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Self-confident, skillful, ambitious, and bright, Joan envisions herself as one of history's truly great women, but when she becomes pregnant, she finds herself caught between her dreams and society's expectations

Hardcover:

9780945167099 | British Amer Pub Ltd, October 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Self-confident, skillful, ambitious, and bright, Joan envisions herself as one of history's truly great women, but when she becomes pregnant, she finds herself caught between her dreams and society's expectations

Paperback:

9780702253515 | Reprint edition (Univ of Queensland Pr, February 1, 2015), cover price $15.95
9780702233302 | Univ of Queensland Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Kate Grenville is an award-winning novelist with a distinctively witty style.
9780702221743 | Reprint edition (Univ of Queensland Pr, August 1, 1999), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A rewrite of the history of Australia from the viewpoint of a woman named Joan.
9780440187370, titled "Tomorrow's Promise" | Dell Pub Co, January 1, 1985, cover price $1.95 | also contains Tomorrow''s Promise

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Product Description: Brian Castro’s award-winning novel, The Garden Book, is a meditation on loneliness, addiction and exploitation. Set in the years between the Depression and the Second World War in Australia’s Dandenong Ranges, it follows the emotionally turbulent life of the beautiful Swan Hay (born Shuang He)--her marriage to the passionate yet brutal Darcy Damon, her love affair with the aviator Jasper Zenlin and her rise to literary fame overseas after her poetry is translated into French without her knowledge...read more

Paperback:

9781885030078 | Kaya, September 27, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Brian Castro’s award-winning novel, The Garden Book, is a meditation on loneliness, addiction and exploitation.

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By Carmen Callil (introduced by)

Paperback:

9781921922138 | Reprint edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, July 16, 2013), cover price $14.95

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A fictional account of an American woman's four-month odyssey through the Australian Outback with the region's native people shares a message about living in harmony with the world around

Hardcover:

9781863405577, titled "Mutant Message Down Under" | Bolinda Pub Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: A fictional account of an American woman's four-month odyssey through the Australian Outback with the region's native people shares a message about living in harmony with the world around
9780786203307, titled "Mutant Message Down Under" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 1994), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A fictional account of an American woman's four-month odyssey through the Australian Outback with the region's native people shares a message about living in harmony with the world around
9780060171926, titled "Mutant Message Down Under" | Harpercollins, September 1, 1994, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A fictional account of an American woman's four-month odyssey through the Australian Outback with the region's native people shares a message about living in harmony with the world around

Paperback:

9780060723514, titled "Mutant Message Down Under" | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 2004), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A fictional account of an American woman's four-month odyssey through the Australian Outback with the region's native people shares a message about living in harmony with the world around.
9780060926311, titled "Mutant Message Down Under" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1995), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A fictional account of an American woman's four-month odyssey through the Australian Outback with the region's native people shares a message about living in harmony with the world around
9781883473006, titled "Mutant Message Down Under: Down Under" | Reissue edition (Bookpeople, October 1, 1992), cover price $12.00

Miscellaneous:

9780061749988, titled "Mutant Message Down Under" | Harpercollins, March 17, 2009, cover price $7.99

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Product Description: "In this beautifully written and disturbing Australian coming-of-age novel, McMaster tells the story of Sooky, who struggles to overcome her difficult childhood, the effects of which are powerfully portrayed as she moves from relationship to relationship and from Brisbane to London...read more

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9780714531489 | Marion Boyars, September 1, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "In this beautifully written and disturbing Australian coming-of-age novel, McMaster tells the story of Sooky, who struggles to overcome her difficult childhood, the effects of which are powerfully portrayed as she moves from relationship to relationship and from Brisbane to London.

Convinced that an unpopular bureaucrat is innocent of theft and computer fraud charges, single mother and investigator Sandra Mahoney finds herself pitted against an elusive and unscrupulous opponent in a battle that tests numerous allegiances.

Hardcover:

9780312332471 | Minotaur Books, February 1, 2005, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Convinced that an unpopular bureaucrat is innocent of theft and computer fraud charges, single mother and investigator Sandra Mahoney finds herself pitted against an elusive and unscrupulous opponent in a battle that tests numerous allegiances.

Paperback:

9781862544864 | Wakefield Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "I should ask your department's accountant whether he's missing nine hundred thousand bucks.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780732024611 | Unabridged edition (Louis Braille Audio, September 1, 2001), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This will be a flagship publication of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts community.

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Product Description: Book by Anggraeni, Dewi (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9780957873575 | Indra Pub, February 1, 2003, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Book by Anggraeni, Dewi

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Product Description: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity. She examines these issues through the story of the independent and intelligent Stella Courtland, a young girl who marries and finds herself hampered by the social constraints of her new life...read more

Hardcover:

9780702233685 | Univ of Queensland Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $157.50 | About this edition: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity.

