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A comic pseudo-history of the von Schnitzelgruber family in Australia who bred haggises for sport and trained kangaroos to draw the stage coaches that crossed Australia from Perth to Sydney. Other members of the family are described and the problems inflicted on Australia when haggises escaped and went feral.

The new kid's arrival at school causes a stir. Not only is he immaculately and stylishly dressed, but he arrives in a Humvee limousine with two armed guards who stay with him all day. Alice, C.J., Casey and Ben, a young American who is also a new arrival get to meet Yuri and they all become friends. But then Yuri and Casey are kidnapped from a party and the complexity of the situation increases dramatically. It turns out that Ben's parents are CIA agents and they are somehow connected with the case. And why are the Australian Federal Police involved? And just who is Yuri Kirilenko? All the friends display great courage and resourcefulness as they struggle to solve the mystery of Yuri Kirilenko and free him and Casey from the grip of a mysterious European group.

Strange and frightening things happen at the school. First, Sasha is kidnapped off the school bus during an outing, but then mysteriously freed and left by the road within hours. Then Wendy is kidnapped from the school building at night, but she is not freed. Instead, a ransom note is sent to the school, demanding the silver locket that she normally wears. What is the secret of Wendy's locket? Who is behind the kidnappings and why is Alex's father, a colonel in the Australian Army Military Intelligence involved in the case? Sasha, Wendy, Alex and Sally must all show great courage and determination to help solve the case and avoid the serious dangers presented by the mysterious people behind the events.

About 80% of the world believes they have a novel in them. Most are probably right but they have no idea how to write one, develop plots, characters and atmosphere or how to structure a book of any genre, whether it be a thriller, a romance, a sci-fi epic or anything else. This book uses the problem-solving techniques of the top-level international business consultant to show you how to develop plots from almost anything and how to create characters that leap out of the pages with a life of their own. After that, it's the mechanics of writing that can stall the prospective novelist. What are the essential ingredients of each novel? How does a thriller differ from a sci-fi adventure? How do you write for kids and young adults? The author has written and published more than twenty-five books of his own and published more than that of other writers' works. He has taught writing classes with local groups and with the prestigious Camp Creative in Bellingen, NSW for the last two years and both groups have produced authors who have finally learned how to get that novel written that has been in their minds for many years. He uses the same workshop techniques to work with schoolchildren and develop a complete novel by getting the students to develop their own stories, characters and twists. This is the pathway to getting over that final hurdle at last and sit at the computer, typewriter or notebook and get that novel written.

Mustapha al Yaffi had murdered Scott's parents and sister, apparently by accident when the internationally feared assassin had targeted some diplomats in a hotel. But when Scott retires from the Royal Air Force as a helicopter pilot, he is offered the chance to join the Mongoose Section, a British anti-terrorist group charged with protecting VIPs and hunting down just the sort of assassins as al-Yaffi. Scott leaps at the opportunity. But as he seeks out the terrorist all over the globe, his world is turned upside down as everything he thought he knew about his friends, his target, his origins, even the real nature of his family turn out to be nothing that he could ever have imagined. In the end, he is faced with a decision that nobody should ever have to make.

A massive conspiracy has been brewing in the USA since the end of WWII when two young American servicemen came home from the ruins of Berlin with stolen Nazi treasure and embarked on the creation of the "New America." Over fifty years they became the two richest men in the country and formed their secret committee consisting of some of the most powerful men in the nation, sufficiently well funded and connected to military, industrial, religious and political powers to establish control over the USA. A coup is planned after they have destabilised America by a series of murderous riots that kill tens of thousands. Only a small group of highly trained operatives learns about the conspiracy and is frantically working to destroy it as the day of the coup approaches. But not everything is as it seems, and neither the agents nor even the members of the Council for the New America know the real objectives of the Council's founders. The dreams of those two old men are far more complex, far more ambitious and far more lethal than any of them could possibly have envisaged.

