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Sixteen year-old Air Cadet Willy Williams and his instructor are forced to make an emergency landing in their light aircraft at an isolated cattle station in the vast wilderness of Far North Queensland. As the repaired aircraft is taxiing to take off, a woman rushes toward them screaming for help. Behind her is an armed and dangerous criminal desperate to protect the secret he’s hiding at the station—at all costs. The man takes aim at the airplane and fires, thrusting Willy into the most...
| Автор | C.R. Cummings |
Fourteen year-old Navy Cadet Andrew Collins enrols in a SCUBA diving course on the Great Barrier Reef to impress Muriel, the girl of his dreams. There’s only one problem: Andrew is terrified of diving, not to mention the sharks, eels, and every other dangerous critter inhabiting the Coral Sea. Despite his fears, Andrew inadvertently stumbles onto an old family mystery: the mysterious disappearance of his grandfather, lost at sea many years before. The deeper they delve into the mystery the...
| Автор | C.R. Cummings |
For over 10 years, Samantha Honeycomb has changed the lives of its readers forever. Universally admired since 2006, Samantha Honeycomb has spread its alchemy around the world. Scott Zarcinas’ masterpiece tells the magical story of Samantha Honeycomb, who is wrongly punished for breaking the ancient laws. She is expelled by the queen into the wild and untamed Crazy Lands, her only hope of redemption an impossible quest—to find the fabled hive of Beebylon and bring back its secret of infinite...
| Автор | Scott Zarcinas |
Joe Harper ('Pop Pop') is a beloved grandfather, decorated war hero, and family patriarch. He is loved and respected by everyone that knows him especially his family but a stroke has brought his past under a cloud of suspicion because Joe came out of a coma no longer able to speak but has been heard murmuring German, a language he does not know. The Grandfather weaves the story of Joe's Harper from his heroic war efforts in WWII as a member of the 508th Infantry Regiment of the...
| Автор | Jesse Thomas Becker |
Kennedy Logan is gorgeous, talented and in love with Drake Collins. She thinks it's the real thing; he's in for the sex. But she's not going to give up winning him without a fight. Because Kennedy doesn't give up—after all, she hasn't quit searching for her biological mother who abandoned her at birth. But things get to a point where it all becomes too much, resulting in a failed suicide attempt. Her life then gets considerably worse when her overbearing mother, Dorothy...
| Автор | Electa Rome Parks |
Charismatic young pastor Hezekiah Cleveland and his wife, the beautiful and ambitious Reverend Samantha, certainly have their hands full with managing their less-than-perfect marriage and their drama-prone congregation in this exciting debut! There's Danny St. John, who opens up Hezekiah to the underworld of being «on the down-low.» Then there's Samantha's secret lover, Reverend Willie Mitchell, also Hezekiah's biggest nemesis, who's in cahoots with her to take over...
| Автор | Terry E. Hill |
Ten-year-old Claire adores her brand-new baby sister, but her mother doesn't feel the same. Trapped in the suffocating culture of the small-town South in the early 1960s, Claire's mother tries to cope with her own mental illness and all the expectations placed upon a woman of her class. While Claire's father remains too dazzled by his beautiful wife to recognize the impending dangers, Claire is left largely on her own to save herself and her baby sister–with mesmerizing and...
| Автор | Moira Crone |
Tess Wycheski is a standout bowler, just like her father before her. And just like her father, she is haunted and driven by the famous, career-ending humiliation he suffered at his first pro match. Joe teaches Tess that bowling is an art form and tries to coach her toward the success that eluded him. Then there’s Leo Florida, the ex-hustler bowling coach who figured in Joe’s youthful tournament disaster. No one knows why Leo abandoned his star student and his coaching job, where he went or what...
| Автор | Quinn Dalton |
The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called «The Golden Age of the Storytellers.» These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain, spinning yarns to be printed and read, just as their predecessors, the minstrels and bards, recited and were listened to. Through their countless tales of adventure and derring-do they brought romance and colour to the lives of those who could do no more than dream. This was the age of Sir Arthur Conan...
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Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of waterand that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, editors Violette Malan and Therese Greenwood celebrate that most Canadian of locations: the ocean, lake, or river near you. With tales set across Canada, by award-winning authors like James Powell, Rick Mofina and Barbara Fradkin, and even a crossover story from fantasy writer Tanya Huff, you may just find your next...
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