Ian “Kanga” Cairns tells how his dream for surfing to be recognized as a legitimate professional sport became reality. This is one of surfing’s biggest stories now told in two separate volumes. Volume 1 is set in Australia, South Africa and Hawaii’s awesome North Shore. Cairns features with other surf legends, heroes and hard men in conflict. Together they provide a detailed narrative of surfing’s transformation as it evolves from the drug-infused hippy era of the late 1960s to a ...

Margaret isn't very good at growing vegetables in her garden, so instead she plants her old broken toys in there. Read about sweet little Margaret and her Toy Garden, and discover what surprises await in it. It may shock you.

This book was written to encourage children. So many children today judge themselves according to their peers or what they see on television. They struggle with who they are and often don't realize how important and special they are. This book I hope will help them learn for themselves the wonderful things they have to offer and help them become all that they can be. I also hope it will teach children to stop and think before they judge someone else.

Surf legend Ian "Kanga" Cairns has an even bigger story to tell than the giant waves he rode in Hawaii. "KANGA" is a sports biography, adventure and surf history wrapped into two volumes. In the 1970s Cairns and pioneering professional surfers dreamed of being recognized as legitimate sportsmen. In these books they tell how it became reality. Volume 1 is set in Australia, South Africa and Hawaii's awesome North Shore. Cairns features with other surf legends, heroes and hard men in conflict...

Margaret is a little girl with a twisted mind. Come see what she has been up to lately. Toy Garden Flash Fiction Trilogy contains an additional story that picks up where the first two stories ended. It also includes new inserts, and excerpts from Margaret's diary. She has even written a Christmas poem for the end of the book. Just a little something to warm the heart, at this time of year.

Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. It's not part of a sinister stratagem in the “gay agenda.” Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness.Queer elementary classrooms are those where parents and educators care enough about their children to trust the human capacity...

Flash fiction tale about bugs. Creepy, crawly, infesting bugs. A quick little tale about a creepy, crawly, little bug.

This is the tale of a polite and well-mannered boy named Alex who; after being abducted, develops an incredible bond with an angry and foul mouthed doll called The Gruff who teaches young Alex how to find his voice.When Alex wakes bound in a wooden coffin to manic cursing and abusing, he finds something he'd never imagined having, a true friend. In the days that follow, a small oddly tempered doll called The Gruff will teach Alex how to say no, how to sharpen his claws and how to k...

A vampire tale in a future America where terror reigns. Not your sister's Twilight.

After two years trying to pretend that night had never happened, that it was a figment of her booze-fuelled imagination, Samantha gets a call from Connor. He asks her to come with him to look for Ryan, who's gone missing while tree-planting in the woods. Samantha is surprised by how easily her old feelings come surging back when she hears Connor's voice and agrees to help him. And the nightmare begins again.

A collection of stories, mostly about time travel, parallel universes, alternative histories and other quirky anomalies* A filmmaker of the future, using a new untested medium, gets tangled up in his story in The Filmmaker and the Scdptre;* Time dilation works in mysterious ways in The Last Shall be First, as a home for orphaned children is being moved to an uninhabited planet.• Geoffrey literally finds himself, in The Wrong Track, a multi-verse ghost story.* I...

Andy Simon wakes up in excruciating pain, a pain for which there is no explaination. He then hears sirens from vehicles that aren't there. Then his wife kisses him gooodbye and begs him not to die on her, though she doesn't even seem to notice her own strange words. His day only gets weirder from there. Why does the pain persist? Why does his coffee taste like blood? Why is he the only one who seems to notice the torrential rainstorm he's driving in? And what does that car accident he keep...