Garry Plotter VI-Just Another Boring Year At Ratblisters(An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody)

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From Rurouni Kenshin to Zelda. From 40k to Bleach. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Cthulhutech. From Daria to Gunslinger Girl. From Halo to Lord of the Rings. From Love Hina to Power Rangers. From Star Wars to Zelda. Archive and author recommendations.

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From to Bakemonogatari. From Brimstone to Devil May Cry. From Diablo to Evangelion. From Exalted to Firefly. From Haruhi Suzumiya to Lord of the Rings. From Nadesico to Naruto. From Power Rangers to Rurouni Kenshin. From Sailor Moon to Star Wars. From Underworld to Zoids.

Your Favorite Fanfic - Post Murazor , Dec 22, Tosev 3 isn't exactly what the Race was hoping for, but Fleetlord Atvar will ensure that the planet is conquered. Big Brother is about to get a Big Shock.

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If you find this idea interesting, read because this is his life. A Monster In Paradise http: It features Orks invading Simba's Pridelands, but it actually kind of works. A New Age http: The battle of sector causes an anomaly that transports a number of combatants to territory of the Imperium of Man. Turns out that resistance is not futile.

A Chaos Marine is punished with the worst fate that the Blood God could imagine. The traitor Primarchs and some of the loyalist ones gather in a bar in a daemon world to tell tall tales and have some fun. Elsewhen, and elsewhere http: The battlebarge Sword of Lycurgas is transported through the Warp and back in time. God Emperor Of Faerun http: When the GEoM attempts to teleport into Horus' flagship, something goes horribly wrong and he ends in a world untainted by Chaos, but haunted by the shadow of evil gods.

A world is raising a new regiment of PDF. They are big, they are green and they are mean, but sure as hell they aren't Orks. Or so claim the local authorities. Rise Of The Tau http: Star Fox http: A new mission for Star Fox results in the collision of two different societies. First in a series. The Tale Of Haroldus Potter http: Harry Potter is reborn in the distant future, only to be recruited by the Inquisition.

Two Galaxy's Saga http: Shortly after the end of the Vong War, a fleet from the GFFA is transported to a different galaxy, one where only war exists and peace seems to be a fool's hope. Sydney Bristow is spending a few days in Stars Hollow. The Alien Space Bats section contains the scenarios involving fictional universes.

Alternate History Wiki http: Changing The Times http: Dystopic Return Of Magic http: New England July 26 To July 26 http: The United States Of Ameriwank http: A mysterious relic transports the robotic avatar of the Andromeda Ascendant to Middle Earth, just in time to join the Fellowship in the trip to Mordor. Out Of Legends http: An attempt to navigate an unknown slipstream route leaves the Andromeda in the Pegasus galaxy and about three thousand years before its time, just when the people in Atlantis need some help against an incoming Wraith armada.

Armored Cores are the ultimate warmachines, aren't they? Long Feng, formerly true ruler of the mighty city of Ba Sing Se, is going to where no Earthbender has gone before. The heart of the Fire Nation itself, where Azula hopes to use his talents to further her own schemes. Northern Water Tribe http: The Ocean Spirit spares the life of Admiral Zhao, but wipes out his memory. Will Zhaoka of the Northern Water Tribe prove to be a better man than his former self? Will these warriors be enough when something much more deadly than mere bandits is revealed? Soul Of Silicon http: A series of stories beginning with the resurrection of Sheridan, following his demise at the end of the original series.

A Dark, Distorted Mirror http: Earth was destroyed by the Mimbari and the Shadow War is about to begin. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. A Strange Twist Of Fate http: A fleet from the WCverse is transported to the B5verse. A Very Big Weapon http: The Cylons meet a Vorlon enhanced redhead. Babylon 5 Vs Star Wars http: A Imperial task force is stranded in the Babylon 5 galaxy and while communications with their home galaxy are restored, they begin conquering the new neighbourhood. After undoing the genetic tampering done by the First Ones, humankind develops in short order advanced technologies unknown to the rest of the races in Known Space.

At the height of the Drakh War, a ship called the Daedalus arrives from another universe and saves Earth. Cold Dish, Served http: The apparition of a ship from the ST universe triggers a Mimbari attack against Earth, which is destroyed as a result. Original version can be read here: A series of stories where the Mimbari have enslaved humankind.

Marcus Cole does have some really interesting ancestors. In The Nick Of Time http: A dark interpretation of the personalities of some of the core characters of Babylon 5. Sheridan is transported to a mirror universe where B5 doesn't exist and the Shadows are still around. Sel's Fan Fiction http: Kirk's Enterprise and a civilian research vessel are transported to the B5 universe, as part of a vast conflict that happened long ago and is about to begin again.

The Wheel of Time has turned full circle. Stealing Across The Styx http: Garibaldi knew that one day Talia Winters would come back. Still Not In Kansas http: Voyager tries to get home by jumping through a wormhole. Instead, they end in the B5verse during the worst of the Shadow War. The Best Of Both Universes http: A fleet of advanced starships arrive from beyond the limits of known space and greatly upset the status quo in the B5verse.

The Deep Sleep http: The Long Trial http: Through A Mirror Darkly: The British Empire now spans much of the solar system. Alternate history steampuk with sci-fi elements. You need to be a forum member to read this thread. Torakar Of Mars http: As a result, the Inner Sphere is about to change forever A swordsman cursed to wander the land fighting demons finds himself transported to a world of alchemical magic.

Leela and Cally team up to deal with some Federation troopers. There Be Lesbian Sex. Cally deals with an old enemy. Hush Little Baby http: Post Mundo Hueco speculation. Yoruichi and Urahara discuss one of their past lives. They will clash in Karakura. No Rest For The Wicked http: Daniel Jackson is the reincarnation of a very powerful Shinigami.

What if the Hollows were the result of an infection caused by alien DNA? Urahara has to dodge Ceros in an apron. Remember The King http: Aizen is ready to claim the throne of the heavens, but he might have understimated the true power of the Heavenly King. Setting Sun, Rising Moon http: Ichigo is investigating a number of strange murders in Shinjuku, but solving the case is likely to prove difficult Rukia meets in the supermarket a pretty weird girl who seems to have spiritual powers.

The Neversleeping Winds http: A number of persons break Rukia out of Death Row. The Stories He Could Tell http: Twenty facts about Chad. The World's Worst Rescuers http: They are in enemy territory, outnumbered and outmatched. But do they want the kind of help they are about to get? Stray Cat Strut http: Ichigo gets early training from Yoruichi. Downloads in self-extracting format they seem to work as advertised, no virus detected after downloading a couple of these. Ryu ponders about his fate as the Destined Child.

A Journey's End http: Boomer is rescued by G'kar and Lyta Alexander. Shortly afterwards, the ISA and the survivors of the Colonies prepare to deal with the Cylons, although Count Iblis might have something to say about this whole business. The Ajax is simulating a failure of the computer network when the Cylon attack starts and the ship manages to survive the day.

Battlestar Galactica Fanfiction Archive http: AU section contains stories that mostly involve other surviving RTFs. Battlestar Galactica Past, Present, Future http: Stories set prior, during and after the destruction of the Colonies. Battlestar Galactica Since http: Covers both the old and new series. Battlestar Group 41 http: Galactica gets a visit from a representative of another group of survivors of the Twelve Colonies that managed to escape from the Cylon genocide with the help of a man called John Crichton.

For the right price. Caught By The Bolo http: Model Six Cylon meets AI controlled supertank who doesn't like how 'genocide' sounds. Not by a long shot. Homeworld Bound I http: The exhausted Colonial refugees prepare for a final stand against the Cylons, while Earth defends itself against a new, powerful enemy. The Fleet encounters the people of Earth. Irony is a bitch. Red In Tooth And Claw http: The Galactica encounters the rests of a human built spaceship floating through space. What secrets and risks does it contain? Saved By The Bolo http: While exploring a gigantic warmachine discovered in a devastated planet, Starbuck discovers that not all machines are enemies of mankind.

When Hope Is Lost http: Cylons, meet the Tau'ri. Starbuck, Cy the Cylon and an immortal Jaffa have adventures exploring other worlds through the Stargate. Stumbling Towards The Dawn http: Poor, poor, poor Cylons. There has been some kind of unauthorized activity in the flight simulators and Saul Tigh plans to find out who is behind it. The Finales Overture http: The Colonials find Earth, but not the way they expected to. Galactica encounters the Serenity. The Smuggler's Game http: Wing Commander Battlestar Galactica Universe http: The survivors of the Twelve Colonies reach the Gemini sector, where they make contact with the Victory.

