In 1958, South Africa was going through one of its most horrendous eras ? Apartheid. Andrina Abrahamse writes a riveting, personal account of her experiences growing up and working during this pivotal period. Drina, as she was known to her family and friends, suffered atrocities beyond comprehension as a child. Beatings were the norm and she sustained her sanity by telling herself, ?If I can learn something every time I cry, the tears will not have been in vain.? Her formative years were filled with memories of a system that turned peace-loving men into bitter and hopeless people; youth into …

Hush, Hush. Paranormal meets The Da Vinci Code in this thought-provoking, no-nonsense story that you won?t be able to put down. Its theme is universal, and it will bring about both shivers and tears. This is a true story of an intense nature. It follows a frightening, eye-opening sequence of events, with a miracle or two thrown in for good measure. In it, an Australian family is ravaged by a lost soul and increasing paranormal activity. With assistance from the church, Linda is shocked when she learns of the link in her family to Freemasonry. The outcome of her newly …

You are playing in the finals of the Soccer World Cup. This has been your dream since you first began to play soccer. In fact, when you started playing, you had no idea there was a World Cup, so you could not have foreseen this day with all the excitement it is generating. How will it all end? You have proved, through the elimination process, that you belong here, but nothing guarantees that you will win. The outcome is uncertain. You know the game is being watched by millions of people all over the world, so you truly are on …

Former technician Mourad Abaidia and former attorney Sami Charni, both sophists have written a book of truths. Alpha is not only an insightful and astonishing culmination of two minds coming together to present the essential elements of Hebrew history, but it serves as an important message of hope that gives credence to biblical history and teachings. Abaidia and Charni glean their findings from scientific data and hieroglyphs that decode the mysteries surrounding Moses and his people and God’s infinite and omnipotent power. Using official, sacred text and prophecies and the laws of physics, the authors strip away the myths and …

Australians are great travellers, possibly because most Australians are immigrants or the sons and daughters of immigrants. I’m sure there has been a gene selected for the Australian population simply because we’re all immigrants. I chose to travel by bicycle around Italy, not because I am particularly green, although knowing that the only greenhouse gases I generated were those that I transpired was seductive, but because it was obviously a very efficient way of moving through a landscape that is essentially a vast, open air museum. This is not the story of just where I went and who I met, …

It started out so innocently. I was working for a Las Vegas construction company, in the accounting department. My husband, Harry, was driving one of the company's delivery trucks that took supplies to the job sites around the city. One weekend he had an out-of-town run and I got permission to go along for the ride. By the time we were at the destination I knew I wanted to drive a big rig myself. Truck driving school lasted about four weeks. There were twenty students in the class and only two women, a ratio that reflects the entire industry. I …

Is your mind actually able to send and receive messages from other people’s brains? Explore these secrets now revealed by the author’s quest. Enjoy the facts and results of the latest neuroscience as they now unfold. Revelations of Your Self-Help Book Secrets begins with explaining the brain’s function, the role of quantum physics, and our current incomplete knowledge of the neuroscience of dreaming. This fascinating journey through science and self-help literature explores what we call “psychic phenomena.” Author Lancaster Adams is a medical doctor, surgeon, scientist, and medical missionary. In the book, he describes his quest to comprehend the underlying …

In mid-19th-century Australia, like its counterparts in California and Chile, there was a focus on the rush for gold. Given the sobriquet "diggers," men arrived in the tens of thousands from all points of the globe. In often remote bush settings, makeshift towns quickly sprouted in the foothills, valleys, and plateaus leading to the Blue Mountains and the Australian Alps. Focusing on the counterplay with this influx of fortune seekers, there also emerged a nascent global entertainment industry. Champagne from Six to Six is a short history of the pastimes of these diggers on the gold fields at Beechworth and …

A dictionary unlike any other, Dubious Definitions: A Dictionary of Misinterpretation is a clever, yet infuriatingly entertaining read. It provides totally unreliable, inaccurate, tortured meanings to over 1,000 unfortunate words through the use of cryptic stupidity, abused double entendre, as well as the rigorous application of a finely honed level of ignorance. Dubious Definitions is the essential reference work for all those who love words and are content only with the most authoritative and soundly based interpretations. It is guaranteed to intrigue, puzzle, annoy, amuse, infuriate and mislead in generous portions, while still providing a challenge to the conventional viewpoint …