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Prepare to Come About
Christine Wallace writes with great clarity and honesty--and at times, with humor--about navigating the highs and lows of family, career and love in her gripping memoir "Prepare to Come About." Wallace chronicles her wildly successful business that brought her accolades and awards, radio and TV interviews. However, as her professional life skyrockets, her family's lives spiraled downward. She unflinching shares tales of teenage children in crisis, family pressures and chaos that illuminate the struggles of many working families. As the economic tides turn, her full-throttle lifestyle founders and uncontrollable events broadside her business causing a devastating professional aftershock that amplifies personal heartaches. Wallace and her family struggle with a loss of control of everything in their lives. The fractured family makes an unconventional choice that pivots them all into unfamiliar waters. Their lifeline comes in the form of a tall ship named Zodiac and its enigmatic captain. Prepare to Come About with Christine Wallace as she, along with her family, weathers rough seas and resets her sails for a new course. --Chanticleer Book Reviews
Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew
The story of one of the most intriguing people in a generation. Germaine Greer is one of the opinion-formers of our age, her challenging views constantly provoking us in print and on the small screen. The Female Eunuch, her first book published in 1970, was hailed by the women's liberation movement and influenced an entire generation. Yet two years earlier Greer had argued that "there is hardly a woman alive who is not deeply attracted to the notion of a husband of the kind extolled by Kate", the rebellious wife subdued in The Taming of the Shrew. Over 30 years later, as Germaine Greer revises what one reviewer called "one of the most eloquent pieces of anarchist propaganda that have appeare...
The Private Don
Through the window of never before seen letters, Christine Wallace reveals the private Don Bradman - troubled father, loyal friend and outspoken critic.
Sea of a Thousand Words
On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a young woman discovers a shipwrecked scientist. With help from her friends, she rescues him'only to learn that he is a fugitive with a deadly secret. Pursued by dangerous agents, they set out to expose the governments? plot and destroy the weaponized enzyme before it can be used against innocent people
Private Don
'Have you ever stopped to think how much the hurly burly and turmoil of cricket have taken out of me in the last 40 years?' He was the greatest cricketer the world has ever known. He was also one of the greatest enigmas. Sir Donald Bradman was a fiercely private man, but from 1953 to 1977 he faithfully maintained a lively correspondence with his close friend and confidant Rohan Rivett, the charismatic editor of The News in Adelaide. The Private Don is an anatomy of the friendship between these two remarkable men - a friendship defined by cricket and by family. Through their feisty exchanges on the game, their thoughts on the media and world affairs, their closely argued opinions on investments, their touching mutual support on personal matters and, always, their rare and treasured meetings over bottles of red, a side to Bradman is revealed that Australia has never seen before. Compulsory reading for cricket fans as well as lovers of biography, this is an outstanding portrait of the price of fame, the joys of friendship, and the preoccupations of an extraordinary yet very ordinary man.
Longfellow's Tattoos
Charles Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, arrived in Yokohama in 1871, intending a brief visit, and stayed for two years. He returned to Boston laden with photographs, curios, and art objects, as well as the elaborate tattoos he had "collected" on his body. His journals, correspondence, and art collection dramatically demonstrate America’s early impressions of Japanese culture, and his personal odyssey illustrates the impact on both countries of globetrotting tourism. Interweaving Longfellow’s experiences with broader issues of tourism and cultural authenticity, Christine Guth discusses the ideology of tourism and the place of Japan within nineteenth-century round-the-world travel. This study goes beyond simplistic models of reciprocal influence and authenticity to a more synergistic account of cross-cultural dynamics.
Sea of a Thousand Words
In the not-so-distant future, resources are scarce and land is disappearing. This global crisis has created the largest population migration in history as desperate people look for new homes. Meanwhile, powerful governments close their doors, hiring a ruthless organization called HighTower to lock down the borders. HighTower secretly develops a weaponized gene drive enzyme with the potential to eliminate entire migrant populations-a callous form of "pest control." On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a young woman discovers a shipwrecked scientist. With help from her friends, she rescues him-only to learn that he is a fugitive with a deadly secret. Pursued by dangerous agents, they set out to expose the governments' plot and destroy the enzyme before it can be used against innocent people. A story for our times, Sea of a Thousand Words begs the question, "Who deserves to inherit our earth?" Every page is charged with brilliant imagery and a rich cast of characters-instantly alive and relatable.
Richmond, London
Hacket, ex-UK Secret Intelligence Services (SIS), is in London waiting for a private kill assignment to proceed. His old boss, Charles Grimshaw sidelines Hacket as an SIS 'retread' to infiltrate the Gorgih German organised crime operation intent on acquiring personal identity and biometric data for black market resale. The Berlin based Gorgih family, headed by Michealov Gorgih, recruits Deborah Peers to establish a computer hacker operation in the back streets of Richmond, London. Michealov's brother Romanov and stepsister Saranda support the decision. However, each have their own agenda to profit from the stealing of encryption and biometric data from the UK based and financially struggling...
