Cirrus@Austlit

'Marvale Primary School. A cloudy autumn sky. The day started with three hundred and sixty students and seventeen teachers. It ended with three people missing. Lisa and Jacob Johnstone had suffered a well-documented childhood of neglect and abuse. Everyone agreed that it needed to end. Jessica Bell was a kind and well-respected teacher. A strong and motivated woman, she only wanted the best for her students. Her own history of damage and pain had her believing that running away was the solution they had all been searching for. And so ensued a battle between right and wrong, good and evil, and common sense and the law. Miss Bell was not a bad woman. She was a good teacher. This is her story.' (Publication summary)

'The central desert, Australia, 1942. The gold mining town of Wiluna lives in fear of death, of imminent Japanese invasion, of unemployment. Amid this tension, and fuelled by the old ethnic rivalries of the thousands of European immigrants that make up the town’s rag-tag population, comes the Peeper, a serial pest to the town’s women. And then the region’s most beautiful girl is brutally murdered. Wiluna sits on the edge of anarchy. To keep the peace there is Sergeant John Shepherd, a bitter, and now sick, journeyman and his five junior police officers. They must stand against the fear of a town sitting on a virtual powder keg. There can be only one ending ... or can there?'

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'Love should bring happiness and joy... but life is complicated...

'In 1961 Jennifer Urquhart, a nineteen-year-old college graduate, is determined to succeed as the new teacher in Karriton, a rural town in Western Australia, but her plans begin to unravel from the moment she steps off the bus. Although welcomed into a farming family and striving for acceptance in the community, she soon learns that malicious gossip and small town prejudice can destroy those who fail to conform to society’s rules. Finding herself pregnant to her first love, a young geologist who has been transferred to a remote site, Jennifer is desperate to find the father and keep her child. Eventually, she must make an almost impossible choice.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Poems and reflections from the first fifty years of my life.'

Source: Front cover blurb.

'A wolf meets up with a scrawny fox and have many adventures together.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Part-human, part-dragon ... She may be humanity’s only hope.

'To be entrenched in a world of dragons beyond mortal understanding frustrates sixteen-year-old, Catherine La Nid. And being forced to play nursemaid to her elderly grandmother hasn’t helped her as she struggles to make the transition from troubled teen to dragonhood.

'Everything’s changing too fast. Everything’s confusing as she is dragged into visions that threaten to tear apart the existence of her family.

'What Catherine discovers about her medieval ancient blood-line and her crucial role in the future of the universe threatens to change her forever ... and perhaps even destroy the world.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.