The long-awaited, highly anticipated companion volume to The Princess Bitchface Syndrome – the must-have manual for all parents of teenage boys.Dr Michael Carr-Gregg believes that too many Australian boys have got it too easy – and the result is a generation of ‘boofheads’: boys with huge egos who think they are too good to stack the dishwasher or turn up to school. They expect the world and give little in return. But things are about to change.From the author of t...

‘We want to give you and your child the best opportunity to thrive in secondary school. By the end of this book you're going to feel a whole lot more capable of dealing with what Year 7 throws at you.’The jump between primary and secondary school marks one of the biggest transitions in a student’s life. It’s the point at which a child leaves the relatively safe cocoon of childhood and enters the wide world of adolescence. For both parents and their children, it can be a hu...

The long-awaited, highly anticipated companion volume to The Princess Bitchface Syndrome - the must-have manual for all parents of teenage boys.Dr Michael Carr-Gregg believes that too many Australian boys have got it too easy - and the result is a generation of 'boofheads': boys with huge egos who think they are too good to stack the dishwasher or turn up to school. They expect the world and give little in return. But things are about to change.From the author of t...

You’re tired of living from hand to mouth?You can reverse the trend with self discipline, if failure is not an option. Think of self-disciple as a form of sacrifice, denying self life’s pleasures for a moment to gain better future return on investment on your time.You use the alarm clock for the occasional sleep over. But you could do without it. It gets complicated to control thoughts. You have conditioned the body to wake up at day break. Knowing self discipline is a good...

Becoming a step-parent is one of the toughest journeys anyone could ever take, but the rewards can be immeasurable. In this insightful and reassuring book, Australia's leading parenting expert Michael Carr-Gregg offers pratical advice on the following: The typical stages of step-family transition How to manage conflict and build lasting relationships Dealing with the ex The great 'no-nos' of step-parenting Surviving Step-Families is an invaluable resource that will help to give your new fa...

Brought to you by Penguin.The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks hi...

Get the complete Witch Next Door series in one GIANT boxed set today!With over 2,000 exciting, witchy pages to read, spanning 8 books, your inner magic will be humming to get out!Lily Antony is a young witch playing in a very dangerous treasure hunt.She’s got to follow the clues her Mom left behind after her disappearance trekking the world. Maybe even put the pieces of her life back together with each one. First stop – get...

Lucy Heron is a mom with three kids, and a baker with a happy marriage in sunny Echo Park. She's also Silver Griffins Agent 485.The suburbs will never be the same.Fighting supernatural crime from a minivan while keeping the magical world a secret is a full time job. Then there's the PTA bake sale and the neighborhood barbecue.Hard to balance even with a wand.And now, a monstrous loan shark is spreading his shadowy empire fro...

I'm not Goth to hide my Drow heritage, I'm Goth because I'm not a quitter.My name is Cheyenne Summerlin, remember that name. Somebody should . . .The world can't know I'm a Drow halfling. Not yet. I barely have these powers under my control, but time's up. I'm about to take magic for a test drive. Want to come along?The black ops government group believe they can run my life . . . But I have plans of my own.Watch out magical evil doers—I'm a...

Cheyenne's passed her Drow Trials but there's one more step to claim her legacy.The secret contained in the heart of Ambar'ogúl and a coin placed on the Crown's altar. But not without her father's help.Will L'zar Verdys risk everything for the daughter he just met and the throne he never wanted?Cheyenne will have to take a trip to the other side to see the destruction in L'zar's world to learn more about him and the rebellion. L'zar...

Magic is real. So are monsters. And Izzie Berens is the one who hunts them down.When a series of violent attacks shakes Austin's magical district, Paranormal Defense Agent Izzie Berens and her partner, Rafe, are called in to investigate. The evidence points to a rogue shapeshifter—one with the terrifying ability to mimic anyone it touches. As the body count rises and the city teeters on the brink of chaos, Izzie and Rafe uncover a chilling conspiracy: someone is us...

Some spells are never meant to be cast.When Izzie Berens, top agent for the Paranormal Defense Agency, experiences a vision of reality shattering around her, she knows something is terribly wrong. A rogue wizard has uncovered a forbidden spell so powerful it could warp time, space, and magic itself—if he succeeds in casting it.With the celestial alignment that fuels the spell just days away, Izzie and her team must race against time, tracki...