Product Description: "Intense and extraordinary."—SpectatorThe once prosperous outback town of Tourmaline is dying, gripped by drought. The remaining townspeople have little to do but drink. When a mysterious water diviner emerges from the desert, many are drawn to his teachings.

Product Description: ‘By day we were learning logarithms, but by night, in the backs of panel vans and down on Cronulla beach, we paid off the friendship rings our boyfriends gave us …’ Puberty – riddled with anxieties and humiliations – is the time every girl has to go through and no woman forgets...read more

Product Description: As her mother Joan lies dying, Gabrielle Carey writes a letter to Joan’s childhood friend, the reclusive novelist Randolph Stow. This letter sets in motion a literary pilgrimage that reveals long-buried family secrets. Like her mother, Stow had grown up in Western Australia...read more

Product Description: Intimately exploring the complex dynamics of a complicated mother-daughter relationship, this sharp and honest memoir tells the story of a woman who is forced to begin asking some of life’s difficult questions—such as to what extent are people's lives determined by their genetic heritage?—when her mother is diagnosed with a serious brain tumor that must be operated on immediately...read more

Product Description: B> Written to help family therapy professionals and students understand issues that affect clinical treatment of Hispanic Americans, this book highlights the diversity of the people who make up the fabric of what is commonly referred to as "Latino culture"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)