Act Of Last Resort http: Rupert Giles is forced to call upon a terrible power to battle Glorificus. And, of course, Xander Harris picks it. All Geared Up http: Xander Harris is one of the background meatbags who gets to see the final battle between Decepticons and Autobots in the movie. A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts http: Anyanka, Vengueance Again http: Anyanka becomes the vengueance demon of Scorned Recyclable Items and is sent to do work in different parts of the multiverse.

April 10, http: Faith undergoes hypnotic therapy while on prison. This results in an unexpected revelation. A Reborn Wanderer http: Xander Harris gets the powers and abilities of Kenshin Himura. Cassandra Fraiser is activated along with the rest of the Potentials. The overprotective people in SG1do not like this new development one bit. A Sarcophagus In Sunnydale http: An ancient Egyptian sarcophagus is discovered in the house of a recently deceased collector.

O'Neill and Jackson go to check possible signs of Goa'uld presence and meet a nice group of students of the local High School. A Year In The Life http: And Xander Harris is the result of a previous experiment. Blackadder's Imperfect Fifth http: The adventures of Edmund Blackadder, master vampire, and his oafish minion Baldrick. Dawn Summers dresses up like Kirika during Halloween. Highlander elements in later stories of the series. Buffy becomes the protector of doctor Daniel Jackson.

Jack O'Neill is Xander Harris' biological father. Brothers In Arms http: Xander Harris knew Gambit before Sunnydale. Xander is a Saiyan. Changing The Death Toll http: Sequel of Changing The Death Toll. The SGC finds a device in Merlin's cave that makes people exchange minds with their counterparts in different dimensions. Counts Of Blood http: The Master is visited by his dear old friend, Count Von Count. Do not read, unless you want to see your childhood memories under a very disturbing new light. Dawn jumps from Glory's tower and ends in a different universe, where she finds a new family.

Dawn Summers, Marine http: Dawn wants a life of her own, but to get it she will have to keep a careful balance between her supernatural past and her alien future. After meeting the Asgard face to face, Anya has to deal with her old Viking belief system. Dawn contacts Doctor Jackson for help in the translation of some Watcher Diaries. Eventually, the worlds of the alien and the supernatural collide.

Sunnydale is sucked by Acathla's portal, although the town ends in the Forgotten Realms, instead of a hell dimension.

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Buffy is forced to send Angel to Hell to save the world, but she decides to follow her beloved. Facing The Heart In Darkness http: It turns out that Magneto is one of Willow's long lost relatives. Jack goes to Sunnydale to watch over the strange things happening there. There, he befriends Dawn Summers. A series of abductions prove that Cleveland isn't quite as dull as it is supposed to be and a creepy one-eyed man living with a bunch of underage girls is the main suspect. The Slayers find evidence of Goa'uld in Earth who have learned about the supernatural.

Who are they gonna call? Father Of Mine http: Jack O'Neill is the son of Xander Harris. Guardians Of The North http: Some old friends of Giles prove useful to handle a group of particularly vicious vampires. Happy Ever After http: Andrew makes a wish while watching TV. Harmony Kendall goes disguised as Amora, the Asgardian Enchantress, and she kind of modifies Ethan Rayne's transformation spell. Luna Lovegood becomes the new body of Illyria during the battle of the Department of Mysteries. Heirs Of Armageddon http: Spike is a traitor working for the First Evil.

As a result of this, the Scooby Gang ends in the Dahakverse. Hero For A New World http: Buffy has work to do at Stargate Command. Oz Osbourne joins the team, because Abby needs help. Buffy kills Angel, has to leap inside Acathla's portal to save the world and finds herself in the distant future. Strong SuperXander elements in this one.

In The Genes http: The Slayers might be the key to saving the Asgard from genetic collapse. Pity that they don't seem particularly inclined to help. Xander Harris now has the memories of a multibillionaire supergenius who drinks too much. Xander Harris goes as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Discovers that the Force is real. Sequel of Jedi Harris. Xander gets involved with the Stargate program.

Lacking An Anchor http: Willow tries to teleport Xander away from danger. Xander eventually lands in a new universe full of superheroes and supervillains. John Sheppard gains a baby sister called Dawn. Buffy tries something Japanese for Halloween. Now Ethan gets to deal with a pissed Shinigami. Pity that someone had to wear a Phoenix costume. Mother Nature is pissed and there is no standing in her way. Veronica ends in the Buffyverse with knowledge of what's coming her way and thinking that she has no chance of stopping it. Xander Harris goes as the Master Chief in the Halloween episode. Buffy becomes mayor of Sunnydale in season 4.

Buffy heads to New York with Dawn to find her real father. My Messed Up Family http: Joyce is the daughter of Victor Creed and Mystique. The changes that Anya Jenkins made to reality had far greater consequences than she ever imagined. George Hammond has to make an embarrasing report about the strange group that managed to breach the security of Stargate Command. Noble Souls, Rising From Disaster http: Ethan Rayne sends Buffy to Middle Earth, where she is captured by minions of Sauron and jailed until Gandalf breaks her out.

Normalverse I Far Beyond Normal http: The First Evil won, but Buffy is not about to let things end like that and is now looking for allies. Our Own Gary Mitchell http: A Star Trek marathon makes Xander remember the fate of a lost friend. Buffy jumps through Glory's portal and when Willow tries to find her, they find that she is alive Putting his sleeping parents in costume during Halloween is something that Xander might come to regret. A collection of ficlets where Buffy tries costumes that turn her into different fictional characters with varied results.

Petals In The Wind http: Sequels of Lone Flower. The shinigami return to Sunnydale making a couple of unexpected revelations Point Of View http: Xander breaks up with the Council after the destruction of Sunnydale and begins working as a rogue demon hunter, but he is eventually forced to team up with one of the new Slayers to stop a deadly cult.

Redhead Hogwartian HP Xover. Willow runs away and with Whistler's help finds Hogwarts, where she is supposed to learn about Salazar Slytherin. Xander Harris gets the memories of an older version of himself during Halloween and goes looking for adventure. Ethan discovers that putting a costume of Integra Hellsing in his store was a bad idea. And Buffy now has a voice in her head that can give her all sorts of interesting information about vampire-hunting and the arcane. See Noir Evil http: One hundred drabbles about Xander and Benjamin Franklin Pierce.

Buffy's death at the hands of the Master had consequences for the Scoobies that no one had predicted.

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Cordelia Chase gets infested by the Goa'uld Ishtar, but the brainworm soon enough learns that Cordelia's body is not for sale. Son Of Quagmire http: A Quagmire disguise for Halloween has unforeseen consequences. Angel uses magic to give every vampire in the world a human soul. Now, he only has to convince the Slayer that vampires are no longer the enemy.

Buffy and Willow end in a galaxy far, far away after being sucked through a dimensional rift at the end of season 5. Lois Lane is in dire need of some strength, just as Willow begins activating the potential Slayers all over the world. Cordelia Chase hires Mars Investigations to track down a number of survivors of the Sunnydale disaster that are scattered all over the world.

Xander Harris goes as the former partner of Samus Aran for Halloween. At the same time, the Chaos spell is drawing the attention of the greatest scientifical genius in the universe. Ethan adds a bunch of costumes from the webcomic Girl Genius. As a result, Xander and Buffy become active Sparks. Surfing With Spike http: Suppose that Buffy became one of the Immortals when she died in The Gift. Tabula Avatar Series Index http: Tacos And Tea Parties http: Winifred Burkle is a little girl when she is kidnapped and taken to the demon world of Pylea to become a slave. Teal'c gets a wish that comes true.

The Scoobies face a different form of apocalypse when all existing technology just stops working one day Mention of rape, prostitution and other mature stuff. The Child Of Rao http: Xander Harris becomes a Kryptonian. Vader is looking for a new apprentice and considers that a powerful witch consumed by darkness looks like a promising candidate.

The Ghost In The Team http: Instead, it ends amidst the mail of one Doctor Daniel Jackson. Buffy is transported to Vader's own Star Destroyer. The Sith Lord isn't amused. Cordelia makes a different wish and Xander and Willow get sent fifty centuries to the past. There, they meet a couple of fellows called Methos and Silas. The Price Of The Wish http: Cordelia thinks a bit before making her wish to Anyanka and things get even more complicated as a result.

