Cirrus@Austlit

'It's been raining for days! Sitting at her bedroom window watching the rain, six-year-old Jasmin is bored. She even asks the rain to go away! To her great surprise, a purple fairy named Lila appears. Using magic, Lila changes Jasmin down to teeny tiny fairy size with wings. ' (Publisher's blurb)

'Back at the Wicky Wacky Farm in Australia, LuLu receives a white pony for her tenth birthday. LuLu gets busy grooming Miss Pickles for their first horse show together. She is intent on beating Melony Parker. Nobody much likes Melony, due to her boasting. Melony always wins, too, as she's the best rider and has the best pony. But LuLu knows that with Miss Pickles, she finally has a great chance to win. LuLu's dog, Flo, is not allowed to go to the shows, as Flo always hunts down Melony's poodle, MiMi, causing a fight. When no one is looking, Flo hides in the back of the car under a rug. After arriving at the show, Flo immediately runs off to find MiMi. When the dogs meet up, they run under the horses' legs. In the confusion, the horses become loose and get mixed up. It turns out that Melony also received a brand new pony that she named Primrose. Her pony is identical to Miss Pickles! Both ponies are white and wear the same pink headstall and lead. After being caught, and thinking they have the right ponies, the girls mount up for the event, but the ponies will not budge. Read how the dogs get together to solve the wrong pony situation. In the end, everyone learns that it's far easier to work together than against each other. And guess who wins the event? Doreen Slinkard lives at Windermere Farm Wilberforce, outside Sydney, Australia. She is looking forward to publishing more Wicky Wacky Farm Stories. (Publishing summary)

Forty-year-old Kate Willard's less-than-ordinary life changes forever when strange, incoherent dreams and visions begin to take over her reality. Initially unaware of this "alien" intrusion, Kate realizes her sanity is beginning to crumble and embarks on an extraordinary adventure that pushes her into the vast reaches of our galaxy...and beyond! Meanwhile, members of the Odyssey Bourne Force - a covert organization so secretive they deny their very existence - possess mankind's most formidable discovery: an indestructible monolithic stone door uncovered during an excavation in Egypt. Realizing the consequences of its astonishing properties, O.B.F. must now race against time to save Earth from forces that threaten to alter the fabric of life itself. Will this door help or bring forth an evil unrivalled in human history? The human race is about to be extinct, and they don't even know they are under attack. Should the public be warned? Can the situation be contained, or is it too late? Everything is about to change and the past, present and future is reliant on one individual...but who can Kate rely on, if not herself?

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Sci-fi comedy at its finest! Meet Bob Tuesday, a sleazy, slimy, shifty, dodgy bum and con artist from the 24th century. Follow Tuesday from the time of his conception at a Scumbags concert between a toothless groupie and a hairy genetic experiment gone wrong, to beyond the bounds of mankind's cradle.Tuesday's childhood is explored throughout his enslavement in a factory sweatshop known as Cell Block Preschool, where he makes toys for luckier children. Followed by years alone on the back of a country-sized World Slug, mining pus from its giant pimples and avoiding massive parasites, he meets many insane, bizarre and unusual characters - including himself - and gets into too many zany adventures to count. And he actually manages to destroy the entire universe. Twice. Even though Bob Tuesday is stupid, ugly, smelly, annoying, lazy, rude, and has no real talents beyond flower arranging, you should still read his story.

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'It is twenty-two years since the death of Alexander the Great. After years of fighting, his empire has been divided up between his generals. Always hostile to each other, they focus constantly on their borders to try and seek an advantage. In 301 BC, their armies are preparing for battle once again. And to the west, Rome and Carthage are preparing to burst onto the world stage, to wrest power from the Hellenistic kings. Into this world comes Pyrrhus, the young disinherited king of Epirus, a region of northern Greece. Pyrrhus will later be described by Hannibal as the finest commander the world has seen, after Alexander himself. A Pyrrhic Victory refers to a victory that comes at such a cost that it threatens to destroy the victor.'

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Set on a sweeping canvas stretching from Noosa, the sub-tropical paradise on Australia's Queensland coast, to the bustling streets of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and on to Thailand's Golden Triangle, this action thriller tells a gripping tale of mystery, intrigue and romance.

In The Orchid File: The Noosa Connection, Steven Carlson, Australian Secret Service agent and recent widower, is assigned to investigate Thai orchid exporter Chak Artachinda. Chak is suspected of working for a syndicate shipping drugs into the country.

Carlson tails his suspect from Noosa to Bangkok, but quickly discovers someone wants him dead. In Chiang Mai, he encounters a beautiful Thai woman named Srisamorn, who harbors a secret of her own that will impact Carlson's mission.

Just as Carlson thinks he's found the proof he needs against Chak, he discovers the real secret the exporter is hiding, one involving the rare "Noosa Blue" orchid. With his life on the line, the only one who can save him is the beautiful Srisamorn. (From the publisher's website.)

'Amber is a sensitive, caring young girl whose gift of empathy is so strong she can easily feel how good or bad others are feeling. Whenever her grandmother was happy, she would sing joyously. But when a scary movie was on, she would always end up with nightmares. Or if her brother got in trouble at school, Amber would be even more upset than he was. "You need armor to protect yourself," her dad suggested. Taking his words to heart, Amber tackles her problem by crafting a secret metal singlet that would protect her from everyone else's emotions. What will happen to Amber when she puts on her singlet? Will it actually work? Find out in this one-of-a-kind story that will leave you surprised!' (Publisher's blurb)