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The Crowded Beach
Laurene Kelly
The powerful sequel to the acclaimed I Started Crying Monday tells the story of fourteen-year-old Julie trying to forge a new life for herself after a family tragedy. Adapting to life in the city, without her parents, is sometimes exciting, but often overwhelming, and discovering the joys of the beach provides Julie with an escape from the ongoing dramas. At first, it seems the turmoil will...
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The Iron Mouth
Beryl Fletcher
Top Twenty Title, Listener Women's Book Festival, 1993
The first problem is the return of the nightmare. Elena dreams of a white horse lying dead in a river; a mare with a huge pale wound in her side. She lies half out of the water, her wound washed clean and cold by the moving current. Elena attempts to call out the mare’s name but her throat is frozen with grief. Khryse is writing...
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Thriller And Me
Merrilee Moss
Angelica’s twelve – and no angel, as she says herself. But does she deserve this crazy situation?
Why? Why? Why? she punches on the keys of the computer. Why has Dad gone? Why has Mum flipped her lid? And why does that dog howl every night? Doesn’t anyone care? In Thriller and Me, Angelica sets off with Beth and try-hard Max to find out the truth. She learns heaps: about the...
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Too Rich
Melissa Chan
‘You can never be too thin or too rich,’ said Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. But Francesca Miles, independent feminist detective, disagrees. When one of the richest men in Sydney is found dead in his penthouse, she teams up with Inspector Joe Barnaby in a mystery that follows the trials and tribulations of a family that should have everything that money can buy. A thoroughly riveting...
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White Turtle
Merlinda Bobis
Co-winner, Steele Rudd Award, best collection of short stories, 2000
Winner, National Book Award (fiction), Manila Critics Circle, 2000
An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A working siesta in a five-star hotel. A woman’s twelve-metre hair trawling corpses from a river. Or a queue of longings in Darlinghurst. These enigmatic tales are stories of chance and...
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