Dutch Uncle (Peter Pavia)

Dutch Uncle

Peter Pavia

Blurb: Three days out of prison and trying to stay on the right side of the law, Harry Healy doesn't really want to get involved with Manfred Pfiser's drug deals. But he needs the money - so he agrees to make one simple delivery.

Simple, that is, till Harry stumbles across a dead body. It's the result of a robbery cooked up by one of his old cellmates, together with an over-the-hill high school baseball star, a trigger-happy sociopath, and a beach bunny who just can't seem to keep her clothes on.

Now they're all on the run - from the Miami police, from the drug kingpins they ripped off, and from each other...

ISBN: 9780843953602 (Paperback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: A Hard Case Crime Novel

Pages: 256 (Fiction)

Links

1. Goodreads page

2. Review of the book

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Official site of the book series

5. Mini review of the book

Hunwick's Egg (Mem Fox; Illustrated by Pamela Lofts)

Hunwick's Egg

Mem Fox; Illustrated by Pamela Lofts

Blurb: When a mysterious egg appears outside Hunwick's burrow, no one is quite certain what to think. And when it doesn't hatch right away, everyone is even more bewildered. Everyone except Hunwick, that is. Hunwick understands that the egg is his friend, and he is the only one who knows its secret.

This treasure of a book promises the young reader a simple, beautifully illustrated tale of identity and belonging.

ISBN: 97807343098846 (Paperback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Puffin

Pages: 32 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from the Book Shuttle

2. Publisher's page

3. Author's official site

4. Buy from Amazon

5. Review of the book

Footy Dogs: The Dogs of Australian Rules Football (Craig McGill & Susan Elliott)

Footy Dogs: The Dogs of Australian Rules Football

Craig McGill & Susan Elliott

Blurb: Behind every great Aussie Rules player, you're likely to find that a good dog helped him succeed. Footy Dogs features over 100 players from all sixteen AFL teams and over 210 stunning photos of their loyal woofers. Along the way, the mutts and purebreds are interspersed with short essays by Ron Barassi, Trisha Broadbridge, Sam Kekovich, Michael Millett, Lynda Carroll, Diego Maradogga and many more.

Find out which player's dog wears pink nail polish, who peed on the photographer and discover the identity of the player who guzzled the church's altar wine.

Footy Dogs is a photographic journal of stunning photos and great yarns - created all for the love of dogs and footy.

ISBN: 0958085633 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: A Giant Dog Book

Pages: 280 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Official website of the book

2. Buy from QBD

3. How to find AFL players and coaches

4. Wikipedia page for Aussie Rules

5. Review of the book

Vatican - miniMONOGRAPHS of Art Places (Sonia Gallico)

Vatican - miniMONOGRAPHS of Art Places

Sonia Gallico

Blurb: Tradition has it that St. Peter, who was crucified between 64 and 67 A.D., was then buried in a necropolis which sprung up in the Ager Vaticanus, north of the Circus of Nero.

In the second century a small chapel was built on his tomb, which later became the heart of the 4th century basilica. 

Shortly after recognising Christianity with the Edict of Milan in 313, the Emperor Constantine did in fact start building a vast basilica on the site, which was consecrated in 329.

And pilgrims flocked to this same basilica, lavishly decorated by great artists, from the early 14th century onwards, coming on foot from all over Europe to worship the tomb of the 'King of the Apostles'.

ISBN: 8875712166 (Paperback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Roma Editrice

Pages: 48 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Buy the book online

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Official website for the Vatican
4. Wikipedia page for the Vatican
5. YouTube Channel for the Vatican

Melbourne 2006 - XVIII Commonwealth Games - Pocket Guide (Various)

Melbourne 2006 - XVIII Commonwealth Games - Pocket Guide

Various

Blurb: The must-have guide to the Commonwealth Games.

Packed full of interesting facts and figures, and colour photographs of everyone's favourite athletes and events, this pocket guide includes information on all of the Commonwealth sports, results tables to fill in the 2006 Games winners and keep, fold-outs of Commonwealth Games highlights and much, much more.

This special guidebook has everything you need to know about the Games, just in time for the XVIII Commonwealth Games! 15-26 March.

ISBN: 1741171350 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Explore Australia

Pages: 64 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Page on the 2006 Games

2. Wikipedia page for the Games

3. PDF Government Documents on the games

4. Page on the book

5. Order the book from McLeods Booksellers in NZ

Seven Ancient Wonders - Jack West Jr. #1 (Matthew Reilly)

Seven Ancient Wonders (Jack West Jr. #1)

Matthew Reilly

Blurb: It's the biggest treasure hunt in history.

Nearly every nation on earth is involved. A headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The Capstone.

A magnificent golden capstone once sat atop the Great Pyramid at Giza. It was a source of immense power, capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global rule for a thousand years...

But then in 323BC, the capstone was broken into seven pieces and hidden within the greatest structures of the age: monuments that would become known as the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.

Now, with the coming of a rare solar event, the time has come to locate the pieces and rebuild the capstone.

An epic quest.

Everyone wants it. From the most powerful countries on earth, to gangs of murderous terrorists...and one daring coalition of eight small nations who think no single country should possess such an awesome power source.

And so, led by the mysterious Captain Jack West Jr, this determined group enters the fray, a global battlefield filled with viciously booby-trapped mines, stupendous Ancient Wonders, merciless evil forces, and an adventures beyond imagining.

ISBN: 1405036923 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Macmillan

Pages: 472 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Author's official site

3. Wiki on the book

4. Review of the book

5. Goodreads page

The Va Dinci Cod (A.R.R.R. Roberts / Don Brine / Adam Roberts)

The Va Dinci Cod

A.R.R.R. Roberts / Don Brine / Adam Roberts

Blurb: Five utterly baffling mysteries that will change what you believe about the world. And fish. And the wisdom of ever reading another book:

-An eminent, renowned museum curator lies dead in his own gallery, with a three-foot cod stuffed down his throat...

-A brilliant young man, a renowned anagrammatologist, good-looking, gsoh, own flat, good job, non-smoker, very high standards of personal hygiene, single, he's not gay, and he's not antisocial, he meets lots of women really, just nobody seems quite right...

-A beautiful, renowned young French police cryptologist who studied for her cryptology degree at Royal Holloway - a university without a department in cryptology...

-A book full of rehashed conspiracy theory cods (Oh! My! God!) wallop becomes a global bestseller.

-Another book that should be called The Eda Vinci Cod gets called The Va Dinci Cod instead. An anagram is it? Err no.

The true reasons for the success of Don Brine's books are a secret that not even the Knights Templar, the CIA or the Church of the Resplendent Latter Day Apostles Who came Down from Space to Smite the Liberals (Alabama) are privy to.

Less-than-interestingly if you transcribe Don Brine into the Cyrillic alphabet and read it in a mirror and then transcribe it back out of the Cyrillic it reads as a transliteration of the Hebrew for Adam Roberts. If you squint a bit. 

Adam Roberts, get this, actually does teach at Royal Holloway. But not cryptology. Perhaps not even English.

ISBN: 0575077190 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Gollancz

Pages: 180 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page

2. Goodreads page

3. Review of the book

4. Buy form Amazon

5. Buy from Dymocks