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1) The soulmate
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Language
English
Description
"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge ... There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't. When Pippa discovers Gabe...
2) Wildlife
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.
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Series
Don Tillman volume 03
Language
English
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Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to decide how much to guide Hudson and how much to let him be...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-eight years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler. On April 3rd, 1990, Jack...
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English
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Edge of forever: "River Glen was at the edge of nowhere--a tiny, sleepy town nestled on the shores of the Potomac. It was perfect for Dana Brantley, who, after a rocky couple of years, was looking for a peaceful place to start over. But the townspeople had other ideas for the new librarian. They thought she was perfect for their most eligible bachelor, Nick Verone. So did Nick's ten-year-old son, Tony. And so did Nick, himself. He was intrigued by...
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When a series of blond, pregnant teens go missing from the Magdalene Laundry in 1929 Melbourne and a pushy woman reporter disappears while investigating, Phryne and Dot uncover a dark plot involving piracy, convents, and creepy cellars.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors just down the street from Earthly Delights and crowds flock to purchase the bread, Corinna Chapman is understandably nervous. Meanwhile, a gathering of witches in Melbourne to celebrate Samhain, a rash of bad drug reactions, a cache of valuables stolen from Greek Jews during WWII, and the appearance of Corinna's boyfriend's beautiful and svelte former girlfriend, Georgiana Hope, add up to villainy...
14) Meet Daisy
Author
Series
Our Australian girl. 1930 volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It's 1930 and Daisy lives on a farm, where she loves riding her horse, Jimmy, through the paddocks. times are tough, and when her father loses his job, Daisy and her little sister, Flora, are sent to Melbourne to live with their aunt and uncle. Daisy must leave behind everyone she loves for a city she's never seen, and even her wildest daydreams can't prepare her for the new life that awaits her.
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Phryne is giving her red Hispano-Suiza a break: this week she is travelling by train to Ballarat. But what should have been the trip of her dreams, soon turns into the stuff of nightmares. Phryne has to use her Beretta .32 to save her life and that of her traveling companion Dot. And someone has poisoned the other passengers with chloroform.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When St. Kilda has its first Flower Festival, the Honourable Phryne Fisher becomes the honorary Queen of the Flowers. But when one of her flower maidens and her adopted daughter Ruth both go missing, Phryne puts aside her duties as queen and takes up her duties as investigator.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Honourable Phryne Fisher--she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips, and diamante garters--is the 1920's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This sparkling collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany--including Phryne's favourite shoes and hats, delicious cocktail recipes and her best tips for discouraging unwanted admirers--is a gorgeously collectable treat for all Phryne fans. Lavishly illustrated with divine colour...
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Series
Phryne Fisher mystery volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2007, c1992.
Language
English
Description
Phryne Fisher sets out to investigate the murder of a young man outside the gates of Victoria Dock after someone shoots out her windshield and she finds the man dying on the tarmac.
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Assisting Detective Inspector Jack Robinson in the investigation of an unpopular orchestral conductor's murder, Miss Fisher becomes suspicious of a charismatic code-breaker who has captured John Wilson's affections.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2006
Language
English
Description
Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and amateur sleuth, returns in her third delicious mystery set in present-day Melbourne.
If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well--so when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body which is found in a park, dead of malnutrition, Corinna is very disturbed...
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