A grimy old ball, a racquet made from a wooden fruit box, a pair of borrowed shoes … then the world at her feet. This is the heart-warming story of how Evonne Goolagong Cawley—our Evonne—rose from humble beginnings in an outback farming town to become a world-champion tennis player by the age of just 19. With a tin wall for a court and a steely determination, little Evonne hits and hits and hits her way out of rural New South Wales and onto the world stage. On the way she must battle preju...

Two sisters. Two fates. One choice that changes everything.Amy and Annie have always been inseparable, but their eighteenth birthday awakens a destiny neither could have imagined. As witches torn between their human lives in New Orleans and their magical legacy in Tridion, the twins are thrust into a world of forbidden love, betrayal, and dangerous alliances.Amy finds herself captivated by Damien, a charming vampire whose dark secrets run deeper than she ever imagined. But ...

A woman is tossed ashore from the sea, bedraggled and lost. A century and a half later, another finds herself diving deep into the truth behind a lingering legend. From writer Andrea James (Sunshine Super Girl) comes The Black Woman of Gippsland – a poetic and thrilling tale about the myths and half-truths that surround the figure of a 'white woman' said to have lived among the Gunaikurnai people of Gippsland in the 1840s.Set on her grandmother's country and based...

On the lands of alpine Victoria, on Gunaikurnai country, a story of familial bonds unfolds.Faced with the looming foreclosure of her family's property, a farmer's daughter is on the hunt in the rugged Australian bush—on territory that by rights isn't hers to travel through. From deep between the eucalypts, another woman—a mother dingo—searches desperately for her lost pups.She howls into the night, run ragged by hunger and grief. Over the course of one long night, the Woman...

“Jimmy Hatch is a personal hero of mine.”—Anderson Cooper“Irresistible. . . . A wounded SEAL’s shame becomes a salvation.”—J. Ford Huffman, Military TimesJames Hatch is a former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief, master naval parachutist, and expert military dog trainer and handler. On his fateful final mission in Afghanistan, his SEAL team was sent to recover Bowe Bergdahl—the soldi...

Tras un verano lejos de poder ser calificado como alucinante, Paula está a punto de dar comienzo a un nuevo curso, el cual tiene el presentimiento de que será diferente a todos los demás. Es ahí donde se topará con un chico bastante misterioso, con el que, inesperadamente, dará comienzo a una bonita amistad a pesar de que pronto descubrirá que su nuevo amigo tiene una peculiaridad que le será totalmente imposible pasar desapercibida.

It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and social conditions will always follow a higher realization of morality among the individuals of a community, but no legal enactment can give prosperity to, nay it cannot prevent the ruin of, a man or a nation that has become lax and...

The turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can overcome. The duties and difficulties of life claim our attention, but we can rise above all anxiety concerning them. Surrounded by noise, we can yet have a quiet mind; involved in responsibilities, the heart can be at rest; in the midst of strife, we can know the abiding peace. The twenty pieces which comprise this book, unrelated as some of them are in the letter, will be found to be harmonious in the spirit, i...

Ein toter RaumfahrerIn einer felsigen Höhle auf dem Mond wird eine Leiche in einem roten Raumanzug entdeckt. Niemand weiß, wer der Mann ist. Niemand weiß, woher er kam. Niemand weiß, wer oder was ihn umgebracht haben könnte. Als Wissenschaftler die Leiche daraufhin genauer untersuchen, stellen sie fest, dass der verblichene Raumfahrer 50.000 Jahre alt ist. Er wurde also zu einer Zeit geboren, als es weder die Raumfahrt noch größere menschliche Aktivitäten auf der E...

Ein poetisches und passioniertes Buch über die Liebe zu einem Stück Land – »Sunday Times« Naturbuch des Jahres 2020Als Junge lernte James Rebanks von seinem Großvater, das Land auf traditionelle Weise zu bewirtschaften. Der Familienbauernhof in den Hügeln des Lake District war Teil einer uralten Agrarlandschaft: ein Flickenteppich aus Äckern und Wiesen, Weiden und Hecken, in denen es von Wildtieren wimmelte. Doch als James den Hof erbte, war er kaum noch wiederzuer...

Boy Morgan, bester Freund und Gelegenheitsliebhaber von Mitch Mitchell, steht unter Verdacht, seinen Auftraggeber Frank Bartlett in den Selbstmord getrieben zu haben. Um Boys Unschuld zu beweisen, macht sich Mitch in ganz London auf die Suche nach dem wahren Übeltäter. Doch die ersehnten Hinweise haben ihren Preis, und so muss Mitch nicht nur seinen scharfen Verstand, sondern auch seine körperlichen Reize einsetzen, um strammen Polizisten, frivolen Saunagästen und gerissenen Gigolos aus de...

An inspiring and empowering guide to changing your mindset, feeling better, and living a full life after receiving a troubling diagnosis.Discussing everything from diet and exercise to stress and emotion management, Live Your Life, Not Your Diagnosis provides tools readers can use immediately to help them feel better while living with a diagnosis. Written by a master certified mindset coach who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, readers won't fi...