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  First Do No Harm

  Peter Sykes

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  Set against industrial action that beset the NHS in the 1970's, the normal healthy camaraderie of the City Hospital is lost as the dispute sets nurse against nurse and doctor against doctor. Operations are cancelled, waiting lists spiral out of control and patient's lives are put at risk.Kate and Paul are saddened that so many of their colleagues are prepared to become involved. Hadn't they agreed to abide by the Hippocratic Oath with its simple message 'First do no harm'?The devastating effect that the disruption has on their patients causes the young couple great concern. They are desperate to avoid being involved in industrial action - but are destined to be drawn in against their wishes.

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  Stumbling Blocks - A Second...

  Jennifer Krebs

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  Stumbling Blocks is a powerful intergenerational memoir by Jennifer Krebs that explores her family’s journey from Nazi Germany to rural America. Blending personal history, Jewish identity, and emotional reflection, the book traces her father’s memories of growing up under the Third Reich and her own coming-of-age in small-town New York as the daughter of a survivor. The title refers to the Stolpersteine—brass plaques in Europe commemorating victims of National Socialism—that spark a meditation on trauma, memory, and belonging. With warmth, honesty, and a touch of wit, Krebs reflects on family legacy, the echoes of history, and the quiet resilience of survival.

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  The Writings of the Apostolic...

  Various Early Christian Writers,...

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  What if the Church’s first generation after the apostles had left behind spiritual blueprints for us today? 
  The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers delivers a compelling collection of texts from Christianity’s earliest leaders—modernized for today’s listener.  
  These voices bridge the gap between Scripture and the Church’s rise, preserving firsthand wisdom, doctrine, and devotion from those who knew the apostles or followed them directly. 
  What you’ll discover inside: 
  •	1 & 2 Clement – Deep calls for humility, forgiveness, and church unity 
  •	Seven Epistles of Ignatius – Fierce, intimate letters defending Jesus’s divinity and the authority of the bishop 
  •	The Didache – Practical instructions on baptism, fasting, prayer, and Eucharist from one of the oldest Christian handbooks 
  •	Epistle of Barnabas – Early theological exploration of Old Testament symbolism and Christian identity 
  •	Polycarp’s Letters & Martyrdom Account – Stories of devotion, courage, and sacrifice from a disciple of John 
  •	The Shepherd of Hermas – Visionary allegories on repentance, angels, and end-time preparation 
  Whether you’re seeking the lost voices of the early Church or inspiration for your spiritual life, this audiobook opens a portal to ancient truth. 
  Let the voices of the Apostolic Fathers guide you back to the faith’s first foundation.

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  Prisoner of the State

  Lily Arthur

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  At sixteen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between the women’s liberation movement of the ‘swinging sixties and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. 
   
  For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in the notorious Holy Cross Home for ‘wayward’ girls in Wooloowin, Brisbane as a ‘prisoner’ of the state. Lily spent her entire pregnancy performing unpaid labour its infamous Magdalene Laundry. 
   
  On 1 September 1967, the terrified teenager was taken to the Royal Brisbane Hospital where she gave birth shackled to a bed, and her newborn son cruelly stolen from her – one of 250,000 babies forcibly seized from vulnerable unmarried mothers under the Government’s illegal forced adoption policies of the era. 
   
  After decades of heartache and an emotional reunion with her long-lost son, Lily remains on a crusade to expose the truth behind the crimes a country tried to hide and has taken the fight to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, demanding justice for a generation of women who were victims of one of the worst human rights violations in contemporary Australian history. 
   
   ‘Only a few mothers led the fight for justice, but an army of women stood behind them. Lily Arthur represents a mother who never gave up her child willingly and fought to make sure he and many other adopted children knows.’ KAREN WILSON-BUTERBAUGH, Director of Origins International and USA 
   
  ‘Deeply personal and at times very raw insight. It is compelling, powerful, intense, no holes barred narrative. It clearly shows the lifelong impact of the illegal, cruel practices of forced adoption and a mother's fight for justice." SENATOR RACHAEL SIEWERT 
   
  ‘A heart-breaking view of crimes against humanity. For almost three decades, Lily Arthur details the legalised kidnapping of babies from millions of women in Australia and elsewhere who were brainwashed to comply with society's punishment. Punishment for getting pregnant. The truth of the horrors of adoption laid bare." JOE SOLL LCSW, Psychotherapist, and author of Adoption Healing

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  Tracking Giants - Big Trees Tiny...

  Amanda Lewis, Dr. Diana...

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  Amanda Lewis was an overachieving, burned-out book editor most familiar with trees as dead blocks of paper. A dedicated "indoorswoman," she could barely tell a birch from a beech. But that didn't stop her from pledging to visit all of the biggest trees in British Columbia, a Canadian province known for its rugged terrain and gigantic trees. 
   
   
   
  The "Champion" trees on Lewis's ambitious list ranged from mighty Western red cedars to towering arbutus. The only problem? Well, there were many . . . 
   
   
   
  Climate change and a pandemic aside, Lewis's lack of wilderness experience, the upsetting reality of old-growth logging, the ever-changing nature of trees, and the pressures of her one-year time frame complicated her quest. Burned out again—and realizing that her "checklist" approach to life might be the problem—she reframed her search for trees to something humbler and more meaningful: getting to know forests in an interconnected way. 
   
   
   
  Weaving in insights from writers and artists, Lewis uncovers what we're really after when we pursue the big things—revealing that sometimes it's the smaller joys, the mindsets we have, and the companions we're with that make us feel more connected to the natural world.

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  Elizabeth Taylor - The Last Star

  Kitty Kelly

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  Before she became a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already a star, appearing in such films as Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. One of the few child actors to transition to a successful film career as an adult, Taylor starred in such classics as Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, and Who' s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In addition to receiving two Academy Awards, Taylor led a tumultuous personal life that kept her in the headlines for decades. Her many marriages, most notably twice to Richard Burton, received tabloid attention and made her the fodder for countless magazine articles the public couldn' t get enough of. Here is the unauthorized biography of one of America's brightest— and most flamboyantly glamorous— stars. Biographer Kitty Kelley tells all— even the parts Liz would rather have kept secret— in this uncensored account of a Hollywood' s icon.

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