Books published by Mickie Dalton Foundation

Garry Barton is an Australian business consultant working for a Chicago-based accounting firm. He reviews his firm's computer technology and advises the partnership that they are severely at risk because of their outdated systems. This so enrages the partners that they fire him. Garry joins a small, advanced accounting group and builds up their consulting business, much of it by taking away clients from his old firm. They begin to panic and try threats of violence against him. This doesn't work and the partners become more and more panicked as they see their firm decline and eventually the try and have Garry killed.

Taree Scribblers is a writers' group based at the library in Taree. It has been in operation since 2010 and has a number of published authors of both prose and poetry in its membership. The group has published previous works, including "Duets" a collaboration between writers and artists, a collection of short stories and now this history and record of its activities since its founding.

A tale of a group of pixies as they go on a hunt for various treasures and encounter several gnomes, a curious cat, a huge dog and face numerous dangers. In the process, they finally make friends with one of the tribe who has always been full of herself.

A new, vast spiritual force is approaching Earth. As it nears, the influence becomes extraordinary as people's spiritual awareness grows dramatically. Some remember past lives, others develop new abilities. The Infinite Soul is coming for a purpose - to cure Humanity of a sickness that threatens the survival of the entire Universe. There are one million species in the Universe, of which Humanity is one. As they near the end of the spiritual cycle of growth, they will eventually merge to form the supreme entity we have called God. But this cannot happen while Humanity is sick. The approaching Infinite Soul must complete its mission. But therre are evil forces in the Universe, committed to the destruction of the entire Universe. The final battle between Good and Evil must be won or all of Creation will be lost.

Kaiden and Hazel meet at school and soon discover they have an extraordinary connection. They soon discover that they are twins, separated at birth and adopted by two different couples. As they research their origins, they find that they were the result of extraordinary medical experimentation that at the time was illegal. These experimenta have given them some super-human abilities. Together, they can travel into the past and find themselves in Victorian England and Prohibition-era Chicago, they create a magical fantasy world and then go to a future Sydney. They must learn to control these powers in order to live normal lives.

Kathie, Jamie and six-year old Amelia leave with  their parents to drive 1200 km to South West Rocks on the coast. They encounter a violent storm and a red fog that envelops them. When they emerge, they find that they have reached their destination, but there is no town, no signs of civilisation, no campsite, but their parents seem unaware that anything is wrong. Amelia displays extraordinary connection with the wild life and then heals Kathie when she is bitten by a Brown Snake. They soon realise that they have travelled many hundreds of years into the past. The three children must show great courage and determination to cope with the situation, to understand the truth with Amelia and somehow find a way home again.

In this, the second book of the trilogy, Henry is now the Galactic Emperor and reigns over a peaceful Galaxy. Kyle and Charlie are married and Josh has joined Kyle in graduating from the Space Fleet Academy. But alien forces appear and threaten the peace, assisted by treason from some in high places. All the courage and determination that the young people showed in  the first book must now be displayed again if the Empire is to be saved.

The rightful heir to the throne of the Galactic Empire has been kidnapped and with it, the Star, the sentient crystal that has guided the Yshan Dynasty for several thousand years. Kyle and Sophie, the twin children of the Emperor have come to Earth to seek out the Prince and the Star and they are joined by Josh, Charlie and Henry, but they must overcome treason and great dangers before teh rightful heir to the throne is found and rescued.

When Charlotte's cello is broken, she is given a new one by a mysterious old man. Her already brilliant playing becomes even more extraordinary and she is invited to play before the conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy and the principal cello and concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. They identify her instrument as "The lost Amati" which is said to hold an amazing secret. But Charlotte must survive great dangers before the secret is revealed and Charlotte can play at the Opera House with the SSO.

In this third book of the trilogy, Mickie is now 15 and he has developed the extraordinary powers of his  race, the Pfafth. In his mind he has the memories of the life of Markel, the leader of the Pfath at the height of their  powers when they ruled over 40 galaxies and when they were defeated and escaped into hiding out of time and out of space a million years ago. He must draw on all his powers and the help of his allies, some beautiful, some strange and some terrifying to seek out the Pfafth and protect them against their ancient enemy, the Sillaron who are determined to complete the destruction of their one-time rulers. The million year old war is reaching its conclusion and Mickie must risk his life to save his people.

Mickie has been travelling aboard the inter-galactic trading ship for a year, trying to find clues to the mysteries of what happened to his race and how he came to be on Earth. Slowly, he starts to find clues to the nature  of his people, the Pfafth, how they once ruled over 40 galaxies but then suddenly vanished without trace over a million years ago. But the ancient enemy, the Sillaron are also looking for him to complete the destruction of the Pfafth. As Mickie begins to develop some of the astonishing powers of the Pfafth, the battle for survival intensifies and Mickie must call on all those powers and the help of his allies, some strange, some beautiful and some quite terrifying as he fights to save himself, his companions on the ship and even his entire species when he can find them.

Mickie Dalton is aged 12 and has a miserable home life. A strange couple meet him and tell him he is not a human, but just what his race is and how he came to be on Earth are a mystery. He takes the chance to travel on the inter-galactic trading ship and try to seek out his origins. He meets amazing races, some beautiful, some friendly, some terrifying and slowly finds traces of his origins. But something else has learned of Mickie's presence and is determined to complete what it had tried before, the extermination of his people. A million year old war has restarted and Mickie must draw on all his emerging powers to survive and protect his friends and new family aboard  the ship.

