Download or read book The Kensington Reptilarium written by N.J. Gemmell and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A most unexpected adventure into a world unknown. Enter if you dare . . . The Caddy kids are home alone and they're having the best time ever. Until a stranger arrives with news . . . This is the story of how four loud, grubby urchins from the Australian outback find themselves in London for the first peacetime Christmas after years of war. But their new guardian hates children. He prefers the company of the hundreds of snakes in his house – the Kensington Reptilarium. Fate lends Kick, Scruff, Bert and Pin a helping hand when outraged citizens call for the Reptilarium to be shut down. With the police about to descend, can the Caddy kids warm Uncle Basti's heart – and have their Christmas wishes granted – before it’s too late? A feel-good tale that will have you cheering on these four fearless bush kids as they take on the world.
Download or read book The Kensington Reptilarium written by Nikki Gemmell and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how four loud, grubby urchins from the Aussie outback find themselves in the heart of London, where the first peacetime Christmas after the six long, hard years of World War II promises to be a big one.
Download or read book The Icicle Illuminarium written by N.J. Gemmell and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious Lady Adora has a plan for the Caddy kids, but it doesn't involve chocolate and games . . . Kick, Bert, Scruff and Pin are rejoicing – Dad’s been found! But he’s ill from his wartime experiences, and he’s sent away to recover. Then a hint from the butler sets their hearts racing. Could their mother still be alive too? The four siblings begin a wild goose chase to search for clues. But it all goes terribly, horribly wrong when they’re kidnapped. They’re imprisoned in the Icicle Illuminarium – the coldest, loneliest and most falling-down mansion in England. Luckily, there might be a secret friend or two to be found in this odd place. Can Bucket, their loyal dingo dog, help Uncle Basti to find them – before Lady Adora can set her plans in motion? Another feel-good tale about four fearless Aussie bush kids who won’t take no for an answer – and certainly can’t be cooped up for long, even if their captors think they can!
Download or read book Luna Laboratorium The written by N.J. Gemmell and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed with the knowledge that their mom might still be alive, Kick, Bert, Scruff, and Pin have vowed to find her. They ll comb the whole world if they have to! But it seems that her last-known location was closer to home. So with a bewildered Uncle Basti in tow, and their mysterious friend Bone determined to tag along no matter what, the Caddy kids set off for Sydney. Secret tunnels and outback misadventures await!"
Download or read book The Bride Stripped Bare written by Nikki Gemmell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RUNAWAY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Bride Stripped Bare shows us the inside–out of marriage, infidelity, obsession and taxi drivers (I may never take a cab ride in London again). . . . Few books can be both dark and light. This one dances on the edge, and sometimes crosses it, with much satisfaction to be had on either side.”— Valerie Frankel, author of The Accidental Virgin An explosive novel of sex, secrecy, and escape. A woman disappears. Her car lies abandoned on a remote bluff; no body is found. Known by her family and friends as quiet and self-contained, she has left behind an incendiary diary chronicling a disturbing journey of sexual awakening. The diary opens on her honeymoon in Morocco: she believes herself to be happy—or happy enough, anyway. Swiftly, this security masquerading as love fractures in an act of massive betrayal, only to propel her into a world of desire and fantasy and recklessness. In need of guidance, she finds an unlikely heroine in the anonymous author of a dusty, rare manuscript. Written by a woman in the 1600s, it is a cry from the heart for women to live and love freely. Emboldened, she allows herself to discover the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is, how long can her soul sustain a perilous double life? Coolly impassioned, Bride Stripped Bare tells shocking truths about love and sex. Couched in a deceptively simple style, its gorgeous, incantatory rhythms will make you question whether it is ever entirely possible to know another person.
Download or read book Shiver written by Nikki Gemmell and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the emotional depth of love and loss set in the wilderness of Antarctica. Nikki Gemmell's first novel. Faced with the opportunity of a lifetime, Fin learns the rules and taboos of community life in Antarctica. Amid the land of mythical tragedies, of long journeys into darkness and death, of soles falling from feet and being strapped back on, of teeth freezing and splitting, fingers dying, toenails coming away - Fin breaks the strictest taboo of all - she falls in love. Fin gets caught in a chain of events that lead to a shattering conclusion.
