Victoria: 688 books

It takes four days to find the charred body of Joe Humphrey, an accomplished arsonist, in the burned out building. His SUV is parked out front with gas cans in it. His body is found without keys to his car or his wallet. Investigators work to determine if Humphrey acted alone or was set up. The owner...

Divorced. Pregnant. Alone. Her parents were right about Tyrone, but Maya Richards is determined to prove them wrong about her. She might be divorced and pregnant, but this Thanksgiving will be full of blessings -- if she could just get a job. Jake Rivers has had ten years to prove to Maya he's a...

Elizabeth Murphy has conversed with animals all her life. When she takes a temp clerk job at Division HQ of the county fire department, she discovers irregularities that not only jeopardize but target fire fighters, including her husband. Curious and determined, she visits the scenes of suspicious...

Losing a sibling is hard. Losing three of them is even harder. Repairing a broken bond of trust is harder still.After his three brothers disappeared, one after another, gone to a mysterious place known only as The Rainbow Bridge, Buddy the degu is all alone in his cage. Confused and frightened,...

A small collection of short poems, all written for some of the various pets my hubby and I have had. The pets mentioned in this collection include 5 degus, 2 gerbils, 2 rats, and a cat. All poems are captioned with details of the pets they are about.

Bethell stands with RAK Mason at the beginnings of modern poetry in New Zealand. Born in England, she grew up in New Zealand but did not live there until the 1920's when at the age of fifty she began to write poetry. Her first collection of poems, 'From a Garden in the Antipodes', was published in...

Denis Glover wrote New Zealand's most famous poem, yet his work has been out of print for many years. This fresh selection from his verse includes 'The Magpies' along with a wide variety of other poems, lyrical and satirical. Bill Manhire's selection is based on Glover's own 1981 Selected Poems, and it reveals a richer and far more lively writer than the one usually found in anthologies.

Mason is a legendary name in New Zealand's brief poetic history. He was the first of the few. Now at last, in this collected edition, his work is accessible again, and can be seen as a whole.

A collection of poems of different lengths and styles – some with a hint of humour, others of a more serious nature – about animals, nature, magic, emotions, and the world around us.

Slip into fifteen dark tales that show the world through a strange new perspective. Take your imagination on a journey that begins before birth and continues long after death, stopping off to marvel, tremble and wonder at the strange worlds in between. Meet zombies, vampires, leprechauns, even a genie,...

The lavender fog swirls like a Juliet rosewhile the wind rides the stallion of the dark,and the twilight dissolves within a fiendish seaconsumed with the interpretation of rapture.The sea speaks in the language of loveas nudes of chastity shed inhibitions,And as two ships pass in the nighthe was gone...

A collection of poems of various styles and lengths, which are about heartache, loss, pain, and broken dreams. Note: Some of the poems in this book may not be suitable for younger readers.

Desperate to find a job before dipping into her meager savings, Candice takes a job as a farm hand at Shadybrook Farms. She is new to the farm life, but it becomes readily apparent that things at Shadybrook are far from normal. After making snide remarks, she learns what it feels like to be milked...

When you become a police officer they tell you to expect the unexpected. But how to know what the unexpected is? When in a precinct in Brooklyn, a turn of events bring a new twist into an old Christmas Concept, the unexpected happens...