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A Soldier's Quartet
CONRAD BENTLEY ENJOYS HIS RETIREMENT. By chance, he comes across a letter from WWI - a German father writes about his grief of losing a son to war - buried by his three comrades near a small French village. The letter resonates with Conrad and he commits to researching its backstory. Months later, Conrad makes contact with the fallen soldier's family. He falls deeper into their history and other untold stories from this era, including the fate of young Tasmanian soldiers who also fought on the Western Front. A Soldier's Quartet is inspired by true events, a story of perseverance and happenstance that transcends time and reaches across continents. It presents the human faces behind uniforms and battle plans, conveys love and hope set against various landscapes. Conrad's discovery of the letter brings the past into the present as he reflects on his own life and loss.
TrUe CoLoUrS
Even though someone may smile, it doesn't mean their world isn't crashing down around them. Ariel's life was in a rut as she lived a privileged life with everything a person could ask for, wealth, a loving family, great friends and even a fulfilling job. But something was missing. Until she found an old, abandoned rec centre where five homeless children seemed to survive alone, and they came to change her life forever. Ariel learns that family doesn't always share the same DNA, it's bound by getting through the tough times together and the people that you're willing to fight for. Noah, home from Afghanistan after being severely injured, gets a chance to reconnect with his daughter, Emma. He ...
Coal Towns
Using oral histories, company records, and census data, Crandall A. Shifflett paints a vivid portrait of miners and their families in southern Appalachian coal towns from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century. He finds that, compared to their earlier lives on subsistence farms, coal-town life was not all bad. Shifflett examines how this view, quite common among the oral histories of these working families, has been obscured by the middle-class biases of government studies and the Edenic myth of preindustrial Appalachia propagated by some historians. From their own point of view, mining families left behind a life of hard labor and drafty weatherboard homes. With little time for ...
The Sun Coming Up Is Like Gold
FROM HUGH ALLAN, THE BESTSELLING AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL HIGH LATITUDE FOR DYING AND HIS SECOND COLLECTION OF STORIES, EXPECTATIONS. This collection of Australian verse includes poems about people, nature, pioneers and landscapes, which will inspire, sadden, entertain and amuse all lovers of great prose. The book of verse contains award winning poetry and beautiful images that complement the tapestry of words as they are delivered by the talented author and shared through his passion to entertain his readers and provide the visual mind dance of all the wonders he creates. Hugh Allan is the Australian author of HIGH LATITUDE FOR DYING and EXPECTATIONS, all published by Shawline Publish...
The Raiden
WHILE THEIR COUNTRY PREPARES FOR WAR, THEY PREPARE FOR THE BATTLE OF THEIR LIVES. Dalin is destined to lead all mortal races against the Sorcerer's threat. Yet this means he must even accept the soldiers of Krall, who are now determined to take Kiana for their own. Dalin must battle his own mistrust if he is to truly become 'The Raiden' who can unite them all. The Gods have given their warning. A deadly threat will be born at the end of the ninth age and will find a divided world easy to consume. All will be destroyed in a storm of ice and fire, unless three can be found to stand against the threat, and to bring all magical and mortal peoples together. A huntress and two runaways have been d...
Lest
From Simpson’s donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn’t happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight. Australia has many stories and statues ‘lest we forget’ our military past. But from Simpson’s donkey to Ben Roberts-Smith, our history is full of events that didn’t happen the way most people think they did. The first Anzac Day, for example, was far from being a solemn march – it was a celebration where people dressed as cavemen and dinosaurs, among other things. And is it true that British officers callously dispatched Austra...
Virozone
The world as we know it has been ravaged by violence and environmental disaster. Society has been split into exclusive zones to protect what little is left. Divided by Air, Water, Soil and Fire, each zone trades what they can to survive. Certainly life is difficult, particularly as a fifth zone, the Prestige Zone, regularly takes what they like to ensure their privileged life continues to thrive. But when 16 year old Lawlie Pearce's mother is killed, it becomes clear that the tenuous peace between the zones is on the verge of unravelling. With a thirst for vengeance, Lawlie leaves AirZone to discover the truth and seek justice for her mother - even if she has to bring down the biggest enemy of all, Sceptre, the leader of the Prestige Zone that dominates the world that is Virozone.
The Lost Pearl
A sweeping family saga of long lost love, for readers of Fiona McIntosh and Mary-Anne O'Connor. From Pearl Harbor to the shores of Sydney, a secret that spans generations could unite a family – or destroy it. Honolulu, Hawaii 1941 On the evening of her sixteenth birthday party, Catherine McGarrie wants nothing more than for the night to be over, even though the opulence of the ballroom befits the daughter of a US Navy Rear Admiral. Then she meets Charlie, a navy officer from the other side of the tracks, a man her parents would never approve of. As rumours of war threaten their tropical paradise, Catherine and Charlie fall in love. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7th December 1941 changes their lives forever. Seventy–five years later, addled by age and painkillers, Catherine tells her granddaughter Kit her story and reveals the tale of a long–lost treasure. Can Kit uncover the secret and reunite her family? Or will the truth tear them apart?
