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The Special Team Elite
The Special Team Elite is an endearing story that deals with the adolescent themes of bullying, racial discrimination and ultimately appreciation of individualism in a world that, at times, is unforgiving of ‘the other’. The story reflects the real-life experiences of writer Dr Soseh Yekanians, who struggled to find her own identity as a young Armenian immigrant in Australia.The story follows Siran, a young girl who is faced with the struggles of loving her individual qualities or conforming to the pressures placed upon her by others. The question for her is: what is the ‘ideal norm’? Whilst on this journey of self-discovery, Siran finds a unique camaraderie with Soraya, who is a recently arrived refugee from Afghanistan, and Sinéad, who is a feisty red-head from Ireland. All three young girls instantly develop a unique bond through commonality of their differences and eventually embark on a lifelong friendship.
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The Smallest Show on Earth
From the 60s through to the present day Patrick Church has worked in the cinema from Peterborough through to Bury St Edmunds. In The Smallest Show on Earth he takes us through that experience in an autobiography that draws the reader into the trials and joys of a being a projectionist screening blockbusters like ‘Jaws' and a curious period of Indian films where half the time is spent splicing the films back together.The role of projectionist was always a low paid, but with the advent of TV and bingo and other demands on people's time it also became a precarious one as the decades rolled by. Sometimes Patrick had to plead his case as cinemas changed hands from ABC, to Odeon and bingo conglomerates, just to keep his job going and the buildings in operation. The fact that he succeeded is testament to his love for cinema and this passion shines through in this engaging book.
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The Paper Wasp
George Needham didn't go to the Western District of Victoria to be the conscience of a frontier society. His plan, until he found himself immersed in the settlement war, was to establish an artists' colony.In a later time, Lydia Needham invites Tom Gelatly to assess George's legacy, and Sam Carmichael and Lenci Mednyánszky become involved. Sam, a teacher, is out of favour for expressing controversial opinions. Lydia's young friend Lenci fears the darkness in the human heart. Tom, an academic on sabbatical, thinks Australian historians have turned their backs on difficult issues and individuals. There are obstacles to progress. Squatters with records of past events are not inclined to share them. Interested locals are impatient for a progress report. Sam and Lenci are distracted by the state of the world, as well as by each other. And someone, no fan of dissidents past or present, means to end the Needham project once and for all.
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The Painting
Using a shoreline for the book’s landscape, The Painting is about re-emergence from a crisis of confidence. It uses the metaphor of a young water-skiing artist painting his life with his beliefs, inspired by a muse. All ages will enjoy identifying with the insight into peer connections and society, reflecting on the wrecked confidence that is pieced back together in reinventing ourselves. Younger readers will appreciate the colourful symbols littered throughout the story for the simple pleasure of reading unpredictable sentences assembled to meet needs not satisfied by daily conversation. This is entertainment sympathetic to the journey of self-healing. Every word has been carefully chosen for its sound, shape (and colour!) which can be interpreted in ways that are as individual as those reading it.
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The Golden Whale
“This call, it draws lines across the flow and binds all these threads of song into a knot, a coil, a snare.”In the vastness of the ocean, everything can be lost, and anything can be found. This is the realization of an unwitting whale, who is already struggling to have his own voice heard within his pod, as he travels endlessly through the seasons of life. Yet, outside influence has another path for him to follow, when he swallows a discarded bag of letters, all of which are addressed to God. As the whale begins to digest the weight of human suffering and desire, he finds that he is slowly transformed, and the world around him, including his own relationships with kin is also changed. The navigation of this illuminated self is told in words and pictures, as an amalgamation of narrative, vision, and multiple voices, all crying out to be heard. Plagued by doubt and inner turmoil, the whale attempts to make sense of this alien weight he now carries, as he internalizes the fears of humanity and slowly takes them on as his own. But, as the whale attempts to shed this burden of the other, he may also find that these new emotions he carries are the key to his own light and freedom.
