Bücher veröffentlicht von Austin Macauley

In a world plagued by loss and filled with everything she despises, Dawn embarks on a desperate quest for a better life. Miraculously, she is granted a perfect existence surrounded by the love of those she holds dear, including those she has lost. Yet, amidst the sunlit wonders of this new reality, a shadow lingers-the malevolent presence of Htaed, a relentless monster who stalks Dawn relentlessly, even infiltrating her room and haunting her every waking moment. One fateful night, Htaed seizes Dawn, spiriting her away to the depths of their dark dominion. Here, humans are cruelly used as slaves, their life force drained until they become wandering souls, eternally trapped within the foreboding castles and grounds of Hell. To escape this harrowing realm, Dawn must endure a treacherous journey through ten stages, each one representing her deepest fears and those of her fellow captives. Only by conquering these stages can she hope to return home to the real world. Yet, failure carries a grim consequence: should Dawn falter, she will be condemned to serve Htaed and the other merciless rulers of this lower kingdom until her spirit withers away, becoming just another lost soul in the vast abyss of torment.

Abbie was a beautiful baby growing too big for her room, but the idea of leaving felt far too soon. Everything in her current room is familiar and old, and the new room created by her beloved parents doesn't quite have her sold. Follow Abbie on the age old journey of life, growth and change as she develops from a baby tiny and small, to a toddler who is building her confidence and growing up tall.

Human induced climate change, overuse of natural resources, overwhelming amount of waste and pollution, gender inequality, elevated stress levels, flood of fake news. All these have a lot to do with our controversial human nature and how our race has formed, besides making our life more difficult and less sustainable. You are to see the controversial process of how we began to become the only highly intelligent species, how widespread is our impact on our environment and why we are inching ahead to the point where extinction will be an issue to deal with. This book provides an original context of the links to our roots and hints at what we should do. It offers a solution to the seven decade-old Fermi paradox and answers the eternal question of meaning and importance of happiness. It is easy to get the idea. Accepting the conclusions might be a harder task. The real challenge is making a change. Are you ready to start seeing the whole picture?

Katie Baxter is just an ordinary 10-year-old girl, until late one night she is dragged into the pages of a mystical book along with her younger brother Jack. When Katie lands in the magical world of Enchanta, she is greeted by two beautiful elves and learns she is the chosen one and the only person who can save this new world, and her own, from the evil Crimson Warlock. But first she must find seven keys that will break the power of the Crimson Warlock and his stranglehold over the normally friendly forest animals, and release the source of life and power on Enchanta: The Golden Orb. But the Orb is firmly entombed in the Crimson Warlock's Dark Tower, so Katie must be smarter and more resourceful to find the keys. Full of suspense and positive behavioural themes the first book in this series, Tales of Enchanta: The Mystic Waterfall will keep young readers captivated from the first page to the last.

The Cruise Vacation takes readers on a wild ride through the highs and lows of addiction, as told through the unfiltered lens of a former nurse turned drug addict. From the hectic pace of a UK hospital to the dizzying rush of snorting, injecting and smoking any narcotic he could get his hands on, the protagonist's story is a cautionary tale of excess and adventure. As he spirals out of control, he exchanges his professional life for a world of self-anesthetisation, casual sex and multiple attempts to kick the habit. Through community rehabilitations, untold pain, regrets, and a horrific example of failure, the protagonist's childhood sweetheart remains by his side, helping him cling to life and recognize his own mortality. This personal journal takes readers through the heart-wrenching journey of addiction, offering a stark reminder of the destructive power of drugs and the importance of love, family, and community in the face of overwhelming temptation.

Olivia will no longer be the only child. A new member of the family is on the way! For the parents this is a busy, happy time preparing for the new arrival. But how does Olivia feel about having a new sibling? Olivia is shown she is a much loved, valued, and important member of the family. This book, intended to be read to toddlers, helps prepare them for their parent's inevitable distraction by the baby's needs. This can help to reinforce family love and avoid the troubles and conflict that often arise among young siblings.

