Category: Contemporary

The Story of Danny Dunn [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Penguin Books Australia : 2009

Seller ID: 001300

ISBN-13: 9780670073344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

In the aftermath of the Great Depression, few opportunities existed for working-class boys, but at just 18 Danny Dunn has a good deal going for him: brains, looks, sporting ability - and an easy charm. His parents run The Hero, a favourite neighbourhood pub, and Danny is a local hero. Luck changes for Danny when he signs up to go to war. He returns home a physically broken man, to a life that will be changed for ever. Together with Helen, a woman of strength, character and intelligence who becomes his wife, he sets about rebuilding his life. It is a life tormented by personal demons, and s...
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Tommo and Hawk #2 Potato Factory [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Viking Australia : 1997

Seller ID: 000967

ISBN-13: 9780670878772

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Bryce Courtenay has created an unforgettable story of the enduring bond between two brothers. Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart Town. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the Rocks in Sydney to the miners' riots in the goldfields, Tommo and Hawk must learn each other's strengths and weaknesses in order to survive. Along the way, Hawk meets the outrageous Maggie Pye, who brings love and laughter into his...
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Whitethorn @ White Thorn [used book]

By: Bryce Courtenay

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Viking Australia : 2006

Seller ID: 001783

ISBN-13: 9780670070411

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

From Bryce Courtenay comes a novel of Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in The Boys Farm, an orphanage in a remote town in the high mountains, where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitler's Germany. Tom's English name proves sufficient for him to be ostracised, marking him as an outsider. And so begin some of life's tougher lessons fo...
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Tails Carried High #1 Daughters of the Wind

By: Carmel Rowley

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, BookPal : 2009

Seller ID: 000915

ISBN-13: 9781921681004

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

After her mother's death, Jessikah Lloyd throws caution to the wind, leaving England in search of her family history in Queensland, Australia. As disturbing secrets are revealed, Jessikah learns that, had her mother remained in Australia, she would have been the fourth generation in a long line of Arabian horse breeders. Jessikah finds the ego-driven world of the Arabian horse industry fascinating, but what she longs to know eludes her. How did her grandmother Emma Hagen die twenty-five years ago? Who now owns the property, and why is the once beautiful stud farm crumbling? When good-looking ...
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Voices in the Wind #2 Daughters of the Wind

By: Carmel Rowley

Price: $26.95

Publisher: Australia, Pearsons View Publishing : 2010

Seller ID: 000916

ISBN-13: 9780980824902

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The persistent neighing of horses resonated on the soft wind. Was it a warning or a reminder for Jessikah to heed caution and remember the past? Jessikah Lloyd is devoted to breeding Arabian horses. But a sequence of events, during the holiday of a lifetime, will alter her life forever. A mysterious incident in Venice is followed by the passion of the Palio in Siena. At a major German Arabian horse show, events take a darker turn. Nothing can prepare Jessikah's family for a deathbed revelation, linked to an old betrayal, or the traumatic events that follow. From the black soil valleys of Au...
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Just Between Us [used book]

By: Cathy Kelly

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Harper Collins : 2002

Seller ID: 001472

ISBN-13: 9780007896714

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

From the bestselling author of SOMEONE LIKE YOU and WHAT SHE WANTS comes an uplifting novel about how three very different women cope with the complexities of their lives - relationships, careers, and families - to find fulfilment. Full of Cathy Kelly's trademark warmth, romance, optimism and wit. In the Irish country town of Kinvara, the fabulous MIller girls are generally reckoned to have it all. There's Stella with the looks of a Renaissance Madonna and a brilliant lawyer's mind. A single mum who has combined work and raising her daughter with aplomb, the only thing missing from her life ...
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Just Between Us [used book]

By: Cathy Kelly

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Harper Collins : 2003

Seller ID: 002333

ISBN-13: 9780006514787

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

From the bestselling author of SOMEONE LIKE YOU and WHAT SHE WANTS comes an uplifting novel about how three very different women cope with the complexities of their lives - relationships, careers, and families - to find fulfilment. Full of Cathy Kelly's trademark warmth, romance, optimism and wit. In the Irish country town of Kinvara, the fabulous MIller girls are generally reckoned to have it all. There's Stella with the looks of a Renaissance Madonna and a brilliant lawyer's mind. A single mum who has combined work and raising her daughter with aplomb, the only thing missing from her life ...
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Treasons of the Heart [used book]

By: Charlotte Lamb

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Australia, Doubleday Book Club : 1999

Seller ID: 000944

ISBN-13: 9781876590123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

When Claudia and Ben first meet in Paris, the sexual frisson between them is powerful and instantaneous - and mutual, until Claudia's home is burgled and she is violently attacked. She begins to suspect Ben is less interested in her than in Hugh, her father's best friend.
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Ryders Ridge [used book]

By: Charlotte Nash

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Hachette : 2013

Seller ID: 001843

ISBN-13: 9780733630217

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Will escaping to Ryders Ridge help Dr Daniella Bell forget her past, or force her to confront it head on? Shaken after a tragic incident in the city hospital where she worked, Daniella figures that the small north-west Queensland cattle town of Ryders Ridge is just the place to hide. Caring and dedicated, she quickly wins the trust of her patients, and the attention of handsome station heir, Mark Walker. As their relationship grows, Daniella begins to think she could make a new life for herself in Ryders. But country towns have their own problems. Under the big outback sky, Daniella discovers...
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Between the Sheets @ Between the Lines [used book]