Download or read book Nine written by James Phelan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped from school and finding out his parents aren't who he thinks they are, Sam is suddenly running from danger at every turn. With his life and identity shattered, Sam's salvation is tied to an ancient prophecy. He is in the final battle to save the world, up against an enemy plotting to destroy us all. He alone can find the last 13.
Download or read book Jacko and the Beanstalk written by Kel Richards and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fee, fi, fo, fozzie- I smell the blood of a juicy Aussie. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. Will Jacko make it down the beanstalk and escape the angry croc? Find out in this vibrant Aussie retelling of the classic story-complete with an unexpected ending! Plus, watch out for the funny geckos who almost steal the limelight!
Download or read book Bitter Greens written by Kate Forsyth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical Fiction The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of love French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. At the convent, she is comforted by an old nun, Sœur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens... After Margherita's father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena Leonelli, he is threatened with having both hands cut off, unless he and his wife relinquish their precious little girl. Selena is the famous red-haired muse of the artist Tiziano, first painted by him in 1512 and still inspiring him at the time of his death. She is at the center of Renaissance life in Venice, a world of beauty and danger, seduction and betrayal, love and superstition. Locked away in a tower, Margherita sings in the hope that someone will hear her. One day, a young man does. Award-winning author Kate Forsyth braids together the stories of Margherita, Selena, and Charlotte-Rose, the woman who penned Rapunzel as we now know it, to create what is a sumptuous historical novel, an enchanting fairy tale retelling, and a loving tribute to the imagination of one remarkable woman.
Download or read book The Stalking of Julia Gillard written by Kerry-Anne Walsh and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent Australian political history, of how a powerful media pack, a vicious commentariat, and some of those within her own party contrived to bring down Australia's first female prime minister When Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on June 24, 2010, she did so with the goodwill of the majority of her party and a fawning Canberra press gallery. The man she had supplanted, Kevin Rudd, led an isolated band of angry Labor voices at this surprising turn of events. The collective political and media verdict was that his time, short though it had been, was up. But when Gillard announced in February 2011 that her government would introduce a carbon pricing scheme, Rudd and his small team of malcontents were already in lock-step with key Canberra and interstate journalists in a drive to push her out of the prime ministerial chair. Never has a prime minister been so assiduously stalked. Cast as a political liar and policy charlatan, Julia Gillard was also mercilessly and relentlessly lampooned for her hair, clothes, accent, her arse, and even the way she walks and talks. Rudd, on the other hand, could barely do any wrong. His antics were afforded benign, unquestioning prime-time media coverage. This is the story about one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent Australian political history. It focuses on Team Rudd and the media's treatment of its slow-death campaign of destabilization, with its disastrous effect on Gillard and the government's functioning. It is about a politician who was never given a fair go; not in the media, not by Rudd, not by some in caucus.
Download or read book Hugo s Runaway Legs written by Alys Jackson and published by Larrikin House. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo's legs have run away. They simply didn't want to stay at home where they just lay about. Hugo's legs just wanted out! Hugo Holt's legs have run away and jumped on the bus! Hugo can't do without them. How on earth will he catch his runaway legs?
Download or read book The Little Book of Anxiety written by Kerri Sackville and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you feeling okay? Is something worrying you? Feeling a little ... anxious? You could try thinking positive, meditation, exercise, dancing like no one's watching. Or you could read this book and reassure yourself that through the agonies of sleepless nights and irrational fears, you are not alone. With humour, insight and searing honesty, The Little Book of Anxiety explores the trials and sheer absurdities of living a worried life. From crazed nail biting to fearing her husband is dead when he's late home from work, Kerri Sackville is the poster girl for panic and an expert on how to ride its adrenalin wave. This book may very well save your sanity.