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The Foreseen
Jodie has finally managed to move on from her violent husband, Jack, and is forming new relationships and establishing her own business. With CJ, her son, she has a new home"”the whereabouts of which are unknown to Jack"”and the prospect of a normal life.Jack, however, feels differently. He is the victim and he wants Jodie back to play the part of the dutiful wife with her life centred around his needs and desires. He is prepared to go to any length to find her and get her back under his control.But not only is he frustrated by Barry, who was involved in getting Jodie away, he is also up against forces beyond his understanding. CJ's best friends, Thomas and Kelly"”killed in a hit and run incident"”are still not at peace. They establish contact with CJ and a medium, Mable, and are instrumental in trying to thwart Jack.
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The Final Fence: Sophomores In The Saddle
Fair Questions for a Feature Story Is a disability something that is subjective or is it objective? Is a diagnosis opinion or fact? The Final Fence: Sophomores in the Saddle authored by Marc O'Brien takes a creative and honest look into a life filled with support due to well meaning individuals that think before they speak. When Eddie Patrick meets up with Danielle Lynne on a college campus, a love of horses triggers a classroom discussion. When their professor - a large chestnut pony named The Great Satan - starts the lecture, the relationship skills make the grade, with the ribbon only being a decorative award. Using a backdrop of the elegant and classy world of the hunter jumper horse shows during the second Ronald Reagan presidential administration, the setting for this novel is a perfect way for the future generations to learn about respect.
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The Dump
Johnny is misguided, being a young man with an old soul. His life is moving on, whether he is ready for it or not. His friends are moving away and the ones still around have changed for the worse in his eyes. Knowing this, his recently discovered infatuations and lust for substance are causing the breakdown of his relationship with Scar - arguably the best and most stable thing in his life.Johnny decides to have one last blow-out before he makes the change in his life for the better, but is it too late for his relationship with Scar?
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The Devine Girls
Piers Devine, Earl of Westborough, a veteran of World War 2, struggles after the war to bond with his two older daughters Jane and Maudie and step daughter Scarlett – who were infants at the start of the war. The girls desperately want acknowledgement of his affections, which he fails to give.As they grow up in the rapidly changing world of the 1950s, they react to the lack of affection in very different ways. Jane becomes the rebel consistently in trouble; Maudie immerses herself in her love of music; Scarlett goes on a secret mission to discover the truth about the hero father she had never known.Thea, Piers’ wife, is the one constant who desperately tries to hold the family together, but it is a devastating unforeseen event which finally defines the family’s future happiness.
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Sport's Perfect, but, so's P.I.
Sam's career had successfully developed over the years mainly thanks to his predecessor. For success in the Private Investigation arena, your reputation had to precede you. Sam wasn't unsociable, but only occasionally crossed paths with old friends, mainly during local sports, but occasionally in city bars or restaurants. This was soon to change as not only would he build on past relationships through his daily profession, it would come about through a previous girl friend and her brother. He was one of the career achievers who was succeeding through sporting ambition, not dreams. The only issue being that this progress might affect those willing to do anything to stop it regardless of consequence or reason. Could Sam understand this? Could he solve or prevent it if he did? Only through bypassing previous work, unwritten rules and taking the case from someone he'd always had a soft spot for would he find out.
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Sleeping with Lazarus
Christian and Leighton may come from different backgrounds, but they are destined to meet. For Leighton, life has been tough. Taken from a drug-ruined family he finds himself in Blue Horizon House where his first homosexual relationship is brought to a tragic end. Meanwhile, Christian struggles with his gender identity. In Sleeping With Lazarus author Ron Peter Pastore brings them together with renowned photographer Ian Simmerton, who has a sideline dabbling with porn. As he guides Christian and Leighton into a lucrative career, all three have ambivalent views about the path they are treading. For Chrissie, as Christian prefers to be known, the money will enable his gender transition. For Leighton the future is not so clear, and, for Ian, he sees a brilliant future for all. Yet, he knows that the road will not be smooth.
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School 3D
The arrival of three letters changed the lives of ten-year-old triplets, Alice, Ella and Hazel, forever. Home together but now to be in different schools, who would become the most popular pupil in the class, achieve the highest test marks and gain ultimate sports captain status? This is a story about sibling friendship, rivalry and above all, survival in the new world of Year 7.
£11.99
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