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Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression

A dramatic and age-appropriate introduction to the Depression outlines this difficult episode in history with an easy-to-grasp plot line and vocabulary-building text. Reprint. AB. SLJ.

Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression

Product Description: Norton needed a holiday – anywhere – as long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to oblige – Les could have his house at Terrigal. All he had to do was look after George Brennan’s nephew for a week while he was there...read more

Product Description: Arranging the hit on Fabio was a low act, and Les knew it. And when you get Sydney’s deadliest killer to do the hit, there’s always a quid pro quo. In this case, Les had to take a trip to Nimbin in New South Wales to help an old army mate of Eddie Salita’s open a bar, the Double L Ranch...read more

Product Description: Arranging the hit on Fabio was a low act, and Les knew it. And when you get Sydney’s deadliest killer to do the hit, there’s always a quid pro quo. In this case, Les had to take a trip to Nimbin in New South Wales to help an old army mate of Eddie Salita’s open a bar, the Double L Ranch...read more

Product Description: Master the art of drawing the figure.Drawing from life has been an important source of expression and satisfaction for artists through the ages. Robert Barrett, master fine artist, instructor and university professor, re-creates his studio class on the pages of this book...read more

Product Description: Les Norton's in town and he feels like dancing.Extreme Polo. The wildest game on water. That's what it said on TV. All Les had to do was drive down to Wagga Wagga for an old mate who owed him a favour, Neville (Nizegy) Nixon, and pick up the Murrumbidgee Mud Crabs...read more

Just when everything was going so good, Les slips a disc in his back. He can't run, he can't train. He can't do anything much. But he can still drive his car. So it's down to Narooma for the South Coast Blues Festival and a bit of R&R: 30 bands and three days and nights of non-stop rock 'n' roll. Which would have been great, only Les has to have a slight altercation with four fishermen on his first night in town. Now the toughest, meanest, most horrible bloke on the south coast is after his blood.Then Les meets Amazing Grace. Add some magic mushrooms, a dancing bear and Jerry Lee Rat. It all makes for an interesting time at the Blues Festival.Robert G. Barrett's latest Les Norton adventure is set in beautiful Narooma on the New South Wales south coast, and is non-stop action spiced with humour, mystery and romance.

A history of the Nauvoo Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from Joseph Smith's founding of Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1839 to the rebuilding of the Temple beginning in 1999.