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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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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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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,...
5) Slap It On!
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Slap It On! tells the story of living among mud brick houses in an artists belt in Eltham,,Victoria. It portrays an atmospheric view which includes the famous artists colony of Montsalvat as well as raising small girls on a property replete with vegetable and herb gardens, hens, fruit and nut trees and re-cycled materials.
6) Dream Cafe
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Dream Cafe tells the story of a baker and seller of delicious cakes who makes the most gorgeous delicaciies at her railway cafe, She is not only interested in these marvellous creations but she is fascinated by dreams and nightmares - both hers and other people's, particularly during the Covid 19 Pandemic. She wonders if there is a communal subconscious elicited during night dreams, manifesting various or similar aspects of this global health crisis,...
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Little Ripples Everywhere tells the story of a seventy-year-old widow and her love for books and words, so much so that she makes many train trips around a metropolitan network leaving many of her loved novels to continue their train journeys without her. She hopes that they will give the new listeners entertainment, encouragement and insight. The books meet a variety of fates in this humourous tale but they also carry messages of concern for the...
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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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Melody's Radar tells the story of a downtrodden single mother who is sick of being pushed around and takes matters into her own hands. She tries to set a good example for her five year old daughter Amelia but the trouble is that Melody doesn't know when to stop. Her intensity becomes scary for anyone who is on her radar but her lack of personal understanding means she doesn't fully grasp the affect she is having, sometimes causing menacing ripples....
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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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This story talks about traveling in China, and Wuhan in particular, just before the outbreak of Covid 19 in that city in 2019. It highlights darker aspects of this travel as well as the humourous, kind-hearted side. It traverses four provinces and highlights memorable experiences whilst looking for cherry blossom in these areas.. It is enhanced by sound effects.
12) 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.
13) 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...
14) 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..
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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...
16) Wearing a Cape
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Wearing a Cape tells of a job working with clients from fifty different nationalities. Going to court with them, representing them at hearings, being with a murderer and held captive by two psychotic clients - one of whom burnt and old people's home down. It is about working with the repressed, the underrepresented, the unfortunate and the fortunate. It portrays the stamina to work where there are courtroom threats, gifts of kindness, conflict and...
17) Rhythm of Fire
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Rhythm of Fire tells the story of 11 year old twin boys who inadvertently kill an old woman. She dies of smoke inhalation in her rural shop crammed with Christmas decorations, A complex story unfolds leading to her identity and some unexpected developments following her tragic death.
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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.
19) Botanic Sunrise
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This story tells of a twenty year old girl who is house sitting for six months in a seemingly calm and pleasant neighbourhood where nothing peculiar seems to happen. That is until Mandy hears screaming in the night, hears wailing and moaning during a heavy thunderstorm, feels an earth tremor beneath her feet and feels a man breathing over her in the night. And she has no-one to confide in. She may be hypersensitive but does she catastrophise events...
20) Beach Tidings
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Beach Tidings tells of the spreading of ashes, the mystery of their journey and the link with a Great Escaper from Stalag Luft III and the intertwinement with beach rhythms during the global Covid pandemic. The central character Mara is drawn to the beach as an ongoing pandemic escape, along with her two dogs and husband. Their souls are alleviated by walking through shallow waves accompanied by the joy of dogs, but where a mix of energies is palpable....
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