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  • The Passage of Love

    by Alex Miller ...
    "This thoughtful autobiographical work by an award-winning Australian novelist" chronicles a young author's adventuresome coming of age ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In this epic yet intimate autobiographical novel, acclaimed Australian author Alex Miller returns to his fictional alter ego Robert Crofts, the subject of his debut work, Watching the Climbers on the Mountain. To flee his abusive ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Clojure Brain Teasers

    Exercise Your Mind

    by Alex Miller, Lorilyn Jordan Miller ...
    Challenge your knowledge of Clojure with 25 short Clojure teasers, sometimes with surprising results! Inspired by years of developer questions and feedback, these teasers are handpicked to clarify common points of confusion. Each code challenge illustrates Clojure's elegant design, explaining how and why it works. Enjoy these simple exercises solo or with friends to find gaps in your knowledge, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    Conditions of Faith

    by Alex Miller ...
    Narrated by Essie Davis ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 38 min

    With university behind her, Emily Stanton finds herself on the threshold of life. Introduced to a Scottish engineer, the exoticism of his life in Paris beckons, and she leaves her family home in twenties Melbourne to become his wife. But far from providing answers, her conventional marriage awakens in her an ardent desire to find a reason for living beyond that of simply wife and mother, a desire ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Sitters

    by Alex Miller ...
    A sensuously written, peculiarly Australian novel about the relationship between a painter and his subject.'A narrow, vertical painting, tightly enclosing the scene. Her pale arm and her pale thigh. Viewed at a diagonal through an exceedingly tall doorway. just a glimpse of something.'An ageing portrait artist meets a woman who unsettles him, yet inspires him to paint her. Reluctantly, at first, ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suicide Place

    A Love Story

    by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller ...
    IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU...First serialized in 1895 and then published as a novel in 1915, each time under a different title, this newly updated version of Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller's Suicide Place: A Love Story will captivate contemporary readers with its tale of calculated love, fierce jealousy, and class tensions.Set in Gilded Age New York, the novel unravels the doomed love triangle between ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Landscape of Farewell

    by Alex Miller ...
    A hauntingly beautiful meditation on the land, the past, exile and friendship, Landscape of Farewell is the powerful new novel from acclaimed Australian author, Alex Miller.It is the story of Max Otto, an elderly German academic. After the death of his much-loved wife and his recognition that he will never write the great study of history that was to be his life's crowning work, Max believes his ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journey to the End of Time

    Writing and memoir, artists and friends

    by Alex Miller ...
    A deeply personal collection of stories, essays and poems from award-winning author Alex Miller's six-decade writing life.Robust, textured and fascinating, this collection of short stories, memoir, journal entries, essays and poems, Journey to the End of Time, spans decades of Alex Miller's life. The collection opens with a moving depiction of Miller's father leaving for war and closes with the ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Programming Clojure, Fourth Edition

    by Alex Miller ...
    Quickly turn complex problems into simple, working solutions using functional programming, safe concurrency, and the expressive tools of Clojure.Struggling with unnecessary complexity, unmanaged state, and brittle data that’s hard to change? Clojure combines the expressiveness of Lisp with the stability and performance of Java into a practical toolkit for creating simple, extensible applications. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Programming Clojure

    by Alex Miller, Stuart Halloway, Aaron Bedra ...
    Drowning in unnecessary complexity, unmanaged state, and tangles of spaghetti code? In the best tradition of Lisp, Clojure gets out of your way so you can focus on expressing simple solutions to hard problems. Clojure cuts through complexity by providing a set of composable tools--immutable data, functions, macros, and the interactive REPL. Written by members of the Clojure core team, this book is ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Man She Hated: Won By Strategy

    by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller ...
    “Fair Fielding, I heard something about you last night,” said one of the sewing girls in an uptown factory in New York to her nearest neighbor, a very young girl, whose red-brown head was bent over a sewing machine as she deftly guided her work, a heap of fine white muslin, beneath the shining needle. “What?” asked Fairfax Fielding, lifting her sparkling brown eyes—they were the brightest, softest ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flower and Jewel: Daisy Forrest's Daughter

    by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller ...
    Young Mrs. Fielding opened her dark, heavy-lidded eyes and gazed thoughtfully about the large, luxurious chamber, from which every ray of sunshine had been carefully excluded. As her eyes became accustomed to the subdued light she saw a fat old negro woman, in a white cap and apron, dozing placidly in a large rocking-chair. "Nurse! nurse!" she cried. "Hi, honey!" and the sleeper wakened with a ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love Conquers Pride: Where Peace Dwelt

    by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller ...
    Pretty Pansy lay lazily in the hammock at the foot of the lawn, and listened to the south wind rushing through the tree tops overhead, thinking to herself, with a blush, that it seemed to be whispering a name—whispering it over and over: “Norman Wylde!” At the top of the green, sloping lawn stood a big white farmhouse, with long porches shaded by rose vines and honeysuckles. Pansy’s uncle and aunt ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus