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Clare Hamilton is just nine years old when her childhood is abruptly ended with the death of both her parents in the typhoid epidemic of 1946.

Ten-year-old Kenny (Kenji in Japanese) worships his older brother, Mickey (Mitsuo), a baseball hero whose outstanding performance on the Asahi baseball team has given him fame and popularity.

Thirteen-year-old Chris and his family are setting up a bungee jump in his backyard.

Full of smart observation and observed digression.

The dinosaur bones in Drumheller, Alberta, rest by daylight, and come out and dance when the moon rises.

Priva begs and begs for a piano. But when her parents grant her wish, she discovers that she can't make the wonderful sounds she hears in her head!

Janine Shepherd had already suffered through and overcome adversity after being in an horrific accident few thought she would ever recover from.

Fictional account of station life in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia during early settlement.

This is a dramatic suspenseful and splendidly written story of Australians at war.

More than fifteen million Americans have age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and the disease will strike 200,000 more people this year.

From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the western shore of Ootsa Lake.

A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy narrative as any of his bestselling novels.

In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr.

Rachel Mast finds the Amish are no more immune from crime than the people they call the English. It's been years since restless Rachel fled her family's farm as a teen.

Five years after rescuing an orphaned infant from the Great Chicago Fire and raising the child as her own daughter, Lucy Hathaway encounters the embittered Randoph Higgins, Chicago's most prominent