Melbourne: 85 books

This book is a testament of Peat's love for his two grandsons, His affection for them is evident and he tries to instruct them to do good as he was instructed by his own loving parents. The reader will be touched by the sincerity of this writing and will be fascinated by the unique style.

An upper class Victorian woman decides to take the plunge after being widowed and travels to her mail order husband in Texas, with only her dog and her maid at her side; but when she meets a mysterious stranger on board the ship her whole world is suddenly turned upside down.

In this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Contact Lens Practice, award-winning author, researcher and lecturer, Professor Nathan Efron, provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of the scientific foundation and clinical applications of contact lens fitting. The text has been...

Managing the urban water cycle needs to be underpinned by key sustainability principles of water consumption, water recycling, waste minimisation and environmental protection. The integration of urban water cycle management with urban planning and design is known as Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)....

Trapped in a loveless marriage, and after her husband’s suicide, Emma decides to become a mail order bride and after finding a rancher, she boards the train headed for California. There’s only one thing on her mind though; the rancher wants a family, and she’s thirty-five.

These four sweet romances are all set in, or start off in, Victorian England. Mail Order Bride: The English Widow & The Rancher -- A Victorian era widow, who had a husband with a mysterious past, is pushed into becoming a mail order bride because her house is about to be taken away from...

The Lounge Singer & The Lady, is about a woman who sees, then falls in love, with a lounge singer at a club she frequents; but they can never connect and when she returns to the club after a three month absence, he’s gone.

Mail Order Bride: Free At Last In California - Sick of the taunts from the inhabitants of her small town, above average weight Jocelyn had endured numerous insults since she was a small child. An ad for mail order brides spurred her to act and she wrote to the company and was matched up with a rancher...

The Billionaire & His Two Women, is about a billionaire who hires a woman for his assistant and then hires her hated high school rival as another. A rivalry develops with one woman trying her best to outdo the other, as they chase their handsome and wealthy boss all over the office.

Message In A Bottle - A poor and lonely Victorian woman eking out her living in Brighton by making seashell jewelry finds a message in a bottle on the beach and vows to find the man who wrote it.Mail Order Bride: From Liverpool To A New Life With The Farmer In California - A woman from Liverpool...

Amos & the British Soldier’s Widow -- When a black man in the small town of Exodus, Kansas, writes away for a mail order bride, little did he know that a petite and very white widow of a British soldier would arrive on the train platform in the neighboring town of Generosity. He had a foreshadowing...

Letting Loose In The Victorian Age, is about a Victorian woman who prefers the country over the city and when she and her sick mother decide to visit their country estate; she meets the new stable master who appears to be in complete control of her spirited stallion, Midnight. She might be next.

A woman who lost her legs in the Civil War decides to take a chance and become a mail order bride to a doctor in Wichita. There’s much adversity to overcome in the rough town, what with rowdy elections and drunken cowboys, but through it all she grows closer to her husband while he becomes a famous...

An English widow arrives in the remote Alaskan Territories soon after it was handed over to America, to meet her bear of a Russian husband and make a new life with him. She doesn’t realize how rich his past and the village history is, until something happens later that makes her wonder what on earth she’s doing there.