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The Bachelor and Spinster Ball

Author : Janet Gover
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755355156
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book The Bachelor and Spinster Ball written by Janet Gover and published by Headline. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the guests at Australia's most infamous black-tie event, The Bachelor and Spinster Ball, in Janet Gover's life-affirming novel. The perfect read for fans of Jenny Colgan and Jo Thomas. Sexy Nick, feisty Bec and dreamy Hailey all grew up together in the tiny, one-horse town of Farwell Creek. In fact, Nick and Bec were the town's teen-dream couple, until Bec made a break for it and shook the small-town dust off her heels for the big-city lights. Now she's back - but Nick doesn't have romantic feelings for her any more ... does he? Sweet, idealistic Hailey is caught between her old friends, but has too many problems of her own to be able to worry about theirs. Devastated at the loss of her parents, who died in a crash a year earlier, she's too wrapped up in her own thoughts to even think about leaving town or finding love. It will take a devastating bush-fire, a black-tie ball under the stars, and a road-trip to help all three friends work out who and what they want - and what they need. What readers are saying about THE BACHELOR AND SPINSTER BALL: 'A story of rich emotions and strong relationships. A lovely, escapist read' 'Beautifully written, the characters are easy to identify with and the author's rich description of a small place in Australia made me want to go there!' 'I absolutely loved this book and how you get to see all sides of the story. A real romance - so brilliant'

Celebrating Life Customs around the World [3 volumes]

Author : Victoria R. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440836590
Total Pages : 1427 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Life Customs around the World [3 volumes] written by Victoria R. Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 1427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents hundreds of customs and traditions practiced in countries outside of the United States, showcasing the diversity of birth, coming-of-age, and death celebrations worldwide. From the beginning of our lives to the end, all of humanity celebrates life's milestones through traditions and unique customs. In the United States, we have specific events like baby showers, rites of passage such as Bat and Bar Mitzvahs and "sweet 16" birthday parties, and sober end-of-life traditions like obituaries and funeral services that honor those who have died. But what kinds of customs and traditions are practiced in other countries? How do people in other cultures welcome babies, prepare to enter into adulthood, and commemorate the end of the lives of loved ones? This three-volume encyclopedia covers more than 300 birth, life, and death customs, with the books' content organized chronologically by life stage. Volume 1 focuses on birth and childhood customs, Volume 2 documents adolescent and early-adulthood customs, and Volume 3 looks at aging and death customs. The entries in the first volume examine pre-birth traditions, such as baby showers and other gift-giving events, and post-birth customs, such as naming ceremonies, child-rearing practices, and traditions performed to ward off evil or promote good health. The second volume contains information about rites of passage as children become adults, including indigenous initiations, marriage customs, and religious ceremonies. The final volume concludes with coverage on customs associated with aging and death, such as retirement celebrations, elaborate funeral processions, and the creation of fantasy coffins. The set features beautiful color inserts that illustrate examples of celebrations and ceremonies and includes an appendix of excerpts from primary documents that include legislation on government-accepted names, wedding vows, and maternity/paternity leave regulations.

Girl on the Edge

Author : Kim Hodges
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925384004
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Girl on the Edge written by Kim Hodges and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girl on the Edge is the incredible memoir of Kim Hodges, detailing her adolescent experiences growing up in a small rural town of NSW. Her mistreatment and tumultuous upbringing has niggled away in the back of her mind since she was seven years of age. Now a family woman with three children of her own, Kim has found the courage and discipline to work her story into words. Written through a child’s sensitive lens with reflections that could only be surmised and truly understood as an adult, Girl on the Edge explores identity, belonging, and alienation, as well as class, gender and power. Set in the landscape of the small NSW country town of Coolah, Kim’s coming of age story is far from quaint. Using her wry humour to offset the confronting content, Girl on the Edge is truly an arresting memoir.

Dirt to Scratch and Eggs to Lay

Author : Marie-Therese Gould (Stein)
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477155147
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Dirt to Scratch and Eggs to Lay written by Marie-Therese Gould (Stein) and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dirt to Scratch and Eggs to Lay" an autobiography is the story of life in a small country town in Queensland during post-World War 2, as perceived and told by the youngest child in a family of seven a family "too poor to have a father"! Brutally honest, and told with black' humour, the author begins her story in the security of Mitchell', travels through the reality of the rest of the world', and concludes it in the security of retirement' (at Ma's).

