An autobiography and true story of an Australian girl growing up in Post WWW2. The story is chronological walking the reader though many situations that challenges the readers own ability to face their own traumas. The story is graphic and confronting. Though most of her life took difficult turns the end was miraculous and uplifting.

Are you ready to give Jesus a second look? Many of us have absorbed an image of Jesus from the culture around us. Once that sinks in everything we experience, watch, hear, or read only serves to reinforce what we think we already know about him. There is so much more to the story though. In this book, we’ll take an honest look at one of the best-known passages in Scripture—Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Some of the concepts you will explore in a new way are: –What it means to be poor in spirit –How to be the salt of the earth –Why Jesus turned the law on its head –How God’s judgment displays graciousness and generosity –What Jesus’ model for prayer really tells us about our relationship with God –How seeking, asking, and knocking impacts you—and those around you –What taking “the narrow road” means for your life If you are interested in exploring Jesus’ teaching, read Dirt and Stardust and see that you are a part of what is good about both the dirt under your feet and the cosmos above your head. You are invited into a story much bigger than you were perhaps first told about.

The Author describes what it was like growing up as the child of a War Veteran in the 1950's. Overcoming obstacles, dangers and self distuction. Only miraculous interventions and a great miracle eventually saves her desperate life.

On a Dying Planet, Hope? Torrance Black, the lone human on Esgarat, has a plan to save the dying planet, but can he get to Esgarat City fast enough to see it through? Baraq Waganat returns to Esgarat City, out for blood and hellbent on taking down the most powerful Families. Tierra Waganat’s seething hatred of his brother Baraq drives his need to restore their Family to the upper strata. The Families jostle for control. The Orange Army remnants fall back. The quadarti struggle to maintain the lives they’ve always known. Their stories tangle together to ask the only questions that matter: How will they survive? And what will be left if they do? STARDUST, the eighth book of Stealing the Sun, a space-based Science Fiction series from frequent Analog contributor and bestselling Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy author Ron Collins

WINNER of the EDNA STAEBLER AWARD for CREATIVE NON–FICTION From its opening image of the varied workforce at a Vancouver postal station, Stardust is a series of literary essays defining Bruce Serafin's world. The teenage Serafin is a captivating figure, freshly arrived from the United States and eager to immerse himself in the particular delights of a still largely frontier–era Vancouver. As a young man enrolled at SFU, he refuses the perm pressed upon him in a Chinatown barber shop and eavesdrops on his rowdy neighbours in a Powell Street apartment house. Working in the post office, Serafin discovers Michel Tremblay's The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant and realizes for the first time that writing about working–class people is not only possible, but desirable. Later, Serafin embarks upon an intimate criticism of touchstones of Western culture. Roland Barthes and Daniel Defoe are counterparts, he suggests, and shows why. Leonard Cohen was read so avidly by the young proto–hippies of the era not because of his writing, but because he physically modelled a way to be cool. The ceremonial objects collected by anthropologists, according to Serafin, are not actually art but something else again. Serafin critiques literary magazines and western novels. He discusses the work of Don DeLillo, Terry Glavin, Steve McCaffery, Northrop Frye, and William Henry Drummond. There's an engagement to these essays that lightly sketches the workings of a mind forever learning.

The invaders have arrived. The last battle for humanity is about to begin. STARDUST is the final book in the Rebel Stars series.