Tetras

There are over 800 species of tetra so far named by scientists.. Many, but not all are good aquarium fish.
This book has over 100 pictures, including at least two pictures of each species.

The 42 different species of Tetra included in the book include many of the more common tetras, and a few unusual ones.

This book covers a wide range of tetras, from the diminutive Ruby Tetra to the Piranha eating Vampire Tetra. It includes the beautiful Peru Bleeding Blue Tetra, Hyphessobrycon margitae, which was only scientifically described in 2016, the egg placing Sailfin Tetra, Crenuchus spilurus, and the Splashing Tetra which lays its eggs out of the water.

For most of the fish I describe:

The book also has information on White Spot disease and how to cure it, as well and live foods for aquarium fish.

Scar Tail the Platypus

Platypuses were hunted to extinction in South Australia about a hundred years ago. When a platypus escapes from the sanctuary he’s attempting something very dangerous with the odds stacked against him.

Scar Tail is a male Platypus compelled to seek new territory and leaves the predator proof fences of the sanctuary he was born in and tries to survive in the River Onkaparinga where Platypuses have been extinct for a hundred years.
Peter is an autistic boy who has trouble relating to most people, but loves wild places and wild animals. Peter and his only friend, Andrew, save Scar Tail from two Foxes, and observe the recolonization of the valley by wild Platypuses over the next 15 years.
Just as Peter helps Platypuses when he can, the Platypuses provide Peter with the stimulus he needs to fulfill his potential.

A story with accurate, carefully researched facts about Platypuses and other animals.

Those who love the small aquarium Corydoras catfish can learn a lot from this book.

This book should appeal to those who want to know more about these beautiful fish, both beginners and the more advanced.

Dreamboat

A submarine and torpedo tracks are reported.

Danger, adventure and love in a deteriorating world economy.

Cora del la Cruz, an innocent, beautiful, desirable and highly intelligent Filipina counts herself lucky to be employed as a cleaner on the mighty cruise ship, Peter the Great. The work is boring and repetitive and she has to cater for the whims of the passengers, but she can help pay off her father’s crippling debt. At twenty-two she has never had a serious boyfriend but reads romantic novels and is ready for love if the perfect man comes along.

Magnus Carter is the perfect man; with charisma written large, a herculean body, a face like Adonis, an IQ greater than Einstein’s, and his heart in the right place. At thirty-two this six foot six tall, blond multi-billionaire philanthropist is Sydney’s most eligible bachelor, a real dreamboat. Magnus has no idea that before the end of the cruise someone will try to kill him, and he will be locked into a life and death struggle with an amoral and implacable enemy.

Glen Ward, an evil twin with his heart in the wrong place, is a diminutive nineteen-year-old bundle of energy and suppressed emotion. Glen was conceived in a ferocious thunderstorm and born dangerously premature from his injured mother’s unconscious body in the back of a wrecked car. His father’s parents’ dead bodies were trapped in the front while emergency crews desperately tried to cut them all free without igniting the spreading pools of spilled fuel.
Baptised in extremis at a few hours old by the despairing paediatrician and given the Last Rites of the Church half an hour later, Glen has never really accepted what species he belongs to. Other people are also not completely convinced that Glen is human.

This is the love triangle that forms on the cruise around New Zealand. One of the men has to miss out and “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a spoiled brat scorned!” Cora and her eventual husband will always be affected by the confused emotions and revenge attempts of the spoiled brat. Can even death free their family from his influence?

A desperate journey

The Fall of Civilisation

The Batting Championship

They have no idea that Andy's deadly enemy has escaped from prison and has set a gigantic bomb made of Ammonium Nitrate and diesel under the presentation stage, in the hope of killing not only Andy, but all his schoolmates and most of the women and children of the town..

The Hunters

Tasmania’s history is notorious for the way its indigenous people were treated.
Nowadays, Tasmania lacks much of the intolerance of difference common in many places. Andy Brown, a descendent of the First Tasmanians, has experienced some rabid racism, but his numerous friends couldn’t care less about the colour of his skin. He has never been exposed to the type of prejudice that African Americans in some parts of the USA experience every time they go out.

Andy is childishly proud of the section of forest his parents had left him. and they'd put up notices making it clear it was a private animal reserve.
The tiny twelve-year-old is hurt by three hunters as he tries to stop them killing Tasmanian Devils. Andy has been shot in the back and imagines that he is bleeding to death.
The hunters are arrested, but claim diplomatic immunity.
Andy and Inspector Stratford defy the two most powerful men in the country to ensure the bigoted bullies don't get away with running roughshod over the laws of Tasmania.

Pete

The twelve year old Andy returns to Tasmania after a holiday in Australia.

He met some very surprising people in Canberra, but the most surprising person of all that he met on the trip was the ten year old Charlie.

Andy and Charlie are as identical as the identical twins.

Charlie's mother finds a job in a remote part of the island state, not dreaming that they are putting Andy's life into deadly danger.

The Crack

Rivals

Dead or Alive?

Andy knows he’s dead.