The sedentary and impractical Hoyle meets Sybil Alvaro in a used bookstore, and she invites him to follow in the footsteps of her favourite author in a search for the mysterious Bloodwood Staff. He’s spent his entire life reading vintage adventure action, and thinks he knows how these things should go.In the mountains west of Sydney, his expectations are almost immediately derailed, as nobody – not Sybil, and certainly not the irrepressible Ada Drake, stand-in for the obligatory plucky urchin – behaves the way they’re supposed to.As they gradually realise that their lighthearted adventure has put themselves and their loved ones in dire peril, Hoyle is forced to face the fact that he is woefully unsuited to be the stereotypical hero.A deliberate subversion of adventure, fantasy and satire tropes, After the Bloodwood Staff is a brilliant and unexpected ride.
The Angel of the Crimea A Story for Young People (1909) A biography of the Founder of Modern Nursing To the Sister Eleanor, Of The Sisterhood Of Saint Mary, Herself Through Many Long Years A Devoted Worker For The Poor, The Sick, And The Sorrowful, This Brief Record Of An Heroic Life Is Affectionately Dedicated For the material used in this little book I am chiefly indebted to Sarah A. Tooley's "Life of Florence Nightingale," and to Kinglake's "Invasion of the Crimea."
With Maud Howe Elliott, etc., etc. (1917) A Biography of the Wife of John Adams (October 30, 1735 July 4, 1826), the second president of the United States (17971801), after serving as the first Vice President of the United States (1789-1797), and mother of the sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 February 23, 1848). Through her prolific letters written to her husband she provides an account of life and politics during the American Revolutionary War. Dedication: To The Honored Memory Of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, The Friend Of My Parents And Of My Children, To Three Generations A Faithful Affectionate, And Beloved Counsellor For much of the local and contemporary color in this little book, the author is indebted to the admirable works of the late Mrs. Alice Morse Earle.
Life is fairly workaday for Dr Celeste Carlucci, a professor at Krasnia’s finest university, until her best friend and colleague Pace involves Celeste in her research. Before long, Celeste is being shot at from a hovering helicopter, attacked on a moonlit mountain path, and followed by shadowy minions – on the trail of the Littoral Codex, an ancient and indecipherable book. The race is on to figure out its secrets. On one side are Celeste and her colleagues, armed with nothing but enthusiasm, brilliant minds, and the principles of geography. Against them are the repressive university governors and their jackbooted campus security guards; the rich and power-hungry Praxicopolis family; and a renegade group of researchers, the Littoral League. Will this ragtag bunch outwit their foes before it’s too late?
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