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BOORI MONTY PRYOR: AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE 2012-13 This is a book for everybody. Welcome! Take a seat! And listen carefully, because this story has a heartbeat. Can you feel it, there in your chest? Legendary storyteller Boori Monty Pryor invites us to travel with him from the first footsteps through 80,000+ years of strength, sickness, and immense possibility. From the very first stories and art, to dance, language, and connection with the land, Boori offers a powerful, beautiful, and deeply rich account of Australia's true history, drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, and on his generous instinct to teach and heal. An exquisitely illustrated celebration of the power of storytelling to unite us, how nature connects us, and the wonderful truth that the medicine needed for healing lies within us all.
Twin Cities Private Investigator Matt Malone gets more than he bargains for in Mayhem With A Capital M. When he receives a call from Jake Ballad, owner of Java to Go, to find out who's behind the pilfering of gasoline from his company vans, Matt thinks he must choose between a new client and a once in a lifetime, all expense paid trip for two to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with the love of his life, Rita Sinclair. Luckily Ballad's an understanding guy--sometimes a person has to put personal business ahead of everything else. Too bad our PI didn't weigh his options more carefully before he left with his honey for paradise, for he soon learns what happens in Mexico doesn't always stay there, and Java to Go's gasoline problems are just the tip of the iceberg.
Life, for Ronnie Sinclair, is not as idyllic as it might be in the quirkily wonderful Oklahoma setting that serves as his home. Sure, he’s got a fantastic family, which marvelously expands thanks to his evolving relationships with a bunch of fascinating people. He lives in a sprawling ranch house nestled inside fifteen acres of natural wonder, with adventures awaiting at every turn. And the Arbuckle Wilderness Preserve is in his backyard, which is amazing because it positively explodes with opportunities for communion with the animal pals he so adores. But there is trouble in Ronnie’s life, too, and it’s starting to feel like more than just the garden-variety kind of trouble a twelve-y...
The twin topics of retirement and superannuation are daunting for many Australians. Information is sometimes unclear and confusing due to jargon, complex mathematical tables and constantly changing government regulations. Retire Ready is a practical handbook with contributions from a wide range of commentators that explains in clear, concise, jargon-free language what retirees need to know to get started on a journey that can have a positive life-changing effect.
Get lost in an enveloping epic tale about an iconic celebrity of the twenty-first century whose autobiography inspires a dynamic patriotic resistance against a full-fledged Judeo-Christophobic America. Alexandria: World Class Life Story is a riveting hypothetical drama that details her amazing life set in a dystopic America paralleled by a resulting dedication to salvaging her beloved nation from doom. But in order to do this, she must first find a suitable biographer to transfer an influential legacy of faith and resolution for a new generation of patriots to make an emboldened stand against the oppressive establishment. Alexandria presents an ambitious provocative exploratory portrayal of ...
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
This captivating first novel by the author who has been called Scotland's answer to Catherine Cookson tells a story of love and ambition set in Lanarkshire in the 19th century. The Lanarkshire colliery village of Blacklaw is a harsh and unforgiving place, but it is home to the ambitious, hard-working Stalker family. Until one morning in March 1875, when a mining disaster takes a hundred lives and changes their life forever... The underground explosion kills their menfolk, but not their ambitions, their pride or their love for one another. Drew Stalker is the young man on whom their hopes rest. But it is on his sisters Kate and Mirren that the burden of saving their family will fall. A bestseller since it was first published, the compelling story of the Stalker family continues in The Hiring Fair and concludes in The Dark Pasture.