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The Getting of Wisdom (1910) is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson. Based on her experiences at Melbourne's Presbyterian Ladies' College, The Getting of Wisdom is a coming-of-age novel aimed at a young audience. Engaged with such themes as grief, bullying, and peer-pressure, Richardson's novel is a powerful story of a young girl finding her way in the world. An instant bestseller, the novel has never gone out of print. "Laura went into her own room...
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 4
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A gathering of witches in Melbourne to celebrate Samhain, a rash of bad drug reactions, a cache of valuables stolen from Greek Jews during WWII, and the appearance of Corinna Chapman's boyfriend's beautiful and svelte former girlfriend, Georgiana Hope, add up to villainy and a puzzle waiting to be solved by the hefty Melbourne baker.
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"Awakening unusually early one morning, Phryne Fisher finds herself with a rare stretch of free time to fill. After dropping her daughters off for their school-sponsored charity work at the Blind Institute, she visits a university professor whose acquaintance she'd made--and admired--on a prior case. At lunch, the smitten professor invites Phryne to dine at his home in Williamstown later that week. Bookending her pleasant dinner with her new friend...
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The devastating Phryne Fisher is under fire again in her fourth mystery. A very young man with muddied hair, a pierced ear and a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne's arms. But sadly it's not another scene of glorious seduction - this time it's death. The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, beautifully dressed in loose trousers, a cream silk shirt and a red-fox fur has just had her windscreen shot out inches in front of her divine nose. But worse is the...
9) Shadowfae
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Imagine a secret world veiled in fairy glamour and brimming with unearthly delights. A city swarming with half-mad fairies, where thieving spriggans rob you blind, beautiful banshees mesmerize you with their song, and big green trolls bust heads at nightclubs. And once you're in, there's no escape...Welcome to the world of Erica Hayes Shadowfae.
Enslaved by a demon lord, Jade is forced to spend her nights seducing vampire gangsters and
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"The fourth Ragtime Mystery is filled with warmth and wonder and interesting music trivia, buoyed by the relationship between the two sleuths, which may well echo that between the late Larry Karp and his son, who finished this final installment after his death." -Kirkus Reviews
It takes one moment in 2016 for ragtime music expert Alan Chandler to go from sitting in his hotel room in Sedalia, Missouri, to standing beside the King of Ragtime-Scott...
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"Phryne Fisher is trying to enjoy a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore at His Majesty's Theatre, but there are dark doings afoot. The leading man is poisoned, followed by his understudy, then a massive curtain weight crushes a company member to a pulp. It certainly looks as if someone has it in for the production, but the show must go on! Murder and poison make this a case for the Melbourne police, but as a friend of the troupe's...
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A famous author and illustrator has died in mysterious circumstances. Phryne Fisher has been asked to investigate and gets a job at the magazine that employed the victim. As the investigation proceeds, Phryne finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions and, in the meantime, has to deal with her chaotic personal life.
13) The Rosie result
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Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to decide how much to guide Hudson and how much to let him be...
14) Wyatt
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Hoping for a straightforward jewel heist, Wyatt is forced to partner with Eddie Oberin and Eddie's intelligent ex-wife, Lydia, who possesses critical inside information, in a plot that proves unexpectedly complicated.
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When St. Kilda has its first Flower Festival, the Honourable Phryne Fisher becomes the honorary Queen of the Flowers. But when one of her flower maidens and her adopted daughter Ruth both go missing, Phryne puts aside her duties as queen and takes up her duties as investigator.
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In Melbourne, Riley Jenson who is part werewolf and part vampire, works for an organization created to police the supernatural races. After waking up in an alley naked and bruised, she then meets Kade who is fighting a life-and-death battle of his own. Riley knows she is being pursued by a new kind of criminal because in her blood is a secret that could create the ultimate warrior.
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 6
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Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, accepts an offer from a caterer friend to do the baking for the film set of a new soap called "Kiss the Bride." While on the other side of town, a young woman is being unmercifully bullied by her corporate employers -- employers who spend a lot of time cooking the books.
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"When the glamorous Phryne Fisher, accompanied by Dot, decides to leave her delightfully fast, red Hispano-Suiza at home and travel to the country in the train, the last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save their lives. What was planned as a restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of nightmares: a young girl who can't remember anything, rumors of vile white slavery and the body of an old woman missing her emerald...
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"As a full moon rises over Melbourne, Australia, a young woman gets ready for a party. She is autistic, yet within her mind, she is whoever she wants to be. What appears to an ordinary night out is - through the prism of her singular perspective - extraordinary. As the evening unfolds, each encounter reveals the vast discrepancies between what she is thinking and feeling, and what she is able to say. And there's so much she'd like to say. So when...
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
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"Corinna Chapman detests Christmas. Shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia. And now, Corinna finds herself dealing with a rose-addicted donkey, a maniacal mother with staring eyes, a distracted assistant seeking the definitive glacâe cherry recipe, a fearless witch, and the handsome Daniel with whom she would like to spend a lot more time. But Daniel is tracking two runaways whose Romeo-and-Juliet romance is not as straight-forward...
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