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Hope's Boy: Broken by life, saved by love [used book]

By: Andrew Bridge

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Hodder and Stoughton : 2008

Seller ID: 004309

ISBN-13: 9780340961766

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Andrew grew up in the 1970s with his funny, loving but deeply unstable mother. Life with her was totally chaotic. She left him alone in motel rooms at night and took him with her when she went house burgling. But Andrew's mother wasn't bad, she was just lost herself and one thing she did was always tell him she loved him. Gradually, though, the bad times got worse. One day Andrew, aged seven, found his mother in the bathroom in the middle of a breakdown, the walls covered in her pleas for help all written in the blood from the cuts she'd inflicted on herself. He was taken into care and put wit...
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In Defence of Classical Music

By: Andrew Ford

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, ABC Books : 2005

Seller ID: 003908

ISBN-13: 9780733315947

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Why does anyone still bother with classical music?How can the string quartets of Brahms or the symphonies of Beethoven possibly be relevant in our post-9/11 world?In this stimulating and provocative book, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford argues that it is because we live in such discordant times that classical music is more valuable than it has ever been.Beginning with a discussion of some common cliches, he considers the nature of classical music: whether it is, for example, an international language. Then in a series of short essays, each taking as its starting point the music of a singl...
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A Stitch in Time #27 Star Trek Deep Space Nine [used book][rare]

By: Andrew J. Robinson

Price: $55.00

Publisher: USA, Pocket Books : 2000

Seller ID: A1268

ISBN-13: 9780671038854

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Small blemishes, no creasing to spine. Has remainder mark. For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing -- to go home. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, going back to Cardassia has been Garak's one dream. Now, finally, he is home. But home is a world whose landscape is filled with death and destruction. Desperation and dust are constant companions and luxury is a glass of clean water and a warm place to sleep. Ironically, it is a letter from one of the aliens on that space station, Dr. Julian Bashir, that inspires Garak to look at the f...
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Auschwitz - The Nazi Solution: An Illustrated History and Guide

By: Andrew Rawson

Price: $29.95

Publisher: UK, Pen and Sword : 2015

Seller ID: 002754

ISBN-13: 9781473827981

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau were an important part of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question. Over one million people were murdered in its gas chambers and tens of thousands of prisoners were worked to death in the nearby sub-camps. Others were held in the quarantine area before they were deported to work in the Third Reich. This is the story of the development of Auschwitz from a Polish prison camp into a concentration camp, and a thorough account of the building of Birkenau and the gas chambers, which grew into industrial killing machines. Rawson relates what life was like for...
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Helping Your Child with Selective Mutism: Practical Steps to Overcome a Fear of Speaking

By: Angela E. McHolm and Charles E. Cunningham and Melanie K. Vanier

Price: $26.95

Publisher: USA, New Harbinger Publications : 2005

Edition: 2nd Edition

Seller ID: 004021

ISBN-13: 9781572244160

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Often described as "social phobia's cousin" and misdiagnosed as autism, selective mutism is a debilitating fear of speaking in some situations experienced by some children. The disorder usually presents in children before the age of five, but it may not be recognized until the child starts school. When requested to speak, children with selective mutism often look down, blush, or otherwise express anxiety that disrupts their engagement with people and activities. Selective mutism is related to social anxiety and social phobia, and more than 90 percent of children with selective mutism also mani...
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Let's Propagate! A plant propagation manual for Australia Revised Edition

By: Angus Stewart

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Australia, ABC Books : 2012

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 002704

ISBN-13: 9781742375816

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

If you're a gardener who buys everything from the standard and limited nursery range, then you are missing out on one of the most satisfying of all human endeavours - propagating your own plants. Let's Propagate is for anyone interested in hands-on propagation in Australia, either professionally or in the home garden. The book is a marvellous gardening companion for suburban gardeners who crave a creative element amidst the weeding, mowing and pruning; gardeners who are frustrated after trying to adapt imported and inappropriate information to local conditions; gardeners in search of Australia...
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Avoiding Mr Right

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Bantam : 2008

Seller ID: A1008

ISBN-13: 9781741668933

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Taking a man to Melbourne would be like taking a sandwich to a smorgasbord. 'So it's final then, you're not taking James to Melbourne?' Liza asked. 'Are you kidding? Taking a man to Melbourne would be like taking a sandwich to a smorgasbord.' Peta Tully has found her Mr Right â€“ the only trouble is, she's not sure she's ready to settle down. Not just yet, anyway - so when she's offered a twelve-month contract interstate which just might win her the job of her dreams, she puts her Sydney life on hold, packs her bags and jumps on a plane, leaving her doting boyfriend behind. Peta takes...
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Manhattan Dreaming

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Bantam : 2011

Seller ID: A1010

ISBN-13: 9781864711288

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Lauren is a curator at the NAG, the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra. She's good at her job, passionate about the Arts, and focused on her work - that is, when she's not focusing on Adam, half-back for the Canberra Cockatoos. But Adam is a player, on and off the field. Lauren knows he's the one, but he doesn't seem to feel the same way about her. If she just waits long enough, though, surely he'll realise how much he needs her? Then her boss offers her the chance of a lifetime - a fellowship at the Smithsonian in New York. Lauren has to make some big decisions: The Man or Manhattan? ...
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Not Meeting Mr Right

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Bantam : 2007

Seller ID: A1009

ISBN-13: 9781863255110

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

I am deadly, desirable and delicious! This is Alice's mantra as she hilariously negotiates her way through the rocky terrain of singledom. Alice Aigner is successful, independent and a confirmed serial dater - but at her ten-year school reunion she has a sudden change of heart. Bored rigid by her married, mortgaged and motherly former classmates, Alice decides to prove that a woman can have it all: a man, marriage, career, kids and a mind of her own. She sets herself a goal: meet the perfect man and marry him before her thirtieth birthday, just under two years away. Together with her ...
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Paris Dreaming

