For five years, Maggie has known what her life is all about: her satisfying job in a small catering company, her boyfriend (and boss) Christian, & the future they're building together. Christian is the man Maggie's destined to be with forever, she fell in love with him the moment they met, their love runs River Deep, Mountain High
- until Christian comes home one night & says the terrible words 'it's over'.

Numb, shocked & disbelieving, Maggie moves home to her parents' pub. Jobless & single, living in a bedroom still papered with A-ha & Take That posters, she's back to square one. The life she spent five years building is over. Or is it? Convinced she knows Christian better than he knows himself, Maggie sets out to win him back. But when she enlists the help of Pete, temporarily abandoned by his fiancé, she starts to wonder just how broken her heart really is...


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For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the centre of Main Street, separating those born & bred in the 'village' from those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But one October night the two worlds are thrust together by an inexplicable death & the town's divided history is revealed in all its complexity. The lives of everyone involved are unravelled: from Carlin Leander, the fifteen year old girl who is as loyal as she is proud, to Betsy Chase, a woman running from her own destiny; from August Pierce, a boy who unexpectedly finds courage in his darkest hour, to Abel Grey, the police officer who refuses to let unspeakable actions
- both past & present
- slide by without notice.

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Janie Mc Cleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick. A successful woman in a world of men, she is ostracized, a victim of double-dealing & overt violence. She trusts no one outside her family. Spanning generations, River of the Brokenhearted explores the life of this formidable woman, a pioneer before the age of feminism, & her legacy as it unfolds tragically in the lives of her son & grandchildren. Written with aching compassion & masterful sophistication, River of the Brokenhearted muses on the tyranny of memory & history, & peers into the hearts of these extraordinary characters. ...

Janie Mc Cleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick. A successful woman in a world of men, she is ostracized, a victim of double-dealing & overt violence. She trusts no one outside her family. Spanning generations, River of the Brokenhearted explores the life of this formidable woman, a pioneer before the age of feminism, & her legacy as it unfolds tragically in the lives of her son & grandchildren. Written with aching compassion & masterful sophistication, River of the Brokenhearted muses on the tyranny of memory & history, & peers into the hearts of these extraordinary characters. ...

Between 1970 & 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, ' The Killing Fields', lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, & the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life & death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape
- the villages along its banks, surrounded by mangoes, bananas & coconuts, & the exquisite women, the odours of opium, & the region's other face
- that of violence & corruption.

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After a terrible argument with her father over their family property, Rebecca throws her kit into the back of her ute & heads north with her sheepdogs. A job as a trainee farmhand takes her into the rowdy world of country dances, Bundy rum & boys. When she at last settles down to a bit of study at agricultural college, her life is turned upside down by the very handsome, but very drunken party animal, Charlie Lewis.

Will she choose a life of wheat farming on vast open plains with Charlie? Or will she return to the mountains to fight for the land & the river that runs through her soul?

It's only when tragedy shatters her world that Rebecca finds a strength & courage she never knew she had, in this action-packed novel of adventure, dreams, heartbreak & love.



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A sequence of delicate, tragic stories by the bestselling author of Raj evokes the profound presence of tradition & desire. ...

Driving 15, 000 miles from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty-three & a half days, Tim Cahill's Road Fever is a hilarious account of a preposterous journey, a breathtaking tour of North & South America, as well as a veritable how-to for pulling off cheeky scams to get ahead. All in the spirit of getting his name written into the record books.

Told with the humour, knowledge, & propriety-be-damned attitude that have made his other adventure books such critical & popular successes, Cahill embarks on his fastest, funniest trip yet. He reveals everything there is to know about surviving South America on a diet of beef jerky & Farmer's milk shakes & getting General Motors & the Guinness Book of World Records to subsidize his wanderlust.

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A by-pass is planned in Kingsmarkham
- that will destroy its peace & the natural habitat forever. Dora Wexford joins the protest
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