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A Fortunate Life

for Younger Readers

par A.B. Facey ...

A remarkable life, adapted for young readers. Bert Facey's autobiography is a true Australian classic, now accessible to younger audiences.Follow Bert's extraordinary journey through a challenging childhood, hard labor in the outback, and the horrors of World War I. Despite facing poverty, family separation, and the brutalities of war, Bert's unwavering optimism and determination shine through ... En savoir plus

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A remarkable life, adapted for young readers. Bert Facey's autobiography is a true Australian classic, now accessible to younger audiences.Follow Bert's extraordinary journey through a challenging childhood, hard labor in the outback, and the horrors of World War I. Despite facing poverty, family separation, and the brutalities of war, Bert's unwavering optimism and determination shine through
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A Fortunate Life

par A.B. Facey ...

Albert Facey's story is the story of Australia. Born in 1894, and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a laborer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn ... En savoir plus

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Albert Facey's story is the story of Australia. Born in 1894, and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a laborer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn
... En savoir plus

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A Fortunate Life

par A.B. Facey ...

Lu par Roger Cardwell ...

Version Longue

13 heure 5 min

Born in 1894, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a 'fortunate' one. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration. It is the ... En savoir plus

$34.99 CAD

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Born in 1894, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a 'fortunate' one. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration. It is the
... En savoir plus

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Sunburnt Country

par Sally Morgan, A.B. Facey, Elizabeth Jolley, Elizabeth Backhouse, Michal Bosworth, Emma Ciccotosto, Ron Davidson, Faye Davis, Connie Ellement, Kenneth Gasmier, T.AG. Hungerford, Gail Jones, Vasso Kalamaras, John Lane, Simone Lazaroo, Joan London, Pat Malcolm, Bill Marks, John A. McKenzie, Jack McPhee, Connie Miller, Kim Scott, Joyce Shiner, Imelda P. Smith, Justina Williams ...

Lu par Beverley Dunn, James Wright ...

Version Longue

8 heure 44 min

Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia. ... En savoir plus

$34.99 CAD

Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia.
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Dirt Music

par Tim Winton ...

Lu par Suzi Dougherty ...

Version Longue

11 heure 43 min

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At 40, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrimination. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she sees, a shadow drifting up the beach below – ... En savoir plus

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Georgie Jutland is a mess. At 40, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrimination. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she sees, a shadow drifting up the beach below –
... En savoir plus
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Heroes of the Skies

par Michael Veitch ...

Lu par Michael Veitch ...

Version Longue

7 heure 34 min

'It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urgency to get it out there, just so these adventures and tragedies not be lost to future enquiring ... En savoir plus

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'It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urgency to get it out there, just so these adventures and tragedies not be lost to future enquiring
... En savoir plus

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Australia's Secret Army

par Michael Veitch ...

Lu par Michael Veitch ...

Version Longue

10 heure 33 min

Established after World War I by the Royal Australian Navy, the Coast Watchers were a loose organisation of several hundred European settlers, missionaries, patrol officers and planters living in British and Australian Pacific Island territories whose job it was to observe and report on the enemy. They were mostly all unpaid volunteers whose job it was simply to observe and report on foreign ... En savoir plus

$36.99 CAD

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Established after World War I by the Royal Australian Navy, the Coast Watchers were a loose organisation of several hundred European settlers, missionaries, patrol officers and planters living in British and Australian Pacific Island territories whose job it was to observe and report on the enemy. They were mostly all unpaid volunteers whose job it was simply to observe and report on foreign
... En savoir plus

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Livre audio

Trails in the Dust: A Woody Creek Novel 7

par Joy Dettman ...

Lu par Deidre Rubenstein ...

Collections Livre audio : 7 - Woody Creek
Version Longue

14 heure 18 min

The seventh book in the addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman.After many tumultuous years spent grappling with the past, Jenny Hooper might have expected her latter years to be the best of her life, and they are - until tragedy strikes. Left floundering in a house full of memories, not all of them good, Jenny knows a reckoning is in order.But it won't be easy. ... En savoir plus

$26.35 CAD

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The seventh book in the addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman.After many tumultuous years spent grappling with the past, Jenny Hooper might have expected her latter years to be the best of her life, and they are - until tragedy strikes. Left floundering in a house full of memories, not all of them good, Jenny knows a reckoning is in order.But it won't be easy.
... En savoir plus

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The Timeless Land

par Eleanor Dark ...

Lu par James Condon ...

Version Longue

26 heure 20 min

First published in 1941, Eleanor Dark's classic novel of the early settlement of Australia is a story of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all it is the story of conflict: between the Aborigines and the white settlers. In this dramatic novel, a large cast of characters, historical and fictional, black and white, convict and settler, brings alive those bitter years with moments of tenderness and ... En savoir plus

$34.99 CAD

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First published in 1941, Eleanor Dark's classic novel of the early settlement of Australia is a story of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all it is the story of conflict: between the Aborigines and the white settlers. In this dramatic novel, a large cast of characters, historical and fictional, black and white, convict and settler, brings alive those bitter years with moments of tenderness and
... En savoir plus

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No Spin

The autobiography of Shane Warne

par Shane Warne, Mark Nicholas ...

Lu par Rhys Muldoon ...

Version Longue

13 heure 11 min

Everyone knows the story, or thinks they do. The leg-spinner who rewrote the record books. One of Wisden's five cricketers of the twentieth century. A sporting idol across the globe. A magnet for the tabloids. But the millions of words written and spoken about Shane Warne since his explosive arrival on the Test cricket scene in 1992 have only scratched the surface. The real story has remained ... En savoir plus

$36.99 CAD

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Everyone knows the story, or thinks they do. The leg-spinner who rewrote the record books. One of Wisden's five cricketers of the twentieth century. A sporting idol across the globe. A magnet for the tabloids. But the millions of words written and spoken about Shane Warne since his explosive arrival on the Test cricket scene in 1992 have only scratched the surface. The real story has remained
... En savoir plus

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The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home

par Joanna Nell ...

Lu par Julie Nihill ...

Version Longue

10 heure 18 min

The joyous, charming and utterly irresistible new novel from the author of mega-bestseller The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement VillageAt nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with the loss of independence and privacy. From the confines of her 'room with a view' of the carpark ... En savoir plus

$36.99 CAD

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The joyous, charming and utterly irresistible new novel from the author of mega-bestseller The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement VillageAt nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with the loss of independence and privacy. From the confines of her 'room with a view' of the carpark
... En savoir plus

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Under Full Sail

par Rob Mundle ...

Lu par Paul English ...

Version Longue

9 heure 53 min

July 1852. It had been six weeks since the 932 passengers and sixty-man crew aboard the clipper Marco Polo had left England bound for Melbourne. They had just crossed the northern latitude of the Roaring Forties, some 350 nautical miles south of the Cape of Good Hope. Suddenly a fearsome Southern Ocean storm charged in from beyond the western horizon and locked Marco Polo in its jaws. In a matter ... En savoir plus

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July 1852. It had been six weeks since the 932 passengers and sixty-man crew aboard the clipper Marco Polo had left England bound for Melbourne. They had just crossed the northern latitude of the Roaring Forties, some 350 nautical miles south of the Cape of Good Hope. Suddenly a fearsome Southern Ocean storm charged in from beyond the western horizon and locked Marco Polo in its jaws. In a matter
... En savoir plus

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