In June 1975, Australian couple Annette and Win Henderson find themselves stranded in Libreville, Gabon, after travelling halfway across Africa. When a thief robs their Kombivan, they are left penniless - with no way to go back and no way to go on. They are saved by a chance meeting with a local expat, who offers them jobs in a remote mining camp in the mountains, close to the Congo border, in a region never visited by tourists, accessible only by canoe. At the camp, Annette battles isolation, culture shock and the challenges of a job for which she is ill-prepared. She finds solace and joy in ... View More...
THE BODY IS THE BAROMETER OF THE SOUL II - So Be Your Own Doctor by Annette Noontil. This publication alerts people to the fact that you can help yourself to be healthy. It is a do-it-yourself book allowing you to recognise concepts that limit you, look within for the answers, then activate changes. Trust yourself and focus on taking charge of your thinking. Thence you take control of your life. If you have an ailment, refer to its meaning, then "source your inner essence" to initiate changes. Your attitude is reflected in your body. One comprehensive chapter is devoted to enhancing chil... View More...
In this story, Kate - a new big sister - explains her feelings of being left out and forgotten when her baby brother Daniel arrives. She experiences the typical confusion and mixed emotions that result from having to share her parents with a new and demanding sibling. But with wit and a resourceful nature, Kate explores her new role and achieves the confidence to embrace her little brother. Includes a "Note to Parents" by psychologist and author Jane Annunziata, PsyD. View More...
Learning to spell correctly is an important skill. From the time children begin to make sense of the printed word in reading and writing they are learning about the structure of words. Spelling competence leads to effective written communication. The goal of teachers and parents is to encourage children to become competent spellers. My PM Word Book will help children to access many of the words commonly used in writing, develop early dictionary skills, improve spelling proficiency, write freely and fluently by speeding up word knowledge process, take greater responsibility for editing their ow... View More...
The Oxford Maths Practice and Mastery Books give students more opportunities for practice, consolidation, homework and revision. The Oxford Maths Practice and Mastery Books are an integral part of the Oxford Maths series, which incorporates all the resources that a teachers needs to simply and comprehensively teach the Australian and Victorian Mathematics curricula and the New South Wales Syllabus. Sequencing The Oxford Maths Practice and Mastery Books follow exactly the same sequence of topics as the Oxford Maths Student Books.Each topic features:Practice – activities that allow students to... View More...
The Oxford Maths Practice and Mastery Books give students more opportunities for practice, consolidation, homework and revision. The Oxford Maths Practice and Mastery Books are an integral part of the Oxford Maths series, which incorporates all the resources that a teachers needs to simply and comprehensively teach the Australian and Victorian Mathematics curricula and the New South Wales Syllabus. Sequencing The Oxford Maths Practice and Mastery Books follow exactly the same sequence of topics as the Oxford Maths Student Books.Each topic features:Practice – activities that allow students to... View More...
A stirring novel of passion, lost loves and one girl's determination to conquer the odds from the author of Ellie Pride. When Connie Pride finds herself alone and pregnant in the rough courts of Liverpool, she despairs. Deserted by her lover, menaced by his bullying uncle, and too proud to ask her estranged family for help, there seems no hope. Rescued from the gutter, she is offered the chance to train as a nurse at the Poor Hospital. Life becomes a whirl of hard work and long shifts, but also lively evenings at the music hall with her fellow nurses and the newly drafted soldiers. Finally... View More...
A stirring novel of passion, lost loves and one girl's determination to conquer the odds from the author of Ellie Pride. When Connie Pride finds herself alone and pregnant in the rough courts of Liverpool, she despairs. Deserted by her lover, menaced by his bullying uncle, and too proud to ask her estranged family for help, there seems no hope. Rescued from the gutter, she is offered the chance to train as a nurse at the Poor Hospital. Life becomes a whirl of hard work and long shifts, but also lively evenings at the music hall with her fellow nurses and the newly drafted soldiers. Finally... View More...
Master grammar with the bestselling workbook for learners of French.
Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar is the go-to guide for clear, precise explanations of all aspects of French grammar: from the present tense of regular verbs to direct object pronouns, from the differences between savoir and connaitre to the use of pronouns y and en. This comprehensive guide will also give you plenty of practice in using your language skills. And this new edition is accompanied by flashcards and audio recordings, available online and via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexibilit... View More...
January 24th. After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs.... It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth - and ultimately her Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. .... For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent in... View More...
Illus. in full color. "Mr. Piggott and his sons are a male chauvinist lot who, outside of yelling for their dinner, don't exercise themselves much around the house. When Mrs. Piggott finally tires of the endless chores that sandwich her workday, she leaves the menfolk on their own, with a note saying, 'You are pigs.' With the cooking and housework untended, they soon turn genuinely porcine, a transformation Browne foreshadows with pig faces on the wallpaper, vases, fireplace, phone. As in most of Browne's art, there is more than a touch of irony and visual humor here. Fun to read aloud."--Bull... View More...
SERIAL KILLERS AREN'T MADE, THEY'RE BORN It is well known among law enforcement personnel that murderers can be categorised as belonging to one of 25 levels of evil, from the naïve opportunists starting our at level 1 to the organised, pre-meditated torture-murderers who inhabit level 25. What almost no one knows - except for the elite unnamed investigations group assigned to hunt down the world's most dangerous killers, a group of men and women accountable to no government and accounted for in no official ledger - is that a new category of killer is in the process of being defined. Only... View More...
The fourth, thrilling episode in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series. Reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider is relaxing in the south of France until a sudden, ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery - and this time, MI6 don't want to know. Alex is determined to track down his friends' attackers, even if he must do it alone. But it's a path that leads to a long-buried secret - and a discovery more terrible than anything he could have imagined. View More...
In the first book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, fourteen-year-old Alex is forcibly recruited into MI6. Armed with secret gadgets, he is sent to investigate Herod Sayle, a man who is offering state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers to every school in the country. But the teenage spy soon finds himself in mortal danger. About the Author: Anthony Horowitz is the author of the number one bestselling Alex Rider books and The Power of Five series. He has enjoyed huge success as a writer for both children and adults, most recently with the latest adventure in th... View More...
In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, the charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself. He tells of his childhood living in LA with his unconventional father; an early life spent hobnobbing with celebrities and becoming a child film actor; setting up the band with his school friend Flea in the early 80s; discovering a love of live performance and songwriting; and the years spent struggling with a drug addiction that left him a homeless multi-millionaire living on speedball mixtures of heroin and cocaine... View More...
The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition. First published in 1943, the year before the author's death in action, this translation contains Saint-Exupery's delightful illustrations. About the Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) was a French aviator and author. He had a passion for advent... View More...
Bedroom Style is packed with 50 inspirational finished quilts so readers are sure to find the best look for their room and achieve expensive designer bedding at a fraction of the cost. Established pattern designer and Moda Fabrics designer, April Rosenthal, created 10 unique quilt patters, each shown in five different colorways offer inspiration to create custom looks for any master bedroom. View More...
First issued in 1910, this pack contains almost certainly the most widely used tarot card deck in the world, along with an invaluable instructional book, THE KEY TO THE TAROT, which explains the history and usage of the tarot cards of which there are 78 divided into the Major and Minor Arcanas. The book can be used in conjunction with any set of tarot cards, but it was written in particular to accompany the 78-card Rider-Waite tarot deck which was designed by Pamela Colman Smith in accordance with A. E Waite's instructions. THE KEY TO THE TAROT explains the history and symbolism of the cards a... View More...
The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and th... View More...
In a small tight-knit community gossip and rumour spread like wildfire inflaming personal grievances until no-one is safe from accusation and vengeance. Seen as a chilling parallel to the McCarthyism and repressive culture of fear that gripped America in the 1950s, The Crucible's timeless appeal and universal themes remain as strong today as when the play opened on Broadway in 1953.
This Student Edition features an extensive introduction by Susan Abbotson which includes a chronology of Miller's life and times, a summary of the plot, commentary on the characters, themes, language, context and ... View More...
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