January - February 2017 New Release Catalogue

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experience the difference Independent Australian titles for your readers Foot Notes

978-1922200709 Benjamin Allmon Published: 22 November 2016 Odyssey Books

In a tale of sand, songs, survival and untimely erections, it takes a trek along the Australian coastline for Benjamin Allmon to find himself, and the true key to happiness. It is 2006. After more than a decade trying to make it in the music industry, singer-songwriter Ben is getting desperate. As his former bandmates settle into sensible careers he gives it one last shot and records his debut album. The only problem – how to promote it?

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Mama and Hug 978-0987505460 Aleesah Darlison Published: 2016 Wild Eyed Press

When Hug first climbs out of his mother’s pouch it is spring, deep in the Australian Bush. As Hug grows, the season changes to the sharp dry crackle of summer. One day danger comes to the Bush and Mama must flee to protect her baby.

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now Distributing Wild Eyed Press

Original artwork by Australian artists is used as the basis for each visual product, these artists include: Leanne White, Colin Montefiore, Irene King , Toni Hough and Barrie Smith - with author Teena Raffa-Mulligan contributing creative wording. Wild Eyed Press’ dynamic team aims to promote Australia’s wildlife through the publication and distribution of these products. We encourage public awareness, knowledge and concern for Australian fauna and the sustainability of their fragile habitats. Wild Eyed Press actively supports the Wilderness Society with donations from Greeting Cards sales.

William The Wild Builds a Cubby

978-0987505484 Leanne White Published: 2016 Wild Eyed Press

William the Wild and friends spend a fun filled day building a cubby. Can you see the small creatures that creep, crawl, jump and fly while the children are building? This beautiful book abounds with the amazing mini life of the Australian Bush.

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Lilah’s Fairy Friend

Beyond Our Garden Gate

978-0987505491 Toni Hough Published: 2016 Wild Eyed Press

978-0987505477 Irene King Published: 2016 Wild Eyed Press

Lilah has a fairy friend she plays with every day. One day her fairy friend isn’t there, so Lilah begins a search through the Australian Bush brimming with spring time life. Can Lilah find her fairy friend hiding with a spring surprise?

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Prince Tom and Princess Molly must climb, run and fly to save their friend from a dragon. Sian Turner’s story of an adventurous day in the Australian Bush comes to life with Irene King’s playful illustrations.

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When Lily finds a baby possum on the lawn she begins a quest to find his home. In her journey through the Australian bush she encounters the nests of many different bush creatures. This whimsical tale is beautifully told and illustrated with charming images of the Australian bush.

An All Australian Alphabet Book $15.00

How many Australian birds, animals and invertebrates can you see? Can you find the creatures in the verse? This all Aussie alphabet adventure is both fun to learn and amazing to explore!

A Possum’s Nest ISBN: 978-0987505408 Toni Hough Wild Eyed Press Published: 2013

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ISBN: 978-0987159762 Leanne White Wild Eyed Press Published: 2011

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Rosie and Ollie love to dilly dally all day long. One day when they are dilly dallying at the far end of the billabong they suddenly have the biggest surprise! Read Dilly Dally All Day Long to find out what Rosie and Ollie€s surprise really is.

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Is your Dad strong, silly, clever and caring to you? Look inside this colour filled funny book and check your Dad out! This vibrant childrens book is a loving dedication to all Dads out there.

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She’s My Mum is a quaint and colourful book about loving, caring and sharing Mums. Illustrated with quirky character paintings She’s My Mum will appeal to all ages.

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Join Blue, the bouncing red kangaroo, and her little friend Pedro as they travel states of Australia. Learn through their exciting Aussie adventure as they snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, sing at the Opera House, camp at Uluru and more.

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William the Wild is a little boy with a huge imagination. Wherever he goes, whatever he does becomes an adventure with Australian wildlife. Look for all the Australian creatures in this beautifully illustrated picture book.

William the Wild goes Camping $15.00

This is the second of the William the Wild series. In William the Wild Goes Camping, William plays a fun filled imaginative game with his family and the Australian bush creatures. Join William the Wild once again for an Australian wildlife adventure.

Dilly Dally All Day Long

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He’s my Dad

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She’s My Mum

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True Blue Amigos

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William the Wild

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ISBN: 978-0987159793 Leanne White Wild Eyed Press Published: 2013

ISBN: 978-0987159724 Leanne White Wild Eyed Press Published: 2011

ISBN: 978-0987159786 Leanne White Wild Eyed Press Published: 2013

ISBN: 978-0987505453 Teena Raffa-Mulligan Wild Eyed Press Published: 2014

ISBN: 978-0987159700 Leanne White Wild Eyed Press Published: 2011

ISBN: 978-0987505415 Leanne White Wild Eyed Press Published: 2013

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William the Wild plays at the Beach $15.00 ISBN: 978-0987505446 Leanne White Wild Eyed Press Published: 2014

The third book of the William the Wild series. In William the Wild Plays at the Beach, William creates an imaginative game where the beach is transformed into a place of amazing adventure. Join William as he adventures again in Australia’s wonderful environment.

