Life with a degenerative disease that sends you on a downward spiral must be a miserable existence. How could it not be?In this short and powerful book, one man's journey from healthy child to profoundly disabled adult demonstrates that this need not necessarily be the case.In sharing Fraser's story, the authors invite you to take a step back and consider why we do what we do in life. His stories and insights will have you laughing, wincing with embarrassment and, on occasi...

Kilian Drake, the most renowned swordsman of a generation, has searched the galaxy for fragments of a lost star blade. Now, on a remote world called Earth, he may have found answers.Failing to secure the dangerous artifact could endanger a fledgling civilization. All he must do is navigate Las Vegas, Nevada, and defeat his most dangerous rival. When the fighting starts, it's all or nothing, and the loser will be dead or banished forever. Can he master the secret of...

Often overlooked in historic studies of New Orleans, the city’s Hispanic and Latino populations have contributed significantly to its development. Hispanic and Latino New Orleans offers the first scholarly study of these communities in the Crescent City. This trailblazing volume not only explores the evolving role of Hispanics and Latinos in shaping the city’s unique cultural identity but also reveals how their history informs the ongoing national debate about immigration.As early ...

The church in the United States is in transition, polarization, even woundedness. In part this has to do with changing demographics, norms, and having a racial history we have never fully dealt with. The United States needs healing from its collective and historic wound of racism but, with many Americans being racially illiterate, whether willfully or in denial, the wound continues to fester. The Christian church in all its varieties is in special need of this healing and through Christ is...

Can an ordinary man become the galaxy's last hope?When aliens invade Las Vegas, one man is thrust into a battle beyond imagination, fighting the terrifying shock troops of a sprawling galactic empire. To protect a terrified child, he seizes the strange weapon of a fallen hero—an ancient, sentient sword—and is catapulted far into the future with no way back.Now trapped in an alien world, he must master the sword's mysterious power and navigate a deadly game ...

When Sophie's friend Anisha is sent on her first foreign trip in her job at a travel agency - and gets to take Sophie with her - she jumps at the chance of some time away.But what Sophie doesn't realise is that there is a catch - a rather large catch. The five-star hotel is also a world-renowned golf resort. And its owners have offered the holiday on the basis of the girls' golfing prowess. Of which they possess quite literally none...A laugh-out-loud short story from the b...

Are you slogging your guts out at a job you don't particularly like to buy things you don't particularly need? Would you like to spend more time with your family and less time at work? Do you ever wonder what it'd be like to really love what you do?Ten years on from Fat, Forty and Fired, Nigel Marsh steps off the hamster wheel (again) to grapple with these and other less weighty questions, like: Where the hell has my wife left the cordless phone? and How do I dress my daug...

This book is about:• surviving when you’re broke• how happy people think – and how you can be like them• liking yourself before you lose that extra weight• persevering after you get the sack• being happy before you meet your dream partner – and when they become a ‘learning experience!’Filled with Andrew’s charming cartoons, and inspiring stories of people who have lost everything they had or almost been beaten by alcohol, illness, abuse or ou...

During his run into turning FIFTY, CHRIS EVANS is on a MISSION. To take stock of WHERE HE IS and WHERE HE'S AT in order to figure out how BEST to get the MOST out of what he BELIEVES are the BEST YEARS yet to come.His typically positive and upbeat journey involves ONE HUNDRED DAYS of contemplation, research, focus, frustration and DECISION MAKING while SECRETLY:*Training for The London MARATHON*Bringing back his cult Nineties TV show TFI FRIDAY*And the small m...

'DEEPLY HONEST, SURPRISINGLY HILARIOUS AND UPLIFTING' The Pool'HEART-WARMING: UNMISSABLE' Damian Barr, MetroSusan Calman is a much-loved comedian and writer who has appeared on countless radio and television programmes from The News Quiz and Just a Minute to Armchair Detectives and Secret Scotland. She's hosted th...

From bogan to boned and beyond -- a full-frontal 'femoir' by one of Australia's best-loved journalistsFrom bogan to boned and beyond – a full-frontal femoirTracey Spicer was always the good girl. Inspired by Jana Wendt, this bogan from the Brisbane backwaters waded through the 'cruel and shallow money trench' of television to land a dream role: national news anchor for a commercial network.But the journalist found that, for women, TV was less about n...

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