Ernest Bywater
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Keeping a Promise
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A retired soldier's farm is attacked. When his weapon is damaged the 11 year-old son is told to take is almost 2 year-old sister and escape out the hidden exit after promising to care for his sister until she can care for herself. Their parents are killed while they travel down the tunnel, so he sets off the final defences as the enemy moves in, and kills more of the attackers.
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Space Born - A New Realm
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Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Adventure
Space is huge and governments control as much of the space around and between their systems as they can, but there are still a very small parts of space not claimed by any government. Very few people are born between the stars, and even fewer are born in the unclaimed areas of space, but that one thousandth of one percent who are so born are called Space Born and have some very odd citizenships.
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'Tinker' Taylor: Spy & Soldier
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A young man from a military background has an interesting upbringing that involves him in many things a person his age shouldn't be involved with. Told in the form of 4 books Lee Taylor's first decades of life are full of action, adventure, and hard decisions. 75,000 words of action adventure.
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Clan Amir of Berant
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Categories: Fiction » Action » Politics
The important events in the post WW2 life of a small country with a strong warrior tradition. It covers significant modern heroes of the country, with a focus on four generations of a family who dedicate their lives to the welfare and protection of their people. Gordon Mannheim is a direct descendant of both Berant Royal lines. Born to a clan of warriors, born in a warrior society.
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Secession!
Categories: Fiction » Politics » Action
A look at one way for the USA to legally allow for Secession, and what is likely to happen if it is allowed in the modern US political scene.
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In the Mail
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Categories: Fiction » Politics
What can happen with universal postal voting systems, especially when implemented at short notice. Like many ideas, how it goes depends more on how it's implemented than the idea itself.
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Also Reap
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Categories: Fiction » Politics » Action
The daughter of a close friend and neighbour is murdered by political activists at a protest march. the activist go on to riot and take control of part of the city near where he lives. The local authorities side with the activists as they cause damage to the properties in the area. Both families decide to fight back.
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Modern Day Witch Hunt ~ Over with, we Hope! ~
Categories: Non-Fiction » Law » Civil rights
This is a true accounting, in a report format, of the abuse of office by a number of people, and how they cause trouble for people who dare to believe in things different to them. In this case they use the cry of 'Child Porn' to scare people into accepting what they want. The worst part of this is the government greatly changing the law but not publicly saying they did.
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A Farmer's Life
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Farmers live their lives are ruled by the land they work and the cycles of nature. James is the son of a farmer who's orphaned by a bushfire. He continues to live with his father's old boss, but knows he has to make his own way in life after school. Life has it's ups and downs, and many challenges for James. He leaves the farm for the Army, but ends up back on a farm.
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Boone ~ The Early Years ~
A fire destroys a farm in Virginia, so the family goes west. But the youngest is too ill to travel when it's time to leave. The boy and his grandmother stay behind to follow later. It takes so long for him to recover the two don't go west, and find local employment. A decade later rising political problems cause the young man and his grandmother to make a decision about their future.
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Runaway!
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A 9 year old boy's family are killed and he lives with his great grandfather until the man dies when he's 16. His parents raise him to be free thinking and independent. His great grandfather adds to. The welfare authorities won't let David live in the house he helped to build. So his great grandfather helps him to be true to himself when he runs away to stay free, and find a new life. 54,900 words
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Michaels Mansion
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A two hundred year old historic building is destroyed by fire when a jet plane taking off from the local airport is shot down. This story tells how the current owner goes about turning a fire gutted building of five sandstone walls back into the elegant building it once was, despite not having much cash to do it with and having to fight the state bureaucrats.
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Mack
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A young man with a unique heritage that guides his destiny has to deal with many hard issues starting with the murder of his father while 10 years of age. We follow his life for the next decade while he works to survive, protect his heritage, and fight the man he holds responsible for his father's death. He's more than what he seems, and strives to meet all his responsibilities.
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Kim: Power Play
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Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action
Kim is badly injured in an incident at school, an accident that should never have happened. He's a teenage boy with a reputation of being an unstoppable force that always gets things done. Recovering from injuries that should have been fatal he lives 'in interesting times' as he sets out to prove the doctors wrong. He's determined he'll walk again; if his powerful enemies let him live that long.
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Interesting Times
Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
They say the Chinese have a curse - May you live in interesting times. A 15 year old boy has a major change of lifestyle forced on him. We follow along while he adjusts to the changes. However, he lives in interesting times and he must deal with them as well as rising to the challengers presented to him. Through all this his true nature shows and he changes the lives of many others.
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Flames of Life
Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
A young man has a major change of lifestyle forced on him. He becomes a writer, and then something else again. First we read two of his stories about himself, then we follow him as he makes another change to his life and changes the lives of many others in the Rivers Region. In the process he unexpectedly meets his own destiny as well.
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Zombie & Hell Hound
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Categories: Fiction » Anthologies
Zombie: An Australian soldier is killed in Afghanistan. Years later a young girl is abducted near her school in a rural Australian town. A strange man in worn Army desert camos discovers the girl, but she has a rare blood group and is bleeding to death. Hell Hound: 'Once a Marine, always a Marine.' was the code he lived by. His dictionary had no definition for 'impossible.'
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Mallard Heir
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Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
A man just out of university inherits a trust in the USA. He has to live in the house it owns, but first he has to make it liveable. He also has to worry about some old feuds in place in this rural valley in the Appalachian mountains. He has to survive his first weeks in the mountains, and in doing so he finds a wife and partner for life while they deal with old feuds and the local weather.
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Life is Change
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No good turn goes unpunished. There's nothing so constant in life as change. Shortly after finishing his university exams Smoky Grey learns these two sayings are true. His life and plans are totally changed by an encounter in the university car-park.
