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There's a deepening mystery that the world's written language kept disappearing for good, with no explanation. Schoolgirls Davidia and Slirander catch a perpetrator finger-licking his way through a book, making the words disappear, and were puzzled. They spring into action to find the cause of the destruction and find themselves on a journey, trying to solve the puzzle of the disappearing words. A Moonah tree whose leaves represent the letters of the alphabet help them on their journey, transforming them to strange and mysterious places where they find the fateful pit of lost letters, but not before they had to escape the traps set for them by the different keepers of the alphabet who hung tenaciously to their letters. All the while they had to outsmart their adversary, the enemy who had stolen the written word from the world. Who was this character? Were the girls successful in their mission to save the language of the world?

Dumper is faced with changing times. Moved aside for newer and younger boats Dumper is given one last challenge and one last opportunity. With a new crew and wild surf, can Dumper bring his best one for the last time?See Tuffduckbooks.com.au for other stories in the series. Suitable for ages three and above.Look for the new adventures of Tuff Duck and friends!

Best friends Davidia and Slirander find themselves caught up in yet another adventure, this time in the fascinating land of Dododotovia.Davidia is one of five guests invited to a lavish mysterious dinner with four other perfect strangers. Slirander feels it is too dangerous for Davidia on her own, so she travels incognito in the magical black pearl pendant which Davidia wears on her neck.A five-course dinner of unusual taste sensations awaited; each course imbued with imaginative flavours and weird-named offerings, served by overly-attentive staff and five changes of clothes. But why? Did the free dinner come with a price? There was certainly an air of foreboding to this one. The guests didn't have an inkling?The precocious, outspoken Davidia questions her hosts' every motive, much to their chagrin and those of the guests. Determined not to comply with the subserviency expected of the dinner guests, and warned by Slirander about the foods she should not consume, Davidia ventures outside the dining room to feign eating and falls down a shaft, disappearing into a tunnel of sludge and into the chocolate factory land of Dododotovia. To assume obscurity and escape, she has to make the right twists and turns in the labyrinth of tunnels in this chocolaterie. She discovers that Dododotovia is the secret factory farm for the mysterious ingredients used in the exquisite brand of chocolates served to the dinner guests, the taste guinea pigs. How did she escape being the target of a life of servitude to the Dododotovidians? And what of the other guests? Another fascinating adventure in the Davidia series.

This time, Davidia and Slirander's adventures take them to the old clay-quarrying town of Humpletoon to look for Davidia's long-lost, distant relative, Aunt Mavis. The quarry is made up of a special seam of clay used by the town's potters to turn out specialist mug off erings which they use to compete in the Dimpletoon Mug Festival. Scrool fiercely guards the Ring of Clay, using its ancient secret of using red ruby eyes to protect its inhabitants from greedy humans whose actions will cause extinction of this lost race. The town also holds another secret - the true ownership of the land.The only thing holding back the town from bulldozing the quarry is the council's inability to purchase the dilapidated house standingon the quarry edge in which lives an old "witch" who is unwilling to sell. The townsfolk believe she is cursed and are therefore scaredto make contact with her. This is Aunt Mavis' way of keeping people away - camouflaging her real younger identity behind thedirty, flowing rags and a modern home underneath the pretend, dilapidated structure, the eyesore of the town.To help Aunt Mavis claim her rightful ownership of the quarry and save it from destruction, the girls get involved in her plan, engagingin secret activities including a role-play, talking with Milo Mac, interpreting secret messages from Scrool, the keeper of the Scrollof Scrollinger, and confronting the town's antagonists to retrieve stolen items which reveal Aunt Mavis' true identity as owner of the land.Another fascinating adventure in the Davidia series as these best friends once again stake their claim on being able to solve a mysteryduring their school holidays.

Astudent exchange program, under a ruse, offered to Vlad College by the supernatural Senora College in the land of Cluids, was supposed to determine the premier education facility in the State of Victoria.Davidia and Slirander formed part of the student exchange. Sinister undertones existed in their new teaching environment, which was grey, dull, digitally controlled and sterile and provided every unnatural need and teaching methods. Students were isolated from each other and impregnated with a knee device to maintain strict control over their every move. Life expectancy was on a digital timer.The exchange college allotted two escorts to shadow the girls and ban all access to normalcy. They had to extract themselves from the clutches of the evil Miss Alpine, the head Cluid who was the leader of the country of Cluidinine, and save the life force of their fellow trapped students.Their journey took them to strange dark places in another world. Danger lurked everywhere.Evil assassins had been sent to delete both the Vlad College and Senora College exchange students. But why? At both campuses, fights erupted as students struggled to maintain their human forms. Did they succeed?What was that strange tattoo that would release them all to a safe return to their normal world and more importantly, how was it activated?

