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On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens—praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor—kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels. That’s where our hero comes in, name of Raymond. As part of the android police force, this positronic robot detective navigates both worlds, human and alien, keeping order and evaporating wrongdoers.

After a disastrous relationship effectively torches her personal and professional life in Sydney, Annabelle is back in Brisbane. She’s about to start her dream job launching and curating a First Nations gallery in the city, and this time, nothing is getting in the way of her important work. Certainly not romance. Matters of the heart have always turned out to be a surefire way to make Annabelle run for the hills – literally. Everything is going to plan until a birthday trip to the rodeo with her tiddas brings Annabelle up close and very personal with Dusty Davies, bona fide cowboy.

The plane crashed forty years ago. The body inside died yesterday. Detective Sergeant Kate Hayes — a female detective with a reputation for unearthing the truth — is called to a remote crash site near Coober Pedy. She expects wreckage and old bones. What she finds is a fresh corpse — a man in a 1980s RAAF flight suit, carrying ID for a pilot declared dead in 1984. The plane’s been buried in red dust for decades. The victim was alive until now. Someone kept him that way. As Kate digs into military records and classified files, she uncovers buried secrets tied to a Cold War programme ...

After the death of her husband, Adam, in an horrific plane crash, Gemma Sinclair defies community expectations—and Adam's dying words—by deciding to hang on to Billbinya, the 10,000-hectare station he bequeathed to her. As if Gemma's grief and the job of looking after Billbinya aren't enough, a wave of innuendo soon sweeps the community that Adam's plane crash was no accident. Police officers confirm the rumour when they visit Gemma and tell her Adam's death was almost certainly related to his involvement in a cattle and sheep duffing ring.

Albert survived the apocalypse by keeping to himself—until Matilda and her mum came crashing into his life. Now, instead of solitude, he’s stuck with a talkative kid, a stubborn foster mother, and a golden retriever who thinks she runs the show. It’s not the quiet end of the world he had in mind, but it’ll do—more or less. But peace never lasts. When Jenny decides Matilda deserves an education—even if the world has ended—she ropes Albert into a half-baked plan to reach a crumbling coastal town where she once taught. She swears it’s for the books and teaching supplies. Albert...

You who have read The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and tiny Man is now in the process of becoming acclimated to the change. We again meet our hero Burl, but this time a far greater danger menaces the human race. The huge insects are still in evidence, but the terror they inspire is as nothing compared to the deadly Red Dust.

Fallen gods with a taste for murder. A criminal syndicate. A secretive desert town. Ex-god Royal has a bone to pick with the human race. In his previous form, charismatic Royal and his surly partner Moon all but saved the forty worlds of the Collectorate from destruction. Their reward? Desert exile on Azteca to live as humans. No public gratitude. History rewritten. Seriously. Doesn’t anyone respect a god?

As the 1960s draw to a close, the rural northeast Texas community of Center Springs is visited by two nondescript government men in dark suits and shades. They say their assignment is to test weather currents and patterns, but that's a lie. Their delivery of a mysterious microscopic payload called Gold Dust from a hired crop duster coincides with fourteen-year-old Pepper Parker's discovery of an ancient gold coin in her dad's possession. Her adolescent trick played on a greedy adult results in the only gold rush in north Texas history.

The book that will “blow you away”** has a dazzling new look in paperback! Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from...

This is the hair rising sequel to sci-fi master Murray Leinster's "The Mad Planet". Burl, our hero, still has to contend with the giant bugs and fungus; as well as even greater menaces! "The sky grew gray and then almost white. The overhanging banks of clouds seemed to withdraw a little from the steaming earth. Haze that hung always among the mushroom forests and above the fungus hills grew more tenuous, and the slow and misty rain that dripped the whole night long ceased reluctantly.

In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Deng Xiaoping was clamping down on 'Spiritual Pollution'; young people were rebelling. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself.

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, and Garry Disher He spent his life reading ancient stone. He died for what he found in it. When palaeontologist Dr Noah Henshaw vanishes from a remote research site on the Nullarbor Plain, Detective Constable Lillian Tate expects a welfare check—a scientist wandered off, disoriented by heat and isolation. Then she finds his body. Henshaw was murdered. His research files are gone. And the fossil site he'd been excavating sits directly above land flagged for mining permits that should never have been approved. The Nullarbor has preserved ...

The desert doesn't forgive. It forgets slowly, in layers of bone and rust. Jax Renn is a dying man crossing a dying land. A wounded ex-ranger, half-blind from the heat, limping across a saltpan that has already claimed a hundred better men — he has no water, no backup, and no good reason to keep moving. Except he does. That's the thing about rangers. The training doesn't leave, even when everything else does. When he collapses near the ruins of a communications tower, he wakes to find someone has patched his wounds and moved his gear. Someone who doesn't want to be found. Mae is sixteen, ...

From the moment when, as a little girl, she realises that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, the courageous revelatory journey that Jackie Kay undertakes in Red Dust Road is full of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions.

Commander Selah Ward leads New Dawn, an American colony daring to coax life from the red dust of Mars. With mirrors in orbit and engines that sing, the first green takes hold—and with it, a fragile covenant to “not buy life with ruin.” But enemies prefer ash to seedlings. A poet of unrest, a broker of quiet ruin, and stolen radiological cores threaten to turn water into a weapon. As storms prowl the canyons and rumors hunt the truth, Selah and her unlikely circle—an engineer who writes hymns in code, a chaplain with sleeves rolled, a repentant saboteur learning the long obedience—...

A romantic historical novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red about an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas. Ella Baron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship’s captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. She cooks, cleans...

Certainly! Here's the revised blurb, emphasizing that this is the complete series: Secrets Beneath the Red Dust. A Conspiracy Worth Killing For. In the heart of the unforgiving Australian Outback, the land is vast, the people are tough, and the secrets are deadly. When Jenny Tyler returns to the dusty, sunbaked cattle station she once called home, she’s thrust into a web of mystery, betrayal, and a decades-old conspiracy hidden beneath the red dust. A skilled operative with a turbulent past, Jenny faces ruthless enemies, cryptic allies, and a shadowy organization determined to unearth ...

Tommy & Lizzy are back in their most adventure-filled story yet! When fourteen-year-old Tommy discovers a weathered notebook tucked inside his late grandfather’s saddlebag, he never imagines it will launch him into a forgotten pact, and a mystery buried beneath decades of red dust. The notebook holds clues to a trail hidden across the outback: carved cattle brands, spiral stones, and cryptic poems that lead not to gold, but to something far more dangerous... and far more important. With his loyal Blue Heeler Lizzy, her two wild pups, and sharp-witted classmate Ellie by his side, Tommy ...

What’s Beneath the Red Dust Can Kill Deep beneath the Australian Outback, a forgotten bacteria lies dormant—forgotten by humanity and the ones who swore to remember it. Hidden for centuries, it’s about to resurface, and the world isn’t ready. Poppy Geordanis thought her new job as head chef at a remote research station would be a dream come true: a chance to escape family pressure, explore her culinary passion, and live off the grid. But twenty floors underground, her dream turns into a nightmare. When an armed mercenary force invades the station, Poppy is thrown into a deadly game ...

On the night of 'The March', The Teacher will find himself, in the most profound and liberating test of his ideals. Part philosophical and politcal satire, and part gut wrenching horror, The Anarchist, proving once again that C.SeanMcGee is to be found neither on the left nor the right of traditional and scholared ideology, points an ironic, poignant and articuate finger at idealism and its literal implications.