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Ned Kelly the man - warts and all - the most vivid portrait yet of Australia's immortal outlaw! Author, Ian Jones, acknowledged Kelly authority, shares with us the results of a lifetime's research. For the first time, Ned Kelly truly emerges as a man - a man who hated conflict yet never escaped it. A private man incapable of being ordinary and unnoticed. A man who was seen, even in his own lifetime, as what he represented rather than what he was.

Tired of going around in circles? It’s time to reconnect with your story and make it the best story possible. The Dreaming Path ensures our life journey is one of fulfilment. The path has always been there, but in the modern world, it can be hard to find. There are so many demands on us—family, health, bills, a mortgage, a career—that it can be hard to remember what’s most important: you.

Four years ago Eliza Dacey was brutally murdered. Within hours, her killer was caught. Wasn’t he? So reads the opening titles of Jack Quick’s new true-crime documentary. A skilled producer, Jack knows that the bigger the conspiracy, the higher the ratings. Curtis Wade, convicted of Eliza’s murder on circumstantial evidence and victim of a biased police force, is the perfect subject. Millions of viewers agree. Just before the finale, Jack uncovers a minor detail that may prove Curtis guilty after all. Convinced it will ruin his show, Jack disposes of the evidence and delivers the finale unedited: proposing that Curtis is innocent.

2 Second Lean will flip your world right-side up. It's a practical way to improve your life every day by making a simple two-second improvement. Join author, business expert, radio show host, and international speaker Paul A Akers, as he takes you on a LEAN journey that will transform every aspect your life - from your home to the office.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the Book, Year of Wonders and March comes a unique and vivid novel that retells the story of King David's extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace. It's 1000 BC. The Second Iron Age. The time of King David. Anointed as the chosen one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king, grasping the throne and establishing his empire. But his journey is a tumultuous one, and the consequences of his choices will resound for generations.

Allen Carr's Easyway method is a global phenomenon - a clinically proven and 100 per cent drug-free treatment for nicotine addiction. This book applies that incredible method to the problem of cocaine addiction. It will give you advice about habitual triggers and how to understand that cocaine has no benefits for you - not even that of feeling good. Through following this method, you will not only be set free from your cocaine addiction but you will also find it easy and even enjoyable to quit.

Outside of Pakistan, the world's highest concentration of al-Qaeda lurks in Southeast Asia and there, Nick Stone's bosses get wind of an act of terror that will dwarf even the nightmare of 9/11. When Stone is dispatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Bin Laden. But there are complications, not least because he is working alongside an attractive woman whose motives he doesn't fully understand.

At last the classic CD audio programme is now available as a download. Are you ready to quit smoking once and for all? Do you want to quit, but worry you will gain weight? Would you like to stop cravings in moments? Are you tired of people telling you to quit? Are you worried about smoking damaging your health? Have you tried to quit before and failed? If quitting was easy would you do it today?

In the 1840s, a ship's boy, cast ashore in northern Australia, is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focusing on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals, Remembering Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy caught between both worlds - the civilised and the primitive.

In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations. In Ben Shattuck's ingenious collection, each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story. Mysteries and murders are revealed, history is refracted, and deep emotional connections are woven through characters and families.

The Art of Being a Teacher is your laugh-out-loud funny guide to the wonderful chaos of the classroom. Packed with relatable scenarios, cheeky humour, and heartfelt moments, this book will have you nodding, chuckling, and occasionally groaning in solidarity. It’s the perfect blend of comedy and wisdom, celebrating the highs, the lows, and the utterly bizarre moments that make teaching unforgettable.

Flanqué de l'inspecteur Apputiku, Qaanaaq va mener l'enquête au pays des chamans, des chasseurs de phoques et du froid assassin. Il remontera peut-être ainsi jusqu'au secret de ses origines, à la source de ses démons. La neige omniprésente, les icebergs à la dérive, la lumière crépusculaire : la vie au Groenland semble paisible. Pourtant, passée la blancheur virginale de ces paysages, les tensions entre autochtones et colons ainsi que la dangerosité immanente au lieu menacent.

The play begins on a dark wet winter evening, with the owner of a veterinary practice, Mike, chatting amicably with his receptionist, Sheena. A very normal start to what transpires to be anything but a normal shift.

When Devon and Cornwall Police begin to investigate the strangulation and skinning of a young man, they discover the remains of a missing child nearby. Having recently arrived from London, DCI Peter Moone is put in charge of the case alongside the tough talking local DS Mandy Butler. They soon find themselves sinking deep into a dark world of child abuse and murder.

In The Death of Pride, pastor and teacher Paul Vanderveer offers a piercing look at the subtle yet devastating ways pride takes root in our hearts. Drawing from the dramatic fall and unexpected redemption of one of the Bible’s most powerful rulers, Vanderveer uncovers why pride is not just a character flaw but a soul-deep sickness—and why it must be confronted before it quietly destroys our joy, relationships, and calling.

Capstick will stun you with these true accounts of the most notorious and often unexpected man-eaters from around the world. After listening to them, you'll think again about that docile elephant in the zoo, or about deadly piranha escaping into Florida's waterways. Your nightmares will be complete when you learn about the greatest man-eater of all the cannibal including such civilized legends as Jeremiah Johnson!

The High Druid of Shannara trilogy draws to a thrilling close as a young hero nears completion of his trial by fire, a banished ruler fights for her life in a wilderness of dread, and forces of darkness and light square off in a battle unto death for the right to absolute rule. Prepare to be spellbound by the masterly hand of best-selling legend weaver Terry Brooks, conjuring at the peak of his skills.

The sixth novel in the Alex Cross detective series. A series of meticulously planned bank robberies ends in murder, and detective Alex Cross must pit his wits against the bizarre and sadistic mastermind behind the crimes.

Summer has come to Krynn, a summer unlike any before. The sun bears down on land and sea, searing the world with relentless light and heat. Clouds and rain are nowhere to be found, and even the darkness of night brings little relief from the strange and oppressive day. Meanwhile, those who commune regularly with their gods are uneasy. Every day, their deities become more distant, more difficult to reach. Clerics' prayers go unanswered, and magic goes awry.

We are in the midst of a powerful psychedelic renaissance. After four decades of hibernation, the promise of the psychoactive 60s - that deeper self-awareness, achieved through reality-bending substances and practices, will lead to greater external harmony - is again gaining a major following. The signs are everywhere, from the influence of today's preeminent psychedelic thinker Daniel Pinchbeck, to the renewed interest in the legacy of Terence McKenna, and to the upsurge of collective cultural phenomena like the spectacle of Burning Man.