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Courageous & Quirky 1920’s Colouring 978-0992513436 Jennifer Reid Published: 28 October 2016 eTV Publishing Inspired by her love of art and 1920’s fashion, this is the second book in Jennifer Reid’s Courageous & Quirky Colouring series. It’s a quirky collection of art deco themed colour-ins, along with some inspirational ‘girl power’ quotes to remind you of how awesome you are!

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now Distributing for Ann-marie finn

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Ann-Marie Finn is an illustrator and author of children’s books. She lives in Brisbane with her two young boys who inspire new stories and ideas every day. She started her career in the UK, but migrated to warmer climates in 2007 and is now a happy Australian and proud owner of The Mad Hatters Bookshop in Manly, Queensland. She has a growing collection of children’s books to her name, including A Trip to the Moon, Captain Kieron and I Despair of my Hair. She is also the illustrator of Lulu and My Brother Tom with Wombat Books.

Gus the Asparagus

Each the Same

978-0992523992 Ann-Marie Finn Published: 2 March 2015 Dragon Tales Publishing

978-1620202043 Michelle Worthington Published: 21 May 2013 Ambassador International

Meet Gus! Gus might be the only asparagus in his family, but he is happy. However, when he goes to school he starts to realise that he doesn’t always ‘fit in’. Gus is here to help kids understand that it’s okay to be different. He will soon be a favourite with anyone who has ever felt a bit out of place, kids and adults alike.

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The cows are in the milking shed, the horses are in the stable and the sheep are in the field. They all have their jobs to do to help make the farm a happy place to live. Someone s squelching in the mud and it s not the pigs. Who can it be?

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Captain Kieron

I Despair of my Hair

A Trip to the Moon

Kieron is a little boy on the lookout for adventure, and as he swims in the ocean one hot sunny day that’s exactly what he finds!

Do you know the feeling when you just can’t do ANYTHING with your hair, no matter how hard you try? Well Alice has that problem every day, but what can she do about it? At the end of the day is it really worth the worry?

Lying in his bed one night, Liam woke up and saw a bright light. It shone through the window and Liam could see, that his room was lit up as bright as could be... Join Liam as he investigates the mysterious bright light and his imagination takes him on an amazing adventure.

ISBN: 978-0992523930 Ann-Marie Finn Published: 1 October 2014 Dragon Tales Publishing

ISBN: 978-0992523978 Ann-Marie Finn Published: 14 May 2015 AMF Illustrations

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ISBN: 978-0992523916 Ann-Marie Finn Published: 1 June 2014 Dragon Tales Publishing

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now Distributing Odyssey Books

Odyssey Books is committed to publishing engaging and beautifully written books. Books that stretch the imagination, challenge pre-existing attitudes and beliefs, or take readers to far-flung climes. Books are always a journey. And as our name suggests, we invest in epic journeys, adventurous voyages and intellectual or spiritual quests. Readers are sure to find a book within our range of titles to challenge, inspire and entertain.

The Sky Lines Alliance

978-1922200686 Sue Parritt Published: 28 October 2016 Odyssey Books

The egalitarian nation of Aotearoa may be a safe haven for freedom fighters, but former Sky commander Breta yearns for more. The sudden build-up of troopers in the southern Brown Zone, and a conviction that someone is still betraying the Women’s Line, provide a stimulating assignment.

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The Bishop’s Girl 978-1922200648 Rebecca Burns Published: 18 September 2016 Odyssey Books The body had no name. It was not supposed to be there...Jess is a researcher on a quest to give the one-hundred-year-old skeleton, discovered in the exhumed grave of a prominent bishop, an identity. But she’s not sure of her own - her career is stalling, her marriage is failing. She doesn’t want to spend hours in the archives, rifling through dusty papers in an endless search for a name. And when a young man named Hayden makes clear his interest in her, Jess has to decide what is most important to her.

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Riven

978-1922200662 Belinda Crawford Published: 4 October 2016 Odyssey Books

Hero has just about everything she wants: independence, friendship and a shot at her fondest dream--to explore the surface of the alien planet she calls home. Life would be perfect except her best friend is keeping secrets, Fink--her six hundred kilogram, genetically engineered companion--is constantly angry, and there’s something wrong with Hero’s brain. Like, really, really wrong.

