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  • Love comes softly
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    An eccentric client dies suddenly at Leisa’s B&B, leaving behind a mysterious letter that Leisa feels compelled to deliver. When intruders burst into her home Emma knocks one of the men out cold, but is he a burglar or a rescuer?Is there a happy ending for Emily and Angelo?Enraged with her older sister’s treatment of her soldier fiancé, Laura decides to set things right. Georgi...
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    11,81 €

  • A Curious & Inelegant childhood
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    Out riding till the streetlights come on, watch out if you’re late! A small Australian country town in the 50s and 60s. A village with few entertainments and little parental supervision. However, the natural world offers unique charms, a muddy creek where stolen tyres form a pirate raft, a suspension bridge where courage is tested, cool mountain streams.Often out of step, Brook...
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    12,47 €

  • 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. Butterfly Pinning-a modern tale in verse, mirrors the themes of Thomas Hardy’s classic, Tess of the d’Urberville...
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    16,08 €

  • 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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    13,64 €

  • The Lost Stories of Lucy Meredith Carter
    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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    16,08 €

  • The Lost Stories of Lucy Meredith Carter
    Linda 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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    21,85 €

  • Missouri Marriages to 1850, Volume 2
    Linda Brooks
    These documents offer Missouri marriage records up to the year 1850. Arranged alphabetically by the surname of the groom, each entry gives the full name of the groom followed by the full name of the bride, with the date and county of the marriage. Records for the following counties are included in this work: Andrew, Audrain, Barry, Buchanan, Caldwell, Cape Girardeau, Carroll, C...
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    87,42 €

  • UNREAL - strange and quirky tales
    Jennifer Mackenzie / Linda Brooks / Michael Dwyer
    Have you ever:-wondered how time travellers manage without their assistants.-wondered how anyone could be so careless as to lose his shadow.-wanted to follow a cat to a concert in a thunderstorm.-wondered if Gran really did have second sight.-pondered if there’s a secret ingredient in coffee.-wondered whether messing with the truth messes with your Karma-wondered how many alien...
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    15,14 €

  • 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 €

  • I Tip My Hat
    Cathy Linda Brooks
    'I tip my hat,' an often repeated phrase of Cathy Brooks’ grandfather, James Brooks, was the inspiration for this military pictorial featuring the descendants of Cathy’s grandfather and other family members. The book merges her love for her family with photographs that showcase a family heavily invested in the military. Some of the most spectacular documents include the militar...
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    24,47 €

  • Shadow Girl
    Linda Ruth 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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    11,64 €

  • 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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    13,76 €

  • 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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    19,85 €

  • The Lost Stories of Lucy Meredith Carter
    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 loneliest kitten ever
    Linda Ruth Brooks
    With my folded, pinned, kitten ears I heard anger from human voices. I snuggled closer to my mother and tried to keep away from the human shapes that flitted like dark shadows. I was never far from her. She called me the loneliest kitten ever. The humans didn’t want us. One day the man threw us kittens into a box and drove away in his growling beast. We slithered every whic...
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    19,66 €

  • 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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    23,16 €

  • 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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    15,48 €

  • 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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    13,85 €

  • 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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    11,81 €

  • 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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    11,81 €

  • 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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    11,81 €

  • 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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    10,28 €

  • 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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    13,74 €

  • 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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    11,81 €

  • 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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    11,15 €

  • 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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    11,81 €

  • 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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    16,04 €

  • Third Wednesday Poets
    Jo Tregellis / Linda Ruth Brooks / Louise Berry
    'Every third Wednesday we meet. Every third Wednesday we attempt to hone our craft. Stretching beyond rhyme, metre and description to tanka, cento, haiku, and abecedarium while we sip frothy cappuccinos, or perhaps indulge in cake, we go on a journey. When the blending of our words seems like rubbish, we laugh. When they fall flat, we groan and move on. Every now and then, ...
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    12,58 €


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