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White Gardenia [used book]

By: Belinda Alexandra

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Harper Collins: 2003

Seller ID: 000774

ISBN: 0732276276

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

In a district of the city of Harbin, a haven for White Russian families since Russia's Communist revolution, Alina Kozlova must make a heartbreaking decision if her only child, Anya, is to survive the final days of World War II. White Gardenia sweeps across cultures and continents, from the glamorous nightclubs of Shanghai to the harshness of Cold War Soviet Russia in the 1960s, from a desolate island in the Pacific Ocean to a new life in post-war Australia. Both mother and daughter must make sacrifices, but is the price too high? Most importantly of all, will they ever find each other again?...
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Silver Wattle [used book]

By: Belinda Alexandra

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Harper Collins: 2007

Seller ID: 000779

ISBN: 0732281342

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Belinda Alexandra returns with a dazzling novel about two exceptional sisters, set in the Australian film world of the 1920s. In fear for their lives after the sudden death of their mother, Adela and Klara must flee Prague to find refuge with their uncle in Australia. There, Adela becomes a film director at a time when the local industry is starting to feel the competition from Hollywood. But while success is imminent, the issues of family and an impossible love are never far away. And ultimately dreams of the silver screen must compete with the bonds of a lifetime ... Silver Wattle confir...
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White Gardenia [used book]

By: Belinda Alexandra

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Harper Collins: 2002

Seller ID: 001004

ISBN: 0732276187

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Tuscan Rose [used book]

By: Belinda Alexandra

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Harper Collins: 2010

Seller ID: 001285

ISBN: 0732281326

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

The internationally bestselling author of WHITE GARDENIA returns with her greatest heroine yet. A mysterious stranger known as 'The Wolf' leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in her wrappings is the one clue to the child's identity ...Rosa's only family is the nuns who have raised her. When she turns fifteen she must leave them and become governess to the daughter of an aristocrat and his strange frightening wife. Their house is elegant but cursed and Rosa - blessed with gifts beyond her considerable musical talents - is torn between her desire to know t...
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Looking Back [used book]

By: Belva Plain

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Australia, Doubleday Book Club: 2001

Seller ID: 000936

ISBN: 1876590564

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"New York Times" bestselling author Belva Plain goes to the heart of what it means to be a woman, a wife, and a friend, in her powerful new novel--a story of love and betrayal that measures the limits of loyalty, friendship, and forgiveness. They met at school and have been inseparable ever since: Cecile, confident, elegant daughter of privilege; Norma, extraordinarily gifted and sadly troubled; and beautiful, ambitious Amanda, determined to rise above her humble southern beginnings. Two are married. One despairs of ever finding love. Three women. Leading their busy adult lives. Yet first and ...
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Inconceivable @ Maybe Baby [used book]

By: Ben Elton

Price: $7.00

Publisher: UK, Black Swan: 2000

Seller ID: 000943

ISBN: 0552148199

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Sometimes it's possible to want something too much. That's when you risk losing what you have. Sam and Lucy seem like the perfect couple. Successful, happy and in love. But life isn't that simple. Lucy thinks Sam is a sad, cold sensitivity-exclusion zone who would rather read a newspaper than have an emotion. Sam thinks Lucy is blaming him because she can't walk past Mothercare without getting all teary. The problem is that they might be infertile. And in more ways than one. Lucy wants a baby. Sam wants to write a hit movie. And given that the average IVF cycle has about a one in five chance o...
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Shadows in the Grass [used book]

By: Beverley Harper

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Pan Australia: 2003

Seller ID: 001181

ISBN: 0330364146

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Enraged screams filled his head. Deadly shapes bore down. Animal and man driven by one single thought. Kill or be killed. Neither wanted to die. Falsely accused of a terrible crime, impetuous young aristocrat Lord Dallas Acheson is forced to flee his native Scotland, leaving behind the only woman he has ever loved - Lady Lorna de Iongh. From that day onwards, he must learn to live a different life in a land where danger is an ever-present partner. Fate takes him to southern Africa and the emerging seaport of Durban, from where he sets off to trade and hunt, seeking his fortune in the little-...
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Shadowbrook: A Novel of Love and War [used book]

By: Beverly Swerling

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Bantam: 2004

Seller ID: 001079

ISBN: 1863253491

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

A sweeping tale of love, ambition, and a war that ignited a revolution... 1754. In a low-lying glen in Ohio Country, where both the French and English claim dominion, the first musket ball fired signals the start of a savage seven-year conflict destined to dismantle France's overreaching empire and pave the way for the American Revolution. In a world on the brink of astonishing change are Quentin Hale, the fearless gentleman-turned-scout, fighting to preserve his beloved family plantation, Shadowbrook; Cormac Shea, the part-Irish, part-Indian woodsman with a foot in both worlds; and the beauti...
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Gentlemen of the Flashing Blade

By: Bianka Vidonja Balanzategui

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Australia, Boolarong Press: 2016

