Reid’s collection of poems relate to the beauty of the Australian countryside, creating realistic images. He also offers humor and vision in his observations of people, animals, philosophy, emotions and of course, love.
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Young student Axel and Professor Otto Lidenbrock, studying a very old manuscript, discover an ancient pathway into the centre of the Earth. They travel to Iceland, and with the assistance of Hans, a local guide, they find an entrance in Snæfellsjökull, a volcano near Reykjavík. The travel is extensively long, and not without its many perils. Will they be able to make it? And what amazing wonders await hidden within the depths of the Earth? Colour illustrations by T.C. Dugdale.
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Lennie Lower was born in Dubbo in 1903 and after school joined the Royal Australian Navy, which he left in circumstances that are somewhat obscure. During the Depression he seems to have led a hobo existence and began contributing humorous material to newspapers, later becoming a full time journalist. In this volume: The Secret Lives Of Lennie L:ower; Bloodhound Lower Of The Yard; Husband Lower Of The Back Yard; Hints For Young Home-muckers; Bearding Grandpa In His Den; Putting Curry Into The Curriculum; How To Be A Lighthouse Keeper Or Almost Anything; Is There An Elf On Your Shelf? Whaling, Chess And Other Indoor Sports; Science, Medicine And Other Lurks. Epilogue:The Melancholy Of Lennie Lower by Alexander MacDonald. Known for Here's Luck, Lower is still considered to be the comic genius of Australian journalism. He died in 1947.
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Fifteen Stories: W.W. Jacobs
$35.00Neat little quirky tales with stings in their tails, some just for fun and others to make you think. In this volume: Hard Labour; The Bully Of The Cavendish; The Peacemaker; A Tiger's Skin; Three At Table; A Black Affair; A Case Of Desertion; The Rival Beauties; Smoked Skipper; An Intervention; The Lost Ship; The Persecution Of Bob Pretty; Odd Charges; His Lordship; In The Family. From the author of The Monkey's Paw. -
In this omnibus volume: Britannia All At Sea: It was love at first sight for Britannia Smith when she met Professor Jake Luitingh van Thien and shamelessly followed him to Holland, hoping to see more of him. She succeeded - and to her joy, he proposed. But just when all seemed perfect, she met Madeleine de Venz. In every way Madeleine was right for Jake, and Britannia became more convinced that to go ahead with the wedding might ruin Jake's life… Three For A Wedding: Phoebe Brook hadn't planned to take a nursing job in Holland. But when her sister Sybil got married instead of going to work for Dr Lucius van Somersen, Sybil persuaded Phoebe to take her place. And just to compound matters further, Phoebe found herself captivated by Lucius. Caroline's Waterloo: Caroline had never imagined that anyone would want to marry her, but the imposing Professor Radinck Thoe van Erckelens did propose to her - and having easily fallen in love with him, she accepted. But Radinck was clear about what he wanted in a wife - a convenient hostess! Caroline had to decide whether to settle for that, or to set about changing Radinck's feelings for her. -
They say no one from the convict settlement of Sydney Town crossed the steep ranges of the Blue Mountains until 1813. But the quick-witted convict Clancy Fitzgerald did it in 1798, dragging with him the proud, but reluctant, Eliza Phillips. Failure meant the noose, so their only hope was to push forward, into the unknown. Faced with constant danger and wrenching isolation, Clancy and Eliza find themselves pale-skinned strangers in a land of ancient traditions and spiritual beliefs. But their destiny is dramatically altered when Clancy discovers a golden road to fortune and makes a triumphant return to white society as a new man - in more ways than one...
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Barbara Trevor is the youngest of four children living on their parents' farm in country Australia. Barbara has acquired a horse, which she calls Rosinante, though she doesn't know the origin of the name. The book follows her attempts to school her horse and come to terms with her own life. Australian country life is well described, with real characters and an unaffected family living in a typical homestead. For young readers. Illustrated by Margaret Horder. -
Sydney 1945... The war is over, the fight begins.The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. The armaments factories are making washing machines instead of bullets and war correspondent Tilly Galloway has hung up her uniform and been forced to work on the women's pages of her newspaper - the only job available to her - where she struggles to write advice on fashion and make-up. As Sydney swells with returning servicemen and the city bustles back to post-war life, Tilly finds her world is anything but normal. As she desperately waits for word of her prisoner-of-war husband, she begins to research stories about the lives of the underpaid and overworked women who live in her own city. Those whose war service has been overlooked; the freedom and independence of their war lives lost to them. Meanwhile Tilly's waterside worker father is on strike, and her best friend Mary is struggling to cope with the stranger her own husband has become since being liberated from Changi a broken man. As strikes rip the country apart and the news from abroad causes despair, matters build to a heart-rending crescendo. Tilly realises that for her the war may have ended, but the fight is just beginning...
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NUMA Files 8. In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government– sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly...disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers—including Zavala—left to die. Only Kurt Austin’s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA team on the case. He has no idea what he’s just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it’s not just their own skins they’re trying to save - it’s the lives of millions.
