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A love triangle, a mysterious death, a family torn apart ....Willa McPhee's family history research has just thrown up a murdered great-aunt. Obsessed with finding the truth, she flees troubled relationships at home and travels to Ochiltree, a village frozen in time, where she is drawn into the mystery of the powerful Hinchbrook and Henzell families.With the help of the town's eccentric senior citizens, and the dark and brooding Louis, Willa uncovers the tragedies that led ...

Love's young dream lay in tatters …It's the spring of 1902 and things are looking up for brilliant young engineer, Randolph Henry. He's just landed his dream job and his dream girl. But elation soon turns to despair when he finds his sweetheart in the arms of another, and himself on the run, accused of a vicious attack and a brutal murder.Indomitable publican, Marmie Harris, has just walked down the aisle for the fourth time and is looking forward to quiet retireme...

They say bad things come in threes...Tragedy forces the teenaged Cleary sisters to join the thousands leaving Ireland for the fabled good life in the colonies. But at the bottom of the world, they encounter dangerous and disconcerting characters, prejudices they thought they'd left behind, and choices that can only drive them apart.Through the eyes of the dutiful and naïve, Roisin; lovelorn stalwart, Grace; and feminist artist Stella, The Darlings of the Downs

An Australian gold-rush adventure novella. Book two in the Downs series.'She wholly believed that he was a heart-breaker, but that didn't stop her from wanting to be his next victim.'It's 1880 and gold fever grips the colony, transforming the barely-there town of Gympie into a Mecca overnight. Gorgeous thief and unapologetic ladies' man, Eamon Phelan, and his gang descend upon the town and are soon offered...

Casey needs a family of her own: the joys and the sorrows, people who love her, and a place she belongs—what Zorba the Greek called “the full catastrophe”—and she’s determined to make it happen.Adrift in the world after losing her father to a heart attack when she was eleven and her mother to cancer soon after, the death of her sole sibling eight years later only strengthens her resolve.Casey marries, has three children, and though she struggles with grief and a shaky sense...

Somewhere between curiosity and panic lives a familiar question:Do I run?DO I RUN? is a visually striking illustrated wildlife book exploring the most dangerous animals found across the American West. From grizzly bears and mountain lions to rattlesnakes, bison, and desert scorpions, this premium coffee table book highlights the wildlife people most often encounter while hiking, traveling, and exploring western landscapes.Organized ...

As World War 1 rages, the political and social turmoil of the wider community infiltrates the hallowed halls of Toowoomba's most exclusive boarding school, Canterbury Girls Grammar, where, amid racism, gossip and intrigue, student Grace Mathie feels like she is the sole voice of reason.Canterbury's white-bread world is rocked to its core when Grace's best friend vanishes into thin air. The police have only two suspects in their sights: both running from a shady past and neither one...

This book restores the concept of topology to its rhetorical roots to assist scholars who wish not just to criticize power dynamics, but also to invent alternatives. Topology is a spatial rather than a causal method. It works inductively to model discourse without reducing it to the actions of a few or resolving its inherent contradictions. By putting topology back in tension with opportunity, as originally designed, the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for post-critic...

Veteran journalists Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge have written the definitive inside look at the Boston Marathon bombings with a unique, Boston-based account of the events that riveted the world. From the Tsarnaev brothers’ years leading up to the act of terror to the bomb scene itself (which both authors witnessed first-hand within minutes of the blast), from the terrifying police shootout with the suspects to the ultimate capture of the younger brother, Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph ove...

Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings together a set of chapters that provide an overview of the political ecology approach, ill...

Set in a post-War period when a well-to-do British family's existence - both outside and inside the house - is ruled by a strict set of conventions, The Second-last Woman in England explores the depth of emotions that are always there in every family but rarely surface. And what happens when they do.In London's South Kensington, in the austere years immediately following the end of the war, Mrs Harriet Wallis is convicted of the murder of her husband, Cecil, and is sentenc...

High adventure from a master storyteller about one boy's attempt to fend for himself among cruel orphan masters, corrupt magistrates, and conniving thieves.In the seaside town of Melcombe Regis, England, 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts wakes to find his father missing and his house flooded by a recent storm. He's alone in his ruined home with no money and no food. Oliver's father has left behind a barely legible waterlogged note: he's gone to London, where Oliver's sist...