Publicious: 77 books

Her muscles were stronger and toned in a way proportionate to her thin frame, making her easy to underestimate. There was no way to have predicted the skills she'd gained too, physically becoming as Veronica put it "some sort of unreal ultimate acrobatic-fighter-climber-dancer-ninja." ......

This is a fictional story set in the ancient Viking settlement of Greenland. A stranger is shipwrecked at the mouth of a fiord. He is rescued and taken in by a family of Viking farmers. Over the next year he becomes entwined in various relationships within the community, especially with the wife of...

First there were ducks; lots of ducks. Then there were foxes. Soon, there were no more ducks. Now... Maremmas! 'Maremmas are dogs. I like dogs. How hard could it be to have a maremma?' Maremma Memoirs recounts the first year of learning about, training and loving the 'Great Whites' as the author establishes livestock guardian dogs on her farm. 'Should be a piece of cake...'

Devastated by his wife's death, John Sinclair is working obsessively in an attempt to mask his grief when he suffers a health crisis. His doctor advises country 'Rest and Relaxation.' 'The Retreat', an up-market guest house in the picturesque Southern Highlands of New South Wales, seems ideal. After...

LAPD detective, Joe Dean, loses his career, his family and his dignity after the twelfth victim of the serial killer—The Moon—is snatched from under his nose. Twenty-five years later and Joe is a reformed alcoholic working as a private detective in Florida. While following a case, he comes...

Non fiction, beautifully illustrated book, my journey of healing, recovery and empowerment after a brain injury sustained from a dreadful cycling accident. A down to earth story set amongst the everydayness of family life, along this path of loss and adjustment, the frustration of brain injury, having...

Jodie Jackson is a twelve-year-old girl, who lives with her father, above their boatshed in Serpentine Bay, Sydney, and faces the challenges of coping with the death of her mother, starting a new school, and living with an uncommunicative father. She takes her new friend, Sarah Chan, out sailing...

Jodie Jackson is a twelve-year-old girl, who lives with her father above their boat shed in Serpentine Bay, Sydney.  She attends her mother’s old school and has made a new friend, Sarah Chan, whose mother is a famous TV chef. Sarah has panic attacks and anxiety, and Jodie encourages her to talk...

The story is set in south-western France about 41,000 years ago, and the seasons are just starting to cool. A clan of Neanderthals is living peacefully, unaware that life is about to change dramatically for its Clan members. A scouting party of modern man has left Morocco and travelled through Spain,...

The story revolves around two childhood friends, Manfred and Tony, who were nurtured in the country-side in the fifties and enjoyed the utopia of a nation at peace that was carefree and full of hope after WWII. Vietnam replaced all that with a dystopia where conflicting ideologies trapped one in the...

When interstellar war threatens, three strangers must band together to save their world… Police agent Stefan Lattanzis never expected his planet to become a battlefield, nor Earth for that matter. But when scientists from Paludis share a technological breakthrough with Earth authorities,...

What happens when you call Emergency Services. CPR steps. Recovery Position for anyone unconscious, including Pregnant women. What to do when someone is Choking or has been Electrocuted. How to help someone having a Seizure, or an Infant Convulsing. Q’s & A’s...

Anna didn't want to die. She wanted to live to see her grand-daughters' weddings. But it was not to be. It is always tragic to lose a loved one, but it is sheer torture to watch one's partner deteriorate day by day, losing faculties one by one, the use of arms, legs and hands, and eventually the ability...

The war in the Pacific is drawing to a close. In New Guinea a soldier receives a letter which destroys his hope for the future. In a drought-ravaged Australian country town the sender receives no reply and assumes he is dead. Years pass. Life goes on. Two young people fall in love and...