St Jude's

Author : Gemma Sisia
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 9781405037952
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book St Jude's written by Gemma Sisia and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Jude's is the remarkable story of an Australian girl from the bush who's busy transforming the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of African children. Her name is Gemma Sisia, and she runs a school in Tanzania called The School of St Jude. Gemma's idea is simple. Her school is for the very poorest kids, the ones whose families can't afford the clothes or books or even pencils to send their children to the supposedly "free" government schools. These are the children of illiterate parents, whose destiny is to remain trapped in a cycle of poor education, illiteracy and poverty. Her slogan is "fighting poverty through education".Gemma started St Jude's (named after the patron saint of hopeless causes) in 2002 with an 18-year-old volunteer teacher from Sydney, three kids and her own boundless energy. From those humble beginnings, the school now has over 850 students, and one of the best academic records in the country. There are plans for a second campus, and a long term aim of reproducing the hugely successful formula across Tanzania and East Africa. St Jude's is an astonishing success for kids who would otherwise have no hope and no future. This is a truly amazing story about how the determination of one person can help change the world.

Disabling Diversity

Author : Katie Ellis
Publisher : Katie Ellis
ISBN 13 : 3639023579
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Disabling Diversity written by Katie Ellis and published by Katie Ellis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Some Girls Do

Author : Amy Andrews
Publisher : Tule Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1943963169
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Some Girls Do written by Amy Andrews and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion student Lacey Weston is desperate to leave the city and go home to Jumbuck Springs. Her three older brothers are adamant she’s not. They made a death bed promise to their mother that Lacey would stay the distance at design school and Ethan, the oldest, takes this responsibility very seriously. But Lacey is deeply homesick and determined not to be dissuaded again. She’s also impulsive enough to try anything - even faking a pregnancy. Ex-cop turned mechanic, Cooper Grainger - one of Ethan’s oldest friends - agrees to watch out for Lacey in the city even though he has a history with her he’d rather forget. How hard could it be, right? But a couple of years later, Coop is over pulling Lacey out of scrapes and cleaning up her messes as she tries to outrun her grief and sense of dislocation. He takes her back to Jumbuck Springs so she can persuade her brothers to let her come home. But things don’t go according to plan. Before Coop knows it Lacey’s pregnant and he’s putting his hand up as the fake baby daddy, filling in for the town mechanic and moving in with her at the local pub. Lacey is thrilled to have won a reprieve but nothing about the situation sits well with Coop. Least of all having sweet little Lacey Weston as his new roomie…

The Outback Heat Series: Books 1 – 4

Author : Amy Andrews
Publisher : Tule Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1962707679
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Outback Heat Series: Books 1 – 4 written by Amy Andrews and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring on the Outback Heat with four spicy romance reads (plus bonus novella!) from Australia’s favourite romance author. They breed them tough in small-town Jumbuck Springs—none more than the Weston family. Little sister Lacey, who wants to be a famous fashion designer. Youngest brother Jarrod, a firefighter who bleeds red dust. Middle brother Marcus, a paramedic and the larrikin of the family. Eldest brother, Ethan, head of the family and the police officer in charge of the town. Some Girls Do Fashion student Lacey is homesick in the city and determined to go home—come hell, high water, or a fake pregnancy. Is it her fault her brother’s best friend, Cooper, puts his hand up as the baby-daddy to protect her from the fallout? Some Girls Don’t Rural firefighter Jarrod’s old flame is back in town, but they’ve both moved on. Selena’s about to hit it big as a hotshot reporter in the city and nothing can stop her. No matter how much Jarrod still lights her fire. Some Guys Need A Lot of Lovin’ Paramedic Marcus hits the city looking for a sexy distraction from his looming PTSD and offers birthday girl Juanita some uncomplicated action between the sheets. They’re one and done. Until she turns up in Jumbuck Springs as his new psychologist… Some Guys Lie Single-dad police chief Ethan takes his responsibility to the town and his family seriously. And then one night he crosses a line with his oldest friend, Jemima Jane, and then insists on a fake engagement to protect her from her abusive ex. But it’s not love. What’s love got to do with it? Bonus Novella—Shut Up And Drive A charity car rally through Outback Australia. Firefighter colleagues Duncan and Ruth are too close for comfort and there’s only one bed. But what happens on the road trip stays on the road trip, right?

