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Glamorous magazine editor Helen Woodley has been hired as the new head honcho of magazine Australian Life, and she needs a new feature idea to send the magazine rocketing back up the popularity stakes, fast. But she had no idea how successful her new campaign would be. Who knew that if the country’s lovelorn single farmers were profiled each week, readers would queue up to date them? Soon rural romances are all the rage; but among the haystacks and the pitchforks, a lot of people (and Helen herself) are about to find out that the course of true love is never smooth.

When Tom Fellows proclaims that a Venn diagram is a far better way of illustrating modern family ties than a traditional tree, his young daughter Andrea has no idea that he is referring to their own situation. It is only when she loses both parents in a shocking car accident that she takes an interest in her own genealogy and begins to realize that her perfect upbringing was not all that it seemed. Half-truths and White Lies is a beautifully crafted, thought-provoking novel that questions the influence of the people who are missing from our lives. It examines the thin line between love and friendship, looking at our complex emotional needs. It also explores how one woman’s life is dictated by her desire for children, while another’s is shaped by her decision not to have them.

Dorset House is the home of the Claygate family, and a place where diplomats love to congregate. When young Maurice Claygate and notorious spy Sophie Lenart are found shot dead, Inspector Arnold Box, investigating the murders, hears from Head of Secret Intelligence Colonel Kershaw, that there are international ramifications to the case. Together the two men pursue a ruthless thief and a stolen document across France, bringing the affair to a devastating and unexpected climax in the great palace of Louis XIV, the Sun King, at Versailles.

The Blue Notebook brings us into the life of a young woman for whom stories are not just entertainment but a means of survival. Even as the novel humanizes and addresses the devastating global issue of child prostitution, it also delivers an inspiring message about the uplifting power of words and reading a message that is so important to hold on to, especially in difficult times. Dr. Levine is donating all his U.S. proceeds from this book to help exploited children. Batuk’s story can make a difference.

There were times when Rachel Treherne fervently wished that her beloved father had left his fortune to somebody else, so overburdened did she feel with the administration of her estate. And never more so than now for, although she was surrounded by relatives who depended on her, whom she loved and who must surely love her, there was no doubt in her mind that somebody was trying to kill her. Threatening letters could be ignored, odd tasting chocolates can be rejected but when snakes are left in her bed, Rachel is convinced that someone means her terrible harm. Her only chance of a future life lay with Miss Silver, and Miss Silver was well on the way to unmasking the murderer when he (or she) struck again.

Beginning in 1977 Buenos Aires, this novel in diary form relates the rebellion and persecution of teenaged sister and brother Silvia and Eduardo Diaz. Struggling against the brutal military dictatorship that runs their country, Eduardo and his university friends are taken from their homes and thrown into prison, where they are starved and tortured in an effort to extract from them the names of other traitors. Silvia, in a futile attempt to find her brother and save his life, pretends to care for evil Noberto Lopez, son of the general responsible for the capture. Unknown to her, as she risks her safety and reputation, her physician father has bargained for Eduardo’s freedom in exchange for the general’s secret but desperately needed surgery.