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  • Double Madness

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    Set in Queensland, this debut crime novel Double Madness by Caroline de Costa, takes us into a sordid underbelly of psycho-sexual depravity.As local residents and authorities in Far North Queensland assess the damage in the aftermath of Cyclone Yasi, a woman’s body is found in bizarre circumstances deep in the rainforest.Cass Diamond of Cairns CIB is on the team investigating the murder of ... Read more

    $12.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood Sisters

    The third novel in the Cass Diamond series

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    A young woman. A pool of blood, in a Cairns Motel.A young Asian woman lies in a pool of blood in a Cairns motel. Transferred to hospital, she dies before she can tell her story. Detective Cass Diamond and her team are soon on the case. Searching through her possessions, the police begin to ask questions: Was the woman part of a sex-trafficking ring? Who brought her to Cairns? Are other women in ... Read more

    $12.78 CAD

  • The Women's Doc

    True stories from my five decades delivering babies and making history

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    Funny and poignant stories from the labour ward and from the frontline of campaigns for women's reproductive rights, from Australia's best known obstetrician.'We never train women in Sydney,' Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology. She and her husband packed their bags and their children, and headed for Dublin.When Caroline ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Missing Pieces

    The second novel in the Cass Diamond series

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    In 1992, toddler Yasmin Munoz goes missing from a rainforest picnic spot near Cairns. No trace of her has ever been found. Yet in 2012 Andrew Todd, a wealthy businessman and former mayor of Cairns, dies, and leaves in his will directions for a search for the missing child, who if she is still alive must nowbe a young woman. Cairns detective Cass Diamond is asked to help with the search. But Cass ... Read more

    $12.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hail Caesar

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    Who performed the first caesarean? Was Julius Caesar born by caesarean section? If I have a caesarean for my first baby do all the other births have to be caesareans as well? Is it okay for a woman to have a caesarean just because she wants one…or is she being selfish? What are the real risks of caesarean section? And why is the caesarean rate rising steadily in Australia, so that one in three ... Read more

    $11.50 CAD

  • Buried Secrets

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    Series Book 4 - The Cass Diamond Crime Series
    A woman lies dead after tumbling down the stairs of a Cairns townhouse. Did she fall or was she pushed? A young man is stabbed to death in a fight in his brother’s kitchen. The remains of a baby are unearthed from behind an abandoned house. It’s all in a day’s work for Detective Cass Diamond. And what seem at first separate incidents may have a thread linking them. As Cass and her team, now ... Read more

    $12.78 CAD

  • RU 486

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    RU486 is the drug prescribed for medical abortion. This book deals clearly with the nature and effects of the drug, its risks and the history of its development and use in Europe, the United States and other overseas countries. It recounts the politics and controversy that surrounded its introduction into Australia. It discusses the drugs possibilities for use in the future for medical abortion, ... Read more

    $14.77 CAD

  • Pregnancy and Parenting after Thirty-Five

    Mid Life, New Life

    by Michele C. Moore, MD, Caroline M. de Costa, MD ...
    Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
    More and more women are having babies after the age of thirty-five and experiencing the joy of motherhood. But mothers-to-be in this age group sometimes face unique medical, emotional, and social challenges. Conception may be difficult and the risk of miscarriage during early pregnancy is higher, as is the potential for complications such as hypertension and diabetes. And having a child later in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Caesarean Birth

    Your Questions Answered

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    Quality information on caesarean birth is essential.Around 40 per cent of Australian babies are born by caesarean section - now a common part of childbirth, whether planned ahead or done as an emergency when pregnancy or labour takes an unexpected turn.This book, written by one of Australia's leading obstetricians, traces how perceptions of caesarean birth have changed, with the focus today on ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Clone Kid

    An allegory

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    Is Cloning people is wrong. It’s forbidden by law. No responsible scientist would dream of trying it … or would they?In this fictional but frank account of Sydney’s medical profession, Caroline de Costa explores the possibilities, risks and implications of human reproductive cloning, with the reminder that though the techniques may currently be banned, the technology to develop human cloning is ... Read more

    $12.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hidden Lives

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    It seems a perfect beach in tropical north Queensland, yet a sign marks the site where fifteen Aboriginal people were massacred more than a century before. Then on a sunny morning in 2002 the body of a young Aboriginal woman washes up on the sand. Accident … or murder?Close by lives Cairns forensic pathologist Leah Rookwood, on the island handed down through four generations of Rookwoods. As Leah ... Read more

    $12.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never, Ever, Again

    by Caroline de Costa ...
    The tragic stories that are the history of abortion in Queensland have long been hidden in the police gazettes and inquest records of the state government archives. In Never Ever Again, Caroline de Costa unearths many of these records to show exactly what abortion meant for Australian women before the landmark Menhennitt judgment in Victoria and other legal cases opened the way for law reformers ... Read more

    $11.50 CAD