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Monday Mar 19, 2018
Monday Mar 19, 2018
Title: Hiding Place
Author: Dave Goddard
Narrator: Alan Needhan.
Genre: Australian Fiction
Note: Strong Language
Date Published: January 2017
URl -
- Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/131544
- ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/131667
Summary: "Here's some pidgin, Mick," and Garrick spoke rapidly. "Who been dat pella? Where him been prom? You been subby him? Him been talk punny way, ay? Him been kardiya bloke."What?" Mick shook his head quickly."I said, 'who is that man? Where is he from? Do you know him? Doesn't he talk in a strange way? He's a stranger in this place'." It's 2017. Mick Wilson's wife has taken off from Adelaide with a long-haul truck-driver and Mick's two little kids. In an attempt to find his family, Mick, a brick-layer and former top-level Australian Rules footballer, blindly heads for Alice Springs. In Central Australia, where many people go to hide from their past, Mick finds a different and challenging world. He stumbles into work on a remote cattle station, with an Aboriginal community close by. He also finds three very different women who shape his destiny. Racial tensions, tangled personal relationships, a mysterious mountain range and a struggling Aboriginal community and football team force Mick to become part of a strange new world and way of being. Across a cultural divide, new understandings emerge in the most unlikely ways. Through it all, Mick searches and aches for his kids, but because of the people he comes to know, he's never alone.
Monday Mar 19, 2018
Monday Mar 19, 2018
Title: The Wiluna Solution
Author: Dave Goddard
Narrator: Elwyn Edwards
Genre: Detective and Mystery fiction, Suspense fiction, Crime stories.
Date Published: August 2016
URl -
- Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130815
- ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130818
Summary: Who is Jessie Croft? Why has she disappeared from Wiluna? What is the mystery behind the mesmerising eyes? In seeking answers, Kalgoorlie Detective Superintendent Greg Johnson finds himself in Wiluna in the 1930s, which threatens his way of life and the lives of his three daughters and grandchildren. He learns a great deal about Wiluna: its significance as a gold-mining and cattle centre, as the railhead for the Canning Stock Route, and as a site for competing Aboriginal and European histories And he comes to understand that love, and caring for people and justice, can transcend extraordinary boundaries.
Thursday Mar 01, 2018
Thursday Mar 01, 2018
Title: A History of the Beanbag: and other stories
Author: Susan Midalia
Narrator: Tracey Parker & Jim Limerick
Genre: Short stories, Australian fiction.
Date published: October 2015
URl:
• Daisy 2.02:http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129253
• ePub3:http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/131960
Summary: "A History of the Beanbag and other stories" is the latest title in UWA Press' acclaimed "New Writing" series-This is a short story collection with a difference - a scenic tour of the surprises, secrets and fears lurking beneath the cracked veneer of domesticity and suburban complacency. With photographic precision, author Susan Midalia captures the fleeting beauty, light and darkness to be found in the ephemera of everyday life. Like the beanbag of the title, the stories are an invitation to settle yourself in for a reading experience by turns vivid, haunting, bizarre and strangely comforting.
Monday Feb 12, 2018
Monday Feb 12, 2018
Title: The Apple Core Wars
Author: Linda J Bettenay
Narrator: Elwyn Edwards.
Genre: War Stories, Historical Fiction, Australian Fiction
Date Published: May 2017
URl -
- Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/131424
- ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/131925
Summary: From the fertile fruit growing Perth hills to a World War II prison camp - this is a saga of two men battling for survival. Entwined in the battle is hatred, then mateship as they fight for their
lives and compete for the heart of their one true love. ‘The Apple Core Wars’, Linda J Bettenay’s third book, tells the story of Jacky Bellamy, Charlie Parkin and the beautiful Stella Cerini. Jacky is a wild boy from Karragullen, Stella a nurse who defies convention and Charlie an outsider from the enemy territory of Roleystone and rival for Stella’s attention. The normal hurly-burly of their early lives is contrasted against the bleak backdrop of Camp Fukuoka 14 in Nagasaki, Japan. Despite the awkward love triangle, a surprising friendship emerges when Jacky and Charlie are thrown together as prisoners of war.
Their lives are further challenged by an atomic bomb and a shocking family secret. The war ends and those who survive return home to an uncertain future.
