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"Growing up, the Anderson sisters could not have been more different. Susie, the wild one, had an adventurous life while Camilla "Mills" followed a safer path. When Susie suddenly dies, Mills falls apart. Until she receives a bundle of mysterious letters from her estranged sister ... Each letter instructs her to visit a place special to Susie, both to spread her ashes but also to uncover some truths Susie has long kept hidden from her family"--Book...
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In a stunning debut novel that evokes the epic scope of Colleen McCullough's classic The Thorn Birds, Harmony Verna creates a poignant, beautifully told story of love and courage, set in Australia and America in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The desert of Western Australia is vast and unforgiving. It's a miracle that the little girl dressed in rags and abandoned in the sand is still breathing when an old miner discovers her. Even more...
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Drawing on the work of David Bohm and Owen Barfield, Andrew Lohrey has sketched out the limits and the freedoms of the human condition through the five principal realities that constitute the psychological make-up of the human mind and its evolutionary path.
Five Realities, One Truth argues that reality is a relative and local state of mind, a state that is not fixed but arises out of and is shaped by the manner in which we make meaning. In contrast,...
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How extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires, and accelerating global climate change.
Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning,...
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A perfect sunny day, a family celebration, a heart-stopping hour that changes everything...
Dana has all she ever wanted — a husband she loves, her four-year-old daughter Kelsey who is the apple of her eye, and another baby on the way to complete her perfect family.
But then the worst fear that Dana has, comes true, and everything she thought she knew, she now starts to doubt. As her world comes crashing around her, who can Dana trust?
Her husband...
7) Scared Yet?
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When Livia Prescott fights off a terrifying assault in a deserted car park, the media hails her bravery. After a difficult year watching her father fade away, her business struggle and her marriage fall apart, it feels good to strike back for once.
But as the police widen their search for her attacker, menacing notes start arriving — and brave is not what she feels any longer.
Someone has decided to rip her life apart, then kick her when she's...
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The Singing Cure takes the reader on a thought provoking and inspiring journey to unlock the secret of the human voice.
Amanda Lohrey succeeds in drawing together so many threads in this seamless and compelling narrative , which shows her to be a master prose writer at the height of her powers.
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During that first wet when vegetables were a memory from the past, we resorted to cooking and eating pigweed-not the most delicious of vegetables. Later we made do with leaves of the sweet potato vine and even the new shoots of pumpkin vines. Daughter of the Territory is the amazing true story of Jacqueline Hammar, who spent most of her adult life in the remotest reaches of Australia's Northern Territory. In 1919, Jacqueline's father rode into the...
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With humor and honesty, “Girls on Film” looks at the good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film. This collection celebrates the power of cinema, media, culture and the faces of girls on film.
Insiders from a Nerdy Film Lover. Weaving together life lessons with movie history, film reporter Alicia Malone celebrates the power of cinema and the women who shone brightly on the big screen, while also critiquing hidden messages in films. Alicia...
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A young mother finds she has an admirer who is very difficult to please
Dana is not in a good place financially or emotionally. So when she finds a bag of money under a bush after dropping her kids off at school, she'd be forgiven for thinking her luck has changed for the better.
Unfortunately, things go from bad to worse. She starts getting threatening letters. They claim to be from her "number one fan", referring to a time when she was a popular...
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Too structured to fall into the category of grunge poetry; low on literary worth, but high on story telling. I call my poetry, 'Gippsland Shabby Chic Verse'. It's raw, uncomplicated, tells a story in simple language that is easy to read. And most of it rhymes! Hopefully, my poems will take my reader on an emotional journey to experience what makes beautiful Lakes Entrance and East Gippsland unique amongst places. This is a book of collected poems
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Do you love your partner enough to share them with someone else?
This is the question facing Laura when a group of close friends, all neighbors living on the same street, decide one night to put their keys in a bowl and swap partners.
No one is obliged to do anything but the rules state that what does happen remains under wraps.
Not everyone is keen on the idea, though Laura's husband certainly is, but group pressure mixed with alcohol means they...
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How does climate change make you feel? Sad? Afraid? Powerless? Guilty? Manage your eco-anxiety with this helpful guide. Drawing on years of experience as a psychoanalyst, Anouchka Grose shares cutting-edge insights on how to manage your eco-anxiety. Find out how to validate your emotions and build your resilience. Discover the comfort that can be found in your community. Understand and face your eco-anxiety with ten accessible steps. A "tool kit"...
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How to Manage Your Eco-Anxiety is a timely book for teens that explores the relationship between mental health and the climate crisis . . . and supplies tools to help!
How does climate change make you feel? Sad? Afraid? Powerless? Guilty? Manage your eco-anxiety with this helpful guide.
Drawing on years of experience as a psychoanalyst, Anouchka Grose shares cutting-edge insights on how to manage your eco-anxiety. Find out how to validate your emotions...
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With the success of the Wonder Woman movies and the results following the outcry of the #MeToo movement, now is the time to highlight the female influences in film history previously left unheard!
The voices of powerful women in old Hollywood-told. You may have heard the term "male gaze," coined in the 1970s, about how art and entertainment have been influenced by the male's perspective. What about the opposite? Women have been making movies since...
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Reeda Summer is running from a troubled marriage and a truth she can't face.
When the Summer sisters discover their grandmother's journals after her death, they unlock a mystery that shakes their family to the core. Who is Charlie Jackson? Is he their grandfather? And if so, what happened to him?
Reeda leaves the Waratah Inn and returns to Sydney, her husband, and her thriving interior design business, only to find her marriage in tatters. She's lost...
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Christmas is a time for second chances...and for love.
Elizabeth Cranwell's children left home, her husband divorced her and dissolved their shared business, and she's set to spend Christmas alone.
Without her husband or the thriving business she spent years of her life building, Elizabeth doesn't know who she is or what to do with her days. She's dreading spending her first Christmas alone when her friends convince her to book a holiday at the Waratah...
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With humor and honesty, Girls on Film looks at the good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film. A celebration of the power of cinema and the hidden messages within media and culture, this collection of personal essays explores the women who inspired and confused a young film enthusiast.
A movie freak with a feminist message. In the tradition of feminist authors, film reporter Alicia Malone brings a collection of personal essays looking...
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A bold new account of the state of globalization today-and what its collapse might mean for the world economy.
After the Cold War, globalization accelerated at breakneck speed. Manufacturing, transport, and consumption defied national borders, companies made more money, and consumers had access to an ever-increasing range of goods. But in recent years, a profound shift has begun to take place.
Business executives and politicians alike are realizing...
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