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In this fifth collection of Big Words, Small Stories , join Oleander and her anthropomorphic sidekick Sally on 11 adventures that contain some delightful new words, including: – Baby Talk: Oleander's family ask Massimo to say their names, but it's all gibberish. – Just Squidding: Sally thinks Alien Squid Monsters are real. But Oleander says that's malarkey. – Daisy Duty: Sally procrastinates while the family gets ready for the Queen's visit. – Oleander's Quiet Riot: While Massimo is asleep, Sally is making lots of hullabaloo.

An electrifying updated edition of the bestselling memoir from the frontwoman of the Divinyls and one of Australia's greatest rock singers. Brave, funny, ferocious, there's never been anyone like Chrissy Amphlett. A true legend of Australian rock'n'roll, we are so lucky that she shared her raw, gripping and searingly honest story. In these pages, Chrissy spared no one - least of all herself.

Travis Boak is one of the most talented and tenacious AFL players of the era. Three-time All Australian and a former Port Adelaide captain, he's renowned for his football IQ and his physical endurance.In 2024 he's played his 350th game, cementing his status as an elite champion. Travis is known as the best trainer and preparer in the AFL, showing the importance of mindset and focus. And this focus on emotional and psychological health has been a hallmark not just of his football but also his life.

There is something about long, hot summer days that stirs our emotions. It's all about holidays, festivals, family and Christmas; a time for swimming, a hit of backyard cricket or firing up the barbie. It's the deafening sound of cicadas, the ticking of a backyard sprinkler, the pain of a wayward bindi or the sting of sunburnt shoulders. In this collection of nostalgic stories that will make you laugh and make you cry, William McInnes recalls moments in time and memories of summers past.

Sultana’s Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, published in 1905, is considered one of the earliest feminist science fiction works, especially in South Asian literature.

“Faithful John,” a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, follows a loyal servant named John who promises a dying king to protect his son, the young prince, and keep him from harm. The king entrusts John with the secret of a forbidden room containing a portrait of a beautiful princess, warning that if the prince sees it, he will fall in love and face grave dangers. Despite John’s efforts, the prince discovers the portrait and insists on finding the princess to marry her.

Luca Haryk is ridiculously happy and in love—an easy feat with an adoring soulmate by his side. Despite his anxieties over his new position, he's found a home in the Otherworld and has everything anyone could ever dream of. So why does he still feel like a puzzle with a missing piece? When a secret door appears in the palace library, hiding old documents that may belong to his dad, he's suspicious, but he also can't help following the clues.

In Empathic Evolution, author, empathic mentor, and spiritual teacher Jennifer Elizabeth Moore channels the wisdom of the Council of We, a collective consciousness of the Divine Source who guide us on our soul’s journey through life and beyond. Drawing on over three decades of experience as an empath, energy healer, and psychic, Jennifer shares their powerful message, that empathic sensitivity is not only an individual experience but also the pathway to our collective awakening.

In “The Musicians of Bremen,” four aging domestic animals—a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster—are neglected by their masters and decide to run away to Bremen to become town musicians. On their journey, they encounter a house inhabited by robbers. The animals work together to create a cacophony of noise, scaring away the robbers and claiming the house for themselves. Despite their initial goal, the animals decide to settle in the robbers’ house, finding happiness and contentment in their new home.

Salem's guide to making a dragon break up with him: Step 1: Don't sleep with him. (No, seriously, don't.) And definitely don't let him into your apartment; he won't leave. Step 2: Deny being mates and don't fall in love with him. Steps one and two failed. Gregori is too stubborn and irresistible. Salem is currently taking suggestions that don't involve giving in to his feelings. (Please note, do not try making the dragon jealous. Jealousy sex is too much fun and cannot be resisted. This will backfire.)

Life has been nonstop since the day I became Mrs. Crusade. Not that I have any interest in slowing down now that I've found my rhythm in Lake Chapel. I love my life, my boys, and the future we're creating together. This semester, I even get to live with my best friend and her cohort of men. There's more than enough room at the Crusade Mansion for the ten of us, but between conflicting schedules, increased security measures, and Kendrick's NFL draft intentions, it's rare that I get time with all four of my guys. That's why I'm thrilled about our plans for Valentine's Day.

