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If you ever feel saddened by the animal cruelty in this world and wonder how you can make a difference for all sentient beings, then you should read this inspiring story about a little donkey called Nuru.Nuru is born into a life of hardship in the Bukombe district of Tanzania, a country in East Africa. Nuru bravely faces her cruel fate. She displays a moment of great courage which changes the live of all donkeys in this region of Tanzania.This...

Charlize Thwaites is on the road home. Firstly, to South Africa, and then back to Western Australia where her beloved husband, Marnus, lies in Fremantle Cemetery.A teenage indigenous boy from Broome, Western Australia, Koen Jandamurra, is on the road to a traditional initiation, and becoming a man within his Yawuru mob. He is also displaying skills as a talented swimmer under the tutelage of Warwick Taylor. Romanian gymnastics' champion and co...

Sophie doesn't know there's a dead girl in her head.Georgia and Sophie met before they were born. They would've been twins, but Georgia didn't survive the pregnancy. No-one ever knew there were two of them, but Georgia managed to stay with Sophie, she became a constant inner voice in Sophie's life - an often conflicting one to Sophie's own, as well as a largely annoying one, one who tried to push Sophie towards a more exciting life. Sophie, ho...

The truth about how to overcome adversity, with a foreword by Professor Steven Hayes, author of The Liberated Mind and originator of acceptance and commitment therapy, The Trauma Banquet gives raw insights into how to build personal resilience in the face of lingering trauma.At the heart of this memoir is the liberating and inspirational message: eating pain is empowering. As a professor and educator of clinical psychology with 38 years of tre...

From the series by author Philip Bishop, with colourful and brilliant illustrations by Madeleine Karutz bringing it life, Search and Rescue, through adventure highlights the issue of physically hitting out and running away.The story is set in the coral of The Great Barrier Reef, located on the East Coast of Australia, where two Trigger fish that are notoriously short tempered have an altercation that should have been resolved with words. Inste...

My purpose is to encourage and help anyone who feels stuck, who is not sure where they're going on this journey called life.For most of my 75 years, like so many of us, I have had self-doubts and fear of failure, and put myself in so many categories like 'I'm not very clever', 'I'm not good at many things' or 'Other people are smarter, born gifted at music, technology, public speaking and life in general'. A year ago, I published my first book...

Do you want to know?: Shakespeare's personal secret found out after 400 years How to put the head of a 30-year-old on a teenager So many other things about life and living from golf to violin playingYes? Then you need to read 'Shakespeare the Truth other Greats: The Common Denominator: Innate Intellect'.You may be wondering what Shakespeare, golf and playing the violin have to do with each other, and some of the other topics in this book. Well...

The school holidays have arrived, and nine-year-old James can't wait to put his newfound skills to the test during the pirateers' annual Holus-Bolus Raid on the Cartagena Naval School for Laddies. But sneaking into the school isn't the only reason the Swashbucklin' Nay on Impossible Adventurers want to sail to Cartegena. Elizabeth, Emily, and James are determined to discover what happened to their father and the missing Phantom Lady. Meanwhile...

Coming to the Wallamba is not structured along the themes commonly used in local histories, such as the first inhabitants, early settlers, farming, grazing, floods and droughts, road and river transport, religion, post offices, schools, and so on, although these topics are treated along the way. Instead the book tells the stories of the first Europeans who came to the Wallamba Valley or Cape Hawke (later Forster) on the mid-north coast of New ...

MINERVA - The Roman Goddess of wisdom and the sciences as well as war.THE MINERVA PROJECT - A development of the multi-national corporation ScienceStart.SCIENCESTART - Colin Bourke's company whose main aim is to develop financially viable scientific achievements.Six of the finest scientific minds in the western world are working on a venture to lay the foundations to control the last bastion of our natural world- time. This unique experiment b...

In the aftermath of the United Nations Investigation Taskforce being falsely accused of crimes and its operatives hunted down, Jean-Luc Renouf and Joshua Carver's team find refuge on the secret island hideaway of billionaire criminal Xian Ho.From this new base they continue to protect the portals of the Universouls, and uncover a devious plan that could not only jeopardise the very future of mankind but prevent the planet from entering a new e...

A beautiful young woman goes missing and a corpse is pulled from a creek after becoming entangled in fishing net, only to disappear from the riverbank shortly afterwards. Mysterious lights are reported in the sky upriver from the small town of Koorah.Down-on-his-luck cop, Rebb Caldwell, is suspended from duty but continues his investigation into the case of the missing woman … with possibly more than professional interest. Why does he feel so ...

After the discovery of a young indigenous warrior with radiation poisoning in outback Australia, a team of international experts from the United Nations Investigation Taskforce must battle mercenaries sent by a secret organisation to find the source. From New York, through Europe and on the Mediterranean Sea, former Australian Federal Police officer Joshua Carver searches for answers and discovers truths from the past that may forever change t...

Author Stuart feels here that this book is truly now his final one of the series after having offered a lifetime of fascinating psychic evidence, for readers, not forgetting students and psycho-spiritual faculties.There was a certain pathos in his taking his family to 'sunnier' New Zealand, then Australia, his beloved first wife, vulnerable in English winters to rheumatic heart fevers, though helped by Stuart's healing energies. He had many to...

1957, United Kingdom.Jane Frobisher crossed the world at eighteen years of age intending to 'visit strange places and meet interesting people.' Jane was a shorthand writer, an indispensable occupation in the 20th century. An opportunity to travel came in the form of a joint United Kingdom and Australian emigration programme enabling Jane to emigrate for the princely sum of five pounds. Following an extraordinary journey by sea and rail, it was...

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Marley Bollane is a clever young girl from country Victoria with a heart problem she keeps hidden from all but her parents. In the 1970s, she begins working at the Stock Exchange where she meets Richard Jamison, a charming, handsome man who is not aware his friend and employer, Ross Gilmore, is involved with criminals and drugs.Marley and Richard marry and begin breeding stud racehorses on their property. Children follow and life is sweet unti...

After his first visit to Australia, Ozzy can't wait to travel there again. Luckily, Santa agrees to a second visit.This time, Ozzy lands in the desert - the Red Centre - and finds out just how hot and dry the desert can be. After trying to swim in the mirage of an oasis, Ozzy is lucky to meet a young Aboriginal boy, Warra, and his animal friends. They show him around and explain a lot about their culture and life in the desert. As always, Ozzy...

These stories are about mothers and fathers, lovers and goblins, sons and daughters.Meet Angel, Mary, Billy, Martha and George. These characters are set free in a fantasy world.You have to break up with Jay, leave Annabel, bring home Daniel and love Evie.On the train or a plane, in a laundromat or in a courthouse, there are magic potions, a statue, a missing gun, the dodo and the grumpy goblin.Have conversations with strange working girls, wit...

Some people migrate and then they can struggle to find belonging in their host nation. And sometimes they then choose to return to their home nation, to a culturally safe space, as a self-protective mechanism.But surprisingly when some return home to their safe place they no longer see themselves as belonging there either. The reality is that, whether they are aware of it or not, cultural transition has already begun to take place within them....