A young English girl arrives in Australia searching for her birth mother. Her initial investigations indicate she has to wait six months atleast on what may have happened to her mother. Finding the weather too cold for her liking in the New South Wales town of Goulburn, she heads north to the warmer climates of Queensland to the tourist hot spot Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast. It doesn't take long for her to taste the addiction of drugs, and after a torrid start ends up in the care of two inseparable nuns who are trying to solve crimes to raise money for the orphanage.

CLOUDS OVER PARADISE AN AROUND THE WORLD ADVENTURE By Thayer Keith Miller N3TM (Ex WA3EFH) A TRUE ADVENTURE STORY---The account of the adventures of a senior officer on the windjammer yacht YANKEE TRADER on its first around-the-world expedition in 1973-1974. Relive the adventure with all the details like you were there. THIS STORY WILL APPEAL TO YOU---If you are interested in amateur radio, ocean sailing, travel and adventure. Ive never heard such a story. It ought to be a best seller! Thomas I. Kolstad, Captain U. S. Navy Very interesting reading! CQ Magazine Definitely, this story is meant for a television series! Tony Lopopolo, Literary Critic Thayer Keith Miller is the best qualified person to tell this storyships officer, ham radio operator, cruise consultant and operator of sailing expeditions in the South Pacific. He shares this knowledge and expertise as he recounts the adventure story in detail based on original logs, diaries, notes and personal recollections. It is perhaps the most detailed story you will ever read and it is very informative in this edited and shortened account. The author was arrested in Hong Kong and imprisoned as a suspected spy. Later, without a passport or money he was shanghaied in Singapore and held as an impressed seaman for three months. He recounts his rescue at sea off the coast of Kenya by an armed boarding party and his repatriation in a top secret operation planned by the U.S. State Department. His friend was later murdered in the Seychelles while making arrangements to reunite the author with his girlfriend. A disturbed passenger and crew members caused troublephysical and verbal abuse with accusations of sabotage and mutiny. The author describes how the international amateur radio fraternity played a vital role in his escape from circumstances because of his shipboard operation as WA3EFH maritime mobile. A TRUE STORYBETTER THAN FICTION. READ IT NOW! Many of the events took place in the Seychelles, an island chain sometimes known as the Paradise of the Indian Ocean and original site of the Garden of Eden, hence the title and its implications.

Brian and James grew up together in Wyong. Now in their early thirties, they finally could afford a budget holiday overseas in the Solomon Islands. There was one problem for James, the day he had his passport photo taken, a gust of strong wind placed a wave shape in the centre of his hair. Just as they were about to start their holidays in Honiara, a criminal named Chicken Hair and his brutal stand over man called No Name began to leave a trail of bodies. On their trail is a local Police Inspector of the Royal Solomon Islands Police. Inspector Chris believes he also should be in charge instead of an Australian sent to maintain order after the 2006 conflict. While Inspector Chris is trying to solve the brutal murders, Brain and James have several bad hygienic moments when they are intoxicated with a few native women. At one stage the two wished they had holidayed on the Gold Coast. James did have an advantage when their holiday turned sour. There was a traditional tale that a white man with strange hair and spoke different English would one day find and return the missing Golden Malaita Eagle. Brian and James were transported by coastal trader to a cloud covered volcanic Island. On this unusual island where the natives are either half Asian or half Caucasian, James is treated like a god till alcohol ruins the tribe’s chance of becoming pure native again. Now the adventure

Embark on an exotic adventure in the complete Escape to Paradise series from bestselling author MaryLu Tyndall. After witnessing the death and destruction caused by the Civil War, Colonel Grant Wallace leads a group of disillusioned Southerners to relocate in Brazil. He soon becomes dangerously drawn to the widow of a Union general. Meanwhile Hayden is seeking revenge on his father while Magnolia is hoping to escape her father’s rule, and Angeline runs from the law while James holds to strong moral ideals. The new colony is off to a rocky start and continuously plagued by mysterious challenges. Includes: Forsaken Dreams, Elusive Hope, and Abandoned Memories