A compilation of recipes from around Australia, including Beef, chicken, curries, fish, pork, Italian, lamb, cakes and sweets, soups and special health foods with a guide to anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and dietary fibre foods.

Geneticists had dicovered that our DNA holds a visual and aural records of our lives and those of our direct ancestors. It becomes possible to look back through time. New historical facts are discovered, old one revised and the whole meaning of what it isd to be human starts to change. The biggest change occurs when it is found that the basis of the world's great religions is quite different from what been believed and everything must change, often with violent consequences. But as new discoveries are made about the ancient world, a new renaissance in the arts, science, medicine, justice and diplomacy arises and the world changes just as it had done before. But a critical question arises - why do we have this ability? Where does it come from?

Alex finds a beautiful recorder hidden in his house and when he plays it, a door to another world opens. He and his friend Kate travel in a strange world, meeting monsters and people who have been there for many years. Some of the adventures are sad, meeting a squad of Australian soldiers who have been for some years but they don't know who the enemy is or how they got there. Some are frightening and they also find there is a mystery about their own parents that they can now resolve.

Daniel (11) and his next door neighbours, Olive (11) and April (6) find a portal into another world in the forest. As they explore they encounter strange forces, some dangerous and hostile, some friendly. When they return, there are new revalations about their families and their origins. The three children must venture back through the portal to try and save the nation there from a wicked Empress and restore peace and safety.

When Gilbert discovers the amazing powers of his farts, he embarks on a series of adventures. he flies into orbit, saves a house from burglars, tries to help his footie team win a game, rescues a man trapped on the roof of a burning building, gets rid of a plague of rats at the market and saves the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race from being becalmed in zero winds.

A new boy comes to school in a Stretch Humvee, immaculately dressed and with armed bodyguards. He becomes close friends with four other children and they learn he is the son of the Georgian Ambassador to Australia. But the US and UK security forces and the Australian Federal Police are all involved as well as some strange hostile forces that want to capture Yuri for their own mysterious purposes and the mystery deepens around Yuri and his origins.

Dan Bailey, a successful English executive living in Chicago starts to have severe nightmares about committing murder and about a terrible childhood in a prison camp. Gradually he finds he is a "Manchurian Candidate," a Russian believing his current life and all his childhood memories of l;ive in England are real, but he is under the control of somebody else who is using him for his personal gain. To escape, he must risk crippling mental damage and the fear of other controllers who might appear.

A series of serial killings begins in Sydney, spreads around Australia and then is found to be happening around the world. Detective Inspector David Hunter, leading the Homicide Squad goes under cover to investigate the killings and puts himself at great risk of his life as he finds out the appalling truth behind the murders.

Julie Malloy and her friends make a school visit to the museum. On leaving and reclaiming her bag from the checkout, she is given the wrong one. Nobody claims it and her own is still there. When they are able to open the bag, they find a map indicating something hidden. As they unravel the mystery, they find themselves in a dangerous situation with a gang of criminals who export Australian wildlife overseas. They must draw on all their courage and intelligence to solve the mystery and keep themselves safe.

When Geoff, Natasha, Emma and Adrian are "double-dared" to go into a spooky new store in town, they can't resist. What they find is frightening. Newspapers that seem new but tell of events of sixty years ago or more, a radio broadcast of a cricket match that happened over seventy years ago and most frightenof all, an ancient oil painting of themselves. They will need all their courage and intelligence to conquer the evil picture that attaches itself to Geoff and threatens his very life.

A little girl is kidnapped off a school bus, but almost immediately released. Then a second child is taken from the school and demands are issued for her locket. Australian Military Police are involved because the child is the daughter of the officer in charge of the case and there is a mystery that involves international crime. The locket is believed to hold the location of a cache of jewels once owned by the eldest daughter of the last Russian Czar and the criminals holding the hostage are a major European crime gang. An elaborate plot is devised to save the child and snare the criminals.

Erwin Biener had a comfortable middle-class life as a child in Hungary until the Nazis arrived. He and his mother had to go through terrible times, first under the Nazis and then under the Soviets before they were able to escape and reach Canada. This book relates some of the scenes and horrors he experienced and the difficulties he and his mother faced when they finally made  it to Canada.

Allison Bentley is a successful IT Consultant with an old-fashioned accounting firm in Chicago. She is also gay. She causes anger in some partners by her criticisms of the firm's obsolete technology and business practices and she is fired. She joins another firm and begins to take business from her old employers. They become increasingly frightened of her actions and the damage she is doing to the firm's business and the partners start to take action but find themselves descending a dangerous path to that can only lead to one bloody conclusion.

Mark arrives at a new school and meets Anna. They soon realise they are connected in some way and learn they have similar histories of being abandoned as babies and adopted. As they discovers strange powers in themselves they realise they are twins. They have both been left a gift of a maysterious box by an unknown grandmother. Then they learn that they are part of an alien species, abandoned on earth two centuries ago by an accident to a spaceship. Soon they embark on an extraordinary mission that takes all of those powers and their courage as they must save their own people and stop a long-running war between two groups.