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Salvage

Songlines

978-1922200624 Martin Rodoreda Published: 30 September 2016 Odyssey Books

978-1922200600 Carolyn Denman Published: 20 August 2016 Odyssey Books

Excessive mining, human pollution and war have left the earth devastated and all but inhabitable to humans. A Dome built over the city of Sydney and controlled by the tyrant Silmac protects what is possibly the last bastion of civilisation. When Silver is abandoned out in the badlands by her salvage crew, she must fight for survival to make it back to safety. But she soon finds that the Dome no longer offers the protection it once did, as she faces betrayal, makes new alliances and uncovers secrets that will bring her into conflict with Silmac himself.

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We belong to the Earth, Lainie-Bug. We were sent here in human form for a reason. If you don’t know what to do, then just be human. Right. Like that was ever a simple thing to do. In the heart of the Wimmera region of Victoria, an ancient gateway to Eden is kept hidden and safe by a creature so powerful that even the moon would obey her commands - at least it would if she had any idea that she wasn’t just a normal girl about to finish high school.

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Also Available Isaura - little is known about her race, but much is whispered. Born to refugees, she grows up enduring racism and superstition within a community that fears her. She has few friends, and those she treasures. Trapped, she longs for escape to a different life.

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Isaura has emerged from the spirit realm forever altered. No longer a pariah, she embraces the future offered in Altaica, but learns that her survival has come at a price. Her transformation is the perfect weapon for Elena to use against her.

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Catching the Barramundi is a collection of contemporary short stories charting the dichotomous processes of reassessment and reflection. The settings vary, but the characters in each tale experience moments of introspection and self-scrutiny, quite out of step with their daily lives.

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Marriage transplants Sarah thousands of miles from home; a failed love affair forces Phoebe to make drastic choices in a new environment; a sudden, shocking discovery brings Mrs Ellis to reconsider her life as an emigrant

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Calum Ranson is sure of three things: his cousin Finley is alive, Calum will find him, and no one knows Calum and his family are Sidhe. No one until Laurel shows up at his mother’s bookstore wearing a dark clan’s mark.

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In the second book of the Sidhe Series, Calum, Laurel, and Hagen reunite in their search for Finley. And while many things have changed, Calum remains steadfast in his belief that Finley is still alive and Calum will bring him home.

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Deliria is a comic-serious exploration of an educated young man’s quest to find his way in the world. A love song to Deliria, Thailand and twelfth-century French poetry, it proves that literary cultivation, savoir faire, bravery, sexual obsession, moral laxity and complete stupidity can exist in the one person.

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Emmeline Muchamore is a well-bred young lady hiding explosive family secrets. She needs to marry well, and quickly, in order to keep her family respectable. But when her brass heart malfunctions, she makes a desperate choice to steal the parts she needs to repair it and survive.

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Asena Blessed

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Catching the Barramundi

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The Settling Earth

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The Circle

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The Choice

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Deliria

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Heart of Brass

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ISBN: 978-1922200310 Tracy M. Joyce Odyssey Books Published: 28 July 2014

ISBN: 978-1922200488 Tracy M. Joyce Odyssey Books Published: 1 May 2016

ISBN: 978-1922200006 Rebecca Burns Odyssey Books Published: 19 November 2012

ISBN: 978-1922200167 Rebecca Burns Odyssey Books Published: 16 December 2014

ISBN: 978-1922200044 Cindy Cipriano Odyssey Books Published: 1 June 2013

ISBN: 978-1922200181 Cindy Cipriano Odyssey Books Published: 9 June 2015

ISBN: 978-1922200242 Chris Heffernan Odyssey Books Published: 23 June 2015 ISBN: 978-1922200587 Felicity Banks Odyssey Books Published: 29 July 2016

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Altaica

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Centuries ago, humans colonised Jørn, a lonely planet on the far side of the galaxy. Arriving in five great colony ships, they quickly settled the surface only to discover, after a few short years, that the planet was killing them. The culprit, a native spore, carried on every wind to every corner of the globe.

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Mother and the Tiger is the story of one small girl, who struggled to survive one of the most ruthless regimes in human history. Six-year-old Hui Lim was trapped by the madness around her and cast into a seemingly endless nightmare.

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Nursing Fox details the experiences of Australian nurses during the Great War. It honours their journeys and shows the impact that the nurses had on the soldiers with whom they crossed paths.

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Prophetic dreams have haunted Dan Tenney since childhood, foretelling him of a life-changing event that is soon to take place. But before he can learn the meaning of his visions, he is attacked by a shadowy group of extremists: the Brotherhood of the Grail.