Monday Feb 05, 2018
Monday Feb 05, 2018
Title: Secrets Mothers Keep
Author: Linda J Bettenay
Narrator: Jim Malcolm
Genre: Detective and Mystery mystery, Crime stories, Australian Fiction
Note: Sexual Content, Graphic Violence
Date Published: September 2016
URl -
• Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130157
• ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130881
Summary: A brutal murder occurs on an isolated farm in the 1920's in Western Australia and the victim's wife and children are violently abused, scandalising the whole country. The killer has no apparent motivation but admits his guilt and the abused wife has to rebuild her shattered life. Secrets Mothers Keep traces how three lives are entwined. A young English boy with learning difficulties and the precursors of mental illness, learns to cope with his 'black moods' and poor social skills. He faces numerous challenges and finds support and strategies that enable him to survive. Finally an event makes him crack.
Monday Jan 29, 2018
Monday Jan 29, 2018
Title: Wishes for Starlight
Author: Linda J Bettenay
Narrator: Jim Limerick.
Genre: Historical fiction, Australian fiction.
Note: Sexual Content, Graphic Content, Strong Language
Date Published: February 2016
URl -
- Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130008
- ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/131086
Summary: How does a deaf, orphaned, Noongar boy survive during the implementation of the draconian 1905 Aborigines Act? By having powerful and caring friends.' Starlight is born in 1889 in the thriving timber town of Canning Mills, Western Australia. He is discovered in a chicken coop living with dogs. The three white children who find him are remarkable: headstrong Mary who was born into a dysfunctional family, the Italian immigrant Marco and fun loving Arthur. Gradually change arrives in their insulated lives; the friends confront reality - will their actions be enough to save those they love from harm?
Set largely in Western Australia, 'Wishes for Starlight' is a novel where friendship and loyalty are pitted against prejudice and disadvantage. It is a story about relationships, resilience and what equality and freedom really mean.
Monday Dec 18, 2017
Monday Dec 18, 2017
In 2013 VisAbility celebrated 100 years of life-changing service to the Western Australian community.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects this Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas-tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise. But, someone recently left a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, puppies she's determined to place in good homes. That's complication number one. And number two is that her daughters Bailey and Sophie have invited their dad, Beth's ex-husband, Kent, to Cedar Cove for Christmas. The girls have visions of a mom-and-dad reunion dancing in their heads. As always in life, and in Cedar Cove, there are surprises. More than one family's going to have a puppy under the tree. More than one scheme will go awry. And more than one romance will have a happy ending!
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130659
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130721
Narrator:Sandra Burr
Genre: Romance
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Thirty-three-year-old Cassie wants a husband and kids, and she turns to Simon Dodson, a professional matchmaker for help. Dodson assigns her three tasks to complete, and despite a number of comical mishaps, Cassie completes them all. Her Christmas match turns out to be a wonderful surprise.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130097
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130098
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Genre: Romance
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to Los Angeles in time for Christmas. Forced to take the train across the country because of a slight "misunderstanding" at airport security, he begins a journey of self-discovery and rude awakenings, mysterious goings-on and thrilling adventures, screwball escapades and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people's essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost. Equal parts hilarious, poignant, suspenseful, and thrilling, David Baldacci's The Christmas Train is a delightful journey filled with memorable characters who have packed their bags with as much wisdom as mischief, and a story that shows how we do get second chances to fulfill our deepest hopes and dreams, especially during the season of miracles.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130275
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130276
Narrator: Tim Matheson
Genre: Adventure Stories
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Luther and Nora Krank decide to skip Christmas and set sail on a Carribean cruise. But, as this weary couple are about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and it isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/69818
Narrator: Joy Bresser
Genre: Humorous Fiction
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Tuesday Dec 13, 2016
Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, and refuses to accept that it is a time for peace and goodwill to all men. One Christmas Eve, however, he receives a visit from the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost tells Scrooge of three other spirits who will come to haunt him that night, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come. As the spirits send him dark visions of what his future may hold, will their warnings be enough to make Scrooge see the error of his way, and mend them?
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129313
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129314
Narrator: Miriam Margolyes.
