Tales From Townsville

Catch all the action in these exciting short tales about the adventures of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup—the one and only Powerpuff Girls! Saving the world before bedtime isn't easy! How do the Powerpuff Girls do it? Get a glimpse into the lives of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup in these three tales as they navigate crime-fighting at home, in school, and out in the city. Includes full-color illustrations.

Join Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup from Cartoon Network’s The Powerpuff Girls in this graphic novel featuring two adventures from the iconic animated series! For over 25 years, the Powerpuff Girls have been protecting the City of Townsville and delighting new generations of fans. This full-color graphic novel retells two of their greatest adventures —"Bubblevicious" and "Moral Decay." With 80-pages of full-color images and dialogue taken directly from the episodes, it’s perfect for kids ages 6 to 11 and fans of all ages who love The Powerpuff Girls! Cartoon Network’s The Powerpuff Girls follow three sisters juggling school, homework, and monsters…all before bedtime. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup aren’t your average little girls from Townsville: Together, they form the superhero team known to the world as The Powerpuff Girls.

It will never be known just how many men, women and children have died and lie buried in the bush. Many of the deaths were not registered, and they are known only because the local paper reported on them. It was not the selector who lost his life, but usually men who had no idea how harsh the country could be, and consequently took risks by walking between stations looking for work, most times with very little water, and not much idea of where they were going. Many of the men were suffering from alcohol related problems. Most deaths were caused by fever, accidents, suicide, and murder. The women followed their men, enduring the harsh conditions and sometimes not seeing another white woman for years. They died during child birth, usually the baby died as well. Young children succumbed to the harsh conditions, dying of convulsions, poisoning, and accidents.

Jim Nicholls takes readers on a journey like no other. Visit places as remote as the Zulu battlefields in South Africa, learn about an inventor who made the first heavier-than-air flight before the Wright brothers, and take in an Easter church service in a small Portuguese town. All this and more are held together by tales of trains ranging from a tiny rail motor in the Queensland outback to a wild ride in Borneo. Experience Switzerland and America from the windows of a train. Train travel opens a window on the world, allowing a visual eavesdropping and intrusion into a country’s backyard that, if done in any other form, would probably result in arrest. Trains have it all, they convert the journey into the adventure. Real people travel on trains. Discussing with a young girl from New Zealand how one meets interesting and friendly people on such journeys, she neatly summed it up: ‘Yeah, how many nice people do you ever meet on an aeroplane?’

"Real life stories of misadventure, accidental death and murder in Australia - mostly in the outback - mostly with the natural forces such as sharks, spiders, dingoes, etc."--Provided by publisher.

DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest novels and stories written in the aftermath of the Civil War, trying to show the truth in disguise of fiction, the trauma, the turmoil, the massacre and the heroism of all people involved: Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage The Little Regiment The Veteran The Private History of a Campaign That Failed & A Curious Experience (Mark Twain) Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A Horseman in the Sky Chickamauga Joseph A. Altsheler: The Guns of Bull Run The Guns of Shiloh The Scouts of Stonewall The Sword of Antietam The Star of Gettysburg The Rock of Chickamauga The Shades of the Wilderness The Tree of Appomattox The Crisis (Winston Churchill) Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (John William De Forest) With Lee in Virginia (G. A. Henty) Who Would Have Thought It? (María Ruiz de Burton) The Long Roll (Mary Johnston) Cease Firing (Mary Johnston) The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis (Thomas Dixon Jr.) Kincaid's Battery (George Washington Cable) The Border Spy (Harry Hazelton) The Battle Ground (Ellen Glasgow) Who Goes There? (B. K. Benson) Ailsa Paige (Robert W. Chambers) Special Messenger (Robert W. Chambers) How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion (George W. Peck) Raiding with Morgan (Byron A. Dunn) Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins (John Esten Cooke) Brother Against Brother (John R. Musick) The Last Three Soldiers (W. H. Shelton) A War-Time Wooing (Charles King) The Iron Game (Henry F. Keenan) The Blockade Runners (Jules Verne) The Lost Despatch (Natalie Sumner Lincoln) My Lady of the North (Randall Parrish) Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson (John McElroy) The Red Acorn (John McElroy) Winning His Way (Charles Carleton Coffin) A Daughter of the Union (Lucy Foster Madison) Chasing an Iron Horse (Edward Robins) The Man Without a Country (Edward Everett Hale) History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (James Ford Rhodes)

Journey to Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and other parts of Asia through the eyes of Singapore’s very own young authors. Their stories explore mature themes like belonging, identity, loss, resilience, courage, love, family and friendship. The tales in this anthology are sure to amuse and delight and may even make you shed a few tears!