On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the...
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Author: Stacey O'BrienSummary:
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Author: Schubert, Leslie A.Summary:
Leila is the daughter of an early pioneer family in Western Australia where the onset of the war cruelly interrupts her passionate romance. After 40 years the romance is rekindled.
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Author: SMITH, TerrySummary:
The author was lucky enough to spend time working on Rottnest Island, where he got to know Bertram and the other quokkas (well, most of them - there are over 10,000 quokkas on the island!).
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Author: BALZO, SandraSummary:
Heres a tip: if your ex-husbands mistress-cum-missus asks for your help in proving that he cheated on her while he was married to you, just say no. And, whatever you do, dont invite her in . . ....
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Author: WALTERS, MinetteSummary:
Based on the true story of the 'Chicken Farm Murder' that took place in East Sussex in 1924, the author brings a thrilling interpretation to this real-life mystery.
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Author: PERRY, AnneSummary:
It is mid-December and Henry Rathbone travels to the Dreghorn family manor house near Ullswater. But despite the festive season and the beautiful surroundings, this is not a happy occasion; he is...
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Author: MCKINLEY, TamaraSummary:
Catriona Summers' debut in show business came early. Her father, the leader of a travelling music hall troupe that toured small regional towns introduced her to her first audience when only a...
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Author: TSUKIYAMA, GailSummary:
Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an exploration of two of the richest and most layered...
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Author: BURGH, AnitaSummary:
It is 1859. At age three, Eliza Forester is left motherless when her father orders his wife from the house. He keeps the child not out of love, but to spite his wife. Here is a woman who loses...
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Author: THOMAS, RosieSummary:
Sadie's life is calm and complete. She is a mother, a good friend, and the robust survivor of a marriage she left behind. But now her father is dying and realises she can never make her peace...
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Author: PICOULT, JodiSummary:
In the aftermath of her mother's divorce, seven-year-old Faith begins to confide in an imaginary friend. Her mother Mariah puts it down to Faith's imagination, but when Faith develops stigmata...
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Author: COOK, JudithSummary:
Recovering form a bad bout of flu and the humiliating failure of his second marriage, former policeman John Latymer is feeling distinctly low. When a regular customer of the bookshop in which he...
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Author: ADAMS, JaneSummary:
To Robert Carr, Anna is a mystery. She has alway been an enigma and over the past thirteen years, his imagination has fed on his last parting kiss goodbye before turning to leave.
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Author: NELSON, AliceSummary:
Adrift in a failing marriage, Maya Wise is alone in a strange world far from home. Until, intrigued by an elderly Chinese man carrying a caged nightingale she begins to follow him through the...
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Author: LANE, ElizabethSummary:
An idyllic and rollickingly humorous story of a girl growing up in a large family on a farm in the Victorian Wimmera.