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Heaven's net is wide (Tales of the Otori #0.5)
Par Lian Hearn. 2007
Heaven's Net is Wide is both the first and last volume in the Tales of the Otori. This is the…
story of Lord Otori Shigeru, the spiritual warrior-godfather who saved Takeo and raised him as his own and heir to the Otori clan. It expands on what has been only hinted at before: Shigeru's training in the ways of the warrior and feudal lord, his relationship with the Tribe of mysteriously powerful assassins, the battles that tested his skills and talents, and his fateful meeting with Lady Maruyama.Cornish harvest (The Cornish Sagas #3)
Par Rosemary Aitken. 1998
Lizzie Treloweth is one of ten children. With the outbreak of World War I, their father enlists and the family…
struggle to run his butcher's shop in Penzance. Lizzie trains as a nurse under Tamsin Beswetherick, daughter of the local gentry, and their friendship with the four Jago brothers develops.Around the boree log and other verses
Par John O'Brien. 1994
Written by a parish priest from outback New South Wales, these verses are a tribute to the spirit of the…
Irish settler in Australia - to their ideals, their surroundings, their home life and the ties of religion and family unity.Still murder
Par Finola Moorhead. 1990
In love and in war there is killing, but is it still murder? A nosy nun discovers a body in…
a park. There is an immediate police cover-up. A Vietnam veteran spies on his old sweetheart. A man tries to rape his wife’s lover. A woman disappears from a loony bin with the help of a street-wise kid (who may be a figment of her imagination).What is Detective Senior Constable Margot Gorman to make of all this? 'Still murder' is a literary mystery which asks the big questions about men and women, sex and honour, mateship and madness.I'm not scared
Par Jonathan Hunt, Niccolo Ammaniti. 2003
The hottest summer of the twentieth century. A tiny community of five houses in the middle of rural Italy. When…
the adults are sheltering indoors, six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. While exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dare not tell anyone about it. To come to terms with what he has found, Michele has to draw strength from his own sense of humanity.Once upon a time at Coonara: the inaugural anthology of the writing group at Coonara Community House!
Par Peter Scott, Jill Stephenson, Christine Basil, T. V Bourmas, Marina Cook, Bernadette Dimitrov, Alison McKay, June Smith, Liliane Grace. 2016
The horse goddess
Par Morgan Llywelyn. 1983
Troy is in crumbling ruin and Athens is rising far to the south. It is a time when mortal men…
and women are becoming gods and goddesses as news of their extraordinary adventures sweeps across the land. In this world, Epona, a woman whose life is celebrated in legend, meets Kazhak, a Scythian warrior and prince. Their stormy love affair sends them sweeping across eighth-century Europe, pursued from the Alps to the Ukraine by Kernunnos--a mysterious Druid priest known as the "Shapechanger."Generals die in bed
Par Charles Yale Harrison. 2003
Drawing on his own experiences in the First World War, Charles Yale Harrison tells a stark and poignant story of…
a young man sent to fight on the Western Front. It is an unimaginably harrowing journey, especially for one not yet old enough to vote.Territory
Par Judy Nunn. 2002
A story of disaster and depravity is told in alternating chapters with the story of the Galloway family, station owners,…
and the story of Darwin itself, from the day it was bombed by Japanese fighter planes during WW2 and nearly flattened, to the extraordinary Christmas Day in 1974 when Darwin was again devastated by 'fury from the sky' - this time in the form of Cyclone Tracy. Following the course of a priceless 16th century locket and the fortunes of the Galloway clan, the author tells of disaster, courage and passion and that top end spirit that never says die.Heritage
Par Judy Nunn. 2005
It was a time when refugees seized with both hands the chance for freedom; a time when people of more…
