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When Fan's mum, Agnes, announces the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes's father &– a man they've never spoken of before now &– Fan finds herself a stranger in a new town living in a home whose currents and tensions she cannot read or understand.Resentful of her mother's decision to move, Fan forms an alliance with her grandfather, Edwin Salt, a convict transported to Australia in 1861. As she listens to memories of his former life in England, Fan starts snooping around the house, riffling through Edwin's belongings in an attempt to fill the gaps in his stories. But the secrets Fan uncovers will test the family's fragile bondsforever, and force Edwin into a final reckoning with the brutality of his past.
It's time to find out how the other half lives. Elizabeth and Rafferty Kingston have it all: a stunning house on the Norfolk Broads, more money than they could ever spend, and three beautiful children. Sally and Jason Fletcher, meanwhile, battle for every penny, and Sally's grown used to Jason working overtime to make ends meet, while she serves behind the bar in the local pub. When Arlo Kingston married Billie Fletcher, the two families were united, but they have nothing in common. Or so it seems. Then Ellis Kingston, Arlo's younger brother and wannabe film director, decides to make a life swap documentary featuring the two families. Reluctantly, Sally and Elizabeth swap homes and families ...
Includes report of annual convention of United States independent telephone association, no. 44, 1940-
When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.
Water management is a key environmental issue in controlling of floods and reducing droughts. This book provides analysis of the main issues, offering solutions and describing good practice. Water Resources for the Built Environment: management issues and solutions develops an appreciation of the diverse, complex and current themes of the water resources debate across the built environment, urban development and management continuum. The integration of physical and environmental sciences, combined with social, economic and political sciences, provide a unique resource, useful to policy experts, scientists, engineers and subject enthusiasts. By taking an interdisciplinary approach, water reso...
A children's tale of a teddy bear pilot and his faithful canine friend
Sunday Times bestselling author Nora Roberts returns with a brand new standalone novel - a story about the power of love to light a way through the darkness 'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman' The Guardian When he was nine, and his mother had her first deadly dance with cancer, Harry became a thief. Someone had to find food and pay the mortgage even if his mother was too sick to work. When his mother finally succumbs to cancer, Harry leaves Chicago but somehow he can't quite leave all of his past behind. Harry lives a quiet, careful, rootless life - he can't afford to attract attention or get attached - until he meets Miranda. But just when Harry thinks he has a chance at happiness his old life comes back to haunt him. Harry has had dealings with some bad people in his past but none more dangerous than Carter LaPorte and Harry is forced to run. But no matter what name he uses or where he goes, Harry cannot escape. If he is ever going to feel safe Harry must face down his enemy once and for all. Only then can he hope to possess something more valuable than anything he has ever stolen.