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      • Trusted Partner
        March 2024

        The Mindset Challenge

        For mastery of life and living

        by Kate Munari

        What kind of mindset do you really need to succeed  as a Helicopter Pilot in Afghanistan? Kate Munari really wanted to fly helicopters, and she really wanted to go into a combat zone. What it took to get her there, how she coped with everything from enrolment, to pilot training courses, preparation for deployment to one of the most dangerous places in the world, for anyone to be in 2008. Three successful tours of Afghanistan was the highlight of a 17 year career as a helicopter pilot for Kate, and she shares her stories to inspire anyone wanting to know more about the mindsets she employed during that time, and for her life in general. It’s a riviting tale of determination, courage, and ambition. Her personal stories include insights into:  12 hours per day transporting troop in Helmand Province while being shot at. Advanced training and formation flying that will leave you breathless. Flying under extreme pressure in various parts of the world. Enounters with Royalty, Tribal Chief's, and Interrogators.  This book is perfectly targeted at Leaders who are either in business or running teams of any size in any industry, based on Kate's development and insights as a military person. It is also ideally targeted at young women - 15-30 years of age who want to be inspired to either join up, punch well above their weight in any career path, and navigate a journey into what's truly possible for women any where in the world, in any industry based on a resilience and capability focused mindset.   As a full time presenter, Kate speaks to audiences throughout Australia and New Zealand about her perspectives on leadership borne out of her experiences both in the Navy and as a civilian. Her book is due for release in 2024.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA

        Changeling

        by Kotryna Zylė

        Changeling is a rebellious novel about creativity, youth and the raging intensity of teenage emotional life. The gripping story plunges the reader into the depths of a mystical town, a haunting and haunted place, where boundaries between the real and the otherworldly become dangerously blurred. A strange and electrifying tale of teenage disenchantment, Changeling is a work of stunning emotional force that captures the twisted complexities of family relationships and friendships, first love, and the quest for self-definition. Guided by short introductions to Baltic mythology, readers will find themselves in an urban landscape steeped in pagan and post-Soviet history.

      • Trusted Partner
        Biography & True Stories
        February 2017

        Jackie Chan:Never Grow Up, Only Get Older

        by Jackie Chan, Zhu Mo

        This is an autobiography of Chinese Kongfu star Jackie Chan. The book is a true recording of this international superstar’s growth and life experience for the last 50 years. It tells us the legendary actor’s stories, and also reflects a fantastic acting age.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        May 2018

        The Manic Panic

        by Richa Jha and Mithila Ananth

        Mom and Dad completely lose the plot the day the Wifi stops working in the house. In a role reversal of sorts, it's up to little Shivi to get her bored and tantrum-throwing parents to see that there is a perfectly wonderful life to be enjoyed beyond their screen-craze.    Mithila Ananth’s zany, whimsical digital illustrations with a minimal neat colour palette and a touch of quiet humour throw into sharp focus Richa Jha’s funny story done as a second-person narrative. Together, they draw the reader right into the centre of this book’s relatable universe.

      • Trusted Partner
        October 2023

        From India to Germany:What My Father's Journey Tells Usabout Migration and the Kindness ofStrangers

        by Sunita Sukhana

        — An extraordinary story of migration — Contemporary history of the 70s and backgrounds to India, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany He was the son of the Sikh priest, a successful 400-meter runner and, eventually, a migrant. In 1979, Bagicha Singh turned his back on his homeland and set off with a head full of dreams on the long, turbulent overland journey from India to Germany. It was the year the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and the Islamic Revolution raged in Iran. A year whose aftermath continues to shape the world to this day. More than 40 years later, his daughter tells the story of Bagicha's adventurous journey. The result is a touching document on origin, contemporary history, and the meaning of migration.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        2020

        The After-Time Chronicles

        One Small Spark

        by Andy Woodage

        In the footsteps of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series comes Andy Woodage's debut novel and our entrance into his bio-engineered fantasy world. The After-Time Chronicles: One Small Spark is a young-adult fantasy novel of good, evil, genetically engineered creatures, romance, blood, and the search for belonging. Imagine a world without oil, where metals are only available if they can be salvaged or recycled. Imagine if coal was running out. It’s a world where armies no longer build metal monsters, but biological horrors. A world where genetic engineering has become the art of war. This is 12-year-old Jothan’s world. Orphaned by a terrible accident, he dreams of leaving his uneventful life with his grandparents on the family’s griffin farm. However, when a catastrophic attack wipes out every homestead in The Zoological Zone, his world is turned upside down. He finds himself thrust into a story larger than he ever dreamed, embarking on a rough journey with a mysteriously appearing warrior to the fabled ‘Temple of Elohim’. Accompanied by his best friend, the griffin Gozell, Jothan sets off across a land ravaged by poverty and wild creatures. Battling his way across the dangerous landscape, his eyes are opened to an empire in the grip of war and unrest... with the ever increasing weight of his role in events to come. Will they make it to the Temple? Will they be welcomed when they arrive? Can Jothan unravel the secrets that seem to control the lives of everyone he meets, including his mysterious saviour?

