10 Ergebnisse.

What's a boy to do, if his dad won't let him ride? Sid's father is back from the war, but it's not the kind of homecoming the family had hoped for. Dad's return brings fear, not comfort, and for some reason he thwarts Sid's every attempt to become a jockey.Time is running out for a boy who is almost old enough to leave school and start work. Can Sid prove himself to be a winner? Or will he sink into the mire of post-war rural hardship, doing a...

I'll be famous. You'll see." The year is 1946, and in rural New Zealand fourteen-year-old Sid Everett dreams of glory on the racetrack. But why is his father determinedly blocking his every move? Sid's dad is back from WWII, but it's not the kind of homecoming the family had hoped for. Dad's return brings fear, not comfort, and for some reason he thwarts Sid's every attempt to become a jockey. Time is running out for a boy who is almost old ...

Cara of Camulodunum dreams of traveling the world, but as the daughter of a blacksmith, the height of her exploration is the plebian carpenter's shop of her intended. Then she meets the patrician's son, Eric Paterculi, who regales Cara with tales of Greece and Hercules.The sons of Roman noblemen are meant to become soldiers and politicians, and Eric's father, the Legate of Britannia has illustrious plans for Eric. However, Eric fails rhetoric ...

Beginning in the UK, the book opens with a walk in the uplands of North Yorkshire. Finding an ancient stone circle, the narrator creates a spontaneous ceremony with chanting and prayers. She feels an intense longing for something that she cannot quite grasp. On the way home, helped by the trees growing alongside the path, she articulates her desire to contribute to taking better care of the planet. The story follows her subsequent wanderings, ...

The story opens with the disarticulated bones of an ancestor falling into the dreaming body of the narrator. The bones are the gift of an ancient, unknown Grandfather. Honoured and bemused, the narrator follows where her trance experiences lead her. Through the Grandfather, the Girl, the Horse, the Red Centre of Australia, Snake power, a Peace Being, and the activation of previously unknown energy centres, the narrative weaves both daily life ...

This is a colourful story about consciousness. Written in a conversational style, the thoughts, feelings and 'seeings' of the narrator are vividly described. Untrammelled by explanations, the flow of the narrative transforms a series of experiences into a fast flowing river that carries the reader through fascinating landscapes into alternative levels of reality.Having seen how spiritual healing brought great relief to a dying relative, the na...

American Buffalo, roaming in abundance on the Spirit Plains, and European Bison, hanging on by a thread in Wildlife Parks, are the Stars of this book. Taking place in the world of everyday and in less concrete realities, the story focuses on the relationship between Bison and Humans that has been ongoing from Neolithic times until the precarious present. Feeling their loss and finding solace in their company, the narrator, in a stream of consc...

Fed up of power struggles, confused in modern life, stressed out and weary? This book reveals what happened when such a person decided to find out if there was anything to experience outside the limits of daily consciousness.Written in a conversational style, the thoughts, feelings and 'seeings' of the narrator are vividly described in this book of shamanic journeys, hurried along by charismatic guides, this ancient practice produces some surp...

No man marries a prostitute. Born a slave, forced into ill-repute, Libya's one meaning in life is her young son, the child of a nobleman, Victor Ocelli. Then, one night, her master moves to sell the boy. A stranger rescues the boy by buying her and her child. Moved by her tears, Roman patrician Felix "Wryn" Paterculi purchases Libya and her son that night. Wryn is working to gain a higher military post to bring the force of the law against the...

Loving her could get him crucified. Daughter of an elite patrician father and a Celtic woman, Gwen Paterculi chafes against the restrictions of Roman society. Her family thinks Caius Marcellus is a smuggler with the ruthless empire-wide smuggling ring, the Viri, as well as a violent lecher. But Gwen's been kissing Marcellus behind secluded hedges for two years now. Caius Marcellus isn't even his real name, and the part he plays contradicts eve...