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eBook: $4.99 Imagine living and working on an organic farm with WWOOF workers in Australia's Queensland wine region that's also a bed-and-breakfast stay-over, and a memorial to First World War soldiers ... then turn to Page 1 to find out the real story of what it's like.
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eBook: $4.99 In her stunning sequel to Where the Cypress Rises, Virginia Ryan takes her readers to Ghana, Africa, in search of art which speaks to her heart. She finds it among the sign writers of the back streets and marketplaces and mounts a spectacular exhibition.
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eBook: $4.99 Mae Rose, is a self-confessed ‘nothinger’. Her dad has called her Mae-be from the day she was born. She’s his bundle of possibilities. All her life she’s proven him right. She gets good grades but is not the sportiest, coolest or cleverest girl in school. Mae-be has no siblings to hate and no history of abuse, self or otherwise. When she finds herself pregnant, Mae-be has a lot to learn. She learns the hypocrisy of some, the kindness of others and the need for making a life after she brings one into the world. Along the way she learns a lot about herself, via her mother’s story. Ma, as Mae calls her, had her own, illegitimate child at twenty. In the days when the legal voting age was twenty-one, and women weren't worth educating, she was forced to give her daughter up for adoption. Two weeks after adoptive legislation changes, the phone rings and her daughter wants to speak with her. Mae-be Roses follows a mother’s story, from rumour, to truth, to a touching reunion.
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Print: $12.75 Download: $5.00 The essential Teacher's Handbook for the captivating Mae-be Roses by Rebecca Bloomer, available right here
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Print: $19.99 Download: $2.50 Mae Rose, is a self-confessed ‘nothinger’. Her dad has called her Mae-be from the day she was born. She’s his bundle of possibilities. All her life she’s proven him right. She gets good grades but is not the sportiest, coolest or cleverest girl in school. Mae-be has no siblings to hate and no history of abuse, self or otherwise. When she finds herself pregnant, Mae-be has a lot to learn. She learns the hypocrisy of some, the kindness of others and the need for making a life after she brings one into the world. Along the way she learns a lot about herself, via her mother’s story. Ma, as Mae calls her, had her own, illegitimate child at twenty. In the days when the legal voting age was twenty-one, and women weren't worth educating, she was forced to give her daughter up for adoption. Two weeks after adoptive legislation changes, the phone rings and her daughter wants to speak with her. Mae-be Roses follows a mother’s story, from rumour, to truth, to a touching reunion.
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Print: $24.99 Download: $6.25 History, tradition, art and festivals and friendship are the themes that Australian artist Virginia Ryan effortlessly interweaves throughout her intriguing personal memoir. First published in 2000, ‘Where the Cypress Rises’ tells the story of her family’s growing affection for a hill town in central Italy.
“It was midsummer. The thick, cloying blanket of afternoon heat spread itself drowsily
across the Umbrian landscape, leaving the earth scorched under a sun-bleached sky. On
far-off mountaintops storms were brewing and distant thunder seemed to rise from a sunstruck
earth, an incantation from other times.
We drove on and on in a trance towards the hill town of Trevi, only casting aside weariness
with the excitement of seeing our new home again. The recently acquired object of our
desires was an abandoned olive mill clinging to the edge of tree-lined slopes on the outskirts
of the town, purchased quite impulsively the previous summer.” Excellent Mothers' Day gift anywhere in the world.
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Print: $29.95 Download: $5.00 Imagine living and working on an organic farm with WWOOF workers in Australia's Queensland wine region that's also a bed-and-breakfast stay-over, and a memorial to First World War soldiers ... then turn to Page 1 to find out the real story of what it's like.
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