When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes' Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms & contented families appealing to returned servicepeople & their families hoping for a fresh start Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes fewer than half of the settlers remained on their properties In this timely book based on recently uncovered archives Bruce Scates & Melanie Oppenheimer map out a deeply personal history of the soldiers' struggle to transition from Anzac to farmer & provider At its foundation lie thousands of individual life stories shaped by imperfect repatriation policies The Last Battle examines the environmental challenges the difficulties presented by the physical & psychological damage many soldiers had sustained during the war & the vital roles of women & children ...

A mystery to be solved in the past A love to be uncovered in the future The thrilling follow-up to The Next Together The epic conclusion to Lauren James' debut The Next Together about true love & reincarnation Sixteen years ago after a scandal that rocked the world teenagers Katherine & Matthew vanished without a trace Now Clove Sutcliffe is determined to find her long lost relatives But where do you start looking for a couple who seem to have been reincarnated at every key moment in history? Who were Kate & Matt? Why were they born again & again? & who is the mysterious Ella who keeps appearing at every turn in Clove's investigation? For Clove there is a mystery to solve in the past & a love to find in the future ...

The small man standing on the narrow ledge stared fixedly forward with eyes made wide & blank by terror At 2pm on a Monday in 1966 Ned Balfour wakes in Corsica beside a beautiful woman In the same instant back in London fellow art dealer & Dachau survivor Sam Weiss falls ten stories to his death Ned refuses to believe that Sam's death was intentional & his investigation thrusts him into the deceit & fraudulence of the art world where he unmasks more than one respectable face First published in 1967 this thrilling tale of vertigo suspicion & infidelity is a long-forgotten classic with an intriguing plot twist ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From st&-up comedian actress & breakout star of Girls Trip Tiffany Haddish comes The Last Black Unicorn a sidesplitting hysterical edgy & unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays as fearless as the author herself Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh If she could do that then her classmates would let her copy their homework the other foster kids she lived with wouldn't beat her up & she might even get a boyfriend Or at least she could make enough money-as the paid school mascot & in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman-to get her hair & nails done so then she might get a boyfriend None of that worked (and she's still single) but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living comedy Tiffany can't avoid being funny-it's just who she is whether she's plotting shocking jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person's mind-set Finally poised to become a household name she recounts with heart & humor how she came from nothing & nowhere to achieve her dreams by owning sharing & using her pain to heal others By turns hilarious filthy & brutally honest The Last Black Unicorn shows the world who Tiffany Haddish really is-humble grateful down-to-earth & funny as hell & now she's ready to inspire others through the power of laughter ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Private eye Joe Hallenback (Bruce Willis) is asked to protect the stripper girlfriend (Halle Berry) of a former American football pro (Damon Wayans) who has been banned from the game for gambling As his charge&s life comes under threat Hallenbeck uncovers a trail of corruption that leads from the running of a football team to the highest corridors of power & Lethal Weapon& writer Shane Black received an unprecedented seven figure sum for his script Actors Bruce Willis Damon Wayans Chelsea Field Noble Willingham Taylor Negron Directors Tony Scott Format Dubbed PAL Widescreen Dolby Language English French Subtitles English Spanish French Italian Portuguese Dutch Arabic Dubbed Italian Aspect Ratio 169
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On holiday in Saltbottle Grandfather & Roo discover the Unsinkable the boat which took them to the North Pole in the first book lying in a sadly dilapidated state & up for sale At the auction the short-sighted auctioneer accidentally sellsthe boat to Roo
- sold to the old lady in the brown fur coat! Now they have to find the money & the Captain suggests a fishing trip to the Great Cod Banks in the Forgotten Sea Off they go but the trip ends in disaster when the boat sinks & Grandfather & Roo are cast away on a desert island They find their own Man Friday (called Tuesday) but he turns out to be a film director staying in a luxury hotel Meanwhile the Captain has found the treasure & rescued the Unsinkable
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In the second decade of the twenty-first century the world is struck by two catastrophes a new mini-ice age & nearly simultaneously a plague to dwarf all previous experiences Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as “ Bandit Six” an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world & prevent the fall of his homeland—despite the best efforts of politicians both elected & military The Last Centurion is a memoir of one possible future a world that is a darkling mirror of our own Written “blog-style” it pulls no punches in its descriptions of junk science bad strategy & organic farming not to mention all three at once About the Author A veteran of the 82nd Airborne he brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction His novels for Baen include those in the New York Times best-selling Posleen War series (A Hymn Before Battle Gust Front When the Devil Dances & Hell’s Faire) the Council War series (There Will be Dragons Emerald Sea Against the Tide & East of the Sun West of the Moon) the nationally best-selling techno-thriller novels about Mike Harmon (Ghost Kildar Choosers of the Slain Unto the Breach & A Deeper Blue) the Looking-Glass series (Into the Looking Glass Vorpal Blade & Manxome Foe the last two in collaboration with Travis S Taylor) four collaborations with fellow New York Times bestselling author David Weber (March Upcountry March to the Sea March to the Stars & We Few) & five collaborative spinoffs from the Posleen series The Hero written with Michael Z Williamson Watch on the Rhine & Yellow Eyes both written with Tom Kratman & the New York Times best seller Cally’s War & its recent sequel Sister Time both with Julie Cochrane ...

Seth is the oppressed kitchen boy at the remote Last Chance Hotel But when a strange gathering of magicians arrives for dinner their leader is poisoned A locked-room murder investigation ensues
- & Seth is the main suspect Can he solve the mystery & clear his name especially when magic's afoot? 336 pages Thornton Nicki
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Thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon has to face things no boy his age should face In the year since his twin sister's abduction his world has fallen apart his father has disappeared & his fragile mother is spiralling into ever deeper despair Johnny keeps strong Armed with a map a bike & a flashlight he stalks the bad men of Raven County The police might have given up on Alyssa; he never will Someone somewhere knows something they're not telling Only one person looks out for Johnny Detective Clyde Hunt shares his obsession with the case But when Johnny witnesses a hit-&-run & insists the victim was killed because he'd found Alyssa even Hunt thinks he's lost it And then another young girl goes missing ...

Percy is a little pigeon & he's very hungry Life on the streets is tough & every time he tries to get hold of a scrap of food bigger beefier birds bat him away He's about to give up when someone offers him her very last chip A moving & uplifting story about struggle against adversity & the kindness of strangers 10 of the profits from the sale of the book go to The Trussell Trust supporting a network of 435 foodbanks across the UK ...