Boys with everything to live for ... A community betrayed ... The whistle-blower priest who paid the ultimate price**Shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award****Shortlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier's Community and Regional History Prize**** Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Award**Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Ne...

Meto Clarimont, a cursed and disgraced battle mage, is haunted by the elven prince he killed, Rychell Farric. To make matters worse, time is working against them as they hunt for the amulet Meto's very soul is tied to. Their journey leads, and ends, when they arrive at Rychell's canopy home. The amulet has been broken thus ending Meto's life. With every ending comes a beginning as the two find themselves now forced to come to terms with their own relationship, as well as some secrets the p...

Philippe Renault feels an intimate connection to the prostitute Lilah the first moment that he sees her standing at the top of Madame Cheney's plush bordello staircase. It's more than just the fire in his loins that the dark-haired beauty arouses. The vulnerable look that he sees in Lilah's eyes captivates his heart. Renault gets the sense that Lilah knows as much as there is to know about suffering as he does, maybe even more. At last, he has found a kindred spirit, the remedy for his cri...

If asked, the one person Gillius Liastra would call his enemy is Ascal Solaster. The two don't spend more than a few minutes in each other's presence, most would assume out of disdain; however underneath the boiling bitterness the two have, something sweeter was brewing. Those moments where they have a seemingly ceaseless amount of time together, without eyes lingering, it's revealed they don't have as much hate for each other as they thought. Can they sort themselves out before Gillius's ...

Detective Sammy Stone stared at the blood soaked corpse tied to the La-Z-Boy recliner. The body was that of twenty one year old Marci Levelle. Like Barbara Tony in Lake County last month and Abigail May in DuPage County the month before, Marci has been scalped and gutted. Sammy's sixth sense tells him that this sadistic killer, aptly named the Scalp Collector by the press, hasn't finished his murderous rampage yet. It's just a matter of time before he takes the life of another innocent gir...

The Vegetable Village Adventures are a series of children’s fun-filled adventure stories where the Vegetable children, who live in Vegetable Village, go on adventures around Woodland Farm and Sturton le Steeple, meeting new friends, having fun, and enjoying being children. The stories have been written for children to use their creative imagination and to escape from reality into a world of fantasy, enjoying some adventures. The second book in the series is Robbie the Space Robot, which is...

Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Shortland, on the outskirts of Newcastle, New South Wales. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' highs schools: Glen to Marist Brothers and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist; Glen a priest. But when Glen discovered another priest was sexually abusing boys, he reported the offending to police, breaking ...

Traditionally, Weimar cinema has been equated with the work of a handful of auteurist filmmakers and a limited number of canonical films. Often a single, limited phenomenon, "expressionist film," has been taken as synonymous with the cinema of the entire period. But in recent decades, such reductive assessments have been challenged by developments in film theory and archival research that highlight the tremendous richness and diversity of Weimar cinema. This widening of focus has ...

This book presents an innovative approach to verifying and validating rule-based expert systems. It features a complete set of techniques and tools that provide a more formal, objective, and automated means of carrying out verification and validation procedures. Many of the concepts behind these procedures have been adapted from conventional software, while others have required that new techniques or tools be created because of the uniqueness of rule-based expert systems. Verification and ...

In a sensational follow-up to Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canonFor the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times bestselling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: a...

Monster hunting sounds glamorous until you’re scrubbing ghoul blood out of your hoodie at three in the morning.I’m Kat Drummond. Broke university student by day. Part-time monster hunter by night. Full-time magnet for bad decisions.After a necromancer murdered my parents, I swore vengeance on the undead and everything that serves them. Since then, I’ve spent my nights hunting ghouls, zombies, vampires, and whatever else thinks eating people is a valid caree...

She touched his hand, and everything changed …Jasmine “Tinker” Bell has always had a love for life, looking forward to any new adventure that happens to come along, but when a friend’s experiment creates a portal to another world, she finds herself immersed in far more adventure than she ever dreamed.J’kar ’Tag Krell Manok had given up hope of ever finding his bond mate. Then a pint-size female unlike anything he has ever seen suddenly appears on his spaceship to save the l...