CEO Amelie Rochfield knows what it takes to succeed. She has spent years learning how to navigate the social intricacies needed to succeed in London and how to hold onto that delicate balance between control and chaos. However, Nathaniel Brooks, the most important person in her life, is about to shift the balance. Can he show her what she has been missing out on, or will she allow fear to stop her seeing exactly what they can be?

Maralinga. A uniquely Australian tourist destination. A remote site in the State of South Australia where thousands of Service personnel, mainly British and Australian, witnessed the deliberate contamination of pristine Australian bush with plutonium. Maralinga, where Britain exploded 22 atomic bombs in the 1950s and 60s. 15 of those bombs were exploded in the infamous Vixen B trials in a manner which spread plutonium over hundreds of square kilometres. This is the inside story of the clean-up of a tiny fraction of the contaminated area. It is the story of how workmen in sealed vehicles scraped up thousands of tonnes of contaminated soil and transferred it to a huge burial trench. It is also the story of how thousands of tonnes of debris, contaminated with plutonium, were to have been treated in a manner considered by both British and Australian specialists to be ideal, was turned into a botched job by a group with no nuclear expertise in order to save money. It is the story of how the outcome was declared world's best practice by the newly formed Australian nuclear regulator, and was praised by the Australian government, but condemned by the federal opposition party. Maralinga has been returned to the Aboriginal owners, and tourists can now take their four-wheel drive vehicles to the site. They can walk on the cleaned area and learn something of the history. This book tells the rest.

True Friends is a heart-warming tale that explores the theme of friendship and kindness through the eyes of beloved animal characters. As readers journey through the story, they will learn valuable lessons about integrity, morality, and the importance of having true friends by our side as we navigate life's path. This book is perfect for young readers and will inspire them to be their best selves.

Rudyard Rhino is always happy playing with his friends, but has always wondered why he has NEVER had a rhino friend, so decides to go and find one across the nature reserve. Will Rudyard make it to the far end of the reserve? Will he find a new rhino friend?

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, monasteries and Orthodox churches, disguised as stone barns in the Troodos Mountains of Southern Cyprus, the remains of abbeys and Crusader Castles topping the jagged peaks of the Pentadactylos Mountains of Northern Cyprus, rock cut churches in the Taurus Mountains of Cappadocia or the impregnable, fortified Acropolis and Governor's Palace of the Knights of Saint John in Rhodes - each is testimony to the success of the missionary journeys undertaken by Saint Paul, the disciples and their followers - primarily the Crusaders and the Knights of Saint John and bear witness to the determination of early Christians, who despite the ongoing threat of persecution continued to practice and defend their new found faith. These are just a handful of the remarkable places visited and brought to life by the author on her travels through the troubled regions of the Mediterranean On the Trail of Saint Paul. "Adrienne Brady shows us how Saint Paul's epic missions to spread the Christian religion left an indelible mark on the countries he visited. Her journey brings biblical landscapes to life and uncovers a legacy of conflict which remains to this day." Rodger Witt, Editorial Consultant

As long as we have fire in us, we are alive. It keeps us moving forward, makes us aware of who we are. Fire in Me is an expression of love, passion, and a journey of self-empowerment. It's all about discovering ourselves amid the chaos of our lives, embracing all of us, including our sides hidden deep in us. It explores the self through love, sensuality, knowing soul, and body. It promotes the idea of self-discovery that leads us to find our inner wisdom and the true meaning of love. These poems are not just words, are coming from the heart and may represent many who are in the process of finding their truth.

What if you were growing up in a war, with a best friend who has fled from the enemy for safety? To whom do you talk? And whom can you trust? And then in a zoo you discover a secret that you must never tell anyone. Imagine yourself in that same Dutch city, famous for its mouse and windmills, with your everyday life of bicycles, schools, visits, friends and parents. And then disaster strikes. The boots arrive. Who is on whose side? Who is brave and who not? And even if you make a little sense of it all, you are no longer a child, and growing up fast, and the very biggest question of all is coming your way... why?

