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1) Snowed In
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Pulling back the curtain, Cari studied the western sky. The weather forecast warned of heavy snow and high winds, also known as blizzard conditions." Even if she hadn't heard the report on the noon news, she could have predicted a storm was on its way. The cattle had been milling around, turning their backs to the wind or crowding into the sheds since morning. This wasn't how she planned to spend Christmas but after agreeing to feed her brother's...
2) Brown Santa
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Caroline thinks she was busy getting her shop ready for the Christmas buying season, and that was before her one trained employee requires emergency surgery. As the boxes of new gift stock begin to pile up, her most frequent visitor seems to be the dreamy delivery man in the brown uniform. But he might just be about to deliver a Christmas she's not expecting.
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Elliott Robinson does everything precisely the same way every day, arriving to unlock the front door of his small town Robinson's Hardware store at exactly the same time every morning. When a winter storm blows gift sales rep, Lulu Davis, into town, predictable, sedate Elliott doesn't know what hit him. But when the storm clears and the roads are plowed, it's time for Lulu to leave. That's when Elliott realizes he has to do something radical or he...
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When artist, Laura Dunsmore, takes a job painting Christmas greetings on the windows of the local hardware store she leans a little too far off the top of a stepladder and lands on the store's new assistant manager, Gareth, who happens along and manages to catch her.Gareth is enthralled with the pretty artist but Laura, who was dumped at the altar only a few months before, wants nothing to do with a new romance. However, when they discover that they're...
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If you enjoyed the stories in our first “Snapshots” book, you're sure to be delighted with these new stories, where six exciting authors from the United States and Canada share snippets of their personal lives. Plus, you're sure to recognize something of yourself and your own life in every one of these "snap shots" from real life.
Travel down under and learn about one writer's dark and not so handsome roomie. Reminisce about the days before cars...
6) The bridge
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Kanopy Streaming
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Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, this is the definitive story of how a giant steel arch resembling a coat hanger became one of world's most recognised structures and an engineering triumph. Massive, majestic and breathtaking, the bridge was the greatest engineering challenge of its day anywhere on earth. Nothing like it had ever been attempted in Australia. It not only altered the life of a city forever, it became a symbol...
8) Pipe dreams
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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This is a story of personal tragedy, political rivalries, corruption and trial by media that nearly tore apart Australia at the moment of its birth. In the late 1800s, two men shared a vision for opening up Western Australia by pumping a river of water through pipes across the desert. Isolated goldfields were ripe with precious metal, but the people were dying of thirst. The state's first Premier and leading explorer, John Forrest, had a vision to...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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The story of the struggle to cross a vast continent and build the telegraph line that would bring Australia to the world and the world to Australia. Australia in the mid 1800s was a land isolated by distance and divided between two very different cultures. John McDouall Stuart, a migrant from Scotland, was determined to cross the centre of Australia and reach the north coast. His success would pave the way for a communications revolution. Charles...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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Darwin's Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere, Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace, revolutionized science and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. Darwin's voyage to the Southern Hemisphere in the 1830s changed him from a directionless rich kid bound for a career in the Church, into one of the most incendiary thinkers of our age....