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Warra Warra Wai
Buy This Book Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People Publisher: Scribner Australia (September 4, 2024) Length: 352 pages ISBN 13: 9781761424021 We know the story of Cook’s journey up the east coast of Australia from diaries, journals and letters kept by those on board. Now, for the first time, this is the other side of the story, told by the ancestors of those who stood on the shore watching the Endeavour sail by. How did they understand their world...
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Due for release July 2024 / Uk August 2024 Buy This Book Superheroes for a Day Exisle Publishing Kids fiction 112 pages ISBN: 9781922539977 In Superheroes for a Day, three autistic friends, Max, Daniel and Natalie, transform their unique abilities into superpowers to save their school from endless maths. This engaging story normalizes the experiences of Autistic kids in an entertaining and accessible way, making them the heroes and offering a fresh perspective on neurodiversity. “It is such an important book for every child to read as...
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Buy This Book DEMONIACS IFWG Publishing International 318 pages Fiction ISBN: 1922856460 Evie Mickelson is anything but your average hostage negotiator with acute mind control powers—but she is about to discover she’s the key to a battle with the demonic forces of evil. And Demoniacs (Book 1 of The Revelationary War) is anything but your average urban fantasy road trip novel with dark angels, ninja nuns and djinns. It is also a speculation on the nature of evil and terrorism. It is a commemoration of the superheroes of popular culture....
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Buy This Book A Darker Shade of Moonlite Queer Oz Folk 106 pages Creative non-fiction ISBN 9780645253481 How do you tell the story of Australia’s most enigmatic bushranger – Captain Moonlite? The stories he told of his life conflict with the stories told by others, which conflict with the records. A well-educated man, in and out of asylums and prison, who finally found his purpose and his love, leading a small gang of young men. Until they followed him in violent chaos. This book is a creative retelling of history,...
read moreThe Horrible and Heroic History of Antarctica Exploration
Buy This Book The Horrible and Heroic History of Antarctic Exploration Merino Press Non-fiction 162 pages ISBN: 978-0-646-85393-2 Thought Antarctica was only for the tough and the strong-willed? Turns out it was also for the dumb and luckless as well. Discover the great Heroic Era of Antarctica Exploration and the extreme measures some explorers went to be first at something. Anything! Who was the first to spend an unplanned winter in Antarctica? Who was the first to play bagpipes there? Did Ernest Shackleton’s brother really get arrested...
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Buy This Book Archangel A novel Merino Press Fiction 443 pages ASIN : B0BGS26T9D The story is set during the last year of the First World War, and is centred on the love affair between an American officer made mute by shell shock, Lieutenant David Lamb, and Nurse Marie Broadbent, a young half-French and half-English woman searching for her purpose in life. And central to their story is the enigmatic character Michael, who claims to be an angel who has fallen from...
read moreThe Twilight of the Time Vandals
Buy This Book The Twilight of the Time Vandals Merino Press Fiction 318 pages ASIN : B0763LFM5D Imagine that you had a unique set of genes that allowed you to travel to alternative worlds safely when nobody else could. And imagine that somebody had opened a hole between our world and a very similar world, causing time to have changed. You would be recruited to join a secret agency to travel to their worlds and repair the changes. But would you be prepared for all the things that could cause even bigger changes to our world? And who...
read moreWhat If Histories of Australia 2: Gold Rush – Going Gold Crazy
Buy This Book What if History of Australia 2– Gold Rush – Going Gold Crazy Big Sky Publishing Fiction 190 pages ISBN: 9781922615824 Gold Fever is what makes ordinary people act like completely crazy people . And there are plenty of examples of that in this book! We all know that gold makes people act a bit crazy – but imagine just how crazy things would be if the 19th Century Australian colonies were all run by different countries. The French in modern day Victoria and British in modern day New South Wales would be busy coming up...
read moreWhat if Histories of Australia: Colonial Settlement
Buy This Book What if History of Australia – Colonial Settlement, Britain vs France Big Sky Publishing Fiction 190 pages ISBN: 9781922615763 What if Captain Cook’s ship sank when it hit the Great Barrier Reef in 1770? And what if the French settled Australia first? And what if King Louis 16th and Napoleon both ended up here, fighting over who was the rightful ruler in exile? And then the British arrived… A very different and amusing history of Australia, where the unexpected happens in unexpected...
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Buy This Book The Cruise to the End of the World Merino Press Fiction 73 pages ASIN : B09GRCLLG5 Antarctica is promoted as the last unspoiled continent on earth – attracting thousands of tourists on cruise ships each you. But at what point is it apparent that the continent is no longer unspoiled? And what happens on such a cruise ship when the outside world drops out of contact, after news of a devastating virus rampaging around the globe was received? And when you discover many of the passengers are determined not to ever go back...
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