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  Midlife Career Rescue: What...

  Cassandra Gaisford

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  Change Careers, find your point of brilliance and achieve happiness at work 
  Amazon #1 bestselling author and career expert Cassandra Gaisford (BCA, Dip Psych)  provides simple but powerful and easy-to-implement ways to boost your happiness, find your passion and purpose, and change. Based on survey research, personal achievements, and her professional expertise and success as a career and life coach helping people achieve outstanding results - including lawyers, teachers, back-to-work mums, accountants, school leavers, and creative entrepreneurs - Gaisford answers the question: how to work with passion and still pay the bills. 
  Whether you’re considering a carer change at 30, 40, or changing careers at 50, Mid-Life Career Rescue: What Makes You Happy will help you:Explore and clarify your passions, interests, life purpose, values, transferable skills and natural gifts and talentsBuild a strong foundation for career happiness and success by identifying your criteria for job and life satisfactionValue your gifts, natural knacks and talents and confirm your work-related strengthsGain greater clarity about what you want to change and how to direct your energies positively toward your preferred futureStrengthen your creative thinking skills and ability to identify possible roles you would enjoy, including self-employmentHave the courage to quit or fall back in love with a job you’ve come to hateTake the stress out of worrying you'll make the wrong move, and super-charge the confidence needed to make an inspired changeFind your point of brilliance and achieve authentic happinessEscape the 9-5 drudge, live and work anywhere and join the new rich 
  The strategies in this book will also help job-hunters in their 20s, 30s or 60s

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  Wild Journeys

  Anonyme

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  Discover a world of wild, mysterious and audacious journeys 
   In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of the northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand's northern and southern capes; walks through the Valley under the Two Thumb Range to the mythical Mesopotamia; drives from Waiheke to Wanaka (in a hurry), sets off on a hunt for the South Island's Grey Ghost, looks deep into the heart of volcanic New Zealand and tracks our most unlikely hero, the prison escaper George Wilder.

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  The Elements of Style - The...

  William Strunk

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  "The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and it was published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a list of 57 "words often misspelled." Strunk concentrated on the cultivation of good writing and composition; the original 1918 edition exhorted writers to "omit needless words," use the active voice, and employ parallelism appropriately."

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  The House of the Dead - A...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tim Zengerink

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  What if the lowest point in life revealed your highest truths? 
  The House of the Dead is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s gripping account of life in a Siberian penal colony, based on his own years of imprisonment.  
  Through the eyes of a former nobleman turned convict, this deeply personal work unveils a world of brutality, endurance, and unexpected moments of grace. 
  What you’ll discover inside: 
  - A Firsthand Look at Life in a Tsarist Labor Camp – Vivid details of punishment, survival, and daily hardship. 
  - The Psychology of Prisoners and Guards – A powerful exploration of identity, power, and humanity in confinement. 
  -Moments of Redemption and Humanity – Even in prison, kindness and courage survive. 
  - A Candid Meditation on Crime, Suffering, and Spiritual Growth – Witness the inner transformation of a man stripped of everything. 
  Both harrowing and redemptive, this modern translation makes Dostoevsky’s raw insights as immediate and stirring today as they were in the 19th century. 
  Start listening now and step inside one of the most soul-stirring prison memoirs ever written.

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  The Penniless Peer -...

  Barbara Cartland

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  Eighteen-year-old Fenella is a mischievous as her freckled elfin beauty and feline green eyes suggest – but beneath that puckish charm she hides her ardent desire to do all in her power to make her beloved cousin Periquine, Lord Corbury, happy. When to her chagrin the dashing Lord returns from the Napoleonic War after fighting with Wellington, penniless and passionately in love with another – a woman of great wealth and even greater beauty, whom he cannot marry without wealth of his own, Fenella sacrifices her private passion to his wellbeing. Laying her life and her love on the line, she joins Periquine in a swashbuckling and death-defying life of crime as highwaymen, robbers and smugglers. Will their exploits reap the riches he needs? And will Fenella’s all-conquering love remain unrequited? Only when Perequine faces losing her forever will he find the answer in his heart...

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  Virtues of Strength - Endurance...

  Esther Jameson

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  Virtues of Strength is a powerful and inspiring journey through the core traits that help us rise above adversity and keep going when life gets tough. This 3-in-1 volume focuses on three foundational virtues—Courage, Endurance, and Perseverance—each offering a lens through which to understand our inner power and resilience. 
  In the first section, Courage, readers explore the bravery required to face fears, confront injustice, and make difficult choices even in the face of uncertainty. It's not the absence of fear, but the willingness to act in spite of it that defines this virtue. 
  The second section, Endurance, dives into the strength to keep going under pressure—mentally, emotionally, and physically. Whether it's enduring pain, loss, or hardship, this virtue reminds us that we are capable of weathering life’s storms without giving up. 
  The final section, Perseverance, highlights the determination to pursue goals with consistent effort and hope, even when progress is slow or setbacks occur. It celebrates the long-haul spirit that turns dreams into achievements, and obstacles into stepping stones. 
  Rich with timeless wisdom and real-world examples, Virtues of Strength equips readers with the mindset and emotional fortitude to face life’s challenges head-on. This book is for anyone seeking to deepen their character, build resilience, and walk through difficulty with purpose and dignity.

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