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Honour And The Sword #1 Andre de Roland [used book]

By: A. L. Berridge

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin Books: 2010

Seller ID: 003303

ISBN: 0718155467

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

It is 1636 - the height of the Thirty Years War, one of the bloodiest and most destructive conflicts Europe has ever seen. As the campaigning season begins, the Spanish armies swell out of the Artois region of the Netherlands - flooding into King Louis XIII's France. The sleepy border village of Dax-en-roi stands in their way. Facing the overwhelming might of the Spanish forces, the Chevalier de Roland rallies a valiant defence, but in vain - his household guard no match for the invaders. There is only one survivor as the Roland estate is razed to the ground, one soul who escapes the Spanish ...
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The Beach [used book]

By: Alex Garland

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Penguin Books: 1997

Seller ID: 000849

ISBN: 0140258418

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Richard is drawn into a strange conversation in a hotel. He hears of a secret island Garden of Eden hidden in the scattered islands of a Thai marine park. Next morning, he finds a map pinned to his door and the man who put it there has slashed his wrists. The challenge is irresistible and he sets off on a perilous journey in search of Shangri-La.
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The Hour of the Angel [used book]

By: Alexandra Connor

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Arrow Books: 2004

Seller ID: 003911

ISBN: 0749304944

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Nothing prepares Ruth for the horror of her young husband's death and its traumatic consequences. A fresh start with a new career in London provides success in her life, but she discovers that true contentment will never be hers until she can confront, once and for all, the tragedy of the past.
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Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind [used book]

By: Alexandra Ripley

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, MacMillan: 1991

Seller ID: 001163

ISBN: 0333490991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

The timeless tale continues... The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind "is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once larger than life but as real as ourselves. Now bestselling writer Alexandra Ripley brings us back to Tara and reintroduces us to the characters we remember so well: Rhett, Ashley, Mammy, Suellen, Aunt Pittypat, and, of course, Scarlett. As the classic story, first told over half a century ago, moves forward, the greatest love affair in all fiction is reignited; amidst heartbreak and joy, the endles...
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The Almost Moon [used book]

By: Alice Sebold

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Picador: 2007

Seller ID: 001724

ISBN: 0330451375

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

This book is from the bestselling author of "The Lovely Bones".'When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.'For years, Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now-grown daughters. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined.Unfolding over twenty-four hours, this searing novel explores the ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, grippin...
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The Indigo Sky [used book]

By: Alison Booth

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Bantam: 2011

Seller ID: 002098

ISBN: 1741669324

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Two children--one dispossessed and impoverished, the other wealthy and privileged--are both on a journey they can't control in this moving follow-up novel about family, friendship, and personal freedom It's 1961--five years since Ilona and her teenage daughter Zidra settled in the idyllic little town of Jingera on the New South Wales coast. Once known simply as the "refugee from Latvia," Ilona is now a respected member of the community. In return, Jingera offers her what she treasures most--peace and freedom. Then, out of the blue, Zidra receives a cryptic message. Four years earlier her frien...
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Life Begins [used book]

By: Amanda Brookfield

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Penguin: 2008

Seller ID: 002345

ISBN: 0718154827

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

If Life Begins at Forty, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts. On top of a recent divorce, a failed attempt to move house and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman. No longer able to blame everything on a floundering marriage, Charlotte is forced to open her eyes and embark on an emotional joourney into her past. Only when she has faced some challenging and revealing truths can she finally shed the unhappy skin she's become so used to, and open up her life - and he...
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Tiddas

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Simon & Schuster: 2015

Seller ID: A1005

ISBN: 1922052272

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

A story about what it means to be a friend â€¦ Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books â€¦ and life, love and the jagged bits in between. Dissecting each otherâ€™s lives seems the most natural thing in the world â€“ and honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other everything, donâ€™t they? But each woman harbours a complex secret and one weekend, without warning, everything comes unstuck. Izzy, soon to be the first Black woman with her own television show, has to make a decision that wil...
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Paris Dreaming

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Bantam: 2011

Seller ID: A1007

ISBN: 174166893X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

'I'm telling you now: I'm never having another boyfriend - EVER!' Libby is on a man-fast: no more romance, no more cheating men, no more heartbreak. After all, she has her three best girlfriends and two cats to keep her company at night and her high-powered job at the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra to occupy her day - isn't that enough? But when fate takes Libby to work in Paris at the MusÃ©e du Quai Branly, she's suddenly thrown out of her comfort zone and into a city full of culture, fashion and love. Surrounded by thousands of attentive men, nude poets, flirtatious baristas...
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Avoiding Mr Right

