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27 Days a Pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

by Michael Thornton ...

Despite quadruple heart bypass surgery, fear of failure, and concern also at being labelled a copycat for repeating the theme of the movie The Way—walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in memory of a lost son—64 year-old Melbourne writer Michael Thornton takes on the often gruelling 800km Spanish pilgrimage.Michael's 27-day trek from St Jean in southern France to Santiago de Compostela in ... Read more

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Despite quadruple heart bypass surgery, fear of failure, and concern also at being labelled a copycat for repeating the theme of the movie The Way—walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in memory of a lost son—64 year-old Melbourne writer Michael Thornton takes on the often gruelling 800km Spanish pilgrimage.Michael's 27-day trek from St Jean in southern France to Santiago de Compostela in
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Jackaroo

A Memoir

by Michael Thornton ...

From choirboy to cowboy . . .In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for working his farmhands in an almost military regimen.Tasked with the dirty, disgusting and downright ... Read more

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From choirboy to cowboy . . .In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for working his farmhands in an almost military regimen.Tasked with the dirty, disgusting and downright
... Read more
Pissed Off

3300 Baby Boomer Gripes

by Michael Thornton ...

Australia has five million baby boomers. Seventy-one-year-old Michael Thornton is one of them. He is so pissed off about the state of things,he's listed 3,300 gripes.Among them:otherwise bright folk, from the PM down, who say 'amount' of people instead of 'number'Australia's richest person is said to earn $33,000 per minutebeing beaten at Scrabble by his Filipina mother-in-law, English being her ... Read more

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Australia has five million baby boomers. Seventy-one-year-old Michael Thornton is one of them. He is so pissed off about the state of things,he's listed 3,300 gripes.Among them:otherwise bright folk, from the PM down, who say 'amount' of people instead of 'number'Australia's richest person is said to earn $33,000 per minutebeing beaten at Scrabble by his Filipina mother-in-law, English being her
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How to Land a Top-Paying Docket clerks Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

by Thornton Michael ...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Docket clerks job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most ... Read more

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For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Docket clerks job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most
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Education Reimagined

A Space for Risk

by Ira David Socol, John Michael Thornton II, Cheryl Ann (Walchack) Harris ...

Taking risks is how humans learn. It is how humans have always learned. A person sees a problem, takes in the available information, and tries a solution. It is in that process - whether the goal is understanding a Shakespeare play, figuring out an algorithm, or writing a theory of history - that engaged learners make breakthroughs, be those breakthroughs individual, group, or societal.In this ... Read more

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Taking risks is how humans learn. It is how humans have always learned. A person sees a problem, takes in the available information, and tries a solution. It is in that process - whether the goal is understanding a Shakespeare play, figuring out an algorithm, or writing a theory of history - that engaged learners make breakthroughs, be those breakthroughs individual, group, or societal.In this
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Picture of Dorian Gray, The

When Beauty Becomes a Curse and the Soul Pays the Price

by Oscar Wilde ...

Narrated by Michael Thornton, James Brown ...

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6 hours 4 min

What would you sacrifice to remain forever young? The Picture of Dorian Gray is a haunting gothic audiobook that explores beauty, vanity, and the hidden cost of a life lived without moral restraint. Through rich psychological tension and atmospheric storytelling, this classic work of gothic fiction draws the listener into a world where appearance conceals corruption and pleasure slowly erodes the ... Read more

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What would you sacrifice to remain forever young? The Picture of Dorian Gray is a haunting gothic audiobook that explores beauty, vanity, and the hidden cost of a life lived without moral restraint. Through rich psychological tension and atmospheric storytelling, this classic work of gothic fiction draws the listener into a world where appearance conceals corruption and pleasure slowly erodes the
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A Different View of the Camino de Santiago

by Bill Watson ...

