Once Upon a Time in Tarrula After an injury, ex-soldier Troy's too busy putting his life back together to worry about his heart. And his new assistant Stacie deserves a fairytale - not damaged goods. Yet could this Cinderella inspirei 1/2heri 1/2Prince Charming to claim their happy ever after...' To Wed a Rancher When Rachel dumps her cheating boyfriend, he dumps her in a one-horse Montana town. Then a deep, whisky-rough voice offers her a way out. Shane has returned to town to sell his parent's ranch, but could Rachel help put the 'home' back in his homestead?
Stories, songs and instructions for making models and nursery rhymes based on a beach theme. Features TPlay School' presenters George and Monica and follows the format of the television show. For preschool aged children.
Stories, songs and instructions for making models and nursery rhymes based on a farm theme. Features TPlay School' presenters Noni and Philip and follows the format of the television show. For preschool aged children.
Ideas for activities, games, stories and verse for young children using readily available and cheap materials including cast-offs and recycled materials. Aims to encourage the child's natural tendency to be involved in imitative and dramatic play and to make it a more valuable and imaginative experience. Indexed. The author has been involved with young children for over 30 years, first as a kindergarten teacher and director, and then with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as early childhood adviser. She has also produced and directed television and radio programs for young children including, TPlay School' and is author of TKids Craft and Play Ideas'.
The stars of the ABC 'Play School' program cavort through a week of bush-related activities to the tune of a well-known Aussie nursery song. Picture book format, ages 3 - 5.
Resource book containing over 100 activities for pre-school children, with some extensions for older children and simplified variations for toddlers. Useful for parents, teachers and other carers of young children. Activities include painting, making puppets, sewing and rhymes. Indexed. The author has worked on the TV program TPlay School', has written children's stories and books , and directed a TV series on craft and creative activity.
When you have places to go and people to see, how do you find the energy you need to get the job done? What are some techniques you can use to boost your energy when pressure suppresses it? How can you maintain your energy in times of strife? From the powerful personal stories in this book, you can learn to tap into that deep source of energy no matter the situation.
Fear. How does fear work through our personal, social, and professional lives? What are the effective ways to handle fear? Properly understood, fear can become a tremendous driver of personal growth and success. The powerful personal stories in this book will enable you to build a healthy relationship with fear." --
Colourful guide to art and craft activities for young children. Includes information on collage, modelling, weaving, puppets and finger painting. Part of the TBetter Living Collection' series.
“Canadians and politicians have a common responsibility: to learn from the mistakes inherited from a colonialist legacy; and to not repeat the wrongs, corruption, and injustices our people suffered in the hands of government officials, politicians, and their oppressive laws. Reading and learning from Cheated would be a good place to start reconciliation and reparation.” — Ovide Mercredi, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations The story of how Laurier Liberals took hold of the Department of Indian Affairs in 1896 and transformed it into a machine for expropriating Indigenous land. You won’t find the Ocean Man and Pheasant Rump reserves on a map of southeastern Saskatchewan. In 1901, the two Nakoda bands reluctantly surrendered the 70 square miles granted to them under treaty. It’s just one of more than two dozen surrenders aggressively pursued by the Laurier Liberal government over a fifteen-year period. One in five acres was taken from First Nations. This confiscation was justified on the grounds that prairie bands had too much land and that it would be better used by white settlers. In reality, the surrendered land was largely scooped up by Liberal speculators — including three senior civil servants and a Liberal cabinet minister —and flipped for a tidy profit. None were held to account. Cheated is a gripping story of single-minded politicians, uncompromising Indian Affairs officials, grasping government appointees, and well-connected Liberal speculators, set against a backdrop of politics, power, patronage, and profit. The Laurier government’s settlement of western Canada can never be looked at the same way again.
Conscripted into the British Army in 1940, talented journalist Anthony Cotterell was never going to make a natural soldier. The Army eventually realised that his abilities lay elsewhere and he was transferred to a new department of the War Office where he could do what he did best – write. He would become one of the Army's top journalists, eventually covering the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign. Anthony managed to blag himself a place in the parachute drop at Arnhem in September 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden. Captured, on 23 September he was one of a group of British prisoners wounded or killed when SS guards opened fire. Treated in a German dressing station with the other wounded, Anthony then vanished without trace, the only member of the party to do so. In Major Cotterell at Arnhem, Jennie Gray tells the story of Anthony's rise to journalistic fame in the Army, the Arnhem adventure, the SS war crime and the disappearance. She then recounts the dramatic and painful three-year search to find Anthony mounted by the War Crimes Group, the Search Bureau and the Netherlands War Crimes Commission, in tandem with the private search made by Anthony's devoted brother, Geoffrey Cotterell. Best-selling author Geoffrey has kindly co-operated in in the writing of this book. Complemented by Anthony's own words, official War Crime Group documentation and the letters about the search that Geoffrey wrote almost daily to his mother, this is a poignant story of one man lost in the tumult of war.
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