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  • Don’t read this book by my mother, she’s crazy
    Linda Ruth Brooks / Tony Attwood
    Living with someone on the autism spectrum is like watching a child trying to play hopscotch when they can’t see the squares, and everyone else can. Linda’s book takes us to the heart of living with a child with on the autism spectrum, inviting us to see life through the eyes of others. Brooks chronicles her life with her son from his birth, covering the early years, and the te...
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    35,16 €

  • Prose
    Linda Brooks
    There’s a randomness and whimsy to this collection, and anyone familiar with Linda, will expect exactly that. It is also represented in the cover art—a zentangle, aptly name ‘Goldfish in the Garden’.Prose begins at a nurses’ reunion where the usual entertainments slip away as Pathfinder Robyn astounds the normally unflappable Marilyn and everyone else with a tale as disjointed ...
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    21,33 €

  • Beth’s Christmas Wish
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    A white blanket of snow lay deep on the ground. Blistering cold winds brought sheet after sheet of swirling snowflakes. The 7.45 from Astonville was late. The clanking steam train only came twice a day.The town had once set their clocks by its arrival, but that was before the war. The women who lived in the valley just out of town noticed its lateness first. They put their chil...
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    17,07 €

  • The fragility of pressed flowers
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Lucy’s mother died at home, listening to the afternoon birds. Lucy treasured her mother’s silk embroidered notebook. It had wildflowers inside, pressed and dried, their petals as dainty as insect wings. Charlotte Bragg, denied invitation to her elder son’s wedding, slid into the back pew of the cathedral.At the Soldatenkaffee Madeleine on the Rue St Honoré a slender woman sits ...
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    12,49 €

  • Shadow Girl
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    It’s midnight. Bridget Galloway is spending her sixteenth birthday at the local cemetery-the only place free from the brutal bullying of her alcoholic father. Alone and friendless, in dark clothes with over-dyed black hair, she is Shadow Girl at school. Bridget misses her mother. Why did she leave? Where did she go?Leah Antoine, celebrity fashion designer, sits at Sydney airpor...
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    15,84 €

  • Shadow Girl
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    It’s midnight. Bridget Galloway is spending her sixteenth birthday at the local cemetery-the only place free from the brutal bullying of her alcoholic father. Alone and friendless, in dark clothes with over-dyed black hair, she is Shadow Girl at school. Bridget misses her mother. Why did she leave? Where did she go?Leah Antoine, celebrity fashion designer, sits at Sydney airpor...
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    12,51 €

  • The Lost Stories of Lucy Meredith Carter & The Book Of Known Facts
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Nine year old Lucy Meredith Carter is her gentle father’s darling, but she has a long list of bad habits. Rattling around town with her pet chook Esmeralda in her bike basket. Dropping in at the local police station to investigate a fire at an old vagrant’s bush camp. Brawling in Sunday School. Interviewing the neighbours. Visiting her beloved aunt, Fliss, in the convalescent h...
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    24,73 €

  • The Lost Stories of Lucy Meredith Carter & The Book Of Known Facts
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Nine year old Lucy Meredith Carter is her gentle father’s darling, but she has a long list of bad habits. Rattling around town with her pet chook Esmeralda in her bike basket. Dropping in at the local police station to investigate a fire at an old vagrant’s bush camp. Brawling in Sunday School. Interviewing the neighbours. Visiting her beloved aunt, Fliss, in the convalescent h...
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    27,30 €

  • The Lost Stories of Lucy Meredith Carter & The Book Of Known Facts
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Nine year old Lucy Meredith Carter is her gentle father’s darling, but she has a long list of bad habits. Rattling around town with her pet chook Esmeralda in her bike basket. Dropping in at the local police station to investigate a fire at an old vagrant’s bush camp. Brawling in Sunday School. Interviewing the neighbours. Visiting her beloved aunt, Fliss, in the convalescent h...
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    19,70 €

  • The Banyula Tales
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Animals have unique personalities and experience fear, anxiety and stress. The Banyula Tales are about a group of Australian animals living in the Australian bush. There’s Callan Chameleon who doesn’t like to go far from home, Ben Bowerbird is very careful and collects blue objects to decorate his bower. Kyle Koala likes to sleep a lot. Katie Kookaburra is loud and bossy. Seren...
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    10,19 €

