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Indra Publishing Worm in The Bud
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Indra Publishing From the Murray to the Sea: The History of Catholic Education in the Ballarat Diocese
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Indra Publishing Peril in the Square
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Indra Publishing Maclay
In the autumn of 1870, Nikolai Miklouho Maclay, a young marine biologist, left his home in St Petersburg to travel to the remote territory of New Guinea. It was the start of an adventure that was to test his courage and determination and force him to examine the ideals that had inspired his quest for a people not yet spoiled by European civilisation. A beautifully told adventure story and a fascinating reconstruction of Maclay's own account of his efforts to survive, the book follows him from his home in Russia into the jungles of New Guinea and the sophisticated Vice-Regal circles of the Dutch East Indies -- a journey that would see him mistaken for a god and enshrined as a legend. Maclay's great courage and impetuous character inspired much of what has been written about his life and work. He was also a man of great personal charm and integrity, succeeding as well with Papuan warriors as he did with people of the highest rank in government and empire. In his choice of New Guinea as t
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Indra Publishing Its Always Possible
Motivation, persistence and perseverance are the distinct traits of determined and dedicated individuals who can make things happen. It''s always possible, even when the task is awesome -- transforming the mindset of human beings. Located in India''s capital, New Delhi, Tihar is one of the largest prisons in the world. Within a prison complex of over 200 acres are housed over 9,700 inmates -- men, women, adolescents, children; Indians and foreigners. They comprise unconvicted alleged offenders, convicts and remandees. Tihar was a limping, languishing institution, condemned by the media, and its inmates were isolated from the community, exploited, used and abused, yet ''housed''. Dr Kiran Bedi was appointed Inspector General of Tihar Prison in 1993. She brought about fundamental changes, giving a human face to the administrative structure and creating an exemplary system covering every possible aspect of prison management. The whole objective was to collectively and individually manage
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Indra Publishing Breaking the Stereotype
Dewi Anggraeni wrote this book because she saw that many things which did not fit the ethnic Chinese stereotype in Indonesia were rarely brought to the public''s attention, as they were not easily ''slotted'' into the existing neat categories. I wanted to break some of the issues I deemed important out of the editing ''black hole'' and present them as the core contents of a book, because they were very significant not only for others to understand, but for the ethnic Chinese to understand what was happening to, and around, themselves.
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Indra Publishing Does God Live in the Suburbs
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Indra Publishing Taking a Fool to Paradise
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Indra Publishing Eyes of the Tiger
This is a novel of friendship, love and corruption. Set in Brisbane during the disastrous 1974 flood, two very different men, the immunologist Mark and the charismatic 'Prince of Spice' Sannes, struggle for the affection of the feisty, fiercely independent lawyer Jessica. In a highly charged, profoundly disturbing relationship, betrayal of friendship and violation of love interact and collide with the ever-increasing moral deterioration of the 'Moonlight State'. Jurgensen's novel depicts evil as a seductively demonic power of rampant decomposition, generating from the realm of personal intimacy to the corruption of civilised society. Its narrative of power and passion takes the reader on a frightening journey, culminating in the apparition of a predatory God. Residing in the eyes of the tiger are the violent beauty and terrible knowledge of an irredeemable love.
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Indra Publishing Betrayers
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Indra Publishing Stories of Indian Pacific
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Indra Publishing Black Ice
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Indra Publishing Journeys Through Shadows
When Maryati leaves her village in Central Java to live in Melbourne with her Australian husband Trevor, she suffers the intense pain of separation from her baby son. She soon realises that Trevor would never be able to accept that his innocent Maryati already had a son from an earlier casual liaison. In Melbourne, Eni, also from Indonesia, becomes Maryati's personal support system. Eni is so successful, so sophisticated, fitting comfortably into the professional community surrounding her lover, Alex and his brother, Simon. Their friendship matures as their circumstances change. Maryati experiences personal breakdown as her marriage collapses under the weight of Trevor's intransigence. Reunion with her son is the start of her recovery, a full recovery in which she becomes the sophisticated, successful woman of her village. The roles are reversed in the women's friendship as Eni's relationship with Alex leads to her becoming victim to an act of sorcery. It is only through Maryati that s
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Indra Publishing When Dining with Tigers