Download or read book The 39 Story Treehouse written by Andy Griffiths and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows in an active volcano, swim in the chocolate waterfall, pet baby dinosaurs, and go head-to-trunk with the Trunkinator, since Terry has created the greatest invention that he—or anyone else—has ever invented . . . a Once-upon-a-time machine that will write and illustrate their entire book for them! Join New York Times-bestselling author Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton on another wild storytelling adventure in a series Publishers Weekly described as "Anarchic absurdity at its best." Welcome to The 39-Story Treehouse...What are you waiting for? Come on up! This title has Common Core connections.
Download or read book The Ripping Tree written by Nikki Gemmell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GET OUT. BEFORE THEY SAVE YOU.
Download or read book I Am Pilgrim written by Terry Hayes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a seedy hotel near Ground Zero, a woman lies face down in a pool of acid, features melted of her face, teeth missing, fingerprints gone. The room has been sprayed down with DNA-eradicating antiseptic spray. Pilgrim, the code name for a legendary, world-class segret agent, quickly realizes that all of the murderer's techniques were pulled directly from his own book, a cult classic of forensic science written under a pen name.
Download or read book The Book Of Rapture written by Nikki Gemmell and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-read new novel from Nikki Gemmell -- as provocative and as deeply felt as her international bestseller THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE. three children wake up in a basement room. they have been drugged and taken from their beds in the middle of the night. Now they are alone. Where are their parents? Who can they trust? the family has been betrayed to the government and Salt Cottage, their home on a clifftop above the ocean, is no longer safe. their mother's scientific work has put them all in danger. to protect them, she must let them go. She must put her faith in an old family friend - and in her children's own resilience and courage. Searing, provocative and unputdownable, tHE BOOK OF RAPtURE is a novel of our time that's every bit as passionate and driven as tHE BRIDE StRIPPED BARE. It will compel, seduce and haunt you. 'the true dramatic tension of the book is really quite compelling . . . this book will generate discussion' Sydney Morning Herald 'At the heart of A Book of Rapture is a sweet, thoughtful fable about the innocence of children and the power of familial love' the Age 'powerful and heart-rending . . . Nikki Gemmell well knows how to keep readers engaged' Courier Mail 'the Book of Rapture is a haunting, seductive story and challenging, not least because it is so hard to put down' Sunday tasmanian 'Intense' townsville Bulletin 'rapturous passages . . . lovely words push the Book of Rapture up on to another, mysterious level' Weekend Australian 'Nikki Gemmell's haunting new novel challenges readers to question all that they know and believe' Herald Sun 'a gripping read . . . this is a book that challenges beliefs about science, children, marriage and trust' Border Mail 'Haunting, thought-provoking and beautifully written' Marie Claire 'thought-provoking' Weekend Post 'splendidly lyrical and visceral' Sun Herald 'if the strength of a novel lies in its power to haunt a reader well after the last page, this is herculean' West Australian 'A fine novel' Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin
Download or read book The Lemon Grove written by Helen Walsh and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the rugged, mountainous west coast of Mallorca, this taut, sultry, brilliantly paced novel is an urgent meditation on female desire, the vicissitudes of marriage and the allure of youth. Taking place over the course of one week, The Lemon Grove lands in the heat of Deia, a village on an island off the southeast coast of Spain. Jenn and Greg are on their annual holiday to enjoy languorous, close afternoons by the pool, and relaxed dinners overlooking the rocks. But the equilibrium is upset by the arrival of their teenage daughter, Emma, and her boyfriend, Nathan. Jenn, in her early forties, loves her (older) husband and her (step)daughter and is content with her life, she thinks. But when this beautiful, reckless young man comes into her world, she is caught by a sexual compulsion that she's seldom felt before. As the lines hotly blur between attraction, desire and obsession, Jenn’s world is thrown into tumult--by Nathan's side, she could be young and carefree once again, and at this stage in her life, the promise of youth is every bit as seductive as the promise of passion. Jenn struggles between the conflicting pulls of resistance and release, and the events of the next few days have the potential to put lives in jeopardy as the players carry out their roles in this unstoppably sexy and unputdownable novel from a brilliant observer of the human condition.
