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Tyson was a mess. And so he should be.Having your life ripped apart in front of you tends to do that.And running away from it, burying the pain in 'blackouts' you can never remember, only makes it worse. Especially if you run all the way to Patong, Thailand and spend the next ten years bouncing from one blackout to another in a demented version of the Truman Show, wandering the island in a daze, waking up in the most bizarre places, the trauma of the past never more than a spiralling thought away. His musical career a distant mirage on a long, straight road he had turned off years ago, vowing to himself he would never play again.Never live again.And yet, ten years ago everything was going so well for Tyson.Living in Castlemaine, a quiet little town an hour north of Melbourne, a gifted musician who spent as much time jamming as he did playing with his beautiful 5 year old daughter, Lulu. Everything was great.Of course, that was before his girlfriend's body was found embedded in a toxic creek. Add to that her father, a deranged, megalomaniac pig factory owner who wants Tyson dead, a vain local mayor with a cocaine problem, a freeway about to tear a path through the last remaining forest, and a night they all wish Tyson could forget. And within days his life as he knew it was gone. Along with most of his loved ones.Set against the backdrop of the bi-annual arts festival, Tyson is plunged further and further into the underbelly of the quiet little town, and it blows his world apart. Now his past is his present and there is nothing he can do to escape. By chance he meets a gnarly old sculptor on a beach and watches him create beauty out of the rubbish around them, and together they begin a journey that both of them, unbeknown to the other, have waited half a lifetime for. And through the lone sculptor his two worlds collide.

Carrotsticks and Cravings: My Creative Kitchen contains over 50 of my favourite tried-and-tested recipes. These are the go-to meals that I cook time and time again for my family and friends, and it's a good snapshot of how we eat as a family. It contains healthy breakfasts, snacks, salads, mains and sweets. All of the recipe images in the book I have taken myself and have put it all together a beautiful quality, full colour cookbook with each recipe having a full page image accompanying it. My hope for this book is to get you excited about cooking, making healthy delicious balanced meals for your friends and family and inspiring you to get creative in the kitchen. I hope that you'll be able to enjoy creating and sharing these recipes with your loved ones and create your own memories around the kitchen or dining table.

What is your coffee trying to tell you? Are you one the many millions of people who read their daily horoscope, looking to see what the future holds? Perhaps your one of the many who spends hundreds of dollars visiting psychic readers looking for answers? What if I told you that your morning cup of coffee could give you the answers that you seek (and more) - all you have to do it look!! For century's, coffee reading has been a secret art form that has been passed down through generations of family's and kept between the fortunate few lucky enough to inherit this ancient gift. The coffee patterns left inside your cup are symbols of your future and each one is trying to tell you something. Once you learn this special technique, you will never need to wonder about your future again. An easy step by step guide, you'll learn how to interrupt symbols, open your third eye and receive the messages your coffee has been dying to tell you. A must have book for coffee enthusiasts wanting to get even more from their daily cup of coffee.

From Commonwealth Book Prize Shortlisted Author Bridget PittFinalist for the Tuscarora Award for Historical FictionA Zulu foundling and a white missionary’s child raised as brothers in a world intent on making them enemies. A sweeping tale of identity, kinship, and atonement, set in 1870s South Africa, a decade of ruthless colonial aggression against the nation's indigenous people.Moses, a Zulu baby discovered on a riverbank, and Daniel, the son of white missionaries, are raised as brothers on the Umzinyathi mission in 19th century Zululand, South Africa. As an infant, Daniel narrowly escapes an attack by a rhino and develops an intense corporeal connection to animals which challenges the religious dogma on which he is raised. Despite efforts by his adoptive mother to raise the boys as equals, Moses feels like an outsider to both white and Zulu society, and seeks certainty in astronomy and science. Only through each other do the brothers find a sense of belonging.At Umzinyathi, Moses and Daniel are cushioned from the harsh realities of the expanding colony in neighboring Natal—where ancient spiritualism is being demonized, vast natural beauty faces rampant destruction, and the wealth of the colonizer depends on the engineered impoverishment of the indigenous. But when they leave the mission to work on a relative’s sugar estate and accompany him on a hunting safari, the boys are thrown into a world that sees their bond as a threat to the colonial order, and must confront an impossible choice: adapting to what society expects of them or staying true to each other.With elements of magic realism, Eye Brother Horn is the heart-wrenching story of how two children born of vastly different worlds strive to forge a true brotherhood with each other and with other species, and to find ways to heal the deep wounds inflicted by the colonial expansion project.

A spilled coffee, an arrogant jerk, and my new boss. What else could go wrong?With his pretty blue eyes and entitled attitude, Joshua Ward walks around like his sole mission is to make my life as difficult as possible. But I'm not prepared to let this new high-paying job go, so I roll up my sleeves and prepare to work.Except, one late night work session, I kiss my enemy and my perception starts to shift. I see beyond the tailored suits and custom-ordered ties. Joshua Ward is more than his money.Sparks fly between us, and he makes it clear he wants me as his next big project. But can either of us really trust? I'm not the only one who is afraid of love. I could never fall for a man like Joshua Ward... Could I?

Jim is a former Australian Commando Intelligence Operative that had once lost his way. He now works in Brisbane as a authour, speaker and fitness consultant .His autobiography "Underworld Commando" leaps out of a 1980s Kings Cross world of crime, corrupt police, commandos and some of the most notorious, infamous mob identities in Australian crime history.Jim gives the true-crime account of his double life as a Special Forces soldier and moonlight enforcer for the mob's Lennie 'Mr Big' McPherson and 'Salami' Kon Kostas. At the Sydney Hilton in 1991 the "good times" come to a sudden stop with a fierce gunfight against 3 corrupt police sergeants from the Infamous 'Roger Rogerson' NSW Armed holdup Squad. The Hilton gunfight brought NSW Police corruption to a halt and launched the Wood Royal Commission into Police Corruption with a cascading Pandora's Box of evils.Jim draws on his skills to traverse the decades beyond the gunfight, escape, courts and robberies, prison, informers, fights, a fake murder trial, the Wood Royal Commission, reform, shot after his release, repatriation, resilience and determination to start over again and again.Having survived all, he now fights against a global 'Order of Evil' intent on depopulating the Earth and genetically downgrading the human race into forced slavery.This time, he's on the right side.

