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You wake up alone after an emergency caesarean, desperate to see your child. And when you are shown the small infant in the nursery, a terrible thought takes root: this baby is not your baby.No one believes you. Not the nurses, your father or even your own husband. They...
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As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - until one night in 1930 she...
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Lace up your boots, pull on your guernsey and get ready to hit the field running with these Brownlow-worthy AFL short stories!A collection of AFL-themed short stories written by some of Australia's sportiest children's authors, including:Michael Wagner (Why I Love Footy...
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It is German-occupied Poland in 1942 and Jewish lives are at risk. Nazi soldiers order young boys to pull down their trousers to see if they are circumcised. Many are summarily shot or sent to the camps. A remarkable mother takes an ingenious step. To avoid suspicion,...
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Midwife Noni Frost needs a miracle. Among the white gums of the NSW northern rivers, Rivertown Hospital's maternity unit is under threat and will close unless a new obstetrician is hired to share the on-call load. When Iain McCloud and his pregnant teenage daughter,...
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When the river rises and the city of Paris begins to disappear under water, Frederic decides to help those who can't help themselves. But as his heroic acts escalate, so does the danger. Frederic will have to battle an escaped zoo animal and fight off pickpockets and...
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Jaxie dreads going home. His mum’s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one’s ever toldJaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for.
In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and...
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Teddy Broderick has lived on her farm almost all her life, committed to the rhythms of the country - seeding, harvest, shearing and the twice daily milking of the cow her grandmother has looked after for years, but she dreams of another life, in the wide world away from...
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In Holding the Line, David Cameron tells the extraordinary story of Australian troops at Villers-Bretonneux in World War I. The Anzacs had one of their greatest victories at Villers-Bretonneux, defeating the Germans there in an attack later described by a British...
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'There's no one I trust more with my club's yarn than Martin Flanagan' - Bob MurphyThe Western Bulldogs' 2016 premiership came from nowhere - they were the club with no luck, no stars, no right to win, no culture of success. They were the rank underdogs and they swept...
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