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White Topee: Eve Langley
$30.00Set in idyllic Gippsland, Victoria, a girl called Steve is the heroine - a complicated, almost incredible, but delightful character. Steve will cheerfully pick peas or sort beans or work on a tea plantation, revelling in the hard manual labor because she can see beauty in its performance. She's a hard-working Australian country girl, habitually dressed in men's clothes and a white topee who sees life through the eyes of a poet. There's lively characters, music-loving Italians, casual Australians, university graduates and laborers - who all love Australia. Regarded as a sequel to The Pea-Pickers. -
The village of Swything is a picture book place of green lanes, comfortable farm houses and a Saxon church. But the Bacons are anything but charming - slovenly, dirty and poor, with too many unattractive children - except Emmie. She was different. She knew there must be something better than her slatternly mother, who disliked all her children, but hated Emmie most because she was different. When Emmie was twelve, the miracle happened - a chance to learn about a very different world through her schoolteacher, Miss Stanton. There had to be something better than Ted Gibson, her mother's lecherous star-boarder, who was tired of her mother's favors and wanted to sample the daughters and Saul Fincham, the miserly farmer who overworked and underpaid her. There must be something better... -
White Fang: Jack London
$6.00He was three-quarters wolf and all fury. Born in a cave, in famine, int he frozen Arctic, in a world where the weak died without mercy and only the swift, the strong and cunning survived. This was White Fang's world until he and his mother were captured by the man-gods: Men who taught White Fang to hate. He was beaten, abused and attacked. He was bought and sold, tortured, trained to kill in blood sports. He did not know kindness and became a mad, lethal creature of pure rage. Only one man saw White Fang's intelligence and nobility and he had the courage to offer the killer a new life. But can a wolf understand the words 'hope' and 'love'? -
A confrontation between a radical environmental group and a Danish cruiser has forced Kurt Austin - leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala - to come to the rescue of a ship full of trapped men. But when the two of them investigate further, they find something more sinister is at work. A shadowy multinational company is attempting to get control of the seas, no matter what havoc results, and killing anyone who tries to stop them. When Austin's boat blows up and he barely survives, it seems certain he's next in line to die - but he can't stop now...the environmental disaster has already begun and only he and NUMA stand in the way. -
Here are barmaids and black musicians; single mothers and burnt-out businessmen; all struggling a little too close to the edge in lives where a lot is at risk. These nine stories draw on the author's own experience as an army wife living in a trailer in Georgia and as an often unemployed single mother back in her Michigan hometown. A daring new writer who slices into ordinary American lives. -
Whirlwind: James Clavell
$9.00Book VI of the Asian Saga. Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions finally explode, and the Iranian people rise up against the Shah. The country, once secular, is now thrown back into an orthodoxy that threatens to tear it apart. The United States and Russia go on high alert, with warships heading to the Middle East. The region becomes a powder keg, waiting to explode. Caught up in the revolution are a British helicopter company and its pilots. The oil fields of Iran need helicopters to ferry workers and administrators, and when the main US aviation company pulls out of Iran fearing what might come next, S-G Helicopters steps in to fill the void. Soon they realize that they, too, must leave or risk losing all their machines to whomever takes control of the country. The company risks bankruptcy if that happens—which would ruin Andrew Gallavan and reveal that the company is actually owned by a secret Hong Kong-based consortium: Noble House, controlled by the Struan family. Caught in between is his son, Scot, a pilot in Iran who must help save his father’s company, but also the other pilots and their families. In a risky move, the pilots concoct a plan to get their choppers out of Iran. But will they be able to escape a country crumbling around them before it’s too late? -
An awesome collection of 87 of Lawson's best known stories, that will take the reader from the Sydney slums to the shearing sheds of northern New South Wales - stories peopled with drovers, buckjumpers, seamen, diggers, drunks and lovers. Some of the stories herein: An Old Mate of Your Father's; Arvie Aspinall's Alarm Clock; Mitchell Doesn't Believe In The Sack; The Drover's Wife; Two Dogs and a Fence; Baldy Thompson; Andy Page's Rival; Bill, The Ventriloquial Rooster; Mr. Smellingscheck; The Shanty-keepr's Wife; Two Boys At Grinder Bros; Mitchell on 'Sex' And Other 'Problems' and so much more.
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This highland tale focuses on Alistair, a young American laird, and his cousin Don. When they fight over Norray, an actress who has bewitched both young gentlemen, Alistair is left battered. Aleac, an occasional poacher, finds the laird and brings him home to be nursed back to health. There, he meets Aleac's niece Margaret...and the action really begins. -
Jon Jamieson struggles to survive in suburban Sydney, with something of herself intact after twenty-seven years of marriage to a drunken, brutish philanderer. She looks back to a loveless childhood at the mercy of her ambitious mother and into the marriage market where a 'suitable' match is arranged. Two fine children bring her joy, a brief love affair a trace of happiness; her painting gives her satisfaction - but each day she faces more clearly her inability to take control of her future. Resilient and determined, she so often nearly breaks away to remake her life - even urged by her daughter Ruth - but the awesome weight of obligation, the seductive alternative of compromise and a kind of love hold her back - until it is too late...
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