Mickie Dalton is now fifteen but in his mind is the genetic memory of the entire life of Markel, once the leader of the Pfafth race in their prime as the rulers of the known Universe and during their downfall and flight into hiding. In his three years of travelling the Universe aboard the inter-galactic trading ship, he has grown, matured and developed some of the astonishing and lethal powers of the Pfafth and met many different species, some of them friends, some dangerous enemies. He has also encountered and fought the dreadful Sillaron, the frightening and destructive race that caused the downfall of the Pfafth over a million years ago and he has barely escaped with his life at times. Although unable to contact them, Mickie has discovered where the Pfafth have locked themselves away in a Space and Time outside of normal Space and Time. Then the Pfafth make contact with Mickie and he finally gets to meet his species and learn of the role for which he has been bred over a million year program. But the encounter reveals a reality for which he could never have prepared himself and a crisis far worse than could have been dreamed of. Unless the hidden galaxy of the Pfafth is returned to normal Space and Time, all of the Universe could become unstable and break apart. Mickie is faced with the ultimate choice between his own life and that of his entire species.

Nearly a year has passed since Mickie Dalton joined the massive inter-galactic trading ship and began the search for his origins and answers to the mysteries of how his people, the Pfafth vanished from the Universe over a million years ago, where they went and how they could be hiding from even the universal telepaths, the Speakers. As the ship continues its travels trading between species on planets in many Galaxies, small hints are found that the Pfafth are SOMEWHERE. As he matures, Mickie finds more and more of the astounding powers of the Pfafth and sometimes he is frightened of just how much more he will develop. But not only are Mickie's powers growing, so too are those of the ancient enemy, the Sillaron, a mysterious and ancient species that is seeking the Pfafth to destroy them finally. Then the Pfafth begin to reveal themselves and as more is learnt about the million year-old war between the Pfafth and the Sillaron, Mickie is confronted by the truth of what happened to his people and why they fled to a Space outside of Space and a Time outside of Time. Now he must contact them and save the entire species from destruction by a merciless enemy. This is the second book in the Mickie Dalton Trilogy.

Life for twelve year old Mickie Dalton is miserable. Cold, abusive parents make his home intolerable. So when Mickie meets a young couple in the park, an escape opens up. They tell him an astounding truth - Mickie is not a human being, though just what he is, where he came from and how he came to be on Earth are all a mystery. Mickie joins his new guardians on an immense spaceship that travels the Universe, even between galaxies, trading with many intelligent species on other planets as he seeks out his origins and nature. Slowly, he begins to develop extraordinary powers that must have been part of his people. As he also starts to find strange hints of what may have happened, he learns that he is one of an ancient race, the Pfafth who once ruled over forty galaxies but vanished without trace a million years ago. But other forces learn of Mickie's presence, huge forces of immense evil and power that were the cause of the destruction of the Pfafth and now they are intent on finding Mickie and his vanished people so that they can complete the destruction of that ancient race. A million year old war has started again and Mickie must draw on all his astonishing, growing powers and seek the help of allies, some strange, some beautiful, some terrifying as he seeks his people to prevent their end.

Over a hundred years has passed since the Yshan Empire was invaded by an alien race and the Imperial Fleet driven into exile in a distant galaxy. Now the old Empire is ruled by the aliens and their puppet, the one-time Princess Sophie and her descendants. The startling reappearance of "The First," the original rulers of the Yshan planet who passed the torch to the Yshan people over 5,000 years ago now gives hope that the Empire can be retaken. But first, the descendants of the original players from over a century ago, Prince Kyle, Josh Bradshaw and Charlie Foster must go to Earth on a strange mission to restore the Emperor Garamax and somehow find a new Star that will empower them to defeat the aliens and retake the Yshan Empire.

It was Christmas 1821 at Ballbritton. James teamed up with a wild mob that had been tagged the 'White boys.' They terrorized the wealthy neighborhood, robbing from the rich. He had met up with John Daly from the days when he would hang around the wharf unloading barges. They finally met their match when on 26th December 1821, they were apprehended on the Grand Canal in Kings County. To make matters more serious they had stolen arms from a house owned by Mr J. Cooper. The two men were sentenced to death in Phillips town under the 'White boys Insurrection Act.' They were tried in the Assizes court on the 20th March 1821.

