Words from the heart…
To be diagnosed with breast cancer is to face a frightening, life-changing experience, and many women who undergo this experience demonstrate extraordinary courage, strength, humour, generosity and compassion on their breast cancer journey.
The National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC), the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) and the Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) came [...]
Confessions of a SuperMom
by Melanie Lynne Hauser
Published 2005 Dutton, Penguin Group New York
For every woman who has struggled with being an ordinary housewife and for everybody who has wished that superheros are real, this is the book you need.
Single Mum of two, Birdie Lee, underrates herself and struggles to work, help with the PTA and [...]
Sleeping with the fishes
By MaryJanice Davidson
Piatkus Books Ltd, London, 2006
Just another half-girl half-mermaid meets two boys story – except of course that one of the boys is a merman prince who lives oceans away and the girl has to deal with a fish strike!
Fred is not exactly the stereotyped mermaid, either. She prefers pools [...]
Harper Collins, Sydney 2005
Wild Lavender is a big book – which is great as you really get the chance to know the characters and feel involved in their lives. It covers nearly twenty years of the life of a French woman Simone Fleurier.
Her life covers living on a quiet farm and in cities, the [...]
Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest 2007
What would you do if the person you loved had low quality of life and little prospect of improvement or even survival? Even if you are adamant you know the answer, Picoult will make you consider your choices.
As always, Picoult’s book covers a number of characters and sub-stories along [...]
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest 2007
Nineteen minutes is one of those books that I both love and hate. And one I found hard to put down, even when I had finished it
As a mother, I don’t want to know about school shootings or imagine it happening in my child’s school. [...]
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Atria Books/Beyond Words, New York, 2006
ISBN-10: 1582701709
With all the buzz about The Secret DVD and book, I already had an idea of what The Secret would be about. I knew it was about being positive and using the mind to create our own lives. I figured that reading the book would [...]
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly Pan Macmillan, Sydney 1998
Talk about action packed! This is a thick book (611 pages) but most of the story covers little more than 24 hours!
A crack unit of marines happens to be close to Antarctica when their is a distress call from an American base. So Shane Schofield (nickname Scarecrow) [...]
Dark Victory by David Marr & Marian Wilkinson
Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004
Marr and Wilkinson have brought to light the events surrounding the Australian Government’s refusal to accept illegal immigrants, or boat people, in 2001.
During Operation Relex, as it was called, there was a tight control of media coverage so the public was not aware [...]