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Remember The Adventures of Finn Wilder? Well, Finn has a new cousin, Wyatt, so the new series is Outdoor Tales for Kids! In Book 1, The Mountains, Finn and Wyatt meet for the first time. Their families live far apart, but have a family reunion in the mountains between them. Finn is almost three when the story begins, and Wyatt is a year and a half. They experience a great hike in the mountains and discover nature on the trailside, such as quaking aspens and late-blooming flowers like the purple harebell, Arctic gentian, and wood's rose. Their mamaw also shows them a quartz. At night around a campfire, they see their first constellation--Orion--a full moon, and many stars above the dark pine trees. Soon, they see fireflies glowing around them, and it occurs to them, even at their young ages, how magical the outdoors is.

It is the mid-1960s in Perth and Vicki is bored, restless and up for a challenge. Like many young women of the day, she left school early, lives at home and toils away in a miserable job as a lowly paid typist. She finds solace in the company of her two work friends, Nora and Gwenda, with whom she shares morning tea, biscuits and the latest titbits of gossip. When Gwenda suggests she read Coonardoo by Katharine Susannah Prichard, life begins to look up for Vicki. The novel bowls Vicki over and she decides to read everything she can get hold of by and about Katharine, recording her discoveries in her diary. Gwenda supports Vicki's project, Nora doesn't. She's more interested in Gwenda's troubled relationship with her boyfriend, Andy. Vicki's mother thinks her daughter is wasting her time reading books by a local radical author when she should be looking for a nice boy to marry. But with the help of a friendly librarian and a retired schoolteacher to guide her through Katharine's works, Vicki uncovers a completely different way of looking at the world and slowly begins to chart a future that is entirely her own.

We all have an innate ability to heal ourselves emotionally, mentally, physically and so much more... In 2019, following the onset of a mystery illness, Ann M Basili embarked on a "self" healing journey consisting of daily meditations and communication with a higher power. What resulted was a series of Divine Instructions for how to heal herself from the illness, and more. Reflecting on the self-healing instructions she received, Ann resolved to teach them through her courses, in her counselling practice, and now in an easy to follow, step-by-step book as gentle, guided Metaphysical Healing Meditations and inward reflection exercises to facilitate self-healing at the quantum level.The techniques you will learn can be used alongside medical treatment, alternative therapies or on their own. There are no pre-requisites to learning this modality of healing; everyone can benefit from the skills and knowledge attained. All that's required is an open heart, an open mind and a willingness to try something new.If you've ever wanted to learn how to heal yourself in an easy, uncomplicated way using simple techniques to create your own self-healing toolkit, then this book is for you. Welcome to the new paradigm of self-healing.

Donald "Hokey" Busby has a bit of the devil in him, but nobody thought he'd kill his best friend, Harry "Fats" Shell. Yet, one night on the Walker family farm, Hokey brutally shoots Fats down. Hours later, Hokey is found dying in a pool of blood, from a single shotgun blast. The Walkers fear more bloodshed will come as family and friends gather for the shocking double funeral of the murderer and victim.

Little Boo does NOT want to go to sleep but Mumma says that Tawny Frogmouths have to go to bed when the sun comes up.Staying up all day and playing games is much more fun, especially if it's the peekaboo game.Will Little Boo find a friend to play with before Mumma catches her?

The Stolen Child is the second and final book in the Wild Mountain duology. Part I, Back to the Garden, is also available through Ingram Spark.In The Stolen Child, we'll find a world unrecognizable to those of us in living in the early to mid-21st century. Fran and Leo's youngest child, Fae, goes missing after extreme wildfires force the family off their Idaho mountain. Fae's story is told in short interludes, which contrast with the first person narratives written by the adults around her, as her life is upended and she ends up in Schull, Ireland, the home of the "last wolf in Ireland." As her family sails through new waters in Canada, and then across the Atlantic, to find her, a romance grows between Fae's older brother Alejandro and his best friend Kristy. Yet, the backdrop to the blossoming relationship is a journey to find the missing child, sinister and full of mystery, speculative about an even more drastically climate-changed time than the one we're experiencing now and one in which false narratives and dangerous ideologies continue to flourish.The Stolen Child is inspired by WB Yeats' poem of the same name, and by Fae's mother Fran's childhood interest in Irish mythology. Fae's story reflects the literal stolen child. The story also follows her family and friends as they go to the ends of the world-the waters and the wild-in their search for her, so the story also recognizes the figurative trappings of the modern world.

