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The Balance of Light
The Balance of Light is a true story of a young troubled youth who was on a pathway of destruction driven by hate and unforgiveness. Growing up in a neighbourhood where running from the police was the norm, he was expelled from school. Unable to let go of the past, he was on a runaway train, heading for a dark future.
Until one afternoon, a friend met him at the local junk car yard and shared some red wine and communion altar bread he had stolen from a local church. Unknown to Glen, this was his first communion.
Soon after, Glen had what could only be described as a spiritual encounter. It instantly released the built-up hate and pain he had carried with him his whole life. Along with this event, he had dreams he couldn’t explain at the time—dreams that would later come true.
The pain and darkness inside had shifted. In their place came peace, understanding, and purpose. Glen calls this “light shifting”—replacing the darkness caused by negative events with light, peace, power, and purpose.
The Balance of Light takes you on a powerful journey. It is a transformational memoir that weaves personal storytelling, spiritual awakening, and community empowerment into one compelling narrative.
Glen went from running from police to being escorted into Government House by police, receiving a Queen’s Medal for helping youth nationally. His work has empowered communities across New Zealand and is now having powerful positive effects internationally.
With a basketball and the ability to light shift, Glen shares his journey. He opens up about his time in the New Zealand Police and his internal conflict—arresting young people who were just like him. Then he shares what he did about it, bringing powerful community breakthroughs and practical life empowerment strategies.
Glen wrote this book for his children and his family. He believes there is more to life than the darkness and negativity being pushed out—influencing our actions and shaping who we become. He asks, “Are we the best we can be?”
Let’s walk in the Balance of Light.
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Silent George and his Jungle Friends
“Although he was boisterous and full of Gorilla Zest, when it came to talking, he was not like the rest. But today was different, the exception to the rule: today was George’s first day of school.”
Join George on his rainforest trek as he embarks on his first day of school, coming face-to-face with a slow-moving sloth, a red-eyed frog and a gold-beaked toucan… Will George find his voice?
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Broken to Unbreakable
I wasn’t supposed to survive what I survived.
Emotional abuse.
Sexual abuse.
Physical abuse.
Silence almost swallowed me.
Shame almost buried me.
But it didn’t break me.
It built me.
Broken to Unbreakable is not just a memoir.
It’s the truth I was once too afraid to speak.
It’s for every woman who smiled in public and cried in private.
It’s for every survivor who thought they were alone.
This is where the silence ends.
I’m ready to tell my story.
Are you ready to hear it?
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Are We to the Gods
When Emma Dunn arrived in London from the far reaches of Upper Assam in 1902, at the age of fourteen, with a heart broken mother and two younger siblings, she also brought with her memories of a childhood overshadowed by a father who ruled over a tea empire with ruthless disregard for those he should have cared for the most and a mother whose passions and affections were reduced to dust by the man she adored.
It was inevitable that Emma’s future would be dictated, not only by the whims of fate but also by the legacy she inherited as a Dunn woman.
In the summer of 1933, at the age of forty-six, she returned to Assam, an exile from a first love lost to her on the battlefields of Flanders and a second marriage mired in scandal, a scandal which deprived her of her son.
Could Emma reunite with the father she barely knew? Could she begin her life again, and would she ever find the happiness fate had so cruelly denied her?
How was she to navigate a path to becoming not only the wife of an extraordinary man with hidden secrets but also be reconciled with a son she hadn’t seen for fifteen years and become one of the most influential plantation owners in post-independence India?
£12.99
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