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Historical fiction
Monday Dec 05, 2016
Monday Dec 05, 2016
Lord Percy Hunterdon despaired - he had inherited a Gothic horror of an estate along with a pair of fifteen-year-old brats to marry off. It was no secret to him that finding husbands for these two vile young ladies would require the utmost expertise: the care of a governess of superior caliber. When Jean Morrison spied Lord Hunterdon's advertisement, dreams of an unmarried viscount and a magnificent castle danced in her head. She imagined him as Byronic and brooding, pacing the battlements with a black cloak wrapped around his manly shoulders. And naturally, he would fall madly in love with her. Her dreams immediately burst apart at the seams when she saw the dank, dirty Trelawney Castle and encountered for the first time the evil dispositions of her new charges. Still, despite all of this, the golden hair and dancing eyes of her employer conjured up fantasies that were most unseemly for a governess of distinction.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130371
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130372
Narrator: Charlotte Anne Dore.
Genre: Romance
Monday Dec 05, 2016
Monday Dec 05, 2016
When English tycoon Sir Robert Waldo Hardwick dies mysteriously in a car accident, he leaves behind a note naming six people he suspects might have wanted him dead. Following Sir Robert's instructions, Daisy Keane and P.I. Harry Montana team up to take the suspects - and also six red herrings - on a fabulous Mediterranean cruise, all expenses paid. Calling at Monte Carlo, Saint-Tropez and Sorrento, they finally arrive at the beautiful Villa Belkiss on Capri, where Sir Robert's will is to be read... With unexpected twists, the mystery deepens and passions flare as an intense attraction develops between loner Montana and wary Daisy.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130377
Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie.
Genre: Romance, Detective and Mystery fiction
Monday Dec 05, 2016
Monday Dec 05, 2016
In 13th Century England, Hastings of Trent is married off by her father to the brutish Severin of Langthorne, a knight who will know how to protect their property. The novel follows Hastings as she transforms Severin from a wife rapist to a friendly companion.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130875
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130876
Narrator: Anne Flosnik
Genre: Romance
Monday Dec 05, 2016
Monday Dec 05, 2016
A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinski is reasonably content with her quiet life, her dog, Frank, and her career as a visiting nurse. But everything changes when Chip Reardon, the golden boy she adored in high school, is assigned as her new patient. Choosing to forgo treatment for an incurable illness, Chip has returned to his New England hometown to spend what time he has left. Now, Myra and Chip find themselves engaged in a poignant redefinition of roles, and a complicated dance of memory, ambivalence, and longing.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130138
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/E11531
Narrator: Elizabeth Berg.
Genre: Romance
Monday Dec 05, 2016
Monday Dec 05, 2016
Maeve Binchy's bestselling novels not only tell wonderful stories, they also give an insight in to how Ireland has changed over the decades, but how people remain the same: they still fall in love, sometimes unsuitably; they still have hopes and dreams; they have deep, long-standing friendships, and some that fall apart. From her earliest writing to her most recent, Maeve's work has included wonderfully nostalgic pieces and also sharp, often witty writing which is insightful and topical. But at the heart of all Maeve's fiction are the people and their relationships with each other. A few of the girls is a glorious collection of the very best of her stories, full of the warmth, charm and humour that has always been an essential part of all of Maeve's writing.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130216
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130217
Narrator: Kate Binchy, Gordon Snell.