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Bantam : 2011

Seller ID: A1007

ISBN-13: 9781741668933

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

'I'm telling you now: I'm never having another boyfriend - EVER!' Libby is on a man-fast: no more romance, no more cheating men, no more heartbreak. After all, she has her three best girlfriends and two cats to keep her company at night and her high-powered job at the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra to occupy her day - isn't that enough? But when fate takes Libby to work in Paris at the MusÃ©e du Quai Branly, she's suddenly thrown out of her comfort zone and into a city full of culture, fashion and love. Surrounded by thousands of attentive men, nude poets, flirtatious baristas a...
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Tiddas

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Simon & Schuster : 2015

Seller ID: A1005

ISBN-13: 9781922052278

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

A story about what it means to be a friend â€¦ Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books â€¦ and life, love and the jagged bits in between. Dissecting each otherâ€™s lives seems the most natural thing in the world â€“ and honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other everything, donâ€™t they? But each woman harbours a complex secret and one weekend, without warning, everything comes unstuck. Izzy, soon to be the first Black woman with her own television show, has to make a decision that will change everything. V...
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Yirra and her Deadly Dog, Demon

By: Anita Heiss

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Australia, ABC Children's Books : 2007

Seller ID: A1027

ISBN-13: 9780733320392

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Yirra's mum's sick of vacuuming up fur balls, the neighbours are fed up with having their undies nicked from the clothesline, and her step-dad just wants his slippers back. If Yirra doesn't find a dog-trainer soon, she'll have to give her beloved Demon to a new family - one who likes dogs who run and dig a lot. Bursting with energy and madcap fun,Yirra and Her Deadly Dog, Demon gives young readers a contemporary view of urban Indigenous life in Sydney.
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The Bee Book: Beekeeping Basics, Harvesting Honey, Beeswax, Candles & Other Bee Business

By: Ann Cliff

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Australia, Aird Books : 2010

Seller ID: 003195

ISBN-13: 9780947214609

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Honey has been an important food for people for thousands of years. Their desire for it led to the, domestication of bees, through crafting artificial beehives and manipulating the bees' food sources. But quite apart from the harvests of honey and wax, the life-giving role of bees in pollinating many plants that people rely on for food, has made them the stuff of legend, mystery, worship and, nowadays, also controversy. Although some people believe that our reliance on bees for the cultivation of food crops is much exaggerated (as some major staples like rice, wheat and even potatoes don't nee...
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Medea's Curse # Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist

By: Anne Buist

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Text Publishing : 2015

Seller ID: A1006

ISBN-13: 9781922182647

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Forensic psychiatrist Natalie King works with victims and perpetrators of violent crime. Women with a history of abuse, mainly. She rides a Ducati a size too big and wears a tank top a size too small. Likes men but doesn't want to keep one. And really needs to stay on her medication. Now she's being stalked. Anonymous notes, threats, strangers loitering outside her house. A hostile former patient? Or someone connected with a current case? Georgia Latimerâ€”charged with killing her three children. Travis Hardyâ€”deadbeat father of another murdered child, with a second daughter now missing...
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Go Ask Alice: A Real Diary

By: Anonymous

Price: $14.95

Publisher: USA, Simon Pulse : 2006

Seller ID: 004290

ISBN-13: 9781416914631

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

January 24th. After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs.... It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth - and ultimately her Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. .... For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent in...
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The Little Prince

By: Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Price: $6.95

Publisher: UK, Wordsworth Editions : 2001

Seller ID: 004398

ISBN-13: 9781853261589

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition. First published in 1943, the year before the author's death in action, this translation contains Saint-Exupery's delightful illustrations. About the Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) was a French aviator and author. He had a passion for advent...
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10cm Circular Magnifier with LED Light 2X Magnification 6X Spot Lens

By: Arnott's

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Arnott's

Seller ID: 002653

ISBN: SM-10CMLED

Condition: New

An 10cm diameter circular magnifier with a very powerful LED light. Providing 2x magnification with a 6x with a bi-focal spot lens. Ideal for all small print, street directories, telephone directories, maps, coins, stamps and stock listings. Measuring 23cms in length
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13cm Circular Magnifier 2X Magnification 6X Spot Lens

By: Arnott's

Price: $23.95

Publisher: Arnott's

Seller ID: 002655

ISBN: SM-1290

Condition: New

An 13cm diameter circular magnifier. Providing 2x magnification with a 6x with a bi-focal spot lens. Ideal for all small print, street directories, telephone directories, maps, coins, stamps and stock listings. Measuring 26cms in length
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13cm Circular Magnifier with LED Light 2X Magnification 6X Spot Lens

By: Arnott's

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Arnott's

Seller ID: 002654

ISBN: SM-1290LED

Condition: New

An 13cm diameter circular magnifier with a very powerful LED light. Providing 2x magnification with a 6x with a bi-focal spot lens. Ideal for all small print, street directories, telephone directories, maps, coins, stamps and stock listings. Measuring 26cms in length
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9cm x 5.5cm Rectangular Magnifier with clear handle 2X Magnification 6X Spot Lens

By: Arnott's

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Arnott's

Seller ID: 002658

ISBN: SM-2206

Condition: New

A lightweight rectangular handle magnifier that provides 2x magnification with a 6x spot lens. Ideal for reading small print, contracts, telephone directories, maps, coins, stamps and more. 20.5 cm long x 11 cm wide x 1.0 cm deep.
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