Books published by Publicious Pty Ltd

The adventures of 'Stiffy' the little orphan Teddy bear and his friends...Stiffy's story books are based on a true story.... He was found in a pile of unwanted things, rescued by the author and is now part of his family.The books were inspired by the character that Stiffy has.

The third book and Stiffy is off on a daring exploration to the beach for the first time in his life... The mischievous little bear, and his friends and family have a fun filled day experiencing one of Australia's Gold Coast beaches... Fun stories suitable for 3-8 year old children, colourfully illustrated, for little ones that love to play...just like our lovable little character.

In book two, Stiffy Bear meets platypus and the rest of the teddies in his newly found family here in Australia... They all go on a picnic together plus lots more! This book begins a series of many exciting adventures with puzzles, colour-ins and sing-a-longs... Fun stories suitable for 3-8 year old children, colourfully illustrated, for little ones that love to play...just like our lovable little character.

Guitar book and method for the absolute beginner.Are you Struggling to get your students to read music?This kids guitar book is the ideal introduction to playing the guitar and note reading for young children from 5 years old and guarantees your students will be engaged, educated and will remain as long term learners. Young children learn differently to older kids. They don't have the necessary cognitive and fine motor skills required to learn from a traditional guitar teaching method. This book addresses that. Young students will be able to play guitar and read music quickly and easily. Offers a unique, simple and graded solution. It works with a young child's natural learning processes. Students play using the principles of observation and pattern recognition. Students will learn to read music in the same way they learn to read words. By associating a word with an object, a child learns to read. In this book, students can associate words of songs with notes in musical phrases. Pieces contained in this book initially allow the student to focus on developing one fine motor skill at a time in the context of fun, educational and engaging pieces. Comes with teaching hints, revision flash cards and cool, free downloadable backing tracks available at http://copyplayandlearn.com/download/Click on the 'buy now' button and get ready to revolutionize your guitar teaching strategy.

Visions of a new kind came to me in my dreams and meditations that only became clear as my life progressed and as world events developed into the new millennium

The story is set in south-western France about 41,000 years ago, and the seasons are just starting to cool. A clan of Neanderthals is living peacefully, unaware that life is about to change dramatically for its Clan members.A scouting party of modern man has left Morocco and travelled through Spain, to reach the Neanderthals' area for the first time. This is a momentous new experience for the Clan members, who call these new people 'Outsiders'. The Outsiders arrive with a strange religion, and this serves to further complicate this encounter.The story is told by one of the Clan females, Ula, who describes what happens to the Clan in the year that follows this encounter, whilst the Outsiders are living in their area. There is a great fight, but some of the Clan members manage to survive. You will be touched by their courage and tenacity, as they rebuild their lives.Definitely expect the unexpected in this story, as the book aims to humanise the Neanderthals and cast aside old clichés and past stigmatisations of them. Readers are invited to consider the uniqueness of the Neanderthals, and they are presented as a loving, intelligent and courageous group of people.The author believes that the Neanderthals deserve our greatest respect, as they managed to survive living in small, isolated clans, sometimes in very harsh climates, for over 200,000 years.

This is a fictional story set in the ancient Viking settlement of Greenland. A stranger is shipwrecked at the mouth of a fiord. He is rescued and taken in by a family of Viking farmers. Over the next year he becomes entwined in various relationships within the community, especially with the wife of a famous carver. The carver is believed to keep the settlement safe through his ability to control the demons of the unknown earth through his art. This is a love story and a story that illustrates another way of looking at the experience of psychosis

PI Harry Kenmare is a prehistoric private detective in an unfriendly and infinitely unjust modern world.His life revolves around drinking, fine food, smoking, and fast women, preferably the ones he has to pay for, in cash. So what better CV for trawling through Sydney's corrupt social and political elites, who cravenly chase power and wealth behind veneers of respectability.In this collection of seedy episodes, Harry is a dinosaur on a mission of justice, looking to shatter the hypocritical façades. And the rules don't always apply.Join Harry in the jungle of 21st century Port Jackson, where little is as it seems and none of it is pretty. Except, of course, those gorgeous by the hour girls.

SATED is the third book in the romantic trilogyBook 1: Wantin Book 2: UnrequitedElectric pulses of pleasure landscaped their bodies when they touched. Staring into each other's eyes they quietly appreciated the flux of emotions activating every synapse. Talia had been waiting her whole life to find the one, while Bodhi always knew she was. Their connection was divined and equally fated with the twists of challenge set to test their devotion to love one another. A warm embrace to them represented an unspoken promise of forever. Within each others hearts they were finally home.

WANTIN is the first book in the romantic trilogyBook 2: Unrequited Book 3: SatedFate is relentless in its pursuit of Talia Jacobs. Presented with unimaginable turns of chance, she is drawn into the depths of tragic losses then catapulted to the extraordinary heights of life's joy. Take the journey with Talia as she undergoes her sexual, social and physical metamorphosis from a vulnerable girl into a mature young seductress. Nothing in life is ever as it seems. Is she blessed or cursed? Will she ever find the man who will love her like no other, fearlessly caressing the deepest part of her being while intertwining his soul to hers in a dance that holds the unspoken promise of forever?

In 1940 Sapper James (Jim) Curson set sail with his British unit-251 Field Company, Royal Engineers and joined the fleet toIndia. His ship, The Empress of Asia was bombed and sank offthe coast of Singapore. Rescued, he found he'd been reportedmissing, and his wife told he'd been killed in action.When Singapore fell to the Japanese Jim became a prisoner ofwar, toiling in the jungle in the slave labour camps to build theinfamous Burma Railway. The line was completed in a year, butit cost the lives of more than 22,600 POWs and 100,000 nativelabourers. Many of them were buried there. 70 years later, Jimis one of the few survivors who came home, and is still aliveto tell his account of their life; a story that can now be told byonly a few Japanese prisoners on the notorious death railway.He tells of the ability of the human spirit to overcome the mostunbearably cruel conditions ... the misery, brutality, squalor, thediseases, and the starvation the prisoners suffered under theJapanese.Farm boy Jim never gave up hope that he would return to hiswife, and she too held the hope he was alive. Returning to Britainhe found the Japanese nation was being remade to become aWestern ally and nobody wanted to know about the horror he'dbeen through. Despite having to learn to live in civilisation again,Jim and Dorothy lived a happy life for almost seventy years. Thisis his story.

UNREQUITED is the second book in the romantic trilogyBook 1: Wantin Book 3: SatedThe interwoven complexities of life follow Talia Jacobs across time. In spite of the endless challenges, she leverages remarkable strength of character to pursue clear-sighted goals to achieve her dreams. Talia has been witness to more than just the mystical Seven Wonders of the World. She has swum in open oceans, hiked majestic mountains, chanted with monks, shared laughter and a meal with the poor, yet in slumber the echoes of voices calling out her name haunt her. Visions appear as a graveyard of unrequited souls left in her wake, aching for her return. What has she become? All Talia desires is wrapped up in the image of a ghost. She wants to believe he exists, her soul mate, the yin to her yang. If only she believed in fairytales.