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is a haunted-house mystery and a hostage thriller rolled into one. At age nine, Pera Sinclair survived a catastrophic tragedy. A pilot intentionally crashed his plane into her family’s stately home, killing everyone inside. Rebuilding the house and devoting herself to the many faces of death her family history has known, Pera eventually became an odd little old lady running ghost tours.
Other stories have resonance and insight, including one that confronts layers of mortality and the meaning of human suffering.Martin Wikelski, Scribe, $36.99 Ornithologist Martin Wikelski begins this visionary and heartening account with the two brothers whose know-how spearheaded satellite tracking. But it is the animals in this tale that are the greatest teachers. As we enter what Wikelski calls the “Interspecies Age”, we will be able to truly listen and respond to animals all over the planet and recognise that their needs are inseparable from our own.
It is an expression of gratitude and a reminder that even though the pain never goes away, it can be borne, and that meaning and purpose can be found in the darkest places.Junkies and fugitives who cruise the state library with “salivating eyeballs”. A mysterious insect-like ex-crim with “a fair bit of coin” who has been living at a hip inner-city hotel for years. Graffiti artists addicted to the adrenalin of risk that leaves them feeling “primal, precipice-close. Alive.
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