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"From ace to zinger, How to Speak Golf includes over 125 golf terms paired with charming and clever illustrations that decode the words and phrases that fly around a golf course. Clubhouse Chatter sections are sprinkled throughout where you'll learn about everything from the origins of golf, the worst courses and biggest sand bunkers in the world, to the reason why there are so many bird references in golf terminology, a history of famous holes-in-one,...
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From "ankle breaker" to "zebra," How to Speak Football includes over 125 football terms paired with amusing illustrations that decode the words and phrases that fly around the field. The "Sidelines" sections sprinkled throughout the book will teach you fun trivia about the history of the sport, the stories behind football players' nicknames, the most famous touchdown celebrations, and much more!
The terms included in the book range from the well-known,...
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Soccer, the world's most popular sport, has a growing fan base with millions of enthusiasts. Whether you're a newcomer to this exciting sport or a longtime fan, in How to Speak Soccer authors Sally Cook and Ross MacDonald share the definitions to over 150 terms, plus a range of amusing trivia. Learn about the history of the World Cup, where red and yellow cards come from, and much more!
-Diving Header: When a player dives horizontally to head a ball...
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This tells the story of being in a sixth Covid 19 lockdown and the chance to observe the natural world at close hand by careful observation and appreciation whilst being confined to an unexpectedly small radius. It is enhanced with the sound effects of various local bird calls, animated children, the sound of bicycles etc. It takes an overall optimistic approach of what can be appreciated within a broad neighborhood.
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Don't Sign Anything tells the story of two women whose paths cross unexpectedly, particularly when one of them jumps under a train and dies. But for many years their lives are intertwined with them co-winning prizes, sharing adventures and creating silver jewelry. The one who dies is a gypsy who became a rampant hoarder, finally living alone with her six cats. It is a story about two very different women and the compassion they share until they lose...
7) Treacle Time
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Dali like melting clocks, plans to build a statue and gain a damehood are ntermingled in a plot which explores difference, persistence and diversity. It has a humorous tone whilst touching on serious subjects. It is enhanced with vivid sound effects.
8) Shining Red
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Shining Red tells the story of a magic totem, the Shining Red Parrot and its strength in drawing the main character to its Tongan Fafa Island habitat. Richard, despite a delusional episode manages to travel to exotic places, indirectly inspiring two other characters within the story...
10) Under a Cloud
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Under A Cloud tells the story of a young woman from Reading, England who is stuck indefinitely in a south eastern Melbourne suburb thanks to the Covid Pandemic Lockdowns. She is alone, adrift, afloat with little motivation and no job or partner to return to in England... But through her love of clouds she becomes part of a global network of Cloudies who post their fabulous cloud photos in almost compulsive daily rituals. Madeline becomes hooked by...
11) Cafe Noir
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Cafe Noir tells the story of an intimate online friendship between two artistic women who never meet but sustain each other emotionally during the rigours of Covid lockdowns. They share so many highs, lows and confidences from one personal bubble to another. It seems the perfect, sustainable friendship until something goes wrong with only one of the women truly understanding what is happening.
12) Shattered
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Shattered is one of four short stories in this compilation. Between them they explore paranormal and ghostly activities, a paddlesteamer wreck and its implications, near drowning and a mystery stranger, The stories explore relationships and reactions between the characters and are infused with atmospheric sound effects..
13) Just Eleven Days
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Just Eleven Days tells the story of an adult yoga student who decides to enter an eleven day, silent, yoga retreat in an old inner city convent. But she only makes it half way through the retreat when personal struggles and an external incident which cannot be explained render her fearful until she plucks up the courage to flee. And even then there is evidence of an unresolved issue..The story is enhanced with atmospheric sound effects.
14) Jumping Into PNG
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Living as a young white woman with a tribe in Pre-Independence Papua New Guinea where the tribe had limited European contact but welcomed me to share their village life, customs, travels by outrigger canoe and ceremonies. Their coastal language was only spoken within a small radius, with each tribe having its own totems and traditions. The story tells of a Romeo and Juliet style suicide tragedy, but amongst other experiences, also highlights the joys...
15) The Hidden Link
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The Hidden Link tells the story of important missing war medals and the journey to uncover them, It portrays the survival journey of a Pol Pot refugee, the struggle of a British war veteran and the story of a young woman living as an outisder in rural Thailand. Special sound effects add to the story's atmosphere.
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The Swaggie on the Hill tells the story of a young girl who is puzzled by the adult life around her, This comes to a head when she and her classmates at a small primary school are shut in the school house by their teachers while a threatening man looms in the school grounds, causing simultaneous nose bleeds in two of the boys., And there is the matter of the witch like woman who lives nearby. She frightens the children as they rush past her place...
17) Nestseum
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This story tells of the magic of bushbirds and their habitats and involves bird mimicry and a ghost in a swampy gully in 1886. It is set in Victoria, Australia, with a focus on bird marvels, preservation and endangered species. It is enhanced with bird calls and other atmospheric sounds and has an air of nature's magic.
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All That Glitters tells the story of two women whose lives have become intertwined. One has a father who is a murderer and the other has survived an upbringing by two drug addict parents. Their women's paths cross and they become a support for each other until a certain threatening incident unravels their friendship, leaving them both with less clarity.
19) Under the House
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Two young lovers have a number of adventures together, much to the approval of those around them. They watch movies together, dance together, share beach and park catch ups. frolicking like no others. But one evening one of them becomes stuck under an old building where not even the firebrigade nor the emergency services can get them out. But as the last light fades there is a solution.
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Led Through The Jungle is a true story about time I spent travelling through Colombia, which included walking through a jungle near the border with Venezuela. It was a time of some risk in Colombia but my Colombian friend's careful planning enabled me to experience small wild monkeys in that park as well as involvement with other native animals including cuddling a three toed sloth, seeing a large capybara up close as well as holding a macaw and seeing...
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