"Pearl has always felt more comfortable in the sea than surrounded by the people in her sleepy South African town who always seem to let her down. But when a new friend from below the surface is taken by poachers, Pearl may need a little help after all. Since her mother left, Pearl has spent more and more time in the ocean, fishing to help her father pay the bills. But when she gets mixed up with a group of illegal abalone poachers and starts diving near a restricted wreck, Pearl meets an ancient sea monster named Otto--who isn't quite as monstrous as she thought. And when Otto's enemies come back to finish what they started, Pearl is the only one who can save him, but only if she has the courage to let go of her past and open up to others--including the girl from class she's got a crush on. With her one-eyed pup sidekick and a whole lot of nerve, Pearl may just be able to save Otto and finally tell the truth to her father... and, more importantly, to herself. With vibrant full-color illustrations, Pearl of the Sea is a South African adventure story exploring how we are both bound to and freed by nature, seen through the eyes of a tough teen-aged heroine determined to live life by her own rules"--Provided by publisher.

When Boipelo Seku learns about a man who traded his way from a paperclip to a house, he starts a trade of his own in his small village of Cedarville, South Africa, accidentally setting in motion a string of good deeds that will change his community forever.

When Caroline and her husband begin working with civil war refugees in South Sudan and Kenya, they'll discover the deep complexities of American interference abroad, the consequences of striving for perfection in an imperfect world, and above all-the extraordinary grace to be found in the unlikeliest of places.

A graphic anthology celebrating pivotal human rights court cases-the stories of which have never been told before-in South Africa's pre-apartheid years, and the unsung heroes who sacrificed everything to ensure a better future for all.

In the final years of South Africäs Apartheid era, an unlikely trio - a sheltered white rugby player, a black farmworker¿s son, and an Indian shopkeeper¿s daughter - discover the consequences of knowing the truth and having the courage to speak it. One sexual assault and a nation at war with itself collide in this timely, edifying coming-of-age novel about a tumultuous period in South Africäs history and being a teen in a society rampant with racial and sexual violence.

Dissent, disease, disaster: introducing Disruption, a short story collection from new and emerging African writers, many for the first time on North American shelves. Spanning genres, eras, and the African continent, from Libya, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, South Africa, Zambia, Uganda and beyond, these 21 futuristic, evocative stories on the theme of disruption bring a distinctive African flavor to the global issues haunting our newsfeeds and harassing our dreams: climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, surveillance, and more.

Ebba is back, and she's starting the learn the rules of the game. But what - and who - will she have to sacrifice to fulfill the den Eeden prophecy and save the world from the Second Calamity? The second book in Helen Brain's Fiery Spiral Trilogy.

Lake Tanganyika, Congo in the year 1915. Two vastly different men in a war that is not theirs, assigned to a virtually impossible mission: sink the German battleship, the Graf Von Goetzen.

Recovering addict Rae Valentine, a PI in Cape Town struggling with her own demons, finds herself in the violent world of diamond theft, white supremacy, and religious zealots-a world that doesn't want someone like Rae-to solve a case that may be more than she can handle.

"On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment of her death, Imogen Zula Nyoni - Genie - was seen to fly away on a giant pair of silver wings ..."

A farm in South Africa is under attack. Nobody knows who the killers are or what their motivations might be. Taking shelter from sniper file, a diverse group of people work together to survive.

Unflinching portrayal of an enigmatic metropolis drawing on Trotter's experiences with prostitutes, sailors, minstrels, professors, gangsters, politicians, and "poo-throwing" protestors.

College boys and a camcorder in Cape Town. Those videos equal good money but lead down a sinister path.

The final installment in Peter Church's Dark Web Trilogy"A fast-paced and gripping thriller-expect several twists along the way." -CosmopolitanAmid rumors of bartenders paid to spike drinks and then deliver drugged college women to paying, eager patrons, University of Cape Town (UCT) authorities move quickly to limit the damage-but the police don't want to believe there is a problem. A world away in Seattle, Carlos De Palma, the shadowy operator behind Dark Video, is plotting his survival strategy in the ever-changing Internet landscape. With his wealthy clientele clamoring for heightened thrills, Carlos begins tapping into a new service that blurs the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds. Meanwhile, UCT student Robbie is sent into a sinister underground world where no price is too high to pay to deliver every fantasy-no matter how twisted. Bitter Pill, part of Church's dark web trilogy, is a gripping thriller that sweeps through the intoxicating haunts of Cape Town's nightlife to explode in an adrenaline-laced sprint through the violent landscape of stalking, sexual deviation, and murder.

Shaka struggles to retain power as challenges at home and from across an ocean threaten his new rule.

Grace's perfect life in Cape Town is undone when her childhood sweetheart unexpectedly reappears after disappearing during an anti-apartheid police riot a decade earlier.

Ebba has never even seen the sun but now must reunite four sacred amulets to save the earth from destruction.

Coming of age in 1950s Ethiopia, American Caroline Kurtz returns as an adult with spouse and family, searching for "home."

Mercy's afraid social workers will take her away. But lessons from the past may help her change the future.

When a sexy engineer hires a reformed hacker in Cape Town to help solve her boss's disappearance, the hunt quickly becomes deadly.