than seventy nations gathered beneath the Southern Cross to forge a new national identity. From war-torn Europe, they came to the mountains of Australia to realise one man's dream, and in so doing realised their own. The mighty Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, regarded by many as the greatest engineering feat of the 20th Century, was built with pride from the sweat and blood of displaced people. They were called New Australians. One was 'Lucky', a German Jew seeking refuge in Australia after losing his family in the horror that was known as Endlosung, 'The Final Solution' of Hitler's Third Reich. Another was Pietro, a young Italian immigrant in search of a new life in a strange country far from the mountains of his childhood, which harboured a deadly secret. And then there was the woman from Israel, the woman with a past so steeped in horror that no matter how far she ran, she would never escape the nightmare of Auschwitz or the massacre of Deir Yassin. People of all races and creeds tunnelled through a mountain range and turned the course of a mighty river as they sought to put to rest the ghosts from the inferno of their past.Two tigers, one mountain (Hong Kong Trilogy #2)
Par Bruce Venables. 2007
There can only be one winner in a battle. A truce, the Chinese say, merely delays the inevitable. In Korea,…
two brothers fight on opposing sides in a war where black market profiteering is rife, and patriotism and honour have lost their meanings. When they depart the battlefield, one is a hero, the other a traitor. One brother, General Lee Kwan Man-hop, returns to the volatile political climate of Beijing and an uncertain future in the communist Peoples Republic of China. The other, Wing Commander James Merchant RAF, goes home to Hong Kong to restore a family business.Through China's turbulent years of the 1950s and '60s, Lee Kwan fights to protect his family from brutal oppression, while in Hong Kong, James Merchant's family empire is in danger of disintegrating. Strong women, the lovers of powerful men, join in the fight for its preservation, and indeed their own, as the Noble House of Merchant becomes a house divided, plagued with treachery and haunted by tales of a long lost fortune.Tiare: the husband who didn't deserve his wife and everything that happened next (Materena series #3)
Par Célestine Hitiura Vaite. 2006
The word on the coconut radio, so Cousin Mori reports, is that the family is calling Pito Tehana a big…
zéro. His lovely wife Materena is now a big success, the number-one radio star in Tahiti, and she hasn't even turned into a show-off. But Pito? He won't even take her to a restaurant to celebrate her success. He just smirks and says, 'Eh bien, I congratulate my wife in my own way.' Well, nobody is surprised to see Materena run off with a rich boyfriend, especially after Pito says something, when he's a bit drunk and not thinking, that hurts her so deeply she can't breathe. Tiare tells the story of the Mahi and Tehana clans of Tahiti from the male perspective. And we find out that, even if he will be lucky to get it, a man can still do an awful lot with a second chance.Family lore
Par Gerard Windsor. 1990
Every family history has skeletons but it is the internal organs that interest Gerard Windsor - the fictions under the…
facts; the feelings, values and spirits that bind five generations of kin. This collection of lyrical anecdotes tells the stories of five generations of the authors family.The house across the road
Par Ann Whitehead. 2010
When Isabelle Barnes leaves home one morning, never to return, the streets of country Carwell are awash with rumour and…
innuendo. And her bewildered daughter, Abbie, is left to find her way in the world without her mother's guiding hand. Four years later, seventeen-year-old Abbie finds herself pregnant to the browbeaten son of the devout and intimidating Henrietta. She's thrown into a life that quickly ceases to be her own, down to the choice of dress for her wedding day. These two women's paths collide in tumultuous and eventually tragic ways beyond the birth of Abbie's daughter, Claire. But will Claire escape the confines of family and her small country town, or is she doomed to repeat her mother's fate?Beyond the horizon (Cry of the Curlew #7)
Par Peter Watt. 2012
It is 1918, a year when the War will end, but an even greater killer will arise.On the bloody fields…
of the Western Front and the battle-scarred desert plains of the Middle East, Tom and Matthew Duffy are facing the enemy. Even as they are trapped on the front lines, they must also find the courage to fight for the women they love when all hope is lost. Back in Australia, George Macintosh is outraged by the stipulations of his father's will that provide for his despised nephew, and is determined to eliminate any threats to his power. And in a sacred cave in the far Outback, old Wallarie foresees a tide of unspeakable death sweeping through his homeland. As all nations come to terms with the devastating consequences of the Great War, a new world will be born. But not everyone will live to see it.Eden (Papua #2)
