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Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt is transferred to a new post at G Company, an infantry unit of the United States army posted at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Prewitt is a career soldier with six years of service behind him, known as a "thirty year man". He is also a top notch bugle player and a one time boxer. Formerly in a bugle company, he was transferred with a lowering of rank after making a complaint that an inferior bugler was promoted ahead of him. His CO is Captain 'Dynamite' Holmes, who asked for Prewitt for his past as a boxer - 'Dynamite' is a regimental boxing coach who is out for promotion and sees a winning boxing team headed by Prewitt as his road to glory. But Prewitt stopped boxing after he accidentally blinded his friend and sparring partner and he won't play 'Dynamite's' game - no matter how hard the going gets...
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When priceless champion bulls start vanishing from stock-farms around England. Gaskin asks for Biggles and the Air Police to investigate Bertie, whose family also once bred cattle, has background knowledge which comes in useful. And it's obvious it isn't the work of a couple of country yokels - the crooks are highly organised - therefore, dangerous...
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The Golden Girls: Sydney Box
$12.00Elsa is saved at zero hour from a hideous death in the Nazi concentration camp to become a housekeeper for a homosexual camp Commandant. As the end of the war approaches, he sells her to a Munich brothel-keeper. The seductive tricks she learns there leads her to the status of a G.I. bride and escape to America. She passed these tricks to her three daughters and soon they become legends - The Golden Girls. Seven marriages and a string of millionaire lovers gave them a taste for luxury that could only be gratified by the exploitation of the bodies and the hungry men who craved them.
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When Linda boarded the London train, en route for freedom, she was penniless and alone. A polite offer of help from the stranger in the opposite seat was the last thing she expected. Life with Rowley Frobisher was everything she had ever dreamed of: fast, sophisticated and expensive, In a few months the country girl had changed beyond recognition. But then Rowley has a fatal heart attack - and once again., Linda must take desperate action to survive...
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Father In A Fix: Neil Boyd
$15.00Book III of the Father series. The St. Jude saga continues: Father Duddleswell is still tormenting his young green curate and no matter how hard Father Neil tries to steal a march on his wily senior, he finds himself in a worse fix than before. St Jude's is the place where anything can happen, and usually does. Billy Buzzle the Bookie falls madly in love with a pig, which Father Duddleswell kidnaps; a pious, rich widow turns out to be a kleptomaniac; the superb diagnostician is always at the whiskey and the only parishioner Father Neil can really trust is a former con-man! -
A story told in the first person by bushranger Dick Marston as he awaits his appointment with the gallows, looking back at his turbulent years as cattle-duffer and bushranger with his father Ben, brother Jim and the gentleman adventurer, Captain Starlight. Cover art by Don Stephens.
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Divided into sections: Adventure, Romance and Song; People And Life; and The World Around Us and featuring such luminaries as Tennyson, Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson; Robert Browning; John O'Brien; Thomas Hardy; Stephen Vincent Benet; Charles Kingsley; William Cowper; Hilaire Belloc; Walter Scott; Judith Wtight; Kath Walker; Mary Gilmore; Colin Thiele; Henry Kendall; Kenneth Slessor; W.H. Auden; Walter de la Mare; John Masefield and many more. Illustrated by Mollie Horseman.
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Book 6 of Anne of Green Gables. Anne's children were almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one could resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside becomes endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into a drama that tests her courage and leaves her changed forever.