When twins Kyle and Sophie arrive at the school, there is something clearly different about them. But despite Sophie's antagonism, they are befriended by Josh, Charlie (Charlotte) and the youngest, Henry aged nine. Kyle and Sophie are more than just different; they are the children of the Galactic Emperor and their mission is to seek out the mysterious, sentient crystal, the Star of the Yshan Kings which has guided the Empire for 5,000 years. It was stolen from the Empire Capitol twelve years ago together with the Emperor's son who was just a toddler at the time and signs have been detected of the Star on Earth. Josh, Charlie and Henry are drawn into the hunt and must face incredible dangers and draw on all their courage and intelligence before the final discovery of a truth that is far beyond what anybody's imagination could have anticipated

Erwin Biener's comfortable middle-class boyhood in Hungary was destroyed by the coming of the Nazis. For a long time, he and his mother lived a terrible existence hiding from the Nazis and their equally maniacal Hungarian allies, often just seconds from capture and deportation to the concentration camps. Eventually he was able to get out of Hungary, but that was not the end of the privations, the hunger and the battle to survive. But at last he was able to come to Canada, shortly after followed by his mother and it was not long before the drive, the intelligence and the mutual caring were able to provide them with a comfortable life again. These vignettes reflect the bad days, the fear, the danger and eventually a humorous, philosophical outlook on life that has stood Erwin in good stead over the years.

Henry Smith, a Senior Immigration Officer has been murdered. His funeral is attended by a mysterious woman of extraordinary beauty who tosses an object into the open grave. Also there is Smith's assistant, Susan Harvey who stands to inherit his art collection worth millions, and Colin Jackson who is dating Smith's daughter and is also a suspect in an international drug investigation. Henry Smith had been under investigation by Internal Affairs for granting permanent residency to asylum seekers even though they didn't meet the criteria and one of these had been his close friend Ivan Renowicz. Ivan had committed suicide on the same day as Henry's death. Detective Inspector Matthew Hudson heads the investigation but it is his colleague, Detective Senior Constable Jill Morellix, the rough diamond from Sydney's Western Suburbs whose ingenuity uncovers the entire corrupt process and a series of other crimes, including murder. Dark secrets are revealed, ugly motives are uncovered and the twists and turns will keep the reader guessing 'who dunnit?' to the bitter end.

Taught only by her grandfather, Charlotte plays the cello beautifully. After her grandfather died a year ago, Charlotte now has his cello, but tragically this is damaged in an accident during a concert. But a mysterious old man who seems to know her gives her a new instrument, a cello of extraordinary beauty and sound. Soon after, she plays the solo part in the Elgar Cello Concerto at a concert and word of her ability reaches the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She is invited to the Sydney Opera House to play before world-famous Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Concertmaster, Dene Olding and Principal Cello, Catherine Hewgill. Not only are they astonished by her playing, but they identify the cello as the long-lost and legendary cello made by famed luthier, Nicolo Amati. This cello was believed stolen in 1700 and said to contain an amazing secret. But others want the cello and its secret and Charlotte is kidnapped and the ransom demanded is the cello. As part of the search for Charlotte, the detective in charge of the case uses high technology to examine the cello and finds what appears to be the answer. Somehow knowing this, the kidnappers release Charlotte. Charlotte's friends are also helping and in their own research, they discover what the answer to the huge secret is. The hunt for an extraordinary treasure goes to Italy and then back to Australia and Charlotte finally realises her dream when Vladimir Ashkenazy leads her out to the stage of the Sydney Opera House to play the solo part in the Elgar Cello Concerto to a packed house.

Mark and Anna meet the day before their thirteenth birthday when Mark moves to a new school. They discover more and more about each other and realise that they must be twins, adopted by different parents. But they also learn that they have unusual powers that show that they are not human. Eventually they learn of the two hundred year old war that has been fought on Earth by two groups from their home planet who were marooned on Earth by a space accident involving the ship that brought them. They learn that their natural parents have been kidnapped by a group that has gone rogue in its quest for wealth and that they are the only ones who can rescue them. Mark and Anna must draw on all their extraordinary powers and their courage to sort out this terrible mess.

