Adrift in a failing marriage, Maya Wise is alone in a strange world far from home. Until, intrigued by an elderly Chinese man carrying a caged nightingale she begins to follow him through the...
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Author: NELSON, AliceSummary:
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Author: LANE, ElizabethSummary:
An idyllic and rollickingly humorous story of a girl growing up in a large family on a farm in the Victorian Wimmera.
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Author: LANE, ElizabethSummary:
The author takes the beloved rascal of Mad as Rabbits, her Uncle Charlie, and tells of his adventures and misadventures, his good deeds and his misdeeds, his unconventionalitites and his eccentric...
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Author: BROOKNER, AnitaSummary:
Elizabeth and Betsy knew each other as school-children. When they meet again in later life, one is safely married, the other most unsafely partnered.
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Author: NICHOLSON, VirginiaSummary:
Vivid with historical detail, and heart-breakingly honest about a generation of women's real human fortitude.
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Author: BINCHY, MaeveSummary:
Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling... so she became known as Star and no-one remembered that her name was Oona.
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Author: MCKINLEY, TamaraSummary:
Miriam Strong had been looking forward to her family arriving at Bellbird Station to help her celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday. Yet with the discovery of the first tangible clue to her stolen...
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Author: PRICE, ColinSummary:
She came with courage and determination. This is the story of a young girl who came to the Avon Valley in Western Australia to be married at the end of the nineteenth century. Life was not easy...
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Author: BERG, ElizabethSummary:
When Betta Nolan's husband dies, she honours a promise she made to him to move to a small town and start a new life. Betta's journey from grief to joy is an inspiring reminder of what...
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Author: JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Travel back to 1924 and experience the early days of group settlement in Northcliffe with Maggie Spencer, sharing her joys and sorrows.
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Author: MCCULLOUGH, ColleenSummary:
For twenty-one-year-old Harriet Purcell life irrevocably changes the moment she steps out the door of her respectable suburban home for the very last time. Ignoring her father's protests...
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Author: MORRISON, ToniSummary:
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and...
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A 6th bowl of Chicken soup for the soul : 101 more stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit
Author: CANFIELD, JackSummary: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;...
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Author: MONTGOMERY, L.MSummary:
Collection of 19 funny and romantic short stories from the author of "Anne of Green Gables" novels.
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Author: COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
Only after returning from his funeral did Fiona Bailey realize how much she would miss Davey. Towards the end of his life she had discovered qualities about him she had previously overlooked. Now...