In Tasmania, successful entrepreneur Nancy Best has recreated the defunct mining town of Copperfield as a glass-domed amusement park whose centrepiece is the Bluebird Cafe. The facsimile also includes a wax museum containing a statue of Lovelygod, the midget daughter born to the twins Bedrock and Carrillo Mean, who caused a sensation when she vanished without a trace 20 years before. Bedrock faithfully keeps vigil for her daughter's return, while Carrillo roams the world in search of her. Also haunted by the mystery is expatriate author Virginia O'Day, who returns to Tasmania from America to write a play, Waiting for Lovelygod ...' Publishers Weekly US, in the publication review of the American edition. Unlike the Australian edition, it has never been out of print.Described by Kirkus Reviews, US, as 'a sweet-natured looking-glass version of Twin Peaks', The Bluebird Café is award-winning author Carmel Bird's debut novel and announced the arrival of a...

When animals talk, it's time humans listened: Harlon has been raised to protect her younger siblings, twins Ash and Xeno, and their outlawed power of communicating with animals. But when the sinister Automators attack their mountain home they must flee for their lives. A stunning environmental epic with cover and chapter illustrations by award-winning illustrator Jackie Morris.

WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY— ROCKSTAR DIVORCE IN QUESTION Circumstances throw Jase and Talia back together to weather their latest storm. Emotions run high as they attempt to navigate their new normal. Will they make it through this storm and give their love another shot?

Present dayTwenty years ago, the tragic death of her boyfriend prompted Summer to give up their new baby for adoption. Since then, she has lived a solitary life with her father, focusing on her career as a vet and trying not to think of the past. So when her great-aunt Pauline comes to visit from Greece, she disrupts Summer's carefully manicured life. She brings with her tales of Gertie, Summer's long-dead great-grandmother, and a love story that spanned decades. As Summer learns more about her family's past, she begins to long for its future, and begins to track down the son she has not seen since his birth.1916After a tragic mistake contributed to the sinking of the HMS Britannic, Gertie Smith is determined to leave the past behind. Working as a nurse for the war effort, she is sent to the Greek island of Kea, where she meets and falls desperately in love with a Greek fisherman, Manno. But fate conspires to keep them apart, and when Gertie's...

Brodie isn't afraid of flying - he's afraid of falling! Brodie MacGregor and Katya Savage got married way too young. Barely out of high school, they thought they had everything in common and life planned out before them. Work hard and save, build their dream home on the land given to them as a wedding gift, and then bring up their kids in Invertary and live happily ever after... Yeah, it didn't go as planned. Because two years into their wedded bliss, Katya discovered that her great-grandmother had been a WW2 fighter pilot for the Soviet Union. After that, all she could think about was learning to fly and finding a plane just like her great-grandmother's to bring back to Scotland. Brodie was not on board with their sudden change in life direction, nor with Katya's new obsession. Feeling as though he was being backed into a corner, Brodie did what all dumb-as-dirt men do in such circumstances—he gave his wife an...

"Alex Michaelides's long-awaited next novel, 'The Maidens,' is finally here...the premise is enticing and the elements irresistible." —The New York Times"A deliciously dark, elegant, utterly compulsive read—with a twist that blew my mind. I loved this even more than I loved The Silent Patient and that's saying something!"—Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest ListFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient comes a spellbinding tale of psychological suspense, weaving together Greek mythology, murder, and obsession, that further cements "Michaelides as a major player in the field" (Publishers Weekly).Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students...

Science fiction stories of ingenuity, grit, and inspiration.This new volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series of science fiction anthologies presents stories that envision how science and technology—existing or speculative—might help us create a more equitable and hopeful world after the coronavirus pandemic. The original stories presented here, from a diverse collection of authors, offer no miracles or simple utopias, but visions of ingenuity, grit, and incremental improvement. In the tradition of inspirational science fiction that goes back to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, these writers remind us that we can choose our future, and show us how we might build it.