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Burton, R (Trans) Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments
Mineola, New York, U.S.A. Dover Pubns 2002 0486419177 / 9780486419176 Paperback Large Format Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, G 210 x 135mm
Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;" "The Fisherman and the Jinni;" "Judar and His Brethren;" and "Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad." 216 pages. The Classic Sir Richard Burton translation.
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8.99 AUD
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Lewis, John Savage Exile
Watermark Pacific 2007 098037930X / 9780980379303 Brand New, Unopened, Unread 230 x 150mm
England 1803. Two youngsters were destined to be together forever. But England is at war and change is inevitable. During the first decade of the 19th Century, two young people become the victims of the ruthless designs of evil men, both becoming imprisoned and then transported on trumped up charges. They eventually find themselves battling to survive in the wilds of colonial New South Wales. The story is based on a number of actual events, including in particular, the Battle of Trafalgar, the wreck of the ships Stirling Castle and America on the coast of what was then New South Wales, and the subsequent events in the lives of castaways Eliza Fraser and Barbara Crawford. From the bloody waters off Cape Trafalgar to the treacherous coastline of the colonial New South Wales, Savage Exile swings like a pendulum between personal lives and history. A novel of fabulous scope and almost unimaginable hardship, of life and love and tremendous spirit, Savage Exile combines all the tyranny of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore with the passion of Vivian Stuart's The Australians. (readers of The Fatal Shore and The Australians would now make it into the hundreds of thousands)
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19.50 AUD
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Mitchard, Jacquelyn Cage of Stars
London John Murray 2006 0719568889 / 9780719568886 First Trade Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread 235 x 165mm
12-year-old Veronica Swan's idyllic life in a close-knit Mormon community is shattered when her two younger sisters are brutally murdered. Although her parents find the strength to forgive the deranged killer, Scott Early, Veronica cannot do the same. Years later, she sets out alone to avenge her sisters' deaths, dropping her identity and severing ties in the process. As she closes in on Early, Veronica will discover the true meaning of sin and compassion, before she makes a decision that will change her and her family's lives forever.
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5.95 AUD
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Rebecca Wells The Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Harpercollins 2003 0060502258 / 9780060502256 Paperback Paperback As New 110mm x 180mm
When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a 'tap-dancing child abuser,' the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together. In 1932, Vivi and the Ya-Yas were disqualified from a Shirley Temple Look-Alike Contest for unladylike behavior. Sixty years later, they're 'bucking 70' and still making waves. With passion and a rare gift for language, Rebecca Wells moves from present to past, unraveling Vivi's life, her enduring friendships with the Ya-Yas, and the reverberations on Siddalee. The collective power of the Ya-Yas, each of them totally individual and authentic, permeates this story of a tribe of Louisiana wild women who are impossible to tame.
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9.95 AUD
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Vincenzi, Penny Sheer Abandon
London Headline 2005 0755320824 / 9780755320820 Trade Paperback Mass Market Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, 230 x 155mm
C One night in 1986 an abandoned baby girl is found in a cleaning cupboard at Heathrow airport. A year earlier, three girls, Martha, Clio and Jocasta had met by chance, at the start of a backpacking adventure: they travelled together briefly and then separated to go their different ways, swearing to meet again when they return home. But it would be a long time until they met again: not until Kate, the foundling, is a teenager, and the three women are all leading successful lives. Martha is a fiercely single, highly paid corporate lawyer, Clio a doctor, locked in an unhappy marriage to a surgeon, and Jocasta a reporter for a tabloid newspaper, in love with a charming commitment-phobe. Which of them is Kate's mother? Why was she desperate enough to do such a thing, and how did she survive it?
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6.95 AUD
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Yates, Richard Revolutionary Road (MTI)
New York, New York, U.S.A. Vintage Books 2008 0307454789 / 9780307454782 Paperback Paperback Brand New, Unopened, Unread, 110mm x 180mm
Yates' classic novel of suburban disillusionment is now a major motion picture from DreamWorks, opening in theaters on December 25 and reuniting the stars of "Titanic," Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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17.95 AUD
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