By: Colette Caddle

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Simon & Schuster : 2008

Seller ID: 003241

ISBN-13: 9781847373014

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Dana De Lacey, bestselling romance novelist, has the world at her feet. The words on the page flow easily, an exciting new book deal beckons, and life at home in Dublin is good. But Dana's self-confidence and success depend on one person: her gorgeous husband Gus. Without him, she has no fall-back. No children, no close family of her own to call upon. When Gus leaves her, she is devastated. The words fail to come. The alcohol flows too freely. She cannot sleep. Then her estranged brother Ed arrives out of the blue to take care of her and memories that she has kept buried for many years start t...
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Prep * TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK *

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Price: $22.95

Publisher: UK, Black Swan : 2010

Seller ID: 9780552776844

ISBN-13: 9780552776844

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning against old brick buildings, girls running with lacrosse sticks across pristine athletics fields, everyone singing hymns in chapel. But as she soon learns, Ault is a minefield of unstated rules and incomprehensible social rituals, and Lee must work hard to find and maintain her place in the pecking order. About the Author: "Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of...
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The New You Survival Kit [used book]

By: Daisy Waugh

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Harper Collins : 2002

Seller ID: 001774

ISBN-13: 9780007137763

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Daisy Waugh's commercial fiction debut is a wickedly funny satire of the bitch eat bitch world of celebrity PR, with an unexpected romantic heart. Welcome to the noughties. Can you take it? She's at the top of her profession, but Jo's social life is as much a game of survival as her work. This is London in 2001, where if you call your boyfriend on his mobile, you have to disguise your number or he won't pick up -- he's always expecting someone more important to ring. Where your best friends think nothing of cancelling at the last minute, ten times in a row. Where commitment is a 'pencilled opt...
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A Far Country [used book]

By: Daniel Mason

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Picador : 2007

Seller ID: 003016

ISBN-13: 9780230017955

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Throughout their childhood in the dusty cane fields of Saint Michael, Isabel and her older brother Isaias have been inseparable. But when Isaias runs away to become a musician, promising to return, Isabel's life changes irrevocably. With scorching droughts setting in and the threat of starvation looming over the villagers, Isabel's parents are forced to send her to the Capital, the glamorous and exotic city in the south. However, the city is not the land of plenty they had believed it to be, leaving her no choice but to make a home for herself in the sprawling slums. And although there has b...
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Accident [used book]

By: Danielle Steel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Corgi Books : 1995

Seller ID: 002717

ISBN-13: 9780552137478

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Although frequent business meetings keep her husband, Brad, away from home, Page Clarke feels blessed with her happy family and comfortable marriage. They have a house near San Francisco and she keeps busy looking after their seven-year-old son, Andy, and their teenage daughter, Allyson. Allyson, at fifteen, is trying her wings and one weekend, instead of an evening with her friend Chloe, the girls lie and go out with two older high school boys. But a Saturday night that was supposed to be fun ends in tragedy when their car collides head-on with another. At the hospital, Page finds Chloe's div...
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Amazing Grace [used book]

By: Danielle Steel

Price: $7.00

Publisher: UK, Bantam Press : 2007

Seller ID: 001083

ISBN-13: 9780593056721

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

The lives of four unforgettable characters collide in Danielle Steel's compelling new novel, as a devastating tragedy transforms each of them forever, igniting powerful journeys of change and revelation, courage and grace...On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity auction. The evening is perfect - until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream...In the earthquake's aftermath, the lives of four stra...
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Betrayal [used book]

By: Danielle Steel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Bantam Press : 2012

Seller ID: 000982

ISBN-13: 9780593063118

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. An ambitious and passionate film director, her award-winning productions achieve the rare combination of critical and commercial success. But she has little interest in the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, instead focusing intently on her work and family. She has close, loving relationships with her daughter, her elderly father and Hunter Lloyd - her co-producer and partner of four years. Completing her trusted circle is Brigitte Parker - Tallie's best friend and devoted personal assistant. They've been friends since film school, and Brigitte's polished gla...
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Big Girl [used book]

By: Danielle Steel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Bantam Press : 2010

Seller ID: 003733

ISBN-13: 9780593063071

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family. A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughter's looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, ...
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Big Girl [used book]

By: Danielle Steel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Bantam Press : 2010

Seller ID: 003734

ISBN-13: 9780593063064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family. A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. Her father, Jim, is tall and slender, and her mother, Christina, is a fine-boned, dark-haired beauty. Both are self-centered, outspoken, and disappointed by their daughter's looks. When Victoria is six, she sees a photograph of Queen Victoria, ...
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Bittersweet [used book]

By: Danielle Steel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Corgi Books : 2000

Seller ID: 002715

ISBN-13: 9780552145039

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly-maintained calendars. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she had married seventeen years before. She had chosen this life, not the award-winning career as a photojournalist she once had, and it was a choice she had never regretted - until she began to regret it with all her heart. India couldn't pinpoint the exact moment when the price of the sacrifices she she'd made began to seem high. But when she met Paul Ward, a Wall Street tycoon married to a bestsellin...
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Fine Things [used book]

By: Danielle Steel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: UK, Sphere Books : 1987

Seller ID: 000798

ISBN-13: 9780722183083

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Living on the crest of a highly successful career, he was moving too fast to realise that he had everything - except what he wanted most . . . Sent to San Francisco to open the smartest department store in California, Bernie Fine becomes aware of the hollowness of his personal life. Despite his success he grows increasingly disenchanted with his existence - until five-year-old Jane O'Reilly gets lost in the store. Through Jane, Bernie meets her mother Liz, who finally offers him the possibility of love. But the rare happiness they find together is disrupted by tragedy and Bernie must face ...
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Category: Contemporary