Seller ID: 004006

ISBN: 1925236056

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

When Branko stepped onto the deck of the Mohammedi, a displaced person refugee, he left behind him a war torn home land and loving family. In the sweat and dust of a North Queensland cane field youthful hopes and ambitions died. But there, at least, he breathed freely and moved without looking over his shoulder. He could dream that when he made good money and his country was free he would go home. Bianka Vidonja Balanzategui, historian and daughter of a displaced person cane cutter, takes the reader on a graphic and authentic journey from International Refugee Organization (IRO) Assembly Camp...
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The Persimmon Tree [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin Books Australia: 2007

Seller ID: 001258

ISBN: 067007070X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

The persimmon tree is a symbol of life, a heartwood that will outlast everything man can make...... It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in love with the intoxicating Anna van Heerden. Their time together is brief, as both are forced into separate, dangerous escapes. They plan to reunite and marry in Australia but it is several years before their paths cross again, scarred forever by the dark events of a long, cruel war. In The ...
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The Story of Danny Dunn [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin Books Australia: 2009

Seller ID: 001300

ISBN: 0670073342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

In the aftermath of the Great Depression, few opportunities existed for working-class boys, but at just 18 Danny Dunn has a good deal going for him: brains, looks, sporting ability - and an easy charm. His parents run The Hero, a favourite neighbourhood pub, and Danny is a local hero. Luck changes for Danny when he signs up to go to war. He returns home a physically broken man, to a life that will be changed for ever. Together with Helen, a woman of strength, character and intelligence who becomes his wife, he sets about rebuilding his life. It is a life tormented by personal demons, and s...
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Smoky Joe's Cafe [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin Books Australia: 2001

Seller ID: 001393

ISBN: 014029807X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

A Vietnam vet returns to an Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. Thommo begins to develop all kinds of physical and mental problems, and thinks it must only be him until he finds that he is not alone. Ten mates, all who remain of his platoon, are affected in the same way. Now Thommo and his mates are eleven angry men out for revenge. They rope in an ex-Viet Cong with 'special skills' and his own secret agenda. They're the 'Dirty Dozen', just like the movie. Only it's real life, and they're so screwed up they couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. That...
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Matthew Flinders' Cat [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin Books: 2002

Seller ID: 003230

ISBN: 0670910619

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship. Appealing to the boy's imagination by telling him the story of the circumnavigation of Australia as seen through Trim's eyes, Billy is drawn deeply into Ryan's life and into the Sydney underworld. Over several months the two begin the mutual process of rehabilitation. Mat...
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Whitethorn @ White Thorn [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Viking Australia: 2006

Seller ID: 001783

ISBN: 0670070416

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

From Bryce Courtenay comes a novel of Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in The Boys Farm, an orphanage in a remote town in the high mountains, where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitler's Germany. Tom's English name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised, marking him as an outsider. And so begin some of life's tougher lessons fo...
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Tommo and Hawk #2 Potato Factory [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Viking Australia: 1997

Seller ID: 000967

ISBN: 0670878774

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Bryce Courtenay has created an unforgettable story of the enduring bond between two brothers. Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart Town. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the Rocks in Sydney to the miners' riots in the goldfields, Tommo and Hawk must learn each other's strengths and weaknesses in order to survive. Along the way, Hawk meets the outrageous Maggie Pye, who brings love and laughter into his...
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Four Fires [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin: 2002

Seller ID: 0143000969

ISBN: 0143000969

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

In a small town like any other small town around Australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the first rung of the social ladder. The Maloneys are a family you won't forget: a strong mother, a father broken by war, three boys and two girls, one of whom has an illegitimate daughter. Each of their lives is changed forever by the four fires - passion, religion, warfare and fire itself. Four Fires is a story of the power of love and the triumph of the human spirit against the odds. 'Not since writing The Power...
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Whitethorn @ White Thorn [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Viking Australia: 2005

Seller ID: 000968

ISBN: 067002922X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Tommo and Hawk #2 Potato Factory [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin: 1999

Seller ID: 001574

ISBN: 0140271562

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Sylvia [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin Books: 2006

Seller ID: 003229

ISBN: 0670070262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

'I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life. I am cursed by folk as an optimist and a dreamer, which is a dangerous combination. . . ' From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes the colourful epic of Sylvia. Late twelfth-century Europe is torn by religious intolerance. Sylvia, with a singing voice that can literally charm the birds out of the trees, and an acute and questioning mind that refuses to accept unreasoned beliefs, embarks on a pilgrimage. She joins the Children's Crusade, bound for the Holy Land. From a bawdy life as an entertain...
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Tails Carried High #1 Daughters of the Wind

By: Carmel Rowley

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, BookPal: 2009

Seller ID: 000915

ISBN: 1921681004

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

After her mother's death, Jessikah Lloyd throws caution to the wind, leaving England in search of her family history in Queensland, Australia. As disturbing secrets are revealed, Jessikah learns that, had her mother remained in Australia, she would have been the fourth generation in a long line of Arabian horse breeders. Jessikah finds the ego-driven world of the Arabian horse industry fascinating, but what she longs to know eludes her. How did her grandmother Emma Hagen die twenty-five years ago? Who now owns the property, and why is the once beautiful stud farm crumbling? When good-looking ...
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Category: General Fiction