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Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of whites and Aborigines and Asians, of chance relationships that can form bonds for life, of dispossession, murder and betrayal. In 1904 the brothers Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth, clad in serge suits and bowler hats, arrive in Port Zodiac on the coast of Capricornia. they are clerks who have come from the south to join the Capricornian Government Service. Oscar prospers, and takes to his new life as a gentleman. Mark, however, is restless, and takes up with old Ned Krater, a trepang fisherman, who tells him tales of the sea and the islands, introduces him to drink, and boasts of his conquests of Aboriginal women - or 'Black Velvet', as they are called. But it is Mark's son, Norman, whose struggles to find a place in the world embody the complexities of Capricornia itself. The inspiration behind Baz Luhrmann’s film Australia.
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Growing up in an isolated cottage in the hills of Cumberland, Tom knows the bitter cold of shooting expeditions with his grandfather and long evenings spent with his father and mother. But taken away from the hills to live in the small town of Thornton, Tom experiences a tumult of conflicting emotions which he must master before he can come to terms with his identity.
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Sookie Stackhouse 1. Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's quiet, doesn't get out much, and tends to mind her own business - except when it comes to her “disability.” Sookie can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill Compton. He’s tall, dark, handsome - and Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life...But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a string of murders hits Bon Temps - along with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill - Sookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea…
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Sookie Stackhouse 2. Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it). The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, she obliges - and soon Sookie's in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She's supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans go unharmed. But that's easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly…
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Club Dead: Charlaine Harris
$10.00Sookie Stackhouse 3. Things between cocktail waitress Sookie and her vampire boyfriend Bill seem to be going excellently (apart from the small matter of him being undead) until he leaves town for a while. A long while. Bill's sinister boss Eric has an idea of where to find him, whisking her off to Jackson, Mississippi to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead. When she finally catches up with the errant vampire, he is in big trouble and caught in an act of serious betrayal. This raises serious doubts as to whether she should save him or start sharpening a few stakes of her own .. -
In this volume: Dead Sea Fruit: Kaaron Warren; The Cup Of Nestor: Simon Brown; Hero Vale: Margo Lanagan; When The World Was Flat: Geoffrey Maloney; La Frofonde: Terry Dowling; The Dying Light: Deborah Biancotti; Father Muerte And The Flesh: Lee Battersby; The Souls Of Dead Soldiers Are For Blackbirds, Not Little Boys: Ben Peek; Heironymus Boche: Chris Lawson; Terning Tha Weel: Kim Westwood; The Legend Of Grandmother June: Alistair Ong. Cover art by Tomislav Tikulin.
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Haunted by the terrible choices she had to make to save her people, Rin’s only reason for living is to take revenge on the traitorous Empress who sold her homeland to its enemies. Forced to ally with the powerful Dragon Warlord in his plan to unseat the Empress, Rin throws herself into the struggle using the fearsome power bestowed on her by the vengeful god Phoenix. After all – making war is all she knows how to do…
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A fabulous compilation of political cartoons from a variety of sources world wide. In this volume: Europe Before The Great War; The First World War; The Uneasy Peace; Depression And Disarmament; The Rise Of The Nazis. With a chapter on Background and guide to cartoon analysis.
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