Bøker utgitt av Austin Macauley

An emotional and deep journey in which Rosemary (Lokemele) introspectively fights with her personal demons. Will the pain of betrayal, loss, temptation, and the forbidden fruits of love haunt her until her dying day? Will a guilty secret be her ultimate downfall? What role will Keoki play in her life? And the mysterious, beautiful Ocean Tia - will she be Lokemele's saviour, or will she add to her woes? Will Lokemele find her quest for inner peace; or will serenity of her mind, heart, body, and soul forever remain elusive and out of her reach?

Oonagh's story takes us on a vivid journey through her post-colonial childhood in India, full of color, vitality, and unforgettable memories. However, as she leaves her birth country in 1962 to move to England with her family, Oonagh's cherished childhood recollections take on a surreal quality. Determined to rediscover her roots and emotional identity, she embarks on a poignant quest. From the roots of her maternal family, where 'Staying On' was in her grandmother's blood, to the adrenaline-fueled excitement of gleaming gun barrels counted and stacked in pillars by the light of hurricane lamps, Oonagh's journey uncovers both the beauty and harsh realities of her homeland. Through her Ayah Ruth's captivating stories, she experiences the intoxicating fragrance of jasmine on the day of Rinqu's marriage, and the deep bonds of love and loyalty that define family life in India. With rich detail and compelling prose, Oonagh's tale takes readers on a breathtaking journey of self-discovery and a celebration of the cultural richness of India.

This book begins when "Baz" starts his life, growing up with his siblings, growing up through his school, working, and then married life. This shows his life with the highs and lows until just after his retirement. It is hoped that younger readers will see that they can achieve many things in life, and that many readers will be able to relate their own experiences to the stories narrated in this book.

Heartful Business: Leading with the World in Mind is a provocation to everyone who's a leader - to step up and join the battle to create a better world for all. And a battle it is. Governments and their leaders throw resources at problems for which they don't have solutions, problems that keep growing and shapeshifting. The pressing need for a new leadership operating system for the world to survive, let alone thrive, is clear. We must solve the monumental problems facing our planet and humanity, for future generations to thrive. To do so will need a shift in how leaders lead as massive as the one we're facing in our climate. The future isn't just down to politicians. The challenge is too big. BUSINESS CAN LEAD THE WAY - by fundamentally committing to help create a better world for all. A handful of leaders get this but not enough. The thing is business leaders are ill-equipped to do what's needed. WHAT'S NEEDED IS CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP AND PRACTICAL ACTIONS THAT SET A 'GREATER GOOD' AT THE HEART OF THE ORGANISATION'S PURPOSE, VISION, CULTURE AND DAY-IN, DAY-OUT OPERATIONS. It's about a new form of leadership based on five essential principles of human life expressed through five core qualities. From heartfulness, to greater reflection, to intentionality, to presence, to leading with more feminine qualities (irrespective of gender), Heartful Business: Leading with the World in Mind, sets out the standard and practices for the new era of leadership that's fit for our times - describing why a new form of leadership is needed, what form it needs to take and, crucially, how to develop the capability to lead in this way. At whatever level you lead, Heartful Business will help you become the legacy-building leader you want to be and, more important, the world needs.

I Turned a Corner Once is a collection of poems that explore the experiences and relationships of the author over the course of fifty years. From their youth in a small coastal town in Cornwall in the 1950s, to hippy collectives and their career as an airline pilot, the poems in this book cover a wide range of themes including romance, humor, and the unknown consequences of our actions. Through it all, the author learns to embrace change and instinctively "turn the corner" towards new experiences. This book is a deeply personal and introspective look at the journey of self-discovery.

The Sapphire Bell has fallen silent... Its hammer has been stolen and must be returned by sunset, or the power of sleep will be lost forever. In a race against time, a gang of heroic friends set out in search of the precious object. There are tough decisions, brave acts, and strange magic, but evil stands in their way at every turn. The sun is setting with relentless gravity and the hammer is still beyond reach. Time is running out and no-one wants to be awake forever.

