Alan Horsfield
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Disaster has hit the home suburb of Marnie and Tiana. Someone started stealing toilet lids, and often the whole seat. It started in public places then it started in private homes! Why would anyone contemplate such a vile act? Tempers, anxieties and frustration rise as more and more lids disappear. People go to futile extremes to protect their toilets. What is behind the wave of odious thefts? Is it Cec Pitt, TV presenters of The Collectors and Gatherers...
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It's a fact: smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol can cause many health problems and can even shorten our lifespan. Even drinking too much caffeine can have negative effects on the human body. This book provides an intriguing look into the problems that are related to these legal drugs. Topics include pollution and damage caused by discarded cigarettes, diseases related to legal drugs, and the way advertising tries to influence our choices.
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Rudi has inadvertently and rather naively become Sandbar Council's official dog dropping collector. Starting off by walking and using only plastic bags to 'collect' droppings and a sack to hold them Rudi developed a number of improved methods to collect the 'deposits'. His younger brother (Morris - narrator) is an embarrassed and unwilling helper. Rudi replaces carrying the sack to using a wheelbarrow. He then uses his bike to pull the wheelbarrow....
4) Cadaver Dog
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After his marriage breaks up Shane's father buys an old bush school property next to Clarry Johnson's neglected orchard and Shane and his dad move there. It is an eerie, lonely, isolated place, far removed from Shane's earlier life. Living in a small caravan in the deserted school grounds adds to Shane's feeling of vulnerability.
There is something disturbing about the un-neighborly Clarry Johnson, and something even more disturbing about his strange...
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It's an eerie mystery for uni student, Eddie Haite, whose casual summer holiday on a remote tropical island in Fiji, changes from an idyllic escape into a nightmare. Eddie, on a chance meeting, agrees to help a scientist, Rex King, carry out experiments on rats recovered from an old Pacific atomic testing site. As Eddie watches Rex descend into madness he realizes there is something terrifying about the rats' strange behavior.
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A Grave Business is a humorous yet somewhat sinister and suspenseful mystery set against the backdrop of the New Orleans French Quarter prior to Hurricane Katrina, with its jazz culture and history of 'dark' religions and cemeteries.
Xav and Linc accidentally stumble upon a racket through misdirected emails and coded newspaper messages. Their investigations lead them into the dark world of cults, crypts and midnight escapades. The Neville brothers...
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Lucky Shoemaker loves being a detective and solving mysteries of very strange crimes. She once solved the mystery of the holes that had been stolen. Now she has a new mystery that is just as baffling. Someone is taking people's time, time that has been saved has disappeared, and time that been unaccountably lost. Then all the clocks in the neighborhood just simply stopped. Who was behind this mystery? Could the culprit be the strange Mr. Grimm who...
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Have you ever described someone as a couch potato or called a dud car a lemon? How do you think this makes a potato or lemon feel? Tiffany finds out it's not fair to the plants. But there are people who are really nasty to plants - the Topiary Twins, Nettle and Thistle. They do dastardly things. They even keep some plants captive. They are villains of the worst kind. Tiffany discovers Bindi and Dusty Thorn have a green ambulance. They care for plants...
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A treasured cat with a big problem.
The Andrews feed poor Gabby cheap tinned fish. This is unsatisfactory for such a refined feline. Gabby decides to investigate options in the local eats street, not without a few setbacks!
As the owner of a fussy feline, I was right there with Gabriel on his quest for a proper meal. After encountering the rough and tumble of Miriam St, will Gabriel ever get fed? Will he ever make it home?
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Before boarding the Sea Breeze for a leisurely cruise of the Tahitian Islands Hawkins is suddenly and strangely transported into another era, the days when pirates plundered the Spanish towns on the South American west coast and took refuge in Tahiti. How did he enter this world? Will he escape with his life? His is an exciting, surreal pirate story set in the South Pacific, with all its dangers, treason and dastardly deeds. And, its colorful, if...
11) Bubble Buster
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Sundance Pub
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2000
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English
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When Buster starts making bubbles, they get bigger and bigger. Soon he is trapped in a super bubble way above the city. Will Buster get home again?