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. The narrative follows the Khargat family from the intricacies of...
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Auteur:STEVENS, RonSommaire:Poems, both light and serious, on current concerns and all with Australian themes. Many of these poems, read by the author, are prize winners, poetic tales of the City and the Bush and the individual.
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Auteur:ADAMS, JaneSommaire:To Robert Carr, Anna is a mystery. She has alway been an enigma and over the past thirteen years, his imagination has fed on his last parting kiss goodbye before turning to leave.
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Auteur:SAVARIN, Julian JaySommaire:The security and unity of the newly reunified Germany is threatened by a web of intrigue.
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Auteur:BARCLAY, TessaSommaire:His Serene Highness-otherwise known as plain Gregory Crowne-is on his travels, this time in Avignon to play a classical music concert for the Winter Festival. Much to his delight, girlfriend Liz Blair has found time to join him. But...
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Although settled in a loving marital relationship, Siana Matheson is hiding a secret. Although she hates hiding anything from her husband, the need to protect all concerned has left her with no choice. She must keep quiet and live...
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Auteur:BISHOP, PatrickSommaire:A novel of wartime Britain, as the lives of two men are intertwined like good luck and bad, love and loss, life and death, from the ruins of Poland to the rolling English countryside.
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When, after the death of her mother, Cassandra Trent is told that she must join her aunt and have a London Season, she is full of rage. She is convinced that she will never fit into polite society, but develops a close relationship...
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Auteur:BARCLAY, TessaSommaire:When Gregory Crowne is enlisted to help Gilles Guidon, eccentric son of a merchant banker, to assemble a jazz quintet for the Montreux Festival, he soon discovers that there is something wrong at the Banque Guidon.
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Auteur:NICOLE, ChristopherSommaire:When dissolute playboy Jeremy Lenghurst seduces and elopes with the daughter of a Columbian drugs baron, he sets in motion a series of catastrophic events which all but destroys his entire family.
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Auteur:ALLIOTT, CatherineSommaire:There are already three people in artist Imogen Cameron's marriage - herself, her husband, Alex, and their son, Rufus - and that's just the way she likes it. But all that's about to change. When the Camerons hit dire...
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Auteur:PERRY, AnneSommaire:It is mid-December and Henry Rathbone travels to the Dreghorn family manor house near Ullswater. But despite the festive season and the beautiful surroundings, this is not a happy occasion; he is going to comfort the family following...
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Auteur:TRUSS, LynneSommaire:In the tradition of Alan Bennet's Talking Heads, Lynne Truss's twelve highly original monologues are about love, romance, friendship and family. Originally recorded for BBC Radio 4.
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A 6th bowl of Chicken soup for the soul : 101 more stories to open the heart and rekindle the spiritAuteur:CANFIELD, JackSommaire:Another inspiring collection of new stories, anecdotes and tales. In the tradition of all the books in the original Chicken Soup series, this volume focuses on love; parents and parenting; teaching and learning; death and dying;...
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Auteur:PATTERSON, JamesSommaire:A young man is found dead in a seedy hotel room, electrocuted in his bath with a toaster. This is the second electrocution murder Lindsay Boxer has come across and the message left in graffiti on the wall at the scene of the crime is...
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Detective Lnidsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighbourhood. A nearby townhouse is engulfed by flames - inside are three dead bodies and a note signed "August...
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Auteur:NEGUS, GeorgeSommaire:In the words of the author, this book or journal is a series of personal experiences, opinions, observations, interviews, conversations, research and reactions noted and recorded in the course of considerable contact with a wide cross-...
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Auteur:BOWERS, Terrell L.Sommaire: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. Investigating the murder means entering the fortress called...
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Auteur:ROBERTS, BarrieSommaire:The summer of 1897 brings visitors flocking to London for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. With them comes a Russian nobleman, as well as an English lady from Canada. This lady calls on Holmes and Watson for their assistance in...
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Auteur:LUSTBADER, Eric VanSommaire:For Jason Bourne, forever caught between two identities - mild-mannered linguist David Webb and lethal super-spy - life can never be ordinary. But when his old mentor, Professor Spector, installs him as head of the comparative linguists...
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