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A Lithuanian Kiwi, the Life of Jurgis (George) Cibulskis
‘I’m not interested in going to a country that does not accept us as we are,’ said Mečislovas Cibulskis when Canada rejected his family for repatriation because of his 8-year-old son’s missing fingers on his right hand. New Zealand welcomed the DPs (Displaced Persons) with open arms at the end of WWII. From the moment the Lithuanian family arrived in Wellington in 1949, they embraced everything about their new homeland, even changing their names to the English versions.
Never playing the victim, Jurgis/George Cibulskis adapted to whatever took his fancy despite his maimed hand. He became an elite sportsman and a serial dater—until he met Beverly and soon after landed his dream job. The 70s and 80s saw the rise and fall of some important New Zealand industries. Each time mergers, takeovers, and corporate shenanigans impacted George’s work life, he moved on and learnt the lesson of life/work balance.
Resilience, family, travel, and parties sustained George and his sophisticated, shopping-mad wife, Beverly, even when she was diagnosed with a debilitating illness. Nothing stopped them from living life to the max.
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A Sniff or a Snort
Racehorses are temperamental but beautiful creatures. Taking one of them to run in France is fraught with difficulties. If successful, a winner is a triumph. With horseboxes coming and going from the course, it is not hard for illicit drugs to be concealed.
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Cosmo and Friends Save Planet Earth
This exciting, colourful story of how Cosmo and Friends Save Planet Earth will entertain young readers, telling of their adventures in the cosmos as they leave Planet Zen and embark on a journey to planet Earth to educate humans on how to save their beautiful planet and protect the environment.
Read how Cosmo, Adam the Alien and Rob the Robot meet a little boy, Tommy, and how they teach him about cleaning up the atmosphere and how to maintain it.
Cosmo is based on a real car, Cosmotron, who is made from recycled materials and has had some exciting adventures of his own, meeting lots of celebrities and appearing in newspapers, magazines, TV and short films on YouTube.
Screaming Voice is the pen name of the author Martin Smith. Martin came to writing late in life due to his severe dyslexia, and with perseverance and hard work, he demonstrates that you can achieve your goals no matter how difficult a challenge if you put your mind to it.
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Bittersweet Liquorice Cat
Walk, stalk, seek, snatch, trap, chase, leap, catch!
Hidden within an English garden, in a feast of lush sweet grass and thick juicy leaves, wriggling with bugs and alive with birds, lies Liquorice Cat, sleek and alert, cunningly prowling and stalking her prey. Which creatures will she encounter and capture in her claws as she slinks amongst the bushes? What dangers are lurking in the shadows, deep in the pond, peering through the fence, waiting to pounce?
Based on a true story, journey with Liquorice Cat and the animals Caramel Rabbit and Cinnamon Stoat in a bittersweet adventure where nature casts her web in a race and chase for survival.
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Energy and Everything
When I told my GP that I had just written a new book about particle physics and cosmology, his reaction indicated that this was an area of science he was unfamiliar with. I assured him that I had written “Energy and Everything” for non-scientists; his face lit up, and he was obviously delighted. He was eager to buy a copy when it became available, as he was fascinated by the science, but all the jargon put him off. If this is you, this book is for you. Happy reading!
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Calippo And The Lost Coin
Calippo is a cat who likes to do good deeds,
such as cheering people up or meeting their needs.
She loves to play outside—on hills, in creeks, by lakes.
She loves to get creative—with painting, songs or bakes.
She is out playing in the forest one day,
and with her friend Paprika, spots something on the way.
Calippo thinks it’s valuable—who could it belong to?
Should she keep it for herself, or is there a better thing to do?
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Souls Divided
Kate and Tom shared a rare kind of love—deep, grounding, and filled with dreams for the life they were building together. But when Tom dies suddenly in a car accident, those dreams vanish in an instant, and Kate is left to navigate the void of grief, haunted by everything they never got to finish.
Months later she discovers Souls Divided—an unfinished novel he had been quietly dictating in the final months of his life. Part fiction, part reflection, the manuscript reveals a man wrestling with purpose, faith, and the possibility of life beyond death. Most chilling of all, Tom’s protagonist dies in the exact way he did—and, like Tom, remains spiritually tethered to the woman he left behind.
As Kate reads the pages, she’s confronted with impossible questions: Is Tom still with her? Can she move forward without betraying him? And if she falls in love again, which part of her story is real—the life she lived or the one she’s still writing?
Spanning decades of love, loss, and rediscovery, Souls Divided is a moving meditation on grief and spiritual connection. As Kate builds a new life and family, Tom’s words linger—quiet, constant, and soul-shifting. Philosophical yet deeply human, this debut novel explores how we carry love through time, through death, and into whatever comes next.
For anyone who has ever questioned what remains after someone we love is gone, Souls Divided offers a tender, unflinching answer: that love never truly leaves—it only changes form.
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Wonderful Wishes
Our world is fast and busy, brimming with new experiences for the bright young minds of today.
Winding down can be hard, and that is why the recognisable happy faces of well-known animals, alongside rolling rhyme softly spoken by an adult they love and trust, are such an integral part of your child’s sleep routine. With the happy, calm, brightly hand-illustrated animals preparing for bed, Wonderful Wishes lets your child know that their home, wherever that may be, is always a safe place to lay their head, and while adventuring like a tiger in the jungle is fun during the day, at night nothing can beat their very own bed “With a kiss and a hug and a story read.”
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Jessica's Baby
Tianna was adopted at birth and has been searching for her birth mother for eighteen years and finds love on the way.
Rhys is the love that Tianna thought she’d never find, but loving Rhys isn’t easy, as he strolls into her life, carrying unpacked baggage, and drowning in love for his ex. And this is where trouble walks uninvited into Tianna and Rhys’ life, and trouble has a name: his ex-girlfriend’s husband, Alex Roberts.
Falling head over heels with her new lover brings joy, deceit, betrayal, and undeserving heartache, whilst dealing with the reality of finding out her true identity also comes with a heavy price tag. Learning the truth may not be something Tianna is willing to accept so easily, but with the help of her true friends, she softens the many blows.
Is Tianna prepared for untruths being spoken? As fate would have it, dark and twisted truths emerge, raise their ugly heads, and sting like an angry bee.
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A Miscellany of Odds & Ends
These eighteen stories and poems all have a certain amount of truth in them.From the doggie letter to his breeder to a ghost story. Can you see where one begins and the other ends in each of them?
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The Runaway Universe
No matter in which direction we look out from our position in space, everything is moving away from us at an ever-increasing rate. The Runaway Universe. It appears as though we are living on the surface of a balloon which is being inflated by the force of the Big Bang which first brought our universe into being. While some scientists believe that the universe will eventually run out of energy and die, others, including the author, suggest another, more exciting possibility. What if this universe is just one incarnation of a continuous series of universes that recycles through a sequence of expansions (Big Bangs) and contractions (Black Holes)? This book expands on ideas developed in Energy and Everything, the first of a three-part series by the author examining recent developments in the fields of particle physics and cosmology. Readers are invited to join the author in some interesting and challenging thought experiments designed to examine what is reality and what is illusion, all smoke and mirrors. Is the universe we live in merely a stage on which we act out our lives, telling our stories in a continuous, never-ending series of stories that join with countless other stories in a book called Life?
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Draw Back the Curtain
This book sets out to explain the connection between astrology and religion. Supported by charts, links can be made to Biblical references using the ‘King James Bible‘. Also included are some stories you will be familiar with and a look at how changes take place at certain ages. Also included is a general look at the planets, signs, and houses.
£7.99
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