Author: Marele Day
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781864487725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A massmarket edition of Marele Day's wryly humorous, witty and fast-paced Claudia Valentine mystery.
The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender
Author: Marele Day
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781864487725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A massmarket edition of Marele Day's wryly humorous, witty and fast-paced Claudia Valentine mystery.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781864487725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A massmarket edition of Marele Day's wryly humorous, witty and fast-paced Claudia Valentine mystery.
HSC Standard English
Author: Barry Spurr
Publisher: Pascal Press
ISBN: 1741253675
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This guide contains comprehensive summary and discussion of all 44 prescribed texts in the HSC Standard English course, plus a list of key issues to consider in each chapter related to the relevant syllabus area, helpful advice on how to read different types of texts, plot outlines, character discussion and interpretations.
Publisher: Pascal Press
ISBN: 1741253675
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This guide contains comprehensive summary and discussion of all 44 prescribed texts in the HSC Standard English course, plus a list of key issues to consider in each chapter related to the relevant syllabus area, helpful advice on how to read different types of texts, plot outlines, character discussion and interpretations.
Wish You Were Here
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553898612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode into murder. Crozet's thirty-something post-mistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, has a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy) and a Welsh Corgi (Tucker), a pending divorce, and a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. When Crozet's citizens start turning up murdered, Harry remembers that each received a card with a tombstone on the front and the message "Wish you were here" on the back. Intent on protecting their human friend, Mrs. Murphy and Tucker begin to scent out clues. Meanwhile, Harry is conducting her own investigation, unaware her pets are one step ahead of her. If only Mrs. Murphy could alert her somehow, Harry could uncover the culprit before the murder occurs--and before Harry finds herself on the killer's mailing list.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553898612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode into murder. Crozet's thirty-something post-mistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, has a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy) and a Welsh Corgi (Tucker), a pending divorce, and a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. When Crozet's citizens start turning up murdered, Harry remembers that each received a card with a tombstone on the front and the message "Wish you were here" on the back. Intent on protecting their human friend, Mrs. Murphy and Tucker begin to scent out clues. Meanwhile, Harry is conducting her own investigation, unaware her pets are one step ahead of her. If only Mrs. Murphy could alert her somehow, Harry could uncover the culprit before the murder occurs--and before Harry finds herself on the killer's mailing list.
The Case of the Chinese Boxes
Author: Marele Day
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781864486711
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Claudia Valentine embarks on a hunt for the elaborate golden dragon key, which winds her through a circuit of ancient treasures; modern Triad killings; disturbing kidnappings; and sleazy back alleys, pubs, and exotic temples.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781864486711
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Claudia Valentine embarks on a hunt for the elaborate golden dragon key, which winds her through a circuit of ancient treasures; modern Triad killings; disturbing kidnappings; and sleazy back alleys, pubs, and exotic temples.
The Hundredth Man
Author: Jack Kerley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101210362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Bizarre messages, found carved into the flesh of two corpses in Mobile, Alabama, have launched a special unit devoted to solving psychotic crimes. They’re also launching Detective Carson Ryder into a nightmare. Ryder’s secret investigative weapon is his own family’s terrifying past—and the shadowy counsel of his own brother, a brutal and taunting killer who knows all too well how madmen think. And as the body count continues, so too does Ryder’s inescapable fear that the killer is as intimate—and as close—as the next victim.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101210362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Bizarre messages, found carved into the flesh of two corpses in Mobile, Alabama, have launched a special unit devoted to solving psychotic crimes. They’re also launching Detective Carson Ryder into a nightmare. Ryder’s secret investigative weapon is his own family’s terrifying past—and the shadowy counsel of his own brother, a brutal and taunting killer who knows all too well how madmen think. And as the body count continues, so too does Ryder’s inescapable fear that the killer is as intimate—and as close—as the next victim.
