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On a small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef two communities come together in an uneasy alliance: a tourist resort and a scientific research station. At first glance, the island is a sexy resort, a naturalist's dream, a diver's delight. But the island holds secrets and dangers as Jennifer Towse soon discovers. When world-famous Isobel Belitas arrives, Jennifer learns to see the world - above and below the sea - very differently.

It is 1953 in a small country town in Australia, a time of post-war prosperity and hope. The Holtens are wealthy austere graziers who have lived on the land for generations. The McBrides are a large and loving shearers family who are new arrivals to the district. When the McBrides eldest daughter falls in love with the Holtens only son and heir, the barriers to their love seem overwhelming. But in the end, their love triumphs even over tragedy and hope and joy are their enduring legacy.

Natalie is a young Gold Coast mother with a loving husband, two small children, and a happy lifestyle. While helping her mother move house, she finds a little box containing a Burmese artifact. When Natalie learns its unique history through a letter left by her great-great uncle, it ignites her interest in its origins and her uncle’s unfulfilled plans for this curio. Her investigations collide with her own dramatically changing circumstances and create a dilemma that challenges the core of her marriage as she finds herself immersed in two very different golden lands.

The Bay is a beautiful and peaceful town on the Australian east coast; a melting pot of city escapees, alternative lifestylers, feral dropouts, lost souls, backpackers, and men and women in search of love and a new sense of identity. When Sydney corporate wife Holly Jamieson turns 45 she shocks her husband by buying an old house in The Bay with plans to transform it into a charming B & B. What began as a gesture of independence changes her life.

Blaze exposes the new order of women and power in the cut-throat arena of up-market magazines. The idealistic baby boomers have been pushed aside and it's every woman for herself. An intimate look at four women coping with their private and public lives in the world where scheming and fox cunning seem to beat skill and talent, where sexism and ageism in office politics label women over 30 over the hill.

A BuzzFeed Best Book of June "A heart-stirring, tear-inducing read you won’t want to put down.”—Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read Acting like she's in love with her handsome nightmare of a co-star—in a movie directed and produced by her complicated...

After a decade of silence, Dee and Ben reunite for a road trip they once promised to take. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Dee Matthews is the cohost of the smash-hit podcast Did I Forget To Tell You?, where she interviews family, friends, and past lovers. Nothing is off limits, except for one...

Sydney, de nos jours. Lily Barton vient de perdre sa mère. Dans un coffret, parmi des lettres et des photos, elle découvre un collier de perles orné d'un mystérieux pendentif ayant appartenu à son arrière-grand-mère Olivia. Lily, qui ignore tout de ses origines et voudrait transmettre à sa fille l'histoire de leur famille, rejoint la côte occidentale de l'Australie, où elle met au jour le journal intime de son aïeule... Au fil de sa lecture, elle voit se dessiner un amour si profond et passionné que rien n'a pu le surpasser.

In Grow like Tech, explore the captivating world of big tech companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, and TikTok. This book takes you on a journey through the unprecedented rise of these tech giants, revealing the code of their profound impact on business and society at large. Learn about their business practices, employee cultures, and the driving forces behind their exponential growth. Gain insights into their approach to product development, market competition, and the unparalleled speed at which they operate.

In A Good Time to Be a Girl, Helena Morrissey sets out how we might achieve the next big breakthrough towards a truly inclusive modern society. Drawing on her experience as a City CEO, mother of nine, and founder of the influential 30% Club, which campaigns for gender-balanced UK company boards, her manifesto for new ways of working, living, loving and raising families is for everyone, not just women.

It seemed like a good idea.... Genetically engineer a species of humanoid workers - strong, tireless, minimally intelligent - to become laborers for humans. What could possibly go wrong? For a thousand years, humans have had to fight for their survival against the mute, feral “Ants”, created as workers but now gone rogue, scavenging and slaughtering everything in their path.

On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter’s best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery—her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth disturbing details about Chloe and her secret transgressions…details that threaten to tear them apart.

Helena Morrissey has run companies and campaigns and learned through both her own experiences and observing other successful women that confident and authentic style and presence is career-enhancing. Many women feel it's all a minefield, that they should just copy men or 'blend in', but Style and Substance explains why that's unlikely to be a recipe for success and shows how you can achieve that next career goal by developing your personal brand, building confidence and letting your personality shine through.

Two high school rivals begrudgingly reunite as adults to investigate the disappearance of their beloved former teacher, only to wind up traveling through a series of alternate realities together. Total opposites, Marlowe Jenkins and Priscilla Covington-French hated each other in high school. Now...

Gone...Fleeing the last Ant-War, Anna of Evergreen goes with a party of Foresters, Men, and Ants to seek sanctuary on an island. None of them are ever seen again. Twenty years later, the launch of the Muriel, the first steel-hulled, powered ship built since ancient times, offers Anna’s friends a chance to discover what happened to the lost colonists - if they can persuade River, the Muriel’s designer, to lead an expedition to find her. Exiled from the forest, estranged from his family, and crippled by rage and guilt, River agrees to the plan.

Now, I want to give you the keys to unlock the invisible door, where we all have the power to connect with loved ones and feel that deep sense of peace, joy, and love within our soul. Once Upon a Dime teaches you how to connect to the invisible energy that surrounds our physical, human world. Let's grieve together in a different way so that we feel our loved ones love and carry on their legacy. Heaven is talking to us. Let's wake up and discover the keys to know how to listen!

Sex and relationship expert Dr Gabrielle Morrissey shares advice and insights on dating, mating and post-love relating. Some of our biggest teachings come from our greatest failures and Dr Gabrielle is the first to say she's learned more from break ups than books. With thirty years of counseling couples, two decades of love advice columns, two national radio shows on love, three sex books researched and authored, one bad marriage, two incredible kids and a divorce that set her free, she now shares with you what she knows as a wiser, stronger, sassier, self-determined, and happily divorced ...

By showing children that they need to be responsible and that fun comes after chores, this book playfully encourages kids to think about actions, consequences, and the importance of doing what we’re supposed to do—even when we don’t want to.

Jamie is an energetic healer and mentor, spiritual herbalist, intuitive spell-caster, writer and former psychologist. She is here to help you - healers, intuitives and spiritual creatives - to get rooted back into who you really are, so you can unlock your unique magic and share it with the world. On the podcast she is sharing energy updates, insights and channeled messages to inspire and activate you to your highest alignment. It’s time to get rooted, so you can use your inner truth to transform your life.

When people die, are they ever truly gone? I had heard the saying "pennies from heaven" before, but my coins from heaven seemed to be dimes. Was my father actually sending me dimes to show me he wasn't really gone? My mother seemed to be sending pennies all the time, but my dad was pretty clever.