Pitching dominates baseball as never before. Spin rate, sweepers, 105 mph fastballs—all have become standard when evaluating pitching arms and techniques and are familiar lingo in discussion and analysis of the game. Gone is the era of the swaggering power hitters. Batting averages are close to the deadball era; team records for strikeouts are broken and then broken again. The game has fundamentally changed, and hitters may never catch up.

The Royal We is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that once was and is no more. It is a memoir written by Roddy Bottum, a musician and artist, that documents through prose his coming of age and out of the closet in 1980s San Francisco, a charged era of bicycle messengers, punk rock, street witches, wheatgrass, and rebellion. The book follows his travels from Los Angeles, growing up gay with no role models, to San Francisco, where he formed Faith No More and went on to tour the world relentlessly, surviving heroin addiction and the plight of AIDS, to become a queer icon.

For twenty-one years, I've been the Morvoren family secret—the female twin vampire no one could know existed. Too rare. Too valuable. Too vulnerable. While my brother built his reputation at SilverGate Academy, I studied behind enchanted walls, a shadow student of a world I couldn't join. Until now. For reasons my family won't tell me, I'm finally free. Safe to be part of the world. But it's hard to be excited when your academy bedroom comes with a resident ghost, you're not the only new supe at the Academy, and your brother's hot friend has more secrets floating around than the family crypt.

When his kids' nanny quits without warning, hockey star Leo Hartman is left skating on thin ice. Enter Catharina Alonso—his teammate's friend who's in need of a place to crash after her apartment goes up in flames. It's the perfect temporary solution. Until he learns he just invited a five-alarm fire into his carefully ordered world, one who challenges him at every turn and stirs feelings he thought were long buried.

1915. The Atlantic. The Kaiser U-boats prowl the seas. Only the Royal Navy stands in their way. The relentless threat of German U-boats has forced the Royal Navy to deploy its most secret weapon: heavily armed and cunningly disguised merchant vessels—the Q-ships. Commander Gordon Campbell, a seasoned officer in His Majesty's Navy, commands the Farnborough, a tramp steamer converted into a Q-ship. Under his leadership, the Farnborough becomes a deadly decoy, luring German U-boats into range for a brutal strike.

Zara Cole didn't come to Sierra Leone to die. But the American humanitarian aid worker has something the Phantom wants—a diamond that shouldn't exist. Now, Africa's most feared warlord has given her forty-eight hours to reveal its location. No one has ever survived saying no. Caleb, a preacher with no last name whose ministry leaves blood in its wake, is hunting the Phantom to repay a debt from a far-flung battlefield. His unlikely partner is Jessica Middleton, an ambitious journalist who's chasing the story that could make her career. She dreams of a Pulitzer. He dreams of vengeance.

Sometimes a girl just needs to get away from it all and sip some margaritas on the beach with her besties. Well, that was my plan until the very guys I'm trying to get away from somehow find me. Apparently, I'm their mate... something I'm slowly getting used to. Because, despite my need to put distance between me and the four gods—Adrian, Kyros, Mateo, and Maximus—I haven't been able to stop thinking about them. I have to make it up to the guys and prove that I'm in this for the long haul, and I'm not running away again…

Daisy figured being a beta meant a drama-free life. No messy mating bonds, and steady work was always easy to find. That all goes out the window when she takes a live-in nanny gig for a hockey player who's suddenly become a single "dad" to his baby half-brother. As if that wasn't enough, his pack includes two other seriously hot alphas. Not that they would be interested in a beta like her. Or so she thinks...

With Endaria liberated at last, Zalia confronts the divisiveness, political schemes, and other challenges peace has brought to her adopted homeland. While her now established power is enough to help those most in need and put off those who seek to use her, she discovers Endaria's strongest citizens had been disappearing long before the first demon invasion . . . As her daughter Aylie's ethereal talents grow in unexpected directions, Zalia reluctantly allows her to join the investigation along with Zalia's partner, Ember, and her ice cat Boreal's formidable new cubs.