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When Rick Hendry is contacted by a federal agent to help investigate a growing number of mysterious vanishings across Australia, he finds himself immersed in a world where normal is a very narrow view of reality.

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When Sannah the Storyteller, a descendant of environmental refugees from drowned Pacific islands, finds a White stranger on her domestep, she presumes he’s a political prisoner on the run seeking safe passage to egalitarian Aotearoa.

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On the first anniversary of her mother Sannah’s death, Pia’s fragile composure threatens to shatter upon receiving disturbing news from the Brown Zone in apartheid Australia. Five Line Leaders have been incarcerated in the infamous prison complex beneath the central desert.

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What can you do when you have nowhere left to call home? Port of No Return considers this question and more in a novel that is full of action, pain and laughter - a journey you will want to see through to the very end.

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Sarah is a nurse at the Geelong hospital, going about her Boxing Day shift while her family recovers at home after indulging in the usual Christmas feasting. But when a wildeyed patient is admitted that afternoon, she soon discovers a new virus taking root in the area.

Hero

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Mother and the Tiger

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Nursing Fox

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The Ouroboros Key

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A Single Light

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Sannah and the Pilgrim

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Pia and the Skyman

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Port of No Return

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The South Forsaken

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ISBN: 978-1922200303 Belinda Crawford Odyssey Books Published: 21 September 2015

ISBN: 978-1922200105 Dana Hui Lim Odyssey Books Published: 24 July 2013

ISBN: 978-1922200426 Jim Ditchfield Odyssey Books Published: 26 January 2016

ISBN: 978-1922200334 Patricia Leslie Odyssey Books Published: 23 March 2014

ISBN: 978-1922200464 Patricia Leslie Odyssey Books Published: 17 February 2016

ISBN: 978-1922200143 Sue Parritt Odyssey Books Published: 26 April 2014

ISBN: 978-1922200525 Sue Parritt Odyssey Books Published: 16 April 2016 ISBN: 978-1922200280 Michelle Saftich Odyssey Books Published: 31 July 2015

ISBN: 978-1922200402 Rachel Drummond Odyssey Books Published: 26 September 2015

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In the wake of the devastation the coastal city of Geelong has suffered, any hopes the remaining citizens have of rescue are dashed one by one. As several nations rally to attempt to control the virus, the differences between friend and foe become hard to distinguish. Death is closer than they think.

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Four children come together and become linked to the events that lie ahead. In The Age of Akra, the first stage of their journey has them facing the deadly spiderflax, only then to be confronted by a creature of the underworld, an evil Dementra called Amual.

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In The City of Souls, the pilgrimage to the Valley of a Thousand Thoughts continues. Having already triumphed against dangerous adversaries in The Age of Akra, the four children -- Mai, Long, Akra and Sahib -- now face the evil melkarie and must escape to the City of Souls.

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After finding the Silvershade and escaping the attacking forces as the Wilder Forest city was scorched to the ground, Mai, Akra and Kalin must now face the evil that has consumed Long. A treacherous journey now awaits them if they are to reach the Healing Stone to save Long.

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“We are Martian. Your religion isn’t ours. Our god is Mars. Our religion is science. Anything we do in the service of Mars, is good. Make no mistake, Earth girl, we are both right and good.” Fresh off Earth, Jodi Scarfield doesn’t really care for Mars or its politics. Still, accusations of treason will get a girl’s attention...

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The water of life, incarnated in the Fearmòr clan’s whisky for over five centuries, is tainted by the dramatic and sometimes fatal struggles of the distillers. It bends the will of those it touches: guiding them or condemning them to their fate.

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“What’s your favourite song?” If you answered, “Nothing, sir! Music is evil!” then you probably live in the land of Bravura, where the wicked Czar has outlawed music and all artists have been imprisoned or exiled. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the Alephs, magical creatures that eat music with their ears, are slowly becoming extinct.

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The Age of Akra

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The City of Souls

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The Healing Stone

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UnEarthed

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The Water of Life (Uisge beatha)

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Zeb and the Great Ruckus

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ISBN: 978-1922200563 Rachel Drummond Odyssey Books Published: 17 June 2016

ISBN: 978-1922200020 Vacen Taylor Odyssey Books Published: 8 March 2013

ISBN: 978-1922200129 Vacen Taylor Odyssey Books Published: 14 October 2013

ISBN: 978-1922200204 Vacen Taylor Odyssey Books Published: 10 April 2015

ISBN: 978-0987232540 Rebecca Bloomer Odyssey Books Published: 2 July 2012

ISBN: 978-1922200266 Daniel Marchildon Odyssey Books Published: 27July 2015

ISBN: 978-0987232533 Josh Donellan Odyssey Books Published: 15 September 2012

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The South Reclaimed

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