Nic Papalia works as a carer for people with disabilities. In this book he describes situations and characters he has come into contact with, as well as the struggles and personal hardships both...
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Author: PAPALIA, NicSummary: -
Author: NEGUS, GeorgeSummary: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...
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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: SILVER, Lynette RamsaySummary:
Story of WWII Sandakan Prisoner of war camp from which only 6 Australians survived. Also details a bungled rescue attempt, where almost all the men died because of mistakes made within the senior...
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Author: ALLBEURY, TedSummary:John Rennie is an uncomprimising, principled man. When his Intelligence superiors order him to lie, to pervert, to execute he does it because his country's security demands it. That is,...
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Author: Clarke, BrendaSummary:
The Reads are respectable Nonconformist shopkeepers; the Hunnicutts dark and stormy High Church landowners. But love and greed constantly cross the battle lines, adding new disputes to the old...
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Author: Thomas, RosieSummary:
They were three modern women. They came to Oxford University full of hopes and dreams and would leave forever changed.
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Author: Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Discworld's greatest witches, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, visit Ankh Morpork's Opera House where dying the death on stage is more than just a metaphor and where an evil mastermind...
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Author: WIGNALL, OlgaSummary:
The author, a child emigrant to Western Australia in 1926, relates in this her autobiography the many adventures she has had as an itinerant jill of all trades - nurse, secretary, driving and...
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Author: GREGORY, PhilippaSummary:
Lily Valance has had enough of war; her father has been killed in France and several of her friends are dead or maimed beyond recognition. Even the dashing hero Steven Winters, whom she marries,...
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Author: MANDELA, NelsonSummary:
Memoirs of the President of the African National Congress and leader of the anti-Apartheid movement.