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This book gives insight as to how to deal with the many different challenges that presents to parents and caregivers as their young person moves into the adolescent phase of development. Such challenges include self-image, peer group pressure, sibling rivalry, self-worth, teenage defiance, teenage anger, cyber bullying, drug and alcohol, and mental instability. The aim of this book is to reconsider a different way of relating that promotes meaningful connections, family harmony, setting healthy boundaries and limitations, promoting [read more...]

Life's a gamble. It certainly is for former jockey, Roy Gilbert as he takes the wrong line to the finishing post. His premature death comes to the attention of D.I. John Mahoney and the Serious Crimes Squad. The subsequent investigation very soon becomes intertwined with the gruesome slaying of a retired bookmaker. As Mahoney and his team attempt to make headway they encounter unexpected opposition from their Federal counterparts. Suspects are thin on the ground but the investigators doggedly press on in their quest to make [read more...]

A young man, who has recently joined a highly respectable real estate firm in Double Bay, has his carefree lifestyle turned upside down when he finds himself entangled in a murder investigation involving his employers. When an old fellow goes missing after an Open Inspection at a gated property that he’s selling in the Southern Highlands, the young man suspects his boss’s wife of foul play. Society heavyweights, his principal Bruce Lawton and wife Claire are smart successful and gregarious, often throwing Gatsby-esque parties, [read more...]

When Fates Collide is an adventure story like no other. Written by 12-year-old author, Arghya Khan, it is a story full of heroics and adventure. Set in a fantasy kingdom, sixteen-year-old Wally is just an ordinary boy, until one day he is wrongfully accused of murder. His eventual escape takes him on the most unlikely adventure of self-discovery, friendship, romance and betrayal, as he joins forces with the powerful wizard Stig, huntswoman Ally and bar tender Josh, to take down the biggest danger to their world, the evil witch [read more...]

Choices and destiny go hand in hand, and for the sake of our survival, we make so many choices in our lives. However, many a time, our minds, some how, come to a stand still in the midst of a crowded and blurred world, reflecting even for a few minutes on a question seems to be closely related to an eternal notion. Yet it’s a strange and unfamiliar question, because of its close affiliation with a choice that may take us to a place beyond the Grave. No matter how often we trying to brush aside any thought or rid of any concern [read more...]

Scott W Tyler in his second book, Lost in the Darkwood Forest, Tales of the Three, continues the adventures of Mark Garel, Claire Ors and Alex Moore. What began as a simple dare has now become a life changing experience, after surviving a night inside the walls of the haunted Hangman's Hall the three friends are shaken with the revelations they uncovered on that fateful night. If things weren't bad enough already though, now they've found themselves headed for a hiking trip deep into the Darkwood Forest; an ancient sprawling [read more...]

Will is sixteen year old Lucy’s best friend. Their lives intersect in dreams, where destiny pulls them together through different times in history. Even though their meetings are more real to Lucy than the present, Lucy is uncertain if Will exists outside her mind. Lucy's mum thinks there is something wrong when Lucy sleeps for days at a time. She is so caught up with finding a ‘cure’ she doesn’t see the real problem. Lucy is bullied at school and is thinking of ending her life. When the bullying goes too far and Lucy ends up in a [read more...]

This work of non-fiction covers the author Ern Towns thoughts on current society compared to that of the hippies. Written in details from a man's perspective on how a gnawing disdain of modern society leads to looking at the simple life of the hippies and realising that their original ideals have all but vanished. The author looks back at his adult life and tries to unlock the underlying reasons as why things went astray, literally by going astray. The book goes through various and different real life sexual encounters. Eventually [read more...]

There comes a time when you need to write your thoughts on paper. There comes a time when you need to tell your story. This is a story with a difference; this is a story with a twist. A journey of poems and prose that helped me through the hard times; when I needed God the most, he was always there to meet me, no matter what time of day or night. When you're going through the storms of life, whatever, that curve ball that has been thrown at you may be. When all seems lost and you're in despair; that's the storm of life, I'm [read more...]

We hear about all sorts of problems though our lives that most people find it hard to understand. The author Geoffrey McClelland has written this in the hope of shedding some light on the enormous benefits of subjecting yourself to the horrors of change when it is needed. The writing in this book will give you a different way to deal with all of life’s issues! We don’t need to try too hard, we don’t need to force things to happen, we just need to do. The content has been proven to work with enormous accuracy and blatant truth [read more...]