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Aussie humour
By R. K Sadler, Hayllar, T. A. S. 1982
Liberace: the true story
By Bob Thomas. 1987
Liberace, whose unique style of music, outrageous costumes and extravagant showmanship thrilled millions worldwide, was in reality a complex and…
misunderstood entertainer. The book tells how his determination to protect his glamorous career led him to bitter public denial of his own homosexuality.Simple gifts
By Joanne Greenberg. 1987
A poor, simple Colorado family with a rundown farm is persuaded to join a government program where visitors sample "authentic"…
farm life, circa 1880. But their "authentic" secret still and their illegal but "authentic" herd of Texas longhorns somehow exceed the bureaucracy's tolerance of authenticity.The plunge
By Gerald Sweeney. 1981
Harry Patrick wanted to plunge one million dollars on one horse in one race and do it so meticulously that…
the odds would not collapse around him in a heap. And that required a carefully recruited and dedicated band of hit men, pledged to ultra secrecy.Phantom dwelling
By Judith Wright. 1985
The tale of Murasaki
By Liza Crihfield Dalby. 2000
The Tale of Murasaki is the fictional memoir of Murasaki Shikibu, the 11th-century author of The Tale of Genji, considered…
to be the world's first novel. As children, Murasaki and a friend made up stories about an imaginary lover, Genji. Fascinated by her father's descriptions of life at court, she later began writing romantic tales centered around the "shining prince." The young woman has intimate relationships with both women and men, but marries her father's choice, an older gentleman of means. She is widowed soon after the birth of their daughter. Her fame as a storyteller and her friendship with the regent's daughter lead to her appointment as lady-in-waiting to the empress; she is also a courtesan, as is expected of those serving in the imperial household. After a number of years at court, with her daughter established as a lady-in-waiting, the writer withdraws to a mountain retreat and lives the life of a Buddhist nun. The novel is based on the existing fragments of Shikibu's diary and on her poetry.Beyond supernature: a new natural history of the supernatural
By Lyall Watson. 1986
Mark Haddon's the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Insight Text Guides)
By Russell Smith. 2004
Study guide for Mark Haddon's the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Christopher Boone is fifteen and has…
Asperger's, a form of autism. When he finds his neighbour's dog, Wellington, murdered, he decides to track down the killer and write a murder mystery novel about it. In doing so, however, he uncovers other mysteries, beginning a terrifying journey that is set to turn his whole world upside down.The silver Salamander
By Valentina Luellen. 1982
Fleeing from the massacre of the Huguenots that began in Paris on St. Bartholomew's day in 1572, Gabrielle is captured…
by a pirate ship. Having escaped death once, Gabrielle is no longer sure who she fears most - Solitaire the pirate, or Solitaire the man.Staying alive: first aid
By Peter Bowler, Alison Verhoeven. 1998
This new publication will help one be better equipped to deal with the unexpected. "Staying alive" embodies the two essential…
themes of first aid - saving life itself, and shortening the convalescence of those who are injured.Carver's bride
By Nicola West. 1982
Why had Jason insisted that Linzi model for his latest sculpture, after she had jilted him five years ago? Linzi…
realized that whatever Jason might or might not feel, the jealous Ceri was going to see that nothing came of it.Quicksands
By Elizabeth Oldfield. 1988
'You'll be all right', Howard had reassured Clemence when he left her in Oman to fly to the side of…
another woman. Just who was the mysterious Jassim Al Fori? Clemence knew that she ought to avoid him. But that was easier said than done! Contains descriptions of sex.Memory of fire I: Genesis (Memory of fire #1.)
By Eduardo Galeano. 1985
A collection of short pieces which recounts the story of the conquest of Latin America. The lives of the marginal,…
the silent and the forgotten - the Indians and the Africans, the nuns and pirates, the vicious, the dumb and the holy - are woven together in this creative collation.Dishonourable intentions
By Rachel Summerson. 1985
When Amy leaves home to work as a governess, she fully expects life to be a world where gentlemen are…
honourable and ladies respected. However Amy learns that intentions, especially in affairs of the heart, do not always work out as expected.My friend Madame Zora
By Jane Duncan. 1963
"the dark haired stranger is here...Welcome..." This was Janet's first introduction to Madame Zora, a mysterious clairvoyant, who was to…
involve Janet and her husband in a series of events, uncanny, semi-tragic and just plain hilarious.The body wore brocade
By James Melville. 1992
Convalescing after being wounded, Otani has time to brood over problems including the affair between his sister-in-law and Inspector Hara.…
However, a murder at the Noh theatre puts Otani and Hara on a collision course as his team unravel further mysteries.Friends, love, sex: a practical guide to understanding relationships
By Hazel Edwards, Helen McGrath. 1997
In the final years of the twentieth century, people are forming a new type of community. The growing alienation from…
family structures is causing people to form their strongest and most meaningful relationships with friends. This is a guidebook for the new millennium. It contains real-life scenarios and case studies, questionnaires and quizzes to help us to evaluate our friendship potential, and strategies to increase our circle of friends.Getting the words right: how to revise, edit and rewrite
By Cheney, Theodore A. Rees. 1983
Cheney breaks down the process called "editing" into three steps: revision by reduction, revision by rearranging and revision by rewording.…
He then shows how to dig deeper to uncover and fix flaws in emphasis, organization and style.Ten thousand acres: a love story
By Patrice Newell. 2006
"We farm with new ambitions, never forgetting that there is no degree of separation between us and nature..." Few countries…
have undergone so rapid a change in land use as Australia since European settlement. On her biodynamic farm in the Hunter Valley, Patrice Newell has spent twenty years trying to slow down that relentless pace of change, and to heal some of the wounds caused by past practices. Ten Thousand Acres is the story of those years. It plays homage to land as the source of life and food, community and culture - as a living mantle rather than real estate. It pleads for a more personal knowledge of Australia's ancient, fragile landscape - a re-evaluation of one of the oldest relationships of all.Breadfruit: the drunken marriage proposal and everything that happened next (Materena series #1)
By Célestine Hitiura Vaite. 2006
Women who want romance, men who won't commit, interfering in-laws, making ends meet - some things never change, even in…
a tropical paradise! Materena lives with Pito and their three kids in Faa'a PK5.5, behind the petrol station, and life is good. Until one day Pito comes home drunk and asks Materena to marry him. Materena wants a ring on her finger and a framed wedding certificate on the wall. But the father of her three children, Pito, thinks that when you give a woman a ring and a wedding certificate she's going to start acting like she's the boss. "Eh," he insists, "it's the rope around the neck." Then again, if there's no ring, a woman can tell her man to pack his bags and go home to his mama whenever she likes. So what does Materena really want? Becoming a madame, eh? Materena wouldn't mind that. But as she starts rounding up the relatives to organise everything she realises there's more to getting married than meets the eye. And that includes reminding the groom that he proposed in the first place...