786 ab urbe condita--33 AD. Time is running out for Yeshua Ben Yusuf, on trial for capital crimes after rioting against the moneychangers in the temple. His Roman defence lawyer and the Legion's military prosecutor bring their witnesses before Pontius Pilate--followers, soldiers, religious leaders, even his mother--revealing the accused man in ways that surprise and move those gathering for the verdict, shifting the orbit of their lives. As Yeshua Ben Yusuf awaits judgment, the wounded Zealots prepare a final desperate strike. On the outskirts of Jerusalem, the occupation, the resistance and one holy man will meet their fate together.

Kingdom of the Wicked Book Two: Order

Literature & Fiction

Dale, Helen

Literary

Ligature Pty Limited

Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes

While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna. Lapérouse and Labillardière, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge.This is their story--deeply researched and richly imagined by zoologist and award-winning science writer Danielle Clode. Voyages to the South Seas is an exhilarating expedition through a key period in the European exploration of the Pacific and in the history of science.

History

Clode, Danielle

Australia & Oceania

784 ab urbe condita--31 AD. Jerusalem sits uneasily in a Roman Empire that has seen an industrial revolution and now has cable news and flying machines--and rites and morals that are strange and repellent to the native people of Judaea.
A charismatic young leader is arrested after a riot in the Temple. He seems to be a man of peace, but among his followers are Zealots and dagger-men sworn to drive the Romans from the Holy Land.
As the city spirals into violence, the stage is set for a legal case that will shape the future--the trial of Yeshua Ben Yusuf. Intricately imagined and ferociously executed, Kingdom of the Wicked is a stunning alternative history and a story for our time.

Kingdom of the Wicked Book One: Rules

Andrew has never seen a computer game like Space Demons before--a mysterious experiment, captivating in every way, blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual. 
At first it's a refuge for Andrew and his friends--from school, their families, the uncertain future. But as the problems of their lives weave into its fabric and the space demons begin to creep into the real world, they can no longer afford to treat it as a game. 
Winner Children's Peace Literature Prize - SA Festival National Children's Book Award 
Honour Book Children's Book Council Book of the Year Older Readers

Space Demons

Teen & Young Adult

Rubinstein, Gillian

Skymaze (Space Demons)

Andrew and his friends find themselves in Japan, the source of Space Demons and Skymaze, the computer games that have shaped their lives. It's as if they've been summoned there--by an artificial intelligence that is quickly outgrowing its creator's intentions and spreading through the electronic networks that are now emerging. Pursued by ruthless corporations, cult members and the machine intelligence itself, the players must navigate the globe, the network and their own digitised dreams if any of them hope to find their way home.

Shinkei (Space Demons)

'The pick of the bunch is Eleanor Nilsson's evocative, spine-tingling novel about loyalty, friendship and communication across the barriers of death...' --The Sun-Herald When Gunno breaks into the quiet house with the big garden, he has no idea how it will change his life. Something about the place keeps drawing him back: its daytime silence, its solitude, and the mysterious upstairs bedroom that belongs--or belonged--to a boy very much like Gunno. As he unravels the mysteries of the house and the family that seems to half-live there, Gunno becomes less certain of his own place in the world--until his destiny is revealed in a chilling and transcendent conclusion. This award-winning, genre-defying ghost story is a classic of Australian young adult literature. Children's Book Council Book of the Year - Older Readers Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Children's Books SA Festival Award for Literature - Children's Books

The House Guest

Nilsson, Eleanor

The Tales of the Otori continue... After the devastating battle of Takahara, the Otori have allied with the Saga clan to defeat the Arai and give their clan any chance of survival. But their fragile alliance is threatened by Lord Saga's descent into paranoia and brutality-and so are the last children of the Arai, renamed and hidden in the temple at Terayama. Arai Sunaomi is training as a warrior monk, but finds himself drawn to the other world and discovering talents he cannot understand-the legacy of his connections in the mysterious Tribe. He soon attracts the attention of the most powerful warlords and sorcerers in the Eight Islands with their demands for loyalty and vengeance. Orphan Warriors brings together the stories that began with The Tale of Shikanoko and the Tales of the Otori as Lian Hearn's epic saga approaches its thrilling conclusion.

Orphan Warriors: Children of the Otori Book One

Hearn,Lian

Genre Fiction

The Tales of the Otori end here... Arai Sunaomi has grown into a warrior on the verge of his coming-of-age, and powerful figures across the clans want him for adoptions and tactical marriages. But he is unable to forget his ghost lover Utahime, who has waited seven years for his return; or her brother Masao, his fellow orphan warrior and the heir to the Saga clan, now a wanted man. As Sunaomi tracks Masao across the Eight Islands he is increasingly torn between the demands of this world and the spirit realm, between life and death. As Masao seems to slip from his grasp, so does any chance of peace between the clans. And his cousins from the Tribe, the sibling assassins Kiyoko and Kichizo, have their own plans... Sibling Assassins builds to a collision of family loyalties and personal enmities, debts and desires, the old world and the new-and a final confrontation that brings the Tales of the Otori to a thrilling conclusion.

Sibling Assassins: Children of the Otori Book Two

After the devastating battle of Takahara, the Otori have allied with the Saga clan to defeat the Arai and give their clan any chance of survival. But their fragile alliance is threatened by Lord Saga’s descent into paranoia and brutality – and so are the last children of the Arai, renamed and hidden in the temple at Terayama. Arai Sunaomi is training as a warrior monk, but finds himself drawn to the other world and discovering talents he cannot understand – the legacy of his connections in the mysterious Tribe. He soon attracts the attention of the most powerful warlords and sorcerers in the Eight Islands with their demands for loyalty and vengeance.Orphan Warriors brings together the stories that began with Tale of Shikanoko and the Tales of the Otori as Lian Hearn’s epic saga approaches its thrilling conclusion.

Orphan Warriors

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

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