Author: Liz Braid
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326737813
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Old Regret follows 11 year old Jed Brown from his troubled life in Swan Hill to a farm in Gippsland where his Uncle trains horses and leads trail rides. Jed learns to ride and helps out on the farm. It's not all fun and games; Jed's main tasks are to pick up manure and clean gear. However, there are wild brumbies in the State Forest adjoining the farm, including a young stallion Jed names 'Regret' after the stallion from the Banjo Patterson poem The man from Snowy River. There are new friends, accidents and incidents, rules broken, and respect gained.
Author: Elyne Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780207145391
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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An incomparable story of adventure, courage and romance, set in a landscape whose eerie beauty is summoned up with breath taking clarity.
Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015495197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145320072X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea. For the first time in years, Edmund Narraway has returned to his childhood home—for the funeral of his mother. The visit rekindles feelings of affection and nostalgia—but also triggers a resurgence of the tensions that caused him to leave in the first place. As Edmund once again becomes entangled in his family’s web of corrosive secrets, his homecoming tips a precariously balanced dynamic into sudden chaos, in this compelling story of reunion and coming apart from Iris Murdoch, “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).
Author: Ally Blake
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459255747
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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A wedding dress…but no bride! Paige Danforth isn't interested in setting herself up for an unhappy-ever-after—thanks to her father's betrayal, the closest she'll ever get to walking down the aisle is as a bridesmaid. But one bridal sale later, Paige is left clutching her own champagne chiffon wedding dress! Clearly she needs to end her self-imposed dating drought…. Enter ruggedly sexy neighbor Gabe Hamilton. He wants Paige in his bed and nothing more—no promises made, no promises broken. But will this big, bad adventurer stick around when he discovers not only skeletons—but the wedding dress—in her closet?
Author: Elyne Mitchell
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1743097867
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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thowra's speed and courage have always saved him from the men who want to capture him - but now the men come on skis, quickly and silently over the mountain range. this time, they know the legendary silver stallion has a daughter, a beautiful, highly prized, silver brumby, and the brumby hunters are determined to capture her, no matter what it takes.thowra must do all in his power to evade the men slipping through the mountains - must do all in his power to protect his daughter from their ropes and imprisoning yards. Ages 10+
Author: Colleen McCullough
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061990477
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 689
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One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough's magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three generations of Clearys—an indomitable clan of ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. It is a poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit. Most of all, it is the story of the Clearys' only daughter, Meggie, and the haunted priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart—and the intense joining of two hearts and souls over a lifetime, a relationship that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma.
Author: Steven Amsterdam
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307378918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Michael Williams, in Melbourne’s The Age, wrote of this award-winning, dazzling debut collection, “By turns horrific and beautiful . . . Humanity at its most fractured and desolate . . . Often moving, frequently surprising, even blackly funny . . . Things We Didn’t See Coming is terrific.” This is just one of the many rave reviews that appeared on the Australian publication of these nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. Richly imagined, dark, and darkly comic, the stories follow the narrator over three decades as he tries to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly savage as cataclysmic events unfold one after another. In the first story, “What We Know Now”—set in the eve of the millennium, when the world as we know it is still recognizable—we meet the then-nine-year-old narrator fleeing the city with his parents, just ahead of a Y2K breakdown. The remaining stories capture the strange—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes funny—circumstances he encounters in the no-longer-simple act of survival; trying to protect squatters against floods in a place where the rain never stops, being harassed (and possibly infected) by a man sick with a virulent flu, enduring a job interview with an unstable assessor who has access to all his thoughts, taking the gravely ill on adventure tours. But we see in each story that, despite the violence and brutality of his days, the narrator retains a hold on his essential humanity—and humor. Things We Didn’t See Coming is haunting, restrained, and beautifully crafted—a stunning debut.