When Ben goes to preschool, he has a wonderful time, meeting new children, playing with lots of toys and learning lots of new things. In the second story, Stephen is a boy with such energy that his mother thinks he's several dinosaurs during the day. See how many dinosaurs Stephen can be between getting up in the morning and going back to bed at night.

Rock fishing is often claimed to be the most dangerous sport in the world. The author, despite several close shaves (described in the book), survived over 40 years of the sport, including highly risky solitary night fishing. When seas were simply too treacherous, big fish were sought from beaches instead. This book describes the author's often colourful and amusing introduction to the sport at a young age and follows his fishing adventures to the age of 63 (and still going strong) in both South Africa and Australia. Boasts of the longest fishing trips without washing, how to avoid the use of soap if you must wash, dealing with diarrhoea in the bush, enemas and poop-eating bush pigs, as well as numerous stories of hooks-in-the-body help to make up the humorous side of the book. Suggestions on how to stay alive while rock fishing and how to land big fish conclude the book. So sit back in a comfortable armchair, beer in hand, and allow In Search of Big Fish to take you away to the roar and salty spray of the sea, the bite of a big fish, the fight that follows, and the joy of landing the prey...or the horror of losing it.

The time is the early 1950s and Gary leaves home in the Seychelles to come to Kenya to search for his missing father who had once lived there. But this is the time of the Mau Mau uprising and Kenya had been placed in a state of emergency. All men of eighteen or older were automatically drafted into the Kenya Police Regiment and Gary found himself being trained for and then assigned to protecting farmers around Nairobi and the Rift Valley for six months. His service takes him deep into Mau Mau territory as he fights to protect the white farming families of East Africa. Released from service, he resumes the search for his father around the coastal province where he meets the local tribes and receives help from the most unlikely people.

When Geoff, Natasha, Emma and Adrian are "double-dared" to visit a spooky new store in town, they couldn't not take the challenge. And spooky it is, indeed! Inside, they find first editions of famous old books, newly-printed newspapers with headline stories of events that happened decades ago, a radio broadcasting news of cricket matches that were played sixty years ago and many other strange exhibits. But they also find something terrifying - an old painting in a large gold frame hangs on the wall and the picture is of - themselves! The picture starts to take hold of Geoff's mind and attaches itself to him. He wakes up the next morning after a series of nightmares, the picture is on his bedroom wall but with a different scene - Geoffrey on his own looking back at him. What is the dark secret of the picture and how will Geoff and his friends prevent it from taking hold of him and imprisoning him as it has with others in the past?

Katrina, Jamie and Amelia leave the far west of the state for the two-day drive to the coastal resort of South West Rocks for a family holiday. But within a short distance they encounter a red fog that envelopes the car in a violent storm and when they emerge, they have reached their destination. Bridget and Warren, their parents are unaware that anything is wrong and have no memory of the storm, nor do they seem to notice that there is nothing there - no town, no shops, no camp site. The mystery deepens when six-year old Amelia demonstrates strange powers over animals and she heals Katrina when she is bitten by a lethal Brown Snake. Then Jamie discovers the astounding reality. Not only have they travelled over a thousand kilometres in a few moments, they have also gone back in time by 500 years. But they have yet to learn the shattering truth of how and why this has all happened. The children must display great courage and intelligence to solve the mystery of just who or what is Amelia, why do their parents not notice anything strange and how to combat the enemy that has followed them through the time portal and how they can return home.

Twelve years have passed since the events of "The Star of the Yshan Kings." The rightful heir has been crowned as Emperor Garamax 19th of the Yshan Galactic Empire and rules over a peaceful and prosperous Empire. Now Charlie marries Kyle before he and Josh take their posts as newly-commissioned officers of the Imperial Fleet. Almost as soon as they have joined the ship, an invasion by an enemy fleet occurs, almost capturing the Empire's Capital World and only brilliant action by the battleship's crew and a new weapon designed by Charlie's father save the day, at least for now. But the enemy hasn't finished and with support by the traitor Princess Sophie and her uncle, deadly danger threatens the Empire and the life of Emperor Garamax, the friend of Josh, Kyle and Charlie. They must risk everything to save themselves and the Empire.