The Sea Bed
Author: Marele Day
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741768764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
From the author of the bestselling Lambs of God. A novel of desire, duty and secrets, The Sea Bed follows the journey of a Buddhist monk who leaves the safe predictability of his mountain monastery and ventures into the world to carry out a fellow monk's dying request. When he encounters abalone diving women in a remote coastal village he is torn between dedication to his task and surrendering to desire. While the monk skirts around the edges of the sea women community, at its heart is Chicken, a young diver witnessing the extinction of a way of life that has been her family's for generations. If only her sister Lilli returned, perhaps somehow that would bring renewal. But the past and its secrets weigh heavily on Lilli and she had her own reasons for disappearing all those years ago. Each of these characters is locked in their own isolation, yet their stories are connected in deep and sometimes surprising ways. A beautifully observed, lucid and evocative novel, The Sea Bed is an illuminating story of love, family and change. Utterly captivating.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741768764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
From the author of the bestselling Lambs of God. A novel of desire, duty and secrets, The Sea Bed follows the journey of a Buddhist monk who leaves the safe predictability of his mountain monastery and ventures into the world to carry out a fellow monk's dying request. When he encounters abalone diving women in a remote coastal village he is torn between dedication to his task and surrendering to desire. While the monk skirts around the edges of the sea women community, at its heart is Chicken, a young diver witnessing the extinction of a way of life that has been her family's for generations. If only her sister Lilli returned, perhaps somehow that would bring renewal. But the past and its secrets weigh heavily on Lilli and she had her own reasons for disappearing all those years ago. Each of these characters is locked in their own isolation, yet their stories are connected in deep and sometimes surprising ways. A beautifully observed, lucid and evocative novel, The Sea Bed is an illuminating story of love, family and change. Utterly captivating.
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
Author: Lorna Sage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521668132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521668132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado
Author: Marele Day
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742695116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From the author of the bestselling Lambs of God. Claudia Valentine is back! Claudia Valentine, Australia's spunkiest female private eye returns - in her most exhilirating adventure. Being a minder for Dolores Delgado was no trouble at all for Claudia. Dolores slept all morning, shopped all afternoon and danced all night. Hanging out with this exotic and beautiful creature was fun as much as work. Then, things got complicated. Dolores dropped dead. On stage. With barely a mark on her perfect body. Claudia had never lost a client before. Let alone one who was also a friend. This was not going to be good for business. Claudia's investigation leads her into a steamy world of passion and intrigue, of death and double crosses, of romance and revenge. And finally to the truth hidden beneath the layers of dazzling deception.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1742695116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From the author of the bestselling Lambs of God. Claudia Valentine is back! Claudia Valentine, Australia's spunkiest female private eye returns - in her most exhilirating adventure. Being a minder for Dolores Delgado was no trouble at all for Claudia. Dolores slept all morning, shopped all afternoon and danced all night. Hanging out with this exotic and beautiful creature was fun as much as work. Then, things got complicated. Dolores dropped dead. On stage. With barely a mark on her perfect body. Claudia had never lost a client before. Let alone one who was also a friend. This was not going to be good for business. Claudia's investigation leads her into a steamy world of passion and intrigue, of death and double crosses, of romance and revenge. And finally to the truth hidden beneath the layers of dazzling deception.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Pottermore Publishing
ISBN: 1781100519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.' When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss... Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.
Publisher: Pottermore Publishing
ISBN: 1781100519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.' When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss... Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.
The Lavender Scare
Author: David K. Johnson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226825736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A new edition of a classic work of history, revealing the anti-homosexual purges of midcentury Washington. In The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson tells the frightening story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists. Charges that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were havens for homosexuals proved a potent political weapon, sparking a “Lavender Scare” more vehement and long-lasting than Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare. Drawing on declassified documents, years of research in the records of the National Archives and the FBI, and interviews with former civil servants, Johnson recreates the vibrant gay subculture that flourished in midcentury Washington and takes us inside the security interrogation rooms where anti-homosexual purges ruined the lives and careers of thousands of Americans. This enlarged edition of Johnson’s classic work of history—the winner of numerous awards and the basis for an acclaimed documentary broadcast on PBS—features a new epilogue, bringing the still-relevant story into the twenty-first century.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226825736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A new edition of a classic work of history, revealing the anti-homosexual purges of midcentury Washington. In The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson tells the frightening story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists. Charges that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were havens for homosexuals proved a potent political weapon, sparking a “Lavender Scare” more vehement and long-lasting than Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare. Drawing on declassified documents, years of research in the records of the National Archives and the FBI, and interviews with former civil servants, Johnson recreates the vibrant gay subculture that flourished in midcentury Washington and takes us inside the security interrogation rooms where anti-homosexual purges ruined the lives and careers of thousands of Americans. This enlarged edition of Johnson’s classic work of history—the winner of numerous awards and the basis for an acclaimed documentary broadcast on PBS—features a new epilogue, bringing the still-relevant story into the twenty-first century.