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When she was ten, Harriet Lancer decided she wanted to find a guy just like the heroes in movies. No matter what happened, at the end of the day, her fantasy man would be there to hold her and love her unconditionally. He would also want to dance with her like Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing. Now...

It is 1987 when Gina Atkins leaves her teenage daughter behind and travels from Melbourne to Lumbarta Island to fulfill her life purpose. As Gina departs the airplane, she attempts to steel herself against her rising anxiety and muster some of the courage that has forsaken her. After the pilot bids...

Stanley always knew that his spiritual aspirations would cause a problem in his relationship with Catherine, but being an apprentice to a powerful metaphysician was the most important thing in his life, and he was totally committed to it. Stanleys, fellow apprentice, John Korner, gets sucked through...

Heartskin Stories are like a box of chocolates. Some you will find soft, some hard, some will melt ever so slowly into your mouth. Some may leave a familiar by-taste of something you once had. Some may irritate your pallet. Some may stir tastes you wish you did not have. But whatever happens...

In this fantasy novel, a giant named Bder sets out to prove his worth through a series of challenges and adventures across the continent of Durogg which is populated by manimals those who are half human and half animal. Some years ago, these people had worked to rid themselves of Bder, a ten-meter-tall...

Devon Albright seemingly has it all. A successful businessman, hes leveraged every advantage his gracious life has ever offered to him. The years have also been kind to him, and his tall, athletic physique served him well in both his professional and his personal life. He is charming, influential,...

In the spring of 2015, an immense earthquake shakes Nepal and ends the lives of many. Families are broken apart, as are relationships, as the country struggles to heal despite amazing tragedy. Some rise and help their suffering neighbors while others are reduced to the basest instincts of survival...

A Beautiful Life recollects my life journey as it unfolded from the glorious days of a young boy enchanted by his Grandfathers stories to the present, where the young boy is now a Grandfather himself. Along the way there have been many wrong turns and a lot of personal pain but somehow, through the...

In Australia, an elderly couple with an interest in astronomy spots an unexpected comet, soon dubbed Henwood 1. Theres a bit of panic but not much as the comet is expected to miss Earth. Instead, it smashes into the moon and vaporizes. But when it dissolves, it emits a pathogen that travels to Earth...

Seamus OReilly can talk and he has plenty to say. To the adorable feline and notorious male chauvinist Reilly, the world is a fascinating place and he is the most fascinating part of it. Reilly manages to ingratiate himself with many of the people around him, providing he leaves his claws retracted....

This is the third book in the trilogy on Seamus OReilly the cats exploits. He can talk and still has plenty to say, despite growing older and seemingly more mature. But mature is a dirty word in Reillys opinion. As far as hes concerned, hes ageless. To the adorable and yet chauvinistic Reilly, the...

During the 1850s Australian gold rush, Annie flees home to avoid abuse and painful memories. She walks for miles, desperate for safe haven, until she runs into Ted, a former teacher. The man is welcoming and kind and becomes a surrogate father to young Annie. Slowly, she grows into a beautiful woman...

The novel opens with a woman dressed in all black, performing a vengeful act on her husband of fifteen years, whom she has just found out to have committed bigamy with a twenty-three-year-old woman in another part of Australia and has a child with her, leaving Mary to feed and bring up her seven children...

It is 1893 in Australia when a girl is dropped off at a boarding house with nothing but a few days of rent money, a locket that states her name is Adelaide, and a plain brown dress. Without any memory of how she arrived, the girl soon learns she has been drugged, starved, and birthed a baby two days...