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"Rhonda Hāpi-Smith has walked among some of New Zealand's most dangerous criminals. As a female prison officer and member of the Riot Squad, she met and worked with thieves, addicts, gangsters, murderers and sex offenders for nearly twenty years in men's prisons around the country. Operating wit...

Explorers and scientists are discovering up to a thousand new animal species every year and estimate that over 7.5 million species are yet to be discovered. So, without further ado, let's meet Earth's new animals! From newly recorded species of whale and grasshopper-warbler to beautiful rose-veil...

In the 1920's and 1930's there were adventures to be lived and fortunes to be made by strong young men in the outback of Australia and the gold fields of New Guinea. This is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit-not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches-by one such adventurer, M...

Spot and his friends are helping out in the garden. They dig and plant seeds, but then Spot disappears! Where could he have gone?

"Count from 1 to 10 with the amazing adventure babies! Watch them surfing, diving and asleep in the clouds in this adorable chunky book. With a bouncy rhyme, cut baby photos and a surprise mirror - what's not to love?"--Back cover

In the thrilling sequel of Hairy Holes, readers finally meet the mysterious keyboard warrior, Ned AKA Crypt_hunter19, on his journey to prove the supernatural beings known as Hairy Holers do exist. But what happens when he catches the attention of a shady private government sector spearheaded by ...

With his signature style, Steve Jenkins uses engaging graphics and visual literacy to convey scientific facts and concepts, making them accessible for all kinds of readers. In Our World: By the Numbers readers will learn about the complex and wonderful place we call home. This book opens wide on ...

Her family offered her a neat life of privilege and power, until Lotti turned away from her father's plans - and toward what she really wanted. Now happy as a primary school teacher, Lotti may even have found the right man, a single dad, not the kind of guy who will fit in with her family, bu...

Out of the blood and powder smoke of the Civil War they rode, heading West across the flat, sun-blasted plains of New Mexico. Led by the notorious renegade Ed Cragg, these were the most feared raiders in the Confederacy. United by their hatred of the Yankees, this band of killers, gunmen, dirt fa...

It takes a particular kind of cussed perseverance to stay with some things. Wiley Anderson wouldn't have been a dirt-poor farmer if he hadn't also been a very determined and cussed type of fellow. But his wife wasn't cut from the same bolt, and pretty soon she ran off with a trader. Wiley didn't ...

When Jerry Knight got drawn into that poker game at Topango Wells, it didn't look like he knew what he was doing. He bet everything he had against Kelt Flecker's marked deck. He lost his money, guns and horse, and for two months he was going to work for Kelt - for free. But Jerry was not quite th...

Amidst the growing chaos of the post Civil War America, former Union Colonel Elijah McCain is on a mission to find his deserter stepsons. Going through more struggles than he thought possible--maybe more than when he was a colonel in the war--McCain finally locates his stepsons, only to have them...

Jesse Wilder is a man haunted by too much killing. Starting with the slaughter at Shiloh, the young Tennessean fought for his Southern homeland and lived through the horror of the War Between the States. Then there was Mexico, where Jesse armed and trained the peasant soldiers fighting for freedo...

Two identical brothers, both handsome, intelligent and popular recent college graduates, seemingly perfect in every way. That is, until the shocking summer night when one of them killed their parents in cold blood. The other has an iron-clad alibi, but which twin was where during the murders? And...

Virginia, 1864: Libby Steadman's husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him in the night, fearing him dead in a Union prison camp, her days are spent running a gristmill with her teenage niece, a hired hand, and his wife, all the...

Texas was a proud lady, crying out for freedom, and angry, romantic men went hell-for-leather to her rescue. Joel Barnett did not set out to join Texas' war for independence. Just out of law school, he was headed from Kentucky down the Mississippi on a flatboat to open an office in New Orleans. B...

Haunted by the memory of the Sultana riverboat disaster, where he witnessed countless lives perish, Deputy U.S. Marshal Lucas Cain reunites with his old friend, Jim Barnes, now living as a small rancher. When Jim's livelihood is shattered by the ruthless theft of two hundred cows, Lucas pledges t...

January Billings is entangled in a web of family drama and danger after inheriting the Flowers fortune and guardianship over her young cousins, Jem and Hattie Flowers. With an inheritance that isn't just wealth--but also a legacy of trouble--she must navigate the treacherous waters of societal ex...