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Bantam: 2008

Seller ID: A1008

ISBN: 174166893X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Taking a man to Melbourne would be like taking a sandwich to a smorgasbord. 'So it's final then, you're not taking James to Melbourne?' Liza asked. 'Are you kidding? Taking a man to Melbourne would be like taking a sandwich to a smorgasbord.' Peta Tully has found her Mr Right â€“ the only trouble is, she's not sure she's ready to settle down. Not just yet, anyway - so when she's offered a twelve-month contract interstate which just might win her the job of her dreams, she puts her Sydney life on hold, packs her bags and jumps on a plane, leaving her doting boyfriend behind. Peta ...
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Not Meeting Mr Right

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Bantam: 2007

Seller ID: A1009

ISBN: 1863255117

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

I am deadly, desirable and delicious! This is Alice's mantra as she hilariously negotiates her way through the rocky terrain of singledom. Alice Aigner is successful, independent and a confirmed serial dater - but at her ten-year school reunion she has a sudden change of heart. Bored rigid by her married, mortgaged and motherly former classmates, Alice decides to prove that a woman can have it all: a man, marriage, career, kids and a mind of her own. She sets herself a goal: meet the perfect man and marry him before her thirtieth birthday, just under two years away. Together with her ...
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Manhattan Dreaming

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Bantam: 2011

Seller ID: A1010

ISBN: 1864711280

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Lauren is a curator at the NAG, the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra. She's good at her job, passionate about the Arts, and focused on her work - that is, when she's not focusing on Adam, half-back for the Canberra Cockatoos. But Adam is a player, on and off the field. Lauren knows he's the one, but he doesn't seem to feel the same way about her. If she just waits long enough, though, surely he'll realise how much he needs her? Then her boss offers her the chance of a lifetime - a fellowship at the Smithsonian in New York. Lauren has to make some big decisions: The Man or Manhattan? ...
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The Last Time They Met [used book]

By: Anita Shreve

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Little, Brown and Company: 2001

Seller ID: 001521

ISBN: 0316855960

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Traces the life-long relationship between Linda Fallon and poet Thomas Janes. Beginning at a writers' festival in 2000, the novel accelerates backwards and ends on a June night in 1962, taking in Toronto, Nairobi and Massachusetts, and exploring the ravages of life and the need for forgiveness.
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The Last Time They Met [used book]

By: Anita Shreve

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Abacus: 2001

Seller ID: 002091

ISBN: 0349113602

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Testimony [used book]

By: Anita Shreve

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Abacus: 2009

Seller ID: 002725

ISBN: 0349119023

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voice -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -- that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve's Testimony explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which our best intentions can...
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Sea Glass #2 Fortune's Rocks Quartet [used book]

By: Anita Shreve

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Abacus: 2002

Seller ID: 003308

ISBN: 0349115176

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. Along with millions of other Americans, he is blindsided by the stock market crash and finds himself penniless. The only work he can find is a nearly mill, where a labour conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage and home...
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Sea Glass #2 Fortune's Rocks Quartet [used book]

By: Anita Shreve

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Little, Brown and Company: 2002

Seller ID: 000926

ISBN: 0316859109

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Rebel Girl [used book]

By: Ann Clancy

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Redwood Editions: 2008

Seller ID: 002804

ISBN: 1741829135

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

From the author of The Wild Colonial Girl comes another breathtaking story set in Australia's turbulent past; and another unforgettable Australian heroine. Crushed at Culloden, driven from their Highland crofts and transported to Australia ... the Douglas family is no stranger to injustice. The Encounter Bay whaling station, on the wild, windswept southern coast of Australia, is at the very edge of civilisation. But at least Bonnie Douglas and her father have their freedom - until Sergeant Rowan Elliott arrives. Bonnie's father is accused of murder and she is driven to bushranging, fighting in...
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The Wild Colonial Girl [used book]

By: Ann Clancy

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Redwood Editions: 2008

Seller ID: 003281

ISBN: 1741829119

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Feisty, spirited and independent, Irish orphan Kate arrives in the colony of South Australia, determined to make a new life for herself. Wanting the security only wealth can bring, she slips her derringer into her pocket, cracks the whip over the bullocks and sets off on a rugged outback track for the adventure of a lifetime. Her adventures take her from wild Aboriginal camps to vast sheep stations and from the rough sprawling goldfields to the glittering ballroom at the Governor's residence. Her orphan dreams of silk gowns and sumptuous dinners are finally within her grasp. What she doesn...
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Australia Street [used book]

By: Ann Whitehead

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin: 2009

Seller ID: 002719

ISBN: 0143009532

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Hannah Gordon has always wanted to be someone important, yet she's stuck in an inner-city back street, fighting to keep hold of her children, her home and her sense of self. Then a devastating accident sets off a chain of events that will rock the family foundations to the core and change live forever. About the Author: Ann Whitehead was born in Sydney and now lives on the coast in southern New South Wales. Ann has won awards and is a published author of plays, short stories and novels for children, young adults and adults. She is the author of the bestselling Australia Street, The House Ac...
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Category: General Fiction