The Right Technology http: While trying to open a training school in England for the new Council, the Scoobies meet a weird amateur inventor with a weirder and suspiciously intelligent dog.

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Dawn Summers falls out of a dimensional vortex while 12 years old Harry Potter masturbates. He accidentally ejaculates onto her breasts. An alien brainworm with delusions of godhood is operating in Sunnydale. He obviously has no idea of who he is dealing with. The Wonderland Subject http: Xander Harris is lured to a cave in Africa. In the cave, he falls down the Rabbit Hole. Then, he comes back a bit changed. Things That Matter http: Spin-off story of the Black Sunrise series. An assassin is hired to kill Max.

Trick Or Treat http: Xander Harris gets infested by a Goa'uld in the night of Halloween. The Scoobies are worried. Willow is now married with one Clark Kent. And she is pregnant, too. John Sheppard discovers family he didn't know he had. Unexpected Paths I Second Convict http: Robert Makepeace meets a very interesting person in a prison transport and gets a second chance. Virtue Of A Warrior http: Faith doesn't go against Angel and simply runs away. This time redemption and forgiveness will have to come from within.

Water Hold Me Down http: The Powers have new plans for Oz Osbourne. Plans that are galactic in scope. Welcome To Hellmouth Park http: Description of a Buffy amusement park. When Hellmouths Collide http: The Scoobies get sent to the Xenaverse, where they must team up with the local heroes to stop a great evil. Xander uses a costume of a whip-wielding archeologist, while Cordelia Chase wears the trademark outfit of a feline supervillainess.

World Of Shadows http: The Scooby Gang tries to survive in a world dominated by the powers of darkness led by Dracula himself. Worth Fighting For http: Faith wakes up one morning with a gap of three years in her memories. Also, she is now Faith O'Neill. A plot device allows Xander and Dawn to gain the powers of a buttload of fictional characters. Wrath Of The Eagle http: The Iron Tau'ri http: What exactly was Ethan Rayne doing with a copy of Tony Stark's armour? The SGC can use the help and the tech.

Xander Harris disguises himself as Kaff Tagon for the night. Tagon's spaceship follows him. Xander The New Death http: Not so strongly anti-femslash. Q feels that a poorly chosen costume could be the source of a great deal of amusement and Xander Harris becomes the Xanderbot.

After remembering the bestest friend he used to have in the world, a grown-up Calvin puts his daughter to sleep. Symphony Of Chaos http: Unfinished sequel of The Planeswalkers. Some fought and this is the story of some of these fighters. Twins Of Destiny http: Two different men may hold the keys for the history of an entire world. John Constantine would rather not consider who has healed his injuries. Grissom's team have to investigate the murder of Charles Bucket. A kid who has escaped from home and a crime scene with involvement of the supernatural. What is the connection?

Clockwork thinks of lessons learned and things yet to come. Turns out that Daria is actually the biological daughter of Victor Von Doom, infamous supercriminal and tyrant of Latveria. Doctor Who Gives A Damn http: The Doctor lands in Lawndale to make some repairs in UNIT equipment, but he is eventually forced to team up with some of the local residents to battle the nth Dalek attempt at invading the world.

And she can't stop it. What does this mean? Long Trek Home http: Daria and some of her friends are hit by the Random Anomaly of the Week and find themselves in the brave new world of the future. Sick, Sad, Millennium http: Daria Morgendorffer reappears in Lawndale after spending six years as a commissar with the Cadian Imperial Guard in the lovely Milky Way of the 41st millennium. Now he is about to return.

The adventures of Verto, a normal person, that has been transformed into a Saiyan through genetic tampering done by Freeza's scientists. After the Androids Saga, Trunks goes back to his future and meets a half-saiyan from an alternate reality where Goku is the overlord of Earth and a high ranking lieutenant of Vegeta. Dr Light Ongoing Series http: Not Quite Counting Sheep http: Not a slash fic.

Some interesting factoids about the private life of the new members of the Justice League. You Know My Name http: The Yagami clan has ruled the Land of Fire for a hundred years, since the founder of the dinasty gained power using an artifact of terrible power. Now, their time is coming to an end. Willingly And Unwillingly http: Light Yagami meets a strange westerner going by the name of Dorian Gray who has a most unusual request to make. We wish him the best. Bolo And Digimon http: See The Sky Again http: Times To Be http: One of the digidestined seems to be having some small trouble with temporal mechanics and causality paradoxes.

Avon is a relative of the Doctor. The first fic is in script format. The Doctor gets involved in a war between vampires and werewolves in eastern Europe, allowing him to meet someone special from his own past. They find each other kind of interesting. Earth is ruled by the Master and his minions, but Martha Jones holds the key of their defeat. She just has to stay alive for a whole year and with the help of Derek Reese she can do it. The Tardis is alive Mary Sue In Dalek Land http: Even omnicidal monstruosities from outer space have feelings and dreams The war between Kaleds and Thals in the planet Skaro leads to the construction of a race of mutants called Daleks designed to be the ultimate weapon in the conflict, but destined to become guardians and protectors.

Temporal Mechanics And Jake http: A dog survives the destruction of the Twelve Colonies thanks to the Doctor, but he has some headaches when he keeps meeting different versions of the Doctor and his Companions. The 13th Alien http: Ben unlocks another form stored in the Omnitrix.

And this one is real nasty. The LadyLike Arts http: Romana is doing some work behind-the-scenes to ensure that the Doctor's Companions stay alive as long as possible. Night Wolf is a special division within UNIT tasked with the possible uses of alien technology and magic for the defense of Earth.

Doomguy gets to visit the lovely facilities of Black Mesa during the Xen invasion. Harry Dresden meets a girl called Jessie Sloane. Then, he discovers that the girl has secrets and that he might get killed because of said secrets. Take the Daria characters, turn them into typical drow, drop them in the Planescape setting and you get this fic. Death And Taxes http: Sarevok and Imoen are partners in the finest detective agency in Athkatla. Two allied Bhaalspawn follow the game storyline, starting with Irenicus' dungeon.

Drizzt Do'Urden meets Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Particularly recommended are items about Sheogorath and the Shivering Isles section. Part of a series. How can she survive in this post-apocalyptic world? The crew of Moya are trapped in a derelict prison ship along with a group of Peacekeepers and an invisible alien hunter. Above And Beyond http: Jool and Chiana are captured by an unknown alien species and find that humans that may come from Crichton's future are also prisoners in the cell next door.

A Plague Upon The Galaxy http: Crichton causes an accident attempting to create a stable wormhole and instead creates a number of accidental interdimensional wormholes connecting several realities together. Now in Wayback Machine edition. Farscape The Lost Warrior I http: The Colonials have finally found Earth, the Goa'uld are at war with the Peacekeepers and the Cylons just want to kill everybody.

Crichton and SG1 will have to rally the forces of good and moderate evil for a stand against the evil killbots. Off The Chart http: On The Wings Of Destiny http: Ranger Crichton ends in the Uncharted Territories, but the Interstellar Alliance isn't about to abandon one of their own. An Stargate is discovered in an independent planet of the Uncharted Territories.

SG1 comes through just as Crichton is visiting the planet. The Road Home http: A wormhole takes John Crichton to an advanced, futuristic version of Earth. John Crichton's arrival to the Uncharted Territories goes a bit differently and he eventually becomes a Peacekeeper officer. John Crichton punches a hole through the space-time continuum and ends in another universe. Then, he does it again. Ramza gripes, Delita broods, and some corpses rot. Attempt to figure what was going on at the end of the game.

Dying Again And Again http: Legacy Of Honor http: Worried about dreams and death, Marche spends his first day in Ivalice with Montblanc. That Horrible Moment http: The Ending Of A Revolution http: A tale of brother and sister. Visions Of Peace http: An Imperial Civil War may bring forth the collapse of civilization, despite the best efforts of the heroes to avoid such a thing.

Sith Goes To Washington http: A discovery in the abandoned laboratory of Professor Hojo will take Cloud far from his home. Put Your Lights On http: Sephiroth is a dad. A what-if scenario concerning Squall Lionheart and a younger Ellone. A Hero Lost In Time http: Shortly after leaving Miranda, the fine crew of Firefly are about to run into the biggest secret in the damn 'verse. Bonds Of Brotherhood http: After a year away, the Firefly returns to Blue Sun space with some really powerful new friends. The Alliance should prepare for some serious trouble.

