Adventures of an English family who came to Tasmania to start a new life.
Talking books
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Auteur:HOFFMAN, AliceSommaire:Young adult. Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
- Auteur:LACEY, RobertSommaire:
A series of deftly turned vignettes of what it was like to live in England at the turn of the last millenium.
- Auteur:Harris, Alfred MartinSommaire:
Colonel Steel made the necessary preparations for the destruction of his stranded tank. He was not unduly concerned for his own safety but was totally unprepared for the three North Korean soldiers who suddenly appeared from nowhere....
- Auteur:DEAVER, JeffreySommaire:
Paul Schumann is a mobster hitman known equally for his brilliant tactics and for taking only 'righteous' jobs. When a hit goes wrong and Schumann is nabbed, he's offered a stark choice. He can travel to Berlin and kill...
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Auteur:MARILLIER, JulietSommaire:At his coming of age, Thorvald learns a devastating secret, and steals away on a perilous voyage in search of the father he has never known. His loyal shadow, Creidhe, daughter of a Wolfskin warrior and a wise woman, was never meant to...
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Auteur:Keyes, DanielSommaire:Charlie Gordon has an IQ of only sixty-eight and, the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, he conscientiously sweeps the floor in his local bakery until he is recommended to some university researchers. They have successfully operated on...
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Auteur:Reichs, KathySommaire:CRIME & MYSTERY. In the run up to the biggest NASCAR raceweek of the year, Dr Temperance Brennan is called to a landfill site backing onto the Charlotte speedway track in north Carolina. Someone has discovered a barrel of hardened...
- Auteur:GASH, JonathanSommaire:
A dream family holiday at a Florida theme park transforms into a nightmare when six-year-old Davey Charleston is kidnapped.
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Auteur:BRANDO, MarlonSommaire:Anatole 'Annie' Doultry is in his early 50's, a man of imposing physical presence and a reputation on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai. In 1927, he is serving six months in a hellish Hong Kong prison where...
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Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:Two woman embark on separate personal voyages of self-discovery, they meet new people and forge bonds that will reinforce for both of them the value of family connections.
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Auteur:ASHFORD, JeffreySommaire:When Jerome Dean leaves home for a shoot at Ister, he has every reason to expect an enjoyable day. When the gun next to him fires low, a man rises out of a patch of brambles and collapses, later to die in hospital. It is the beginning...
- Auteur:STEEL, DanielleSommaire:
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a summer of awakening when she meets and falls in love with...
- Auteur:ALDISS, Brian W.Sommaire:
Is war the only way of reviving an overpopulated, degenerate world? Knowle Noland - ex-convict, ex-traveller and captain of the tramp freighter Trieste Star - has always believed that war was senseless and futile. But faced with...
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Auteur:ANGEL, NicholasSommaire:With dreams of moving to a house by the sea haunting their every day, Milvern and his wife Michelle, owners of a riverside property in a small outback farming community, struggle with drought, friends, adversaries and the wrenchingly...
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Auteur:MCKINLEY, TamaraSommaire:Catriona Summers' debut in show business came early. Her father, the leader of a travelling music hall troupe that toured small regional towns introduced her to her first audience when only a baby. From humble beginnings Catriona...
- Auteur:BRYSON, BillSommaire:
Bill Bryson had imagined Australia as a kind of alternative southern California. Of course, what greeted him was something rather different. Australia is the world's sixth largest country and the only island that is also a...
- Auteur:MOORE, JaneSommaire:
Jess Monroe is 34 and perfectly happy being single. But her friends think otherwise and, as a birthday present, buy her an ad on an internet dating site. Furious, she eventually agrees to go on just three dates - and ventures into a...
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Auteur:HORNUNG, EvaSommaire:It's late autumn in the city, snow falling at night. The apartmenet building is deserted. The phone doesn't work, the electricity and water are off. His mother and uncle haven't returned. Four-year-old Romochka is all...
- Auteur:WEBBER, MeredithSommaire:
Doctor Hillary Green never wanted to work in the Outback. But now she has been appointed to the Flying Obstetrics and Gynaecology Service, along with a new anaesthetist and a boss who hates female registrars. Hillary doesn't like...
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