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Book II of the Ancient Egypt series. For 4,000 years, the lavish crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose has never been found...until the Seventh Scroll, a cryptic message written by the slave Taita, gives beautiful Egyptologist Royan Al Simma a tantalizing clue to its location. But this is a treasure cache others would kill to possess. Only one step ahead of assassins, Royan runs for her life and into the arms of the only man she can trust, Sir Nicholas Quenton-Harper - a daring man who will stake his fortune and his life to join her hunt for the king's tomb. Together, they will embark on a breathtaking journey to the most exotic locale on earth, where the greatest mystery of ancient Egypt, a chilling danger and an explosive passion are waiting. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/river-god-wilbur-smith/ -
Book V of Fairacre. Over The Gate. Throughout her years as schoolmistress, Miss Read has gathered excellent accounts of the rich and varied history of her beloved country village, often through neighborly conversation over the gate. Fairacre has garnered its share of odd incidents, entertaining episodes and village folklore - from an unusual recipe for weight loss found in an old notebook used with alarming consequences! to the tragic story of the village ghost. With characteristic grace and vigor, Miss Read retells many treasured stories of Fairacre past and present. Farther Afield: Book XI of Fairacre. On the first day of the summer holidays Miss Read plunges literally into the end of term, by falling downstairs and breaking her arm and twisting her ankle. Her old friend Amy Garfield, the ever hopeful matchmaker, insists on taking her on holiday to the idyllic island of Crete. The two women, so dissimilar but united in friendship, have time to assess the values of married and single life. -
Biggles, accompanied by Algy and Ginger, is taking a break on Greek cargo ship S.S. Stavritos as he recovers from a bout of fever but the ship is attacked and sunk off the Spanish coast by an unidentified Spanish Nationalist two-seat bomber operating out of Majorca. They make it to dry land, only to thrust into a web of espionage and intrigue during the dark days of the Spanish Civil War. -
Here are tales from the ancient world: Homer and Herodotus, Ovid and Petronius; from Egypt and Greece, India, Rome and the Bible; tales from Persia and Arabia; from France ( Queen Marguerite of Navarre, Voltaire, De Balzac) from Spain, Italy and England (Chaucer and Defoe, Dickens and Wilde); From Germany and the United States ( Pope, Irving, Bierce and Booth Tarkington); from Russia, Poland, Hungary and Holland, not to mention China and Japan - too many titles to list here. 607 pages of the world's best. -
Captain Albert Ebbs - M.B.E - expecting to be fired from his job captaining Pole Star company's line freighter the Martin Luther for some unvarnished speaking, is pleasantly surprised to find himself promoted to Captain of the luxury passenger liner Charlemagne. This being a long-held dream since his cadet days, he is confident of handling his duties - after all, all ships float on water, contain machinery and sleep and feed people. It's only the people who differ...and he finds out how very much they do differ! Now he must host cocktail parties, dance with lady passengers, cope with amorous widows, deal with a Chief Officer who's a serial womaniser and a Purser making money on the side by stealing ships supplies - and if all that weren't enough, a lot of unruly children and a crusty British Army officer who claims to know the Chairman of the Board. Subtle and sly British humor. -
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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Sergeant Willis Kling of the U.S. 68th stationed in Germany is a man of distinction, an admired photographer and scared of only one thing - marriage! At first it looked like relaxation in the town of Fuggerminken, Bavaria, where the women outnumber the men four to one, would present no problem. But then Willis pointed his camera at beautiful, blonde Sigrid - a member of the sinister Pomerantz plan, designed to lead soldiers into life-long marital captivity. D-Day arrived - and the Pomerantz scheme was implemented with deadly precision as the sweet girls of Fuggerminken closed in on their targets. Robert Buckner wrote many screen plays including Jezebel, Dodge City, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Sante Fe Trail and Elvis Presley's first film, Love Me Tender. Sigrid and the Sergeant was his first novel in twenty years. Jacket design by Carl Rose.
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An awesome collection of 87 of Lawson's best known stories, that will take the reader from the Sydney slums to the shearing sheds of northern New South Wales - stories peopled with drovers, buckjumpers, seamen, diggers, drunks and lovers. Some of the stories herein: An Old Mate of Your Father's; Arvie Aspinall's Alarm Clock; Mitchell Doesn't Believe In The Sack; The Drover's Wife; Two Dogs and a Fence; Baldy Thompson; Andy Page's Rival; Bill, The Ventriloquial Rooster; Mr. Smellingscheck; The Shanty-keepr's Wife; Two Boys At Grinder Bros; Mitchell on 'Sex' And Other 'Problems' and so much more.
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For the Pilasters, sex and love are weapons in a war for power and wealth and one explosive secret becomes the weak link that can bring down a dynasty. In 1866, a pupil at an exclusive public school drowns in a mysterious accident involving several boys. Among them are young Hugh Pilaster; his cousin Edward, the weak dissolute heir to the Pilaster banking fortune; and Micky Miranda, the darkly handsome son of a brutal South American land owner. The drowning and its aftermath initiate a spiralling circle of treachery that will last for three decades and entwine many lives.
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