Captain Mack

Captain Mack
Author: James Roy
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1999
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780702231070

School's tough when you don't quite fit in and the school bully has picked you as his latest target. And it's especially tough when one of your best friends is an old man who still thinks he's in a POW camp and just wants to go home. Bravery is clearly called for but does Danny have the right stuff? Captain Mack is an adventure about heroes and unlikely friendships.

Captain Mack and the Monstrous Moon Mites

Captain Mack and the Monstrous Moon Mites
Author: John Lomas-Bullivant
Publisher: Walker
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2010
Genre: Astronauts
ISBN: 9781406323665

Action, drama, silliness, naughtiness and comedy abound in this full-colour comic book for newly-independent readers, based on the popular CITV series. Captain Mack is on an outer space rescue mission to save some stranded astronauts from a fuel leak in their space shuttle. But some nasty alien Moon-Mites are lurking in the moon craters. Fortunately Captain Mack's got an arsenal of superpowers and gadgets he can use to thwart them, and save the hapless astronauts. There's not much time to kick back and relax after his exploits before disaster strikes once again in Sunshine City. Oh no! It's a disaster! Never fear, Mack is here! Sky Rockets to the Rescue! The bright and colourful comic-strip format makes this accessible series a terrific choice for newly-independent readers. It is full of action, humour, adventure, rockets and a reassuring theme of good versus naughty. It is based on the popular CITV series, which has its own website featuring games and downloads for the fans. Captain Mack introduces a wonderfully benign superhero to the very youngest of readers.

Captain Mack and the Giant Squid

Captain Mack and the Giant Squid
Author: John Lomas-Bullivant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2010
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9781406323603

Captain Mack is on a dangerous mission to save a submarine trapped in a rocky ravine, deep in the ocean. If he's not quick, the crew will soon run out of oxygen. But our superhero soon detects something very fishy going on when he struggles to pull the vessel free. It's a giant squid causing all the trouble.

Love You Wild

Love You Wild
Author: Becka Mack
Publisher: Nielsen
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781801161022

Shattered. That's the best way to describe Claire Thompson after the ultimate betrayal. When her long-term boyfriend cheats on her, Claire decides she's done with men. Maybe forever. Healing the pieces of her broken heart seems like too impossible a task. Rumor has it the best way to get over someone is to get under someone new, but a rebound is the last thing she wants or needs, and she's definitely not letting her guard down for anyone, especially not for charming, sexy-as-sin, multi-millionaire playboy Avery Beck. Avery Beck, womanizer extraordinaire, prefers his women with no strings attached. Until he sets his eyes on Claire. As fiery and feisty as her hair, with stubbornness and tenacity to match, he's sure he's never worked harder for anything. Avery is determined to tear her walls down one piercing gaze, one lingering touch, one sweeping kiss at a time. He's never given up before, and he doesn't plan on starting now. Will Avery's wild heart finally be tamed? Or will this be the one time the relentless millionaire doesn't get what he wants?

The Starfleet Survival Guide

The Starfleet Survival Guide
Author: David Mack
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471106691

Standard issue for all Starfleet Officers, this vital tool for space survival covers everything from space suit leaks and hotwiring a tri-corder to hostile alien encounters. Paying particular attention to the importance of initiative in situations where available technology is malfunctioning, The Survival Guide is broadly divided into the following sections: understanding alien technology; dealing with alien wildlife; modifying federation technology; and encountering temporal anomalies. There is information on essential Federation emergency equipment, and various extreme escape and survival scenarios are accompanied by actual accounts by legendary Starfleet heroes of their own dramatic improvisations. The whole is illustrated throughout with explanatory black & white line art illustrations, easy to follow in a crisis -- especially valuable when a reader is stranded on a downed shuttlecraft with only a com-badge and a self-sealing stem-bolt.

Billy Mack's War

Billy Mack's War
Author: James Roy
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780702234798

Sequel to Captain Mack (ISBN 070223107X). Danny returns the Victoria Cross to the cold and formal William Mack, but Danny discovers that Williams was once a Billy and his story is just as heroic as his father's - Captain Mack. James Roy gives an insight into post-war country life and makes the ordinary extraordinary. Ages 12-14.

The Dark Horse

The Dark Horse
Author: Rumer Godden
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504066774

The disappearance of a majestic Thoroughbred unites a community in 1930s India in “one of the greatest horse books ever written. . . . Moving, and highly original” (Lauren St. John, author of The White Giraffe). In Calcutta, India, John Quillan cares for racehorses belonging to wealthy owners, and Mother Morag, who lives just down the road and leads a group of nuns working with Calcutta’s poor, loves to watch these beautiful animals in action. Now, a new Thoroughbred, Dark Invader, has been shipped from England, rejected after a losing season, in which he didn’t live up to his owner’s expectations. A beautiful creature with rippling muscles and satin skin, Dark Invader is gently handled with love in his new home, and before long, he is poised for victory in the Viceroy Cup, the country’s most famous race. But just days before the event, he disappears—and a desperate effort to find him begins. From Rumer Godden—the award-winning author of such classics as The Greengage Summer and Black Narcissus, as well as a number of beloved children’s books—The Dark Horse is a moving and suspenseful story set in a fascinating historical era.

Soldier: a Memoir

Soldier: a Memoir
Author: Neal Griffin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2016-08-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1524625132

This memoir records my life during twenty years of military service. It begins when I was eighteen and joined the army and ends when I retired at thirty-eight. It describes my flaws, struggles, successes, failures, weaknesses, and insecurities as I face the challenges of military service. At the same time, it examines the relationship between two kids that got married too young. It describes their struggles and failures during the turmoil of army life, many overseas moves, raising kids, loneliness from frequent and long separations, and the results.

Where to Now?

Where to Now?
Author: Rod Rogers
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2011-04-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462003656

Where to now? It is a question Len Arial repeatedly asks himself. As a personal injury lawyer, in the picturesque city of Charleston, SC, he is frustrated with his seemingly meaningless legal status. Once a dedicated prosecutor, Len is floundering in his own moral ambiguity, and sense of worth. Everything changes with one phone call. His closest friend, Detective TJ Jackson, informs him that their old nemesis, simply known as Billy Jack, is out of prison and back to settle-up. Murder, terror, and extensive world-wide felonious activities are a way of life, for this diabolical, sophisticated, and highly intelligent master criminal. Facing off with Billy Jack, in a frantic struggle, are Arial, and three very close friends. TJ Jackson, the superlative cop, who came through the projects and his own version of hell. Josie Jackson, noted microbiologist, who supports her husband against Billy Jack. Hannah Baktiar, also an extraordinary cop, escaped the repressive regime in Iran. All, of these lives, and many more are stories within the story, each interesting, and desperate, in their own way. In a tale of suspense, intrigue and terror, four people, battling their own internal demons, are in a turbulent cauldron, where the perplexity, of good and evil, intermingle in a clash of cultural values. Who will survive to redefine themselves? Where to now?