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You Wish

By: Lia Weston

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Sometimes imagination is not enough. Thomas Lash grants secret wishes . . . on-screen, that is. White wedding gone horribly wrong and need to swap the groom? Never went to university but must have a graduation photo? Need to create a fake family for that job interview? Problem solved with expert Photoshopping and Tom's peculiar ability to know exactly what you desire. Tom never says no, even when giving grieving parents the chance to see what the lives of their lost children may have looked like. But where do you draw the line . . . and what happens when the fantasy Tom sees on-screen starts to bleed into his real life? PRAISE FOR LIA WESTON "Finds the funny side of serious issues" Adelaide Advertiser "Weston's writing style has pace and her storytelling has wit and charm, which makes this is an immensely readable book." ArtsHub

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Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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1760559830

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9781760559830

Those Pleasant Girls

By: Lia Weston

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Those Pleasant Girls

By: Lia Weston

Evie Pleasant, nee Bouvier, is back in town. In a figure-hugging skirt, high heels and a pin-up hairdo, she's unrecognisable from the wild child who waged war on Sweet Meadow in her youth. She's made a promise to herself: 'No swearing. No drinking. No stealing. No fires.' Trailing a reluctant 16-year-old daughter and armed with cake making equipment, Evie's divorce and impending poverty has made her desperate enough to return to Sweet Meadow to seduce her former partner-in-crime and start again. But the townsfolk have long memories and the renegade ex-boyfriend is now the highly-respected pastor. Evie's cakes have a job to do.

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Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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1760553484

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9781760553487

The Fortunes of Ruby White

By: Lia Weston

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The Fortunes of Ruby White

By: Lia Weston

Ruby White has burnt her bridges. She has no job, no direction in life, and just enough money to last a month. if she eats only rice and her cat catches his own meals. When her best friend, Anise, holds a dress-up party, Ruby drowns her sorrows and meets Damien, whose vampire costume belies his sweet nature. With time on her hands, Ruby soon finds herself at a seminar for those who are Hyper-Auto-Aware, a condition she never knew existed, run by the Jaasmyn Empire, a company she's never heard of. To Ruby's astonishment, and that of those who know her, she is offered a job. Attracting the attention of the charismatic head of the Empire, Jaasmyn, Ruby ignores her misgivings about the Empire's ethics and enjoys fitting in somewhere for the first time in her life. When the reactions of those outside the Jaasmyn Empire become more cynical and her cautious relationship with Damien wavers, Ruby begins to keep her job details secret. As her training progresses, her parents become even more concerned. It seems the zany girl who used to eat chocolate for breakfast and salted pretzels for dinner won't touch anything that isn't organic and the further Ruby penetrates the Empire, the more her behaviour begins to change. As Ruby disappears into the mire of mind, body and spirit, her friends and family try numerous ways to lure her back but their efforts only push her more into the arms of the Jaasmyn Empire and its mysterious leader. Fortunately Ruby's friend at the empire, DeDe, is onto Jaasmyn and orchestrates an unforgettable media expose. Finally Ruby begins to resemble her old self but will Damien continue to hold a candle for her as a bold new age begins?

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374

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Simon and Schuster

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0731814843

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9780731814848

Imperial Culture and the Sudan

Authorship, Identity and the British Empire

By: Lia Paradis

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Imperial Culture and the Sudan

Authorship, Identity and the British Empire

By: Lia Paradis

General Gordon's death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children's stories, comic books, and depictions of masculinity.Imperial Culture in the Sudan seeks to examine the cultural impact of Sudan on the popular image of the British empire – why were these colonial administrators characterized as 'adventurers'? Why was Sudan and the story of General Gordon so popular? The author argues it coincided with the mass production of popular journalism, the height of Jingoism as a cultural product and therefore a study of Sudan's experience tells us a lot about the British Empire – how it was made, consumed and remembered.

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264

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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178831901X

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9781788319010

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence

By: Lia Markey

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Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence

By: Lia Markey

The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that the Medici grand dukes of Florence were not only great patrons of artists but also early conservators of American culture. In collecting New World objects such as featherwork, codices, turquoise, and live plants and animals, the Medici grand dukes undertook a “vicarious conquest” of the Americas. As a result of their efforts, Renaissance Florence boasted one of the largest collections of objects from the New World as well as representations of the Americas in a variety of media. Through a close examination of archival sources, including inventories and Medici letters, Lia Markey uncovers the provenance, history, and meaning of goods from and images of the Americas in Medici collections, and she shows how these novelties were incorporated into the culture of the Florentine court. More than just a study of the discoveries themselves, this volume is a vivid exploration of the New World as it existed in the minds of the Medici and their contemporaries. Scholars of Italian and American art history will especially welcome and benefit from Markey’s insight.

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602

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Penn State Press

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0271078227

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9780271078229

Maritime Cross-Border Insolvency

Under the European Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law

By: Lia Athanassiou

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Maritime Cross-Border Insolvency

Under the European Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law

By: Lia Athanassiou

Maritime Cross-Border Insolvency is a comprehensive comparative examination of both insolvency regimes (UNCITRAL and EU) in shipping with reference to the main jurisdictions having adopted the UNCITRAL regime, i.e. USA, UK, Greece.

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425

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Taylor & Francis

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1351724622

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9781351724623

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A Basic Choice, Illustrated in Comparison with Dutch

By: Lia Korrel

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A Basic Choice, Illustrated in Comparison with Dutch

By: Lia Korrel

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110859947

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9783110859942

You Wish

By: Lia Weston

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Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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Those Pleasant Girls

By: Lia Weston

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Those Pleasant Girls (Dyslexic Edition)

By: Lia Weston

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Those Pleasant Girls (Dyslexic Edition)

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Evie Pleasant, nee Bouvier, is back in town. In a figure-hugging skirt, high heels and a pin-up hairdo, she's unrecognisable from the wild child who waged war on Sweet Meadow in her youth. She's made a promise to herself: -- Trailing a reluctant 16-year-old daughter and armed with cake making equipment, Evie's divorce and impending poverty has made her desperate enough to return to Sweet Meadow to seduce her former partner-in-crime and start again. But the townsfolk have long memories and the renegade ex-boyfriend is now the highly-respected pastor. Evie's cakes have a job to do.

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152525331X

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You Wish

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Imperial Culture and the Sudan

Imperial Culture and the Sudan

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence

Maritime Cross-Border Insolvency

Maritime Cross-Border Insolvency

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Duration in English

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You Wish

Those Pleasant Girls

Those Pleasant Girls

Those Pleasant Girls (Dyslexic Edition)

Those Pleasant Girls (Dyslexic Edition)

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