Paperback:

9780702233739 | Univ of Queensland Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity.
9780192839220 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity.
9780863582219 | Reprint edition (Pandora Pr, August 1, 1988), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As Australia began the process of breaking away from its status as a British colony, Catherine Martin was fascinated with the meaning of Australian culture and identity.

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Emily Stanton, an intelligent and ambitious young woman of the 1920s, discovers that her struggle for personal freedom challenges society's deeply cherished beliefs about motherhood and family, in a story revealed through a fragmentary journal, left to a son by his late mother. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780684869353 | Scribner, July 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Emily Stanton, an intelligent and ambitious young woman of the 1920s, discovers that her struggle for personal freedom challenges society's deeply cherished beliefs about motherhood and family, in a story revealed through a fragmentary journal

Paperback:

9780425181775 | Reissue edition (Berkley Pub Group, January 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Emily Stanton, an intelligent and ambitious young woman of the 1920s, discovers that her struggle for personal freedom challenges society's deeply cherished beliefs about motherhood and family, in a story revealed through a fragmentary journal, left to a son by his late mother.

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Product Description: This anthology, unprecedented for its subject, gathers together twenty-nine of the sharpest and most entertaining stories written by Australian women from the early nineteenth century to the late 1990s. Selected by acclaimed critic and writer Kerryn Goldsworthy--editor of the highly successful Australian Love Stories--the stories cover a wide range of styles and subject matter...read more
By Kerryn Goldsworthy (editor)

Hardcover:

9780195512953 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 30, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This anthology, unprecedented for its subject, gathers together twenty-nine of the sharpest and most entertaining stories written by Australian women from the early nineteenth century to the late 1990s.

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Product Description: Thick Heavy Hardcover with Dustjacket. 747 pages. An Illustrated Collection of Three Complete Novels: TIM, AN INDECENT OBSESSION, and THE LADIES OF MISSALONGHI. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780517201664 | Random House Value Pub, March 1, 1999, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Thick Heavy Hardcover with Dustjacket.

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Product Description: Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.

Hardcover:

9780892551163 | Persea Books, May 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As the relationship between a fifty-year-old gynecologist barred from her profession and Andrea becomes closer, events long suppressed are revealed, including unorthodox entanglements of love, a bizarre medical accident, and possible murder

Paperback:

9780702219481 | Reprint edition (Univ of Queensland Pr, April 1, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.
9780892551361 | Reprint edition (Persea Books, August 1, 1988), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: As the relationship between a fifty-year-old gynecologist barred from her profession and Andrea becomes closer, events long suppressed are revealed, including unorthodox entanglements of love, a bizarre medical accident, and possible murder

Animal rights activist Diana Pembridge is embroiled in a tangle of scientific corruption and sexual scandal when her friend, scientist Carolyn Williams, is found murdered, and chief scientist John Parker will go to any lengths to protect his deadly secrets. 12,500 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780671620059 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Animal rights activist Diana Pembridge is embroiled in a tangle of scientific corruption and sexual scandal when her friend, scientist Carolyn Williams, is found murdered, and chief scientist John Parker will go to any lengths to protect his deadly secrets

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Distraught after a family crisis, Kate Gaffney-Kozinski disappears into the Australian outback, where she assumes a new identity and works as a barmaid, while her wealthy husband's enforcer tries to track her down

Hardcover:

9780385467957 | Doubleday, March 1, 1993, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Distraught after a family crisis, Kate Gaffney-Kozinski disappears into the Australian outback, where she assumes a new identity and works as a barmaid, while her wealthy husband's enforcer tries to track her down

Paperback:

9780452271777 | Reprint edition (Plume, March 1, 1994), cover price $19.00
9780340579749 | New edition (Hodder & Stoughton, July 1, 1993), cover price $11.75 | About this edition: Set in Australia and based on fact.

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Facing a quiet life of near poverty as the less attractive daughter from a tiny homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains, shy Missy Wright sets all the local tongues wagging when she targets a mysterious and mistrusted stranger. Reprint. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780060157395, titled "The Ladies of Missalonghi" | Horizon Book Promotions, November 1, 1989, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Missy, a young Australian woman living with her mother and her aunt, falls in love with the mysterious man who bought her family's bottling business

Paperback:

9780380704583 | Avon Books, May 1, 1991, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Set in a small town in the Blue Mountains of Australia shortly before the First World War, this novel follows Missy Wright from her predictable existence to her new life of romance and adventure

Product Description: Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifullysmall homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains...read more
By Peter Chapman (illustrator) and Colleen McCullough

Hardcover:

9780816143665 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, December 1, 1987), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright.

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Paperback:

9780702215315 | Univ of Queensland Pr, February 1, 1982, cover price $9.50

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