Town Possum, Outback Possum

Town Possum, Outback Possum
Author: Yvonne Morrison
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781921541476

If Aesop had been born Australian, this is the story he would have written instead of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. As it is, Yvonne Morrison has done the job for him—telling the raucous tale of Outback Possum, who loves to chew leaves and watch sunsets, and Town Possum, who loves adventure and fun. When Outback Possum visits his cousin in town, and experiences a bit of high adventure and a few close shaves, he decides that the quiet life is the life for him. This is a hilarious re-telling of the age old Aesop Fable, brightly illustrated by the brilliant Heath McKenzie in bold colours. The characters are incredibly emotive, and Heath manages to capture the most hilarious expressions! An easy rhyming text which will make bedtime reading a pleasure. The companion title to the popular The Cocky Who Cried Dingo.

The Cocky Who Cried Dingo

The Cocky Who Cried Dingo
Author: Yvonne Morrison
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Cockatoos
ISBN: 9781921714948

As it is, Yvonne Morrison has done the job for him telling the raucous tale of a cheeky cockatoo who decides that pulling a few pranks on his fellow birds will liven things up. Of course, the prank backfires when no one believes his cries for help, and a real dingo pins him down by his precious yellow crest. All ends well a and cocky learns his lesson. Or does he?

Wombat Stew

Wombat Stew
Author: Marcia Kay Vaughan
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9781761290688

One day, on the banks of a billabong, a very clever dingo caught a wombat... and decided to make... Wombat stew, Wombat stew, Gooey, brewy, Yummy, chewy, Wombat stew! In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his stew, and the result is something the dingo will never forget!

THE MAGIC PUDDING

THE MAGIC PUDDING
Author: NORMAN LINDSAY
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2015-11-11
Genre:
ISBN: 132968396X

A magic pudding who changes from steak and kidney to jam roll and apple dumpling in seconds. A walking, talking dessert that never runs out of pleasing things to eat. A koala bear, named Bunyip Bluegum, A sailor named Bill Barnacle, and Sam Sawnoff the penguin have a wonderful hilarious magical adventure defending the Pudding against thieves who want it for themselves.

Outback

Outback
Author: Patricia Wolf
Publisher: Embla Books
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471411702

The Number 1 Internationally Bestselling Ebook, perfect for fans of The Dry by Jane Harper. 'Tense, gripping and atmospheric' - CHRIS WHITAKER 'Gripped me from its shocking start' - SARAH YARWOOD-LOVETT 'I highly recommend it' - LYNDA LA PLANTE CBE TWO MISSING BACKPACKERS. ONE VAST OUTBACK. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie, taking care of his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers, Berndt and Rita, vanish from the area, he finds himself unofficially on the case. But why all the interest from the Federal Police when they have probably just ditched the heat and dust of the outback for the coast? Working in the organised crime unit has opened Walker's eyes to the growing drug trade in Australia's remote interior - and he becomes convinced there is more at play. As the number of days since the couple's disappearance climbs, Walker is joined by Rita's older sister. A detective herself with Berlin CID, she has flown to Australia - desperate to find her sister. Their search becomes ever more urgent as temperatures soar. Even if Walker does find the young couple, will it be too late? This deeply atmospheric thriller is the gripping opening of a new crime series for fans of Cara Hunter and Chris Whitaker. Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award 2023. Readers are gripped by Outback: 'Nail-biting thriller!... From the beginning I was hooked!... A thrilling ride that had me holding my breath through its finale. Highly recommended' Reader review, 5 stars 'Finished this book within a day... I honestly loved it, really had you guessing who the murderer was 'til the last minute' Reader review, 5 stars 'Great, suspenseful mystery... The last 30% turned me into a nervous wreck!' Reader review, 5 stars

Where Ya Been, Mate?

Where Ya Been, Mate?
Author: Herb Wharton
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0702238392

Unforgettable characters emerge from this vintage Herb Wharton collection which ranges from city to bush, from tall tales to amusing parables. There? Rainbow Jack the opal digger; Dr Roo, who when the dingbats are upon him boxes his own shadow; and stockmen with nicknames such as Wild Duck, Grease Paint and Diamond Jim. Along with campfire yarns and memories drawn from childhood are stories from Herb? other life in the big city and on the literary trail.

Edwardian Fiction

Edwardian Fiction
Author: Sandra Kemp
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Contains some 1,000 entries on well-known and obscure authors, individual works, and genres, encompassing adult's and children's fiction and some work by authors from other English-speaking countries. About half of the 800 authors profiled are women. Includes a chronology and an index of pseudonyms. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mānoa

Mānoa
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1993
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Amnesia

Amnesia
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2015-01-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385352786

The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel—at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny—that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides with international power politics. When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia’s prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons (let’s be honest: as they do in so many parts of her country) the doors of some five thousand jails in the United States also open. Is this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? And does it have anything to do with the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix Moore, known to himself as “our sole remaining left-wing journalist,” is determined to write Gaby’s biography in order to find the answers—to save her, his own career, and, perhaps, his country. But how to get Gaby—on the run, scared, confused, and angry—to cooperate? Bringing together the world of hackers and radicals with the “special relationship” between the United States and Australia, and Australia and the CIA, Amnesia is a novel that speaks powerfully about the often hidden past—but most urgently about the more and more hidden present.

Father Hunger

Father Hunger
Author: Douglas Wilson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1595554777

Fatherlessness is a “rot that is eating away at the modern soul,” writes Douglas Wilson, and the problem goes far beyond physical absence. “Most of our families are starving for fathers, even if Dad is around, and there’s a huge cost to our children and our society because of it.” Father Hunger takes a thoughtful, timely, richly engaging excursion into our cultural chasm of absentee fatherhood. Blending leading-edge research with incisive analysis and real-life examples, Wilson: Traces a range of societal ills?from poverty and crime to joyless feminism and paternalistic government expansion?to a vacuum of mature masculinity Explains the key differences between asserting paternal authority and reestablishing true spiritual fathering Uncovers the corporate-fulfillment fallacy and other mistaken assumptions that undermine fatherhood Extols the benefits of restoring fruitful fathering, from stronger marriages to greater economic liberty Filled with practical ideas and self-evaluation tools, Father Hunger both encourages and challenges men to “embrace the high calling of fatherhood,” becoming the dads that their families and our culture so desperately need them to be. "Wilson sounds a clarion call among Christian men that is pointedly biblical, urgently relevant, humorously accessible, and practically wise." ?Richard D. Phillips, author of The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men "Father Hunger illulstrates one of the greatest influences or lack thereof on the identity of a man: a father. Read a book that will strike an invisible chord in the lives of men both lost and found." ?Dr. Eric Mason, pastor of Epiphany Fellowship, Philadelphia