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What ails the NDIS?Caring or careless? In this powerful and moving essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been "the only lifeboat in the ocean, " but for others it has meant still more exclusion.Lee explains what happened, showing that the NDIS, for all its good intentions, has not understood people with disabilities well eno...

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world - of land seized, fortunes made and lost, and the violence let loose as squatters and their allies ...

Suspicious deaths and political ambition collide in Foxholes. Follow Vince Marcotte and Hadley Collins as they join forces to solve a pair of murders before they become the next victims. Combat veteran Vince Marcotte has hung up his uniform in favor of a quiet, comfortable life. But, ghosts from his past are raised when Nick Batson announces his Senate campaign. Vince is convinced Nick got away with murder 15 years ago when they were both depl...

What is shown to us each time is an idea, a little piece of speculative universe, and we peek into it ..." -Russell Meredith, author of The Psychic Battery A mysterious church, a man's humorous visit to a megastore, disappearing images from a photograph, missing chocolates, a search for a house from a grandfather's memory, ghosts protecting their home... These are all stories from the imagination, crossing genres, intended to answer "What woul...

Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows." -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming Drawing Water Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world, " the John Muir Trail. From the outset, their adventure is complicated by self-inflicted accidents and ferocious weather, then enriched when the...

Ruth Markson returns to her childhood home for a year as she carries out her secret plan for a big city career. On the first day nursing in a retirement facility, she's warned by a resident that his friends are unexpectedly dying. Unlike Ruth, her former pal Tyler Kelly truly loves their small Wisconsin hometown and its community of friends and family. The only thing missing is someone to share his life-Ms. Right. Ruth questions the medication...

Nichols creates a cast of funny eccentrics who are in way over their heads when it comes to fraudulent antiques dealers, deadly doctors, and cold-blooded murderers. " -Kim Conrey Author of Stealing Ares Lucy Howard has arranged her life around the philosophy honesty is mostly the best policy. But her dream to work in research at a reputable museum don't materialize. Instead, she finds herself investigating a charming elderly woman who's runnin...

Letters To A Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke is a prosaic work, but it refers directly to poetry. There are ten letters written to a young man about to enter the German military. In the very beginning of the 1903, Rilke received a letter from a twenty-year old lieutenant of Austro-Hungarian army Franz Kappus. Verses were enclosed to the letter: the lieutenant turned out to be a poet. Rilke answered. Rilke wrote Franz Kappus ten letters, the...

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Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, intended "for the use of young persons" while retaining as much Shakespearean language as possible.Mary Lamb was responsible for retelling the comedies and Charles the tragedies.They omitted the more complex historical tales, including all Roman plays, and modified those they chose to retell in a manner sensitive to the needs of young ch...

Edited by eminent scholar and researcher Surendra Kumar Maharana, PRABANDHARA SURADHUNEE is an anthology of 33 literary essays written over time. Contributors include Biswanath Kar, Sashibhushan Ray, Pandit Gopabandhu Das, Bipin Bihari Ray, Laxmikanta Mahapatra, Ratnakar Pati, Birupaksha Kar, Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, Brajabihari Mohanty, Sarala devi, Raj Kishore Ray, Bamacharan Mitra and others.

Two generations face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events. Mary Roberts is an impoverished child living in a council flat in 1950's London. When she and her sister are left at an orphanage by their mother, they don't think their lives can get any worse. Harry Evans is an orphan who finds himself, with Mary and her sister, on board a ship bound for Australia. They're sent to a farm school for...

Two generations face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events. Mary Roberts is an impoverished child living in a council flat in 1950's London. When she and her sister are left at an orphanage by their mother, they don't think their lives can get any worse. Harry Evans is an orphan who finds himself, with Mary and her sister, on board a ship bound for Australia. They're sent to a farm school for...

AME JEUNMANE is a short story collection in Odia by eminent Odia author Jagannath Prasad Das. The collection has fourteen short stories, Chithi, Bagha, Pakshi, Muhurta, Bandhana, Beshya, Curfew, Lekhaka, Sparsha, Bhagya, Photograph, Sahityakara, Budhiani Jala and Sampradaya. A must read collection.

Two generations face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true events. Mary Roberts is an impoverished child living in a council flat in 1950's London. When she and her sister are left at an orphanage by their mother, they don't think their lives can get any worse. Harry Evans is an orphan who finds himself, with Mary and her sister, on board a ship bound for Australia. They're sent to a farm school for...

The Domestic Plane is a meta-group exhibition in five chapters-organised by five curators, including more than 70 artists-that features tabletop objects across the fields of art and craft from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

DeConna leaves it to the reader to ponder whether the value of truth always outweighs its cost." -Carolyn Geduld, author of The Struggle Jenny Smith, a young journalist, secures a career-making interview with a famous but reclusive author, AJ Kenton. Jenny's time with Mr. Kenton, however, is not spent in her asking questions but in his telling one last story. During three afternoons, Kenton describes a pivotal point in his life. As a twelve ye...

Seventeen-year-old Ghonna "Gyle" is an outcast unsure of their identity, trying to get by in a post-apocalyptic society where traditional values reign. To raise themself out of the Lower Ranks, Ghonna participates in the annual Imperial Events (a cross between the Olympics, X-games, and Roman Gladiator Combat). With each stage, the stakes increase, the competition is fiercer, and the possibility of death becomes likely. However, Ghonna uses th...

DeConna leaves it to the reader to ponder whether the value of truth always outweighs its cost." -Carolyn Geduld, author of The Struggle Jenny Smith, a young journalist, secures a career-making interview with a famous but reclusive author, AJ Kenton. Jenny's time with Mr. Kenton, however, is not spent in her asking questions but in his telling one last story. During three afternoons, Kenton describes a pivotal point in his life. As a twelve ye...

When the bond between two sisters is threatened, they resort to a dark plan of murder and deception as their only option. With their special skills set they have possibly committed a perfect and untraceable crime.