Browncoat, Green Eyes http: The Alliance tries to use SuperHarry as a living weapon. The news about the Alliance experiments in Miranda that created the Reavers are obviously a fake. When I Was Somebody Else http: The Elric brothers revive their mother, but the consequences are dire. Roy Mustang, notorious pyromaniac, replaces one mister Narumi in the Alice Academy. The Truth Of Alchemy http: A professor finds an old book and discovers what is the source of the seemingly magical power of the alchemists. NOT a romance story.

New York has a vampire problem and the clan cannot handle it. The Wild Thing http: The Tachikoma are up to something. These are his adventures. Kind of a Mythos Xover. There is something buried beneath the high school Persistence Of Memory http: Isaac has an accident and Mia takes care of him. The invasion sets out for the Southern Continent and the Magic Knights break off from the fleets for their own operation.

Street fighting in Tzen occupies the eastern forces, but the Imperial Air Force shows up to the west Movie Madness Parody of several famous movies interpreted by the characters of the Gundam series. A taskforce from another dimension ends in the Gundam SEED universe, greatly changing the course of events. A Day To Remember http: Concerning the events of the One Week War.

After the Robotech war, Earth launches exploration ships tasked with the discovery of new worlds. The Inferno That Is Chicago http: Side story of the Jokers series that starts during the siege of Chicago. Yardwork featuring Heero Yui http: Heero is married and living in the suburbs, but all is not well in his little world. An attack and a system failure causes Sho Fukamachi to face his own past self. One Thousand Deaths http: A New Slice http: Portal from the perspective of Chell. The Black Mesa Incident http: The Hazard Suit http: Gordon Freeman complains about the design of his hazard suit.

Welcome To City 17 http: Reconstruction of the battle of New Mombasa using modern military doctrine and technologies. The Halos aren't just doomsday weapons, but enormous gateways that are ready to link a dozen galaxies for the next stage of a vast experiment. A vast interstellar war between the Sentient Coalition and the Covenant Hegemony is about to begin. Halo 3 Collapse http: As a traitor, her chances of surviving her own people are worse than surviving the inventive tortures of the Sidhe… Meanwhile, pacifist Anto has been co-opted into the military defending regions from the increasing incursions of the Sidhe who have a gruesome and terrifying 'new' way of fighting.

He knows Nessa is innocent, but how can he convince those in power? Nessa is branded a traitor, no-one believes that someone like her could survive the three minutes. Shes thrown in prison and eventually sent where all traitors are sentback to the horror of the Greylands Anto, with his giant, disfigured arm, is packed off out of the way to join the militia.

The fight is on to prevent the creeping and evil magic of the Sidhe that seems to be getting stronger and stronger. Ireland is being invaded and the enemy are building their army from the very people defending it, its a bloodbath. However, Anto cant get Nessa off his mind, he knows in his heart shes innocent and hell go to any length to rescue her. The final chapter in this thrilling and fast-paced adventure, with the power of true love at its very core.

The Rainbow is for learning about colours, couched in simple sentences. Who Saw the Turtle has slightly more advanced sentences and features creatures of the sea. Both books have the text translated into the Yanyuwa language of Borroloola, NT at the end of the book, and they would make lovely gifts for overseas. Some proceeds from sales of these books go to Indigenous literacy programmes so they do good twice over!

Lindy Jones A perfect read-aloud story which revels in the kaleidoscopic colours of the Australian landscape featuring Indigenous art by Balarinji. A joyous serenade to colours that show country before a storm, illustrated by Balarinji, Australia's leading Indigenous design studio. Ros Moriarty, author of the acclaimed memoir Listening to Country, is also the founder of Indi Kindi early learning program. Lindy Jones Who saw Turtle? Did the whale with the slapping, splashing tail?

Or the octopus with the dangly, stretchy tentacles? Maybe the fish with the glittery, shimmering scales? A glorious exploration of the amazing migration of Turtle as she travels the world and then returns home to lay her eggs, illustrated by Balarinji, Australia's leading Indigenous design studio. Ros Moriarty, author of the acclaimed memoir Listening to Country, is also the founder of Indi Kindi early literacy education. This was commissioned for the library of Queen Mary's Doll House in , and has been elegantly reproduced, with a cloth cover and gold foiling on the cover, and very beautiful illustrations that catch the joie de vive of the Roaring Twenties.

A sprite takes up residence in the luxuriously appointed Doll House, and causes consternation by the traces of her occupation within the beautiful residence. Whimsical and light-hearted, this will delight young and older readers! Harriet is a Hamster Princess, cursed at her christening by the deadly Ratshade to prick her finger on a hamster wheel when she turns 12 and die. Of course the fairy godmice can change that to falling asleep, but Harriet grows up not knowing what fate has in store for her.

When she discovers the curse, she realises because she is a very clever princess, unlike the frail and pale helpless hamster-maidens her parents wish she was more like that she is invincible! She embarks on a series of adventures until duty calls her back to face the music - but all that smiting and riding about on her hunting quail has given her cunning as well as strength. Things don't always go to plan and she has to do a bit more rescuing, persuading and cleaving… Lots of simple illustrations push the narrative along and add to the fun!

Lindy Jones Sleeping Beauty gets a feisty, furry twist in this hilarious new comic series from the creator of Dragonbreath Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princess.

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She may be quite stunning in the rodent realm you'll have to trust her on this one , but she is not so great at trailing around the palace looking ethereal or sighing a lot. She finds the royal life rather One day, though, Harriet's parents tell her of the curse that a rat placed on her at birth, dooming her to prick her finger on a hamster wheel when she's twelve and fall into a deep sleep.

For Harriet, this is most wonderful news: It means she's invincible until she's twelve! After all, no good curse goes to waste. And so begins a grand life of adventure with her trusty riding quail, Mumfrey Perfect for fans of Babymouse and Chris Colfer's Land of Stories, this laugh-out-loud new comic hybrid series will turn everything you thought you knew about princesses on its head. Read from front to back, and it is about one lot of seals denying a place on their rock for two other seals who are obviously in need of refuge.

But read the book from back to front, and the message is turned on its head, so it becomes a caring and welcoming invitation to the homeless seals to share in the safety of the rock. Lindy Jones Two seals are perched on a rock. When others need shelter, do they share it? Room on Our Rock celebrates the truth that there are two sides to every story. This clever picture book has one story that can be read two different ways. When read from front to back, the seals believe there is definitely no room on their rock for others. But when the book is read from back to front, the seals welcome others to shelter on their rock.

A heartwarming story about sharing and compassion. This is the book for much older students to use, and is uncompromising in its depictions of human misery. Armin Greder never sugarcoats, and if his black-washed images are confronting, they are no more confronting than the reality they depict. There is only one sentence, right on the first page, and the illustrations that follow show the food chain of actions that cause mass exodus as well as the literal food chain… Dark, eloquent, thought-provoking and brilliant.

Lindy Jones Precarious boats navigate the waters of the sea, from south to north. And more often than not, it is not only hope that drowns. A devastating indictment of our society's treatment of refugees by the creator of The Island. With eloquent and devastating imagery, the creator of the multi-award-winning book The Island again asks us to examine our responses to the plight of refugees. How long will we remain silent witnesses? These are known as 'safe and legal pathways' and Amnesty International calls on the international community to provide them to those fleeing war, torture and persecution.

Routes over land, air or sea that would save people having to entrust their lives to crime rings, which is otherwise the only possibility that remains open to them. Loudly proclaiming his differences and his individuality, the feisty animal wreaks havoc in his quest to be understood. Jolly rhyming text and expressive watercolour illustrations capture the character and make this a delight to share with pre-schoolers. Lindy Jones For too long koalas have been called bears.

But this koala is out to prove to the world that he is BARE! And that never, ever, ever can a koala be called a bear From the internationally renowned author of the bestselling Diary of a Wombat comes a hilariously funny picture book that Jackie French has created with talented newillustrator Matt Shanks. The mix of male and female characters also includes indigenous and migrant Australians, scientists and politicians, musicians and journalists, sportspeople and artists - mostly from the 20th century. At the back are thumbnail biographical details, to expand on the accompanying text.

