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Write About Me by Melissa-Jane Pouliot

The year is 1988 and 16-year old Annabelle Brown from northern Queensland runs away from her family and friends for the bright lights of somewhere new. She ends up in Kings Cross in Sydney where her life takes some dark twists and turns.

What makes this story especially heart-breaking is that it is based on the true story of the disappearance of a member of the author's family. That case is, as yet, unresolved.

Price: $1.68

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Broken Pieces by Rachel Thompson

Humourist Rachel Thompson lays her heart open in this intimate collection of essays, vignettes and poetry.

If you know Ms Thompson from her other, very funny, books, this one will shock you as she writes with blunt honesty about her life, about sexual abuse, date rape, suicide, as well as love and trust.

Price: $5.21

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In Leah's Wake by Terri Guiliano Long

Captain of her soccer team, sixteen-year-old Leah Tyler has a bright future ahead of her. Though she’s only in her junior year of high school, several colleges have already expressed interest in recruiting Leah—including Harvard. But when she meets bad boy Todd Corbett, her life soon spirals dangerously out of control.

Terri Guiliano Long's award-winning novel explores the devastation a family can experience when they lose a daughter to their worst nightmares.

Price: $4.24

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Forever Innocent by Deanna Roy

"Our baby died on prom night, and nothing was ever the same again."

Corabelle doesn't feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned.

No one writes about the loss of a baby the way Deanna Roy does. Her fiction - and her work with PregnancyLoss.info - comes from the unimaginable pain of having lost a baby herself.

Price: $4.20

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With Angel's Wings by Stephanie A Collins

With Angels Wings is the true story of Laura, a young wife and mother of a three-year-old daughter. Her husband, a marine, is deployed overseas, leaving her to give birth to their second daughter and handle the two young children on her own.

Thirteen days after the birth of her youngest, the pediatrician detects a heart murmur. That leads to just the first of multiple diagnoses for both of her daughters, sending Laura on an unexpected and emotional journey into the world of parenting medically-fragile, special needs children.

Price: $3.23