Sunset,the dawn of my darkness.Sunrise,the eve of my new light.Darkness to light.Soul Refraction.This book is a journey of moments in time displayed in prose, in lyrics, in poems. Raw yet captivating, confronting yet uplifting, powerful, passionate, relatable and thought-provoking, this book takes the reader, and their heart and soul, on a journey from breaking to healing, growing to soaring. Because life is a journey... A trajectory of ups and downs, lefts and rights, light and dark... A soul refraction...

A collision of loss and love.Clara wants to be a writer, a passion she shares with her beloved older brother, Jake. But when Jake is found dead in the wash on Scarborough beach, it shakes her to the core and she's desperate to understand why he took his life. While studying Psychology at uni, she finds herself assisting with a rehab program in a low security prison. There she meets Michael, an alcoholic and petty criminal with an irresistible pull. He reminds her so much of Jake and constantly challenges her, testing her resolve to stay true to her partner, Dan. As time moves on, Clara sets up her own practice but cracks are forming in her work and relationship with Dan, not helped by Michael weaving his way in and out of her life. She's treading water and still plagued by Jake's death. Can she overcome her loss and save Michael before it's too late?

Stella, a FIFO wife and mum of two, is suffering from lust-sickness. Dave, her husband of many years, is too tired to provide the just-desserts Stella is pining for when he comes home from the Pilbara mine he works at. When Dave is away, he and Stella talk nightly over Skype, which gives Stella and her school-mum friends, Jess and Nina, an idea for how to ramp-up her and Dave's souring romance, nicknaming it 'Skype-Gate'. They produce a list of 'sexy' things Stella is to do when she's Skyping with Dave, but as with all best-laid plans, Stella's attempts at online seduction don't go the way she hopes, leaving her and Dave feeling downright unsavoury. Will Stella ever manage to fire Dave up enough to secure some bedroom treats when he comes home? Or will her efforts to introduce some sweet delights into the bedroom be an end to their love, and quite possibly, Dave? Find out in this quirky, laugh-out-loud novelette.

Lara likes to daydream but it gets her in trouble at school.Will Mum know what to do?A delightful and thoughtful picture book for children 3 years and above.

Clara Hume's speculative fiction, Back to the Garden, is told from the perspective of a group of "tipping point" survivors-a generation of mountain folks who have experienced the collapse of late-stage capitalism, along with widespread ecosystem degradation due to climate change. It is within the framework of a unique time, when these characters live through two worlds, vastly different from one another, that they tell their tales, a way of documenting their journeys in life.While the friends and family in this novel struggle to survive, and overcome personal losses and grief, they do so with the strength of character that allows people to gracefully succeed during times of societal failure. They understand that true riches of life come from the great outdoors and from their relationships with each other. They learn to survive and adapt in a climate-changed world. Part "road" novel, part survival tale, and part romance, this literary novel looks into the human psyche as people similar to how we imagine ourselves find hope in the face of disaster.

Bird Song: A Novella is a twist on Greek mythology, a climate change parable, a coming-of-age story, and a tale of the weird. In this YA story, Thelsie wakes up on a strange island where nothing makes sense, not the singing sisters she meets, the extraordinary plant and animal life, the uncanny faeries that whisper at night in the forest, and definitely not a strange shipwrecked survivor. It also does not help that her dead mother appears to her with riddles.