The Price Tag Is on You

What price tag are you wearing?

EDUCATION

Moulds us into human resources

ECONOMIES

buy our time

GOVERNMENTS

label us since birth

MEDIA

sells our attention and emotions

HEALTH

packages our bodies

BELIEFS

manipulate our minds and souls

TECHNOLOGY

turns us into semi-gods & semi-robots

But behind each of these systems there is a secret. One that can help you work with them, change them and turn them to your and humanity’s advantage.

The Princess and the Pirate

In the 16th century, the Portuguese were the dominant power in the triangle of India, Madagascar and East Africa. It was the ‘Age of the Pirate’: forays into India to impress men into service on pirate ships, raids on shipping in the Arabian Sea for booty...
A romantic story of adventure, The Princess and the Pirate centres on Zahira, a young Indian girl taken hostage and ransomed by the handsome, brave pirate chief, Pedro Alvarari. Can she forget home and family to contemplate a future with the pirates? Will Pedro’s lust for gold and drunken, violent life allow him to fall in love?
Is the pirate life itself under threat by a desire for more order and stability?
Written for young readers aged 15 and above or for the romance connoisseur, The Princess and the Pirate is beautifully illustrated with twelve plates.

The Prison

Filipa is an average 16-year-old girl leading an ordinary life until a catastrophic night changes everything. Witnessing the destruction of her beloved city and the cold-blooded murder of her parents by black-masked men, Filipa flees for her life. However, her escape is short-lived as she is apprehended and finds herself incarcerated in a prison run by masked men with chess symbols on their arms. Every day, scores of inmates vanish or perish, and more prisoners arrive.

As Filipa learns more about the prison, she realizes that each chess symbol denotes a masked man’s position and role. She is subjected to gruelling physical and psychological examinations, administered mysterious serums, and witnesses strange phenomena. Her mission is to uncover the masked men’s identities, their motives, and above all, rescue her friends and save her love interest. However, the true test lies in surviving the prison after she discovers a shocking secret that will change her life forever.

The Purge

In an epic sequel to The Awakening, the town of Rockdale is rocked by a series of cataclysmic events that threatens to bring about an ancient prophecy: one that foretells of a blood moon and the mass extinction of all mankind at the hands of the Nequam. The Nequam’s hold over Rockdale intensifies as Ash Wakehurst fights to end its reign and free his twin brother, Logan, from its maniacal grip. Ash is humanity’s last hope as he possesses the only weapon to stop the Nequam and its army of werewolves: the powerful Triune entity that surges within him. An entity that he fears he can no longer control.

As he races against time, he must fight a battle of another kind: the fight to maintain his own humanity and protect the people he loves, including the beautiful detective that he is falling for, Anya Chemarov.  

Anya has a struggle of her own to contend with as she is forced to admit her feelings for Ash and make a difficult choice. Will she fight to keep the man she loves despite her fear that evil may consume him, or will she leave, knowing she may lose him forever?

Their destinies are all intertwined and the decisions that they make before the next blood moon will determine the fate of all mankind when the prophecy comes to pass.

Will the right choices be made, and will anyone be left standing at the end?

The Quarry

10 years have passed since youngsters Bobby Massey and Linda West stumbled across an Australian Government secret cache of weapons. Now armed with new information, rogue government officials were ready to take any measures necessary to ensure their lucrative secret deal with a third world nation rebel group, remains secret.

Bobby is captured by ex-military soldiers working for the rogue elements and interrogated in an effort to get him to reveal all he knows. Witnessing Bobby’s capture, Linda recruits a serving Royal Australian Navy commander and a senior sergeant in the NSW Police Force to assist her in rescuing Bobby from his captors. The rogue government officials get a nasty surprise once the two are reunited.

The Queen Of The Geraticaian Empire

With the two parallel worlds of Geratica - Geratica and Geraticai - now finally separated, Geratica has a new constitution drafted by the brilliant young Alexandra Radcliffe. Her mother, Linda, is now aiming to become their first prime minister. She is determined to bring in reforms and will need to deal with the continuing issue of male rights. Alexandra is graduating from Castra University and will shortly be embarking upon plans for her own career, which Linda is keen to be involved in.

Meanwhile, Geraticai has returned to a monarchy after its recent bloody civil war, with Queen Saphron now reigning and married to Gordon, the son of a wealthy mine owner. However to be a Geratician monarch with her Geratican noble origins is controversial amongst some on that world, and her sister in law, an ambitious young woman called Christabel, aims to take the throne for herself. Geraticai now has a parliament for the first time and a prime minister, Daniella Sturridge.

At the same time the now officially deceased mongrel, Fiona, whose mind still lives on mixed with that of the other, Robert - Linda Radcliffe's former husband - as a hybrid inside the mistress of Geratica's domain, is plotting to avenge her situation by manipulating unrest on Geratica, and now sees an opportunity to infiltrate and adapt Christabel's plans for her own sinister purposes...