Par Peter Watt. 2004
Jack Kelly and Paul Mann are like brothers; the two old wartime enemies have been through blood and fire and…
must now face their greatest challenge. When the Japanese threaten to invade the Pacific they know that they must do everything in their power to protect their country, and their loved ones, from an ambitious and merciless enemy.Their sons, Lukas Kelly and Karl Mann, have inherited their fathers' brave and passionate natures, and are determined to do their part to support the Australian cause - romantic entanglements for the two young men raise the stakes even further. Four incredible men, with ties closer than blood, fight to hold on to love, friendship and a world that is gradually disappearing.To chase the storm (Cry of the Curlew #4)
Par Peter Watt. 2004
Major Patrick Duffy is torn by conflicting duties: his oath to the Queen is unwavering as she gathers her armies…
together to march on the Boers of southern Africa, but his duty to his family is equally clear. But when his beautiful wife Catherine leaves him for another, returning to her native Ireland, Patrick's broken heart propels him out of the Sydney Macintosh home and into yet another bloody war. However the battlefields of Africa hold more than nightmarish terrors and unspeakable conditions for Patrick - they bring him in contact with one he thought long dead and lost to him. Back in Australia, the mysterious Michael O'Flynn mentors Patrick's youngest son, Alex, and at his grandmother's request takes him on a journey to their Queensland property, Glen View. But will the terrible curse that has inextricably linked the Duffys and Macintoshes for generations ensure that no true happiness can ever come to them? So much seems to depend on Wallarie, the last warrior of the Nerambura tribe, whose mere name evokes a legend approaching myth.To touch the clouds (Cry of the Curlew #5)
Par Peter Watt. 2010
"They had all forgotten the curse... Except one... Until it touched them. I will tell you of those times when…
the whitefella touched the clouds and lightning came down on the earth for many years." In 1914, the storm clouds of war are gathering. Matthew Duffy and his cousin Alexander Macintosh are sent by Colonel Patrick Duffy to conduct reconnaissance on German-controlled New Guinea. At the same time, Alexander's sister, Fenella, is making a name for herself in the burgeoning Australian film industry.But someone close to them has an agenda of his own - someone who would betray not only his family but his country to satisfy his greed and lust for power. As the world teeters on the brink of conflict, one family is plunged into a nightmare of murder, drugs, treachery and treason.Papua (Papua #1)
Par Peter Watt. 2002
When two men on opposing sides meet on the battle fields in World War I, neither can predict the ways…
their paths will cross in the future. Jack Kelly, a captain in the Australian army, shows compassion towards his prisoner Paul Mann, a German officer, forming an unusual bond. When the two meet again after the war, it is in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua. The friendship they quickly forge will last a lifetime.In Papua both are working towards new beginnings, in search of freedom and financial security. Both want to leave behind the memories of the war and find stability for their families. But post-war life has as many lows as it does highs - both men have enemies who would love to see them fail. Only together will they overcome the odds.The Pacific (Papua #3)
Par Peter Watt. 2011
As a war correspondent covering the second world war, Ilas Stahl isn't afraid to be on the front line. But…
when her plane goes down in a terrible storm over Papuan waters and she is taken prisoner by the Japanese, she has every reason to be terrified. Particularly as they plan to hand her over to the Nazis. When Jack Kelly discovers that his only daughter has fallen into the clutches of the enemy, he will stop at nothing to save her. Even if it means means risking the life of his only son, Lukas. No one knows Papua they way they do; they may be Ilas's only hope but time is running out.Meanwhile, Major Karl Mann is sent on a secret mission to Indochina that will see him embroiled in Ilas's rescue mission in ways he could never have imagined.