WINNER Teen Literature Non-Fiction Category 2012 Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards Your secret to high school success Featuring career advice from TMK Consulting's Tracy Keith, and boy advice from 'R-Tizt', from UK band Luminites The High School Survival Guide is a full-colour, magazine style book for girls in early high school (ages 11-14). It's a guide to dealing with the ups and downs of high school life. The book's six sections are: <ul>
<li>School Life</li> <li>Home Life</li> <li>Social Life</li> <li>Love Life</li> <li>Work Life</li> <li>Inner Life</li> </ul>
This book isn't specific to any group or religion; rather, it's designed to empower young girls (no matter what their existing beliefs) to resist peer pressure, build self-confidence and self-esteem, and learn to accept themselves for the special and unique people that they are. A note for parents and carers: We suggest you give this book a quick read before giving it to your daughter. Parents/carers have responded really well to the up-to-date content of this book, and it will help you answer any questions your daughter might have. The High School Survival Guide makes the perfect Christmas and birthday gift for any young girl in junior high or middle school.

The High School Survival Guide: A handbook for the modern teenage girl

Self-Help

Ally Mosher

Self-Esteem

MoshPit Publishing

Loki's Joke: How I learned to stop fighting and be a woman

Blackwell, Penny

Biographies & Memoirs

On 19 March 1818, a young man called John Champley was committed to the House of Correction in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, for two years’ hard labour. He had been convicted of being a party to the theft of eighty pounds of butt leather in Pocklington on 13 December 1817. Four months later, after an attempted escape from the House of Correction, he was sentenced to transportation to one of His Majesty’s ‘Plantations or Colonies abroad’. Champley arrived in the penal colony of Sydney Cove on Thursday 7 October 1819 and was assigned to a shoemaker at Parramatta. After receiving his freedom in May 1826, Champley left Parramatta – with the shoemaker’s wife. Early in 1829, Champley and his family left Sydney to live at Bong Bong. In February 1830, following a robbery at the nearby Oldbury estate, Champley and his two alleged accomplices, John Yates and Joseph Shelvey, were sentenced to death at Campbelltown. They were saved from the gallows upon appeal by their barrister and their death penalties commuted to ‘life and hard labour in irons’. Champley and Shelvey were sent to Norfolk Island, and Yates to Moreton Bay. About a year later, two captured bushrangers from Jack Donohoe’s gang made confessions concerning the robbery and Champley, Shelvey and Yates were brought home and pardoned. However, the trial and incarceration had by now reduced their lives from one of hope to one of despair. ~~~ Many Australians now take great pride in tracing their convict heritage, but this has not always been the case. Historically governments destroyed convict records and families kept their offspring in the dark about their convict ancestry which has made it difficult to establish the true stories of these convicts. The backdrop to this story is the slavery of the convict system in New South Wales with the terror of the penal settlements of Norfolk Island and Moreton Bay. Under this evil system excessive floggings were handed out by the magistrates. The floggings and starvation drove many convicts to abscond and take to the bush to become bushrangers. Even when the convicts were emancipated they were still treated as second class citizens.  This book serves to record as many facts and details as possible of one story from this tragic period in our country’s history. It is a timely reminder that compassion and authority do not always go hand in hand.

The Campbelltown Convicts

History

Hinds, Peter J

Australia & Oceania

Who Caught the Yawn? and Where Did the Sneeze Go?: Two stories from the life of Max

Children's Books

Jennifer Mosher

Growing Up & Facts of Life

If you enjoy current best-selling thriller novels by authors such as Clive Cussler, James Rollins, Steve Berry and Brad Thor, if you like high adventure, exotic locations and action thrillers with a historical twist, then this is page-turner for you THE EMPRESS HOLDS THE KEY is a mystery action thriller for the thinking reader who has an open mind and likes to be challenged. In THE EMPRESS HOLDS THE KEY, author Gabriel Farago takes you on an exciting journey of discovery where the stakes are high, the rewards great, but where the price of failure is oblivion. This fast-paced international thriller weaves fact and fiction into an adventure of epic proportions as it follows the lives of a handful of diverse individuals tied together by destiny and fate. Journalist Jack Rogan knows a great story when he finds one. A charred old photograph found in the ruins of a burnt-out Blue Mountains cottage hints at dark secrets and unwittingly reignites an ancient and deadly quest for a holy relic mysteriously erased from the pages of history. Federal Police officer Jana Gonski in pursuit of a suspected Nazi war criminal joins forces with Rogan, barrister and amateur archaeologist Marcus Carrington QC, and celebrated composer Benjamin Krakowski. Together they uncover a murky web of intrigue and greed, hoards of Nazi gold and hidden Swiss bank accounts. All implicate wealthy banker Sir Eric Newman. When Newman goes on trial, unexpected clues are discovered pointing the way to a mystery that has haunted the Catholic Church for centuries. On a dangerous journey to find the relic, Rogan and his companions trace links back as far as the reign of Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh of ancient Egypt, and King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. What is this dark secret guarded by the Knights Templar, and so feared by the Vatican? Will religious fanatics foil the quest which could destroy the very foundations of their Church and challenge Christianity itself? To preview the opening chapters, please click on the Look Inside Feature.

