Statistics show that nearly half of all first marriages end up on the rocks and finish in divorce. These figures do not take into account all the couples that don’t marry, try living together and eventually break up. Nor do they take into account all the unhappy marriages that are ‘staying together for the sake of the kids’.The incredible thing that the statistics show is that the odds of a second marriage working out are not much better. They also show that couples who try living ...

In How to Sell the Way Your Customer Buys, Des Hunt, the Australian-based international trainer, speaker and author, shows you how to do just that in clear and simple language and with a touch of Aussie humour.Des talks about:* Why people buy the things they buy* The Hidden Persuaders and how to use them* Hot to quickly pick the buying style of your customer* How to assess your own style using a quick questionnaire* How to see yourself a...

This is Australia’s quiet best-selling book and practical guide to self-discovery and personal growth. In it you will discover:• Your own personality style and the style of those you live and work with• How to see yourself as others see you• The strengths, shortcomings and hidden talents of the different styles• What style is best suited to what job• How to pick another’s style within 30 seconds of meeting them.• How to relate better with oth...

An action-packed adventure story from master storyteller Des Hunt.It's the school holidays and Zac thinks he might go crazy with boredom. He's living in exile with his disgraced father on the remote terawhiti Station on Wellington's wild southwest coast.then Zac and his dad witness a boat sink during a storm. Investigating further, Zac finds a set of unusual animal prints on the beach. Whose boat is it? And what creature could have made the prints?Soon armed men are prowling the coa...

Jason and his twin sister Jessy live with their parents on a remote farm in New Zealand. They are home schooled and enjoy the picturesque surroundings and peaceful lifestyle of the country. That is until Shawn Morris crash-lands onto their property. Shawn works for Sudpak Oil and Gas and has been sent by the company to survey and drill on the family farm. He is unhurt from his misadventure but he immediately rubs Jason the wrong way with his rude comments and his flirtatious behaviour with...

Sometimes friendship and loyalty can be dangerous things - especially when combined with fireworks and bombs, as Pelly discovers. The Waikato Heads have never been more dangerous ...Inseparable best friends Dean and Pelly frequently get up to no good. Dean is a dare-devil, and Pelly always seems to end up going along for the ride. Dean's amateur bomb-making is one step too far, and is soon followed by a bombshell of another sort: Pelly's parents are shifting the family back to New Z...

Geology expert Professor Mike Rackman is studying the Alpine Fault, a 600 km long crack that runs the length of New Zealand's South Island. Every 300 years or so, the fault cracks causing massive earthquakes and tsunami. Mike hopes his studies will help predict the next big one. Unfortunately, he disappears after an accident involving a local hunter.Jack Stewart and his cat, Chainsaw, have had earlier adventures with the professor where they travelled back in time. Jack thinks the p...

When Robbie Walker's father dies of cancer, he takes out his anger on anyone near. In the hope of saving what remains of their family, Robbie's mother sends him off to spend the summer holidays on Uncle Jim's farm where his father grew up. There, in a hidden valley that his father once called Paradise, Robbie discovers a new friend — a creature thought extinct for more than a hundred years. But others also visit Paradise: wildlife thieves whose only interest is to get rich through this new...

Kerikeri is kiwi country. There the flightless birds live in common places like farms, sides of roads, and pine forests. That's why the law says all dogs must be on a lead.When dead kiwi are found in nearby Waitangi forest, it becomes clear that someone is ignoring that law. A kiwi killer is on the prowl. Suspects are many. As the death toll increases so too do the cries for dogs to be shot.Young Tom Smart has an injured pig dog he rescued from the forest. He can't believe sh...

Jake and his Dad live in a remote part of the Wairarapa, where they can surf, hunt, fish, and watch the whales feeding as they pass up and down the coast. For Jake it's a paradise that he hopes will never change. Milton Summer is an international rock star who has built a private retreat overlooking Whale Pot Bay, hoping for much the same privacy and enjoyment of life that Jake treasures. Both of these dreams are are shattered when visitors arrive, some invited, others not. Jake's life tak...

Central Otago's searing summer has been long and brutal. And yet somehow the sheep and smaller creatures on Stonefields Station have survived. That's until Garth Fischer arrives, along with his gun and plans to change things in a big way. Then three youngsters — Tamsin, the farmer's daughter, and city-kids Dylan and Nimish — make an important discovery in Skink Gully. A find they must now protect. But Fischer will do anything to get his way, even if that means destroying the gully and all ...

Jack Stewart hates his new life in Taupo. Everyone at school picks on him; his only friend is a stray cat called Chainsaw; and his parents are always away working.Then he meets Fluoro, Taupo's most visible street person. Fluoro's home is an old explosion crater in Crown Park where steam and poisonous gases still hiss and ooze from the ground. Jack soon finds that Fluoro has chosen this place, not just for the heat coming from deep inside the earth, but because it provides a link to...