  • The Banyula Tales
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Animals have unique personalities and experience fear, anxiety and stress. The Banyula Tales are about a group of Australian animals living in the Australian bush. There’s Callan Chameleon who doesn’t like to go far from home, Ben Bowerbird is very careful and collects blue objects to decorate his bower. Kyle Koala likes to sleep a lot. Katie Kookaburra is loud and bossy. Seren...
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    13,27 €

  • Butterfly Pinning
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    To the outside world Alec and Tess have the perfect marriage. Yet, behind closed doors a stormy pendulum of seduction and coercion exists. Alec is masterful, mercurial, chameleon. Trapped like a pinned butterfly, Tess survives by silence and small acts of compliance. Late one afternoon, after revealing his affair with a sixteen year old schoolgirl, Alec left the house in a rage...
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    9,90 €

  • Butterfly Pinning
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    To the outside world Alec and Tess have the perfect marriage. Yet, behind closed doors a stormy pendulum of seduction and coercion exists. Alec is masterful, mercurial, chameleon. Trapped like a pinned butterfly, Tess survives by silence and small acts of compliance. Late one afternoon, after revealing his affair with a sixteen year old schoolgirl, Alec left the house in a rage...
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    10,43 €

  • The Lost Stories of Lucy Meredith Carter & The Book Of Known Facts
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Nine year old Lucy Meredith Carter is her gentle father’s darling, but she has a long list of bad habits. Rattling around town with her pet chook Esmeralda in her bike basket. Dropping in at the local police station to investigate a fire at an old vagrant’s bush camp. Brawling in Sunday School. Interviewing the neighbours. Visiting her beloved aunt, Fliss, in the convalescent h...
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    15,78 €

  • The Long Acre Paddock
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Life is a slip on the ice It’s a spent gamea try, a clasha save, a dash It’s a burger with the worksa song & dance, a purloined chance a flashy show,a slow-river flowa blind quest, a fleeting guest It’s a dense mirrora cloudy glass, a quick passa heedless pawn, a crystal dawn,a sly ploy,a heart-busting joy It’s a sinner’s prayer ...
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    12,59 €

  • Australia in the Wild
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    In a land as harsh on its wildlife as its peoples, humans have a unique guardianship for the fauna and flora of the landscape. As a child I hated seeing any creature confined, but during the recent wildfire season we’ve seen the interdependence between us, as birds and animals have sought our care. Many people responded, with sanctuaries, care stations and animal hospitals spri...
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    24,21 €

  • Australia in the Wild
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    In a land as harsh on its wildlife as its peoples, humans have a unique guardianship for the fauna and flora of the landscape. As a child I hated seeing any creature confined, but during the recent wildfire season we’ve seen the interdependence between us, as birds and animals have sought our care. Many people responded, with sanctuaries, care stations and animal hospitals spri...
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    37,36 €

  • The Crummy War of Henrietta Eloise Parsons Age 9
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    It’s 1914 and nine year old Henrietta Eloise Parsons is sick of a war that’s only just getting started. Father, a senior editor at the Sydney Morning Herald is hardly ever seen without a newspaper in front of his frowning face, and Mother has suddenly taken an interest in activities she haughtily refers to as The War Effort. As far as Henrietta can see, this involves a lot of h...
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    19,06 €

  • How To Rescue Abandoned Dogs and Cats
    HowExpert / Linda Brooks
    If you want to learn how to rescue pets, then get "How To Rescue Abandoned Dogs and Pets".• Are you an animal lover?• Are you saddened by the fate of homeless pets?• Wish you could do something, but you’re not sure how?• You’re in luck!I have written this book from my own experiences to help you do that “something” you’ve been thinking about. There are hundreds of thousands of ...
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    37,33 €

  • Christmas Chaos Comes to Banyula
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    None of the young animals had noticed that the water in the billabong was higher than usual. Certainly not Blue Roo who was bouncing awkwardly along the log that went from one side of the Banyula billabong to the other.What they had noticed, couldn’t fail to notice, was that it had been raining for days, and days. Wesley Wombat worried if there would be enough food. Kyle Koala ...
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    15,44 €

