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When Clara Rosenberg decides to explore the world of Argentinian Tango, she meets the mysterious and lustful Rex.
She finds his persistent attention irresistible, and although she recognizes his practised charm, her life takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.
Meta Blaxland is a pen name. The author lives in Sydney.
ISBN 978-1-922452-55-9 PAPERBACK
An historical novel of European settlement set in the arid Willandra and Mungo Lakes District of western New South Wales.
But the real story begins long before that.
Time passes. People come to the dry country, between the rivers; the first peoples, the Ngiyampaa mob. They learn to live where others could not. They find plenty, not poverty. They live there a long, long time, happy and content.
Others come; Europeans, Afghans, Chinese, from across the world they come. The land changes. It no longer gives up its bush
tucker. Many Ngiyampaa die. Some survive, and they learn to live with the settlers, as they had lived with the desert.
They become many again. A town emerges from the dusty plains, phoenix-like, appearing from nowhere, shining brightly for a while.
A story spanning twenty thousand years. Barak, the one-legged warrior, challenges Thylacoleo the feared Marsupial Lion; Mundawal, forced to leave his island home and the woman he loves. Beaufort Harris survives the battlefields of Crimea to vanquish the vast waterless Outback.
Kathleen O’Hara travels the world to marry and founds a global dynasty. Billy Christmas, blackfella, searches for his culture and his heritage.
Tom Duncan is a Jackaroo, from New Zealand. He transitions from youth to man. He learns hard work and values that will define
his future. Suddenly, he finds love. The love of his life!
These are stories of the Outback, of two peoples, one ancient, one modern. There is a Treaty; can either man understand what is promised? Can there be harmony? Here is a story of the ancient land: its fertility,its degradation, and its powers of recovery. And redemption.
ISBN 978-1-922452-69-6 PAPERBACK
For the second time Gillian Porter is facing a tragic event in her life, and this time she’s on her own.
When her world was first turned upside down at the age of twenty, Liam Dempsey was by her side, but he doesn’t occupy that place anymore. After twenty-two years together they have been forced apart by a heartbreaking situation and a powerful enemy.
Essentially alone, Gillian moves to country Victoria and begins teaching again after a long absence from the classroom. With only her cavalier puppy Sybil for company, she vows to make the best of things as she begins her new life. However, it seems both life and Liam have other plans for her, when she meets an endearing little girl and her family who offer her everything she’s ever wanted.
Would it be a betrayal of Liam to accept?
And why is he encouraging her to do just that?
Can life knock you down and pick you up at the same time?
ELIZABETH MARKHAM is retired and lives with her husband and their cavalier, Abby in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia. She has two adult children and one very special grandson. Liz is a former teacher, who has also worked in Recruitment and Training, Human Resources and Aged Care. She developed a love of reading from an early age, and remembers always having books on her birthday list for her parents when she was growing up. Liz was encouraged to write by a well known author of children’s and young adult fiction, and she remains grateful to Robin Klein for giving her the push she needed. Liz completed a number of creative writing courses in 2014 before beginning her first novel in 2015. She describes Surprise Packet as having a lot of her heart and soul in it, and being truly a labour of love.
ISBN 978-1-922452-53-5
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A heartfelt children’s book set in the Mallee. Farmer Don aims to show young people the resilience of family life in outback Australia.
Farmer Don lives on a wheat farm in a town called Ouyen. The farm has bushy trees, an old farm house, red dusty dirt, flat bits and hilly bits.
ISBN 978-1-922452-79-5
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Over the years, we have experimented, played, failed, adapted in various fashions with our change practice.
Now, we’re sharing all that experience in this playbook.
We’ve especially created this for change and project practitioners looking to adapt their practice to agile ways of working.
It’s jam-packed with the how, what and why of 30 agile change practices, templates and tools for you to use!
Lena Ross
Jen Frahm
Jen and Lena are both skilled educators and coaches with backgrounds in learning and development, and academia and are known for being at the frontier of change, agile and learning. They are straight shooters with an empathic approach.
After several successful collaborations they formed the Agile Change Leadership Institute in 2019.
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Jeffrey is a smart and nice boy with a fantastic imagination. It’s summer time in Australia, and Jeffrey spends an unforgettable Christmas with his brothers at their grandparents’ beach house. They build giant sandcastles, spy different aircraft, and stay up very very late. Their best adventure begins when they sneak into a beach box.
What will Jeffrey discover inside?
Noni Bousfield is an emergency service worker, avid traveller, and passionate dabbler in all things creative! She is thrilled that, in collaboration with Californian artist Michelle Farrell, her first children’s book Jeffrey’s Beach Box has been brought to life. A joyful and fanciful homage to life by Melbourne’s iconic beach boxes. Contact Noni via the ‘Get the book’ link to enquire about purchasing your very own copy, posted anywhere in Australia for $20. International bookworms invited to check out deals on Amazon. Happy reading!