A short ghost story from the author of The Seer of Possibilities. Mary died young. Now she haunts her family farm, but her presence goes completely unnoticed by those who she used to care about. With her anger rising, she comes up with a plan to ensure that they feel her wrath. Can she remember the love of her family before it's too late?

'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.' These words from the Uluru Statement from the Heart are a heartfelt invitation from First Nations People to fellow Australians, who will have the opportunity to respond when the Voice referendum is put to a national vote by the Albanese Government. Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo and acclaimed journalist Kerry O’Brien have written this handbook to answer the most commonly asked questions about why the...

Because of a bet, Billy is in the uncomfortable position of having to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days. The worms are supplied by his opponent, whose motto is "The bigger and juicier, the better!" At first Billy's problem is whether or not he can swallow the worm placed before him, even with a choice of condiments from peanut butter to horseradish. But later it looks as if Billy will win, and the challenge becomes getting to the worm to eat it. Billy's family, after checking with the doct...

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means.'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.' These words from the Uluru Statement from the Heart are a heartfelt invitation from First Nations People to fellow Australians, ...

The Gospel Of Thomasby Thomas O. Lambdin"The Gospel of Thomas is a New Testament-era apocryphon completely preserved in a papyrus Coptic manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. The book was bound in a method now called Coptic binding. Unlike the four canonical gospels, which combine narrative accounts of the life of Jesus with sayings, Thomas is a "sayings" text, a collection of logia, which takes the less structured form of a collection of sayings attributed to...

"Chilling forensics, riveting suspense sequences, grisly details, and a diabolical villain . . . [a] standout thriller." — Kirkus ReviewsNYPD's top cop, Homicide Commander Lt. John Driscoll, believes there's a sociopathic killer on the loose murdering prostitutes in New York City—someone who calls himself "Tilden" and claims to have been sexually abused as a child by his mother's john.But he soon discovers Tilden's not a run-of-the-mill sociopath. ...

The 'Dark Christmas Collection: 30+ Supernatural Thrillers, Mysteries & Ghost Stories' serves as a confluence of chilling narratives and spectral whispers that merge traditional yuletide themes with the eerie undertones of supernatural fiction. This anthology showcases a breadth of literary styles from the florid Victorian prose to the sharp, evocative narratives of the early 20th century. Encompassing an array of sinister Christmas tales, the collection captures the uncanny ability of the...

A multimillion-dollar bounty brings out every vigilante in New York . . . "Chilling psychological suspense that will leave you at the edge of your seat." —Alex Kava, New York Times–bestselling author of the Maggie O'Dell seriesTourism in New York City is under siege. Visitors to the Big Apple have become targets of a pair of vengeful twins bent on exacting punishment on total strangers to right the wrongs perpetrated against them in a hellhole they called ...

The Darkness Awakens on Christmas gathers more than thirty supernatural thrillers, mysteries, and ghost stories around the unsettling conjunction of winter festivity and spectral dread. Its range extends from Gothic apparitions and antiquarian enigmas to ironic Christmas hauntings, psychological suspense, and macabre domestic tales. Against the warmth customarily associated with the season, these narratives cultivate darkness, secrecy, memory, and the intrusion of the uncanny; particularly...

Millions of married couples have pledged to "love and to cherish, until death do us part." Most of us understand and get the love part... but what does it mean to cherish your spouse? Why do we say it once at the wedding and then rarely ever mention it again?In this six-session video Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), bestselling author Gary Thomas draws on personal stories and teachings from the Bible to show how cherishing can have a powerf...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Hong Kong.Discover Hong Kong's most popular experiences and best kept secrets - neighbourhood by neighbourhood - from soaring over Lantau in a cable car to the Po Lin Monastery; to hitting up historic Temple Street Night Market in search of snacks, souvenirs and street life; and making a pilgrimage to forest-clad Victoria Pea...

Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers--and you will have entered an insect world once beyond imagining, a world observed and described down to its tiniest astonishing detail by Thomas Eisner. The story of a lifetime of such minute explorations, For Love of Insects celeb...