As a boy, David Cox lived in the dusty outback on a sheep station. His lessons came in a brown envelope from the Correspondence School, but out of doors his father was his teacher. David learned the stockman's skills of riding horses and mustering sheep and cattle, and when they were out riding his father would tell stories about old times. Sometimes they would repair stockyards or fences, and when the job was done his father would step back and say, 'Well, it's good enough for a sheep station.'David Cox concludes the moving story of his country childhood that began with The Road to Goonong and continued with The Fair Dinkum War.'I have always loved David Cox's work. Every opening is full of action and humour ... In good times and bad the warmth and love of the family shine through' Magpies'Charming and touching...What a lovely way for children to learn about life in the outback a long time ago.' Good Reading Views: 41
From the author of Breathe and Blush comes a blisteringly hot new novel about baring it all.... On her last night in Nevada before embarking on a yearlong veterinary internship, Scarlett Malone is celebrating—and looking for one night of incredible pleasure. But the man who draws her eye is not her usual type: He's a cowboy whose alpha-male tendencies tempt her beyond belief. Scarlett can't understand why she wants this man and no one else, but she's determined to entice him to submit.... Dr. Logan Brody lives an isolated life in rural Montana, running a ranch and suppressing his submissive tendencies. Only on his occasional trips does he give into his hidden urges. He can't deny his scorching attraction to Scarlett or that she makes him want more, but he never lets anyone break him down fully. He's hers for one night and one night only. But when Scarlett shows up at Logan's door as his intern for the year, he realizes that... Views: 41
Madison never cared much about money. A plain, bookish college girl from a middle class suburb, she is content to live a simple life. But when her father drops dead after bankrupting the family and her mother has a mental breakdown, money is suddenly the only thing that matters. Unless she can come up with a lot of it fast, the bank will take the beloved restaurant that's been in her mother's family for generations. Enter Madison's glamorous best friend Enzo, who invites her to stay with him in Mexico City. There beautiful foreign women make big money working at The Gentlemen's Club, an elite establishment for the country's wealthiest men. And after a spectacular makeover and a mortifying audition, Madison is hired. From extravagant billionaires to dangerous drug cartels, Madison must force a charming front for all of her clients. But when she meets Pierre, a wealthy businessman as enamored with her intelligence as he is with her beauty, Madison is afraid she might actually fall in love. With time running out, she is tempted into a menacing underworld where the stakes are high and the money is big. But just how far is Madison willing to go in her desperate quest for plata? ** Views: 41
Bounty Hunter and Dragon Dean returns home hoping to spend some time with his office manager and new mate Carrie. What he gets is confusion. He’s confronted with communication and connection issues. He feels attacked and backed into a corner with no direction to go in. To find a place to start he turns to Sundae’s Adult Easter Baskets hoping that this will give him a handhold to grip as he tries to break through the walls both of them have erected due to their pasts.
Carrie has missed her mate but can’t take the lack of communication she feels when he’s on the job. For the longest time she’s been alone. Now that she has a mate she wants to feel that connection to another person. She doesn’t know why Dean holds himself back from her, both on the road and while at home. She needs him to be present and here, to open up to her. But if she pushes too hard she could lose him forever. Can Sundae's keep it's sexily ever after guarantee? Views: 41
A Baby of Her Own Maude Harkey is resigned to a loveless life until a baby is born--and orphaned--at her boardinghouse home. She'll never be a wife...but she can still be a mother. Yet a boardinghouse is no place for a newborn. Enter Jonas MacLaren--a handsome, exasperating rancher with an offer too good to refuse. Jonas can handle running a ranch--but handling his cantankerous mother is another matter. Maude matches his mother's stubbornness so she'll be a perfect live-in companion. But she's there for his mother, not for him. He'll just have to keep his wounded heart closed to her beauty, her humor, her warmth and strength--and her irresistibly adorable baby. Brides of Simpson Creek: Small-town Texas spinsters find love with mail-order grooms! Views: 41
In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take his dead brother's place. And We Go On is a remarkable and harrowing memoir of his two years in the trenches of the Western Front, from October 1916 until the Armistice. When it first appeared in 1930, Bird's memoir was hailed by many veterans as the most authentic account of the war experience, uncompromising in its portrayal of the horror and savagery, while also honouring the bravery, camaraderie, and unexpected spirituality that flourished among the enlisted men. Written in part as a reaction to anti-war novels such as All Quiet on the Western Front, which Bird criticized for portraying the soldier as "a coarse-minded, profane creature, seeking only the solace of loose women or the courage of strong liquor," And We Go On is a... Views: 41
War has come to the North. The kingdoms of Rogscroft and Delranan are engaged in a bitter struggle that can only result in the total annihilation of an entire kingdom. Yet while the opposing armies battle, a new threat approaches that may tip the balance of power and give King Badron total control. Seeking new evidence of the Dae’shan, the last surviving wizard, Anienam Keiss, believes Bahr and the others are all that stand in the way of the dark gods’ return to Malweir. Seeking the only weapon that has the power to stop the dark gods, Bahr, and his beleaguered band of allies, search for an ancient book said to contain the whereabouts of the mythical Blud Hamr. The mystical Dae’shan continue to manipulate the politics of the northern kingdoms from within the shadows, eager to drive the balance between light and good irrevocably evil. Once that balance is undone the way will be open for the dark gods to return and claim Malweir as their own once again. Darkness approaches as the flames of war burn brighter. One king shall stand. One shall fall. Malweir’s fate hangs in the balance as a weary band of adventurers struggles to find the Blud Hamr and end this war. Views: 41
