Lish MacPherson believes she is running from something – a job working for a corrupt firm that bilks seniors out of their estates. But she doesn’t realize that her arrival in the small town of Seven Springs may be a matter of destiny. Lish discovers that a new acquaintance – Noah – shares with her not only a common ancestry but also a common recurring dream about riding a stag to some unknown destination. Their dream is echoed by a legend that haunts the town and is retold to all comers by...
Jessica March is back, sleuthing in Parkdale. She’s on the trail of an extortionist whose known victims are young refugee women students at her school. If the extortionist’s victims refuse his demands for money he hurts them, or he shows them the doll. No one who has seen it is unaffected, and no one will explain its power. Jess and a group of female students are chosen to find out if there are other victims, too traumatized to complain. But the group is almost paralyzed by problems of its own:...
No wonder the university administration is worried: a fatal hit and run in the parking lot; a woman jogger drowned in the river. Accidents? Perhaps. But the latest campus death is no accident – and suicides don’t stab themselves several times and then cover themselves up with a raincoat. Despite warnings from her husband and the police, Rosalie Cairnes feels only she can untangle the threads that will lead to the motive and the murderer. And as she nears the truth, her own life is increasingly...
Young Fidelia Knight arrives in Melbourne in 1874, alone except for her treasured companion, Samuel Johnson; well, half of him.<br /> To escape servitude, Fidelia hides each night in Bourke-street's renowned Coles Book Arcade. She loves words, you see, and wants to know them all.<br /> What she overhears in Coles sets her on a path that will change the lives of everyone she meets, starting with Jasper Godwin, the hopelessly underqualified manager of the new Billings Better...
MINUTEMEN (Second Edition) is the story of 4 dudes who who get mixed up with a prolific stripper queen and end up making a huge mess with no foreseeable way of escape. Thom, John, Nate and Ezra are reeling from each of their respective relationships coming to a most disappointing end. When the Gulf Oil Crisis ensues, B Nocturne, a pimpess and strip club owner, recruits each of the young men to manage her quickly-growing economy of illicit activity-a result of her brilliant plan to capitalize on...
THE BRAIDING OF DIVERSE LIVES: The Story of Mitsy Fisher focuses on friendship, loneliness, loss and love.<br><br>At the story's outset, Luke looks on as a culmination of Mitsy's lifelong dream, her refuge for homeless, abused, and orphaned children, goes up in flames. Luke recalls his relationship with Mitsy and these streets during his adolescence.<br><br>Now, Mitsy is gravely injured when she rushes back inside the burning building to save her beloved...
I’m Benjamin Cly, dangerous super villain. I’m the idiot who has to fight crime in a world where super heroes are nearly extinct. I’ve saved the planet a few times, grown closer to my kid, and even made some useful allies. Things were going well . . . until tonight reared its ugly head. I’ve had me some rough ones before; but tonight’s shaping up to be the worst of them. With billions of lives at stake, my powers and gadgets won’t be enough. Nor will every dirty trick I know. Things get...
MEET THE GIRL EPIC FANTASY NEVER SAW COMING On a world known as Serin, a brazen young girl named Kari was fed up with her dead-end job as a barmaid. She drank away most of her nights dreaming of fame, fortune and adventure beyond the confining walls of The Hollmig’s Den. She thought she was forsaken by the gods. Little did she know the gods had plans for her. Kari learns she is a just one of many pieces needed to solve the serin prophecy; a prophecy that could destroy her world. Follow...
From its initial appearance, Wild Cat Falling was recognised as a profoundly important work. Mudrooroo first published it under the name Colin Johnson. And when it was released by Angus & Robertson in 1965, Aboriginals were not considered Australian citizens, did not have the right to vote, and no novel written by an Aboriginal Australian had made it to print.<br /> <br />In telling the story of a symbolically nameless young Aboriginal man, and of his re-entry into society...
Cataclysm. The concept has haunted humanity since the beginning of time. Provoked by the promise of deific wrath or ecological annihilation, our greatest fears are based on apocalyptic threats to our existence. Thrust into a new ice age by nature’s fury, MASS EXTINCTION answers the question of how life would survive in a world devoid of natural food, water and air. In it, mankind is forced to reconsider the human condition and where the line between morality and mortality is drawn. The slim...