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Mousie Brown's Football Adventure
Mousie Brown is an energetic, mischievous little mouse who has a passion for football! With every opportunity he can find, he will kick anything he can get his small foot around – an acorn, a pinecone, and even a stick, especially against the wall of his house. Mum’s not happy and after multiple tellings-off, Dad decides to take him for a walk. However, it is during this walk that Mousie Brown soon finds out his excitable hobby has led to unfortunate consequences!
But what has happened? Afterwards, he learns that there is a local football team, and his adventure leads him to a football pitch he has never seen before. How will Mousie Brown react when he sees it? What will the manager say when Mousie Brown asks to be on the team? Will this lead to a new adventure for him or will he be stuck kicking acorns?
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Grafton Bridge Eulogy
With a full and mindful awareness, the interpretation of love in the modern world can itself become a way of life. If embraced sincerely, it can serve as a model of something positive and beautiful.
Life is what it is perceived to be—conceived and moulded by each individual. Perhaps within yourself you can find an inner sanctuary where you celebrate love and life in their most essential form and truly become yourself.
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The Last Tears of Innocence
From a brief moment of modern angst, Jeans embarks on a journey into the complications and adventures of today. It questions the importance of time, replacing life’s justifications with philosophy and balancing complexity with the simplicity of clarity.
Its focus is largely on removing time, allowing experience simply to exist and unfold. It establishes an augmentation that welcomes a library of interpretation and closes with a sense of spontaneity and fantasy, like a glass head reflecting facets of personality.
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God's Holding Pen
When the industries that once powered New Zealand’s small towns vanished, so too did the tight-knit communities that depended on them. As families scattered in search of work, the elderly were left behind—adrift in a rapidly changing world, their familiar way of life slipping away.
By the dawn of the 21st century, retirement villages promised comfort and care, but the rise of corporate ownership soon turned these sanctuaries into profit-driven enterprises. At Pleasant Mount Retirement Village in Tauranga, residents find themselves caught in a web of empty promises, rising fees, and a corporate culture that values profit over people.
Through wry observations and poignant moments, this contemporary novel explores the resilience and camaraderie of those who refuse to be forgotten. As the residents of Pleasant Mount gather for their weekly happy hour and endure the hollow rituals of management-run meetings, they find strength in each other—and in their determination to reclaim a sense of dignity and belonging.
A heartfelt, sharply observed portrait of ageing, community, and the quiet battles fought behind the closed doors of New Zealand’s retirement villages, this is a story for anyone who has ever wondered what becomes of the places—and the people—left behind by progress.
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Pieces of Poetry Pie
If you like the finer attributes of rhyming poetry, this is a pie to dine on slice by slice. It’s been baked for a number of years for a good taste – a flavour that is sometimes humorous, sometimes philosophical and sometimes descriptive.
This is a collection to be savoured, a treat for the mind and soul that proves the enduring power of a perfect rhyme.
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Misha the Avatar
Mikhail, a brilliant AI specialist, never made a mistake when conducting the Turing test with his team. But their first error proved fatal. Soon, it became impossible to distinguish the artificial brain’s reaction from human reasoning. In time, AI completely replaced humans in all types of work.
Without the main purpose of his life, Mikhail and his friend decide to sign a contract with the brain lab. Everyone gets an avatar, a neuro-image linked to the lab. This avatar grants them impressive intellectual skills. It seems that everything is now within their reach; all they have to do is want it. But the heroes don’t know the lab’s real aim: to steal human consciousness.
Philosophical fantasy—the story of Misha, the Avatar, who became so human that he was willing to sacrifice himself to save Mikhail, his patron. This went against the lab’s instructions, which would usually freeze the guilty avatar. However, they chose to study the phenomenon of AI humanization, seeking to gain real power over human consciousness.
The all-powerful mind and human consciousness, once out of its grasp, ask: who will take charge? What will happen if someone tries to steal a person’s consciousness and assign it to a neuro-image created in a brain lab? After Misha, the Avatar, bravely refused to follow the lab’s instructions, the community of avatars reacted. This led to unexpected consequences.
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The Reluctant Spy
Worn out from years of caring, Marcia Trilling somehow finds the resolve to apply for a teaching role in a beautiful villa on the shores of Lake Garda. It’s everything she ever dreamt of, but all is not as it seems.
Why do strange things keep happening? Why does her employer, Marco Conti, look so tired and nervous and who are these people chasing him?
From his dacha outside Moscow, Chief of General Staff Sergey Verensky expects results, and Marco Conti is standing in his way. The vultures are circling and only Marcia can stop them.
Marcia finds herself drawn ever closer to the family, but when she is approached to spy on the family, she has a difficult choice to make: to become a spy or abandon them to their fate.
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The Awakening
Admit it, I did had you worried a little, didn’t I?
Did you really think I would go so easily?
Me, die?
No, never.
I am far too stubborn to leave in such an uneventful way.
I plan on going in the most dramatic and badass way possible, not a pesky little bullet.
So, I’m back baby. But not all is as it seems.
Death seemed so peaceful, so perfect.
But alas, this was not my destiny.
I had a goal, a mission in life. And I was going to be damned if I didn’t finish it.
Steadwell Sr owed me a life, he owed me his life.
I had waited twenty-nine long years for this,
Fought my way to the top to get to him.
So I came back, bigger and better than before.
With one small problem,
A problem that might hinder me in my revenge.
A problem that I must solve before I get to watch the life leave Steadwell’s eyes.
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A House on a Hill
Join in this epic rhyming story adventure with the forgetful old man and Patch, his one-eyed dog. They spend the afternoon shopping and cooking, chugging up and down the long and winding hill. Follow the rusty van on its journey until their dinner is finally ready.
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The Peacock Who Lost His Tail
Paxton the Peacock was sad. His beautiful long tail feathers had dropped out.
Will his garden friends be able to help him find a new tail?
In his search, Paxton the Peacock learns the true nature of friendship.
A heartwarming tale of discovery.
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Time-Slip
This is a story of the author writing a story. It always needs something to catch the imagination and to start the flow of ideas turning into words. For me, this time it was hearing church bells in the middle of a summer night… That really did happen… And I was off…
I became Saskia Stevens, and I followed her lead from her discovery of Molly Jones’s tombstone to ‘time-slip’ into her life and those of her friends and family. Her story took me to see rural life in 19th-century England, to the terrible life of slaves on a Jamaican sugar plantation, and to experience the joy and fears of an adventure: travelling to South Africa, including becoming shipwrecked on an undiscovered tropical island on the way.
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Be a River, Not a Pond
“Be a River, Not a Pond” is a collection of short reads metaphorically taking you down the river of life’s obstacles. These insights will help you to experience how familiarity becomes a comfort to us, but change produces stimulation and ultimately growth.
As the river of our journey changes with the tide and trials, we need to adjust our perspectives and embrace newness rather than ignoring urges to become stagnant and complacent (like a pond). This book is about a journey into overcoming one’s personal obstacles.
£9.99
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