Traveling overseas can be a thrilling, even life-changing experience. It can also be frustrating, nerve-wracking and downright dangerous if you don't know what you'e doing!During years of service as an American diplomat, author Marcus Clark assisted American citizens at the lowest points of their lives: arrest, injury and even death. Now he shares with you his top recommendations to travel safely around the globe. Bon voyage!

When Dixon Tracy was a kid, he hated the weatherman. He was the one who told his mother to send him to school carrying a raincoat, a woollen jumper, and gumboots. The predicted rain never came.Worst of all was that his father still trusted the weatherman. He was a farmer who endured seven years of drought, holding on to the farm, believing in the "science" of the weatherman. Year after year there was a promise of rain, the promise of a good harvest, a good El Niño, only to watch ev...

Mystery book for Children 10-15 yearsKaren and Jodie are two 12 year-old girls about to start school holidays. Everything should be neat, yet by the time the last day of school is over a catastrophe has happened. Jodie's mother has vanished.When Charlie Graves—the town psycho—confesses, the police are certain they know what happened. But Karen’s mum knows more about Charlie than anyone, and helps the girls solve the disappearance.

When Tiffany's best friend joins Jacko's gang Tiffany feels lonely and miserable. For awhile it seemed she could have her own boyfriend, Dave Trung. But Jacko's gang label him a nerd and a wanker because he's Vietnamese. She drops him and is invited to join Jacko's gang on a six day beach camp. A holiday away from parents, police, and adults; where they can be free to do whatever they like. But the beach camp turns into a disaster. The boys are nearly always drunk, and when Tiffany—trying ...

THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION is about America edging toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union. It would be a war that might kill hundreds of millions of people and poison the atmosphere for fifty years.    In October 1962, American spy planes photographed missiles loaded with nuclear warheads in Cuba. The Soviet Union was installing the missiles, and they could reach targets in the USA within minutes. President Kennedy was trying to find a way out of the Cuban Missile Crisis with...

Children's Mystery Story. (ages 8-15)This is the story of two girls, Karen and Jodie, who even when they are just sitting around wishing for a swimming pool, seem to get caught up in mysteries.Karen and Jodie are best friends, but they don't always think about problems the same way. Jodie's fave subject is science, and she likes to think things through logically.Karen loves art, and can't always follow Jodie's thinking, she uses intuition: seeing with the mind's eye...

Conrad Warren is out of work and broke when he is offered a job to infiltrate a terrorist cell in his home town, Sydney. Australian Security tell him that Palestinians have arrived from London to carry out the assassination of a visiting Israeli politician. All Conrad has to do is report on their plans, and then Security will take care of the terrorists. What could go wrong?    But Conrad finds himself drawn into a violent world of danger and double dealing. One Palesti...

EXIT VISA is a factual novel about the aftermath of the Vietnam war, a vivid and gripping narrative, it chronicles the horrors experienced by those who fled after the fall of Saigon.We have all seen movies about Vietnam. But have you ever noticed, none of them tell you what happened when the war ended? What happened to the population when the communists took over? Why did hundreds of thousands of people flee? What happened in Kampuchea that led to two milli...

Snubbed by her best friend, Rom flees from her humiliation and encounters a stranger whose kiss changes everything. Join her as she embarks on a quest to find the man of her dreams…Exclusive extra material available in this e-book edition!Romily Parker is a woman on a mission. On the last Saturday before Christmas, (shortly after disastrously declaring her undying love for her best friend, Charlie) Romily has a sudden, brief encounter with a gorgeous stranger who might, jus...

Working on a Miami newspaper, Joe Jackson often covered crime stories. Then, on a first date with Mary Jones, he became a crime story and a statistic himself.

Everybody loves the BFG. Now children can bring him to life!Children will have a phizzwizardly good time - and their friends won't believe their gogglers!

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