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Talia is seventeen, weighs thirty-one kilos, and has been committed to a psychiatric unit. Ever wondered what was inside the mind of an anorexic? This is her journal, Beautiful Me.

Natalie Cody has fallen from her horse and is now lost. Her family and the police are all looking for her, but as the weather worsens, concerns for her safety grow. Her twin brother Nathan can sense his sister; with a little help, so can the girl with the moon crystals. The lady who sold them to her...

The land of NeTh is strange, exotic, and in terrible danger. Evil forces are intent on invading and the lands fate is dependent on the survival, and sacrifice, of four teenagers of earth whose only desire is to return home. Ant Marsh is no hero. But when he awakens in NeTh, it is clear his...

James, fostered to a well to do family, is employed by them as a footman until he is thirteen, when he is enrolled into the Royal Navy of the 19th century.Against a background of prejudice and abuse he succeeds in gaining promotion. Charlotte, the daughter of the same family, is born into a life of...

Every Summer my friends and I go on adventure filled holidays. We get up to all kinds of activities like sliding down rapids, diving off the pier, playing beach cricket and having sandcastle wars.

This is more than a book of rhyming poems. It is a publication of highly raked raw emotional feelings, which walk you through the dark recesses of the writers mind and peer into a window of her soul. The poems are easy to read. They are entertaining and thought-provoking. Have the tissues near when you turn these pages.

This collective works of Jen Yue showcases her as a new age storyteller who uses her words to intrigue and present her passionate pursuits for all things beautiful, decidedly enamored with just living in the moment. Reading her words will reflect back into your own life, because her stories is about...

Eighteen-year-old Lila is at a crisis point in her life. Alone and in the bath, she has just given birth to a premature baby she did not even know she was carrying. The baby is born dead. Numb with shock, denial, and disbelief, the young girl fears that her past will suffocate her. Now she must hide...

Life Rules! is an inspirational tale of friendship and new beginnings. Trinity and Joel have had a tough year. Their father passed away, their mother has to work two jobs to make ends meet, and to top it all off Joel is being picked on incessantly by the school bully. Life couldnt get much worse....

In Half a Refugee in Ssanda and Australia: 100 Poems, a man is imagined as comprising two parts. One part is physical, which on the mans migration moves to Australia from Ssanda, a small African village. The other part relating to his psychological, emotional and cultural life remains in the mans vilage of birth. The book is about the sustaining, nourishing power of Uganda culture.

Tales from the Chill Zone is a collection of short stories about theAustralian supernatural. It is a thriller which delves, often deeply into the darker more sinister Australian. Set in Australia in the 1960s, the book features Stella of the Outback a story concerned with the Australian psyche of the times.

This is a book of poetry about much loved cats; their individual photographs included. From tiger tabbies and tortoiseshells, to red tabbies, Orientals, little black cats, Persians, a Blue Cream Shorthair Persian, a Norwegian Forest Cat, a Himalayan and others. All are precious and have their individual personalities that enrichen our lives so much.

There will always be a special group of humans living on Mu, who will be called the story tellers. They will be known as the first people. It is their sacred duty to keep their story pure and to pass the truth on to each generation. One day they will know it is time for the return of the Star People. It...

Once let out... there are some things that can never be put back! Mikesh was new to the school. He was a shy, awkward kid. Most of his classmates thought he was weird. Corey was the first to pay attention to Mikesh. He nicknamed Mikesh Meerkat. Corey and his best mate Brayden both enjoyed teasing...