When Gilbert discovers the astounding propulsive powers of his farts, a whole new world opens up to him. He flies in orbit round the world, saves a house from being burgled, rescues a man trapped at the top of a building, saves the local market from a plague of rats and finally saves the world-famous Sydney Hobart Yacht Race from disaster when the entire fleet becomes becalmed. His only failure was when he attempted to effect a win for his local football team by lifting the ball over the crossbar, but the referee penalises Gilbert for cheating. Despite that, Gilbert is truly a local hero in his home town of Coffs Harbour, the beautiful resort area by the sea in Australia.

Rose Good's family from Ukraine and Poland endured all the horrors of the war in Eastern Europe and ended up in a Displaced Persons' Camp in Germany, one family among millions of lost people after WW11. Rose was born in that camp, her father died while she was still a baby. After years of being moved around camps in Europe, Rose and her mother were able to make it to Australia and lived in another series of camps until Scheyville - the last of the camps.

One of the most devastating diseases to hit the world in recent decades has been the HIV virus. More than twenty million people have died since the disease was first discovered in 1974 and the numbers keep climbing. But what caused it? The conventional wisdom has always been that it originated in the homosexual community and spread like wildfire because of the unsafe sexual practices within that group. This book tells a different story, one of a globe-spanning plot by the President of the USA and the head of the FBI to eradicate homosexuals by creating and spreading the HIV virus. Only the dedicated investigative work of a young journalist and her friends uncovers the details of this plot and they must fight to protect their lives against the murderous efforts of those who need to keep the secret as they dig deeper and deeper into the monstrous, inhuman plot.

Mary lives in the beautiful coastal town of Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, Australia with her Mummy and Daddy. She likes to go out into the garden and sit in the peace and quiet or occasionally climb into the branch of a tree. She meets a Potoroo, a Wombat, a Kookaburra and two Pythons called Edna and Ethelred and when she goes flying in a glider with a friend, she meets a Wedge-Tailed Eagle who tells her about the wonderful games he plays with his friends, hide and seek among the clouds. And she also meets some dolphins when she goes swimming and finally an alien lands in her garden one night and takes her for a trip around the Moon in his spaceship.

A collection of short stories, some based on actual events, some not, all taking place in the beautiful mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The stories range from events in the author's youth to tales of the lesser known history about gold mining in the Valla region and stories from the lives of some of the author's relatives.

Socrates has been quoted as saying, "An unexamined life is not worth living." For years, Ted Heaton has been a strong devotee of Socrates, so when one morning, an unexpected gift of a chipped Buddha he would later call Irving was left at his front door, he had a realisation about what self-acceptance as a man can really mean. After years of childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse, stalked by a pack of wolves, chased by mafiosa, threatened with death by fathers, husbands and ex-husbands, suffering the wrath and cost of many wives and confronted by Mounties, Ted's expectations of reaching enlightenment were remote. But the passion generated by the imperfect Buddha's presence drove him to explore his own imperfect life and by so doing, helped others find what he has - happiness and meaning.

Mermaids and Lions and Other Mortal Creatures is a collection of short stories about family relationships, love affairs, holiday incidents and fantasy.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may have died decades ago but not all the roots are dead. When Dan Bailey, a successful English executive living in Chicago starts to have bizarre, frightening nightmares of a long-ago Russian childhood, he gradually discovers that he is one of those hidden roots, a "Manchurian Candidate" left behind many years ago as a weapon against the USA. His incredible psychological mind-conditioning back in a secret camp in Siberia has left him an unwilling slave of a one-time General in the KGB who is using him now as a weapon, not against the country but against his business rivals. Dan discovers that he has murdered enemies of the General and he is quite incapable of refusing the orders he is given and after he has killed, he forgets the event. But the conditioning is breaking down after all these years and Dan starts to remember his childhood, his mother, the training and the men he has killed on the orders of his controller. Desperate to break free of this slavery, Dan tries to enlist the help of those who were once his enemy, the US intelligence forces who had tried to create their own Manchurian Candidates in years gone by. But undergoing the appalling, near-fatal process of breaking the mental conditioning leaves Dan not knowing who is friend and who is enemy.