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Are kids born @!*holes, or are they taught to become @!*holes?After being congratulated by a Hawaiian waitress for having such polite and kind children, Brett McCallum, serial entrepreneur, CEO and Dad, sat down to ponder whether he was just 'lucky' that his children turned out so well, or was it the discipline and respect he and his wife showed to them that turned them into amazing little humans...This book is the culmination of that pondering and discusses the raft of influences that affect our children in both negative and positive ways during their day to day lives. With input from a school principal with over 30 years' experience, a couple experiencing new parenthood, a single dad bringing up 3 kids on his own and a physiologist specialising in children's behaviour, Brett aims to answer the age-old question - 'are kid's born @!*holes?'Some people might be offended by the title, but Brett thinks that's a good thing! He didn't write this book for the faint-hearted - it's for those parents who're determined to raise kids to become the most awesome little humans they can be. Brett takes the view that the unique problems of kids today didn't just happen in a vacuum. Instead, we have stood by and watched it happen.The question now is: What are we going to do about it?

It was a simple enough job for Harry Becker; return a stolen handbag to Evelyn Crowley...And then Mrs. Crowley requests his help with another matter-locate the daughter she had given up to adoption.Given his dubious standing amongst his former police colleagues, he only barely manages to achieve that. Then she asks him to take on another job-find out who is blackmailing her....That''s when life becomes a lot more intense for the disgraced cop.Married to a big shot at a Canberra city bank; she knows what is going on behind the vaults and people want her dead because of it.Things go from worse, to unbearable, as Harry Becker tries to get her out of harm''s way. What began as a simple assignment has become a dangerous love affair and abandoning Evelyn is not an option for Becker. For him, there is no way out-not when he loves a woman like Evelyn Crowley.Gordon Reid has written an intense tale of deception and desperation. It begins slowly and carefully, then picks up speed with calculated intent and becomes a book that is unbearable to put down...

This book is not only entertaining, it''s real life!A vivid illustration of an Australian rural family pre- and post- the thirties depression and end of World War II. Spoken in their own words with humorous feeling, recorded thoughtfully by a talented author. ''Spuds'' is a book about people. Real life stories of a large farming family with twelve children. The time frame 1920 to 1946 includes their struggles during the 30''s depression and the stress of three sons serving overseas in WWII. Amid this, they coped with a child suffering TB, another severely handicapped with Polio and a child dying with Coeliac Disease.The family grew spuds and sowed crop to feed their big working draught horses, pony, chooks, a pig and milking cow. The big black iron stove cooked many meals. Reject potatoes were used for themselves. The rabbit plague had its positives. This ''underground mutton'' supplemented many meals.Eventually a water tap was installed in the kitchen instead of water being hauled up by bucket from the well and carried inside. The big log fire with hanging, black iron water container was a source of comfort. Especially in winter, when snow was frequent along with ''puddle freezing'' frosts, roads furrowed with deep boggy mud. These fireside gatherings yielded many stories, reading, poetry recitations and concerts; sensitively recorded by the author, daughter, niece, psychologist with forty years of professional experience

I am a boy Oh yes, I am! There's nothing I can't do and everything I can...Creativity, authenticity, self-love... this book encourages it all. From exploring play time to expressing their feelings, I am a boy teaches our young people that it's normal to adapt to their surroundings and discover who they are in any way they feel is natural. A staple book for your household - minimizing stereotypes and supporting self-discovery.

Bindi and Tika just want to have fun splashing in puddles all day long! But Mother Princess wants them to take a bath. From adventures in the mud, to eventually taking a bath... Come with Bindi and Tika as they SPLISH, SPLASH, and SPLOSH their way through an exciting day with Mother Princess cleaning up after them every step of the way!

Welcome to the selected short stories from one of Australia''s newest authors in adventure fiction, written for your indulgence... This collection will first take you on a bizarre global jaunt from England to Hong Kong, Japan and Indonesia during the Great Oil Escapade. Then across the sea, to the Amazon jungles within a tale of exploration and deification. We share in the experience of four scientists researching in the farthest cold of the planet to leap from Antarctica to Jupiter and back, raising serious questions in their minds. We chase James Banock, a purloiner of British munitions across Scotland to Norway then along a voyage across the North Sea, where action becomes life threatening as Banock''s ship explodes and sinks. To conclude the excitement and thrills, we find the solitude of memory filled by photographs and tales, which describes the author''s car-trip around Australia in 1967 and a youth filled with freedom and the future uncertain. Written for readers to enjoy, without EXPECTATIONS..."A collection of adventure tales that spring from story to story without time to catch a breath...a thrill and a laugh...great collection by a talented author...thoroughly enjoyed..." William, IndieBooks reviewer.

