SEARCHING FOR SCHINDLER is very much Tom's journey, he reflects on his early days as a writer with quite a bit of success - but no confidence - and how this book, the people he met, and the...
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Author: Keneally, TomSummary:
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Author: Courtenay, BryceSummary:Genre: Historical fiction
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Author: COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
The Maloneys live in a small town in Australia. They are a fifth-generation struggling Australian family of Irish Catholic descent. A strong mother, father broken by war, three boys and two girls...
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Author: COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
Story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom grow rich and powerful but never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other.
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Author: Carey, PeterSummary:
Olivier, the son of penniless aristocrats who barely escaped the violence of the French Revolution, sets sail to America to avoid confrontation with his enemies. Meanwhile, Parrot, a young...
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Author: Kanigel, RobertSummary:
In 1913, a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging the preeminent mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. It was the beginning of a...
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Author: WINTON, TimSummary:
Australian. Seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia. These elegiac stories examine the darkness and...
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Author: Flanagan, RichardSummary:
Assuming the governorship of the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, and ten years later after Franklin and his crew...
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Author: Courtenay, BryceSummary:
Born and raised in a poor, working-class family in Toronto, Jack Spayd is the son of an unhappy marriage. But when he is given a harmonica as a young boy, he discovers a talent for music that will...
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Author: McCabe, PatrickSummary:
"Now entering his sixty-seventh year, Chris McCool can confidently call himself a member of the Happy Club: he has an attractive and exceedingly accommodating Croatian girlfriend and has been...
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Author: Courtenay, BryceSummary:
Sequel to The Persimmon Tree
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Author: Courtenay, BryceSummary:
Brother Fish is an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. Brother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years...