Kitty Katz's mind is as crowded as Piccadilly Circus, the constant hubbub of conversation in her brain a relentless background to her own thoughts. Lying in hospital with concussion, a voice reaches out to her, forcing out the steady clamour of noise as it connects with her mind. Dominic Peverell is a Guardian desperately seeking his soul twin to prevent his inevitable transformation into a demon. Dominic brings peace to Kitty's chaotic mind - but he also brings danger. Unbeknown to Kitty, only she can prevent Dominic's descent into darkness - and now evil forces have turned their attention towards her, intent on destroying her before she can save him. Secretly shadowing Kitty is Dominic's brother, Conan, a newly turned demon. Kitty stands between the brothers and Conan is determined to destroy her. However, Kitty is not as easily destroyed as he and his fellow demons assume...

"My doctor let out such a disdainful sigh whilst announcing the results of my BMI! He said it was the highest he'd ever seen and for my weight I should be 8 foot 14!" As global obesity hurtles on like a runaway train, this book shows you why you should get off at the next stop...and how to do so!

Violence, a pandemic and climate change had led to continued human suffering in the recent decades. Turbulence all around the world has hit everyone on the planet, from those who were alive at the time of the trenches of WW1, to those born in 'Coronavirus' times. One young mind deeply disturbed by the current events resorted to writing poetry to express his feelings about the worsening current world situation. Sohan started writing about human suffering from the age of seven, after which poetry became his medium of expression of his feelings, his frustration at the past, his worries about the present, and his fears of the future. Enter a teenager's mind full of random thoughts, printed in black and white, on topics ranging from past wars to current climate affairs, from things as deep as the mental suffering faced in lockdown to the simple beauty in a painting in this anthology Hope and Despair - A Collection of Poems.

A long, long time ago, wild beasts roamed the Earth - the Earth was freezing, hostile to human life, and very few humans remained. Join our hero Illian on a thrilling adventure full of exciting twists and turns. This story will take you on a mind-blowing journey full of magical creatures, wild terrain, trust, and great friendship. What will our heroes encounter on their journey? If you love action, adventure, and wild beasts, The Huskan Dragon is a must-read from a first-time young author.

In 1914 young husbands and sons set off in high spirits for the grand adventure of war, a war promised to be over by Christmas. Little do they or their loved ones realise that four long years of horror lay ahead. The First World War shatters the peaceful lives of newlywed Australian immigrants, Walter and Winifred. Their families lie over the ocean in England, their brothers fight on the battlefields of Europe. Torn by loyalties, they set off on a perilous sea journey during wartime, shortly after the sinking of the Lusitania by German U-boats. But their neighbour, Lisbette, a girl with a mysterious past, must stay to live in anguish in Australia, unable to return to her native France. The scene shifts from Australia to Gallipoli and the battlefields of Flanders, culminating at the mystical Mont-Saint-Michel off the Normandy coast. Here, Effie, one of many tiny victims of the war, finds refuge in the centuries-old monastery. It is all a matter of time. Will authorities find Effie's parents at the war's end? How long can Winifred's brother, Gustave, survive the trenches? And can returning soldiers escape the deadly grip of the Spanish flu? Whether read as a stand-alone novel or sequel to Whispers Through Time, this drama will tear at your heartstrings, especially as it is based on a true story.

Zeke loved going to the pond to float his small sailboat in the water. There was only one problem with the pond: there were annoying mosquitos.! And "Buggy" the mosquito got a ride into the house in Zeke's jacket hood - all the way into Zeke's bedroom. Buggy mosquito thought, Ha! I will get to bite him for my dinner when it's dark! After Zeke had eaten his dinner and washed up, he got ready for bed and climbed in. The light was switched off and Zeke started to drift off to sleep. What do you think happened now? Buggy the mosquito said, "Time to fly - time to bite - time to get my dinner tonight!" Off into the dark night Buggy the mosquito flew. "Bzzzzz...bzzzzz...bzzzzz." What was Zeke going to do?

