When eleven year-old Drew and his five year-old sister Sammy are orphaned, they fear that they will be separated once they are sent to an orphanage. The children set out for Perth from the small country town of Wyanilling, blithely believing they will find a ship sailing to England and their grandparents. It is a desperate trek through the Australian bush; they are small and the bush is vast and trackless. The police are out in force, searching for them with trackers, rewards are offered and the story builds until politicians become involved in the plight of two small children, wandering the endlessness of the Australian bush alone.
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Kemeny Andras is tall, handsome and has just inherited a vast fortune. He is respected and liked by all who live in the village. He seems to have everything: except Ilonka, the beautiful daughter of a noble lord. Kemeny is a peasant and therefore not considered to be a suitable match - until one night, disaster strikes. Loaded with twists, turns and tailspins; the author claimed that the events are based on a true story. -
Whiteoaks: Mazo de la Roche
$18.00Book VIII of the Jalna chronicles of the Whiteoaks family. It is the successor to Jalna in which the central characters were Piers and Eden. Here it is their younger brother Finch, sensitive, misunderstood and musical, and finding growing up a torturing business. Twice he tries to escape, but the spell of the old red-brick house drags him back with that peculiar haunting power that influences every character in this striking saga of Canadian country life.
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Edward is the creation of an inventor, whose sudden death leaves Edward with metal shears for hands. He lives on alone in the darkness of the great Gothic house until he is found by a kind lady and taken home to live with her family - in the pastel paradise called Suburbia. An early role for Johnny Depp and one of Vincent Price's last films. By Tim Burton. -
Inspired by real events. The story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes - and the personal toll on the team and the man who led it. -
Take a trip down memory lane, it's rolled-sleeve white jackets and mullets to the max. James 'Sonny' Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs are a pair of deep undercover detectives in the Miami drug world. With lifestyles to match their cover stories - Sonny lives on a sailboat with his pet crocodile Elvis and Richardo totes a sawn off shotgun - the two take on the Florida underworld to try and find the killers of Ricardo's brother. The series featured many famous guest stars. This volume features the pilot episode. -
A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station on a mission of discovery find a rapidly evolving life-form that caused extinction on Mars. It now threatens the crew and all life on Earth -
Philip Kimberley, top ranking British intelligence officer rocks the international spy community by defecting to Russia. However, not trusting his new colleagues, Kimberly leaves behind a hidden dossier exposing the KGB's spy network as insurance. Years later, drunk and broken, Kimberly is given one last assignment by his KGB superiors - to undergo extensive surgical alteration and re-enter the UK to retrieve the dossier. With news of Kimberley's death leaked to the media the defector slips back into the U.K. unrecognisable as his former self. With documents in hand Kimberley begins a dangerous game of intrigue that plays MI6 against the KGB with deadly results. But then Kimberley's nemesis Admiral Scaith brings the former spy's daughter into the game, the rules suddenly change as the final pieces fall into place. -
The Venture, an old Trident nuclear sub retrofitted for research has picked up an ancient and powerful artifact on the ocean floor and brought it on board. Called the Hades Stone, it allows the dead to return and join the living. Evil things appear in this world - phantoms. demons and an ancient being called the Stone Keeper, the guardian of the Hades Stone. The demons attack, killing the crew. The portal inside the Hades Stone fills the submarine with the accursed souls of the past. Jack Bavaro, head of Interceptor Force, has gathered his best operatives they know the submarine has been commandeered and they know they cannot just torpedo it - a navy attack submarine that tried was instantly destroyed by the demon-ridden submarine. They must enter the Venture and do battle at the bottom of the ocean. -
Deep in the Mariana Sea Trench, a corporate underwater mining complex has been built - an industrial Atlantis. When an accident in a dry-dock chamber kills several miners and investigator is sent to determine the cause and finds that it was no accident. He is caught in a deadly conflict between the miners and the corporation and must fight to stay alive and uncover the truth. -
A hilarious illustrated English 'history' of drinking, with illustrations by Larry and fanciful chapter headings such as: British Boozing Begins; Roman Revels; Saxon Swilling; The Birth of Brewing and Strong Bere for the Quene among many other humourous references. -
A hysterically funny vintage look at the war between the sexes. Contents include: Woman, the Necessary Evil : Truth and Fiction About Some Highly Disreputable Ladies (!); All for Love: Or: How the grand passion can become the big heartbreak; The Lady Speaks Her Mind: Or: Where Dr. Kinsey left off; Women of the World : Isadora Duncan, Ingrid Bergman and the career woman; Sugar And Spice: Bittersweet Commentaries On Feminine Foibles; Science And Sex: Marriage and Bedfellows; A Dying Race - Mistresses; How Well Do You Know Women? Contributors include: Stuart Cloete, Ferenc Molnar, Paul Gallico and Robert Switzer. -
Six adventures with Simon Templar - The Saint. This volume includes: The Helpful Pirate; The Bigger Game; The Cleaner Cure; The Intemperate Reformer; The Uncured Ham; The Convenient Monster. -
History as you've never learnt it before - from the invasion of Briton to Alfred the Cake, to Anne (A Dead Queen), The Merrie Monarch and WilliamandMary who were a pair of Oranges. A lot of it reads like a Blackadder script with typical English humour.With comic illustrations by John Reynolds. -
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The story of the British Army's dash to relieve Khartoum. Cousins Valentine and Jack Fenleigh, meet at school and spend adventurous holidays at their aunt's country cottage. Their friendship is broken when Jack is suspected of stealing a watch but they meet again as soldiers in Egypt, marching to the relief of Gordon in Khartoum. From the narrative, as Valentine - a boy when the story opens - enacts a battle scene with his tin soldiers..."The battle was nearly over. Gallant tin soldiers of the line lay where they had fallen; nearly the whole of a shilling box of light cavalry had paid the penalty of rashly exposing themselves in a compact body to the enemy's fire; while a rickety little field-gun, with bright red wheels, lay overturned on two infantry men, who, even in death, held their muskets firmly to their shoulders, like the grim old "die-hards" that they were. The brigade of guards, a dozen red-coated veterans of solid lead, who had taken up a strong position in the cover of a cardboard box, still held their ground with a desperate valour only equalled by the dogged pluck of a similar body of the enemy, who had occupied the inkstand with the evident intention of remaining there until the last cartridge had been expended. Another volley swept the intervening stretch of tablecloth, and the deadly missiles glanced against the glass bottles and rattled among the pencils and penholders..." -
Honouring those who continue to improve our gene pool by removing themselves in sublimely idiotic ways, such as: the woman caught in an American national park, smearing honey all over her small son's face so she could get a photo of a bear licking it off; the man who decided to add a plastic bag to his collection of solo sex toys, and who was found with the plastic bag over his head, the vacuum cleaner still running and himself being very very dead; and the two allegedly experienced twenty-something construction workers who fell to their deaths after cutting a circle in a thick concrete floor without realising they were standing in the middle of the circle. All this and much much more! Also includes sections on honorable mentions and debunks.
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A booklet of 24 ready-to-post picture postcards of Old Sydney from the 1870s to the 1950s. Real historical documents that include Barrack Street, 1900; Martin Place, c. 1929; Circular Quay and the ferries of 1930; the Pyrmont Bridge, 1870; the Victoria Markets c. 1890 (where the Queen Vic building now stands); some fabulous shots of the Harbour Bridge construction and much more. A fabulous addition to the library of a history buff. At 20.00, not even $1.00 per postcard.
