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Everyone is intrigued by Emily's house and its endless doors, but where do those doors lead? Follow Emily as she finds out...
Serial killers in the caring professions. Doctors, nurses and health workers have a duty of care to their patients to ensure they act in the best interests of an individual; and not act or fail to act in a way that results in harm. But those featured within these pages are serial killers who roamed their places of work, preying on people at their most vulnerable. Angels of Death is an updated collection of real life crimes exploring murders committed in hospitals and doctors' surgeries - the very places where lives are supposed to be healed or saved. The accounts also include cases where the murderers struck in places that are meant to be safe havens, like aged care homes and even people's living rooms. These disturbing crimes take place in Australia, the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada and Europe. Emily Webb is a journalist and author, specialising in true crime. She co-hosts the popular podcast Australian True Crime.
An afternoon of random violence by a medical student armed with a shovel; the case of 18-year-old Annette Morgan, murdered in the grounds of Sydney University and still unsolved; the sad tale of 60 animals slaughtered at the Adelaide Zoo by two 18-year-olds on a murderous rampage. One of Australia's best young true crime writers, Emily Webb probes the black underbelly of our towns and suburbs and exposes the darkness at the heart of Australian life. Impossible to put down true crime stories of murder and mayhem. The third book by best-selling journalist and author Emily Webb. Explores the darkness at the core of Australia's quiet and safe suburbs.
Can Emily's enchanted house give her the power to face a bully?
The last of four fabulous books for 9+ girls about friendship in an environmentally challenged world. Emily loves animals, but she comes from a big family and there's no room for any pets. So she decides to help at the local animal-rescue centre instead. But the rescue centre is under threat. Can Emily and her friends make sure all the animals don't end up homeless?
Winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Award Bronze Medal, When Charley Met Emma teaches kids about disability, empathy, and the beauty of friendships with people who are different from you. When Charley goes to the playground and sees Emma, a girl with limb differences who gets around in a wheelchair, he doesn't know how to react at first. But after he and Emma start talking, he learns that different isn't bad, sad, or strange--different is just different, and different is great! This delightful book will help kids think about disability, kindness, and how to behave when they meet someone who is different from them.
Emily Feather is an ordinary girl in an extraordinary family of fairies. When Emily finds out her adopted mother is pregnant, she can't help feeling upset. This means there will be another sibiling who will actually belong, unlike Emily. Emily's brother uses a magical door to show her what might have been had Emily not become part of their family.
Some of the Australia's most horrific murders occur in the seemingly safe and ordered world of our suburbs. And a new fresh voice has captured some of the most bewildering and shocking of these tales. From the tragic story of Jane Thurgood-Dove, shot down in cold blood in her Melbourne driveway in front of her small children, to the bloodbath in Kapunda when 16-year-old Chantelle Rowe was brutally murdered, along with her parents, in her home by a jealous friend. From the young Perth mum who left her toddler by the sea to drown, to the Cowra grandpa who murdered his wife and grandchildren, these are truly terrible crimes. Evil strikes in the most banal of places and you will be left wondering why?
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Emily Feather - the ordinary girl in an extraordinary family. Emily doesn't like the boy her older sister, Lory, keeps bringing home. There's something untrustworthy about him, though Emily can't put her finger on exactly what. Soon she discovers Lory is in danger! The boy has tricked her into taking him through the doors into the fairy world. Can Robin, Lark and Emily get Lory back? They must go through the attic, which Emily didn't even know existed, to sneak into the fairy world. Will they find Lory in time? Look out for Emily's previous adventures: EMILY FEATHER AND THE ENCHANTED DOOR (9781407130927) and EMILY FEATHER AND THE SECRET MIRROR (9781407130934)