Illusion and disillusion Friendship and betrayal Ecstasy and madness Two young Englishmen arrive in LA in 1980, hungry for experience. They dive headlong into technicolour Hollywood days, sunkissed and free beneath exotic palms. At night they slide on charm through a Sunset Strip parade of hookers, pimps, dealers, gigolos, hitmen, punks and struggling actors. They set up camp in a glamorously sleazy joint and befriend the eccentric barflies. They are a million miles away from Thatcher's grey, dreary London town, where everything closes by 11. Innocence collides with experience and there gradually emerges a darker vision of LA: a Manson-haunted, coke-addled, hedonistic playground. A beautiful girl appears at their door at 3am and breaks up the bachelor party. Triangular mind games herald cracks in the unbreakable friendship, then reality itself starts to unravel, on a tragicomic journey of self-discovery, reaching a climax with a mind-bending trip out into the desert. At the dawn of the 80's, a rite of passage journey through an impressionistic whirlwind of sex, drugs and mental illness.

In this thrilling novel set in 2007 at the Metropolitan Police, follow PC Lawson on a journey where his lifelong dream of catching a notorious villain comes true, but not in the way he expected. A real mystery unfolds as a lorry escapes the UK, leaving the police puzzled, suspecting that it may contain drugs. The ingenious story follows a cunning and wealthy villain who turns the tables on the Met by exploiting their own policies to humiliate them in front of the PSD, the public, the press, and the media. PC Lawson knows that catching this criminal will be no easy feat, and if the Met is to succeed, they must overcome their past, learn to forgive, and trust again. However, with the PSD and half of the force breathing down his neck, Lawson knows that the only person who can help him is someone he cannot afford to be associated with. It's a huge risk, one that could cost him his life and his career, but he's willing to take it. Follow along as Lawson navigates a dangerous game of cat and mouse, where the stakes are high and the consequences are dire.

A journey inside the deep-thinking, dark realms of a subconscious mind where the real and fantasy worlds are one. For those who didn't meet Jeannette, the fictional character who came to life as she passionately narrated her long-term, emotionally-charged, almost virtual love affair in Love at First Sight: A One-Sided Story; she reappears in The Other Side more determined than ever to conquer the obstacles and emerge victorious in her quest to find peace, love and contentment in a Universe paralyzed by the constraints of control freaks who, at every opportunity, challenge her life lived "in a fictional world". Overcoming this negativity becomes the driving force in her battle to achieve self-acceptance, often impeded by the haunting, human frailties of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and the inevitable path of self-destruction.

The immortals are real, having existed in time for some 200,000 years or more, some of them deified as gods and goddesses in their long lives and their existence had been kept secret, and chronicled by the skolaks, the keepers of their history. One of the more notorious and most powerful of these immortals, Edelon, self-entombed for the last 500 years, is about to be resurrected by her lover Rutheven, finally reunited after all this time; although for Edelon their time apart was but months, for Rutheven his time without her was measured in centuries. Her return to this world also signalled the return of her enemy, the assassin Tervagant.

Ciara Alinec has visions of past and future events due to a unique sequence of DNA from an unknown source. Unexpectedly, her aunt and uncle move to South Korea, and Ciara finds herself attending a private international academy on Jeju Island. The school is the brainchild of a biotech billionaire, Dr Sanjung Kim, who has assembled the most gifted students globally. With guidance from the social counsellor, James Fernley, Ciara learns to harness her abilities. Ciara is critical to Dr Kim's plan to discover a race of supernatural beings from M¿ori mythology, a species with technology far in advance of humans. Through her visions of an 18th-century naval officer called William Hartley, Ciara experiences his life. But are her actions to discover the location of these beings preordained? Accompanied by her friends, Ciara travels to New Zealand to unravel the mystery, only to trigger a series of events that may destroy humanity.