Genre: Romance
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Monday Nov 28, 2016
The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least partly written by William Shakespeare, a view that Shakespeare scholars have increasingly endorsed. The rest of the play was probably written by Thomas Kyd. The play contains many gibes at Scotland and the Scottish people, which has led some critics to think that it is the work that incited George Nicolson, Queen Elizabeth's agent in Edinburgh, to protest against the portrayal of Scots on the London stage in a 1598 letter to William Cecil, Lord Burghley. This would explain why the play was not included in the First Folio of Shakespeare's works, which was published after the Scottish King James had succeeded to the English throne in 1603. The plot of the play consists of two distinct parts. The first is centred on the Countess of Salisbury (the wife of the Earl of Salisbury), who, beset by rampaging Scots, is rescued by King Edward III, who then proceeds to woo her himself. In the second part of the play, in several scenes reminiscent of Henry V, Edward joins his army in France, fighting a war to claim the French throne.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/117522
Narrator: Cast
Genre: Drama and Plays
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Tragedy written 1605 and concerns the character Lear, his daughters Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, Lear's faithful servant Kent, and Edmund, the evil bastard son of Gloucester.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/36248
Narrator: Cast
Genre: Drama and Plays
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Monday Nov 28, 2016
What if the fairies and star-crossed lovers of the forest had smartphones? A classic is reborn in this fun and funny adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays! Four lovers who can't decide who they have a crush on. One mischievous fairy with a love potion. Total chaos in the fairy world, the human world, and everywhere in between! <3 and h8. The classics just got a whole lot more interesting. tl;dr A Shakespeare play told through its characters texting with emojis, posting photos, checking in at locations, and updating their relationship statuses. The perfect gift for hip theater lovers and teens. A glossary and cast of characters are included for those who need it. For example: "tl;dr" means too long; didn't read.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/27874
Narrator: Cast
Genre: Drama and Plays
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Monday Nov 28, 2016
The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for Shylock and the famous 'Hath not a Jew eyes' speech. Also notable is Portia's speech about the 'quality of mercy'.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/115219
Narrator: Cast
Genre: Drama and Plays
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Monday Nov 28, 2016
Ellie Kendrick, a truly youthful Juliet, and Adetomiwa Edun, a boyish Romeo, head an excellent cast whose period costumes point to the timelessness of parental disapproval, adolescent temperament, rivalry and violence. Filmed before a live audience at Shakespeare's Globe in the heart of London, its intimate and atmospheric setting adds immediacy and vitality to the humour and passion of Shakespeare's verse
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/1848
Narrator: Cast
Genre: Drama and Plays
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Nancy Drew investigates some suspicious accidents at a friend's newly-purchased inn and uncovers a clever gang of robbers involved in the theft of government property.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/114636
Narrator: Unknown
Genre: Mystery Fiction
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Poirot is aboard a snowbound train when a passenger is found murdered.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129368
Narrator: John Moffat & full cast
Genre: Mystery Fiction
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Makedde Vanderwall is a psycho-magnet. A woman who has a habit of attracting the wrong kind of man. She's a single, Canadian, street-smart daughter of a cop, an alluring Venus who works in the lucrative world of modelling while studying forensic psychology. When Mak travels to Sydney on assignment and discovers her best friend brutally murdered, she unwittingly opens a Pandora's Box of suspicious photographers, hired thugs and mysterious lovers. She also encounters Andy Flynn, the handsome, cloyed detective investigating the Stiletto Murders - the most violent signature killings Australia has ever known. In her quest to uncover the truth behind her friend's death, Mak falls headlong into a deadly game of cat and mouse, unaware she has become the obsession of a sadistic psychopath. She is driven into a corner, an evil place where she must suspect everyone and everything.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/115796
Narrator: Tara Moss
Genre: Mystery Fiction
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Thanks to a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terry McCaleb is enjoying retirement. But when a beautiful woman called Graciela Rivers comes visiting his dock McCaleb learns that the heart beating in his chest belonged to her sister, who was murdered.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130581
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130790
Narrator: Dick Hill
Genre: Mystery Fiction
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Monday Nov 21, 2016
Traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and 4 novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes fans appear to have been the first group to use the term "canon" in this way, distinguishing between Doyle's original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/115684
Narrator: John Telfer
Genre: Mystery Fiction
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
A tale of court intrigues in the land of Seven Kingdoms, a country "blessed by golden summers that go on for years, and cursed by cruel winters that can last a generation." Treachery, murder, incest.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/128525
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/131144
Narrator: Roy Dotrice
Genre: Fantasy fiction
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Not since C.S. Lewis have we seen such enthralling fantasy tales for younger readers - the Little Fur books are destined to become classics of their genre. Extraordinary writing, captivating characters, enchanting stories - these books are examples of the highest quality literature for children anyone can imagine, an immense achievement from the master of the genre. Stories with universal, global appeal. They will captivate readers all over the world with their timeless, fairytale feel. Written and read by Australia's most highly acclaimed writer of fantasy for young people. Book 2 in the Legend of Little Fur series of stories full of magic and wonder, of unforgettable characters and exciting adventures. "Little Fur is an endearing little creature ... the novel reads as a gentle fable that children from eight to 10 will enjoy.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130329
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130330
Narrator:Isobelle Carmody
Genre: Fantasy fiction
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
There was a show of shooting stars when harry Potter was born - weathermen all over our world were amazed. But in the other world, the Ministry of Magic wasn't surprised at all, for Harry Potter was to be one of the finest and most famous wizards.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/83777
Narrator: Stephen Fry
Genre: Fantasy fiction
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
This newly revised and expanded edition of the Gunslinger is the first book in the epic Dark Tower series. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/86613
Narrator:Bob Shannon
Genre: Fantasy fiction
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Tuesday Nov 08, 2016
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/115672
Narrator: Robert Inglis
Genre: Fantasy fiction
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Daphne Lethbridge is bright, romantic and vivacious. The First World War has ravaged Europe, but it has done nothing to daunt her spirit. Her enjoyment. though, is soured by her cynical contemporary, Virginia Denniston, who spars with Daphne on every occasion. Beneath their surface civility seethes a deep enmity but, when Daphne realises the bitter truth of her marriage, it takes a chance encounter for her disillusionment to give way to an understanding of a woman's destiny.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/131009
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/131010
Narrator: Clare Higgins.
