The Mafia, drug dealers and IRA terrorists all play their part in this novel about India Grey. The events of a single terrible day will lead her to the man she marries, to the priest who eventually becomes her lover, and to a world of fear and revenge.

A blood affair

Roberts, Jan

Harpercollins

Rest

Word Entertainment Music

The Spirit of Caring Movement is based on the simple yet transformative belief that the cultural emphasis on materialism and self-interest is not what is most important to people. Instead, most people are yearning for a meaningful connection to others and to a purpose greater than themselves. This movement validates the basic goodness of people and seeks ways to have this goodness reflected as a top priority wherever people work, play and live. It seeks to strengthen ethics and meaning in schools, business, law, media, healthcare, neighborhoods, and other areas of our lives.

A Community Spirit of Caring Begins With You

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

iUniverse

<p>A young British woman, who blocks the horrors of her past and tries to get on with her life, unwittingly marries into the Mafia and begins a love affair with the priest to whom she turned for solace. A first novel.</p>

Blood Affair

Literature & Fiction

Simon&Schuster

Jack Of Cape Grim

Greenhouse

<p>Book by Roberts, George, Roberts, Jan</p>

Discover Historic California: A Travel Guide to over 1500 Places You Can See

Travel

Roberts, George

United States

Gem Guides Book Co.

You may have read about American Indians who resisted the loss of their lands. This book tells how the Aborigines in Australia fought similarly in defense of their lands along a most savage frontier. Jack of Cape Grim is a unique and rare account, based on original unpublished handwritten diaries and correspondence, and on Aboriginal memories, of an intrepid band of Aboriginal women and men who fought to protect their lands, resisting three military expeditions sent after them. Melbourne in 1839 consisted of tumbledown wooden houses and roads so muddy that horses and carts sunk out of sight, yet it was a magnet for the younger sons of aristocrats who arrived accompanied by tens of thousands of sea-sick sheep. Nearby the Aborigines had stone walled homes with roofs so strong that settlers reported they stood the weight of a horse, and extensive fish farms - all of which was soon to be destroyed. This is the story of an incredible cultural clash in one of the remotest parts of the British Empire. Many Aboriginal Elders thought the end of days had come. They said the dead had returned, for everyone knew that ghosts were white! They said these must not be resisted. Other Aborigines took every opportunity to study the technology bought by these strangers - and others, more astutely perhaps, said these new arrivals were savages from overseas and must be immediately resisted. Among the later were a group of three Tasmanian women, including Truganini, a woman famous for her beauty among the settler leaders and wrongly reputed to be the last of her people, and two Tasmanian men including Jack of Cape Grim. They had no hope of returning to their tribal lands, so eventually decided they must make a last stand. This is their story of how they outwitted the British army sent against them and drove settlers back into town, but only to be finally betrayed. However these women then won their way back to Tasmania and continued to struggle for their land. Today, near Cape Grim in Tasmania, where Jack's folk were thrown over a cliff, some of their people's descendants still hunt the mutton bird. Australian government funding has been granted for a film script based on this book and negotiations are proceeding. The author Jan Roberts worked for some 17 years with Aboriginal people and their organizations on civil rights issues. Her articles have appeared in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald as well as in the Independent and Financial Times in the UK. Her films have been shown on television in the USA, UK and Australia.

Jack of Cape Grim: A Story of British Invasion and Aboriginal Resistance

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Impact Investigative Media Productions

'Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia' by Janine Roberts is a new edition of a seminal illustrated work of history that had an enormous impact in Australia when first published there in 1981, for it revealed Australia's hidden story and its shame. The eminent Australian literary figure Xavier Herbert wrote of the author: 'She handles her history with a restraint that makes it a work deserving to be established as a classic in our history. The effect on myself was profound. My task is to commend Massacres to Mining as the most telling exposure of the evil ever done.' This powerful work documents, from both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal sources, the impact of British settlement on the Aborigines of Australia. If you know about the American Indians but nothing about Australian Aborigines, this is the book for you. It is both fascinating and a myth-buster. It tells what life in Australia was like before the British arrived, why Aborigines were falsely said to be nomads, and dispels the myth that Aborigines did not fight for their land - by describing the widespread nature of the fighting that ensued, a fight that was still waged against terrible odds in the remote parts of Australia in the 1930s. It describes how the mining industry led the charge onto the remaining Aboriginal lands. It tells, not just of the devastation caused by gold, uranium and diamond mining, but also of victories: of how a community removed in irons in the 1960s returned to reoccupy its land; how a nation whose ancestors defeated the Dutch in 1606 has now persuaded Shell to leave its strip-mining lease over 560 sq. miles of tropical forest rich in food sources. It is however an ongoing struggle. The book in an update tells how Aboriginal communities are today faced by renewed threats from uranium miners. This is a history for our times that tells of atrocities but points at ways to protect our earth by learning from the Aborigines. The author believes: 'Without understanding how things went wrong, we cannot build a future.' Roberts studied Sociology at the LSE and has since spent over 15 years working with Australian Aborigines. She has traveled with their elders throughout much of the Outback - and witnessed many of the events of recent times documented here. Her photographs are used throughout the book, along with cartoons by major artists. The book has received the endorsement of many Aborigines. It was the basis for the Grenada TV film 'Strangers in their Own Land' and helped inspire the BBC/ABC film 'A Sacred Rite.' Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney invited her to testify at the US Congress and said: ''Janine Roberts is that rare individual who unflinchingly speaks truth to power. I count myself among the privileged of the world to know Janine and her work.'

Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia

History

Australia & Oceania

The Beverly Hills International Party Planner: The International Directory for Party Services

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Entertaining & Holidays

Jan Roberts Pubns

The Beverly Hills Party Planner: The National Directory for Party Services : A Creative Resource Guide to over 1700 Sources for Planning Celebration

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