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Each of us has a place to return to in our minds, a place of clarity and peace, a place to think, to create, to dream. For Bryce Courtenay this place was a waterhole in Africa where he used to escape to as a boy, in search of solitude. One evening, while lingering...

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Télécharger le livre :  Four Fires
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Four fires: passion, religion, warfare and fire itself. Along with love - perhaps the brightest flame of all - these four fires drive the human spirit.In a small town much like any other around Australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation family of Irish...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-12-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Jack of Diamonds
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Set across three continents,Jack of Diamonds is a spellbinding story of chance, music, corruption and love. During the Great Depression there was little hope for a boy born into the slums of Cabbagetown, Toronto. But Jack Spayd is offered a ticket out in the form of a...

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Parution : 2012-11-12

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Télécharger le livre :  A Recipe For Dreaming
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A Recipe for Dreaming is a little treasure of wise words and beautiful images. With insight, humour and a deep sense of humanity, Bryce Courtenay inspires us to become dreamers and questioners, creators of lives that are rich and rewarding. Illuminating these musings...

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Parution : 2012-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Fortune Cookie
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Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work foran advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble whenSimon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B....

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Parution : 2010-11-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Power Of One
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First with your head and then with your heart . . . To Peekay, a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world, this is a piece of advice that he will carry with him throughout his life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and...

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Parution : 2010-06-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Fishing For Stars
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Nicholas Duncan is a semi-retired shipping magnate who resides in idyllic Beautiful Bay in Indonesia, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beautiful Eurasian wife, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-04-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Sylvia
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‘I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life. I am cursed by folk as an optimist and a dreamer, which is a dangerous combination. . .’Sylvia is the story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in the year 1212, and is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Solomon's Song
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When Mary Abacus dies, she leaves her business empire in the hands of the warring Solomon family. Hawk Solomon is determined to bring together both sides of the tribe - but it is the new generation who must fight to change the future. Solomons are pitted against...

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Parution : 2007-09-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Tommo And Hawk
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Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-09-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Whitethorn
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From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people frantically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the...

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Parution : 2007-08-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Smoky Joe's Cafe
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A Vietnam Vet returns to an Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes Thommo begins to develop all kinds of physical and mental problems, and thinks it must only be him until he finds that he is not alone. Ten mates, all who remain of his platoon,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Four Fires
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A story of the power of love and the triumph of the human spirit against the odds In a small town like any other small towns around Australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Matthew Flinder's cat
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The story of a drunk, a boy and a cat Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a...

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Parution : 2006-08-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Family Frying Pan
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Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no ordinary frying pan it's The Family...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Power of One
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First with your head and then with your heart . . . So says Hoppie Groenwald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, it is a piece of advice that he will carry with him throughout his...

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Télécharger le livre :  Tandia
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Tandia sat waiting anxiously for the fight to begin between the man she loved the most and the man she hated the most in the world. Tandia is a child of Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by...

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Télécharger le livre :  Brother Fish
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Brother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents. Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's book tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life. Jack McKenzie is a...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2006-01-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Jessica
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'A superb storyteller ... it is impossible not to be impressed by Courtenay's talents' - The Times JESSICA is based on the real life of a remarkable young Australian woman who defied the conventions of her time. She had a stubborn streak and the courage to act out her...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2000-07-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Power Of One
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Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big. Armed with this knowledge, he resolves to take on the injustices of his country, and sets his heart on becoming the welterweight champion of the world. ...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 1999-08-02

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