Pointing the Bone

Author : Daryl Joyce
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984506943
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Pointing the Bone written by Daryl Joyce and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quintessentially Australian novel set in modern day Byron Bay NSW is a tour-de-force, with a masterful plot that is both unsettling and triumphant. Young ARCHIE STENMARK is sent on an assignment to cover a story about a curse that has been cast on his father’s family by the local Indigenous tribe in Byron Bay. While ARCHIE is researching the curse, his father tries to clear his name of a crime that the town still believes he committed in his youth. In his research, ARCHIE finds out that the elders of the local tribe had cursed his ancestors when they fenced off a sacred meeting place that had been used for centuries. In his search to catalogue the tragedies associated with the curse, ARCHIE meets up with a feisty young Indigenous lawyer, who is heading up the fight for Native Title over his family’s land, but trouble erupts in the town when ARCHIE and his father support the girl’s claim. The powerful STENMARK family, who have more lucrative plans for the waterfront land, become vindictive, and as the conflict unfolds, the seaside town becomes outraged, especially when a number of murders and a cruel abduction take place. Skilfully described and compulsively readable, ‘Pointing the Bone’ is both confronting and exhilarating. Joyce has deftly drawn characters on both sides of the cultural divide, with vivid characters springing onto the page throughout. In the story, the reader is confronted by some shameful incidents wrought by the wealthy family, but after learning about them, we have a deeper understanding of how colonisation affected our First Nation people. There is a dearth of stories on our shelves that shine a light on the brave struggle of Indigenous groups, and even fewer that have a happy ending, but this inspiring book is one. ‘Pointing the Bone’ deserves to take its place on the top shelf of libraries and bookshops throughout our land.

The Fine Color of Rust

Author : Paddy O'Reilly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451678177
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Fine Color of Rust written by Paddy O'Reilly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Australian bush, a wryly funny, beautifully observed novel about friendship, motherhood, love, and the importance of fighting for things that matter. Loretta Boskovic never dreamed she would end up a single mother with two kids in a dusty Australian country town. She never imagined she’d have to campaign to save the local primary school. She certainly had no idea her best friend would turn out to be the crusty old junk man. All in all, she’s starting to wonder if she took a wrong turn somewhere. If only she could drop the kids at the orphanage and start over . . . But now, thanks to her protest letters, the education minister is coming to Gunapan, and she has to convince him to change his mind about the school closure. And as if facing down the government isn’t enough, it soon becomes clear that the school isn’t the only local spot in trouble. In the drought-stricken bushland on the outskirts of town, a luxury resort development is about to siphon off a newly discovered springwater supply. No one seems to know anything, no one seems to care. With a dream lover on a Harley unlikely to appear to save the day, Loretta needs to stir the citizens of Gunapan to action. She may be short of money, influence, and a fully functioning car, but she has good friends. Together they can organize chocolate drives, supermarket sausage sizzles, a tour of the local slaughterhouse—whatever it takes to hold on to the scrap of world that is home. Warm, moving, and funny, The Fine Color of Rust is “a story about love: where we look for it, what we do with it, and how it shows up in the most unexpected packages” (Big Issue, Australia).

Unlikely Destinies

Author : Ian Ingleby
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035829215
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Unlikely Destinies written by Ian Ingleby and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a small Australian military group three sisters of immigrant parents participate in secret missions to counteract People’s Republic of China coercion and planned terrorist attacks in the Indo-Pacific. The sisters enjoyed a happy but meagre childhood in a remote West Australian township from where they emerged as the fortuitous beneficiaries of a private school education in South Australia. They displayed exceptional talents in standard and elective subjects. As young adults they excelled in tertiary education and gained degrees in linguistics, admiralty and Pacific constitutional law, pure mathematics, and computer science before coming to the attention of Australian intelligence agencies and the military. They were recruited by the military group for clandestine assignments that ranged from the outer boundaries of the South China Sea to Papua New Guinea and in between. The main parts of the story are about these assignments.

The Twelfth Fish

Author : Graham Perrett
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 097750476X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book The Twelfth Fish written by Graham Perrett and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small rural Queensland town of Lawson is still reeling from the arrival of the 1990s and modernity. Surfie teacher Lawrence Lalor is condemned there to servitude y the Catholic Education League. From his veranda and the pub, he is quick to learn that while Lawson is just another 'dead-kangaroo-on-the-side-of-the-road' country town, with its streets named after saints, beneath its simple surface it is a town of depth and deception. Drunken mistakes, accidental friendships and the arcane practice dignity are more rare than precious. Lawrence's journey through Lawson - the supposed 'jewel of the west' - gouges a scar on his emotional landscape that will stay with him forever.

