epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Kate Grenville

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epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:McCalman, Iain [McCalman, Iain]

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epub |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Gary McKay

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epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Paula Shaw

18 Halfway MacKenzie Night is over and Jess has left Aurukun. She leaves me a letter. One that makes me cry. One that lets me know that we are friends ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-22 | Author:Mark A. Simmons

Boy in a Bubble Sadly, “I told you so” turned out to be the flavor of the first week of Keiko’s access to the bay. We saw a complete setback ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-06 | Author:Philbrick, Nathaniel [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

On Friday, July 31, Reynolds was aboard the Vincennes, at anchor beside the Peacock off Vanua Levu, talking with William May. May was at work on a chart of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-02-01 | Author:Mike Dash

In the meantime, the commandeur continued his interrogation of the prisoners. Pelsaert was legally bound, under Dutch law, to administer justice as quickly as possible, and to that end he ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-17 | Author:Paul Ham [Ham, Paul]

25 THE GUARDS One [Australian] was puffed up with beri beri in the legs and face and was getting along all right on his own and could have made it; ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Peter Fitzsimons [Fitzsimons, Peter]

22 October 1854, Bakery Hill, on the Ballarat diggings, the diggers speak truth to power In truth, the ‘chapel’ on Bakery Hill is little more than a rough construction of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-23 | Author:Sarah Murgatroyd

John King grew up during the years of the Great Famine in a thatched whitewashed cottage in the village of Moy, County Tyrone. To ensure he escaped a life of ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Tim Flannery

WILLIAM WALL Bad Is the Bush, 1844 William Wall, Irish ‘Collector and Preserver’ at the Australian Museum, lacked the stiff upper lip so often encountered in explorers’ writings. In 1844 ...

mobi |eng | 1998-09-15 | Author:Tim Flannery

WILLIAM WALL Bad Is the Bush, 1844 William Wall, Irish ‘Collector and Preserver’ at the Australian Museum, lacked the stiff upper lip so often encountered in explorers’ writings. In 1844 ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Austin Aslan [Aslan, Austin]

CHAPTER 18 We nap late into the afternoon on opposite sides of a king-sized pillow-top mattress covered in soft linens. We could have our own rooms, but we need to ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:Kristen Alexander [Alexander, Kristen]

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epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:James A. Michener & A. Grove Day [Michener, James A. & Day, A. Grove]

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