  • The Clouds Fall on Banyula
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    A hot westerly wind rushed through Dry Gully, swirling through the trees, shaking branches and rattling leaves.Things began to blow in on the wind. Lots and lots of things. Blue tried to catch one of the things, but the wind was too fast. Leaves, twigs and dust twisted and spiralled on the wind, stinging their eyes.The animals became afraid. Kyle ran to top of his tree. Tyson s...
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    15,44 €

  • Katie and Blue’s Risky Adventure
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Katie Kookaburra was bored. Kyle Koala nibbled on a sweet red-tipped leaf while Callan Chameleon played with a soft, white feather.‘G’day. Wassup?’ Blue Roo bounced up.‘Nothing.’ Kate sighed.Blue groaned. ‘‘Hate doing nothing. Wanna go the Red Quandong?’‘Sure.’ Katie flew down from the branch and sat next to Blue.‘Righto,! Blue jumped and tripped over Tyson Turtle.Along the way...
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    15,44 €

  • the wall is blue
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Where’s your mother?Not well today. Said carefully and neutrally, as if pretending things were normal would make them so. Transform life into a manageable thing. As if ten year olds everywhere were the ladies of the house, the caretakers of the family.I see.Mrs Blakehurst, their babysitter from up the road was on the stoop. She had brought the youngest two. Kate knew it was imp...
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    9,79 €

  • Blue Roo Gives a Stranger a Name
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Near a sandy rock lay a tired Tasmanian devil. He’d had his fill of cool water from the billabong. He tried to keep one eye open, but soon slipped into restless sleep, snuffling and snorting.‘Wassup?’ said a voice. ‘You sure twitch in your sleep.’ A young kangaroo was peering down at the young devil. ‘You ‘right, mate? I’m Blue.’The Tasmanian Devil adjusted sleepy eyes to focus...
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    9,55 €

  • Banyula’s Angry Birds Get Mean
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    On sunset, an orange-red sun dipped behind Craggy Rock in the west. A flock of yellow-crested cockatoos flew to the wattle tree to feed on black seed pods.A young male Gang Gang cockatoo, with beautiful, dove-grey feathers, black eyes and a red plume pecked at pods on the ground.‘Why is he eating off the ground, not from the tree?’ Katie Kookaburra watched the bird eat quickly,...
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    15,44 €

  • The Crummy War of Henrietta Eloise Parsons Age Nine
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    It’s 1914 and nine year old Henrietta Eloise Parsons is sick of a war that’s only just getting started. Father, a senior editor at the Sydney Morning Herald is hardly ever seen without a newspaper in front of his frowning face, and Mother has suddenly taken an interest in activities she haughtily refers to as The War Effort. As far as Henrietta can see, this involves a lot of h...
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    15,07 €

  • The Blue Quandong in the Deep, Dark Forest
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    The young Banyula animals finally believe Serena Sugar Glider’s adventure stories when she takes them to see the Blue Quandong. Kyle Koala sleeps through the whole thing and Callan the Chameleon stays home to count his feathers. Despite many misgivings Ben Bowerbird joins in. Blue Roo makes everyone tired by leaping and bouncing in their way. Kate Kookaburra gives a running com...
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    15,44 €

  • I’m not broken, I’m just different & Wings to fly
    Linda Ruth Brooks / Tony Attwood
    Living with someone on the autism spectrum is like watching a child trying to play hopscotch when they can’t see the squares, and everyone else can.This new compilation of I’m not broken, I’m just different & Wings to fly takes us to the heart of living with a child with on the autism spectrum. This latest edition of the book has also been published as Don’t read this book by m...
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    27,33 €

  • A broken hallelujah
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    The hospital looked like a monument to a bygone era. Northside Private nestled in bushland in a quiet outer suburb of the city. Built early in the 20th Century it resembled the gracious stately homes of the Deep South in America. An essence of charm permeated the three-storey building, from the corridors to the vast verandas that faced north. White veiled sisters sailed serenel...
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    28,68 €

  • Prose
    Linda Ruth Brooks / Tony Attwood
    There’s a randomness and whimsy to this collection, and anyone familiar with Linda, will expect exactly that. It is also represented in the cover art—a zentangle, aptly name ‘Goldfish in the Garden’.Prose begins at a nurses’ reunion where the usual entertainments slip away as Pathfinder Robyn astounds the normally unflappable Marilyn and everyone else with a tale as disjointed ...
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    21,41 €


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