Genre: Domestic fiction
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Monday Oct 31, 2016
After having a child together, John and Irene divorce. Years later, when an unthinkable crisis occurs, the two learn things about their deepest feelings that surprise them both.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130675
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130907
Narrator:Gabrielle de Cuir.
Genre: Domestic fiction
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen, illegitimate, and in her final year at a wealthy Catholic school. This is the year her father comes back into her life, the year she falls in love, and the year she discovers the secrets of her family's past.
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/60487
Narrator:Rebecca Macauley.
Genre: Domestic fiction
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Monday Oct 31, 2016
As heard on BBC radio 4 book at bedtime winner of the Irish book awards novel of the year 2014 shortlisted for the costa first novel award 2014.Tess Lohan appears to be a quiet child. But within lies a heart of fire. A fire that will propel her from her native Ireland into the hurly-burly of 1960s New York. In this city she will face the twists of a life graced with great beauty, but forever floating close to hazard. Joyous and heart-breaking, Academy Street journeys through six decades and one incredible story.
DAisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130822
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130827
Narrator:Melanie McHugh
Genre: Domestic fiction
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Monday Oct 31, 2016
1945 - the war in Europe is over, most women can't wait for their men to return, but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire, Judith Crossley fears having her husband back in the house. He'd grown into a bully and a drunkard, and on the occasions he'd come home from leave, he'd hit her. He wasn't a good father either - when their eldest daughter Kitty won a prestigious scholarship to the private girls' grammar school, Doug had tried to stop her going, saying it would turn her into a snob. Luckily Judith had help from an unlikely ally - Maynard Esher, from an old aristocratic family on the other side of town - but Judith knows that when her husband returns, she'll be blamed for letting Kitty take up her school place. She decides that for the children's sake, she must leave her husband. But with the house rented in his name, and other accommodation scarce, where on earth can they go? Alice Bretherton is returning from being a Land Girl in Wiltshire. Her great-aunt has left her a house bordering the park in Rivenshaw, but it was partly bombed and is in a poor condition. Still, she decides to camp out in it, if it's at all habitable, because she has nowhere else to go. However, when she arrives, she finds a displaced Polish man is already living there . . .
Daisy 2.02: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129337
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129339
Narrator:Julia Franklin
Genre: Domestic fiction
Monday Oct 10, 2016
Monday Oct 10, 2016
DAISY: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/127452
ePub: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130954
Narrator: Grover Gardner.
Genre: Adventure fiction
Monday Oct 10, 2016
Monday Oct 10, 2016
When Gracie MacDougal returns to Seagull Point, Virginia, seeking to reform her workaholic ways, she discovers more than relaxation. The picturesque town calls to her, as does the waterfront Victorian house she envisions as the perfect bed-and-breakfast. But one person stands between Gracie and her new goal ... and he isn't budging. Southern charmer Kevin Daniels isn't interested in selling Gracie's dream house, but he's definitely interested in something else ... her ...
URL: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129184
ePub: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/130955
Narrator: Janet Metzger.
Genre: Romance
Monday Oct 10, 2016
Monday Oct 10, 2016
DAISY: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129394
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129395
Monday Oct 10, 2016
Monday Oct 10, 2016
DAISY DTB: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129916
ePub3: http://visabilitylibrary.com.au/entry/129917
Genre: Domestic fiction