The Camino de Santiago is a walk across northern Spain. No one is quite sure of its origins which predate the Christian era. Today the majority of walkers are Catholics who regard it as a pilgrimage which is the main reason why it attracts people from all over the world.The minority are a mixed bag of people who follow other religions and some with no set beliefs which includes the author. ... Read more

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The Camino de Santiago is a walk across northern Spain. No one is quite sure of its origins which predate the Christian era. Today the majority of walkers are Catholics who regard it as a pilgrimage which is the main reason why it attracts people from all over the world.The minority are a mixed bag of people who follow other religions and some with no set beliefs which includes the author.
... Read more
Walking Through Shadows: el Camino de Santiago de Compostela

by Carl Sesto ...

Walking Through Shadows is an account of an out of shape American's pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in North West Spain. Generously illustrated with over 150 of the author's color photographs, the daily journal chronicles the physical, mental, and spiritual challenges encountered on this 36 day journey of 500 miles on foot. He retraces the route taken by countless pilgrims since 1000 A.D. ... Read more

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Walking Through Shadows is an account of an out of shape American's pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in North West Spain. Generously illustrated with over 150 of the author's color photographs, the daily journal chronicles the physical, mental, and spiritual challenges encountered on this 36 day journey of 500 miles on foot. He retraces the route taken by countless pilgrims since 1000 A.D.
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The Day Was Made for Walking

Searching for Meaning on the Camino de Santiago

by Noel Braun ...

Noel Braun yearns to walk the Camino, the ancient pilgrimage route that leads across France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Since the suicide of Maris, his beloved wife of forty-two years, he has struggled to find himself. But is it pure madness? He's an old bloke. At seventy-seven-years, he should be sensible, act his age and relax in a rocking chair. Can his body and spirit withstand the ... Read more

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Noel Braun yearns to walk the Camino, the ancient pilgrimage route that leads across France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Since the suicide of Maris, his beloved wife of forty-two years, he has struggled to find himself. But is it pure madness? He's an old bloke. At seventy-seven-years, he should be sensible, act his age and relax in a rocking chair. Can his body and spirit withstand the
... Read more
Outback Stations

by Evan McHugh ...

'From the helicopter I could see the property's waterholes surrounded by paperback trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. And grass, endless seas of grass. Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanan's grass castle. Gurindji country. And my country, Australia.'This is big country, the outback, home to the largest cattle and sheep stations in the world. Yet few of us know what goes on ... Read more

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'From the helicopter I could see the property's waterholes surrounded by paperback trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. And grass, endless seas of grass. Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanan's grass castle. Gurindji country. And my country, Australia.'This is big country, the outback, home to the largest cattle and sheep stations in the world. Yet few of us know what goes on
... Read more
The Way, My Way

by Bill Bennett ...

"I'd never done anything crazy like this before – a pilgrimage walk. I was not a hiker, and I wasn't a Catholic. In fact, I wasn't even sure I was a Christian. On the last government census when I had to state my religion, I'd said I was a Buddhist, mainly because they've had such a hard time in Tibet and I felt they needed my statistical support.I was also not an adventure traveler. For me, ... Read more

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"I'd never done anything crazy like this before – a pilgrimage walk. I was not a hiker, and I wasn't a Catholic. In fact, I wasn't even sure I was a Christian. On the last government census when I had to state my religion, I'd said I was a Buddhist, mainly because they've had such a hard time in Tibet and I felt they needed my statistical support.I was also not an adventure traveler. For me,
... Read more
Outback Cop

by Evan McHugh, Neale McShane ...

Birdsville is one of the most remote police postings in Australia. It can be lonely and uneventful for weeks, then the dramas come thick and fast: from desert rescues to rising floods, venomous vipers to visiting VIPs.Throw in heat, dust and flies and it’s not a job for the faint-hearted, unless you’re Senior Constable Neale McShane, who has single-handedly taken care of a beat the size of ... Read more

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Birdsville is one of the most remote police postings in Australia. It can be lonely and uneventful for weeks, then the dramas come thick and fast: from desert rescues to rising floods, venomous vipers to visiting VIPs.Throw in heat, dust and flies and it’s not a job for the faint-hearted, unless you’re Senior Constable Neale McShane, who has single-handedly taken care of a beat the size of
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