Flash Jack

Flash Jack
Author: Maureen McCarthy
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2001-06-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 174228096X

When burglars break into Jack's house, they take all his stuff. Now he's got no skateboard, no TV, no music, nothing. All his brothers do is fight, his mum thinks they all need counselling, his dad's trying to set an example, but hey, who's interested? Jack just wants to get out of that house. So he does. And he meets Diana. And her dog. And her grandma, who wears tiger-skin bikinis. They're all pretty vicious. And suddenly, life is anything but boring.

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Jumpin' Jack Flash
Author: Keiron Pim
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2017-01-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0099584441

'REVELATORY' - DAILY TELEGRAPH ***** 'FASCINATING' - OBSERVER 'ENGROSSING' - DAILY MAIL 'You'll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won't be able to stop' - GUARDIAN, Book of the Year David Litvinoff was one of the great mythic characters of '60s London. Flitting between the worlds of music, art and crime, he exerted a hidden influence that helped create the Krays twins' legend, connected the Rolling Stones with London's dark side, shaped the plot of classic film Performance - and saw him immortalised in a portrait by Lucian Freud. Litvinoff's determination to live without trace means that his life has always eluded biographers, until now. Intent on unravelling the enigma of Litvinoff, Keiron Pim conducted 100 interviews over five years, speaking to Eric Clapton and Marianne Faithfull, James Fox and 'Mad' Frankie Fraser. The result is an extraordinary feat of research that traces a rogue's progress amongst aristocrats, gangsters and rock stars.

Firefly

Firefly
Author: Sean Coons
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1684338069

After a daredevil stunt goes horribly wrong, firefly Flash will need more than his wit and cocky attitude to fix the mess he's made of his life. Firefly Flash just gained the ability to illuminate and fly, and it's gone to his head. He flits around his hometown of Temple Hollow avoiding work and finding mischief. When his latest daredevil stunt spirals out of control, he lands himself and his two friends far from home in a dangerous desert in Texas. Meanwhile, Temple Hollow is captured by a goon-squad of tyrannical dragonflies-and that's Flash's fault, too. After a mysterious encounter in the desert, Flash inspires a ragtag band of Misfits to join him on his mission to return home. The Misfits encounter trouble at every turn, yet these challenges are nothing compared to the epic battle awaiting them back in Temple Hollow. Packed with comedy, action, and insights for children of all ages, this middle grade adventure is the perfect chapter book for independent, family, and classroom reading. Read Firefly today-and see the Light!

The Like Switch

The Like Switch
Author: Jack Schafer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-01-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1476754489

As a Special Agent for the FBI's National Security Division's Behavioral Analysis Program, Schafer developed dynamic and breakthrough strategies for profiling terrorists and detecting deception. Now, he has evolved his proven-on-the-battlefield tactics for the day-to-day, but no less critical battle of getting people to like you. Learn to improve your LQ (Likeability Quotient), "spot the lie" both in person and online, master nonverbal cues that influence how people perceive you, and turn up or turn down the intensity of a relationship.

Bush Yarns

Bush Yarns
Author: R.F Giles
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1493135732

There are 49 yarns in my book starting with The Discovery of Australia then a few taken from my life experiences in the bush and at sea drifting into occasional brief yarns sparked by our history and through the second World War with a few Aboriginal yarns for good measure. In some, the names have been replaced to avoid embarrassment, but all are basically true. My life has been a kaleidoscope of experiences. I became first a beekeeper, then a drover leading to stock dealing and then into cattle and sheep stations in various partnerships. I was a stock and station agent and auctioneer for about 40 years in my own right while running the properties and charter boats, and twice owned motion picture theatres. I reckon I must have married too often to accumulate, as each wife now has at least one house, and or farm while I live in a rental?

A Fence Around the Cuckoo

A Fence Around the Cuckoo
Author: Ruth Park
Publisher: Text Publishing
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1925774201

The first volume of autobiography by celebrated writer Ruth Park, author of The Harp in the South, and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Age Book of the Year and the Colin Roderick Award.

War Plays by Women

War Plays by Women
Author: Agnes Cardinal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136357327

This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, from comic sketch to musical, this anthology includes plays from: Gertrude Stein, Muriel Box, Marion Wentworth Craig, Dorothy Hewett, Berta Lask, Marie Leneru, Wendy Lill, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Christina Reid. Highly successful in their day, these plays demonstrate how women have attempted to use theatre to achieve social change. The collection explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.

John “Jack” Brown

John “Jack” Brown
Author: Daniel MacPherson
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2018-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1973616254

This is a story from my dreams about Jack Brown. It is through the eyes of six women who knew him. The first hired him at age seventeen. The second is his daughter. The last four were girlfriends after his wife passed away. This book charts his life from an early age until his death. Through the stories told by these women, you will get to know them, Jack, and the love of his life, Sarah. You will see the struggles he had with her and the struggles he had with God after her. He helped these women in many ways, and in many ways, they helped him.

Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage

Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage
Author: Richard Fotheringham
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 852
Release: 2006
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780702234880

Contains the scripts of nine colonial plays, each script has been carefully edited or reconstructed from unique manuscripts or rare colonial printed editions.