Phredde and the Purple Pyramid

Phredde and the Purple Pyramid

Jackie French

Children's Books / Home & Garden

Phredde, Pru and Bruce are back and this time they're in ancient Egypt. Will the pyramids survive Instead of just roaring like all volcanoes that are school bells do, it erupts and a tunnel opens. Phredde, Pru and Bruce can't help but enter the tunnel, magic at the ready, for a new adventure. It seems Fluffy, Queen of the Nile, has sent this time tunnel to seek out a brave and brilliant girl to save her - this has to be Pru, well, it can't be Phredde, she's a phaery, and Bruce, well, he's a frog and a boy. Will one girl, a phaery and a frog be able to save Fluffy, Queen of the Nile And, what kind of a name is Fluffy for an Egyptian queen anyway Ages 7-12 Phredde, Pru and Bruce are back and this time they're in ancient Egypt. Will the pyramids survive? Instead of just roaring like all volcanoes that are school bells do, it erupts and a tunnel opens. Phredde, Pru and Bruce can't help but enter the tunnel, magic at the ready, for a new adventure. It seems Fluffy, Queen of the Nile,...
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Rosie

Rosie

Alan Titchmarsh

Home & Garden / Literature & Fiction

'The voice on the other end of the phone was severe. "It's your grandmother.""Yes?""She's been arrested." 'Nick Robertson has become used to his grandmother Rosie's dotty behaviour. At 86, a widow now, she is determined that before life passes her by, she will live a little. Or, preferably, a lot.It wouldn't be so bad if Nick had nothing else to do, but with a job to find, two warring parents to cope with and a love life in terminal decline, he would prefer his grandmother to get on with things quietly. But, Rosie insists, there is no time like the present. Life is to be enjoyed to the full and to hell with the consequences. She'll help Nick find the soulmate he clearly lacks and he can help her make the most of her few remaining years.Alan Titchmarsh's sparkling new novel is a delicious blend of humour and romance, and a resounding affirmation that there is no such thing as the generation gap.
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Safe Keeping

Safe Keeping

Barbara Taylor Sissel

Literature & Fiction / Home & Garden / Philosophy & Spirituality

At the heart of every crime, there's a family... My son is a murderer.... So begins this chilling and emotionally charged mystery from highly acclaimed author Barbara Taylor Sissel. Emily Lebay had always thought of her family as ordinary. Sure, they've endured their share of problems, even a time of great trouble--what family hasn't? But when a woman's body turns up in the dense woods near their home, and Emily's grown son, Tucker, is accused of murder, Emily is forced to confront the unfathomable, and everything she believed about her life is called into question. This isn't the first time Tucker has been targeted by the police; a year ago he was a person of interest when another woman was found dead in the same stretch of woods. Still, neither Emily nor her daughter, Lissa, can reconcile their Tucker with these brutal crimes. Terrified, convinced there's been a tragic mistake, Emily and Lissa set out to learn the truth about Tucker, once and for...
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The Secret of the Black Bushranger

The Secret of the Black Bushranger

Jackie French

Children's Books / Home & Garden

The third in a series that explores our secret history By the 1790s orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm in the early NSW colony. All his dreams are coming true! But now we are to learn of Barney's biggest secret yet: how he helped Australia's first bushranger escape. Was Black Caesar a wronged man, an ex-slave who vowed to be free? Or was he a laughing villain, a trickster who planned to terrorise the colony? And in helping him, did Barney do right or wrong? You decide. Ages: 7-10
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Gem Stone

Gem Stone

Dale Mayer

Business & Investing / Home & Garden / Paranormal Fiction

A juvie kid trying to stay on the right path stumbles into trouble...Gemma takes her camera everywhere. From juvie hall to a halfway home, the new hobby gives her a focus she'd never had before and... hope in a future. Until she takes pictures of something that could get her killed.And not just her...after she and another juvie girl are chased by a stranger to the halfway home that same night, the other girl goes missing and Gemma knows she needs help. But who can she trust?Not the authorities that's for sure. Trusting them is impossible for a girl with her damaged history, and besides, who cares about a troubled kid...especially when trouble just naturally seems to find her.
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Rogan

Rogan

Dale Mayer

Business & Investing / Home & Garden / Paranormal Fiction

Rogan arrives at the arctic training camp in the midst of chaos and suspicion. Missing men, fires in the kitchen, Magnus still recovering... and Mountain tearing across the tundra searching for his brother... Lisa was brought in to assist Dr. Sydney in the medical clinic and is only just now catching up on the horrific events that's plagued the camp. She's trying to ignore the distrustful gazes as the only newcomer allowed in, even as everyone is trying to leave. And yet through it all, the team investigating find some answers and yet a dozen more questions arise. Adding to the confusion, the science center is having unexplained issues with their generator. But with several scientists gone missing their problems are just starting. And those problems spill over to the training center upping the ante for both groups...
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The Ghost of Howlers Beach

The Ghost of Howlers Beach

Jackie French

Children's Books / Home & Garden

Butter O'Bryan has been told there are ghosts on Howler's Beach, but are there? Howlers Beach, 1932Butter O'Bryan lives in a Very Small Castle with his father and his three aunts - Aunt Elephant, Aunt Cake and Aunt Peculiar. These aren't their real names, of course, just as Butter's father isn't really called 'Pongo'.And even though Butter is only twelve years old, and the grandson of one of Australia's most successful Jam Kings, he is very aware of the hardship many people are experiencing. Butter has been told there are ghosts at the nearby isolated Howlers Beach, but are there? And how can the children Butter plays cricket with on the beach simply vanish? Who are these children and why do they refuse his help?Butter is certain they're hiding a secret and he's determined to uncover it.
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