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  • 27 Days a Pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

    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

    $7.76 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jackaroo

    A Memoir

    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

    $18.99 USD

  • Pissed Off

    3300 Baby Boomer Gripes

    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

    $5.00 USD

  • 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

    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

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Education Reimagined

    A Space for Risk

    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

    $28.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    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 ...

    Unabridged

    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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  • Off the Road

    A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain

    by Jack Hitt ...
    When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom.Off the Road is an unforgettable exploration of the sites that people believe God once touched: the strange fortress said to contain the real secret ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 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

    $6.62 USD

  • 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

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kiwi Sisters' Camino de Santiago

    by Sue Dwan ...
    The Kiwi Sisters' Camino de Santiago gives practical advice on the preparation for the walk; shares the many challenges and joys pilgrims face along The Way; offers humerous, wry observations on themselves, fellow pilgrims and village life; identifies six Camino lessons as touchstones for life; and considers the broader, life-changing ramifications of completing the trip. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Welcome to the Outback

    by Sue Williams ...
    'The Outback isn't a place on a map; it's a place in your heart. It's an attitude, how you treat people, a way of behaving. It's your belief system, and how a whole nation of Australians often long for a time when life was simpler, less complicated, more genuine . . . 'Sue Williams has long been fascinated by the Outback – its striking landscapes, the salt-of-the-earth characters it breeds, its ... Read more

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  • The Path

    by Malcolm McKay ...
    The Path is the journey of a lifetime to self discovery. It is the story of a group of international travellers who walk the Camino de Santiago, the ancient eight hundred kilometre pilgrimage from the Pyrenees to the remains of the apostle Saint James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella in Northern Spain. The group are of all ages, all professions, all religious denominations (and none.) ... Read more

    $2.99 USD