Davidia and Slirander had the 'single' task of researching Slirander's grandmas memories for a school age based thesis. Not much was known about her history. Her memories were stored in a secret place inside the room with the waving hands wall.What secrets did those memories hold? Was there danger attached to them? Their journey of discovery took them to the land of the memory eaters, clandestine operations in World War Two, scrubbing floors in a boarding school, witnessing a banned pugilistic competition, a stint in prison, almost blended as staff into a seedy western saloon, tricked into being an almost working class girl and lost in a desert.Who was the real grandma? Was she the vivid storyteller as Slirander remembered or was another truth hidden within the grey haired old lady with the road map face and non-fashionable attire?The girls completed their age thesis at school; however, one memory had a twist concerning a revelation that implicated the British Government. It was labelled 'Top Secret'. What was the secret from the past?

The Great Fire of London in 1666 was devastating for a young woman called Anonasai, and her brother, Constantine. They mysteriously become immortal, and from this time on, she is known as the wandering assassin, and Hunting Bird. Her mask is her signature for her missions, making it difficult for authorities throughout many centuries to capture her. Anonasai becomes the most wanted person in the world. She is ordered by the Makino clan, of which her brother is the leader, to assassinate a figurehead in the fifty-first century as war rages between two countries. Throughout this mission, Anonasai connects with family, allies, spies, British agents, and her Japanese lover along the way. Will they help her? Or will they complicate her mission? Will this be her dead-end?

Marcus is lost in an incomprehensible world... Seized from his home and condemned on false charges, Marcus cheats a gladiator's death in the Colosseum and flees to the Forum temples. His prayers to be taken away from the barbarous time of Ancient Rome are answered, and he's transported to 21st century Australia.Marcus is lost in a harsh land, amid strange people and incomprehensible machines. In an outback town he meets Sabina, who pities the odd man who has never driven a car or used a mobile phone. She teaches him to survive in the modern world and they fall for each other. Desperate to return to his family, Marcus embarks on a perilous journey to return home, to his time.

"During this battle, Mick rescued four Tasmanian soldiers whose horses had been shot out from under them. He lifted them onto Bill's back with him while Bill trudged back through the soft desert sand."A story of military service and courage - a brave man and his big, fearless horse.

Ayoung New Zealand nursing student is lunching in her college café in 1975 when an unknown 'Black man with a halo of corkscrew curls' sits uninvited next to her.Within a year, she marries the stranger in a traditional Solomon Islands' ceremony near the beach on which he was born, midway through his mother's four-hour walk to the clinic.Naked children and bare-breasted women greet the couple's arrival by canoe. She is the sole European at her wedding. Her only present is a shell.She discovers their home is a fibreboard house perched on stilts in a sea of mud on a muddy road. They bathe in a stream and fetch water from the river. The sea is the toilet.For most of the next forty years, this is her world - and the setting of the incredible story she reveals in Frigate Birds.Standards of health, nutrition, welfare and education are woefully low. But limited experience and basic knowledge are no deterrent as the young newlywed resolutely sets about improving the health and welfare of the islanders.She battles politicians, lawyers and health authorities. At home, she copes with bankruptcy, divorce and the birth of two sons.

Felicity Hathaway is found dead one morning in the stables of her thoroughbred horse stud. She is wealthy, successful and influential. She is also opinionated, forthright and accustomed to getting her own way. Who could she have infuriated to such an extent that she would be murdered?The investigating police are severely restricted in their enquiries into her death because her family members, staff and neighbours all have secrets they are intent on protecting. Matters are made more difficult because some of the suspects simply decide to leave. Can the two detectives locate all their suspects? Can Felicity's adult children come to terms with the death of such a powerful matriarch? Can the police prise out the guilty secrets? Can the revelation of their secrets help each suspect achieve some personal growth?

