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This is a story based on true events of Mary of The Shanty. Born in a shanty on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, Mary is a simple girl who was born with an amazing will to live. Pure of heart and keen of mind, she is a survivor. Mary grows up on a small farm with her father on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in Victoria. She was just sixteen years old when her father died and left her all alone during the great depression in Australi...

Jack arrives on Mable Downs in Queensland nursing a broken heart. With him is his mate Alby also healing from the same thing. Both, not long home from the war they embark on a journey that will take them closer, ever closer to this healing. A journey towards peace and contentment. An adventure like nothing they could have imagined. Along the way they begin to open their hearts to new people and possibilities, to love and laughter and joy. Wayn...

Based on a true story The Overlanders is a bittersweet, sometimes comical look at the lives and loves in the world of a droving team in the Australian Outback. Their trials and tribulations and the hardships they endured in the harsh desert country they inhabited. The dangers they faced from their enemies and elements alike. It also tells the story of the women they left behind time and time again to fend for themselves. Sometimes for months...

Tales from the Chill Zone is a collection of short stories about theAustralian supernatural. It is a thrillerwhich delves, often deeply into thedarker more sinister Australian. Set inAustralia in the 1960's the book features 'Stella of the Outback' a storyconcerned with the Australianpsyche of the times.

The powerful story of a young girl who stands accused of being a witch.Forced to leave her home and family and flee from an angry mob, Carmelia finds herself in the forest alone, frightened and cold. Carmelia also finds an iner strength that she didn't know she had.She outruns the mob who is hell bent on burning her only to succumb to fatigue and fever before she reaches her aunts house. As she lays down her head unable to go on she passes int...

A humorous collection of stories about life growing up in the Australian outback as seen and lived by Mary Seaton (Hoppo) of Tibooburra. With animals for playmates and ww11 diggers for her circle of friends, Mary grows up with a somewhat different take on the world. Raised on the road in tents and caravans, she'd lived in every state by age eight, Mary developed her own style and a dry sense of humor. Educated by correspondence, taught by her ...

The Power of the Mage's Staff is the story of a young orphaned girl as she struggles to survive after she has been left alone, homeless and very afraid. She is also wanted by a very powerful and evil duke who thinks she may have witnessed his soldiers as they massacred a whole village, her village. Five boys, also orphans, find her unconscious and very ill. Guessing where she may be from they take her to their cave and hide her. Lotrace linger...