When Merryn O'Neill's fiance, Jake Hawkins, an officer with the Pacific Islands Regiment in Port Moresby, breaks off their engagement, so he can marry the daughter of his commanding officer, her world is torn apart. Arriving reluctantly in Port Moresby to take up a prearranged flying position, Merryn doesn't envisage the magical spell this strange and seductive land, particularly one of its own people, will cast over her. But Merryn and Jake share a secret from the past Merryn can't forget. No matter how much she tries. Set during the period of the Vietnam War, against a backdrop of evocative tropical heat, menace, and intrigue, Bird of Paradise explores the tangled emotions of love, loss, and betrayal, climaxing in dramatic and unexpected consequences.

We live in the age of the suicide bomber. The suicide bomb itself takes more lives than any other type of explosive weapon. Moreover, in the last 5 years more people have been killed by suicide attacks than at any other time in history. How has this descent deep into the heart of terror escalated in such a way? What drives people to blow themselves up and what are the consequences? More importantly perhaps, what can be done to combat the rising spread of this form of violence? Investigative journalist Iain Overton addresses the fundamental drivers of modern day suicide attacks in this fascinating and important book, showing how the suicide bomber has played a pivotal role in the evolution of some of the most defining forces of the modern age - from Communism and the Cold War, to the modern day War on Terror. Interviewing Russian anarchists, Japanese kamikazes, Hezbollah militants, survivors of suicide bombings and countless other sources of valuable information, while travelling to places such as Iran, Irak and Pakistan, Overton skilfully combines historical narrative, travelogue, interviews and testimonies, and brings his research alive thanks to potent facts and visceral storytelling. The result is a powerful and unforgettable read, the first non-academic attempt to chart the rise and rise of this weapon.

The Brothers in Arms series continues as matchmaker Freya heads to Hawaii for a friend's wedding... and sets out to create a happily ever after for a single mom and an Army Soldier. Are some mistakes destined to be repeated? I can’t help thinking it as I look at him now—feeling that surge of desire inside of me and that eerie connection that I can’t explain, just like I did ten years ago. The West Point graduate I foolishly hooked up with one night in New York City has transformed into a hardened warrior—an Army Ranger and twice the panty-melting heartthrob he was back then. My best friend, the bride-to-be at this wedding I’m attending in paradise, doesn’t believe it’s him. He’s too good of a guy, she says. Too good to be the man who gave me a fake name and fake phone number that Morning After—which I didn’t discover until I tried to track him down a few months later. But I know it’s him. How could I not? I’ve looked into his eyes every day since my daughter was born. Our daughter. And I won’t let this twist of fate that brought him back to me disrupt the life I share with her. I can’t—not when I know he’ll only shatter her hopes just like he did mine. I will protect my child at all costs. But who will protect me?

Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. Even as he maps the shared influences and intellectual interests of Yeats and Pound, and highlights those moments when their poetic theories converge, Pryor's discussion of their poems' profound formal and conceptual differences uncovers the distinctive ways each writer imagines the divine, the good, the beautiful, or the satisfaction of desire. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that have received little attention. For Yeats and Pound, the journey towards a paradisal poetic becomes a never-ending quest, at once self-defeating and self-fulfilling - a formulation that has implications not only for the work of these two poets but for the study of modernist literature.

Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. Even as he maps the shared influences and intellectual interests of Yeats and Pound, and highlights those moments when their poetic theories converge, Pryor's discussion of their poems' profound formal and conceptual differences uncovers the distinctive ways each writer imagines the divine, the good, the beautiful, or the satisfaction of desire. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that have received little attention. For Yeats and Pound, the journey towards a paradisal poetic becomes a never-ending quest, at once self-defeating and self-fulfilling - a formulation that has implications not only for the work of these two poets but for the study of modernist literature.

Chronicle of authors' four years sailing adventure in the Pacific Ocean and South Seas Islands. Told through the eyes of his sailboat it is a most refreshing and knowledge filled narrative with many insights and problem solving events. Great reading for anyone planning or contemplating planning their own sailing odyssey. Also includes '101 Dollar Saving Tips' useful for the cruising sailor.