STORM - RED Holly Ringland Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the QUEEN #4 PB $32.99 whole of human history, from the Victoria Aveyard After her family suffers a tragedy, very first humans to walk the earth PB $19.99 nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to the radical breakthroughs of the War is coming, and all Mare to leave her home. In her early Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. He has fought for hangs in the twenties, Alice’s life is thrown explores how history has shaped our human societies, balance. Will victory be enough into upheaval again when she suffers devastating the animals and plants around us, and even our to topple the Silver kingdoms? betrayal and loss. Desperate to outrun grief, Alice personalities. In the epic conclusion to Victoria Aveyard’s flees to the beautiful central Australian desert. stunning series, Mare must embrace her fate and summon all her power... for all will be tested, but not all will survive. Kids christmas THE 104 - STOREY TREEHOUSE Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton PB $14.99 The 104-Storey Treehouse is the eighth book of Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic cartoon-style illustrations. GOOD NIGHT STORIES FOR REBEL GIRLS 1 & 2 Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo HB $35 (Book 1) HB $49.99 (Book 2) Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls introduces us to remarkable women and their extraordinary lives. STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT Ben Brooks HB $35 A compilation of 100 stories of famous and not-so-famous men from the past to the present day, every single one of them a rule-breaker and innovator in his own way. WORLD’S WORST CHILDREN #3 David Walliams PB $24.99 This compendium of catastrophically horrid boys Merry and bright! Books to delight! and girls is brought to you by the phenomenal number-one bestseller David Walliams, and every story is illustrated in glorious and gruesome colour by the artistic genius Tony Ross. CLARIS THE CHICEST MOUSE IN PARIS Megan Hess HB $24.99 The tale of an adorable mouse who dreams of moving to Paris to follow her fashion dreams. CICADA Shaun Tan HB $26.99 Cicada works in an office, dutifully toiling day after day for unappreciative bosses and being bullied by his coworkers. But one day, cicada goes to the roof of the building, and something truly extraordinary happens... Elf on the Shelf Elf Pets $69.99ea $49.99ea BURNING MAZE - #3 THE TRIALS OF APOLLO Rick Riordan PB $22.99 Lester Papadopoulos was once the glorious god Apollo, Now he’s an awkward (mortal) teenager, stuck on earth without his powers. The way out? A series of scary and dangerous trials, of course. The third title in Rick Riordan’s Trials of Assorted Elf Clothing Apollo series. $49.99ea Book of the Month THE LOVE THAT I HAVE THE LAST OF THE THE LOST MAN James Moloney BONEGILLA GIRLS Jane Harper PB $27.99 Victoria Purman PB $32.99 Margot has left school to take up PB $29.99 Three brothers, one death, her sister’s job in the mailroom of a 1954: When sixteen–year–old a fenceline stretching to the concentration camp.