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After being moved by the letters of two Civil War soldiers--one Union and the other Confederate--Grace, Hannah, and Amelia track down the soldiers’ descendants and invite them to a Chris

Falsely convicted of thievery and sent to America on a slave ship, Shemaine O'Hearn beomes the servant of Gage Thornton, a caring, generous and enigmatic shipbuilder with a young child in need

"Winston Churchill's account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history.

In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide.

This series narrates the fall of a great galactic empire and the efforts of the Foundations to combat the barbarism that follows.

Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces

The autobiography of Christopher Milne and the background to the poems and stories about Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.

Long ago, Meston Park in Brisbane's West End marked the city's boundary. A curfew kept its Aboriginal population outside the city limits after dark.

When a physician receives a message containing a phrase only his murdered wife should know, he is tormented to tears.

In a small town in country Australia, railway man George Bingham toils away, dreaming of adventure in far-off lands.

Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to a

A funny, appealing and big-hearted memoir of how one of Australia's leading comic talents, Corinne Grant, learned to reconcile love, loss, lack of cupboard space and far too much stuff.

"There's one sound a woman doesn't want to hear when she's lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl.

Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book o