A helpful book for anyone involved in caregiving for the elderly or disabled. Long term care is an approaching tsunami which the country and most families/individuals can't afford. Disruption in the approaches and methodology of long term care will occur. Understanding these changes and adapting to the new procedures will make the care of a loved one manageable and easier. Cutting edge ideas about long term care - discusses pros and cons of long term care insurance, outsourcing care to thi...

The imaginary island of Moight is home to a den of dragons, a community of giant, human-like Grylas and two human societies, the light-skinned Merridoc people and the dark-skinned Umwali people. The peace-loving dragons are invisible to the humans and Grylas because of mysterious rays emitted by the so-called Sunstone. They watch the warlike conduct of the Merridoc and Umwali people with contempt and disgust, until the theft of the Sunstone makes them visible to humans. Now they too must c...

In this sequel to 'Sunstone: The boy and the Dragon Princess', youthful dragons living under King Flamethrower Pendragon rebel against the old-fashioned values and standards of the dragon community. Their opportunity to escape from the conservative community and embrace so-called change comes when a dragon scientist invents a device that transforms dragons into humans. A number of dragons choose to take this option. The experiment works, but the transformation is not perfect. The new drago...

For generations, the Byrne family has farmed cattle in the lush midlands of eastern South Africa. Then the arbiters of fate conspire to challenge them with the Rule of Three. The family head, Duncan Byrne, is blackmailed and contemplates suicide. That is the bad event. His son, Jack, meets an intriguing woman who has a curious effect on an aggressive leopard. Duncan's adopted son, Adam, starts a private investigator business. That even is neither good nor bad but it does lead to the exposu...

Fate deals hapless academic, Jamie Craig, a devious hand when, during an early morning jog in London's Kensington Gardens, he is caught in a monstrous web of intrigue and finds himself the target of the vengeful and sadistic leader of an international crime syndicate. Even his uncle's cattle farm in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands of South africa is not beyond the reaches of the syndicate. While striving to survive against insane hatred and seemingly hopeless odds in the rural setting, Jamie de...

‘I’m a Wathaurong man. I’m an artist who draws on life in this big red and yellow and black country.’ Stan ‘Yarra’ Yarramunua: artist, musician, actor, social worker, businessman. From growing up in poverty in Swan Hill – and sometimes on the road, with his itinerant father – Yarra had a tumultuous and often rough childhood. He learnt early how to lift a wallet or two, and grew into a ratbag who looked set to follow in his father’s footsteps: fall into one too many skirmishes with the law;...

Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city.But Jack isn't the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and he is soon involved in an epic and nail-biting adventure, featuring dragons, knights and Queen Elizabeth I, as he battles to save London.Jeanette Winterson's first novel for children, Tanglewreck, was widely admired. Here in her second, rea...

Drestonia's capital is cursed by hauntings and disappearing children, panicking the city. Curiously it seems only Crown Princess Ellin, with the help of a young noble, Flynn Jolien, has the power to solve the dilemma.The problem is Flynn's been seriously injured by a rival for Ellin's attention and his only chance of survival depends on the magic of the contrary and elusive sorcerer, Grendel.Ellin must use all her courage and wit as she embarks on a dangerous journey against ...

An all-powerful, enchanted mailshirt from the stars. Six links are missing. An orphan, a streetwise urchin and a swordsman must find the links before the greatest evil known descends upon Q’zar. Jelindel dek Mediesar led a charmed life until lindrak assassins murdered her family. Fleeing to the markets Jelindel dresses as a boy to avoid detection. Here she teams up with Zimak, a street-wise urchin, and Daretor, a warrior on a quest to destroy an alien ar...

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume.In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. ...

The critically acclaimed debut novel The Fever Tree, by Jennifer McVeigh.1880, South Africa - a land torn apart by greed...Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by ideals. When a smallpox outbreak sends her to the diamond mines, she is drawn into a ruthless world of greed and exploitation, of huma...

Three mercenaries Poison coursing through their veins And only six weeks to find a stolen dragon relic ... “The action never stops in Dragonsight. Countess Jelindel dek Mediesar, Daretor and Zimak are sent on a desperate quest to recover a stolen jade talisman called the dragonsight. With a slow-acting poison ticking through their veins, they have only six weeks to find the talisman and take the antidote. There’s magic and mayhem aplenty as they’re hunted through the pa...