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How does one read the literature of a patriarchal society in a 21st century context? Where can one find good role models for girls and women in the Bible? All too often these questions are answered by presenting the answers given by patriarchal society and not by looking for liberating, examples. It is all too easy to let God's message of setting the captives free ring forth, but directed to a limited audience. But Ruth and Esther provide strong counter-examples of women who had to struggle...
| Автор | Bruce G Epperly |
In the early 1950s, Rod Braybon's father died, leaving his mother with eight children she couldn't care for.<br /> <br />As a ward of the state, Rod ended up at the notorious Bayswater Boys' Home, run by the Salvation Army, near Melbourne.<br /> <br />Rod endured years of ill-treatment at the hands of the Salvation Army, then spent a life-time repressing the memories that haunted him.<br /> <br />Finally, after seeing an article in a newspaper,...
| Автор | Vikki Petraitis |
In 1996 a neighbour spies three Asian men running out of a court in Glen Waverley. It looks like two chasing one. But when they head towards a nearby car with an open boot, and suddenly the boot closes and there are only two men standing there, the chase takes on a more sinister aspect.<br /> <br />Young Steve Tragardh joined the police force when he was 18 and a half; he'd tried uni for a while, but it wasn't for him. He had come through the private school system and while...
| Автор | Vikki Petraitis |
A volume, four stories of Enric, his boyhood as a child undercover agent in the Spanish Resistance to Fascist rule after the Civil War. Fiction based on the true life of Enric Torres, narrator in the novel To the Death, Amic<br /> <br />Hospice<br />Enric, the boy of To the Death, Amic works as a smuggler for The Organisation, the resistance movement in Barcelona. From France, over the high country, he brings in ammunition, leaflets. This time his job is to smuggle a young...
| Автор | John Bryson |
"Another great 'read-all-in-one-go' book from natural-born storyteller Garry Willmott. Soul Survivor picks up the story of Lara, last remaining survivor of the Doherty family. The last sentence in Survival reads 'The Dohertys had survived the war, the POW camps and the Titanic. Now they were all gone, except for Lara.'<br /> <br />Masterful storyteller Garry Willmott takes the reader on a wild ride through the orphaned Lara's life from her childhood...
| Автор | G. S. Willmott |
Brilliant Artists in Trio<br /> <br />A volume of three feature pieces.<br /> <br />1. Janet Baker, the Wind in Her Hair.<br />Opera's Dame Janet, now retired from the stage to song performance, takes to sea on a yacht, the better to understand the rhythms of Elgar's Sea Pictures, of which she is already the world's authority.<br /> <br />She was playing with the sound of the waves from the bow, it seemed to me, "Never before...
| Автор | John Bryson |
Grand Deceptions is a historical novel centred predominantly around Melbourne and Ballarat in Victoria Australia. England, Scotland and San Marino also play a part of this captivating story. The timeline begins in the 1850s and ends in the 1960s. Three well to do young men immigrate to Victoria; their reasons are all different but their ambitions are the same – make their fortune in the antipodes. The circumstances that drove their futures were deception. Two of the three men became victims of...
| Автор | G. S. Willmott |
A country GP found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when an angry patient went looking for someone with whom he could share his pain.<br /> <br />Dr Andrew Taylor was working an ordinary Saturday morning shift when he was shot repeatedly by an armed and deluded man who simply needed to show any doctor he could find, just how upset he was with the world at large.<br /> <br />Random shootings like this are unusual in Australia and the bizarre unfairness of what...
| Автор | Lindy Cameron |
John tells the bittersweet true story about his family's involvement in the Harewood Hotel, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent in England during the 1960's, interspersed with self-deprecating reminisces.<br /> <br />Best described as a true life Fawlty Towers – but without Basil.<br /> <br />When John is assigned to the kitchens will he be able to cook any better than his dysfunctional family? He's in good company with chefs who can't cook and waiters who...
| Автор | John Hickman |
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend time with a convicted serial killer?<br /> <br />Or how you would feel when they told you what it was like to take a life?<br /> <br />Don't Ever Call Me Helpless is a powerful, chilling true crime story that offers a rare glimpse into the mind of convicted murderer Catherine Birnie.<br /> <br />In the late 1980s, Catherine and her defacto partner David Birnie went on a killing spree that shocked and...
| Автор | Ruth Wykes |
Forensic evidence is known as the 'silent witness'. Crime scene examiners make the silent witness speak.<br /> <br />Sergeant Trevor Evans has been a crime scene examiner for 17 years, and worked the notorious case of murdered baby Jaidyn Leskie in Moe. He also examined the scene of the intriguing, still-unsolved murder of Jane Thurgood-Dove, a mother gunned down in the driveway of her home in Niddrie.<br /> <br />Evans also used his wealth of experience when he...
| Автор | Vikki Petraitis |
It took an extraordinary effort by police task forces in Australia and America to take down an international child pornography ring.<br /> <br />But Rescuing Tara is so much more than bringing some truly reprehensible men – one of whom was "Tara's" own father – to justice.<br /> <br />Rescuing Tara is the story of how dedicated police officers on opposite sides of the world used the paedophile ring's own playroom – cyberspace itself – along...
