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Family, friends, and fried rice - all a girl needs to get through life while finding Mr. Right for herself and her daughter. Laugh out loud along with Eva as she attempts to find the perfect guy. Sob at Eva’s side while she overcomes the obstacles of raising a special needs daughter as a single mother. Share Eva’s emotions as she defines the meaning of family. Be Eva’s apprentice as she teaches you about her culture, and you enjoy delicious, vicarious Asian cuisine.

British Intelligence operative Isabella Di Stefano Butterfield has been dispatched to Tokyo for a very special purpose. Until recently, Japan seemed immune to the Islamic-inspired terror attacks that swept the world after 9/11. But the 2015 beheading of two Japanese aid workers in Syria changed everything. As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approach, the race is on to establish a viable, outward-looking Japanese intelligence agency. Bella’s brief is to ensure this spy service is fashioned in the image of M16.

A shocking murder rocks the quiet coastal Victorian town of Queenscliff, a place where police work usually entails minor traffic infringements and dealing with the occasional Saturday night drunk. Local senior constable Chris Blackie and his deputy Anthea Merritt fully expect a murder investigation to be handled by the Criminal Investigation Unit based in Geelong. But they’re blind-sided by the interest shadowy figures from the secret military training base on nearby Swan Island take in the case.

Carlo Minelli is about to discover that war and art are certainly not mutually exclusive. On the day he is meant to take up a highly coveted art scholarship at the French-run Villa Medici in Rome, Il Duce declares war. Press-ganged into the Italian Army and captured in North Africa, Carlo the POW sketches and paints his way across three continents and several oceans, bringing the hardships of World War II into sharp relief against unexpected mateship, beauty, and love.

“I’m sorry to say you have breast cancer - an infiltrating lobular carcinoma to be exact,” said her doctor delivering the tough news right before Christmas 2013. “And there’s three ways we deal with breast cancer - cut, poison, and burn.” Such was the start of Jennifer McDonald’s "Big Breast Adventure", the name she gave to a series of blogs penned while going through two years of treatment. This audiobook is a compilation of these posts, hailed as a must-hear for anyone facing a life or health crisis and those who care for them.

A young camel disappears from its trainer’s paddock, and the coat of a murdered woman is found abandoned in the sand dunes. These seemingly unrelated events are a far cry from the regular police duties of Constable Chris Blackie and his rookie recruit from Melbourne, Anthea Merritt, in the small Australian seaside town of Queenscliff. Little by little, and with a burgeoning sense of menace, these two unlikely detectives carefully navigate the eclectic, often eccentric personalities of the town, as well as the disdain of law enforcement colleagues further afield, to uncover the truth.

Born in Japan of a French father and White Russian mother, Alex Faure greeted news of war in the Pacific with schoolboy enthusiasm. That is until the hardships of being a gaijin and neutral foreigner in Japan during World War II became a stark reality for the Faure family. Award-winning author and screenwriter, Peter Yeldham masterfully tells Alex Faure’s own true story against the backdrop of real events in wartime Japan. Laced with excerpts from Alex’s diary, Dragons in the Forest is a riveting tale of life as a foreigner in a strange land at a very dangerous time.

Each of the laws in Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success is examined in a series of essays by Jennifer McDon­ald, a run-of-the-mill person, small-business owner, and working mother. She's certainly no guru, but drawing from her own ordinary life experience, Jennifer takes these laws out for a spin and then imparts her sometimes surprising, usually off-center, yet always authentic conclusions.

Since the publication of her prize-winning memoir, Craft for a Dry Lake, writer and artist Kim Mahood has been returning to the Tanami desert country in far north-western Australia where, as a child, she lived with her family on a remote cattle station. The land is timeless, but much has changed: the station has been handed back to its traditional owners, the mining companies have arrived and Aboriginal art has flourished.