My Smoko Break
My Smoko Break

Author: Hayley Maudsley

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1460711424

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Over 200 recipes and 100 household tips from the popular Facebook page 'My Smoko Break' by Rural Weekly columnist and country mum Hayley Maudsley. Hayley Maudsley is a rural mum, living and working on an isolated Queensland wheat property with her husband and three kids. While having a cuppa and a homemade slice during her 'smoko break' one day, thinking about what to cook for dinner, she turned to Facebook for some inspiration. Instead, what Hayley found was picture perfect, beautifully styled dishes using ingredients she had no access to. That day she decided to start her own Facebook page- sharing her favourite family recipes, ideas for feeding the kids, and plenty of useful tips for around the house. Now more than 120,000 people follow Hayley online, and what they love most about her recipes is that they are incredibly simple to make, using ingredients that are easy to get your hands on, and every dish turns out just the way you'd hoped - delicious! Featuring more than 200 recipes that everyone in the family will love, My Smoko Break has you covered with everyday inspiration for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as dishes for special occasions, the school lunchbox, treats, desserts and more!

Fighting for My Life
Fighting for My Life

Author: J. J. Joseph

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1458756939

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In 2006, J J Joseph was convicted of a shocking assault on his wife. He was sentenced to home detention, with the real possibility that he would never see her or his children again. Full of remorse, Joseph accepted his punishment, worked through counselling and anger management courses and fought to see his family again. During this period he took a good hard look at his life: at his violent upbringing dominated by a father whose fists were his first resort, at his hostile relationship with his mother (also a victim of violence), at the heartbreaking suicide of his younger brother, at his father's shocking murder, at his drug abuse and womanising. He was forced to see what other people saw: a frightening and violent man whose actions were unpredictable. It was then that he understood, for the first time, what his wife had to put up with and why she was sometimes reticent and withdrawn. Finally it was his love for her and his devotion to his children that pulled him through. Drug- and alcohol-free, and determined to change his life, Joseph has now been accepted back into the heart of his family. In Fighting for my Life, Joseph talks openly about his family background and life experiences, and is unusually honest in describing his feelings. This book played a major part in bringing his wife and his mother back to him again, when they read and grasped the truth about Joseph. Written with passion and searing honesty, Fighting for My Life will open your eyes, and fill you with compassion and hope.

Untangle My Heart
Untangle My Heart

Author: Emma Lea

Publisher: Emma Lea

Published: 2020-10-19

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13:

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Sutton Sharp’s life was perfectly fine, thank you very much. Maybe the entire town of Hope Springs treated her like a kid, but was it really that bad if people looked out for her? Okay, so maybe she could do without walking in on her brother and his girlfriend doing it on every available surface in the house she shared with them, but apart from that inconvenience (and frankly disturbing image) her life was great. She certainly didn’t need her brother’s best friend riding in on a white horse to offer her a place to live where she wouldn’t be constantly confronted with her brother’s bare backside. She had her own plans…and she had a secret that would be impossible to keep if she moved into Daniel’s place. Daniel Forster had only ever thought of Sutton as Tony’s annoying little sister…okay, there was that one time at the B&S ball where he kissed her, but that was just to shut her up. She’d been arguing with him at them time and he couldn’t think of another way to make her be quiet. That was his story and he was sticking to it. Asking her to move in with him had come as a shock not only to her, but to him as well. Yes, he needed a new housemate to cover his mortgage payments, but Sutton was the last person he wanted to give an up close and personal look at his life…especially not after the incident in the warehouse behind the hardware store. Despite both of their aversions to living together, neither of them had any other choice. But it was only temporary and they both agreed they could do temporary. Neither one of them was prepared for what being ‘up close and personal’ would do to their relationship. *This is a hot and steamy best-friend’s little sister/enemies to lovers romance with a happy ever after and lots of flying sparks and lacy lingerie along the way. **This book is set in Australia and uses Australian/UK English

The Fun We Had
The Fun We Had

Author: Carrie Evans

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2023-09-28

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1805146319

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The Fun We Had is a tsunami of incident, gossip, and character vignettes, an exploration of other cultures sure to entertain anyone with a fascination for human quirks and foibles.

And Did Those Feet ...
And Did Those Feet ...