The Empress Holds the Key

Literature & Fiction

Farago, Gabriel

Action & Adventure

*** WINNER - BRONZE MEDAL - 2015 Global Ebook Awards *** A year … Fifty-two weeks … Three-hundred and sixty-five days … No matter how time is measured objectively, human beings can also experience the passing of time subjectively. For Malena ‘Lena’ Foch, the events in that watershed year of her life appear to render the concept of calendar year irrelevant. It is as though she finds herself living several lives in those three hundred and sixty-five days. In spite of having been caught in the ups and downs of bipolar disorder for much of her life, Lena has clocked up ‘bragging rights’ that she would have never dreamt possible in her early years: her family relationships, her friends, her career as a psychologist, among others—all of it an ocean away from where she was born. What many human beings take for granted: stability—financial, emotional, intellectual and physical—constitute Lena’s greatest life achievement. However, Lena’s newfound and hard-earned peace is tested by a cocktail of challenging events, and some of her nearest and dearest are not what they seem to be. In an unexpected twist, Lena finds herself facing unforeseen and unthinkable circumstances that force her to take a snap decision for the sake of her own personal safety. In less than seventy-two hours, Lena’s new life journey starts, and it will not be without risks. Her cherished life project has been badly shattered, together with her sense of trust. In her year-long journey, Lena has to face her old demons in new situations; challenges herself to learn a new discipline (aikido) and achieves greater self-control, even in the face of conflict and bereavement. Her old erotic self is awakened, and to her astonishment, sexual tension arises in unexpected and inconvenient situations. Not that she is a stranger to being devoured by passion, but her objects of desire are in positions of power and her academic future is at stake. Set in Inner Sydney and in Clovelly Beach, ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ is Lena’s journey of three hundred and sixty-five days of change, of living life to the fullest, of resilience and renewal in the face of overwhelming challenges, and of overcoming her fears and accepting her own destiny. Mature age is portrayed as a time of learning, and Lena throws herself into her life homework so fully that it exceeds her own expectations, as well as those of the people around her.

Bittersweet Symphony

Jensen, F F

Genre Fiction

Dawn Meredith has worked with children and their parents for over 20 years and has seen many children suffer with anxiety, even depression. This book was written as a resource for her clients but demand for 12 Annoying Monsters: Self-talk for kids with anxiety has been so strong she has now released it to the general public. Suitable for readers aged eight and over, this book details: the reasons for anxiety symptoms how the body protects us in times of real danger and helps children figure out what thought processes are causing these over-the-top reactions. By assigning a 'monster' (such as the 'Bad Stuff Always Happens To Me Monster') to negative thoughts, a child can put the message as an influence outside their head and thereby learn to ignore it. The funny thing about this book is that adults will flick through it and exclaim out loud, 'Oh, this one talks to me!' There are ways of thinking which are inherited, as personality, and therefore run in families. In this way, the book can stimulate conversations between parents and their children. 12 Annoying Monsters: Self-talk for kids with anxiety is highly recommended by counsellors, psychologists and parents. Why Dawn Meredith wrote 12 Annoying Monsters Dawn has been working with children and their families for 25 years. After noticing how many kids suffer with panic attacks, feelings of misery and helplessness, she decided to put all her tips into this fun book as a way of helping other children and their families.

12 Annoying Monsters: Self-talk for kids with anxiety

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Meredith, Dawn

Psychology & Counseling

What My Eyes Have Seen

Payne, John S.

Mental Health

Adventures with Agitators is a tribute to the resilience, determination, patience and tolerance of the Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders of Queensland.In a series of short yarns about their battles in the justice and political systems, this book exposes the cruelty and hypocrisy of the ruling elite of Australia in pursuing policies of segregation and marginalisation. While Australia pointed the finger at South Africa, it maintained the same policies for our Indigenous peoples.The book is not a history, a biography or a legal or anthropological text. It is an easy read for those wanting to understand the recent past. The author has had the advantage of being privy to their tragedies and dramas - as well as their humour and humanity.The word "agitator" was applied politically and judicially to any of them who sought justice. In a celebrated High Court case involving Percy Neal, Justice Lionel Murphy opined that, without agitators, "there would be no advance towards civilisation."These are stories of the adventures of these brave agitators, to share with people of good heart.

Adventures with Agitators: Stories from Indigenous Australia

Paul Richards

Whale Rock

Diana Plater

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