The Cross - History, Art, and Controversy
The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians and non-Ch...
Christopher Lee - Charlemagne: By The Sword & The C...
OvertureAct I: IntroAct I: King Of The FranksAct II: IntroAc...
Christopher Lee - Charlemagne: By The Sword & The C...
OvertureAct I: IntroAct I: King Of The FranksAct II: IntroAc...
Stations Of The Cross
The Shadow Patrol
In late 2009, CIA officers in Afghanistans Kabul station allowed a Jordanian doctor into their closest confidence. In truth, the doctor was an al-Qaeda double agentand when he blew himself up, the stations most senior officers died with him. Years later, the station still hasnt recovered. Recruiting has dried up and the agencys best Afghani sources are being eliminated. At Langley, the C...
The Country Jesus
Traven Collins, a hack St Kilda writer is chosen to run a Writers Festival up near The Flinders Ranges. Unfortunately the road to Calangula, the site of this proposed extravaganza, runs past his old town of Storys Crossing, where he hasnt been for thirty years. But destiny doesnt care what Traven thinks, and a mad Kenworth truck forces Traven off the main road onto a side road to Storys ...
Outback Stations - The Life and Times of Australia's Biggest Cattle and Sheep Properties
From the helicopter I could see the propertys waterholes surrounded by paperbark trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. And grass, endless seas of grass. Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanans grass castle. Gurindji country. And my country, Australia. This is big country, the outback, home to the largest cattle and sheep stations in the world. Yet as these properties are ...
Leadbelly - The True Inside Story of an Underworld War
Jason Moran was in his blue Mitsubishi van when he was gunned down with his friend, Pasquale Bardora, in front of up to 250 people in the car park of the Cross Keys Hotel. At least five children, including Morans twin girl and boy, aged six, and his brothers own fatherless children were in the van when the gunman fired. While murdering two men in front of hundreds of people might, at first, ...
Ancillary Mercy - The conclusion to the trilogy that began with ANCILLARY JUSTICE
Ancillary Mercy is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice, the only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Stations slums turns up someone who shouldnt exist and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arri...
The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club
In 1978 the Northern Territory has begun to self-govern. Cyclone Tracy is a recent memory and telephones not yet a fixture on the cattle stations dominating the rugged outback. Life is hard and people are isolated. But they find ways to connect.Sybil is the matriarch of Fairvale Station, run by her husband, Joe. Their eldest son, Lachlan, was Joes designated successor but he has left the Territo...
Leviathan Wakes - Book 1 of the Expanse (now a major TV series on Netflix)
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON NETFLIX The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire NPR Books Leviathan Wakes is the Hugo-nominated first book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. Humanity has colonised the solar system Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is an officer on an ice miner making runs ...
God Is in the Manger - Reflections on Advent and Christmas
There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ. No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human. These stirring words ...
The Cross
When an ancient cross is discovered in Eastern Europe it becomes a powerful weapon in the war between the trads and the Vampire Federation but soon, the world is threatened by its discovery
There are worse things than vampires
The Cross of Ardaich, bane of the undead, was thought to have been destroyed in the war between the Federation and its arch-enemy, the vampire Gabriel Stone. But its ...
Beyond the Big Run - Station Life in Australia's Last Frontier
Ill be lucky to last a bloody year, was the prediction of nineteen year old Charlie Schultz. That was 1928, when he first arrived to take up the management of Humbert River Station. A tiny run-down property in a tangle of wild ranges, neighbour to the vast and legendary Victoria River Downs, Humbert was at the very edge of Australias last frontier. There were hostile blacks in the ranges, ...
The Boy Under the Table
I found The Boy Under the Table impossible to put down once I had started the pace is unrelenting and the story is utterly engrossing. The conclusion is tinged with both hope and sadness and I held my children a little tighter and a lot longer when I had finished. The Boy Under The Table is a confronting story, but one that is well worth reading. Great Aussie Reads Tina is a young woman...
Last King of the Cross
John Ibrahims incredible life story told in his own words. Last King of the Cross lays bare Australias most notorious underworld figure. In the mongrel tongue of the streets, John writes of fleeing war-torn Tripoli with his family and growing up in Sydneys rough and tumble west before establishing himself as a tough guy and teen delinquent, then a bouncer, enforcer and nightclub king o...
Drank the Kool Aid | Julie Ahmad | Canvas or Print
I paint in an intuitive style, not always having the final outcome in mind from the start. Itâs a journey and practice in patience and trust, getting there and discovering where the canvas will lead me, is often full of surprises. Living almost a decade in New York City, working in the fashion industry, texture and color are second nature to me, the cross over to fine art was natural. The ...
NAVY SEAL TO DIE FOR/DUST UP WITH THE DETECTIVE
Navy Seal To Die For Elle JamesWhen their plane crash-lands in an alligator-infested Mississippi bayou, Navy SEAL Quentin `Loverboy Lovett is grateful to be alive. But gratitude quickly turns to rescue when the SEAL must dive into the murky waters to save Stealth Operations Specialist Becca Smith. Then the shooting starts. Clearly, someone wants her dead.Investigating her fathers murder has...
Mailman Of The Birdsville Track - The Story of Tom Kruse
The Birdsville Track is one of the best known and loneliest tracks in Australia, and for twenty years Tom Kruse was the mailman, battling the searing heat, floods and mechanical breakdowns. He made the run every fortnight, and was a lifeline to the isolated settlements and stations along the way, delivering everything from letters to essential supplies. The Track is still just that a tra...
The Vandemonian War
Britain formally colonised Van Diemens Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was conflict, there was violence. But, governments and gentlemen succeeded in burying the real story of the Vandemonian War for nearly two centuries. The Vandemonian War had many sides and shades, but it...
The Somme Stations
On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival even before they departed for France, a member of Jims unit had been found dead. During the stand-off that follows, Jim and his comrades must operate by night the vitally important trains ca...
Our Band Could Be Your Life - Scenes from the American Indie Underground
It was a musical revolution that happened in the midst of Reagans 80s: a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations and other subversives who re-shaped and re-energized American rock music with punk rocks revolutionary do-it-yourself credo. The music that resulted was deeply personal, always challenging and immensely influential. This book traces the arc of the Amer...
The Angel Tree
Thirty years have passed since Greta Marchmont left the mansion in which she had once found a home. Now she returns to Marchmont Hall in the snowy mountains of Wales but she has no memory of her past because, since a tragic accident, she suffers from amnesia. But a walk through the wintry landscape leads to a disturbing discovery: she comes across a grave in the forest, and the weathered inscri...
Stations of the Cross
During Lent we are surrounded by visual reminders of Jesus last hours. In Stations of the Cross, renowned author and spiritual master Timothy Radcliffe, OP, offers readers a thoughtful meditation on this powerful devotion. Through word and image Radcliffe offers a profound experience of reflecting on the Stations of the Cross that is both visually and spiritually inspiring. With each reflection,...
Cristiano Ronaldo - The Biography
The definitive biography of Cristiano Ronaldo, named Football Book of the Year at the Cross Sports Book Awards 2016Fully updated to include the 2015-16 seasonCristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers of all time, a dream he pursued from the age of just twelve when he left his humble origins on Madeira behind.It wasnt long before he had the biggest clubs in Europe knocking on his door,...