What happened to young mum-to-be Krystal Fraser on 20 June 2009 after she checked herself out of hospital to go to a party rather than await the birth of her first child?More than thirteen years later the question remains unanswered.No-one has reported seeing the young woman since.Local police did not consider Krystal to be a victim of foul play, wrongly believing she was the architect of her own disappearance. The trail went cold before the homicide squad was called in and a missing person case became a murder enquiry.Their only clues were two untraced calls from a local phone box on the day Krystal vanished.Her body has never been found and the mystery remains: a maze of accusations, denials, rumours and police shortcomings that continues to divide the small Australian rural community that was her home.In its wake came distressed families, broken relationships and suicides.Suspects were named and interviewed but none were charged.Was Krystal killed by an unwilling father of her unborn child? Were disputes between drug runners the cause? Was it the result of a fall-out with one of several sexual partners?In Last Train Home former police investigator Dennis O'Bryan delves deep into the events and people involved to reveal his discovery of new and compelling evidence.

Join Australian soldiers, Stan and Billy, in their stubborn resistance against an overwhelming World War II Japanese force in Papua New Guinea as the Australians fight a tactical withdrawal along the Kokoda Track. The strategies and tactics used in this withdrawal created one of the most famous actions in the annals of Australian military history and was to have a major impact on the collective psyche of all Australians. Follow the magnitude of this impact as it played out on the streets of Brisbane. Link arms with Carol and Jean, two sisters who experience love and tragedy while struggling to fulfil their duties as waitresses in the Victory Café. Experience the full effect that tens of thousands of allied troops had on their home city of Brisbane. Put yourself in the middle of the Battle of Brisbane - a brief battle that broke out between Australian and American servicemen, which highlighted the tension that existed between these two allied forces. At war's end, you will realise how it was that this generation was able to face their future with such confidence and certainty as they built the foundations of the modern Australia that we all enjoy today.

"And, Clancy, you must wheel them, try and wheel them to the right.Ride boldly, lad, and never fear the spills."In 1973, facing prosecution for dangerous driving following a high-speed motorcycle collision, a young civil engineer accepted a short-term job offer in Singapore. That twist of fate catapulted him into a global oil and gas industry fuelled by fallout from the Yom Kippur War, which saw crude oil jump from US$23 to US$62 a barrel. One year turned into thirty. Singapore turned into the Far East, the Middle East, the North Sea and South America. The journey took him to the world's greatest opera houses and through England's and Ireland's finest fox hunting country. David Wilson rose, fell, and rose again. This is the story.

The 1960s was a decade of social and political upheaval that reshaped every facet of American culture, from civil rights, through feminism, to gay liberation and the anti-Vietnam War movement.Bernard Marin takes readers into the heart of this turbulent time in an anthology of historical fiction. Through Bernard's eyes, we join a young journalist who witnesses both the Chicago riot of 1968, and the uproarious trial of the ringleaders who came to be called the Chicago Seven.We follow a university student who finds love while participating in the famous civil rights march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and witness a chance encounter at a department store lunch counter that transforms a young, Southern white woman into a civil rights activist.These colourful vignettes open a unique window into the most compelling chapters of the tumultuous 1960s.

'I won't allow women in my stock camp,' he stated flatly.Val travelled over 10,000 km in pursuit of a job she had dreamed about from the age of twelve - being part of a stock camp on a big cattle property and riding horses all day. The cold welcome from the Nicholson head stockman raised her hackles and evoked a sharp retort that would hardly contribute to friendly relations. Properly Long Way - Our Story tells of two very different lives with their ups and downs and stands as a witness to the resilience that is built in the bush. Val's life from birth in Buenos Aires through young adulthood in Rhodesia and on to dusty remote outback Australia is laid out in Part 1 Buenos Aires to Bulldust.In Part 2, Trail Rides and Picnic Lunches, Val's husband Graeme, relates his Kimberley experience and calls his time there, 'the best days of his life'. Both sharing a great love of cattle, horses and the land, they find a way to overcome the barrier of their initial chilly introduction to finally marry, culminating in the swan song of their Kimberley experience - Love-a-bull Catchers.

I brace myself to cross the bridgeoutreaching from the rocky ridgeon which I pause, as though in plight,perhaps impaired by fear or flight.Should I proceed with strong resolve,not knowing what that may involve;but blessings to all left behindand may this way to all be kind?But is this structure safe and soundto take me on to firmer ground,or will it sag beneath my weight,or sway to send me to my fate?Robert Scott has previously won many prizes in poem competitions and also written a successful book of poems published in England. This book records his reflections as they occurred.