| Автор | Robin Bowles |
This book is about war, yet it's not a novel about enemies fighting to the death or examining the strategies of battles. This novel is about young boys some as young as eight, fighting, killing and being killed.<br /> <br />The first six chapters follow the lives of two normal happy teenagers attending school, playing sport and learning about girls. This creates a comparative scenario highlighting the difference between a modern teenager and the boys that carry guns and fight in...
| Автор | G. S. Willmott |
John tells the true story about his dad, Bill's involvement in the Second World War. Bill grows up in the slums of Notting Hill, London and leaves school at fourteen. Despite his insecurities, while still in his late teens, he becomes a pilot of Lancaster bombers. He wants to belong to the 'establishment' but rebels against the powers-that-be when he realises they think he is expendable. Loss of life and planes is horrendous and to Bill's mind largely unnecessary. His...
| Автор | John Hickman |
Tripping Over is a true story of life in post war England in the 1950s and 1960s. It tells the story of John, who grows up in the shadow of his dad, a returned war hero. John senses he is different but not in a good way and knows he has big shoes to fill. He is not coping well. Beleaguered and confused, poor judgement and clumsiness dog his every move. When his parents visit the annual Earl's Court Motor Show to buy a new car but return with a boat instead – turmoil follows. Later he is...
| Автор | John Hickman |
Violet Rose is a self-proclaimed sixth grader super-sleuth, a foster child who discovers that many of the people in her normal suburban town are actually supernatural beings hiding in seemingly ordinary lives. With best friends Lindsey and Ciara, a spirit from a Renoir painting, Violet is a little detective that never gives up, solving cases after her homework is done while learning about the magical gift her grandfather gave her before he passed. Featuring exclusive pages and bonus character...
| Автор | Emma Davis |
Have you ever gotten so sick of idiots in the «Government» telling you how to run your life, what speech is permitted, what medical procedures you will have, what vaccinations to take? Tired of being lied to, taken to war, or carted off to prison for a «thought crime»? <br />Have you ever just wished to be King of your own island country so you can tell everyone else to «screw off»? <br />Let me tell you about the twisted path I was compelled to take in me efforts to find freedom...
| Автор | Dr. Steve Rolland DC |
A young person follows his parents to Australia after his family fled Syria. After time in a refugee camp his family comes to settle in Sydney. There Simon begins to develop his natural abilities as a footballer. He takes baby steps at first then striding out into the world of professional football. Soon his coaches realize how special his talents really are so they mark him down for future greatness. But life as a professional footballer has its own problems. Simon will need a lot of support....
| Автор | Greg Pius |
The Light Where Shadows End is more than a war story; it is a story about spiritual transformation; about transcending war through love and reconciliation, about healing through faith and forgiveness. <br />Cantalupo is a war hero, and a witness. He shares the intimate details of war crimes and terrifying battles, of brutal inhumanity and extraordinary kindness, of pointless death and enduring survival. <br />His story takes us on a journey into death’s far reaches and transcends the...
| Автор | rg cantalupo |
I started writing poetry to honor my dead mother who loved poetry. Poetic verses grew inside my mind as I watered them with my own observations. By settling on writing only short poems I give time poor readers a chance to get a quick 'bite" of reality. This is why I call them 'fast poems'. In this time of global crisis our own emotions are exposed to great stress. My fast poems attempt to expose futile attempts to master stress but also to praise the brave ones.
| Автор | Gregory J. McKenzie |
This is the early years in a story about a most remarkable female. Peacemaker at birth she goes on to bind an extended family in times of enormous upheaval. There are many problems for Rosie to overcome. Her birth mother dies when she is two so this infant is raised by her grandmothers. Her two brother fight continually with Rosie often having to seperate them. Once Rosie goes to school she is targeted by trolls. Then she has to watch her best friend attempt suicide. \\\but everything works out...
| Автор | Gregory J. McKenzie |
"The Bulk Challenge Experience" is a story of a dreadful journey and near catastrophe on a leaking ship, during the fracas of the Liberian Civil War in 1996. Bound for Ghana, the 1500-capacity fishing vessel was over-loaded with nearly 4000 passengers and several tons of cargo. The anticipated 3 days journey turned to 10 unforgettable and miserable days on the Atlantic Ocean, with no food, water or medication. How did the passengers make it? The author tells of his personal experience on...
| Автор | I. Ezax Smith |
YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR FIRST TIME…as gourmand and gourmet author William Maltese proves in this charming memoir, wherein he reminiscences about his first-time encounters with thirty of his favorite menu items during his extensive world travels. Maltese, author of six cookbooks and his WILLIAM MALTESE WINE TASTER'S DIARY volumes for mainstream publisher Wildside/Borgo Press' «Traveling Gourmand» series, takes you on a fascinating culinary journey from the pubs of Ireland, to the lemon...
| Автор | William Maltese |
This book is written by a person with autism who did nt find out till he was 17 years old. It covers everything from what to look for in a little kid to what to look for in a adult. From the 36 most asked questions asked by people to people with autism. The difference between temper tantrums and autism. That a meltdown looks like and what a shutdown looks like. why stimming is a necessary part of autism and how to make it work for the person with autism. About his life story fro earliest...
| Автор | Jeremy Tolmie |