Rose of Sharon had cried out to the man on the boat, tried to warn him the night he was shot for fishing where he wasn't welcome. Then she retreated into silence--and guilt. Rose might have kept quiet if it hadn't been for Lily, the outsider whose in...
A spellbinding novel of sin and salvation, adultery and revenge in a small Mississippi town...Once Leona Sayres was a good Southern woman married to the town preacher. But from the day Averill buried her newborn baby girl, Leona has seethed in unspea...
Cory loves the mountain. He and his dad call it 'the sleeper'. Corey's dad works as a conservationist and spends a lot of time on the mountain. Together they feel its first trembles. Down in the town no one even wants to think about the eruption - un...
Taken from the pages of Science and supplemented by contributions from the magazine’ s editors, State of the Planet 2008-2009 offers contemporary science writing that is sometimes provocative, frequently enlightening, and always authoritative. Publ...
Cedarville, Kentucky was once a small town like any other. It had the same things other communities its size had. Then came progress Progress is good, but sometimes growth in population brings with it big city problems. Cedarville is no exception as...
Almost a year has passed since the Lakeside Murder case. Its said that Paul Vito had hidden a large amount of money somewhere near a graveyard before he had died. It was never proven to be true so people think that its just rumor. Out in Ash ridge, ...
Boy Seaman Russell Purchas is stationed on HMNZS Taupo. It's 1952, and the frigate has just entered hostile waters off the coast of Korea. Russell is determined to prove he is a hero, to shake off the shadow of his spineless uncle who died in the Sec...
The plane bucked sideways, flinging Darryl against the cabin wall. It plunged vertically, jolted so hard that his teeth clacked together, then started skidding downwards through the sky. The screams rose to a frenzy. Then Darryl felt the aircra...
Stuart and his twin sister Sandra are coming home to Wellington, New Zealand on the ferry. Stuart knows he'll enjoy the trip - he's a good sailor. But it's April 1968 and the ship is the Wahine.
As the tragic events unwind Stuart and San...
It's New Zealand, 1914, and the Great War is raging on battlefields in Europe. King and Country are calling! William eagerly enlists for the army but his younger brother, Edmund, is opposed to the whole idea of war and he refuses to join up.While Wil...
'We knew straightaway that something was happening. Extra men in khaki uniforms stood at the main gates. Behind the wire, figures in blue sat on the ground. None of the usual moving around, washing up, wrestling, anything like that. Just rows of p...
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black color of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from a tiny New Zealand town, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer?...
Simon is a typical teenager - in every way except one. Simon likes girls, weekends and enjoys mucking about and playing practical jokes. But what s different is that Simon has muscular dystrophy - he is in a wheelchair and doesn t have long to liv...
A gripping novel for young adults that captures both the daring and the everyday realities of serving in the Air Force during WWII....
Saphrezdako thinks she is just a normal human, but she is not she is an extraordinary or abnormal Human. She goes on a trip that she had won and the trip was to outer space. The trip to outer space and her Elf DNA combined with Space Radiation and so...
Three moments in time and three writing genre: historic fiction / fantasy fiction / futuristic fiction from one of New Zealand's favourite writers of fiction. Historical: Coming Home The story of Harry and his loyal horse Blaze a...
Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du Monde depicts a realistic, close-up view of a woman's genitalia: one of the most notorious paintings ever made. This novel seeks to give the painting a voice from under the male gaze, following the painting from her pro...