Our contemporary world is experiencing a crisis in facts and truth. Conflicting messages or fake news bombard us every day, about religion, politics, and COVID-19 and vaccinations. The daily newspaper, internet news, websites, and social media all compete for our attention, and quite often each insisting on their version of the facts. Made-up news and distorted information, create confusion and a distrust in various religious and political institutions. How do we know what is true when watching the news, listening to elected officials and religious leaders, or using social media? Who is telling the truth? How can we know? What can we do? In Receiving your Personal Truth, you are taken on a journey where you experience what is truth for yourself. Practical ways of receiving your truth are suggested. The skill of awareness and self-critical thinking enables us to understand what is true and what is false. In observing that we are one with oneness of it all, we act with compassion towards everyone.

How do you like to make friends? Do you climb trees together and play games in the playground? Now imagine you are a dinosaur and cannot climb trees or swim. How can the little dinosaur expect to make any friends if he can't join in the other animals' games?

The nature of war is that there is no normal; emotions are always running on the surface; fear, hope, sadness and love can all manifest themselves in an instant. In this setting, four central characters embark upon a daring and extremely dangerous journey through war torn France in 1944. Two French orphaned children have no idea how they will reach what they believe to be their only surviving family. Meanwhile, two Allied prisoners of war escape their captivity, but behind enemy lines they are uncertain about their survival and their ability to get back behind Allied lines. They each carry a burden of their own personal heart-breaking tragedy as fate brings them together. The sadness and despair from the loss felt by each of them must be overcome if they are to survive. Survival, however, is not guaranteed as each step they take on the journey is fraught with danger. They soon realise that love and friendship are the most important ingredients to help them reach their personal objectives. Despite the perils they face they demonstrate courage and determination and never lose hope, because as each day passes and with each crisis they face, the bond between the two vulnerable children and the soldiers grows stronger.

Discover the epic tale of Draconian, the first being in existence, in the gripping novel The Creator. Witness as he creates Alaskia, a vast universe filled with billions of planets and countless species, which he rules as King and Emperor. With his vast power, he creates civilizations, gives life to beings and shapes entire worlds. However, as time passes, a threat arises that Draconian could never have foreseen. Envy and treachery begin to spread, threatening to tear his universe apart and putting the existence of every citizen in jeopardy. As the danger grows, Draconian must face a difficult choice: to fight and protect his creation, or to watch it all crumble before him.

Jack Hanson has never been one to stand out of the crowd. An orphan, an alcoholic, a student. Millions like him. He had resigned to the fact that excitement, danger, hope, and love were the things that would evade him for the rest of his life. Enter Charlotte Jones. When the woman that makes all others seem obsolete walks into the one place he spends most of his time, his life is flipped upside down. Private jets, tinted windows, unlimited credit cards, and a penthouse apartment overlooking New York City's opportunity ridden streets, a standard of living he couldn't have dreamt. Everything changes, not a single shred of his former life remains the same. But as he falls deeper and deeper into the excess that coats every inch of his new life, he realizes that not everyone is as they seem. Will Jack be able to shun the excess and leave unscathed, or will he be another name in a long list of aspiring authors who never existed.

Owen's Dream profiles the detailed struggles of Owen, a 12-year-old seventh grader diagnosed with autism at the age of four. Despite his condition, Owen tries hard to fit in with his few friends and classmates. Owen's biggest desire is to make his school's basketball team so his family will be proud of him.Owen's story provides the inspirational details of his disappointments and the discovery of the special abilities that he possesses because of his autism. With the help of his older brother Paul, a high school athlete, Owen's life takes an unexpected turn that provides him with surprising new opportunities that showcase Owen's skills.Owen's Story provides a positive message that can be used by all to encourage how determination and hard work can result in the most surprising successes in life.

Are you a girl who loves to have fun outside and get a little messy, but also enjoys dressing up and feeling fancy? Look no further than Fancy Girls - the ultimate guide to being a well-rounded, kind, and joyful young woman. With this playful and engaging book, girls can learn how to cultivate inner beauty while also expressing themselves through fashion and style. Get ready to discover your true beauty inside and out with Fancy Girls!