      • Trusted Partner
        Medicine
        May 2018

        Bovine Pathology

        A Text and Color Atlas

        by Claus D. Buergelt, Edward G. Clark, Fabio Del Piero

        Illustrated with over 1000 color images of the highest quality, Bovine Pathology: A Text and Color Atlas is a comprehensive single resource to identifying diseases in dairy cattle, feedlot cattle, and their calves. With summary text describing key features, the book correlates clinical information with pathology and differential diagnoses. The text covers naked-eye macroscopic appearance, through to microscopic pathology, and the immunohistochemistry of infectious agents and tumor markers. Structured by major organ system, the disease entries follow a consistent format and clarity of display. This, combined with an integrated E-book, handy fact sheets, summary boxes and key points, helps aid understanding. Key features include: - Over 1000 superb color images to illustrate the pathologies - A thorough review of mainly western hemisphere diseases of cattle covering macroscopic appearance, microscopic appearance, and immunohistochemistry - Synoptic layout, fact sheets, summary boxes, succinct legends and key bullet points supports its use as a field guide or revision aid - Organised by major organ system which ensures that vital facts can be found quickly - A unique chapter covering calf-hood diseases Serving as an essential reference work for veterinary pathologists who perform bovine necropsies, veterinary residents and students, the book is also practical enough for bovine practitioners who need to investigate sudden death losses of cattle on the farm.

      • Trusted Partner
        March 2023

        Born Hutsi

        by Fiston Mudacumura

        The author was raised in a family of only survivors from the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis. Even FARG (A survivors fund) allegedly paid for his school fees for some time. Through FARG reform, he learned that his father had associated with perpetrators even if he was also killed in 1994. Digesting that information as a teenager was not easy. In this book, you read about his other close-to-normal upbringing like infatuation, sex advice from fellow teenagers, getting conned in Paris and arrested on his first trip to France, his take from the "Ndi umunyarwanda" campaign, #PK saving him from getting expelled at the university, joining a political party at the university,...

      • Business & management
        January 2012

        The Unprincipled

        The Unvarnished Truth About Running A Marketing Agency From Start-up To Sell-out

        by David Croydon

        Building a business from start-up to sell-out. When I started, or at least co-founded, a small sales promotion agency called Marketing Principles in Oxford over 20 years ago, I had no idea about the dramas that would ensue, or the mixture of fun and games and pain and heartache that could be telescoped into 12 short years. I needed to get a lot of this off my chest for cathartic and purely selfish reasons, but in doing so, and in my current role as small business advisor/coach/mentor/NEC, I realised along the way that the lessons learned might be instructive as well as just entertaining, which is where it originally started. The title is taken from the scurrilous in-house ‘newsletter’ our creative department took to compiling a couple of times a year, to debunk any of our employees who… oh, just anyone who worked for us (including me). We begin the journey in 1985.  The key protagonists (at the beginning) all have gainful employment at another local agency, and on the face of it should be content with their lot.  But then this thing called ambition comes knocking, and a 12-year roller coaster ride begins. A couple of reviewers have described the content as part business handbook, part memoir, part comic novel, which makes it difficult to categorise in publishing terms.  Its style and tone of voice is what makes it unique, and it will appeal to small business owner/managers - from start-ups to established businesses - anywhere: they will recognise many of the issues and problems that we confronted along the way. So it's a personal account, but one that will resonate with anyone who has ever run a small business (or aspires to). Here's a video about the business that is the book's subject matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_heofh0WE

