Two magical adventures packed with pixie power! The other fairies in Pixie Hollow are always asking Prilla for help. Prilla always says yes... even when she'd rather not. Then, to avoid hurting a friend's feelings, Prilla tells a little lie about one of the jobs and ends up in charge of a whole herd of butterflies. But there's something very important that Prilla doesn't know about butterflies... When one of Captain Hook's cannonballs lands in Pixie Hollow, Tinker Bell decides it's time the pirate paid for his attacks on the fairies and her friend, Peter Pan. Tink finds herself taking ch... View More...
Two magical adventures packed with pixie power! Meet Tink. She's the sassiest, most impatient fairy in the whole of Never Land. She's also the most loyal friend anyone could ever have and she has an amazing talent for fixing things. In this story, Tink needs her friends help with the one thing she cannot mend for herself - her broken heart. Lily is the best garden fairy around and can use her talent to make any plant bloom and grow. But when Lily plants a mysterious seed, it grows into an ugly, stinky plant, which makes everyone sneeze! None of the other fairies like the peculiar plant ... View More...
Wayne Bennett, coach of the Brisbane Broncos, is known as one of Rugby League's shrewdest and most innovative managers and motivators. He is also a man of great compassion, courage, tenacity and humour with powerful family ties. In this book, Bennett discusses what it takes to be a winner, in football and in life. Wayne Bennett's Don't Die With The Music In You is a book full of anecdotes, inspiration and homespun philosophies that reflect Wayne Bennett's love for his family, friends and footballers, his great talent for teaching and his enormous respect for rugby league and the men who play... View More...
Not strictly related to football, this text capture's Bennett's philosophy of what it takes to succeed. It includes inspirational quotes and comments from high-profile people across a range of subjects and Bennett's own profiles of the inspiring individuals he has come into contact with. View More...
If you could plan the best night of sex of your life, who would you invite? A witty, erotic romp of a novel about life, lust and love from Australia's best-loved humorist. Claire Sellwyn-Wallace has decided to throw her ovaries a farewell party - one wild night of unbridled lust before she says goodbye to all that. This time it will be everything she has always imagined. This time she knows exactly how it will go. She's old enough, she's earned it. But can you plan passion? And what's love got to do with it? A warm, funny and sexy novel about life, eternity, hormones and hair removal. Autho... View More...
If you could plan the best night of sex of your life, who would you invite? A witty, erotic romp of a novel about life, lust and love from Australia's best-loved humorist. Claire Sellwyn-Wallace has decided to throw her ovaries a farewell party - one wild night of unbridled lust before she says goodbye to all that. This time it will be everything she has always imagined. This time she knows exactly how it will go. She's old enough, she's earned it. But can you plan passion? And what's love got to do with it? A warm, funny and sexy novel about life, eternity, hormones and hair removal. Autho... View More...
'A single ball came through at deck level, It struck a burst of sparks from the steel hull, like Brocks Fireworks at Crystal palace, brilliant orange even in the strong sunlight, and the hole it tore through Black Joke's plating was fringed with bare jagged tongues of metal like the petals of a silver sunflower.' In search of a father they barely remember, Zouga and Dr Robyn Ballantyne board Mungo St John's magnificent clipper to speed them to Africa. But long before they sight that mighty continent, Robyn knows that she and Mungo will battle with all the fury of natural enemies -- and love wi... View More...
From the master of epic storytelling comes one of his greatest adventures yet - a towering novel of high suspense, breathtaking action and stirring romance. Set against the majesty of the African landscape, its great plains, swamplands, forests and mountains, A Time to Die is a story of courage and friendship, the thrill of the hunt, the savagery of war and the saving power of love. Sean Courtney, professional hunter and veteran guerrilla fighter, is swept up in the savage tides of a new war. Caught between two rival armies, between his love for the beautiful woman at his side and his instin... View More...
It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East ... View More...
She felt Ramon come awake and spring from the bed, naked and lithe as a jungle cat. She heard the metallic snicker of a firearm as he snatched the pistol from the holster. In the darkness a yellow flower of gun-flamed bloomed, and a single bullet whiplashed across twenty yards of open ground...In the searing heat of a divided Africa two decades of bitter dynastic conflict explode with terrifying ferocity. To Gary and Sean Courtney it is a struggle to the end; brother pitted against brother as they are dragged unwittingly into the lair of an international terrorist. Only Isabella Courtney stand... View More...
In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, The Mahdi or "Expected One". The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman, Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum. It is here that he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne of the 10th Hussars, as well as the British Consul, Davi... View More...
Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's private yacht is hijacked by African pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen year old daughter, Cayla, is kidnapped and held to ransom. The pirates demand a crippling twenty billion dollar ransom for her release. Complicated political and diplomatic considerations render the civilized major powers incapable of intervening. When Hazel is given evidence of the horrific torture which Cayla is being subjected to, she calls on Hector C... View More...
Stricken with grief after the death of Queen Lostris, Taita becomes a hermit, studies the occult and transforms himself into a warlock. He discovers there has been a divine purpose in his suffering when he is called upon to save the dynasty of Queen Lostris from the evil that looms over Egypt. View More...
William Cheung, wing chun teacher, student of Yip Man and a member of the Black Belt Hall of Fame (1983, Kung Fu Artist of the Year), covers the techniques and history of the dragon pole, wing chun warm-up exercises and training drils for the dragon pole. This weapon, the most effective form of the staff and long pole, was developed by Gee Sin. Combines wing chun with dragon-pole techniques for increased efficacy. View More...
He is 3 million light years from home. He may be wise and as old as the stars but right now he needs a friend. The secrets of the universe can't help him. He's stranded on earth: alone, homesick and afraid. It is a hostile planet. The police are after him and there's no one who can help.until he meets the children. To them he's a magical being from another world: to him they are unforgettable friends! Kotzwinkle's acclaimed novelization of the original screenplay by Melissa Mathison brings additional background and detail that expands and enhances the story of Elliott and his strange an... View More...
Over 1 million copies already sold in the USA. An absolute bestseller! Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world f... View More...