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Will to Survive
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A simple training exercise with brand new fighter aircraft goes very wrong when some thieves are where they shouldn't be and get mistaken for the target drones. The resulting explosion has many consequences for everyone involved, and Will March ends up living in some turbulent times in another era. Read how Will survives those first few years which are the dangerous beginnings of his new life.
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Times of Old
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Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Adventure
A man is killed by religious militants while protecting his fellow workers. He wakes up to find he's been abducted by aliens with an offer for him. He's to be placed in an environment like Earth was 35,000 to 40,000 years ago, with animals and humans of that time. But it's a one-way trip to star in a reality broadcast show. They supply gear to help him survive, and it's up to him to do so
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The Contagion
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Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Apocalyptic
There's a deadly virus sweeping the world bringing the recent dead back to life. A Think Tank Group is visiting the Cheyenne Mountain Complex when the problem is recognised and the alert issued.
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Survivor: Moving On
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Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Pat has survived life on the ranch and high school, but it's now time to go to university. He has lots of plans and intentions when he leaves home, but life and events change some of them for him. Life away from the ranch exposes Pat to a lot of different problems and dangers which he must steer a safe course through. It's time for him to move on with his life, and he does.
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Survivor
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Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
A 10 year old boy survives a car crash where his family is killed. He goes to live on his maternal grandfather's ranch on the Texas / Mexican border with some of his retired Army buddies. But life there has some serious issues due to drug smugglers being angry about having their shipments destroyed by those at the ranch. Pat grows up fast while learning to be quick and accurate with a gun.
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Star Performance
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Categories: Fiction » Coming of Age
Sixteen year old Hal Smith is a quiet, unassuming, teen boy with a bad knee and no dreams. Taught to help people, he does; without thinking before acting. In Year Ten in a new city and school, it's a year of living in interesting times as he's often in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the right thing. Events happen to him, and he shapes them to the advantage of his friends and himself.
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Stand in Time
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A man replaces his cousin to help his cousin's family while moving to the USA. When they get to the USA and the man is kidnapped by a group set on world domination. They brainwash him and send him back in time to help them take control and bring about a different end to the War Between the States. How badly can it affect their plans when they grab the wrong man? Can one man make a difference?
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Same Sex Marriage Debacle
Categories: Fiction » Christian » General
Gary, the brother of Pastor James visits his brother after many years away from him, and gives him advice on how to deal with the Same Sex Marriage Debate. He follows the advice and things happen that upsets a lot of people.
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Rough Diamond
Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
An Australian schoolboy discovers he can move small objects with his mind. His family moves to Albuquerque, where he uses his special skill to 'win' money at casinos which brings him some unwanted attention from some people, including the Department of Homeland Security. He objects to their actions and soon a state of war exists between his family and the DHS (and the people behind them).
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Play Ball!
A teen boy moves to the USA, where he learns to play baseball. He works hard and enjoys his baseball. To him it's a fun sport, but he can't resist when they offering him good money to play professional baseball. However, there's one problem, few paid ball players are true professionals. He must choose between playing in a situation he doesn't like, or walking away.
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Odd Man in College
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Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
Lyn Davies is the Odd Man In as against being the Odd Man Out. Lyn is the sort of person to vanish into the crowd, even one as small as four people, despite many stand-out abilities. Just after Lyn graduates from high school Life delivers Lyn three strikes, but this isn't baseball, so Lyn is down and not out when he's served some fast balls he manages to deal with.
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New Computing World & Other Short Stories
Categories: Fiction » Anthologies
11 short stories showing many ranges of human attitudes and actions. Some are funny, while others show the best of people.
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Chaos Calls 02
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Adventure
Al Adams returns to Chaos to rescue more Damsels in Distress while fighting evil men in a medieval environment. These three stories are set in other parts of Chaos were Al is unable to get support from his local helpers prior to carrying out the missions.
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Chaos Calls 01
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Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Adventure
On the planet Chaos Damsels are in Distress and need rescuing by human males behaving within the hero's code. Al Adams is recruited to help rescue ladies. Using machines they don't understand human heroes go Chaos to make rescues. Things are worse than usual as some humans try to take over the operation and all the world. Al's visits to the planet Chaos are for adventures in a medieval world.
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Damsels in Distress Universe Rules
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Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Adventure
This book has the main rules for the Damsels in Distress Universe as approved by the universe creator, Lazlo Zalezac. Although not needed to enjoy the stories written in the universe it does help readers of the stories in the series to better understand the details of the operation of the universe. It is accurate at the time of writing and only includes the approved canon of the universe.
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Social Inertia & Keyboards
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Categories: Non-Fiction » Computers & Internet » Social aspects / human-computer interaction
A historical accounting and perspective on how the past continues to shape some aspects of today, despite improved technology to make things better.
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No Names - No Pack Drill
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Categories: Non-Fiction » Biography » Military biography
This is a recounting of the activities of my father, a transport driver, and his friends in the Australian Army during World War 2 of the incidents and events they talked about over a drink when they got together to remember the old days.They convey what they did to stay sane, and also why they were there. It includes poetry, pictures, and drawings from that time.
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Basic Math Notes
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Categories: Non-Fiction » Education & Study Guides » Study guides - Mathematics
This is a study help guide for students of general mathematics principles and processes with useful reminder sheets. It's for tutoring Years 1 to 6 or Grades 1 to 6.
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Fiction Writing & Style Guide
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Categories: Non-Fiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
This book\'s primary focus is on the writing of fiction stories with what you need to consider before you start to write and it covers the aspects of grammar where you need to vary from the grammar used in business or formal English. It includes instructions on how to make a good HTML file of the story and a good E-pub file for publication.
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