      • Fiction
        January 2003

        The Wind In The Pylons Vol 1

        The Adventures Of The Mole In Weaselworld

        by Gareth Lovett Jones

        Environmental satire: When Mole (from Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind In The Willows”) finds a tunnel behind the big old cupboard in his kitchen and goes exploring, little does he know the adventures in store.  For the passage-way turns out to be a time tunnel that eventually brings him out in the mid 1990’s – a strange world in which his beloved valley has been devastated by hulking shed-like shopping zones and most of the animals seem to be trapped inside flotillas of bizarrely-shaped contraptions moving at nightmare speeds along a network of titanic roads. He meets descendants or look-alikes of his old chums, all involved in business, politics and such like.  But the time tunnel has unaccountably invested in him a magical skill: whomever he is near is unable to resist telling him the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. A biting satire on modern Britain, by turns scathing and heart-rending, The Wind In The Pylons captures its essence, seen through the eyes of an innocent abroad.  The author, with sharp eye and cutting wit, holds a mirror up to “the way we live today”: compared with Kenneth Grahame’s bucolic view of life at the turn of the last century, it is not a pretty sight.

      • Fiction
        January 2004

        The Wind In The Pylons Vol 2

        The Continuing Adventures Of The Mole In Weaselworld

        by Gareth Lovett Jones

        Environmental satire (Vol. 2): In this volume, we follow Mole’s further adventures as he searches for the England he remembers, and the encounter with global capitalism which precedes the touching denouement of his story. Few targets escape the author’s scathing eye in this ingenious novel, be they New Right politicians, modern planners, intensive farmers, or the architects of world trade. The Wind In The Pylons will have you chortling with laughter even as you are crying at the shame of it all.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        January 2003

        The Ghost Who Didn't Believe In Humans

        by Helena Chambers

        Bullying (with ghosts) - for 8-12 year-olds When Della moves house and starts a new school, she knows that she must expect changes.  However, she little imagines that she will stumble into the spirit world - where the inhabitants seem so much more fun than her hostile new schoolmates.    Della is taken to the limits of her strength and beyond as she faces the trials imposed by the class bully, who dominates the girls in her group and is determined to keep Della out.  While the pressure mounts inexorably at school, life in the spirit-world also reaches a climax… At one level, this is a cracking good ghost story that will engage the reader, of virtually any age, from beginning to end - but it also explores a social problem which is notoriously difficult to identify and root out.

      • Fiction
        January 2001

        Libidan

        by PJ Goddard

        Libidan is the first black comedy of the biotechnological age. At its heart lies the defining ethical question of the genomic revolution - when scientists can manipulate at will the body's every mechanism, what will human life become? Bill Kennedy develops medicines for rare hormonal disorders.  His life at the Research and Development Centre at Asper Pharmaceuticals is completely uneventful - until the freak laboratory accident that turns his humdrum world on its head.  Libidan.  A psycho-sexual stimulant of awesome potency.  A once-in-a-lifetime discovery to make him wealthy beyond his wildest dreams ... if only he can find a way to perfect the formula. And so begins his journey:  a journey into the emergent sciences of the new millennium where synthetic designer drugs meet genetic engineering;  a journey of exquisite physical ecstacies and chilling new moralities.  A journey that eventually leads to the one man with the power to disassemble and reconstruct human life itself.

      • Fiction
        January 2005

        Criminal

        by PJ Goddard

        Crime thriller. England 2005: a new millennium has dawned, yet the nation’s laws, institutions and values interact to serve the interests of the wealthy and the powerful to an extent unseen since the Middle Ages. At the heart of this system lies the media – a new medieval church furnishing an unenlightened populace with icons that they may slavishly worship, infidels that they may jingoistically despise and a litany of beliefs that they may comfortingly intone, but which only serve to perpetuate their political and intellectual serfdom. Into this modern age steps a forgotten man from history: Miles Coverdale, the 16th century preacher and biblical translator who fought in the vanguard of the English Reformation. Guided by characters and signs from the Book of Revelation, Coverdale sets out once again on the long and dangerous path to his divinely-ordained destiny: to discover the truth and make it known to the people of these islands in their own language. Mixing history, crime-thriller and biblical apocalypse, ‘Criminal’ offers a searing indictment of the British establishment and the moral and cultural perspectives it propagates for its self-advancement.

