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The complete Grimm's fairy tales
By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm. 2005
The stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have become part of the way children and adults…
learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (Sleeping Beauty) are only a few of the more than two hundred enchanting characters included in this volume. The tales are presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging.Maybe the horse will talk
By Elliot Perlman. 2019
Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year…
lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he’s in imminent danger of being downsized. And to make things worse, Eleanor, sick of single-parenting their two young children thanks to Stephen’s relentless work schedule, has asked him to move out. To keep the job he hates, pay the mortgage and salvage his marriage, he will have to do something strikingly daring, something he never thought himself capable of. But if he’s not careful, it might be the last job he ever has...The Red Dove
By Gerry Hillier. 2015
The Red Dove is a timeless legend that relates the story of three lands and the young warrior who unites…
them. The tale that weaves a dance between these lands and their numerous, colourful and sometimes tragic inhabitants, is one of adventure, and at times violence, intrigue and inspiration.Harry Curry: counsel of choice (Harry Curry #1)
By Stuart Littlemore. 2011
Ugly. Irascible. Intolerant. Clever. Harry Curry - scion of the establishment and criminal defender extraordinaire. A class traitor, some say.…
When Harry's robust advocacy leads to his suspension for professional misconduct, he teams up reluctantly with Arabella Engineer, an English barrister of Indian descent, struggling for a foothold at the Sydney bar. Together, they wreak havoc in criminal trials involving drug-dealing, terrorism, murder and more. But can their professional relationship survive when personal matters intervene? Is Harry truly fated to live and work alone?The chamber
By John Grisham. 1994
Adam Hall, a young lawyer in a giant Chicago firm, takes on one of the toughest assignments ever - defending…
a convicted murderer on Mississippi's death row. His client, 70-year-old Sam Cayhill, killed two Jewish children in a 1967 Ku Klux Klan bombing. As Cayhill's appeals have nearly run their course he has sacked Adam's firm from the case, but Adam has a secret which will persuade Sam to hire him and let him investigate the murders.The enchanted island
By Ellie O'Neill. 2015
When Maeve O'Brien’s boss sends her to a dreary old island to finalise some paperwork, she couldn’t be happier. It’s…
the career boost she needs to become a fully-fledged lawyer - besides, it hasn’t been so great on the home front in Dublin.Maeve’s oldest friend and flat-mate has kicked her out, and moving back in with her uptight mother has been less than cosy. But her reception on Hy Brasil, a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, couldn’t be any more hostile - it’s as if the island itself wants her gone. The locals are all ancient - and spookily well preserved - and they’re all so nasty. And what is that terrible screaming noise that echoes around the island?But no island is going to scare Maeve off, even if she does miss her credit card, and her make-up, and bright shiny nightclubs, and the one night stands. She’s determined to track down Sean Fitzpatrick, the elusive islander, whose signature on Maeve’s paperwork is going to transform the island and open it up to the world. And then, somehow, life begins to change. The island might be miserable and treacherous, but it’s also beautiful and strangely seductive. Maeve’s never felt better. And there’s also Killian, the dreamy teacher, who stirs up all kinds of unexpected feelings in Maeve. But something’s brewing, and Maeve is going to discover just how far people will go to protect the ones they love.