Author: Ted Dawe

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2014-08-15

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1775530809

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Adventure, danger and mystery from the award-winning Ted Dawe. ‘The year mum died and Dad went mad I was packed off to a farm for a while.’ The first sentence sets the scene for this tender and dramatic story. But this is no ordinary farm: our narrator’s Aunt Lorna, Uncle Frank and five cousins belong to the Jerusalem League, a William Blake cult. Their house is unusual, in that the rooms are hexagons – six-sided – as are the doors and windows, the dinner table and plates. And you guessed it; they’re bee-keepers. Our young narrator takes us through his initiation to farm life: chores and more chores, which he doesn’t mind really, starting a new school and coping with the local bully, Noel Cudby, finding the perfect place: a swimming hole hidden in the bush, and making friends with Pimpernickle, the resident pig. It’s here with Pimpernickle when we become aware of his loneliness: ‘That pig is sure smart. I reckon he can tell my moods. When I’m feeling depressed, which is quite often to tell the truth, he comes over and stands next to me real close.’ But when our storyteller goes off to school camp things turn from wet to wetter. Noah’s flood is served up with a good serving of wind: the river rises and floods and the sorry lot of wet kids and a few parents are forced to head for higher ground. How will they cross the river and reach safe ground? Just what happens when they’re rescued? A tender story told with humour and insight.

Maori Boy
Maori Boy

Author: Witi Ihimaera

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2014-11-07

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1869797272

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This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling, award-winning memoir, packed with stories from the formative years of this much-loved writer. Witi Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller — one critic calling him one of our ‘finest and most memorable’. Some of his best stories, however, are about his own life. This honest, stirring work tells of the family and community into which Ihimaera was born, of his early life in rural New Zealand, of family secrets, of facing anguish and challenges, and of laughter and love. As Ihimaera recounts the myths that formed his early imagination, he also reveals the experiences from real life that wriggled into his fiction. Alive with an inventive, stimulating narrative and vividly portrayed relatives, this memoir is engrossing, entertaining and moving, but, more than this, it is also a vital record of what it means to grow up Maori. Winner of the Ockham New Zealand Book Award 2016 for the General Non Fiction category.

The Free Range Cook: Through the Seasons
The Free Range Cook: Through the Seasons

Author: Annabel Langbein

Publisher:

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780958266871

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Bestselling author Annabel Langbein is back with a brand new book featuring more than 200 fabulously simple recipes using fresh, seasonal food. In a world that places so many demands on our lives, taking a few minutes to prepare a meal and enjoy the ritual of eating together provides a rhythm to daily life and gives us a sense of belonging and connection to the cycles of nature. Home cooking isn't about performance food and fancy tricks; it's about nourishment and care. And beginning with fresh, seasonal produce is one of the simplest ways to make great food. All the recipes in Through the Seasons are designed to make the most of every season's produce-from the lightest summer salads to the most decadent winter puddings. Clever variations and substitutions to the recipes mean that many of the dishes can be cooked at any time of year with whatever produce you have to hand. There are many gluten-free and vegetarian options, plus menu suggestions for every occasion, as well as hundreds of Annabel's cooking and gardening tips and tricks. Annabel also brings her own twist to classics that will quickly become delicious family favourites-including a guilt-free black velvet cake, the ultimate roast chicken, and the best sticky Asian pork belly you will ever eat. Interactive with Annabel's website, Through the Seasons will inspire a fresh way of thinking and eating-more than just a cookbook, it's a toolkit for a good life.

My Outback Childhood (younger readers)
My Outback Childhood (younger readers)

Author: Toni Tapp Coutts

Publisher: Lothian Children's Books

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 0734418345

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There was something interesting around every corner, be it brumbies and wild donkeys disappearing through the bush, or a little waterhole where the snakes and kangaroos came to drink. Toni's childhood isn't like other kids'. She is only five years old when her mum packs a small suitcase and takes the family over 300 kilometres on a scratchy dirt track to live at Killarney, a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory. Toni grows up among the cattle and horses, with the wild Territory climate and even wilder native animals around her. She has adventures with Old Dora and Daisy, the Aboriginal women who help raise her and her brothers and sisters. They teach her about bush tucker and tell her stories of debil debils. My Outback Childhood is the story of Toni's unconventional upbringing on Killarney - stalking goannas, helping in the cattle yards, riding horses and sleeping under the stars. Young readers will be captivated by this true story of a childhood filled with Outback adventures. Fascinating for city kids and country children alike, this is a unique story that educates as well as entertains.