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Wheels within Wheels is not about the wheels which drive your local bus, but the hidden wheels which have run Sydney's buses for many years:The wheels of politics - because transport has always been influenced by politicians, and not always for the right reasons. The wheels of money - because too often public funds have been spent on unworthy causes. But not all politicians made wrong decisions, and not all money invested in Sydney's buses w...

An anthology of reflections for Teachers dedicated to discipleship in the crucible of education - the classroom. These Christian reflections are derived from wide experience, speaking to the challenges facing Teachers - especially those committed to remaining as they were called. When facing pedagogical challenges, or reconciling polarities in curricula, these reflections can orient you to elements and essentials. Each reflection rests in the ...

Any mother would die for their child. She would do anything to take away their pain. In the case of suicide, the mother keeps the pain and loses the child. On 5 July 2020, Jessica Revill took on her son's agony and had to learn to live as an "emotional amputee". She couldn't grow her son back. She had to navigate the world without her beautiful, funny, musical, autistic boy. So, if you can't die for your child, how do you live for them? Over ...

Teaching kids to love Jesus is full of challenges and opportunities. God's Family Now: A New Look At Kids' Ministry helps Christians and churches do the 'what' of kids' ministry better by starting with the 'why'. We minister to kids because Jesus has made us all children in God's family. In God's Family Now, the author explores how seeing children and youth as part of the church community helps us teach them.

Olympian Zeus Between the ships Who met who? Would call you blessed In all else When you harken to me As I to thee Silhouette City is a place of magic, a place of wonder - a city of dazzling oceans, of magnificent mountains and the call of the wild. It's a land of poetry and art-scapes that scintillate and terrorise, a place where the hands of gods reach down and shift energies, resonating with extra-terrestrial force as they clear a pa...

In the quiet villages of Greater Horrewick, gem of the Southern Regions, those peaceful farming and fishing communities struggle under the yoke of Aaellionia. Once again forced to appease the city Selection they must pay with their own son's lives. Marching on the villages, the soldiers have made one fateful mistake, this year, they have unwittingly selected a girl. A violet eyed girl the ancient one deems prophecy. With the followers, a band ...

You want to do what? Live in solitude next to the rainforest while you find your real self? Do not do this. His rational brain had no idea. The Creek is based on a true story and is about a young man who leaves the Darling River in western New South Wales to live next to the rainforest in South-East Queensland at a place called The Creek. At The Creek, he searches for his real self, the one he thinks will find if he lives in solitude. His self...

We are living in exciting times. World peace is something we have all wanted but was seemingly unachievable. Now, however, through a global humanity awakening, our aspiration for a harmonious society is within our reach. Through the irony of paradox, this book theorises that by understanding what we do not want we can establish what we do want. If peace is what we want, surely this can be created by practising the polar opposite of war? Usin...

Erika Stannusson is a fresh arrival from the ninth century. With the help of friends Karl McGregor, and Adam 'Finch' Bird, she finds her way in the 21st-century city of Marshton. Before she arrives in Marshton however, Erika runs into Norse troublemaker Loki. Disguised as Chief Norse God, Odin, Loki gives her a small box containing Viking King Harald's blue tooth. As a gift, it's ordinary until she shows it to Karl and Finch. Ignoring Erika's ...

Conservation Collection's Critically Endangered books are a children's non-fiction series featuring an A to Z listing of Critically Endangered and Endangered animals currently listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on their Red List of Threatened Species. The books feature the common and scientific names of each species, where they are found, how many may be left in the world, a full-colour illustration and fun fac...

Be warned! If you do a bad deed, the Karma Llama will pay you a visit and teach you a lesson. But who is the Karma Llama, where did he come from and why is the lesson so gross? Mimpy the panda and Cormack the fainting goat are about to find out.

A hollow victory... With the defeat of Monnos at the hands of the Athamages, many thought that peace would soon be upon them. However, Druyun finds itself facing a new, much more powerful enemy. Dogma, the evil once thought defeated over 900 years ago, has returned to the land of Druyun to finish what they started. A mighty force... At Dogma's side, intent on ruling the countryside, sits the cunning and devilish Spark wielder who has finally r...

In the cops, Jim Walker thinks he has seen it all. Until he confronts the unexpected, hideous activities on the island where he grew up. International syndicates are at play. Law and crime share a shady line. Ricco, a double-crossing killer, unleashes his inner torment, figuring it is the only way. The city is close, it has secrets, too. A dark underbelly of criminals emerges from the highest floors and government. Nothing can prepare Jim for...

For Bluey and Molly Turner, 1901 brings a big change: a baby on the way and the purchase of the Trafalgar Hotel in the tiny mining town of Trafalgar in the Western Australian goldfields. They find themselves thrust into the lifestyle of a rapidly growing mining town of diverse personalities and politics amidst learning how to run a new business. Overlooking them all is the painting of Admiral Nelson, both loved and detested. This is a he...

An Alpha is the heart of the Pack. It is hard work being a young, single mum. Ridley Wade-Kohan believes herself to be failing in life. With a past that haunts her and a family who has rejected her for the decisions she has made, Ridley has no choice but to find a job - any job. When she lands herself a position as an assistant with the successful Farrow Group, a company owned by the most powerful pack of wolf shifters in the country, and its ...

Her best and worst moments of life had their beginnings in death-shrouded places. Socially awkward Daphne feels liberated when her hateful great Nana dies. Shockingly, she learns that the wicked witch, who was not Polish as originally believed, had been living incognito in Australia since 1948 and had travelled from India... with another woman's baby. Daphne must now unfurl her maternal family's tricky past with help from the attractive half-P...

Rufus Enterprise chooses Seal Island in King George Sound in the Southern Ocean of Western Australia as the site for his sealing operation. He appoints Tom Elder as his leader with four ex-convicts, Bob Beater, Dick Dental, Harry Heeler, and Sam Scullion to assist him. A group of boys are shanghaied, press-ganged, and purchased to make up the unpaid workforce on Seal Island. The boys are worked hard and treated badly, but some learn invaluable...

Escape into a rich world of family intrigue and self-discovery that reaches across three centuries and across cultures. This unique tale draws us gently into itself but it also stimulates discussion about other important issues that remain current. At a time when Australia had its back turned on Asia and when White Australia buried its origins, a curious girl refused to accept the stuffy options on offer and reached out beyond the confines of ...

Nipa is the inspirational story of a self-reliant and determined female freedom fighter who actively helps fight the war of liberation for her country, Bangladesh - which in 1971 was East Pakistan - against the occupying forces of West Pakistan. Nipa, a medical student at Dhaka Medical College, takes up arms in the fight and is martyred just before Bangladesh is declared a sovereign state. In this biographical novel, the author describes the ...

In February 1998, in South Kensington, London the death occurred, unremarked, of 75-year-old retired taxi driver David Stewart Dawson. This was the same David who, fifty years earlier in Australia had inherited a life of privilege and luxury, lived at Sydney's best addresses, married two beautiful women, then lost it all in scandal and shame. In 1849 his grandfather and namesake was born on a farm in Scotland in relative poverty. In the next ...