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Joy Bassetti-Kruger
Books in Order: 42 titles
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Call Of The Cuckoo
The story is set on a South African farm that belongs to Lorna, whose family have lived on the farm for over a hundred years.Now that Lorna is older, she decides to change her will that was in favour of her four children and instead she leaves the fa...
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Looking Up Into The Light
Catherine was an unusual child that longed to do the type of things that normal families did together at Christmas. There was not much hope of this happening in her family though. So she pinned her hopes for change on the reflections she always sa...
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Butterflies -Of The Usual Kind
In her new job, Gemma has been asked to present a new concept in packaging a line of cosmetic products for women. She is apprehensive about speaking in public, but her friend Libby coaches her until she is word perfect.All goes well while Gemma rehe...
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Who Wrote The Book
Once Kerri had submitted her book to a publisher, she anxiously waited to see if this would be the book that would eventually be published. Her idea to write a story about a writer that discovered some government secrets and then exposed them had...
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Jack's Accidental Masterpiece
Jack is a deaf art student sitting for his final exam, but the unusual instructions in the paper throw him into a slight panic. Mainly because the class has been asked to paint a picture of what a poem printed up on the blackboard means to them. He k...
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The Rose Petal Rosaries
While Anna and her daughter Jodie were visiting a little stone church in France, the wind came up and suddenly they were showered with thousands of fresh rose petals. Since there was nobody else around they felt perplexed, especially when Anna said t...
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Suspended Animation
The story is about how a little girl used her teddy bear to hide the fact that she was an exceptionally gifted child. She did this because she somehow knew that her mother would be upset if she knew she had taught herself to read and write. So inste...
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A Mid-Summer Spell
Lulu did not intentionally seek out the old Sangoma, but when she and her niece and nephew came across the old woman in the midst of a forest of trees and dangling roots, she thought it might be interesting to at least listen to what she had to say.W...
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Out Of The Book Experience
Jason, a character in a book that gets away with murder within the story, suddenly begins to kill people in real life. his killing spree ends when the book is unpublished. But unfortunately the author's daughter writes a book and she also names her ...
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The Ventriloquist's Cat
While Carol was sitting out in her garden, it seemed as if a cat sitting on a branch of a nearby tree suddenly spoke to her and said, -I know your secret, Carol.And because she actually did have a secret that she had kept hidden for the past seven ye...
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Pocket Surprise -Series Part 2
Janie is still not sure if she should pack up her life and go with Tomas to Paris. She feels that her life is passing her by at too fast a pace and this scares her. Then on his last night with her before he leaves to return home to Paris, they make l...
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My Mother, the Spy -Part 3 of the series
A stranger wearing an unusual pair of glasses that come apart at the bridge of the nose is on the island, and he has been asking around to find out if two English woman are living there.Who is this person and does he pose a threat to Roulla and Sofia...
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Pocket Surprise -Series. Part 1
Janey finds a five franc coin in her raincoat pocket and has no idea how it got there. Then days later down at the river while she is sitting on a rock watching the water, a man on the opposite bank calls out and asks her if he can paint her into...
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Get Behind Me, Shadow
The story is about Simon's struggle for recognition as an artist, as well as his desire to leave home and strike out on his own to get away from his manipulative father.He know it wont be easy since he has never held down a real job and has always re...
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My Mother, the Spy -Part 2 of the series
My Mother, the Spy: Part 2 in the series follows on from Partl -only 8 years later. Susan and her mother Paula are now using only their Greek names Sofia and Roulla (see footnote inside book). Susan is now married to Jorge and they have two childr...
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Sandra's Christmas Memory Box
Sandra has a secret that her daughter Leanne finds out about when she pays her a surprise visit just before Christmas. To Leanne's surprise, she finds out that her mother has never used any of her gifts over the last five years, but rather re-wrapped...
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Final Pas De Deux
This is a love story about how two people who were once ballet dancing partners, meet again under unusual circumstances, while working at a retirement village.To begin with they feel awkward and don't communicate, since they had parted after a silly ...
