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A Suitcase Full of Koalas is a modern, edgy travel book set to test your wits and memory for detail. Gallivanting around London and somewhere distinctly south of the great capital in a sleepy seaside village, the author finds herself handing out tiny furry koalas to the English, to the Polish, to the Italians, in fact to anyone who cares to accept the little fellas as a gift from Australia.

Creative, shocking, and constantly intriguing, Black Swan Impact is a taut geopolitical novel that features a bold but grim vision of a post-World War III future. The thrilling storyline never meanders, instead moving forward with purpose and keeping the listener in eager pursuit of it. Listeners will enjoy this captivating, insightful, and detailed crisis that could only be created by an insider with many years of expertise in the subject matter.

This collection of tales is what happens when one man’s art meets 12 authors' fiction, and when writers are free to ignore their genre of choice and typical story conventions. Twelve eye-challenging op-art designs were used to inspire these 12 mind-bending stories, which contain everything from futuristic sci-fi to fantastical comedy, and heartfelt life musings to near-cosmic nihilism.

From the dark and decadent mind of Em Dehaney come eight tales of sea foam secrets and sweet treats. Nothing is quite what it seems, but everything is delicious. This is Food of the Gods.

Burdizzo Book's Matty-Bob and Em invited some of their favourite indie authors to write stories inspired by their most beloved songs. The result is The Burdizzo Mix-Tape Vol.1, their most diverse anthology yet. These are tunes that resonate from the beach to the mountains, from rain dogs to spirits in the sky, from Old Ones to cold ones. Be it multi-dimensional romance across space and time, Cold War sexual paranoia, campfire cowboys, gypsy caravans, or demented disco balls, there is a song for everyone within these stories.

Now that Felixia has gained control of growth tech, she is out of control. Getting big has a major side effect - she's constantly aroused. Her plans for city domination are threatened because she can't concentrate...all she wants to do is get off. But Grow Girl and the Size Patrol aren't ready to let her get away. Now assembled for the first time, Grow Girl, Siren, Madame Frost, and the Sizzler, attempt to lay low the giantess. But they don't know just how big--and how aroused, she can get...

This is a follow up book to I Am Fawn Jones with the characters Gilbraith Drake and Harriet Weet embarking on another thriller involving the afterlife. Spirits and the spirit world have for many years fascinated people. Have Gilbraith and Harriet actually found the true meaning of the spirit world, and are they able to cope with their findings? Do you believe? This book may change the way you think forever, if you dare listen to it!

Poem, love verse, poetry. Poems of love verses, when the heart speaks, listen, for this is how we learn and move on to a better day. Love is endless!

After a hard week at work, Zoë just wants to go home; pyjamas, Netflix, and junk food beckon. The prospect of catching the last bus is always a daunting one, but seven days' relaxation seem like a worthy prize at the end of another journey with drunken louts, along with their weed clouds and loud music.

Three friends go missing - who are all connected because of their families' friendship. That friendship will be tested when an eccentric man named Gilbraith Drake contacts them, offering to help.

I had been attracted to Jo since we were partnered up for our archeology class. But when she throws her feet in my lap and starts telling me the story of how Amazons would shrink their victims, I can't help but become aroused. And now, my clothes are loose, and her feet are looking awfully big. It's just a story, right?

Molly's dad is a practical joker, a proper wind-up merchant. His sense of humor holds no bounds, and when what he thinks is a trick at his expense backfires, he is left feeling a little unusual. His silliness stoops to new and more juvenile levels, but strangely, he has no memory of his bad behavior. Things go from silly to serious when these events turn into regular blackouts, and Molly's dad reveals secrets from his past that may have implications on his present day mental health.

In part three of our story, Dianne, aka Grow Girl, has finally begun to assemble her team. Her intention is to police the city as vigilantes, but quickly learns of a new threat - Felixia! With her stolen shrink tech, this new villainess will bring havoc to Central City. And now, she's kidnapped a researcher to help with growth tech. Once she unlocks the power to make herself bigger, Central City will be dust at her feet!

Amber Wilmington faces a fate that one wouldn't wish on their worst enemy. She and Bobby must do what has to be done to solidify the safety of their future, while the vampires and wizards plot against one another to maintain control of their worlds. An evil darkness is apparent in the small town of Sacrum Valley. Vengeance is desired. Decisions were made and now the consequence must be met. Protection is relevant for the wizards, and the vampires seek the upper hand.

Divine loves her beautiful, pink lunchbox and is very excited to take it with her on a school trip to the park. However, when her lunchbox goes missing, she enlists the help of her friend, Tinkin, to find it. When they see that another pupil also has a pink lunchbox, they assume that she has stolen Divine’s and they try to get it back. Their class teacher, Ms. Purplebubble, steps in and helps them solve the mystery of whose lunchbox it is. The children soon learn that you should not jump to conclusions when you do not know all the facts.

Every year on the day of the Ghost Festival, creatures from the underworld roam city streets freely when the gate of hell is opened. The owner of the House of Life set out a lavish banquet to entertain and appease these hungry ghosts. This year, however, foul creatures led by a long-dead Manchurian nobleman came down from the Devil's Peak on horseback and stormed the banquet hall. They harassed the guests and wrecked havoc to the festivity, demanding the House of Life to hand over something it has been safe-keeping for centuries.

It was late, dark and cold. The little band of travelers were huddled together on the bench of an old train hoping to escape the tightening Nazi noose. Suddenly, they heard the conductor's loud voice, Vos papiers, s'il vous plaît! (Papers, please!). My mother's identity card had been stamped not once, but twice with the word, Juif. She knew that her life and that of her friends now rested in the palms of a stranger, a government official whose job it was to hand them over to the Germans.

Creativity is the mark of poetry as it sings our senses in appreciation and realizes another perspective to what surrounds us. Another poem, another realm of understanding. Poetry affords one to a taste of strength of suggestion that whets the palate very differently to the manner in which a fictional or non-fictional novel cannot achieve. Enjoy your journey through this book as your listening material companion.

A woman's quest to rescue the child victims of human trafficking leads her on a perilous journey fraught with danger. Will her faith and the gift of "sight" inherited from her beloved grandmother be enough to sustain her on an epic voyage of self-discovery and good conquering evil?

Kingdom of Wolves clears the path to understanding the unconscious drives that motivate if not govern the behaviours of predators, abusers, bullies, their victims and the underlying issues that draw them to each other. The author demystifies the complexities of human behaviour, merging old concepts with new as she guides you through the emotional and psychological landscapes of the abuser’s and victim’s psyche.