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Courage in my Carry-On
Courage in my Carry-On is a personal account of a shy young woman who began travelling and volunteering overseas in Asia and Africa and how it completely changed her life. Courage in my carry-on is Rachel’s personal story about travelling and volunteering overseas. Rachel was a shy, insecure teenager from New Zealand, but at the age of nineteen boarded a ship that travelled to Sri Lanka and India, and during this time she volunteered at a boy’s orphanage and cleaned wells. A couple of years later, while traveling to Cambodia and Thailand, she saw first-hand the realities of child slavery. In 2016 she began volunteering at a babies home in Uganda. Her travels and life experiences have taught her to overcome her fears and push herself beyond her comfort zone.
The Spot the War Forgot
Wolfgang Schmitt and his friend Billy Köster from the freighter the Pfalz, are captured in Melbourne three hours after Britain declares war on Germany, and find themselves packed off to a derelict gaol in the rundown village of Berrima. The gaol, notorious for its sadistic history and ghosts, quickly earns the name Castle Foreboding when eighty-nine mariners have to sleep in cells on the stone floor. But it takes more than a miserable start to daunt these storm-weathered sailors. This remarkable story is based on a series of real events that took place during World War One. While the sword devoured Europe, the internees built huts along the river, made boats, had a theatre and orchestra, an...
I Told You Not to Climb the Cactus
Motherhood is the toughest, most rewarding task a woman will ever face. A new baby in the house brings a trail of disruption in her wake. In the foggy world of sleep deprivation and exhaustion, cactus spikes of insecurity and false guilt sprout. Do jabs of negative feelings towards your children make you a bad mother, or are they all part of the motherhood toolkit? Seasoned mother Wendy Hamilton tells it like it is. Laugh along with her as she picks her way through the prickly desert of raising small children.
Shipwrecks and Bush Felling
The true story of George Meredith who in 1845 goes to sea at eleven, is shipwrecked twice, rescues a princess, and runs away to the gold rush in Melbourne. In New Zealand he meets a girl at the Lyttleton docks, marries her the next day, and carves out a life for himself and his family in the New Zealand bush.
Diana and Her Crocodiles
Diana has a problem! Pet day is coming to school and she needs a super, awesome animal to win. She asks her mum if she can have a pony. "Certainly not," says Mum. "We haven't enough grass on the lawn!" Then she asks her dad if she can get a goat. "Certainly not!" says Dad. "A goat would eat all the washing on the line!" Things are looking glum until Diana and her brother find some very large, extremely odd looking eggs at the edge of the lake. Has Diana solved her pet crisis or just made things a whole lot worse?
To Own a Fig Tree
In bondage to the powerful lairds of the Shetland Isles, Robert Johnson’s only hope for a better future resides in the afterlife. But in 1874, an invitation from New Zealand changes everything.
The Britwhistles Win a Prize
A touching and humorous story of an elderly couple who find comfort and connection through a new friendship. Join Alfred Britwhistle as he plays pranks on his neighbour, and Myrtle his wife, as she makes a prize-winning bear that wins much more than a blue ribbon. Suitable for ages 8- 12 with black and white illustrations
Little House in the Cow Paddock
In this sequel to Little House in the Bush, thirteen-year-old Wendy and her two sisters are excited about moving out to Mount Tiger permanently. But their joy at getting a new house quickly sours when they realize building is hard work. Now quarrying rocks and digging foundations are added to their weekends of pioneer living. Despite thinking their parents are slave drivers, there is plenty of time between chores for fun and games. Readers of the little house on the Prairie series will adore the hilarious antics of this twentieth-century New Zealand family. Based on Wendy’s childhood, these adventures are sure to become a well-loved classic in every family bookshelf.
Homemade Church
Homemade Church is a collection of humourous thought-provoking stories about the current revival of New Testament house churches. All across the western world, Christians are waking up to a new song of the Spirit. Beyond the brick and mortar walls of the church, as we have always known it, a miracle is unfolding. This is the story of a little homemade church at the bottom of the world, a changed community, and a family that heard the hymn from the harvest field, left convention and dared to obey.
Surviving Home-Schooling Through the Corona Crisis
Forget five hours of schoolwork a day, twenty minutes of instruction combined with good parenting gets the job done. Home-schooler of twenty-years. Wendy Hamilton, shows you how.
