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Stephen Orr
Wilf Healy lives in a wheatbelt town, works in an Irish pub, delivers letters, holds the place together. But he's had enough, wants to retire - to forget his nephew…
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He didn’t look like he could jump a bull, but she knew he could. It was all in the hands, he’d often explain. The will. The bloody mindedness. On a…
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Orr’s stories are happy to let you in, but not out. In Datsunland, his characters are outsiders peering into worlds they don’t recognise, or understand: an Indian doctor arriving in…
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Among the coppiced carob trees and arum lilies of the Barossa Valley, old-school Lutheran William Miller lives a quiet life with his wife, Bluma, and son Nathan, making wine and…
In the darkest days of World War II, Ethel Malley lives a quiet life on Dalmar Street, Croydon. One day she finds a collection of poems written by her late…
15-year-old Erwin is forced to tackle scales and studies for six hours a day by his mother, Madge, who is determined to produce Australia’s first great pianist. After a family…
On a cattle station that stretches beyond the horizon, 7 people are trapped by their history and the need to make a living. Trevor Wilkie, the good father, holds it…
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As Hitler’s war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home with his family to live a simple life of shared plums and low-cut lawns in the suburbs. In the…
9-year-old Henry Page is a club-footed, deep-thinking loner, spending his summer holidays reading, roaming the melting streets of his suburb, playing with his best friend Janice, and her younger brother…
Clem Whelan’s got a problem: what to do with his life. To make sense of the world, Clem uses his telescope to spy on his neighbours. As the year progresses…
Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the country town where his ailing, cantankerous father still lives, finds nothing. As far as he can tell no one in Guilderton is missing…
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Advises gardeners to think about their gardens as part of an interconnected whole with the surrounding environment - with an eye to water usage, local ecology, and preservation of resources…
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Clem Whelan's got a problem: trapped in the suburbs in the Sunnyboy summer of 1984 he has to decide what to do with his life. Matriculation? He's more than able…
From our modern garden guru comes the definitive book on herbs to finally replace Mrs. Grieve’s A Modern Herbal from the ‘70s. Here are entries on hundreds of plants that…
A plane in the distance, artillery, his father waiting, and the boy wonders what to do. The Boy in Time charts this child's progress from the Outer Hebrides to a…
Some crimes are so mysterious or ghastly that they take on a legendary status, and Adelaide seems to have had more than its fair share of them. Stephen Orr rounds…
The open spaces and isolated places outside Australia’s cities have unsettled us from first European settlement to today. In this nail-biting book combining the notorious and little-known, author Stephen Orr…
Shortlisted in The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Attempts to Draw Jesus follows the lives of two teenage boys in the Australian outback, the track they lose and the mark they leave…
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Stephen Orr Manning
Blues and birdsong flamenco and flowing rivers rain and restless feet storms and Southern \“patois\” The poems of a young Southern boy who joined the military, travelled the world, got…
The slide clunks into the lantern, and Phantoms come alive on the wall. The father-and-son Magic Lantern team of Bert and Tom Eliot are masters of The Art of the…
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Jennifer Minella
Reduce organizational cybersecurity risk and build comprehensive WiFi, private cellular, and IOT security solutions
Wireless Security Architecture: Designing and Maintaining Secure Wireless for Enterprise offers readers an essential guide to…
James Orr,Stephen N. Williams
(Foreword by Vernon C. Grounds)An extensive description and defense of the theistic worldview centering on the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
Between Craft and Science brings together leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, industrial relations, management, and engineering to consider issues surrounding technical work, the most rapidly expanding sector of the labor…
Stephen Harrison,Sarah D. Coffin
An exhilarating look at Art Deco design in 1920s America, using jazz as its unifying metaphor
Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied
Few historical chronicles are as informative and eloquent as the journal written by Prince Maximilian of Wied as a record of his journey into the North American interior in 1833…