New Releases by Robert Elmer

Patrick McWaid can''t understand why his friend Jefferson would leave the Lady Elisabeth to work on another ship. Sure, the Victoria is a much fancier paddle steamer, but Jeff''s new boss, First Officer York, is a tyrant and a bully. And when Jeff and the Victoria steam away from Goolwa, they leave a strange but valuable cargo behind -- two crates full of ostriches! The McWaids have no choice but to take on the extra load, and when they catch up to the Victoria at Emu Flat, Patrick has a run-in with the disagreeable Officer York. Once the Lady E arrives in Echuca, though, Patrick hears rumors that an officer from the Victoria has died. It could be York -- is Patrick somehow to blame? And now Jefferson has disappeared! Where could he be? No one on the Victoria is talking.... What''s the big secret?

When thirteen-year-old Patrick and his family befriend a young Chinese immigrant who arrives in Australia in 1855, they face the prejudices of local miners.

Patrick and Michael find themselves aboard an escaped hot air balloon with an inexperienced pilot. Sighting a "bunyip", a legendary creature feared by the aborigines, they wonder if they can escape in time to warn the ranchers of an approaching firestorm.

In Australia in 1868, twelve-year-old Patrick continues to search for his missing father, who has been convicted of a crime he did not commit and has been forced into hiding out in the bush.

Patrick and Becky find themselves in the middle of a dangerous confrontation between the town troublemakers and the local aborigines. Ages 8-12.

In 1868, after their father is wrongfully convicted and deported on the last prison ship to Australia, twelve-year-old Patrick and the rest of the McWaid family determine to stay together and follow him to the far-off continent.

While visiting their cousins'' farm on the west coast of Denmark in the summer of 1944, eleven-year-old twins Peter and Elise learn the power of prayer as they work to rescue a downed British pilot.

Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of Samuel W. Wallace. He was born 15 Jun 1795 in York District, South Carolina. He married Frances Hodges 2 Apr 1818 in Shelby County, Mississippi Territory. She was born 1798 in Warren County, Georgia to William Hodges and Elizabeth Kirby. She died 10 Apr 1871 in Lawrence County, Alabama. He died 4 Aug 1886 in Lawrence County, Alabama. They were the parents of eleven children. Descendants lived in Alabama, Tennessee, and elsewhere.