Book VIII of The Australians. New arrival in the Colony, Lady Cadogan and her twin brother Patrick cause speculation. They are Irish and do not appear to be either settlers or gold hunters. The Norfolk Island penal settlement is in the process of being closed down and the inmates transferred to Port Arthur prison in Tasmania. Red Broome is puzzled by the Governor's request that he give passage to the two young Cadogans on board his frigate, the H.M.S. Galah, to the Island. The discovery of a diary kept then hidden by one of the convicts clears up a part of the mystery but involves his brother John in a daring escape from Port Arthur by four convicts previously imprisoned on Norfolk Island.
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"I am George Fox," said the fair-haired stranger. "May the Lord bless thee and awaken thee, Margaret Fell." It was at this moment Margaret Fell's life took a strange and dramatic turn. For her encounter with George Fox, a virile, lust-provoking, itinerant preacher, made her feel as though a whole new life were ahead. For the first time her passion was aroused. George awakened in her a capacity for love she had never known. But was this love directed at George the man of God...or George the man? This novel is the story of the passionate, flesh-and-blood men and women who began the Quaker movement in England in the 17th century and of those who settled in Philadelphia 100 years later. -
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders are connected in only one mind and in one legal brief conceived by that mind. Brilliant, beautiful and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief will penetrate to the highest levels of Washington to cause shockwaves that will see her boyfriend murdered in a bomb blast, send hired killers to hunt her down and will send her across the country to meet the one man who is as near to the truth as she is - investigative reporter Gray Grantham. Can they stay alive long enough to expose the truth behind the Pelican Brief?
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Australians are witty, ironic and humorous...much of their poetry ends with a grin; Their virtues are many, their verses are numerous - so we gathered them up and we put the best ion; Parodies, ballads and strange confrontations...snippets and couplets and good humored curses; Ludicrous antics, absurd situations - one hundred years of our best comic verses; Read them alone, or read them in tandem, read them outdooors in your sweater and scarf - read them in order or read them at random, but read them, dear reader, and have a good laugh! -
Book VI of North America’s Forgotten Past. Clan fighting over a powerful totemic mask has brought the Mound Builder people of the Great Lakes region to the edge of destruction. It is up to Star Shell, daughter of a Hopewell chief, to rid her people of this curse. Along with her companions: Otter, a trader; Pearl, a runaway; and Green Spider, either prophet or madman, she braves the stormy waters of the lakes to reach the majestic waterfall known as Roaring Water. She is determined to banish the mask forever to a watery grave. But vengeful clan members are close on her heels, and they have a similar fate planned for her. Cover art by Luis Royo (as Royo). https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/people-of-the-lightning-kathleen-oneal-gear-and-w-michael-gear/ -
An interesting look at a woman who rose from a common milliner to become the wife of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister. Born Mary Anne Evans, she had great influence on her two husbands, helping to propel her second husband Disraeli to the highest official post i England. A woman of little culture and no education, yet she charmed the heart out of Disraeli, he who had all London at his feet when he flung himself at hers; he, who - when Queen Victoria offered him a peerage - asked that it would be given instead to her whom he named "the perfect wife". -
Christina, the rebellious youngest daughter of the Peverills, whose adventures, in common with certain of her relatives, lead her to London during the Gordon riots; to Bath at the height of its fashion; and to Paris in the French revolutionary years. Doris Leslie blend fact and fiction to make an unputdownable novel, full of detail of the period, colourful characters and settings of a long-gone era. -
The Phoenix Tree: Jon Cleary
$25.00Early in 1945, Naval Lieutenant Kenji Minato is in internment in San Diego as a Japanese spy. When his offer to spy for U.S. Intelligence is accepted, he asks that an old school friend, Corporal Tom Okada, be his control. In Tokyo, their mission is to identify members of a Peace Faction in Japan and estimate its strength. Natasha Cairns, the mixed-blood widow of an English agent, becomes their wireless operator. Amidst the terrors of the blanket bombing of Tokyo and the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Minato and Okada find out more about themselves than they do about the Peace Faction as they both struggle to come to terms with the Japanese dogma that links death for Emperor with honour, and surrender with dishonour. Cover art by Chris Chaisty. -
1947: ten years since the famous zeppelin Hindenburg burst spectacularly into flames while landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The cause of the disaster is still a mystery. The airship was a symbol of world peace and German technological prowess and was carrying important American industrialists and high-ranking Nazi officers. The reasons to think the crash was something other than a horrible accident are manifold and contradictory. Birger Lund, a survivor, suspects sabotage. He learns that Edmund Boysen, the officer at the controls at the time of the explosion, also survived the disaster and has retreated to an isolated xenophobic island where the inhabitants appear not to have accepted the end of the war and are determined to protect, at all costs, any secrets the pilot may be keeping...