Follow these three mischievous but adorable rabbits, Topsy, Carrot and Bo as they make their escape from their garden and go on a massive wild and wondrous adventure. They encounter all sorts of things they have never experienced before. Their journey consists of excitement, fear, loneliness, nervousness, tiredness, and hopefulness too. All three rabbits are very different in personality and this heart-warming story shows how the three of them get on together to overcome the trials and tribulations of their journey and it shows what true friends they really are, and how they all stick together when needed. Topsy is the confident ring leader with a lot to say, Carrot is the hesitant, nervous one, frightened of her own shadow and Bo is so laid-back, carefree, and just wants to fit in. They learn that it's great to have an adventure but so good to get home to familiar things too!

Our past, present and future begins over a thousand years into the future in an alternative universe where humanity have just started to flourish on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Having harnessed the power of nanotechnology and combining it with arc reactor technology, humanity no longer age and managed to increase their population to the hundreds of thousands. Arthur, Earth's prodigy Captain must lead his team to the moon and prepare Earth's first colony class spaceship, for the evacuation of Earth. What starts as a basic mission, soon turns into an edge of your seat adventure into the unknown. Arthur will be forced to step up and save his people or let another take his place. Hope can come from the darkest of places, sometimes its mysterious and from an unknown source. Something is waiting on the Columbus, whether good or bad depends on how humanity decides to treat them. The Ancient Astronauts are shaping into familiar figures of our past as they journey unknowingly towards our timeline.

In a society many consider now to be post-Christian, with traditional rituals and expressions of belief and faith struggling to maintain their appeal, we desperately need different signs and symbols to help us realise afresh the message of the Christian Gospel and the importance of faith. Ivor Moody argues that the songs studied in this book can provide a way to do just that. They are familiar, much-loved icons of music played and admired by millions and famous throughout the world; but also, they might contain a message to the world of faith and spirituality to look again at how the sacred can be found within the secular. They are stories of a priest and a parishioner feeling crippled by their loneliness; a musician who has ended up in a dead-end bar with others who need to blot out life for a little while; a community living with division and repression, a dying soldier, a singer experiencing a kind of epiphany and people living with mental illness. Each song connects us to something in our own story. Songs which have been with us for years and which thread through our lives but which could provide those new signs and symbols which will be able to inform and enrich our relationship with God.

This book will prove controversial for several reasons, the main one being that it shows the vanquishing of the ancient cultural beliefs, of the ancient cultures, primarily around the Mediterranean that come today to be called 'paganism'. This was not a one-off event. The victory of monotheism was the latest phase in an ongoing battle between Monotheism and what we can call the 'Heliopean Pantheons'. Other contentious topics are innovative ideas affecting ancient Egyptian history and Biblical Dream Misinterpretation. Other topics are also discussed such as the proposed 'Wave Nature of Cultures' and 'Cultural Compression'.

This fictional story is about James Foxby, newly arrived in Dublin and finding work as a casino dealer. Here, confidentiality is taken to a whole new level. For this is no ordinary casino. And it appears that the laws of the land have no bearing or standing in the place. From drunken meetings with the general manager, the wild and unpredictable Herman Mink, to private blackjack games in a luxury hotel suite, James experiences some strange and fairly bizarre happenings. And he meets some quite extraordinary characters along the way. But he also comes to realise that a very sinister force is at work behind the scenes at the Green Bullion Club. And in the aftermath of him becoming caught up in an act of violence against a customer, the shocking truth about what happened makes him want to leave and not look back. However, once he begins an intimate relationship with one of the casino's customers, leaving the country is the last thing he wants. James has not felt this happy in some time. But soon dramatic events signal the end of his short spell in Ireland, and the subtle, yet ever-present threat of violence from his employer becomes too much to bear. James cannot help but wonder, after the goodbyes and well-wishes are over, if he will be allowed to simply leave. And even once he has begun his journey home, it seems that Herman Mink has one more trick up his sleeve to make him stay.