This is a fictional account of a young Chinese English teacher, nicknamed Moby, and his older Australian friend, retired journalist, Wilson. Their story begins in Sydney in 1986, when Moby is billetted at Wilson's house, and ends in Beijing in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Moby's understanding of the Australian, and particularly the Chinese-Australian, way of life slowly develops during his year in Sydney, refining his skills as an English teacher. His own family life in Beijing is presented by way of letters from his wife, who anxiously awaits the birth of her brother's first child. Her fears of how her brother would react if the child is a girl, become a reality. The personal tragedies caused by the one-child policy make a disconcerting continuity with the family tragedies resultant from the Cultural Revolution. Interwoven into their adventures and misadventures in Sydney and Beijing are analysis and commentary provided by the 16th century Chinese scholar, Wu Cheng-
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Indra Publishing Of Exile Yearning
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Indra Publishing Towards a Distant Sea
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Indra Publishing Living Death
After her son hanged himself, Janis Tait searched for written material to help her cope with the overwhelming emotions. The few books available told her of the stages of grief. But she needed to feel, to get beneath the skin of another mother who had suffered this way... to know there was a way out of the grief-swamp. When someone suicides, family, friends and colleagues find themselves asking: Is it my fault? Could I have stopped it happening? The story and poetry in this book will help those left behind work through the feelings of guilt, anger, confusion, depression. As well as exploring the impact of grief, this book shows the devastating effects of schizophrenia. And most of all, it illustrates the ongoing close bond between a mother and her son. READERSHIP: for readers who are struggling with the suicide of a family member or close friend; trying to cope with schizophrenia or chronic depression; involved professionally with the social issues of depression, mental illness and suic
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Indra Publishing Blue Moon
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Indra Publishing True Stories of the Top End
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Indra Publishing Yoga Meditation the Guru
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Indra Publishing Root of All Evil
The news of her sick father beckons Komala to return to Jakarta, leaving her husband and children behind in Melbourne, now her home city. But the Jakarta she left nine years earlier has changed. The city has changed and the society is disturbingly foreign to her. Or has she changed? Komala's is a poignant homecoming to a troubled land. Komala's return even to her family home is difficult, with live-in boarders and her hostile sister in law disturbing her smooth transition back to the place of her childhood. Through one of her mother's boarders, Komala learns of a vicious attack on a night-club hostess, an acid attack which leaves the young woman blinded and horribly scarred. In her attempt to win some justice and compensation for the victim, Komala becomes aware of a wider world of corruption and exploitation, particularly of women. This exploitation is made worse by the lack of solidarity among the women in Jakarta. The society is still one where man are supreme, and the women acquies
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Indra Publishing Body and Soul
Set in the summer and autumn of 1938, Body and Soul is eighteen-year-old disabled Lilbet Marks'' very biased account of the love affair between Felix Goldfarb, a recent migrant from Hitler''s Germany, and Lilbet''s twin sister Ella. Lilbet adores Ella, but also envies her beauty and for her ability to dazzle men. Lilbet''s father Simon Marks, her eldest sister Julie, and all their friends are entranced by Felix Goldfarb''s winning blend of worldly sophistication and boyish charm. Only bookish Lilbet suspects Felix might not be all that he seems. Also, it is imperative for her physical and psychological wellbeing that Ella remains at the family home. She is determined never to be parted from her twin. Within a few months, Felix departs, leaving behind gigantic gambling debts and Ella pregnant. Though he subsequently sends for Ella, Lilbet manages through clever manipulation to keep her twin by her side. As Lilbet records the day to day events at home, her newspaper cuttings and notes ex
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Indra Publishing Hes My Daughter
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Indra Publishing Trembling Bridge
From his boyhood in Germany, toward the end of World War II, to his settlement in Australia (the land of the beautiful enemy'), Mark grows through his experience of illness and the premature death of people close to him. As a young man, successful at university, he still must confront death among his friends as he steps into the independence of his maturity.
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Indra Publishing Missing Wife
The so-called mail order bride phenomenon developed to fill the needs of lonely men, particularly in regional Australia. But the marriages did not always work out. Nilanthi was such a bride. The youngest of five daughters in a family where status was higher than income, her parents had difficulty providing a dowry large enough to attract a suitably well-to-do husband. Believing all Westerners were rich, she chose to take her chances with a farmer in faraway Australia. When she goes missing, however, a Sydney history teacher called Laura sets about finding the young woman.
