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Cases that changed the law
By Graham Fricke
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"Cases that changed the law" is Graham Fricke's plain-English digest of landmark international legal cases which should be... More > compulsory reading for all law students, a useful refresher for practicing lawyers ... and a revealing read for anyone who finds themselves inside a courtroom wondering what is going on! < Less
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Cases that changed the law
By Graham Fricke
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"Cases that changed the law" is Graham Fricke's plain-English digest of landmark international legal cases which should be... More > compulsory reading for all law students, a useful refresher for practicing lawyers ... and a revealing read for anyone who finds themselves inside a courtroom wondering what is going on! < Less
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Mae-Be Roses
By Rebecca Bloomer
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Mae Rose, is a self-confessed 'nothinger'. Her dad has called her Mae-be from the day she was born. She's his bundle of... More > possibilities. All her life she's proven him right. She gets good grades but is not the sportiest, coolest or cleverest girl in school. Mae-be has no siblings to hate and no history of abuse, self or otherwise. When she finds herself pregnant, Mae-be has a lot to learn. She learns the hypocrisy of some, the kindness of others and the need for making a life after she brings one into the world. Along the way she learns a lot about herself, via her mother's story. Ma, as Mae calls her, had her own, illegitimate child at twenty. In the days when the legal voting age was twenty-one, and women weren't worth educating, she was forced to give her daughter up for adoption. Two weeks after adoptive legislation changes, the phone rings and her daughter wants to speak with her. Mae-be Roses follows a mother's story, from rumour, to truth, to a touching reunion. < Less
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Killing the Holy Cows: Memoire of an Afrikaner Woman
By Vierentia Beukes
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This is the story of a few years in Vierentia Beukes's life through the 1940s and 50s, when she was a girl being reared in a... More > conservative Afrikaner home in South Africa. And the story of how she dealt with the most desperate moment of all, her own death. Her daughter, Annelize Britz, writes: Vierentia, I salute you! < Less
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Nuts and the Betel and Other Stories
By Ung Van Anh
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Ung Van Anh was born in Vietnam in 1944 and has lived through some of the most turbulent years of Vietnam's recent history.... More > He left Vietnam in 1962 for the US but was deported back there in 1968 during the major communist push we now know as the Tet Offensive. His writings were read during the war on Radio Hanoi and he now works as an English teacher in his home town Phan Thiet. Mr Ung's stories about boat refugees, Vietnamese village life and the challenges faced by US nationals in understanding the conflict will surely interest many readers, some of whom will have shared his experiences. < Less
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On The Face Of It
By Ellen Rich
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Lee thinks her daughter's new friend is "nice". She thinks the new friend's mother is "friendly". Then she discovers the new... More > friend's dad is TOO friendly by far, and before long finds herself in a sexy trap sprung by the over-eager Don Juan. This flirty suburban thriller has a delightful twist in its tail. BONUS addition: four tender, loving poems celebrating life and dear friends. < Less
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Mae-be Roses Teachers Handbook
By Rebecca Bloomer
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The essential Teacher's Handbook for the captivating Mae-be Roses by Rebecca Bloomer, available right here
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Drink The Air
By Richard Yaxley
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Tom, the hero of 'Drink The Air', lives in the coastal whale-watching town of Hervey Bay in Australia; Zooey lives further... More > west, in the country town of Kingaroy. When separate tragedies bring them together, they are forced to leave their childhood lives behind in order to develop new understandings about how to cope with grief, love, friendship and, most importantly, family.
Written with grace and wisdom, 'Drink The Air' is a verse novel which provides an affirmation of the need to give and accept love in order to better understand the truths of our lives. Winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Book in 2010. < Less |
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Drink The Air
By Richard Yaxley
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FOR YOUNG ADULTS ... Tom, the hero of 'Drink The Air', lives in the coastal whale-watching town of Hervey Bay in Australia;... More > Zooey lives further west, in the country town of Kingaroy. When separate tragedies bring them together, they are forced to leave their childhood lives behind in order to develop new understandings about how to cope with grief, love, friendship and, most importantly, family. Written with grace and wisdom, 'Drink The Air' is a verse novel which provides an affirmation of the need to give and accept love in order to better understand the truths of our lives. Winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Book in 2010. Richard’s first novel 'The Rose Leopard' was published by UQP in 2003. Strictly Literary published his second, 'Blood Lines' in 2009 (available on this site). He is also the sole author of an anthology of stories for students entitled Short Shorts (John Wiley). < Less
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Where the Cypress Rises: Making a home in Umbria
By Virginia Ryan
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History, tradition, art and festivals and friendship are the themes that Australian artist Virginia Ryan effortlessly... More > interweaves throughout her intriguing personal memoir. 'Where the Cypress Rises' tells the story of her family's growing affection for a hill town in central Italy. "It was midsummer. The thick, cloying blanket of afternoon heat spread itself drowsily across the Umbrian landscape, leaving the earth scorched under a sun-bleached sky. On far-off mountaintops storms were brewing and distant thunder seemed to rise from a sunstruck earth, an incantation from other times. We drove on and on in a trance towards the hill town of Trevi, only casting aside weariness with the excitement of seeing our new home again. The recently acquired object of our desires was an abandoned olive mill clinging to the edge of tree-lined slopes on the outskirts of the town, purchased quite impulsively the previous summer." < Less
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