Alana Cook is born in the early hours of Christmas morning in 1922 as a furious cyclone batters the town of Port Hedland in Australia's North-West. On the same wild night the town loses its...
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Author: NYLUND, RomaSummary: -
Author: COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only...
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Author: THORNE, NicolaSummary:In 1856, Martha Brown was publicly hanged for the brutal murder of her husband. Among those who witnessed her death was a sixteen-year-old local lad, and the memory of her execution haunted Thomas...
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Author: JONKER, JoanSummary:
It's 1941, Liverpool is taking a hammering from the German bombers. During the worst air raid, fate deals Mary the first of many blows where dreams are broken and life becomes a nightmare....
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Author: MAYNE, HenrieSummary:
A study of a man in glorious retreat from the absurdities of life, set against a background of social manners and international upheaval, from the colonial heyday of the Raj in the 1890s to the...
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Author: SAID, KurbanSummary:
Romantic novel of love and adventure and a fascinating insight into the gulf between East and West, the Oriental and the Christian worlds, where they meet at the southern most tip of Russia.
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Author: DAISH, ElizabethSummary:
Antonia Lambert is in an unhappy marriage. Her husband leaves for South America assuming she will follow. She goes to France to pursue her art career where she meets an old lover, but her...
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Author: ROBERTS, BarrieSummary:
Aussie social historian Sheila McKenna is in the UK to research a book when she buys an old penny - one that has been used as a farewell token by a Victorian convict about to be transported....
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Author: COFFMAN, VirginiaSummary:
The adventures of Anne Wicklow continue when she is employed to care for the lonely young Maurie at her home, an isolated castle set high on an Irish cliff. Unknowingly she is inviting personal...
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Author: CROWLEY, F. KSummary:Documents Forrest's career as inland explorer, public servant and politician. "After being actively involved in the drafting of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Sir...
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Author: BURKE, JanSummary:Parrish kills for fun. Now he wants to make a deal : his death sentence for the body of Judith Sayre, buried in the Sierra Nevada mountains. In exchange for his life, he will lead the law to the...
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Author: HARBOURI, PetrieSummary:
Three brothers, born on a Greek island, spread their wings and soar to impressive heights in their three professions.
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Author: DAILEY, JanetSummary:A Calder by birth, Ty Calder has been brought up far away from the Montana ranch that is his inheritance. Returning, he finds it difficult to settle in.
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Author: DAILEY, JanetSummary:When her fiance is killed, Cat Calder retreats to the homestead to mourn. One reckless night leads to a chance encounter with a grey-eyed stranger.
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Author: LUDLUM, RobertSummary:
Suppose you were a bestselling author and someone gave you an idea for a plot, and everything you wrote started to happen. The trail of investigation into blackmail of secret files of influential...