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Sergeant Frank Hardy and his wife Mette travel to the southernmost point of New Zealand to chase gold thieves and to retrieve a manuscript for Mette to translate. But they have chosen to travel on an ill-fated voyage. Twenty miles from Bluff, on the south coast of the South Island of New Zealand, the SS Tararua hits a reef and sinks, with massive loss of life. This real event was the second-worst maritime disaster in New Zealand's history, in a country heavily reliant on shipping at that time. But the couple has more than a shipwreck to deal with.

Knowing how to manage money is critical to your success. Being broke and living paycheck to paycheck is surviving, not living. Are you tired of being constantly stressed and worried about how to pay your bills each month? Achieve financial freedom, so you can travel, have fun, and get more out of life. In this book, you will learn how to get rid of debt, budget, shift your limiting mindset, negotiate, invest, and understand money better.

Trapped by floods on their horse farm, Frank and Mette Hardy offer shelter to two other families. But when one of their guests is found with a carving knife from their own kitchen in his neck, they must keep themselves alive until help comes. Who among the small group of people trapped on the farm by floods is the killer? It seems that everyone has a reason to kill the man who died, and when Frank is sickened by poison, he makes a decision that almost kills his pregnant wife.

The temperance movement has taken hold in New Zealand, and the country is locked in the depths of a depression as a new land war threatens. When Sergeant Hardy and his new wife find themselves in financial straits, Hardy takes on Dead Shot, a thoroughbred stallion from a town near the front. But the horse has been targeted by a brutal Australian gang trying to take over the racing world. Murder soon follows. When Hardy's wife disappears, apparently kidnapped by the gang, Hardy must track down the mysterious leader of the gang and take him out of commission.

Online learning is more complicated than most people think. I've seen many students that did well with in-person learning but struggled mightily with online learning. But it doesn't have to be that way. There are crucial adjustments you can make that will significantly improve your online learning experience. These crucial adjustments are what I call the five keys. Based on my experience, these five keys are the changes that will have the biggest positive impact.

These are the stories of Uranus. Stories of new beginnings and creation. Stories of the mysterious seventh planet in our solar system and of the God of the sky that it was named after.

Next Big Thing with Courtney & Dara is a comedy web series, podcast and live show led by two Black techies: Courtney Thomas and Dara M Wilson (@omgitscourtneyt,@daramwilson). The show shines a much-deserved spotlight on people of color doing dope things in tech, media, politics, & entrepreneurship. On NBT, Courtney, Dara, and their guests invite viewers to join them for candid, hilarious conversations about career triumphs and challenges, current events, and hot topics. With a focus on up-and-coming leaders and creators, Next Big Thing is Oprah for the A.D.D. generation, brought to you by two ...

Exploring the Merry Marvel Universe

Host Aaron M. Wilson reads a sonnet a day from the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon himself, William Shakespeare. No ads, no commentary, no sweeping background music... just the meditative beauty of these iconic words. During these turbulent times, let this be your bite-sized audio escape.

A podcast about the scientific study of language and the brain. Neuroscientist Stephen Wilson talks with leading and up-and-coming researchers about their work and ideas. This podcast is geared to an audience of scientists who are working in the field of language neuroscience, from students to postdocs to faculty.

Smart, funny friends Dara M Wilson and Yasmine Khan bring money talk out of the shame drawer and onto the table.

In the gold mining town of Greymouth, where drunks fell asleep smoking and burned down their houses, the town was constantly inundated with floods, and 57 hotels had sprung up in a year to accommodate the hordes of miners and gold thieves, Inspector William Henry James was tasked with keeping the town safe with a small force of troopers. In 1888, forced into retirement by government cuts, James walks home beside the Whanganui River remembering his association with a series of murders by the notorious Burgess gang: back in 1866 he had forced the gang to leave Greymouth.

In 19th century New Zealand, the Land Wars have finished, but life is hard. Cashiered from the British Army after years fighting in India and Crimea, Sergeant Frank Hardy awakes in an underground prison with no idea where he is or how he got there. As he searches his memory for clues, his partner and his fiancee search for him. The answer is buried in the past and he will have to to dig it up before he can be free.

In this audiobook, I will help you discover if you have what it takes to homeschool. There is an overwhelming amount of information out there, so we will analyze the essential questions to consider before you start the adventure of homeschooling.

If you are tired of wasting time thinking about how you wished you looked or how your home looked, or feeling that everything you do must be Pinterest-worthy, this book was written for you! Get ready to become skillful at believing that your imperfect life is perfect enough - because it is!

Featuring New York Times bestselling author Victorine E. Lieske. Readers will love this collection of six novellas - three contemporary and three historical - all with one thing in common: Romance.

The Audacity to Spy, written by an attorney with an interest in privacy laws and legislation and her grandmother who is an experienced Information Analyst, reveals the ways in which your identity and personal data have been stolen by various sources.

The authors examine the dynamic interplay of texts and their concomitant rhetorical situations by drawing on a number of case studies, including controversial constitutional arguments put forward by activists and presidents in the 19th century, inventive economic pivots by Franklin Roosevelt and Alan Greenspan, and the rhetorical trajectory and method of Barack Obama.

Lord Zenith has a plan: Make the subjects of Aquerna, the squirrel kingdom ruled over by his cousin, Queen Lucina, believe that winter is far away so he can steal their nuts. Simple, right? Except his cousin, Queen Lucina, and her women dug up the nuts before the snows fell, disrupting his carefully plotted plan. Zenith isn’t worried, he has a backup plan and the BECS. The BECS is an elite squad of chipmunk commandos known as the Black Eastern Chipmunk Squad. They are the best of the best. No nuts are safe when they are on the prowl. Not even those held in the vaults of the Aquerna bank. ...

A body plunging off a cliff, a new craze for pedestrianism or race-walking with gambling, a constable willing to make a gruelling 90 miles through the tree-covered ranges without a break, and a testing undercover assignment for Mr. Hardy.