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The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition is an activity the entire family will enjoy. Based on the tradition Carol Aebersold began with her family in the 1970s, this...

In June 1969 seven assisted migrants stepped out of the plane that had touched down in a strange place called Hobart. Jenny Williams was one of those adults. From that...

Australia: Off the Beaten Track - is more than a description of trips, it provides comprehensive track notes, tour maps, camping information, planning advise and describes the main highlights of...

FOREWORD BY CARDINAL GEORGE PELL Our consumer society has conditioned us to ask ourselves such things as, 'What do I get out of it? What is in it for me?'...

A collection of historical and humorous recollections from people born before 1961. Topics covered include: home life, working life, school days, entertainment, social views and the life of immigrants.

If you've ever used a public restroom, chances are you've read some bathroom graffiti, or at least noticed it. Often bawdy, funny and smart, sometimes illegible, it is a ubiquitous...

When is a pie maker not a pie maker? When it's making muffins, biscuits, pancakes, fried eggs, fritters, snow cakes and scones. Find out how to do it with ease,and...

A complete catalogue of motion picture techniques for filmmakers. It concentrates on the 'storytelling' school of filmmaking, utilizing the work of the great stylists who established the versatile vocabulary of...

The inspiring story of the newly canonized twentieth-century woman (1923 - 1962) who risked her life in order to save her unborn child. Diagnosed with uterine tumors during her fourth...

Jay and Lila Cooper have been on adventures with their archaeologist father before, but nothing like this! As they make their way through the dark and mysterious cavern, they can't...

Blending science fiction and fantasy, the first book of the Coldfire Trilogy tells a dark tale of an alien world where nightmares are made manifest. Over a millennium ago, Erna,...

Book Excerpt: rather fancy he's about moving into it for the winter."Davy was about to complain against such liberties being taken with his property, when the clock began rolling over...

Sara Crewe, a wealthy young student at a London boarding school, suddenly finds herself at the mercy of the cruel schoolmistress after tragedy strikes. Overwhelmed by terrible trials, Sara must...

Includes activities for everyone, from hiking in the Flinders Ranges to tasting superb wines in the famous Barossa Valley; information on national parks, flora and fauna; details on the Adelaide...

WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon,...

Operation Meltwater: FreeFlow, a group of internet activists committed to the freedom of information have video evidence of a military atrocity in the Middle East and have chosen Iceland as...

Two heads are always better than one isn t that how the saying goes? Well that s not how Richard feels, when he wakes up to discover he s grown...

Doyle, an award-winning and nationally recognized Catholic writer, presents his collection of literary works. After more than twenty years of "diligent scribbling," author Brian Doyle, an award-winning Catholic writer and...

Dancing in the Margins describes people of different religious traditions who struggle with their churches. It includes interviews, poetry, Biblical reflections, and questions for reflection or discussion. The theme of...

This guide provides the antidote to the common tendency of conflict, giving managers, team leaders, members, and facilitators the practical support they need to battle "the nice trap" and start...

Selected by Choice magazine as a Outstanding Academic Book for 2000 Nelson Mandela once said, "Human rights have become the focal point of international relations." This has certainly become true...

With 200 thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts and exercises organized into chapters based on his life, My Father's Life guides your father to begin his life's memoir and create a...

Record your grandfather's life story in this beautiful keepsake journal with 200 guided exercises and prompts that take him back through each stage of his life and its accompanying adventures....

In The Pillars of Creation , #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind has created his most lavish Sword of Truth adventure yet. The basis for the TV show...

A Whisper to the Living continues the adventures (some would say trials and tribulations) of Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union. Rostnikov is...

Her most personal spiritual work to date, Joan Chittister's In Search of Belief is both a disturbing and affirming book. Disturbing to our most comfortable notions concerning our "professed" beliefs;...

The Little Princess wants to have two birthdays! Very well, says the prime minister. Of course, when the princess sees how much fun two birthdays are, she must have three....

Nate, Dan, Chuck, Serena, and Blair are back from college for a holiday break in the city. Has college changed anyone? What kind of hookups and breakups were going on...

The fourth book in the deliciously naughty GOSSIP GIRL THE CARLYLES series Serena, Nate and Blair kept us all entertained with their less than pure behaviour but Gossip Girl was...

Robin is shocked but thrilled when Hannah arrives on his Oxford doorstep with a two year old and a suitcase, and announces that Freddie is his son. Her husband Marcus...

New South Wales, 1856: Miles McGinty and Isabel Dowling are born on the same night into different worlds. Miles is the illegitimate son of an actress in a troupe of...

Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is due to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to...

The wry, honest and often hilarious chronicles of a very brave and clever TV presenter, Arctic Explorer and general drawer of the Short Straw. Moving quickly on from the devastating...

Shelving her PhD to clean the homes of the rich and famous and spending her evenings in low-rent bars, Shannon rebels against everything her academic family stands for. But when...

Cara Gayle is one of life's pleasers. A young, country school-teacher in 1960s Ireland, she spends her life looking after her philandering husband, Oliver and her pious mother, Maggie. When...

It's 1913. Fifteen-year-old Malise Monroe earns herself an education teaching younger children at a Dundee schoolhouse. Her father is passionately devoted to improving conditions for workers in the jute industry...

Hilary had always thought she'd lived a charmed life. With a caring husband, David, and two lively children, she took an active part in both family and village life. Then,...

The long awaited autobiography of ' La Stupenda ' the worlds most celebrated living soprano. From not particularly spectatcular musical beginnings, Joan Sutherland has built a world-conquering singing career. Born...