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A platypus sets out across the Bass Strait towards the island state of Tasmania, aiming to recover part of the Ayerstone from the former convict prison of Port Arthur. This magical stone has caused certain animals to increase in size, and Preston soon finds many dangers and obstacles. Oceans are swarming with sharks, electric rays and giant squid, while Tasmania has been overrun with vicious devils who are causing havoc for quolls and other na...

Most people are solving problems in the wrong way most of the time. It incurs big personal, organisational and societal costs. But it is possible to remedy this situation with immediate effect. Smashing the state of dumb·stuck is 'the leading book' on real-world problem solving. Described as a 'globally significant contribution to human endeavour', it is rich in practical insights for leaders and professionals everywhere.Nick Fleming explains ...

Nathaniel Armstrong and Sarah Roberts have grown up together in the small East Yorkshire village of Alderby, but fate tears them apart when Sarah is orphaned and sent into service at Ravenswood Hall. Nathaniel leaves Alderby to work on a farm in the Dales and the years pass. With childhood behind them, they meet again and realise the depths of their feelings for each other. Nathaniel asks Sarah to marry him and Sarah accepts. Their plans are s...

The Australian Outback is unforgiving. Unlawful people seek refuge there. But perhaps the evil of Jekyll and Hyde is already right before them. The small community of Karinya Circle is rocked with a wicked and cryptic crime. Could a local Aboriginal man who is a life-long friend of Ivan the roadhouse manager, solve the tragic mystery?Trevor, an unusual character from Sydney, says he stumbled upon a dead body. He soon becomes the number-one sus...

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Ain't Life Grand is an easy to read collection of short stories.From shallow thoughts to deep, these are stories that may have you shedding a tear, cracking a smile ... or even feeling a cringe.¿Ramble through these stories as you might ramble through life ... treading carefully, to avoid getting dust on your shoes.

Frederick Charles Faulkner (1852 - 1924) was the longest serving Headmaster at the Perth High School (the present-day Hale School) from (1890-1914). Arriving to take up the Headmastership as a bachelor, he married into one of Perth's most prominent families and then proceeded to revolutionise secondary education in Western Australia.Working in ramshackle buildings, that were barely fit for purpose, he developed the curriculum, set a high stand...

High King Eldilin sits wounded and forlorn. The crinkled missive on his table bares grave news. The Jerikan have invaded. The Borderlands are overrun. His sister, Princess Kathryn, is alive but distraught. Her journey across the continent ended in tragedy. The soldier she believed in has vanished. Nearer to home, the Realm's defence is being sabotaged from within, and the mysterious stranger with the face of a Guardian has escaped. The problem...

After the death of their daughter six years ago Caroline and Adam's marriage, against all odds, has survived. And with the return of their son Michael to Australia, they are looking forward to watching him graduate and become the doctor he always dreamed he would be. But when he returns home from America with an unexpected guest it is not only their lives that are turned upside down.Because there, waiting for him is Sarah. Sarah who has known ...

Jackie Taylor found a lucky cowrie shell on the beach, but was she wise to give it away to a man with secret desires? Life was full of promise for a young woman at the beginning of her working life. But Jackie Taylor could not foresee the troubled future that lay ahead of her. As a young adult embarking on her teaching career, she found herself in the far north of Western Australia. Port Hedland is a mining town, and alcohol was an integral pa...

On a midsummer's night in 1941, a family is illegally arrested, by order of Stalin, in cosmopolitan Riga, Latvia, and deported in cattle wagons to the frozen wilderness of Siberia. Sixty years later, the son, Laimonis aka Lucky, now an actor, visits Sydney and recounts the events to his long-lost sister, Mara, and her household. Mara, an architect, missed out on arrest and suffers survivor guilt. Her son, Andy, is a depressive musician and her...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the second world war and then post-war austerity, this story never slows down, with Joyce continually on the move, physically and emotionally.From age six, Joyce learns quickly to cope with the families that her mother leaves her with - some happily, some not. She loves Daddy and occasionally he comes to visit her. He visits her on her 11th birthday, but she never sees him again.Mother's visits are usually ...

In this anthology we see from the point of view of patients, care-givers and family members. Physician and writer Sarah Sasson has curated a collection that is international and unforgettable.In a Californian cafe, a music-lover develops psychosis while drinking green tea. In a Ghanaian paediatric ward, a doctor cares for a boy with kidney disease, while definitive treatments remain out of reach. In Melbourne a mother watches as her son resist...

Teachers are my lessons doneI cannot do another one"Leonard CohenAre your lessons ever really done? Sometimes the burden of life can be so great . . . But maybe that's for a reason.In this honest and raw account of Catherine Harford's own Hero's Journey, she explores the depths of reasoning as to why life sometimes sucks you in and pulls you under. Depression and anxiety are the medical terms for it - life ache, soul soreness and the very real...

Gavin Maxwell Johns was born in Georgia, in the United States, orphaned in Hertfordshire in England and sent to the Fairbridge Farm School in Pinjarra, Western Australia as a child migrant in 1935. At Fairbridge, he meets his aggressive and undisciplined friend, Luke Fitzgerald and finds the only place he can control Luke is in the milking shed.In 1942, the United States army requisition Guildford Grammar School buildings as a Military Hospita...

Looking back I could have handled things a little differently after Vietnam. I think I would have punched a lot of people a lot sooner. I just didn't know how to react when I got home. We came straight out of a place where the enemy was everywhere, always and all around you. That problem has continued ... And I live with constant visual alertness and wariness. It's automatic. Ingrained. You scan everybody. People in shopping centres. Always ch...

Beachside Como and South Perth in the 1950s and 60s - the time and place of my early life. Then, even more than now, Perth's remoteness gave its citizens a distinctive independent spirit.To guide you to that distant time and place, I write as wholeheartedly as I can - of Perth, the city of my youth, as well as the events, people, songs and movies that moulded me. That said, the biggest influence in the making of this Perth boy was my dad. So t...

In this modern day tale of broken moral compasses, Frances Brennan, a successful highflying lawyer, and Gino Rossi, a reformed crim, carry the two lead characters on a journey with their respective views on life and the afterlife, making use of their protective dogmas as their drivers. Their protagonist and antagonist roles appear to reverse as they each encounter some of life's serious crossroads. Despite their abiding respect and affection f...

A world at peace...The land of Druyun currently resides in a time of peace and growth, governed by the eight noble houses. Over 900 years ago, a great evil known as Dogma was defeated and the religion of Edos was born from his defeat, while the mystical powers of Spark still inherit the land and its people. Despite the two opposing faiths, Druyun banded together to ensure the safety and prosperity of its people. A mysterious letter...It is now...