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Australian and New Zealand crime and thriller writing is booming globally. Neighbours that are siblings in spirit, vastly different in landscape, antipodean authors offer readers and listeners a blend of exotic and familiar, seasoned by distinctive senses of place, outlook, and humour, and roots that trace to the earliest days of our genre. Southern Cross Crime is the first comprehensive guide to modern Australian and New Zealand crime writing.

Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power, and sexuality. This book explores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure perceptions about how and why women are capable of physically dominating roles in modern fiction.

When Josh moves to Alberta to start work on Charlie’s new series, Sacred Peace, he finds the best way to escape past hurts is to lose himself in his new fictional world. In Vancouver, Jessie buries herself in recording the new soundtrack for Sacred Peace. Suddenly, old and new friendships are on the line when loneliness and hurt cry out for release; when lines in the sand are drawn and crossed, and when a solitary ride into the woods is echoed by a desperate need for connection.

Life on the ranch will never be the same… Danielle has experienced more than her fair share of heartache. Her friends and family all left Green Lake Ranch without so much as a wave from the gate. Everything changes when Grayson shows up to direct a movie on the ranch — but it won’t be just the screen he captures. However Grayson’s stay in Independence has an expiry date, and Danielle won’t let him take her heart back to California when he leaves.

He's baa-ack! It's a brand new school year for everyone's favorite amoeba! Will Squish finally get to sit with the cool kids at lunch? Will Pod stop the giant asteroid from destroying the world? Will the leeches be the end of Super Amoeba? And what makes cafeteria nachos so delicious anyway? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Squish's second electrifying, fast-paced adventure!

On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aidan have only one thing left to do: figure out whether they should stay together or break up. In 12 hours, they'll be heading to opposite ends of the country, and they're anxious to resolve things before they go. But the quiet night they had planned quickly turns into an unexpected adventure, a roller-coaster ride through their past that leads to family and friends, familiar landmarks and unexpected places, hard truths and surprising revelations.

John Ronald Ruel Tolkien created more than just books - he created the whole world, which has become a reality for millions of fans. If you want to know how new worlds are built, to understand the reasons for the wild popularity of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, or if you want to make a sightseeing tour of Middle-earth - listen to this book.