In order to reach the truth about the murders, they have to uncover the asylum''s darkest secrets... It is 1884 and the eager young Doctor Hamish Hart is drawn from his research to investigate the hanging deaths of a female inmate and her lover at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum on Stradbroke Island. The Superintendent insists the deaths are suicide, the sad fate of star-crossed lovers. However, Hamish suspects murder. Driven by a passionate interest in social justice, Hamish, and his friend Rita, realise there is a view of the asylum that has been obscured from the authorities. Step into the dark world of mystery and intrigue with one of fictions newest medical detectives... Keep one eye on the future with the publication of book two in The Dr Hamish Hart Mysteries; The Plantation Murders Arriving everywhere great books are sold soon. "Splendid, exciting, and very intriguing...a wonderful book and a great opener to a new mystery series and sleuth...hungry for the next one as this one delivered so much more than expected with amazing locations and characters and plot...a great new author...5 stars" Caroline, Indiebooks reviewer.Dr Karen Thurecht has a PhD in medical anthropology and a lifelong interest in cultural belief systems relating to health and medicine. Karen has taught cultural history at the University of Queensland Medical School and the Griffith University Medical School, and supervised Masters and PhD students in Public Health across the country. Karen has previously published two non-fiction books, one relating to women''s health and the other about our need to understand our lives through story. Karen lives on North Stradbroke Island with her husband and is working on a murder mystery series set in Queensland in the 1880''s, involving an eager young doctor, Hamish Hart.

It is 1975 and a young dark-haired girl unnoticed by the world...and who works serving store customers in the modest family fruit shop... Her family migrated to Australia in mid-1960s from beautiful Italy...Gabriella works hard in the family''s fruit shop under the overbearing control of her father. She becomes depressed and introverted and isolated from the social world a teenager craves. She resents the fact her brother, Enzo, can study while she had to leave school at 15 to work. She finds she is torn living within the Italian and the Australian way of modern life. Knowing the only way out, and to get far away from her father''s control, is to marry a better man; then Gabriella meets Aldo, an older, single Italian at the wedding of her cousin. She is swept off her feet by Aldo''s charms and looks and having fallen in love with him, they wed soon after. But it does not take long for Gabriella to realise that Aldo is not the charming man she thought he was as his anger and violence grows towards her, she becomes afraid of her husband, the man she once loved. She gains the strength to leave Aldo and begins to live her life as an independent woman. Her father is outraged and commands Gabriella to return to her husband, but she stands firm in her resolve. And for the next part of her life, lives the life she chooses...Gabriella Campania, approaching womanhood, narrates her story.

While their country prepares for war, they prepare for the battle of their lives. The Gods have given their warning. A deadly threat will be born at the end of the ninth age and will find a divided world easy to consume. All will be destroyed in a storm of ice and fire, unless Three can be found to stand against the threat, and to bring all magical and mortal peoples together. A huntress and two runaways have been drawn together for an impossible Quest. Their world is threatened by disunity, by the growing sickness of Mother Nature, and by the ambitions of a Sorcerer who is hunting down one magical race after another. Book one in the ''A Fairy Tale'' trilogy...

In a time when the world is still recovering from the aftermath of World War II...A man leaves his history in the war and his devastating wounds of his murdered family. But the war will not fade far from his mind as memories flow from the deaths at Dresden to Germany; the deserters; the killing fields...littered by dead bodies...hospitals overwhelmed and refugee centres, so under-supported...Rolf Krieger arrives in Adelaide after leaving Germany for a new life. He uses his skills as a carpenter to gain work with Bill Kelly, a good man who becomes a friend and confidant. He finds love in the arms of Bill''s sister, Elaine, a war widow with two children. He experiences happiness, until events from his past track him down as a stranger who believes Rolf stole from a dying aristocrat as the war ended and now wants Rolf to repay the sin with his blood...They come together to rebuild their lives after the dynamics of a conflict that so far has ruined them...Peace will not be found at the end of this war...

Luke Barclay, a man inspired by tales of his youth becomes a modern-day bushranger. Stephen Owens, a veteran police officer on the hunt for a criminal yet burdened by concerns for his own family amidst the challenge of the pursuit. Across dusty plains and through wild Australian bush, the new kind of bushranger and experienced lawman play a game of fox and chicken. Perspective vary as minds begin to unravel but the goal of consequence and legacy remain unshakeable.Two conflicted men aspired by passions are blended into a tale of timeless tribute to the Australian outback, its people and the recent past of a glorified history.

WILL SHE CHOOSE HER LOVE FOR ANNIE OVER HER CHILDREN...?The routine of a twenty-year marriage: habitual, predictable. Something's missing. Something of her inner-self. Sophie feels disenchanted by life, stuck wondering if this is all there is.When Annie enters the room Sophie can't look away as the most beautiful woman she has ever seen moves elegantly through the display of artistic imagery in the gallery. Eyes lock like hearts beating at a tethered line, hooked. Have they met before, or is it just so right to be wrong?One glance, Sophie cannot stop thinking about her desire for the wild haired woman with intense eyes. Annie will open a new world for Sophie that goes beyond anything imagined. An awakening will occur. A deep friendship will form that bridges one another's souls as neither will expect, nor deny.Her past will be measured against the future as love grows between them and heavy choices will need to be made, the consequences either happiness or despair..."A marvellous and intimately moving tale of true love beyond gender and prejudice. The delicate narrative of women in love is beautifully sculptured through the story to bring us into the lives of the characters. 5 stars..." Joanne, Indie Book reviewer

The Arbor girls are a force to be reckoned with…Maeve Fossard, a nurse during the bombings of Bristol in WW1 wants to escape the pain and suffering around her. A trip to a pub and a chance meeting with a stranger named Colin, changes her life. The shadow world of spies and politics, become a reality.Through two World Wars, the Cold War and into the Sixties; from England to Australia, she encounters ultimate highs and soul sapping lows.Every action has consequences. Her companions, Margaret and Allison, their fates entwined, join a rich tapestry of characters, in her endeavours to create an invisible dynasty of social reform which will continue through to the future and span the globe...