In his twilight years, John Summers reflects on his significant collection of assets, mostly centred on his extensive grazing enterprises in New South Wales. But his wealth is the product of a vile theft as a young man, which he has not divulged to his family. Jess MacIntyre's chaotic life runs parallel to John's, but in another part of Australia. When she reluctantly heads south from the Kimberley region of Western Australia towards an uncertain future, she encounters Thomas, John's grandson, on his way from Queensland to forge a new life managing one of his grandfather's pastoral properties in NSW. Jessie's cattle management skills and chequered past intertwine with the lives of the much more sedate Summers family, with benefits for everyone. Her notorious past is eventually exposed, with an unexpected, life-changing outcome for Jess. However, although John shares with Jess a cryptic message from his past, he is less willing to reveal his guilty secret to his family.

Rosie Franklin is an enthusiastic teacher and sports coach who, through her desire for adventure, cements a teenage school friendship into a loving relationship with Chas Anderson. Chas, a local, daredevil stunt pilot, is also a well-known crop-duster. Together they weave their dreams for the future, unaware of the betrayal by friends and associates to undermine their aspirations. From the days of settlement during the early 1900s in the mid-western New South Wales farming region, to the 1980s, there is generational discord, inheritance arguments, and jealousy, all of which ultimately create dissension between the characters, while adventurous pursuits continue in the isolated, NSW, country town of Gunnedah.

After his parents die, John Summers grows up on his relatives' sheep grazing property situated in central western New South Wales. Although treated as an outcast by his adoptive family, John has a close relationship with his grandmother, who holds a mysterious secret relating to John's past. Tired of his treatment by the family, John, aged 18, pilfers a considerable sum of money from his grandmother and disappears. He spends time exploring properties to purchase in New South Wales, finally buying a rundown cattle property near Cooma. His guilt consumes him as he accumulates properties and builds his own dynasty, marrying a compliant woman and having children, who also follow in John's footsteps. All the time, John fears facing the consequences of his shocking theft and guilt weighs heavily on him. He sets in train many events, all which have the potential for far-reaching ramifications into the future-for him as well as for others.

True to her word, Angelina Lorenzo sets out to exact her revenge on those next on her list. But police are closing in, and she is running out of places to hide.Killing has been easy up until the failed attempt on her sister's life. This time, there will be no mistakes. She hires an assassin, who unwittingly finds himself caught in Angelina's treacherous web.Can he bring himself to do the unthinkable just to keep Angelina in his life?

Damengin is a country town in Queensland weighed down by the worst drought in living memory and its inhabitants are all desperately waiting for government drought relief. The bad news is that the funds have been sent and spent by Council's Shire Clerk Shifty Grey and his corrupt cohorts. This is a rollicking fast-moving story about political skulduggery, greed, love and lust. It features outrageous characters, blossoming romances, pathos and importantly, has an incredibly happy ending.

Henry's Empire, an historical novel, is the story of the life and times of Ernest Henry, an English adventurer who, at the height of England's empire days, sought his fortune in Australia.By the time he was 30, he'd made a fortune. Then lost the lot. Undeterred, he set out into the remote and dangerous north-west frontier of Queensland in search of new wealth.Henry's story is told by himself and by others he associated with in his search for that wealth.Much of that story is based on the extensive records, journals and letters that Henry wrote during that period. It also relies on consultation of records of events of the time.

This is the true story of Eve, an English woman, who lived during the turbulent years of the twentieth century. Born into a working-class family, Eve determined early in life to do whatever was necessary to lift herself out of her working-class origins by marrying well and above her station. Blessed with good looks and a vivacious personality, she was largely successful, but along the way endured a number of crises, some of which were of her own making.

The author of popular mystery stories has made his reputation by devising imaginative ways in which a killer can leave his victim in a room with all the doors and windows locked up tight. When the author is found dead ... murdered in his own locked studio ... Detective Inspector Donald Burke rules out murder until Hodgkiss views the scene. Hodgkiss soon provides a solution even more ingenious than any the author ever dreamed up. After playing a round of golf Hodgkiss and Donald Burke go to the change room where they arrive to hear the tail end of a conversation between two other players. But it is not just what they hear but the manner in which one of the other players was putting on his shoes that gives Hodgkiss the clue to solve a nasty murder that happens soon afterwards.When the man''s body was found there was no doubt that death was due to a fall. But where did he fall from? The office building where he worked or the block of flats where he was a regular participant in drug-fueled orgies. Hodgkiss leaves the matter in no doubt.