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Lukas is an underdog and a winner: intelligent, angry, humorous, and 14 years old. He is a guerrilla warfare fighter against the establishment and injustice. Lukas discovers his teachers to be people with faults and failings, and he is prepared to manipulate them to his advantage. To Lukas comes Donny: teacher, coach and mentor. What happens when Lukas finds something to admire in the enemy? Worse still, what happens when your mate is unjustly judged guilty of the sexual assault of the girl you have the hots for?

A legal thriller about two lawyers working on opposite sides of the Channel, whose destinies are fatally intertwined. A pharmaceutical patent worth billions, a brutally murdered man, and a trial that appears impossible to win. These are the facts at the centre of two young lawyers’ lives. The lives of men from two contrasting worlds whose paths criss-cross in a game of shadows and reflections. Where money and revenge mark the boundaries where enemies become allies; where there is no certainty, only doubt and suspicion.

Golden age of piracy. Johnny spends his childhood in Port Royal. Its alleys are populated with adventurers, throat cutters, and prostitutes: Everyone is looking for fortune among the inns and the decks. The boy finds out once the existence of a mysterious treasure...and everything changes suddenly. Forced to join the terrible pirate Barbanera's crew, Johnny will have to face a lot of dangers, between cruel boardings, scaring native tribes and dark omens, putting his life at risk and trying to fulfill his destiny.

Mercedes Sosa: More than a Song explores the secret behind Sosa’s remarkable impact and reveals how her upbringing, political circumstances, and personal tragedies formed her life and her career. Now, 10 years after her death, Sosa’s legacy continues to shine. Her example of integrity and solidarity lives on and make her a role model who points out the path to a more emphatic and compassionate world. Her story calls out for the best in all of us. You are about to meet a woman who will inspire you by her courage and authenticity.

Child brides sold as objects, with a rite of marriage or a simple exchange of money to people of adult age, suffer real abuse, an act which aids pedophilia. The parties responsible are the families, which oblige their daughters to enter into forced marriages, and the men who "buy" a child: as a wife-slave sexual object. The stories told in this audiobook are true; they took place in Africa, India, Yemen, Niger, Pakistan, Syria, and Mexico, places where, due to poverty, war, famine, it becomes customary for parents to sell their daughters to adult suitors in exchange for money.

An emotional thriller with a historical research of the short life of Robert Johnson, considered by most as the grandfather of rock, but adored by blues fans. A compelling narration that perhaps offers a solution to a mysterious intrigue, full of esotery and religious fanaticism, that lead to the violent and early death of the one that was labelled the Devil's Son.

In this third episode of the series the Adventures of Azakis and Petri, our two lovable inhabitants of Nibiru must face a terrible threat from deep space. This time, however, their strength and their incredible technology may not be enough. And what if help were to come from a completely unexpected source?

A catastrophe of biblical proportions is about to befall our planet. But this time the terrestrials are not alone. Some of the inhabitants of the planet Nibiru are standing by them, risking their own lives, to try to oppose the terrible forces of nature that are about to be unleashed. In this second episode in the series, The Adventures of Azakis and Petri, our two lovable aliens must make use of all their experience and their incredible technology to try to prevent the event already dramatically announced in the previous audiobook, Back to Earth.

When 14-year-old Peter, 11-year old Robyn, and 5-year-old Billy are left without parents or guardians, the Child Welfare Department take charge of them. The Department have a plan for the children's future, but the children have their own plans. With the resourcefulness typical of Australian bush kids, they manage to “fly beneath the radar” of the authorities in such a way that they are never identified as missing. The children pack their gear on bicycles and travel the far outback regions of Australia looking for a home where they can live together.

When the world is thrown into a downward spiral of chaos, four very different people from the darkness will fight their way across the vastness of the great southern land. Men turn to countrymen, who have now become enemies. Each man must look within in order to overcome their worst nightmares; or worse, to become them....

Horace is so excited to play with his friend, Mary McKay, a beautiful and graceful wombat. When she asks if he has a hat to protect his face from the sun, he tells her he doesn’t need one.

This is the second edition of Shelty And The Race. The first edition in 1996 received excellent reviews including Australia’s ‘Reading Time’ Journal Vol. 40. No. 3. Page 22. “The Language is simple…..It would be a welcome edition to a School Library or personal collection.”

A new threat challenges the human race years after Covid-19 ravaged the globe. Far worse and infinitely more infectious, it strikes swiftly and definitively, devastating the population. A select few survivors in Melbourne, Australia follow an urge to make their way out of the city toward an unknown destination and unsure future. What they find and become wasn't anything they could have ever imagined....

This book is about finding an explanation for my experiences as a healer, a role which I fell into without any idea of how or why it worked as effectively as it did. I have always been aware that my mind seems to work differently to others in some circumstances, such as noticing that I didn’t have any subjective memory at the age of 23 after a fright in an aircraft when the floor hatch on which I stepped fell a half an inch and locked. This gave me a great fright at the time, and the aircrew told me I was as white as a sheet at the time.

Reinvent Your Waste is a book about the history of waste, or garbage, and the progression of waste management and recycling in the United States, with some special emphasis on the state of Michigan. The book highlights four themes – respect, recover, reinvent, and restore, with each section offering insights and inspiration for those who want to be better stewards for Earth.

When Barry Ottoman's idyllic, solitary, lifestyle is shattered by the appearance of unwanted interlopers with a mysterious agenda and intent on harm, he must call upon his vast knowledge of Australia's northern rain-forest's flora and fauna, to effect an escape from a deadly pursuit....

A young couple, Peter and Marcia decide to spend a weekend in the country. They find an isolated beach on a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline and set up their campsite for the weekend. Suddenly, strange incidents begin to happen as they are attacked by the wildlife. The strange incidents gradually escalate—and so does the terror.