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An underlying motivation for my writing this book flows from a desire to understand God and His divine creation. We can only marvel that the genesis of God's work In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1) has endured throughout the world today, even amid the evil and devastation around us. I have sought to return to the 'beginning' to research the human journey in order to discover the many people who have worked to...

The highly decorated pilot, Squadron Leader Charles Scherf, returns home to take up his role of father, husband and heir to the wealthy family estate in northern NSW. It is post-war Australia. A war has been won but for some the battle has just begun. Violent energies within and without infect the whole family and especially the young daughter born when the father was at war. There is a pushback from the snobbish, small-minded community and Ch...

A contract killing on a remote coastal track. A deadly boat explosion occurs in nearby waters soon afterwards. Are the two connected? Meanwhile, Angelina makes an audacious escape with the assistance of her underworld connections and continues her ruthless agenda. To follow is a chain of events that, when unravelled, shocks Nic Drakos to the core and links him inextricably to Elena Perez, imprisoned by Angelina on the other side of the world...

Paul Arnold, CSIRO scientist, pays $1000 for sex with Rachel Doyle, prostitute from Northern Ireland who has a technique no other prostitute can match. Rachel escapes from Derry to Brisbane after a client threatens an acid attack. Here she meets up with Fergus Burrows who is living in Brisbane. At a barbecue hosted by Fergus, Rachel meets Matthew, who after paying $500 for sex, offers Rachel $20, 000 to relaunch her career in Australia. The of...

After the Great Split, a young Igloid named Grunt was banished forever from The Valley of Triplock. He had no memory of his past. Evil had overtaken his ancient lands and threatened the Five Valleys. Davidia, Grunt and Batbit travel via the hidden ejector stones with the necklace of discovery and the quest begins. Evil conflict erupts in each valley they pass through and they overcome all obstacles to find Grunt's rightful home. But, first th...

I should have been a happy teenager... W henever I walk past a particular house around the corner from where I now live ... I am thrown back in time, remembering my teenage years, when I lived in that house for protection from a boy who was stalking me and causing trouble. Growing up in a dysfunctional and sometimes hostile environment, raised by emotionally stunted parents unable to show love except from the end of a plank of wood, my sister ...

When life serves you nothing but lemons, you have a choice: hit the tequila with a dash of salt or make lemonade and sparkle. Not that it is always that simple. As the author of Romancing My Fantasies learns early in life, bullying and harassment have a way of ripping out the humanity in you. Which raises the question: do you respond with a similar volley of torment, or stand your ground and maintain your integrity? Teri Galea-Thorne goes l...

Joe Burnett was living the dream, retired young from the corporate world and volunteering with his local fire brigade. It didn't last. First the black summer fires sweep through, then strangers start shooting at him, then he meets the mysterious Jessica. He's barely had time to walk his dog before his safe, ordered world disappears, and he crashes head-on into a merciless international criminal organisation and the corruption it propagates.

A book of touching messages across an ocean between a man and a woman. "It is late and I know I have just responded to your message but I want you to know that I deep in my heart and I can not explain this, that I miss you so much. I understand that there are many differences between us but when I even question these things it seems to matter very little, all I know is that you, my dear Tuan, will until, I see you again, remain always within m...

In 1904, the Sri Kumala, a Chinese schooner became wrecked off Sanur in Bali. Claiming the vessel had been sacked by the Balinese, the Dutch attack recorded in history as the brutal Puputan Wars, was to change Bali and its culture forever. Entire kingdoms perished as wave upon wave of the island's inhabitants committed suicide. European artists become entrenched, integrating with the Balinese. Their stories of surviving the Dutch invasion, th...

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard It is often said that the most important relationship we have in life is the one we have with ourselves. Within this idea is a path of self-discovery and self-understanding in relationships with others - implying that our best life teachers are those with whom we have the closest connections. In this collection of poems, the author reveals her traj...

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 await...

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 lette...

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!

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...

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 inhabita...

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...

Alyssa has begun a career as a counsellor at the upmarket Donald Clinic for mental health. To her dismay, this proves an increasingly treacherous environment and lives are in danger. Can she discover the truth about what is really going on before it is too late? After all, Alyssa's own name even means "Truth". Yet everywhere she turns, all she finds are lies. For the sake of her own survival, the truth about the Donald Clinic needs to be unc...

Queen Charlotte, the Queen of Falconia and her husband King Philip have just had triplets. It should be a time of celebration, but old enemies have reappeared and two of the babies are magically interfered with. Thirteen years later the enemies are back, and the two children fall into a coma from which no normal cure is known. Thus begins a quest of unlikely allies journeying across half the world to find the Chalice of the Dawn, the only obje...

Can a person living in the present dare to go back through time to another era? Laura has lost her husband, facts come to light that their marriage was not all it seemed. Grieving and at a loose end, she befriends an elderly professor - a decision that sends her life in a whole different direction. Life becomes exhilarating, frightening, even shocking. Could she live like this? Or is it best to go back to a simple, normal life - safe and sec...