This is no ordinary alphabet book! This is the official A to Z of amazing Aussies that make this country so great. Sometimes irreverent, always charming, and beautifully illustrated by Beck Feiner. When the rains come, the landscape opens up, and the animals and environment are transformed. Simple and elegant text tells of the changes, and the lyrical and evocative illustrations by Fern Martins capture both the small details of plants and animals, and the transition from dry to wet.

A celebration of the seasons; it would make a beautiful souvenir for visitors as well! Lindy Jones Big Fella Rain is a celebration of northern Australia as animals, birds, trees and a parched earth await the first rain. It is almost as if country stands still as the sparse yet evocative text pays homage to the transition from dry season to wet season in a country that is like no other place in the world. Fern Martins illustrations seamlessly portray the dramatic skies, the thirsty animals and tiny creatures whose very existence rely on the monsoonal changes.

Her exquisite rendering of the big landscape against the subtle shifts in the environment have a timeless quality that will capture the hearts of all readers. Just a little bit, sometimes. Okay, quite a lot, often! A seven-year-old boy in my acquaintance absolutely adored this book, thinking it one of the funniest things he's ever read!

Lindy Jones To Sam Lyttle, the truth is like an elephant. It's heavy, worrying and wrinkly. And when it's sitting in your way, you can't go under it or over it. But you CAN skirt round it So Sam does, every now and then, tell the odd porky-pie, much to the annoyance of his family.

But is there more to Sam's occasional streeeetching of the truth than meets the eye? The first book in this laugh-out-loud series by author and illustrator Joe Berger. She's smart so it seems a good idea to go to the school, with its extensive educational programmes. However, it caters for an entirely different class of people, and she soon finds herself friendless and struggling amongst the privileged set. But then she gets an invitation from the golden boy Henry de Warlencourt, embossed with the words: It doesn't take long for her to realise that she and two others also misfits in the school - the nouveau riche daughter of a tech king and the son of an Indian principality are especially chosen, and that the hunting, shooting and fishing is for entirely different quarry than the animals on the isolated estate Nor does he have any great curiosity about the outer world, thinking his life will always be ordered and neat - until a dying man thrusts a mysterious manuscript into his hands with instructions to take it to Aidan and no-one else.

Before he has time to blink, Gabe is swept up into a grand adventure, unable to return to the monastery, not knowing who to trust and on the run. Fortunately for him he falls into the hands of a notorious band of robbers - who happen to be girls with a mission of their own. A swift-paced adventure for readers Lindy Jones What's the secret of the book, and why is it so valuable? These are the questions Gabe must answer when a dying man hands him a coded manuscript with one instruction: Gabe is hurled into a quest that takes him beyond his monastery home and into a world of danger, political intrigue and adventure.

As he seeks to decipher the code and find a mystery man who may not even exist, Gabe learns that survival must be earned and that some of life's biggest lessons are not found in books. Gabe finds himself questioning everything he knows about right and wrong and wondering if he'll ever find a way back home.

He also discovers that the biggest secret of all may be his own. Each member has a great fear, and it will be the thing that kills them - her father is agoraphobic, her mother an addicted gambler who fears bad luck, and her twin brother can't abide the dark. When Esther is conned by Jonah, a former friend, and he makes off with her list of things she could potentially be killed by, it starts a strange and beautiful friendship.

Jonah is determined to help Esther surmount her fears, and challenges her to confront them - filming them as they go through the list. Unbeknownst to her, she is becoming a social media star… A likable and imaginative young adult novel, with interesting characters including Death, who has a world-weary line of snappy but almost-compassionate rejoinders and the stirrings of first love. Lindy Jones Ever since Esther Solar's grandfather was cursed by Death, everyone in her family has been doomed to suffer one great fear in their lifetime.

Esther's father is agoraphobic and hasn't left the basement in six years, her twin brother can't be in the dark without a light on, and her mother is terrified of bad luck. The Solars are consumed by their fears and, according to the legend of the curse, destined to die from them. Esther doesn't know what her great fear is yet nor does she want to , a feat achieved by avoiding pretty much everything. Elevators, small spaces and crowds are all off-limits. So are haircuts, spiders, dolls, mirrors and three dozen other phobias she keeps a record of in her semi-definitive list of worst nightmares.

Then Esther is pickpocketed by Jonah Smallwood, an old elementary school classmate. Along with her phone, money and a fruit roll-up she'd been saving, Jonah also steals her list of fears. Despite the theft, Esther and Jonah become friends, and he sets a challenge for them- in an effort to break the curse that has crippled her family, they will meet every Sunday of senior year to work their way through the list, facing one terrifying fear at a time, including one that Esther hadn't counted on - love. A little boy and his mother pack a lunch, set out from Kirribilli to walk across the Bridge and go to the Botanic Gardens for the day.

When they are there, they see an ibis caught up in a plastic bag, and with a lot of help, set it free. This is reminiscent of the well-loved Alexander's Outing and is a joyful portrait of the city with a quiet environmental message conveyed in simple rhythmic text and clean-lined illustrations - a book that will be enjoyed by resident and tourist alike! Lindy Jones This is a story of a plastic bag and a bird - a cautionary tale about taking care of our environment as well as being a wonderful showcase of some of the famous sights of Sydney.

I crossed the harbour bridge then climbed down to Circular Quay. And this is what I saw. And although the other rhinos told her how she had a good life already with everything a rhino could need, still she listened to her own heart and built a boat. Despite all of the others' doubts, she sails away and sees more than she ever dreamed, until she returns home to share her tales: With gentle and happy illustrations in coloured pencil and watercolour by Leila Rudge, this is a sweet encouragement to step outside the everyday and discover the world for yourself.

Once, there was a small rhinoceros who wanted to see the big world. So she built a boat. From the duo behind award-winning picture book No Bears comes a simple yet inspirational tale about challenging the norm, pushing boundaries and being true to oneself. It follows a formula - the standoffish woman, her misfit friend, the English rose daughter-in-law, and the outsider and the abused wife - all women needing to prove their worth in a male-oriented world.

Together they find friendship and succour while attempting to find something finer and more literary in their difficult lives. And yes, while it isn't wildly original, it is an enjoyable, competent and satisfying read, probably best accompanied with a plate of scones and a pot of tea! Lindy Jones In the Northern Territory has begun to self-govern. Cyclone Tracy is a recent memory and telephones not yet a fixture on the cattle stations dominating the rugged outback.

Life is hard and people are isolated. But they find ways to connect. Sybil is the matriarch of Fairvale Station, run by her husband, Joe. Their eldest son, Lachlan, was Joe's designated successor but he has left the Territory - for good. It is up to their second son, Ben, to take his brother's place. But that doesn't stop Sybil grieving the absence of her child.

With her oldest friend, Rita, now living in Alice Springs and working for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and Ben's English wife, Kate, finding it difficult to adjust to life at Fairvale, Sybil comes up with a way to give them all companionship and purpose: Mother-of-three Sallyanne is invited to join them. Sallyanne dreams of a life far removed from the dusty town of Katherine where she lives with her difficult husband, Mick.

Completing the group is Della, who left Texas for Australia looking for adventure and work on the land. On a hot November weekend at his newly acquired vineyard near Ballarat, barrister Hugh Cleary is hosting a family reunion to celebrate years since Conor Cleary arrived in Australia. With such a vast number of characters to choose from, Drewe has sly fun commenting on family, society and history.

Lindy Jones Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, At Hugh and Christine Cleary's new vineyard, Whipbird, six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Some of these family members know each other; some don't. As the wine flows, it promises to be an eventful couple of days. Comic, topical, honest, sharply intelligent, and, above all, sympathetic, Robert Drewe's exhilarating new novel tells a classic Australian family saga as it has never been told before.

There's no magic realism - something I love as a reader, though others don't - but there is the beautiful writing and fully-fleshed, believable characters that have characterised her work. I'll go so far as to say this is my favourite book of the year so far, and I don't really think it will be topped. In all ways this is a perfect book, from its narrative structure to its depiction of loss, grief, friendship, love and survival. It's almost impossible to describe this book without giving away the plot, such as it is, but it is about a man who has lost everything he valued. Ellis works in an automotive factory, going through the motions after the two loves of his life died five years previously.

He is haunted by grief and regret and the sheer weariness of keeping going when there seems to be nothing left to live for. The reader learns what he has lost, but we also see the first shoots of regrowth… An entirely believable and truly moving story, one you can go back to and read again and again. I have - four times now. I suspect I will keep this one close! It begins with a painting won in a raffle: And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who are inseparable.

