National Network for Equitable Library Service

Some human lives can be measured in dogs. Writer/musician John Armstrong is such a person, and in A Series of Dogs, he takes the measure of his own, now at nine dogs' lives and counting.

Amy Cole wants to do more than write a story: she wants to live one. Her chance comes when one of her fans, who is trying to clear a doctor of murder, writes to her for help.

Poems, both light and serious, on current concerns and all with Australian themes.

This fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India beginning in the late 1800s.

Here's what you need to know about Phineas L. MacGuire, boy-scientist extraordinaire, a.k.a. Mac:

1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove it.

When Cass's estranged grandmother unexpectedly leaves her house and savings to Cass and her mom, it is just the thing they need to change their lives.

Jack Ballentine became a police officer in 1978 and quickly rose to the top of his field as the US most successful undercover operative.

When orphaned Laura Marlin moves from a children's home to live with her uncle in Cornwall, she longs for a life of excitement just like the characters in her favourite detective novels.

Ten-year-old Rosario Ramirez and her family are political refugees from Mexico, trying to make a new life in Canada.

Adele Russell was once a wealthy heiress, happily engaged to David, the Earl of Blaisdon, but when her father was ruined, she lost everything, including David.

Helena is rescued from the forest mists by a young horseman, and her heart is held captive by this mysterious young man.

Stephanie Plum is back in town, along with her sidekick Lula, her Grandma Mazur, and an ever-widening cast of freaks, criminals, deranged felons, and lunatics looking for love.

This is the tale of three women, one witch, one mermaid and one missing and how Ruby was caught up in between.

Story of WWII Sandakan Prisoner of war camp from which only 6 Australians survived.

These new poems are as outrageous, as wildly funny and as enormously enjoyable as those that made the author so vastly popular.