A stirring story of the goldfields and the Eureka Rebellion, by award-winning author/illustrator Mark WilsonLONGLISTED FOR THE COLIN RODERICK AWARD 2021Molly and her father have emigrated to Australia to try their luck as gold prospectors in Ballarat, Victoria. Life on the diggings is hard and Molly misses her mother, who died before they left England.A Chinese teenager, Chen, shows Molly and her Papa how to pan for gold and helps them when their fo...

A story of the First Fleet, from the acclaimed author of My Mother's Eyes and Angel Of Kokoda.Beth is a child convict, caught stealing on the streets of London and sent to Australia on the First Fleet. Through Beth's story, we discover the unbearable hardships those first convicts suffered, not only on the long journey to Sydney Cove but also in the two years of near-famine following their arrival. The story also explores the new arrivals' relatio...

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A CBCA NOTABLE BOOK 2023From award-winning author and illustrator Mark Wilson, a stirring story of the women who first won the right to vote in Australia - inspired by real people and historical eventsIn 1890, Rose Birks and her stepdaughter, Nellie, two strong-willed and determined women, began writing letters and attending meetings to help improve the lives of women and children in their home city of Adelaide. They soon found themselves p...

The story of the president's epoch making space flight to The Planet of the Sky God.

A powerful and moving story about the bonds of brotherhood and the tragedy of war, from the creator of MY MOTHER'S EYES and ANGEL OF KOKODA.Leigh and Jason are inseparable. But when Jason is conscripted and sent to fight in Vietnam, they are divided not just by distance, but by their beliefs about the war.

A heartfelt story of the bond of love and devotion between a man and his dog in war.Matthew, a young Australian soldier, smuggles his beloved dog, Digger, onto the troop ship when he leaves to fight in World War One. At the front, Matthew works as a stretcher-bearer and Digger helps him rescue the wounded. Together, they face the triumphs and tragedies of the Western Front.Based on the true story of Driver, a puppy that was smuggled onto an Australian troop...

Are you struggling to turn your love for ponds and water features into a profitable business? Do you dream of transforming your passion into a thriving enterprise but don't know where to start?Pond Passion to Profit: Achieving Prosperity and Fulfilment in the Business of Water Features is your thorough guide to succeeding in the water feature and pond industry. Written by Mark Wilson, globally recognised as The Pond Advisor, this book is filled with practical advice, motiv...

J.L. Austin has written of "the blinding veil of ease and obviousness that hides the mechanisms of the natural successful act". By revisiting a classic "small metaphysics" puzzle drawn from physics that launched a thousand ships of grander philosophizing, Imitation of Rigor employs recent insights into the architectures of effective reasoning as a means of explicating how Austin's covert "mechanisms" operate in concrete terms. By these means, the book attempts to reconnect analyti...

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult an...

What if sleep was no longer a necessity? What if your body, mind, and spirit could survive for 40 years without ever needing a moment of rest?Meet Paul Kern, a Hungarian soldier who, after surviving a bullet wound to the head during World War I, experienced something unimaginable: he never slept again. For four decades, his body remained fully awake, defying every known law of biology and neuroscience. How did he do it? And why was he able to function, live a seemingly normal life,...

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