And the boys become men, and then Annie walks into their lives and it changes nothing and everything. Tin Man sees Sarah Winman follow the acclaimed success of her previous novels with a love letter to human kindness and friendship, loss and living. When Gulsa gets caught up on her phone, Henry, who is bored, decides to find Grandma for himself.

After asking at the information desk and not having any luck, he sets off through the hospital looking for her, meeting all sorts of people from patients to doctors. Quite a lot of text and with illustrations that repay close attention, this is a sophisticated picture book originally from Germany with a simple storyline that may have the side effect of demystifying hospitals and how they work. Lindy Jones Henry is visiting his grandmother in the hospital. When his nanny has to take a call, he decides to go on alone. He knows Grandma well, after all!

But the hospital is bigger than he thought, and his visit becomes an odyssey: Staff, patients, and equipment are everywhere. Now Henry isnt sure he will find Grandma after all. This is a hospital odyssey: I rather liked that X stood for Crusader Bugs because the insects have a x-shaped cross on their backs! A book both useful and attractive, for ages Lindy Jones Australia is full of the most amazing animals on the planet!

What animal has six thumbs? What animal produces square poo? What animal is made up of 95 per cent water and is highly venomous? Discover the answers to these questions and more in this factastic tour of Australian animals. The inevitable comparison will be with Shaun Tan's Arrival as it is a work of graphite on paper, although unlike that other masterpiece this book does have text. Rather surreal text, which allows the reader to fill in the gaps and construct the meaning for themselves.

Ruben is a small, almost stunted figure, living alone in a threatening city, but one day he notices another small figure slipping in and out of the shadows, and gives chase. From such beginnings grow possibilities of change Will appeal to anyone who admires the artistry of children's illustration.

At least not anymore. Ruben lives in a safe place in a city that takes everything and gives nothing back. He begins to feel that he is in danger and ventures to Block City where he meets Koji. She too has been hiding from the dangers of the industrial city and its excesses. Ruben and Koji realise that if they combine their knowledge of how the city works they can find a way to escape Packed off to a holiday camp, 11 year old Quil gets the oddest feeling as her train goes through a small town on the other side of the mountains, and before she has time to reconsider, she gets off.

She's drawn to an old shop, and when a cheeky dog and the shop's owner appear, it's the start of her finding a home and the real feeling of family… Told with all the considerable charm you would expect from one of Australia's best-loved authors, this is a lovely read for upper primary ages. Lindy Jones From one of Australia's most renowned children's authors, this is a story about coming home when you didn't even know that was where you belonged. Eleven-year-old Jonquil known as Quil Medway is a girl with more than an unusual name.

Quil's parents died in a car accident when she was a baby and she now goes to boarding school, but spends her holidays with an aunt - or at camp, which is where Quil is heading when she decides to get off early at a train stop called Hoopers Bend. It is there that Quil meets Pirate, a chunky little white dog with black spots who immediately adopts her and Bailey, a crabby older lady who has gone to Hoopers Bend to check out the shop that has been left to her by an uncle.

There is something magical about the shop at Hoopers Bend though, and once it casts its spell on Quil and Bailey they are drawn together in an unlikely friendship and their fight to save the shop from developers. From one of Australia's most renowned children's authors, this is a story about coming home when you didn't even know that was where you belonged.

In a split instant and despite the fear of saltwater crocodiles and sharks, he decides to escape. Reaching the shore and eluding his pursuers, Sparrow has to survive on his wits and determination not to go back. As the reader follows him in his quest for survival in what could be a hostile and unforgiving landscape, we also learn the life that Sparrow is so desperate to escape, and that the wilderness doesn't hold as many threats as his past. When a juvenile detention exercise off the coast of the Kimberley goes wrong, sixteen-year-old Sparrow must swim to shore.

There are sharks and crocs around him but the monsters he fears most live in the dark spaces in his mind. He's swimming away from his prison life and towards a desolate, rocky coastland and the hollow promise of freedom. He'll eat or be eaten, kill or be killed. With no voice, no family and the odds stacked against him, Sparrow has nothing left to lose. But to survive he'll need something more potent than desperation, something more dangerous than a makeshift knife.

It follows a little koala as he has to leave his mother's territory, and find a home of his own. In a different font below the main text, factual information is given that explains what is happening and why. With beautifully soft and expressive illustrations by Julie Vivas, this gently educational book is aimed at newly confident readers who aren't quite ready for a serious book full of facts.

Lindy Jones It is time for Little Koala to leave the protection of his mother. But many challenges and dangers lie ahead for him as he searches for his own home eucalypt and learns to be independent. During his search he encounters other territorial koalas, wanders though a bushfire-ravaged landscape and endures a night of storms. Koala is written by award-winning nonfiction picture book specialist Claire Saxby, and illustrated by the much-celebrated Julie Vivas, one of Australia's premier illustrators.

The Spider Queen is searching for the pieces of the first grimoire, and when she has them she will destroy the world out of sheer rage and spite. Kara and Taff need to find them before Rygoth does, but to do so will come at a dreadful cost. Kara must go back to the past to find the Princess who began the whole wickedness, and then unravel the web of lies and deceit to save those she loves, and those who trust in her.

A satisfying conclusion to a clever series. Lindy Jones The spellbinding conclusion in the critically acclaimed Thickety series, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman. In The Thickety 4: The Last Spell, Kara and her brother Taff must find the hidden pieces of Princess Evangeline's grimoire to defeat Rygoth and her army of witches in one last good versus evil battle. Legends say that any witch who wields its dangerous magic would be indestructible. Kara and Taff have to stop the Spider Queen from finding the ancient weapon-and destroying everything. They will travel through time with an old enemy, come face-to-face with the creatures that guard the grimoire's pages, and unravel a king's dangerous secret, before one final battle against the Spider Queen.

But can Kara save the people she loves and cast a spell that could change magic forever. Agatha is a shop assistant, and she is pregnant. She is also fixated with Meg, one of her customers, who is also pregnant, but lives a different sort of life - one that Agatha knows about because she not only watches Meg very carefully but reads her mummy-blog. Appearances deceive, because Meghan is not having quite so perfect a life as Agatha believes. Both Agatha and Meghan are hiding secrets, and as they come closer to delivering their babies, the story starts to become very gripping indeed… Told through both characters' voices, this is a compelling thriller, and as Robotham can do so easily, there are always more surprises even when you think everything is revealed!

These two women from vastly different backgrounds have one thing in common - a dangerous secret that could destroy everything they hold dear. Both will risk everything to hide the truth, but their worlds are about to collide in a shocking act that cannot be undone. A compelling psychological thriller that delves deeply into the psyche of the human mind, by internationally bestselling author Michael Robotham.

A new neighbour moves in, and asks Ben to do small jobs for him around the yard. It's the late 80s and Ben has been brought up to be polite and helpful. Ben's best friend, Fab, is a bit of a tearaway, exceedingly loyal, and the victim of unacknowledged though well known domestic violence.

They do everything together but Ben starts to become distant, and as they grow older they grow apart. As the narrative switches in time, the reader starts to see what has happened and a chilling story is revealed. Atmospheric and gripping, with a veracity to place only someone who has grown up in a small town can convey, it is the sort of book you read in one sitting, but stays with you for much longer.

Growing up in a small country town, they spend their days playing cricket, yabbying in local dams, wanting a pair of Nike Air Maxes and not talking about how Fab's dad hits him or how the sudden death of Ben's next-door neighbour unsettled him. Almost teenagers, they already know some things are better left unsaid.

Then a newcomer arrived in the Wimmera. Fab reckoned he was a secret agent and he and Ben staked him out. Up close, the man's shoulders were wide and the veins in his arms stuck out, blue and green. His hands were enormous, red and knotty. Maybe even stronger than Fab's dad. Neither realised the shadow this man would cast over both their lives. Twenty years later, Fab is still stuck in town, going nowhere but hoping for somewhere better.

Then a body is found in the river, and Fab can't ignore the past any more. It is a collection of short stories, and the main theme is how people of different backgrounds try to find a place to belong in contemporary Australia. A medical student from Hong Kong meets his white girlfriend's country family for the first time; the Indian doctor who is targeted by an Italian patient who hasn't improved after his broken bones were set in casualty; the girl who finally admits to her Syrian background in a tourist setting; the Chinese grandmother made to feel burdensome.

