Outback Dreams (A Bunyip Bay Novel, #1)

Outback Dreams (A Bunyip Bay Novel, #1)
Author: Rachael Johns
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1743644701

Faith and Monty are both looking for love...in the wrong direction. Faith Forrester is at a crossroads. Single, thirty and living on a farm in a small Western Australian town, she's sick of being treated like a servant by her brother and father. Ten years ago, her mother died of breast cancer, and Faith has been treading water ever since. She wants to get her hands dirty on the family farm. She wants to prove to herself that she's done something worthwhile with her life. And she wants to find a man... For as long as he can remember, Daniel 'Monty' Montgomery has been Faith's best friend. When he was ten, his parents sold the family property in Merindah and moved to Perth to be closer to support services for his autistic brother, and ever since, Monty's dreamed of having his own place. So for the last ten years, he's been back on the land, working odd jobs and saving every dollar to put toward his dream. And now he finally has it. But there's still something missing... So when Faith embarks on a mission to raise money for a charity close to her heart – Dogs for Autism – and Monty's dream property comes on the market, things seem like they are falling into place for them both. Until a drunken night out ends with them sleeping together. Suddenly, the best friends are both facing a new set of challenges... Monty and Faith are both ready to find a life partner and settle down, but have they both been looking in all the wrong places?

Australia

Australia
Author: Margaret Way
Publisher:
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2013
Genre: Love stories
ISBN: 9781743555828

Everything Nice

Everything Nice
Author: Ellen Shanman
Publisher: Bantam Discovery
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2008-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440337453

In a smart, sexy, wickedly funny new novel, the acclaimed author of Right Before Your Eyes introduces an unforgettable and irresistibly real heroine: Michaela“Mike” Edwards, a woman who is forced to reinvent herself— and discovers that the biggest risk is not taking one at all…. Fiercely independent and seriously lacking in social graces, Mike Edwards doesn’t do sugar and spice. Instead she writes great copy and stays above the fray—until mishandled office politics get her unexpectedly fired. Suddenly the young ad hotshot finds herself doing the unimaginable: moving back in with her widowed father, hiding from her lecherous mentor, rethinking her entire career—and trying to unravel complex feelings for her best guy pal, an Aussie journalist named Gunther. For Mike, a few wrenching twists of fate are leading to a job she never expected: teaching “life skills” to seventh-grade girls. But sometimes the best makeovers are the ones you never see coming. Because with a classroom full of kids who need her, a best friend who’s fast becoming something more, and a family she’s only just discovering, Mike has a few surprises in store…and she’s about to discover that going places in life doesn’t have to mean going it on your own.

The Unforgiving Rope

The Unforgiving Rope
Author: Simon Adams
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781921401220

"More than 150 people were hanged in Western Australia between 1840 and 1964. Some had committed heinous crimes for profit or vengeance; some had killed out of jealousy, misunderstanding or madness. Others were hanged simply because they were victims of their times - prejudices and ill-fated circumstances leading them inexorably towards the gallows." "Focussing on the period from first settlement to the eve of World War I, historian Simon Adams skillfully places the circumstances of victims and perpetrators against the backdrop of their era, revealing the stories behind the hangings. We hear last words, feel the heartbreaking fear of the walk to the gallows and watch as bodies dangle at the end of a noose. This is a social history of the dark side of Western Australia's past." --Book Jacket.

Fantasy Vacations

Fantasy Vacations
Author: Stephanie Ocko
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780806524351

From the luxurious to the life-changing, this guide to fantasy vacations includes detailed information on the cost of each adventure, how long each journey lasts, as well as the companies that offer combo and custom fantasy trips, from the nearly-free to the prohibitively expensive. Photos.

Fears and Fantasies

Fears and Fantasies
Author: Kate Murphy
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781433109508

Fears and Fantasies: Modernity, Gender, and the Rural-Urban Divide explores the ways in which fantasies about returning to, or revitalising, rural life helped to define Western modernity in the early twentieth century. Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has focused on urban space and fears about the effects of city life; few studies have considered the 'rural' to be as critical as the 'urban' in understanding modernity. This book argues that the rural is just as significant a reference point as the urban in discourses about modernity. Using a rich Australian case study to illuminate broader international themes, it focuses on the role of gender in ideas about the rural-urban divide, showing how the country was held up against the 'unnatural' city as a space in which men were more 'masculine' and women more 'feminine'. Fears and Fantasies is an innovative and important contribution to scholarship in the fields of history and gender studies.

Freaks and Fantasies

Freaks and Fantasies
Author: Tod Robbins
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1605430765

FREAKS AND FANTASIES is a collection of short stories by Tod Robbins, who is known for writing the story "Spurs" that inspired the film, FREAKS. In his introduction, Chris Mikul tells you all about this mysterious writer who influenced so many pulp writers. The stories in the book are: Crimson Flowers - The Thrill Book, 1 October 1919 Silent, White and Beautiful - Smart Set, April 1918 Spurs - Munsey's Magazine, February 1923 Who Wants a Green Bottle? - All-Story Weekly, 12 December 1918 The Bibulous Baby - The Thrill Book, 1 July 1919 Wild Wullie the Waster - All-Story Weekly, 14 February 1920 Toys of Fate - Munsey's Magazine, January 1921 An Eccentric - The Thrill Book, 1 October 1919 (credited to 'Roy Leslie') The Whimpus - Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Septem-ber/October 1939 A Bit of a Banshee - Forum, December 1924 The Son of Shaemas O'Shea - Who Wants a Green Bottle? and Other Uneasy Tales (Philip Allan, 1926) A Voice from Beyond - The Thrill Book, 15 July 1919 Cock-Crow Inn - Mystery Magazine, 1 March 1926 The Confession - Thrills (Philip Allan, 1935)

Novel Ideas-Fantasy

Novel Ideas-Fantasy
Author: Brian M. Thomsen
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2006-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101157550

How do novels get their start? The answers to that question often prove as varied as the authors who create them. In Novel Ideas: Fantasy, seven of the genre's most talented tellers of tale are represented by eight masterful short works--many of them award winners--which laid the groundwork for some of the most acclaimed fantasy novels and series in the field.