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The Light Horseman's Daughter by David Crookes
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While resisting eviction from the Queensland family property at the start of the Great Depression, Emma McKenna's father is shot dead. Emma is left destitute, with her crippled mother and twelve-year-old twin brothers to care for. But she is not easily defeated and fights back.
In her struggle to survive she must overcome, heartless wealthy relatives, racial bigotry, child abuse, corrupt financiers and choose between the love of two very different men: one a wealthy Sydney lawyer involved with the New Guard, a paramilitary anti-communist movement, and the other, a persecuted and penniless left-wing activist.
The Light Horseman's Daughter offers a panoramic view of Australia in the 1930's—the big landowners of the outback, the corrupt bankers who supported them, the well-heeled elite of Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs, the abject poverty of the victims of the Depression, the idealists who joined the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War .
This award-winning novel weaves all this into a riveting story with the human element at its heart. Emma McKenna is a heroine to remember
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Catharsis by Jonathan Face
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Spring City, New Hampshire, is a town with a checkered past. Its residents have secrets - or so they think. These will be exposed and their true natures revealed during an unexpected winter storm.
Chaos unfolds as the snow falls, ushered along by the ghosts of the town's previous inhabitants. Acting on orders from some unknown power, it's their duty to see that the town gets the justice it has been lacking. If anyone's alive by dawn, they're either lucky - or innocent.
This is Spring City's last night, but its citizens won't go quietly.
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3 by A Submitter
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The world of 3 reflects on the concept of mind, body and soul. To answer an age old philosophical question and provide proofs of reason.
There comes a time when things which are destined to be manifest become clear and the truth of the words written shed light on the thoughts of the mind, the actions of the body and the will of the soul. The Book was intended for the purpose of reaching an understanding after years of study and some nuggets among the various troubling thoughts of the time, and then whilst the storm settled and following 6 troubled years fighting mental illness and instiutionalisation and still pursuing a course independent of what mainstream education had to offer, a simple tool rather than years spent in academia paying off costly debts, and working among students which would take up your time, instead a daily routine to question, critically examine and evaluate the thoughts until something unique and original became known. In 2008 the book was formalised and for the next two years was developed and brought into existence. The book intends to give insight to the life of one deemed insane and through his experience sheds a light onto the wider world, also questioning the difference between mental illness and creativity. It is the unravelling of mysteries which people have talked of but never put to writing, it is a long journey of logical understanding to keep a light within to search for answers.
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