The Questions Put by Jesus

Questions are revealing. It is exciting, therefore, in this book to study not only how Jesus’ use of questions characterises his ministry and his style of teaching, but also how those questions reveal his train of thought as events unfold, and what they reveal about him as a person in relation to himself, his neighbour, his environment, and God. This book engages with the milieu and the different Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life. It examines 108 of his questions in some detail together with their parallels, amounting to 299 questions in all. It explores Jesus’ use of questions to promote his teaching and ministry and sometimes, more aggressively, to defend his disciples or discomfort and discredit his critics and opponents.

Hopefully, being alive to the questions put by Jesus and even wondering, perhaps, how we might answer some of them, helps to sharpen our personal beliefs. 

The Quickening of Alec Ross

War-time France – intrigue, deception and divided loyalties. Under the Mediterranean sun a shadowy world where ambivalence and compromise test loyalties to breaking point.Alec Ross is an innocent born at the outset of the twentieth century. This gripping novel explores his journey through its first half, as he finds himself almost accidentally drawn into the murky by-waysof espionage.His life has been one of avoided commitment and abandoned relationships. But now he sees young men and women, escapees and their Resistance helpers, rise to heights of bravery. He also sees corruption and squalor and the horrors of Nazism. Amidst the extremes of humanity at both its best and its worst he struggles to work out what matters to him in an existence where nothing is what it seems.Till the very end the question persists: will Alec commit himself to a cause, and to the woman he loves – or will he surrender in the face of demands which are finally too complicated for this simple man? Start reading and you won’t stop till you find out.

The Quirky Kampung Tales Of Ijan And His Early School Years

The book is generally written in a humorous tone but there are poignant moments in the book where the narration takes on a more serious or sad tone where they are needed. The book is about the growing up years of a boy called Ijan who grew up in a fast-developing Singapore in the 1970s and 1980s in two different villages or “kampung” as they are called in Singapore. Although the concept or notion of a “kampung” is now gone in the developed city of Singapore, the book invites the readers to take a journey back to a historical Singapore as a backdrop. Ingrained in the ways of the village, Ijan the “kampung” boy had also attended schools which were very structured and the schools were where his parents were teachers. As a “kampung” boy, Ijan was accustomed to his roaming ways and as a teacher’s son, he was expected to behave. This was further compounded where it seemed Ijan’s DNA had been “hardwired” with the characteristics of what was known in the village as a “pusar dua” anomaly. He was born with two hair whirls at the back of his head! This led to a somewhat disorderly hair disposition for Ijan but more significantly, the villagers believed this anomaly brought with it certain traits to the “afflicted” boy. It was believed that a “pusar dua” boy would be a maverick of sorts, hyperactive and stubborn to say the least. He was also believed to be blessed with a very endearing character, especially to animals. The interesting contrast in environment, character and expectations are the themes that carry the narration in this book with Ijan as the protagonist.

The Racers

Paddy Doherty, a young English twenty-something, has loved motorbikes for as long as he could remember, almost as long as his best pal, “Mucka” O’Neal. But a chance conversation over a pint, on a sunny summer’s afternoon, buys him a one-way ticket into the insane world of motorcycle racing. Stoically partnered by “Mucka”, the pair embark on an adventure into the adrenaline-packed life of motorcycle racers. Rivalry, romance, disaster and success pave the track of this gritty, earthy, humorous adventure around the motor-racing circuits of the UK. From the cold winter’s morning of their nervous first race at Mallory Park, the racers progress through the ranks, making colourful friends, and dangerous enemies along the way. Paddock parties, crashes, tears and above all, laughter run rich throughout this genuinely funny and heartfelt adventure. But how will it end for them, on a podium with champagne, or in a hospital bed? The Racers unfolds in a climax of burnt rubber, all the way to the chequered flag.

The Rainbow Gang

Brothers, Charlie and Freddie White, along with their friends--The Rainbow Gang, find a very unusual ancient looking chest in their dad's garden shed. The chest magically speaks to them and sends them underground to a world inhabited by elves. The elf world is being disturbed by a clumsy young giant from a world below the elf world. The ensuing, sometimes humorous, adventure brings them into contact with lots of unusual creatures and sees The Rainbow Gang set off on a mission to rescue the young giant, whose actions have disrupted the water tables underground. During their adventure, the gang encounters giant hedgehogs, giant moles and large talking fish. Charlie and his friends come into contact with another gang 'The Girls', who help them in their adventure and both gangs strike up a lasting friendship.

The Rainbow Girls

Seven multicultural, orphaned friends want to defeat the celestial beings who have not-so-good intentions for the people of Earth. They have the heart to accomplish anything, but they’re just kids. Right? Just watch what happens when Reese, Orielle, Yuri, Giahn, Bly, Iliana, and Vivienne gain special skills from a friend.