But there are also tender and perceptive stories about motherhood, loneliness and ageing. Sympathetic, clear-eyed and insightful writing. Australia Day is a collection of stories by debut author Melanie Cheng. The people she writes about are young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Chinese, Lebanese, Christian, Muslim. What they have in common-no matter where they come from-is the desire we all share to feel that we belong. The stories explore universal themes of love, loss, family and identity, while at the same time asking crucial questions about the possibility of human connection in a globalised world.

Melanie Cheng is an important new voice, offering a fresh perspective on contemporary Australia. Her effortless, unpretentious realism balances an insider's sensitivity and understanding with an outsider's clear-eyed objectivity, showing us a version of ourselves richer and more multifaceted than anything we've seen before.

Beautifully designed, and presented in a muted palette of soft browns and greens, the illustrations convey the deep need to connect with nature, and celebrate imagination and mindfulness. A quiet book to appeal to the very young - and the much older! Lindy Jones Deep in the heart of the city, Frankie dreams of a thousand trees Award-winning artist Kyle Hughes-Odgers takes readers on a journey of imagination and discovery, exploring the art of nature and the nature of art.

A girl looks out her window on to city street and out to a rainbow. She recalls the farm she used to live on, and how the colours in the rainbow bring different memories and present day contrasts. As she progresses through the spectrum, by the time she reaches indigo, she realises there are things that haven't changed. A reassuring book in its way, that change is not without its compensations. Lindy Jones All the colours of the rainbow are explored against the striking backdrop of two different worlds. A stunning exploration of colour by internationally acclaimed author Sophie Masson and emerging illustrator Michael McMahon.

The original inhabitants, the Sidhe, have returned and reclaimed their kingdom, and no human can enter or leave, nor anything human-manufactured. Worse still, they steal teenagers; every young person knows they will be Called, and when they are, they need all their wits and strength to survive the ordeal. A day with the Sidhe, but three minutes and four seconds in human time, and if the teen survives the traps of the other side, he may be returned alive. Otherwise, mutilated, and dead. These Sidhe are not the fairies of sweetness and light, but dangerous ferals wanting revenge.

Teenagers are sent to schools to learn how to survive, but Nessa is not expected to. She is a cripple, and if strong healthy children can't survive The Call, how will she? This is a great read, enthralling and heart-poundingly clever! Without warning, each one of them will wake in a terrifying land, alone and hunted, with a one-in-ten chance of returning alive. No one believes Nessa can make it, but she's determined to prove them all wrong. And she will need every ounce of spirit and courage in order to survive Her Mum died in mysterious circumstances a year before, her Dad has turned inwards with grief, the fish have stopped running, and the boy she loves has been sent to boarding school.

Yet Lucy has a plan, to escape Parkers Corner with her best friend Polly, just as soon as they have finished school. That dream keeps her going, but other dreams start to intrude - ones that seem to belong to someone else… as the year progresses, and everything she relied on falls apart, Lucy learns to find reserves and another way into the future she longs for. Sixteen-year-old Lucy Hart has been counting the days till she can get the hell out of Digger's Landing - a small Queensland fishing hamlet home to fifteen families, a posse of mongrel dogs, and Parkers Corner Store no apostrophe and nowhere near a corner.

But just like the tides Lucy's luck is on the turn, and as graduation nears her escape plans begin to falter; her best friend, Polly, is dropping out of school to help pay the bills, and Tom has been shipped off to boarding school, away from the flotsam of this place. And then there's Lucy's nightlife, which is filled with dreams that just don't seem to belong to her at all When the fish stop biting, like they did when her mum was still around, Lucy realises she isn't the only one with a secret.

When Simpson and her partner fell in love with ten steep acres of bush in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, they succumbed to its allure without quite knowing just what they were taking on. This book interleaves natural science and personal story, description and reflection. She learns to look, to see, and finally to recognise not only the trees on her property, but also her own possibilities and strengths.

While each of her novels Mr Wigg ; Nest ; Where the Trees Were has shown a strong connection to land and nature, this book allows her to expand her concerns and observations, and to preserve and celebrate her trees in words - a fine addition to the genre of Australian nature writing. I tend the forest, stand at the foot of trees and look up, gather what has fallen. While the transAtlantic trade in brides was often characterised as American money for European titles, de Courcy takes a slightly different slant.

Yet, if your daughter had married a baronet or an earl or better still a Duke, you had instant cachet…. Telling the stories of many a young heiress who was foisted onto penurious peers or sons thereof this is a sparkling and well researched read. It catches the sophistication of the Gilded Age, as well as conspicuous consumption that was de rigueur - how else would anyone know how rich you were if your wife didn't spend enormous quantities - and wasn't that her prime occupation?

Lovely descriptions of balls and jewels and gowns by Worth counterpoint the stories of what the American girls were exchanging for their coronets, the vast differences in expectations and lifestyles they were plunged into with their marriages. Greatly entertaining, but also a wonderful dissection of high society in the latter parts of the 19th century. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain.

The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. From - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known 'Dollar Princess', married Randolph Churchill - to , dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age.

Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. Based on extensive first-hand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them. In this, her fifth collection, she takes her keen eye to a range of subjects, though most of them are concerned in one way or another with the way a certain class of contemporary society lives and behaves, and with the way people so often don't say what they want in the heartfelt expectation that communication is what others should be doing.

From the title story as told by a waterbird decorating a Pompeian garden through to the last story of perfect revenge, via tales of surprise and sometimes even ghosts, these are little gems! A dream house that is hiding something sinister; two women having lunch who share a husband; an old woman doing her weekly supermarket shop with a secret past that no one could guess; a couple who don't know each other at all even after fifteen years together; and, in the story from which this collection takes its name, a bird and a servant girl in ancient Pompeii who cannot converse, but share a perfect understanding.

In this new and varied collection of short stories, Penelope Lively shows that she remains a master of her craft, and one of our finest English writers. Polly has trouble reading her spells, as the letters keep wriggling away - quite an impediment for a young witch. It also makes her the class outcast. Her best friend is Buster, the monster next door who has his own un-monsterly talent of changing colour when emotional , but in their community, witches and monsters are not supposed to be friends.

When Polly makes a monumental blunder that inadvertently releases a huge spell, she becomes feted by the popular girls at school, and as she increasingly enjoys the attention, she forgets what is really important. Illustrated by Rippin, with lots of white space around the text, this book will appeal to newly confident readers. Who ever heard of a witch and a monster being friends? Witches are educated, clever, sophisticated. Monsters are just uncouth. Some are even dangerous. Yet Polly the witch and Buster the feelings monster have been best friends forever.

Somehow, they've managed to keep their friendship a secret. Until one day, when everything changes The author directly addresses the reader, telling the story of the story - how it started as an idea, became a bunch of words, then a heap of drafts and so on through the entire labour intensive process of becoming a physical object. Okay, so there are also a few digressions, with busy illustrators and tigers and astronauts and pirates, and the reader has to get to the very last page before the secret ingredient is revealed, but this is a lovely way of explaining how books are made! Lindy Jones You may think you know how this book was made, but you don't.

Sure, the author wrote many drafts, and the illustrator took a long time creating the art, but then what? How'd it get into your hands? Well, open the cover and read through these pages to find out. Just beware of the pirates and angry tiger. Budding writers and artists will laugh at the mix of reality and the absurd as the story makes its way to a shelf, and a reader.

It follows the journey of Johannes, a boy from Poland whose parents are doctors. He believes what he has heard about Hitler and looks forward to joining the Hitler Youth, until the mistake, as he thinks it, is made, and he finds himself consigned to a concentration camp. There is also Frau Marks, who has tried to save Jewish babies until she is betrayed; and Helga, who helps Johannes at the lowest point of his life; their stories of survival and eventually finding refuge in Australia form the basis of the novel. The theme however is finding forgiveness, and how difficult that is… A fitting conclusion to the war novels.

It is also the story of how they survived the death camps, the vast wilderness faced by refugees in World War Two, and how they eventually found happiness in Australia. The final title in the multi award-winning Hitler series, this compelling story follows on from Heidi's story in Hitler's Daughter and Georg's in Pennies for Hitler, and shows us that evil must be fought and won. But once you've won, the hardest and most necessary battle is to understand and forgive.