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Firesticks
It was unusual for a Bushman to teach someone outside of his clan to use fire sticks to light a fire, especially a white haired English girl of only twelve years old. -But because he liked her and she had shown an interest in the ways of the Bushmen,...
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The Hovering Elephant
Book for children of all ages. Set in a game reserve with the various animals driving the story about how a mamma elephant and her friends saved the day after a witch-doctor had put a curse on a broken walking stick that later caused havoc amongst th...
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Jenny's Gardener
Jenny wakes up with a start hearing loud rap music being played in her lounge. Feeling scared she creeps to the door and sees women sitting under hair dryers, and having their nails done and also drinking tea. She quickly locks her door and then trie...
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A Night of Fairy Lights
The lights went out and the four friends decide to walk down to the beach. There had been a lot of grumbles around the dinner table, but once they saw the phosphorus shimmering on the crest of the waves and the fireflies dancing in the reeds, the moo...
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No Strings Attached
A short story about the budding relationship between a young boy whose parents are recently divorced and his grandfather, who tries to help him move on. His grandfather is a detective and to make things more interesting, he leaves clues for the bo...
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Point of a Pencil
Point of a pencil, is a short story about a creative writing class, in which the lecturer tells the students that she requires each of them to arrive at the class with twenty-four sharpened pencils. The students question this number, but soon the poi...
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Saving His Words
Jonathan's book sold out in minutes, which was the last thing he'd wished for. The reason for his distress was that he'd wanted a photo of himself surrounded by piles of his book and now all the evidence was gone.The e-book copies he'd sold didn't se...
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the Chocolate Effect
When Edward, a very ordinary man that designs machinery to wrap and box products, visits the Chocolate Factory by default, after he gets a flat tyre, something unexpected happens to him after he has eaten a hand full of coffee fondant creams. On the...
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Scary Stuff
When Annie leans over the pond to investigate the vision of a face floating on the surface of the water, she feels drawn towards it. But what happens when her face touches the water and a passer-bye drags her out of the water, is unimaginable, for th...
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The Tell Is In The Smile
Susan refuses to listen to her mother when she tells her she must remove the "Jason character from her new novel before it is published. Her mother warns her that Jason killed at least three people outside of the story in real life, when she once...
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The Uncertainty Of Love
When 80 old Henry goes missing, the residents at the Barkley Hotel, each put forward a different theory as to where he has gone. This was why the detective and his sergent became more and more confused, as they listened to their stories. So was Henry...
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Whispering Angels From A Distant Star At Blue Moon
An esoteric,slightly spiritual story, about how we should listen to the still, small voice from within, that is constantly telling us what to do. It is not prescriptive, but merely suggests a way to do this, by turning it into a fantasy story that is...
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My Mother, the Spy
The moment Susan received the anticipated sms for help from her mother, she sent off the five encrypted email messages to MI6, which had been sitting inside her laptop as drafts, for the past two weeks. Susan had only recently discovered that h...
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Saving Jacob
Jacob is a simple Zulu boy who has recently come out of prison. On the train home he falls asleep and is forced to get off the train at the next station down the line. This means that he has to climb up a rock face and make his way through dense bush...
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A Distant Flickering Light
When Tracy is alone at their bungalow in a game reserve one evening, she sees a distant flickering light that she knows should not be there. The light seems to draw her towards it and make her think of Johnny, so she almost walks out into the veld to...
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Time Shift
When Cameron and his sister attend their cousin Celia's wedding, something unusual happens to Cameron. He suddenly finds himself attending a completely different wedding, where flickering candles appear out of nowhere and the guests are all dressed ...
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The Courtyard
In meeting your beloved there, your own small courtyard becomes the universe to you. (Quote) This was exactly how Annie felt whenever she saw Jonathan at The Courtyard, a cafe they both visited frequently, for either lunch or just a coffee.She was no...
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Heidi's Bad Hair Day
Overnight Heidi lost everything familiar to her. She woke up in an alien world with blue hair and living inside a bubble home. The bubblehome comunity was called Partyland, because the residents there partied all night every night and slept by day....
