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Just One Word, Just One Smile: Life and Love After an Aneurysm
Just One Word, Just One Smile – A Memoir
An empty-nester couple, Sue and Tony, are travelling independently through South America when Sue endures a brain aneurysm. No one chooses Bolivia – the poorest country in South America – for brain surgery, but Sue has no choice. Weeks pass in South American hospitals, waiting on surgeries that threaten the very life that they try to save. Eventually, Sue is well enough to be transported back to Australia and spend further weeks in hospitals. When Sue is able to return to her home, Tony’s new role as the carer of a person with a dementia-like condition is glimpsed.
“A good mix of heartfelt emotion and facts about stroke and associated recovery. It’s also a beautiful tribute to Sue that left me reaching for the tissues.”
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Just Outside This Room
This book of poems was partially written while I was quarantined courtesy of the Covid-19 pandemic in Henan Province, China.
A stay that was prolonged to seven and a half months.
The myth and mystery of human experience evoked by being alone, finding myself on the edge of no return. The vulnerability, sudden solitude, struggles in a lifetime, consolidated in meditations, poems and reflections.
Most of the poems are spiritual in context, some just free thoughts.
My nephew’s take on this book of poetry was: ‘If you thought through the poems, then I will read them.’
I am very thankful and humble for this unexpected and unique opportunity, a journey of lifetime.
I am also looking forward to sharing this adventure in mind and spirit with you.
Michael Hovi£11.99 -
Just the Job for George
After years of dragon slaying, a drop in the number of dragons means England’s patron saint, St. George, is out of work. With household bills to pay, he decides to turn his hand to a range of other jobs using his trusty dragon-slaying lance, with hilarious consequences.
The real St. George is thought to have been born in Turkey around 280 AD. Legend has it that he was a soldier in the Roman army who rode into Libya and slayed a dragon who was terrorising the city. St. George’s Day is celebrated in England on April 23.
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Kertamen
A front-line game of cat and mouse between cops as tough and cunning as the conspirators – a murderous, satanic cabal intent on influencing the 2014 Scottish referendum. Kertamen is a fast-paced thriller involving recurrent darkness, some moral dilemma and portal-stepping into Jerusalem in 30 AD, seen primarily through the eyes of Detective Inspector Chuck Kean of the Drug Squad. Kean is running a deniable investigation into a masonic cabal among the Edinburgh establishment, who are allegedly linked to child abuse. His team soon experience various unanticipated twists including the discovery that the background on the faction is an intricate one with links to Rosslyn Chapel and a migrant Templar, Adam de Gordon.
The clandestine investigation quickly becomes entangled within the foundation roots of a much bigger political conspiracy encased within the 2014 Scottish Referendum. Martone resurrects the political climate, passions and concerns of the voters, whilst cannily revealing a conspiracy, akin to that of Dallas in 1963, lurking within the shadows. Connections to the oil and the arms industries, whose peripheral strategies are somehow aligned with the cabal, develop while Kean discovers that he is involved in an age-old supernatural struggle between seraphs and fallen angels. One angel – Dai, mentors Kean in what develops into his own moral quest, after revealing to him that the referendum, along with other events around the globe, are all the chess games of the divine.
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Kick Like a Girl
Francesca is a young girl who wants to play football in the park with the boys. But will they let her?
When she is told that girls can’t play football, Francesca leaves the park feeling sad and believing that girls and boys can’t do the same things. That is until her mum steps in with wonderful stories of famous women who were brave, strong and had the self-confidence to achieve their goals. After hearing these stories, will Francesca, along with her friend Ila, find her inner confidence and bravery to challenge the boys to a football match?
This book is designed to remind young girls and boys everywhere that they are strong and brave, and that with confidence, dreams really can come true!£13.99 -
Kidnapped by Grandma and Grandpa
Rupert is a four-year-old boy, with a great imagination and a hunger for excitement. Luckily for him, his fun-loving grandparents share his infectious spirit. This story sees the three adventurers whizz off to Monaco to take part in the Formula 1, but will they stand a chance at winning and will Mum and Dad believe their wondrous tale?
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King's Spur
Occasionally Emily could see the glint of the river, some thousands of feet below before the clouds closed in again and she was forced to stop, breathing heavily, the shotgun still clutched to her swollen stomach.
She tried not to look down, putting her faith in the good Lord.
But the good Lord had better keep out of her way until she had finished what she had to do that night!
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Kirna
Do you believe in reincarnation? Maybe you will after reading this tale.
KIRNA links the modern with the ancient in a tale of mystery, kinship, love, betrayal and vengeance.The story connects two time periods and two key players – Sam and Prince Suryaveer; read on to discover the many adventures they experience.
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Kit and the Wolf
From Queensland, Australia, comes new author Anne Marks with a compelling romance novel, set in Canada, with many unusual and intriguing twists and turns throughout.
Kit’s whole life was on the verge of changing forever. Snowed in, alone, with wolf packs nearby, she sensed the imminent danger she was in. But even in her wildest dreams, she would never have guessed how a lone wolf would impact her life.
Was friendship with a man she knew little about, enough foundation for marriage, or was there more? The realization shocked her, but not as much as the hidden secrets contained within a box in the store room of her childhood home. How does the reason for these secrets change her life? Will she find the answers to her myriad of questions regarding the mystery surrounding her family and their lives?
This is a moving story filled with love, loss, courage, intrigue, compassion and confusion as Kit is pulled by unexpected emotions she doesn’t fully understand. It is a mesmerizing tale of a young woman with fears of abandonment ingrained into her from childhood, of being torn between the love of two very different men, of forbidden kisses and of the inner conflicts created.
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Kitty and I
The day that I met Kitty
I knew she was my human
Kitty needed me, even if she didn’t know it yet!
Kitty and I tells the story of the special bond that develops between a human and their assistance dog. Children and adults can share in this beautiful tale of Kitty and Raffy’s journey from their very first meeting through to their becoming a team. Their heart-warming story also unfolds visually in the form of vibrant and unique illustrations that bring to life their journey together.
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Kukakika
Kukakika is a tiny girl on a big adventure. With the help of three magic wands, she travels across the continents looking for her soulmate, Kukakito.Meanwhile, Kukakito leads a sad and lonely life in the pine forests in Norway, also dreaming about his soulmate. With twist and turns they eventually meet in Bally Cotton Bay, Ireland.
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Lady Bluebell and Her Magical Gardens
In a faraway land lives Lady Bluebell. She is a long way from home and all those things that are familiar to her. Unbeknown to Lady Bluebell, the Fairy of Peace and the Pixie of Colour crept into the pocket of her coat and came here with her. These fairies lived at the bottom of her garden. They created harmony and colour and followed her everywhere. In this faraway land of whispering trees, she has created beauty and serenity which is shown in her kindness to the animals that live in her gardens.
Lady Bluebell believes that if you think kind thoughts, nice things will happen, and she wishes to share her gardens and wonderful experiences with you. This book unlocks the mind to create the freedom of imagination and the excitement of her magical world and all its innocence and wonder.
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