Yvy spent her life discovering what it meant to live authentically, and realised that her truth lay in her identity as an Indian transgender woman. After discovering who she was, Yvy ensured that nothing would impede her from evolving into the woman she always knew she was, despite her upbringing in a Muslim community and the many obstacles she faced, as her journey took her to places she never thought she'd venture to. As the continuing story from Tainted Beauty, Yvy takes you even deeper, reliving her experiences with relationships, culture, family and finding strength through adversity. Yvolved is a personal, intimate and unapologetic story of a woman who is not afraid to break the social construct of gender and affirm her queer identity.

William and his best friend Stinky Ted were swimming in the sea when they met a very naughty shark and crocodile. William had his legs stolen but the clever boy found lots of different legs to try before finding the perfect pair. A story about friendship, limb loss, and recovery.

"I've been stabbed! I'm bleeding! I'll never get to do the things I've always wanted! Learn a new language, open a Christmas restaurant for the holidays, have a fight with Jason Statham! ...The wound... it's gone!? Well, to be fair, it's not the weirdest thing that's happened so far." If someone told you their parents were killed by a superhero, would you believe them? Legeromei was only a young boy when his parents were killed by a bionic superhero. And now, eight years later, he's being hunted by the people who worked for his parents. He wants answers to why they want him, and to why he's going through some serious pubescent changes. All he wants to do is spend time with his new friends and the girl he likes. Can he figure out what's going on before Christmas? Aliens, Demigods, and bionic humans...what could go right?

A mysterious island is brought into chaos when a unique presence is gone missing. Who has taken it? And why are the islanders distraught? Follow the islanders as the chaos unfolds and see if there's any hope for redemption. Will they have a saviour or are they doomed? Open the book and see what secrets the mysterious island holds and how the unique presence that was keeping them afloat truly is one in a gazillion. This Gothic thriller has all the punchiness to keep you breathless! And all the mystery to keep you on your toes. The whole world chaos of 2019's Covid situation and that year's Halloween inspired the author to portray her feelings and thoughts about the world around her within her own fictional setting and scenario. Don't be fooled into thinking it's a medical emergency themed book because it's anything but!

Louie and Luna are two little dragons who love to explore and find shiny new rocks to collect for their little treasure piles. When Louie and Luna are all grown up and big, they want to be just like their Mummy and Daddy and find big dragon jewels, but Luna doesn't want to wait until she's all grown. She tries to follow Mummy and Daddy Dragon, but loses them and starts throwing a very big tantrum! What will happen when Louie tries to help her, but Luna can't control her temper?

This book is an original, non-denominational approach to the concept of divinity. The basic underlying philosophy is that, since the existence of God cannot be proven, one can only hypothesize about his/her/its existence. Mystics claim to know God through direct experience. Their views are amply represented. In conclusion, a hypothesis of divinity is formulated, inspired by the mystical view of the omnipresence of the Divine.

The story unfolds the day before Thomas's birthday with the crazy antics of the guardian fairies. We go from a simple toothache to multiple visits to the Accident & Emergency department of the hospital. Then to the party the following day, a food fight and strange games with the inevitable happening, more visits to A&E. Boys will love it and girls will smile at the antics of silly boys! Now the truth is out, the myth that Christmas tree fairies are tucked away in tinsel each year is blown out of the water. Yes, you think they are nestling in a bed of tinsel in a box in the loft but no, Christmas on the tree is their holiday and their real day jobs are as guardian fairies for little boys and girls. Most are able but unfortunately not all, some are not as competent as they should be, and some are downright incompetent! In Thomas's Tooth we have a birthday party of injured and plaster-casted boys running amok, and all due to the exceptionally incompetent actions of Thomas's fairy Erik and his fellow fairies.