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  Beyond Hope - A powerful story...

  Bariz Shah

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  A powerful story of how one man didn't let other people define him 
    
  'Bariz gifts us his truth-telling, delivered with unwavering optimism.' Matt Brown, author of She Is Not Your Rehab 
  'Beautifully written. Takes us right inside a young person's life and is ultimately uplifting in the way they take control of that life.' Kathryn Ryan, RNZ Nine to Noon  
   
  At age 18, Bariz Shah ended up in an Auckland prison. As an Afghan migrant who was deeply affected by 9/11, Bariz spiralled from schoolyard fights into crime and drugs - until prison made him rethink the story of his life. 
  Years later, in Christchurch, Bariz had turned everything around when a terrorist walked into the local mosque and took the lives of 51 people in his community. Driven by a new purpose, Bariz and his wife Saba raised money to return to Afghanistan and establish 51 small businesses in honour of those they lost.  
  In this memoir about finding self-belief, belonging and positive change, Bariz's story reminds us that we always have the power to change ourselves for the better. 
  'The book is sensitive and insightful about how pain comes into a life and how it lasts.' Phillip Matthews, The Press 
  'Extraordinary. A powerful story of redemption and hope.' Hon Lianne Dalziel CNZM, former Mayor of Christchurch 
  'Bariz has been through adversity and emerged with love, care and kindness. He shows that nothing is impossible.' Meng Foon, Race Relations Commissioner 2019-2023  
  HarperCollins Australia 2024

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  Adrift [Movie tie-in] - A True...

  Tami Oldham Ashcraft

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  The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest). 
  Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami's hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn't anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. They found themselves battling pounding rain, waves the size of skyscrapers, and 140 knot winds. Richard tethered himself to the boat and sent Tami below to safety, and then all went eerily quiet. Hours later, Tami awakened to find the boat in ruins, and Richard nowhere in sight. 
  Adrift is the story of Tami's miraculous forty-one-day journey to safety on a ravaged boat with no motor and no masts, and with little hope for rescue. It's a tale of love and survival on the high seas—an unforgettable story about resilience of the human spirit, and the transcendent power of love.

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  Kill the Messangers - Stephen...

  Mark Bourrie

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  Information, the lifeblood of democracy, is under attack in Canada. Instead of the transparency Stephen Harper promised, the nation’s business is done in secret, and an army of lobbyists and public-relations flackies now set the agenda and decide what we get to know.When we are denied information, when we no longer feel free to discuss political events or issues, when we are discouraged from even thinking about politics, voting loses its appeal. In such a climate, exercising ones democratic rights seems superfluous.Stephen Harper and his government, while delegitimizing the media’s role in our political system, also undertook a war on the nations information systems: Statistics Canada was effectively killed, hundreds of scientists and statisticians were fired, our Library and Archives Canada were gutted and freedom of information rules turned into a joke. Facts, it would seem, are no longer relevant.In Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper’s Assault on Your Right to Know, Mark Bourrie reveals how events conspired to silence Canadian media and elect an anti-intellectual government determined to govern in secret Using multiple examples and case studies, Bourrie illustrates how the collection of facts that embarrass the government’s position or undermine it’s ideologically based decsion-making have been suppressed through budget cuts. And, perhaps more importantly, Bourrie shows how to take back your right to be informed and heard.Kill the Messengers is more than just a collection of complaints bemoaning the current state of Canadian media, it is a call to arms for all uf us to become informed citizens and active participants in the democratic process. This is a book all Canadians are entitled access to hear-and now, they’ll get the chance.

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  On the road to find out

  Robert C. Brewster

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  On the road to find out  is a thought provoking memory emoting read for a generation that lived it and for those younger and wise enough to want to discover what it was like to live in the moment. It is rooted in the time period of 1967 to 1974 and unfolds mainly in the seaside resort town of Wildwood New Jersey. It’s a story of heartbreak and discovery. It’s a wild ride through America as seen through the eyes of this young Canadian, as he digs deep inside his self, in the hopes of recapturing the one thing he lost and means everything to him, true love. The people and situations in it are real and unfolded as I and others remembered them. Though it reads like fiction, the story is true in every sense. It is a photographic memory of a special time and place that screamed to be documented. 

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  The Recruitment Rollercoaster -...

  Joshua Rayner

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  Josh Rayner’s anticipated debut release – The Recruitment Rollercoaster – is for the budding entrepreneur looking to build a meaningful and lucrative recruitment business.  
  The Recruitment Rollercoaster discusses the pitfalls you are likely to face when you start a business and provides invaluable advice, tricks, and tools to save your precious time and money. After reading this book, you will fall so deeply in love with your business that nothing can stand in the way of your rapid success.  
  After reading this book, you will:Learn how to create the ideal life/work balanceUnderstand big picture thinking to achieve more in a shorter timeUnderstand your WHY and your fundamental reason for getting up in the morningLearn how to scale fast and reach your goals more quicklyDiscover how processes can set you free and save you valuable timeLearn how to utilise the unstoppable three-year plan 
  “This book can only be described as a recipe for success and will give the reader a framework to succeed in business and more importantly in the recruitment industry.” – Sanjay Gandhi, Mentor and Entrepreneur

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  The Lizard King - The Essential...

  Jerry Hopkins

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  Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, has achieved a bizarre cult status since his death in 1971. Morrison was one of the most popular and controversial figures to emerge during the sixties; described as an 'erotic politician', poet, shaman, Dionysian drunk, his style and influence have grown steadily in the twenty years since his death, so that the real man has gradually disappeared behind the legend. Now, in The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison, Morrison's biographer Jerry Hopkins, co-author of No One Here Gets Out Alive, reassesses Jim's life and provides fresh insights into him as a human being rather than the myth that he has become. But this reassessment is only part of this remarkable book. At its heart is a series of interviews with Jim Morrison by journalists including Hopkins himself, Ben Fong-Torres, John Tobler, Bob Chorush, Salli Stevenson, Richard Goldstein and the late John Carpenter, Morrison shows himself to have been articulate, intelligent and witty. Published uncut, these interviews provide a unique insight into a man who consciously created his own myth, then lived to regret it. Stripping bare the facts from the fantasies of Jim's death in Paris in 1971, and taking a long hard look at what has happened since to the people who he left behind, The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison brings sharply into focus the broken dreams and unreachable ideals of one of the sixties' most enduring icons.

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