Book 1 of Earth's Children. Ayla, a five year old Cro-Magnon girl, separated from her family during an earthquake, is taken in and raised by a group of Neanderthals looking for a new home. She is physically and mentally more advanced that her adopted people, and her differences and intelligence make them both fearful and admiring. Ayla is cared for by Iza, the Clan's medicine woman and her brother Creb, a gentle holy man, wise and magically empowered. Brun, the Clan's leader, must punish Ayla when he finds she has learnt to use a sling, for women are forbidden to touch weapons. Broud, his son, loathes Ayla and does all he can to destroy her. But Ayla is a survivor. Cover art by Barbara Lofthouse.
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The Client: John Grisham
$8.00Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client - even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives. -
Australian troops have been repatriated from the Middle East in order to face the likely threat of Japanese invasion after the fall of Singapore and Indochina. The story begins with an eight-day Sydney furlough between the two theatres of combat, explores the relationships they have come home to and gives the reader a sense of Sydney in 1942, when people were still more or less unaware of the gravity of the threat of war. In New Guinea, the first days to control the Kokoda Trail were disastrous. The men suffered, far from their supply lines against an overwhelming enemy force that they hardly see and deal with all the ills of the tropical jungle - typhus fever, malaria, dysentery, and more. Ill-equipped and ill-prepared, yet they fought - heroes in their tough and dogged endurance. Cover art by Edward Osmond. -
Thirty six of Archer's shorts - characterisation, suspense and with plenty of tail-twists in the tales. In this volume: Never Stop On The Motorway; Old Love; Shoeshine Boy; Cheap At Half The Price; Broken Rotine; An Eye For An Eye; The Luncheon; The Coup; The Perfect Murder; You'll Never Live To Regret It; The First Miracle; The Loophole; The Hungarian Professor, The Steal; Christina Rosenthal; Colonel Bullfrog; Do Not Pass Go; Chunnel Vision; Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm; Clean Sweep Ignatius; Not For Sale; One Night Stand; A Chapter Of Accidents; Checkmate; The Century; Just Good Friends; Henry's Hiccup; A Matter Of Principle; Trial And Error; The Perfect Gentleman; A la Carte; The Chinese Statue; The Wine Taster; Timeo Danaos; Not The Real Thing; One Man's Meat... -
Naturally, this volume contains the epic Man From Snowy River, Saltbush Bill J.P and Rio Grande but also a massive cross-section of his other works: Santa Claus In The Bush; The Geebung Polo Club; A Ballad Of Ducks; Brumby's Run; Daylight Is Dying; Father Riley's Horse; The Mylora Elopement and so many more. A real treasure-chest of Australia as it was. -
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Contains selections from Adam Gordon, Henry Kendall, Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson, C.J. Dennis, Mary Gilmore, Kenneth Slessor, Rex Ingamells and indigenous poets Bulguru, Wenberi, Yityangu and many others. -
Book VI of The Australians. For three generations they had struggled to harness an alien wilderness, to lay the foundation for their dreams. But now, just as a radiant future beckons, they are menaced by distant powers hungry to seize what they have so bitterly won. As the new generation comes into its own, some, like Lucy Van Buren, live drugged by lavish splendor. Others, like Michael Dean, carry on the invincible pioneer spirit. And still the newcomers arrive, burning with unbridled passions and dark desires. Men like Robert Willoughby, fleeing disgrace, headed for disaster; women like Alice Fairweather, willing to risk everything for a cause. Together, as lovers and enemies, they must battle to forge the glorious destiny that is rightfully theirs. Once they were outcasts - now they are the colonists. -
Once upon a midnight dreary, while you ponder weak and weary... take up this quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...The Unparalleled Adventures Of One Hans Pfaal; The Gold-Bug; The Balloon-Hoax; Von Kempelen And His Discovery; Mesmeric Revelation; The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar; The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade; MS. Found In A Bottle; A Descent Into The Maelström; The Murders In The Rue Morgue; The Mystery Of Marie Roget; The Purloined Letter; The Black Cat; The Fall Of The House Of Usher; The Pit And The Pendulum; The Premature Burial; The Masque Of The Red Death; The Cask Of Amontillado; The Imp Of The Perverse; The Island Of The Fay; The Oval Portrait; The Assignation; The Tell-Tale Heart; The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether; The Literary Life of Thingum Bob Esq; How To Write A Blackwood Article; A Predicament; Mystification; X-ing A Paragrab; Diddling; The Angel Of The Odd; Mellonta Tauta; Loss Of Breath; The Man That Was Used Up; The Businessman; Maelzel's Chess-Player; The Power Of Words; The Colloquy of Monos And Una; The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion; Shadow - A Parable; Silence - A Fable; Philosophy Of Furniture; A Tale Of Jerusalem; The Sphinx; The Man Of The Crowd; Never Bet The Devil Your Head; 'Thou Art The Man'; Hop-frog; Four Beasts In One - The Homo-Cameleopard; Why The LIttle Frenchman Wears His Hand In A Sling; Bon-Bon; Some Words With A Mummy; Review Of Stephens' Arabia Petræa;; Magazine Writing - Peter Snook; The Quacks Of Helicon - A Satire; Astoria; The Domain Of Arnheim; Landor's Cottage; William Wilson; Berenice; Eleonora; Ligeia; Morella; Metzengerstein; A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains; The Spectacles; The Duc de l'Omelette; The Oblong Box; King Pest; Three Sundays In A Week; The Devil In The Belfry; Lionizing; Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. Poems: The Raven; Lenore; Hymn; A Valentine; The Coliseum; To Helen; To - ; Ulalume; The Bells, An Enigma; Annabel Lee; To My Mother; The Haunted Palace; The Conqueror Worm; To F-S S. O-D; To One In Paradise; The Valley Of Unrest; The City In The Sea; The Sleeper; SIlence; A Dream Within A Dream; Dream-Land; To Zante; Eulalie; Eldorado; Israfel; For Annie; To - ; Bridal Ballad; To F-; Scenes From Politian; Sonnet - To Science; Al Aaraaf; To The River; Tamerlane; To-; A Dream; Romance; Fairy-Land; The Lake - To-; Song; To M.L.S-; Spirits Of The Dead; To Helen; Evening Star; The Happiest Day; Imitation; Hymn To Aristogeiton And Harmodius; Dreams; In Youth I Have Known One; A Paean; To Isadore; Alone. -
Set in the Italy and England of the seventeenth century, this is a story of passionate love , implacable hatred, treachery and vengeance. Kindly Genoese merchant Balsamo becomes the vengeful "cripple in black" when a girl under his protection is abducted by an arrogant English aristocrat. Placing implicit trust in a friend and a girl he loves, he finds his trust betrayed. This sudden discovery turns the cripple from a kindly, forgiving man into one of iron determination to exact retribution and revenge....
