黃珮婷 Betty: 1291 books

Margaret Mahy was a wizard of words and a spinner of magical stories. She was New Zealand's best known author for children, wrote more than 200 books and often appeared in a purple wig or a penguin suit while she delighted audiences with vivacious readings of her stories. But who was Margaret Mahy?...

Haute couture and Paris sights capture Mrs. Claus’s imagination—as they would any woman’s! This charming story finds Mrs. Claus fabulously ensconced in Paris, having enjoyed fashion week and been lured for several months’ stay by all the sights, scents, and couture of Paris. In the end, Santa...

Sugar Wars: Getting Over Sugar Addiction" is a text that places the focus on the various methods that can be used to get over the addiction to sweet treats. The rate of obesity has risen worldwide in the past few years and one of the contributing factors has been the fact that more people are...

I will always have great memories of Jack Campbell. The first song we ever recorded of his was titled Jesus. It became the Rambos first number-one radio song. We enjoyed recording many others, such as Oh What a Happy Day and March Around The Throne. Jack was a great songwriter and a fine Christian...

Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points. In conventional...

This is a collection of eight short stories of people who shared the same airplane seat throughout the same day. It drops you into the middle of their lives, and you are invested in finding out the reason they are travelling, and what awaits them when they get to their destination — love, war, marriage, divorce, business failure.

This is my never-ending, ongoing contribution to poetry for over fifty years of things I've felt or seen (past and present) that I have simply needed to say. It was never my intention to shareit was just for mebut because of countless requests from family and friends, I decided to use my woman's prerogative...

Pretty little Princess Pietra (pronounced Pe-et-ra) is convinced that she will be able to find the perfect peace she has been pursuing by partaking of a perfect peanut butter sandwich. People come from near and far, hoping to please her with their productions, but Pietra ends up pouting. As her parents...

A guide to therapy that explores the intersection between the personal and the political.

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

This book is about the grief suffered from the loss of loved ones during my lifetime. There are poems about the loss of my child, my sister, my husband and my best friend. Feelings of sadness and despair are felt in some of the poetry but there is hope and inspiration too. Life goes on and we need to...

Black history has been a progressive climb from without the lowest echelons of society during slavery to the highest. When you think of black history, we often think of the civil rights movement, of John Brown’s violent protests, of the Underground Railroad. But black history doesn’t end with...

Wherever you are and wherever you look, you are sure to spot a teddy bear. In towns and cities, homes and offices, on buses, trains, or airplanes, you are sure to find a teddy bear somewhere in attendance. The teddy bear is over 100 years old and climbing. He wears many costumes and goes by many different...

About the book This is a true story of a little girl, Sibu, who was totally consumed by the beauty and the silence of the world of the unseen; nothing of this material world seemed to make sense to her. She kept secrets about her life and her spiritual relationship with God. She explored the spiritual...