And to learn how to love and live again. A Stormy Story of Tempest. It asks whether Macquarie was Founding Father or Failure, and proceeds to lay out the facts of his governorship - what he achieved, his attitudes to emancipists and 'exclusives' and the enemies he made. With clear and concise text, and Bern Emmerichs' energetic illustrations which further the storyline, this is a stimulating and entertaining history for readers Lindy Jones The story of Lachlan Macquarie is an important story in the history of modern Australia that has been largely lost to the current generation of school children.

Whilst we've all seen many things named after Macquarie, few realise the important role he played in the Australia we know today. Lachlan Macquarie's gravestone bears the inscription, 'Father of Australia'. That's quite a claim, but is this a title Macquarie really deserves? He is rightly celebrated for his inspired infrastructure building and his enlightened treatment of convicts and emancipists, but his treatment of the Indigenous population was far from enlightened.

And then there was the Bigge report to the British Parliament that was scathing in its criticism of Macquarie's governorship, on the grounds that he was far too 'democratic'. So how are we to think of this towering figure of Australian history: Michael Sedunary's narrative is both informative and interactive; he poses questions and points out modern parallels.

The illustrations all painted on large ceramic tiles that are individually fired between each layer of colour. It's told through the eyes of a young boy, James, whose innate curiosity has him exploring dirt - the insects that live in it, how compost is formed, the origins of soil and its different types, and how we use it. The illustrations are full of light and use a subdued colour palette, with just the right amount of detail to be educational when necessary, and to show the wonder of the the world through James' perceptions.

James has, and he wants to be a soil scientist. A Hidden World Underground, James discovers that soil is not just dirt for digging in, but an essential part of our world. He explores how plants and animals live in soil, how soils are formed, how they differ, and the ways that soil is essential in our lives. Written by Samantha Grover, a soil scientist and parent, and with engaging illustrations from Camille Heisler, Exploring Soils will take you to an underground world filled with activity and discoveries.

His life is complicated - while other people know, his deeply conservative Christian family don't realise he is gay. His first love is moving interstate, and his new possible love-interest is patiently waiting. There will be a farewell party, but it's possible Adam will be banned from going, and so miss out on seeing the one who broke his heart. His older, perfect, brother has a few bombshells to drop, and so does his best female friend. Then there's the sleazebag at work who goes a bit too far.

And meanwhile there's an uneasy ghost of a murdered girl, a mysterious nature spirit trying to stop the world from ending, and a rose… One for older teens; Ness' many fans will devour this! It's Saturday, it's summer and, although he doesn't know it yet, everything in Adam Thorn's life is going to fall apart. But maybe, just maybe, he'll find freedom from the release. Time is running out though, because way across town, a ghost has risen from the lake This uplifting coming-of-age novel will remind you what it's like to fall in love.

Quinn has settled down onto the farm he won for his exploits, kept busy reproducing his wonderful map. He's starting to feel a little bit restless though, and his oldest brother is always spoiling for a fight. When Quinn escapes an attempted abduction, he learns that other kingdoms are interested in his abilities, and so his King and his former captain decide to send him out into the unknown away from their enemies.

Quinn and two unlikely companions are entrusted to distant cousin Lord Thornten's care, and sail out into the unmapped seas - and of course, plots are discovered, dangers faced, and adventures embarked upon! A rollicking read which those who have read the first three books should thoroughly enjoy! Lindy Jones Quinn is back! He finished his race around the world and is living a quiet life on the family farm, until he discovers that the King's enemies want to capture him.

Quinn is forced to go on the run, taking to the high seas once more. Can he survive when he is double-crossed and left for dead? Tait in the bestselling Mapmaker Chronicles. On the night of her twelfth birthday, Argyle becomes the fourth victim of the Black Glove Murderer, who is targeting butlers in the city of Yorke. Just as disturbing, the black cat statues who are reputed to be the city's guardians are starting to disappear, and Rose stumbles upon a clandestine society of butlers, who know how to use a rapier just as well as they know how to supervise setting a table.

Together with her best friend a poetess with a taste for black and Gothic mysteries Rose sets out to make sure that an ancient prophesy does not come to pass. Lots of adventure and intrigue and a determined but well brought up heroine! Especially since he's the third butler to die in a week! Rose's investigation leads her on a journey into a hidden world of grave robbers and duelling butlers, flamboyant magicians and the city's ancient feline guardians. Knives aren't just for cutting cucumber sandwiches, you know To begin with, it is colourfully illustrated, with informative captions on the very first page one explains how piles of pebbles were called calculi in Latin, thus giving us the word calculate.

It clearly explains concepts in terms of numbers, for example fractions break up whole numbers, logarithms use addition for multiplication, numbers can be imaginary or solve problems or expain the world. It covers history, mathematicians and processes, all in an informative but accessible style. Schoolroom sums are crucial in learning the awesome power of mathematics, but they are often a world away from how the knowledge is applied and where it came from.

How Counting Changed the World is there to fill that gap. How Counting Changed the World introduces the amazing people who figured out what numbers are and what they can do. Written to engage, entertain, and enthuse young people, it shows readers how the ideas of long-dead geniuses ended up in their homework assignments: The Mayans of ancient Mexico were using zeros long before anyone else, and we count time and angles in multiples of 60 because that is what the people of Babylon did for good reason.

Meanwhile Pythagoras was a murderer, the shape of a credit card is defined by the golden ratio, and John Napier, the inventor of logarithms, seldom appeared in public without his pet rooster! Tan is as feisty and as curious or should that be imaginatively inquisitive? She is also still very concerned with recording her observations with the correct pen whilst being properly accessorised!

In this new story, the holidays are about to start, there is a mysterious boy or is he a gypsy and Tan has to look after her neighbour's yard while Mrs Topple is away. When a strange car and a shadowy figure keep appearing, Tan knows her Great Detective skills are called for, and with the help of her friends and assorted animals she is going to solve the mystery. Lindy Jones The next title in the best-selling and very popular Truly Tan series.

Way out in the country, Mrs Topple is Tan's closest neighbour. But Mrs Topple has gone on a cruise and Tan is in charge of security at the Topple cottage. Tan is also looking after the garden and watering the plants. But mostly she's in charge of security. Which is just as well because something suspicious is going on. A strange car has been coming and going and a shadowy figure has been spotted snooping around.

And now Tan has noticed items moving around in the garden - on their own! As tensions mount, Tan decides a stake-out is in order. Little does she know she is walking straight into a trap. Like me, you'll just be excited to know he's got a new book out, doesn't matter what it's about, you know it will be brilliant. For the rest of you?

There's also a very fine collection of short stories, if you prefer that form: Well, I would say you need to! Each of his books is different in style, but all are involving. You can't help but trust him as you are immersed in the stories he tells, and as importantly, the way he tells them. Reservoir 13 is an extraordinary addition to his body of work. The novel's lynchpin is the disappearance of a young teenage girl. She was on a New Year holiday with her parents and lagged behind on a country walk.

The whole village turns out to search for her, but she is never seen again. The novel then spreads over the next thirteen years, always circling back to the mystery of Rebecca's whereabouts; yet what it does is describe the people of the village and their lives, the traditions that bind and the changes that gradually overtake them, and the surrounding landscape and wildlife.

Equal importance is given to things such as the movement of herons and badgers, the gardens in the allotments, the flow of water and weather, as to the human stories unfolding gradually: A paragraph may continue the stories of a number of human characters in a few lines and then relate the seasonal happenings in the natural world - a beautifully elegant and exquisitely observed narrative. Layers and layers of small revelations build up to a rich and varied portrayal of communal life in all its ordinariness and small gracenotes.

It's so rare to come across such true accomplishment that I can almost forgive him for not being more prolific! Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. But then there is a referendum, and maybe, just maybe, things will change for the better.

Simple text tells the story of the historic Referendum and of how two strong women Faith Bandler and Jessie Street fought for the Yes vote. It is an excellent introduction to the complex issues and attitudes of the day, with notes at the back of the book explaining how prejudice was enshrined. The illustrations are by Indigenous artist Paul Seden, who uses his pen and ink watercoloured drawings against scanned archival photographs.

A fine book for ages Lindy Jones A timely reminder for children and adults alike to slow down, stop and appreciate the world around us. From a fast-paced metropolis to the greener, magical places a young girl's imagination, Slow Down, World is a whimsical journey towards mindulness. That truly adorable headstrong piglet just happens to overhear Olivia wouldn't really use the word 'eavesdropping' her father and mother discussing sending her to an institution for her birthday.