      • Historical fiction

        To the Great Sea

        A Story for Christmas

        by Doug Thompson

        A literary interpretation of the Christmas story, To The Great Sea imaginatively extends, probes, conjectures about and questions the original version to provide a much fuller and more humanly plausible version. What is this man afraid of? What is he fleeing from? Where is he going? Who, indeed, is he? Having crossed the great river, he has vague notions of heading westwards towards the Great Sea – until chance intervenes. On a whim, he changes direction to follow a moving star that can stop men dead in their tracks. Crossing the vast, empty desert, he encounters another much larger group of travellers, led by a ‘seeker after truth’; the fabled magus Melichior of Ninevah. The unfolding story this man’s life spent wandering, endlessly searching, and the wisdom he has acquired, enthral the fugitive and they agree to travel on together. Melichior is also following the star, though apparently with far more knowledge about it. After strange, coincidental and inexplicable encounters, they eventually end up at an encampment of travellers outside a small town. They go up into this town to see what they can find – anything that might point to the fulfilment of the age-old prophecies of the coming of a king who will conquer and rule the whole Earth... Doug is influenced by Eliot’s poems The Journey of the Magi and Four Quartets. He also takes inspiration from Cesare Pavese, John Fowles and William Golding. To The Great Sea is a work of well-crafted prose that will be enjoyed by high-brow readers.

      • ABSOLVO TE

        by Georgi Bardarov

        EUROPEAN LITERATURE PRIZE FOR 2021! https://www.euprizeliterature.eu/authors/georgi-bardarov The novel “Absolvo te” is based on two true stories – one about World War II and the Holocaust, and the other about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The main characters are a Palestinian, a Jewish man and a Nazis officer. Each of them must forgive and look past each other’s sins. They’re all in need of “Absolve te”, which translated from Latin means ‘’forgiveness of all sins’’.

      • What Did the Tree See?

        by Charlotte Guillain, Sam Usher

        Told in rhyming verse, this non-fiction picture book follows the story of an oak tree on a hilltop as it witnesses life changing around it over the course of hundreds of years. Told in gentle rhyming verse, this beautiful non-fiction picture book follows the story of an oak tree on a hilltop as it witnesses life changing around it over the course of hundreds of years. From the time when hunters chased deer through the woodland, to when trees were cleared for farmland, to the smog and factories emerging during the industrial revolution. One majestic oak has seen it all, and now we can too. Accompanying pages at the end of the book include a timeline of events in world history across the periods featured in the poem, the life cycle of an oak tree, and prompts to help parents and children explore their own local history.

      • SPRING

        by CHRISTOPHER NEW

        Early one March morning thirty-something Robert Stanton is woken in London with the news that his widowed father is in hospital with a heart attack. He travels down to the coast to be at his father’s bedside, where he is surprised to find the ward sister is Lisa, a Chinese woman who was his first girlfriend and is now a divorced single parent. Memories of his childhood mingle with those of his past with Lisa as they watch his father sinking. Lisa tells him frankly about her present life, but Robert gives evasive answers to Lisa’s inquiries about his own. For he has memories of another past which are too painful to disclose, memories of his life with Catherine, a painter he lived with for some time, but who has now been immured in a mental hospital for several years suffering from a suicidal depression for which Robert believes he is partly responsible. Although he has always been distant from him, when his father dies the next day, Robert is strangely moved. Lisa consoles him and invites him home, where he meets her children – an unusual experience for Robert, who has lived a hermit’s life since the onset of Catherine’s illness. Going through his father’s things later, Robert discovers a bunch of letters from Doris, a woman whose affair with his father damaged his parents’ marriage while he was still a child, and is astonished to learn the affair has continued in secret down to the present. Realising that Doris doesn’t yet know his father has died, he visits her and tells her. While Robert arranges the funeral and winds up his father’s affairs, Doris intermittently recounts the story of her relationship with his father, who, he learns, was an undemonstrative hero of the Falklands War. Robert begins to realise how little he knew him, and to appreciate the unsuspected depths to his character. At the same time his own renewed relationship to Lisa is deepening, as her warmth and liveliness begin to free him from the long winter of his self-imposed exile from “the stuff of life”. But just as it seems he may be able to remake his life with Lisa, he learns on his weekly visit to Catherine that against all odds she is improving under a new drugs regime, and is likely to be released soon into his care. Must he then surrender all hope of a future with Lisa? At first, he thinks so; and, when he tells her about Catherine, Lisa, feeling hurt and deceived, agrees. Even when she relents and encourages him, still he sees no future for them both. Catherine’s sanity will always be precarious and if she found out about Lisa, she might attempt suicide again. After a last night together, Lisa derives him to the station. He kisses her goodbye in the car – she can’t stand platform farewells. Then, while he is waiting on the platform, something snaps inside him and he runs back to find her still there, her forehead resting sadly on the steering wheel. After all, he chooses the same path that his father chose before him. The long winter is passing and now, however insecure, it is spring again. christopher.new@gmail.com July 2012

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