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Indra Publishing Fish Lips
Gillian Hindmarsh is an Australian researcher, investigating architectural history in Penang, Malaysia. From a city archive, she souvenirs a photograph of Rose, a young English woman from the 1940s. In Gillian's imagination, Rose is a black and white romantic fantasy taken from an old forties movie. Rose, however, was real. She has no family name to identify her. Her ghost is seen from time to time by fisherman in the waters off Georgetown, and in 1982, when disturbed by dredging for a bridge to the mainland, she looks for a body into which to reincarnate. And she wants her lover, Li-tsieng to reincarnate also. Wang Li-tsieng, the dissolute son of a wealthy Straits Chinese family, returned from the safety of exile in Chile, to be with his English Rose. Shortly after his return, they were killed by a bomb, as they danced in the underwater dining hall of one of the Wang family mansions in Georgetown. Patrick Dreher, Gillian's lover, is a dredging engineer who rents a house on Jalan Dunn,
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Indra Publishing Neighbourhood Tales
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Indra Publishing Brigid
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Indra Publishing Teetotallers Wake
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Indra Publishing Criado
This book brings to life for many Australians, the close connection between Australia and East Timor. In 1941-42, Archie Campbell was a lieutenant in the ''Sparrow Force'' the 300 men of the 2/2nd Independent Company in a 14-month campaign of ambushes and hit-and-run tactics which effectively pinned down more than 15,000 Japanese troops in East Timor. This book recounts the bloodless Australian landing in Portuguese East Timor, military actions against the Japanese, and eventual evacuation to Darwin. Central to Campbell''s experience is the ambush and execution of a section from his platoon, shortly after the Japanese landing in Dili. In 1973, Archie returned to East Timor to meet Barana, the East Timorese man who, as a 12-year-old boy, helped and protected him during the campaign. Each Timorese boy who helped a commando and guarded him while he slept, was called that commando''s criado. Ken White accompanied Archie in the 1973 journey to East Timor to find Barana. He has used excerpts
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Indra Publishing Taking Wing
Set in the era when Europe's thousand year thrust for universal fraternity detours into the communist tyranny, this novel tells the story of an ordinary man and an extraordinary woman, Frederic and Lia, as they struggle to stay sane in the face of civic stupidity and individual evil. Lia is called upon to open her arms to the difficult truth which has always been her pillar of fire. Frederic, as husband and father, strives to hold on to all that is real, and not be stifled by his natural skepticism. Their children, Regan, inheritor of a past of wonder and betrayal, fights for self-definition, and Mercedes, a child born wounded, seeks the source of healing within. This is a story about belonging and forsaking, the loss of all and the state of abandonment and finally, the coming to nothing which turns out to be everything under another land's new stars.
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Indra Publishing Who Did This to Our Bali
On 12 October 2002, Bali seemed to crumble overnight, when hundreds of tourists and locals who were enjoying themselves became victims of two horrific bomb blasts. The bombs took the lives of 202 people -- 88 of whom were Australians, and severely injured many more. The Bali bombing brought Australians closer to the terror which has dominated world headlines for over a year. This book presents a comprehensive summary of the event, the investigation and the main perpetrators. Dewi's work as an Indonesian journalist in Australia puts her in a unique position to observe and understand how the tragedy of the Bali bombing has played out in Australia, Bali and elsewhere in Indonesia. Indonesians and foreign observers alike have been pondering whether 'Indonesian Islam' remains as moderate, liberal and tolerant as many had believed. Part of this book is about Dewi's own journey through this pondering. Includes: Map of Eastern Indonesia; Plan of Kuta, showing Sari Club and Paddy's Bar; four co
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Indra Publishing Water People
A dark and mysterious novel set in the early 1800s. Molly and Alice McPhee visit Captain Walden, in his isolated country home. When Walden is called away on duty, he leaves his convict manservant, Halls, in charge. When he returns, Halls and the ladies have gone. The indigenous Dharawal -- the Water People -- offer their explanation of what happened before Molly and Alice were swallowed up by the earth.
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Indra Publishing Real Desire
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Indra Publishing Parallel Forces
This is the story of a unique family, centred on Amyrra, one of twin sisters. Amyrra's story is set mainly in modern Australia but also in ancient Java. Her life parallels the life of a queen, Ken Dedes, in the Golden Age of a Javanese kingdom. Amyrra seeks refuge in a personal God to free herself from her fate to love and suffer again, as she believes she had so many centuries earlier. The story opens with the adult sisters attending a wedding in suburban Camberwell, then quickly flashes back to childhood in Singapore. They were born in Singapore, where their Javanese father, Hardoyo, a poet and their French mother, Claudine, an artist, lived for ten years. Moving to Indonesia when the girls were just teen-age, the family is shocked when a village seer tells Amyrra that she is the present incarnation of the twelfth century Javanese queen, Ken Dedes, and that she will meet the present incarnation of the queen's lover, Ken Arok, and they will resume their love affair. During the Golden
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Indra Publishing Barefoot Guerrillas
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Indra Publishing Lovers Losers of the Last Century
Valerie Kirwan's sharp observation and sharper wit presents us with these four cameos of love loved and love lost in the last decades of the twentieth century. Local stories with universal themes, the novellas reflect the emotional roller coaster of the century of alienation. 'And Then There Were the Good Nights' is a novella about love, friendship and good times over two decades 1974 to 1994 which focuses on a small group of friends whose lives revolve around theatre and their relationships. 'In the Cold Morning Light' is a mystery thriller and a story of elusive love. When Aysin returns alone to Charles's isolated house without Bebe, her lover, she becomes obsessed with questions about Bebe's fate and Charles's role in her disappearance. 'Michael' is a story of illusory love which portrays a domineering mother through the eyes of Anna, her son's girlfriend. Domination and alienation mark the bleak days spent at Michael's mother's house, days that culminate in Anna's losing Michael as
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Indra Publishing Snake
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Indra Publishing Minervas Owl
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Indra Publishing Charlotte Badger Buccaneer
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