Australian Farming Families

Author : Deb Hunt
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743535198
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Australian Farming Families written by Deb Hunt and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is a book about the human aspects of life on the land - the stories of success and failure, life and love, of hardship and celebration - and the passion and gritty determination that characterised every family I interviewed.' Author Deb Hunt sets out to discover what makes what makes Australian farming families tick. She travels tens of thousands of kilometres to properties at either end of the country, from a vast, dusty cattle run in outback Queensland to the wheat belt of Western Australia and dairy and sheep farms in Tasmania. She introduces us to eight families who survive, even thrive, on the land despite fires, floods, personal hardship and uncertain economic times. We see a different sort of family life, where the kids are expected to pitch in, the classroom is often the kitchen table, the nearest maternity hospital is a five-hour drive, and generations live and work side by side. We meet the French family, whose connection to the bush goes back seven generations, Philip the Philosopher, who by 29 was managing a property of more than one million hectares carrying 20,000 head of cattle, and the outspoken Roma Brittnell, who was awarded Australian Rural Woman of the Year in 2009. Inspiring, moving and sometimes challenging, these stories provide a window into a way of life that defines the Australian spirit at its best.

The Unexpected Husband

Author : Lindsay Armstrong
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459204603
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book The Unexpected Husband written by Lindsay Armstrong and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia had been thrilled by her temporary assignment on an Australian cattle station—until she came face-to-face with Joe Jordan on her first day! Tough, sexy Joe: the man Lydia’s impulsive sister had planned to seduce... Only, Joe made it clear that it was Lydia, not her sister, who intrigued him. And he wanted to do more than work with her—he wanted to marry her! Joe’s passion overwhelmed and excited Lydia, but did he just want a convenient wife?

Her Outback Cowboy

Author : Annie Seaton
Publisher : Entangled: Bliss
ISBN 13 : 164063133X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Her Outback Cowboy written by Annie Seaton and published by Entangled: Bliss. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last thing advertising art director Lucy Bellamy wants is to go home to the Outback, but duty to family calls. At least there’s one bonus—her first love, sexy cowboy neighbour Garth Mackenzie, is there, and the attraction between them is still explosive. But Lucy has no intention of getting stuck in this two-bit town, and she counts down the days until she can go back to her real life. After an engineering degree and working in the mines of Western Australia, Garth has returned to the Outback and is home to stay. His goal is to settle down, start a family, and work his beloved land with the girl he’s always loved. But if it comes to Lucy choosing between the glamour of the city or making a home with him in the Outback—he’d lose, hands down. Each book in the Prickle Creek series is STANDALONE: * Her Outback Cowboy * Her Outback Surprise * His Outback Nanny * His Outback Temptation

Mr. Undeniable: Lost Boys #4

Author : Karina Bliss
Publisher : Karina Bliss
ISBN 13 : 0994145314
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Undeniable: Lost Boys #4 written by Karina Bliss and published by Karina Bliss. This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A businessman inherits custody of three children with his ex wife, the woman he walked away from after a personal tragedy in this poignant story of second chances by award-winning author Karina Bliss. Just when he has accepted that he'll never be a father, Jack Galloway inherits not one, but three kids. He's supposed to raise this family with his ex? And his ex-wife, Roz, has her own ideas about parenting. She's already doling out domestic duties, as if he had all the time in the world away from his business. She's also got some crazy notion, that, thanks to their unexpected “family,” the two of them have been handed a second chance. As if he'll let either of them get their hearts broken again. If he could just crush the hope that hearts can be mended, and love will always find a way. * Previously titled SECOND-CHANCE FAMILY. A Romantic Times Top Pick. Finalist in Australia's Romantic Book of the Year (2009). “…a touching story about grief and forgiveness...The trials and tribulations of family life are equally sprinkled with heart-warming and even humorous events; all vividly described. Readers are drawn in and encouraged to care deeply for this family by Ms. Bliss’s creative talent. Karina Bliss will definitely be added to my favourite author list” Donna Zaph, CataRomance The Lost Boy series Mr. Imperfect Mr. Irresistible Mr. Unforgettable Mr. Undeniable

The Lingo Dictionary

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1775590321
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book The Lingo Dictionary written by John Miller and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’ve ever wondered why your girlfriend’s a ‘Sheila’ even though her name is Kate, or why your friend in the outer suburbs of Sydney is said to live ‘beyond the black stump’, then this is the book for you! Throwing light on all the quirky, intriguing and downright bizarre words and phrases that make up ‘Australian English’, this entertaining dictionary of slang belongs on everyone’s bookshelf. If you’re an Australian, you’ll be fascinated to find out how some of the sayings came to be; and if you’re a visitor you’ll find it an invaluable resource for understanding what people are actually talking about!