Books published by publisher Austin Macauley Publisher LLC

In her first autobiography, Pants Optional, Carol Steingreaber offers a hilarious, unrestricted insight into her life thus far in Iowa, USA. The reader is a privileged passenger on the journey, invited to buckle up for the ride as Carol shares her stories from the sibling squabbles of childhood, to cringeworthy dating moments, marriage and various stages of motherhood. Her witty, "tell-it-straight" writing style conjures up images you can't help but laugh at, often accompanied by photos that speak a thousand (usually comical) words.Carol provides the reader with "UNconventional tips" on a whole range of themes such as housework and hospitals, illness and injury, Nerf guns and nudity, safety concerns and sex, friendship, faith and a great many more. Moments of eternal embarrassment are interspersed with flashes of comic/parenting genius, and every reader will find a nugget or three (or twenty!) to inspire them. A cracking read, and highly recommended.

From the creator of the hugely popular @StrangeAnimals on Twitter comes A Book of Rather Strange Animals - a collection of one hundred remarkable animal specimens from around the world. With fascinating descriptions of nasty feeding habits, bizarre mating rituals and shocking defence mechanisms, you will marvel at both the splendour and gruesomeness of nature.Meet the lizard that shoots blood from its eyes, the isopod that replaces the tongues of fish, the bug that stacks the corpses of ants on its back and the amphibian that looks like a penis.Come and discover the world's most peculiar species!

Fourteen-year-old Dorothy Alston had to grow up fast when her father’s alcohol-induced carelessness resulted in a house fire that claimed her mother’s life. She finds a new life on her uncle’s farm in Florida…but not for long. Now, thirty-four years later, Dorothy’s in a permanent vegetative state and it’s up to Ellen Steward – the hard-working, slightly jaded administrator at an upscale rehab facility – to unravel the mystery that landed Dorothy in this condition. With some unexpected help, Ellen unwinds Dorothy’s fantastical narrative. It begins with a strange glass key that leads Dorothy to worlds that exist between time and space. She awakens a dark creature who feeds on the pain of the young. Ellen discovers that even she is wrapped up in Dorothy’s strange saga. If she wants to save her, Ellen will have to give up everything. But if she fails, much more is at stake than anyone could have imagined.

Throughout the world, people of all races, ethnic groups, ages, and genders disappear without explanation every day. This is a story of their plight, from freedom into slavery and sometimes back to freedom. Across the globe, not only humans but also exotic animals, precious gems, timber, petroleum, natural gas, and other limited natural resources face similar perils and are illegally transported through the same distribution pipelines.In a world faced with rapidly diminishing resources, the theft of human life and scarce resources has become a major criminal enterprise across the globe. To stop this criminal epidemic, the public must be aware and prepared to report any suspicious activity pertaining to any of the crimes previously mentioned. This should be reported immediately to the appropriate authorities. Personal intervention is not advised unless it’s the only viable option.

In her first autobiography, Pants Optional, Carol Steingreaber offers a hilarious, unrestricted insight into her life thus far in Iowa, USA. The reader is a privileged passenger on the journey, invited to buckle up for the ride as Carol shares her stories from the sibling squabbles of childhood, to cringeworthy dating moments, marriage and various stages of motherhood. Her witty, "tell-it-straight" writing style conjures up images you can't help but laugh at, often accompanied by photos that speak a thousand (usually comical) words.Carol provides the reader with "UNconventional tips" on a whole range of themes such as housework and hospitals, illness and injury, Nerf guns and nudity, safety concerns and sex, friendship, faith and a great many more. Moments of eternal embarrassment are interspersed with flashes of comic/parenting genius, and every reader will find a nugget or three (or twenty!) to inspire them. A cracking read, and highly recommended.

Set in a small town, Dissemblance is a compelling drama following the unexpected death of a beloved and respected local politician’s teenaged son.As the family and town mourn his loss, curiosity leads the surviving brother to dig around for answers and find closure – only to uncover a web of lies, scandal, and murder from those closest to him. A fast pace thriller you won’t want to miss.

Jessica Winters is an awkward teen. She always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and bad things happen. Bullied by other kids for her appearance, she clings to the few friends she has. Nick Claus has always been protective of Jessica. Since she arrived on campus and Nick’s archenemy started to pick on her, Nick had her back. There was something else that tied these two together. They quickly discovered the reason they were at Breyerton Academy together may be more than just a coincidence. When evil arrives at the school, the truth is revealed. Forget everything you think you know about Santa Claus; this changes everything.

The beloved, mild-mannered Ms. Sady Kara Oke, music teacher at Lakeview Middle School in New Orleans and daughter of the belated American Blues trumpeter Happy, faces two major battles that will either mean defeat or success: a historic middle school band competition win with her selected student musicians, and the discovery of the love of her life.

Who Is Mother Nature and Where Did She Go? is a book about teaching children the importance of respecting and nourishing the world around us. Through personification and rhyme, we learn what makes up Mother Nature and why it is so important to protect her. This children's book garners lessons that can be carried through adolescence and well into adulthood. After all, the universal notion of learning to take care of our planet should be something both children and adults strive to sustain.

Demetra Demi Gregorakis has found herself feeling that technology has overtaken love in the priorities of life. In an age where whole relationships are carried out by IM, text and email, she remains a dreamer, a hopeless romantic, who wishes that her 'Memories throughout her time she wishes she could keep in jars' will inspire love, romance and happy memories in her readers as she seeks – and hopes that we all find - that which she calls ‘Agapé love,’ the type of perfect love that transcends all others. Her journey is the somewhat convoluted one which most of us take, ebbing and flowing through this stage and that, meeting the right one, the wrong one, the next one … love and adoration, heartbreak and happiness, they all appear here, in thoughts and poems written from the ever-romantic heart.