#colin thiele

[theambitiouswoman]

Book Recommendations 📚📒

Business and Leadership:

"Good to Great" by Jim Collins

"The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries

"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel

"Leaders Eat Last" by Simon Sinek

"Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell

Success and Personal Development:

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey

"Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" by Carol S. Dweck

"Atomic Habits" by James Clear

"Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance" by Angela Duckworth

"The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg

Mental Health and Well-being:

"The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle

"Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns

"The Gifts of Imperfection" by Brené Brown

"The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook" by Edmund J. Bourne

"The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook" by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley

Goal Setting and Achievement:

"Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible" by Brian Tracy

"The 12 Week Year" by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

"Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" by Daniel H. Pink

"The One Thing" by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

"Smarter Faster Better" by Charles Duhigg

Relationships and Communication:

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

"The 5 Love Languages" by Gary Chapman

"Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High" by Al Switzler, Joseph Grenny, and Ron McMillan

"Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life" by Marshall B. Rosenberg

"Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" by John Gray

Self-Help and Personal Growth:

"The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" by Mark Manson

"Daring Greatly" by Brené Brown

"Awaken the Giant Within" by Tony Robbins

"The Miracle Morning" by Hal Elrod

"You Are a Badass" by Jen Sincero

Science and Popular Science:

"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins

Health and Nutrition:

"The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II

"In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan

"Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker

"Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall

"The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

Fiction and Literature:

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"1984" by George Orwell

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

[a-suspicious-lack-of-bagel]

For the flower ask: Calla Lily, primrose, locust, and heliconia!

Calla Lilly (if you died right now, what song would you want to play at your funeral?): I've currently got Duruflé's Requiem stuck in my head from this evening's rehearsal. It's lovely and it seems appropriate! Other strong contenders rn include Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring and Still Young by the Cat Empire.

Primrose (favourite kind of soup): Depends! In my head noodle soups are a different category. At the moment I'd probably say potato corn and bacon, I think? If you include various noodle soups - laksa if homemade but probably pho if not - tends to be less variable. Either way with plenty of lime.

Locust (favourite book as a child): how the HECK do you expect me to pick one? If we're going child=primary school, Albatross Two by Colin Thiele is a solid contender. Blueback by Tim Winton I read SEVERAL times in a row but didn't return to much after that I don't think? I mean I had serieses I came back to for comfort reading but that's different.

Side note: Americans, what the fuck. Why would you call a FLOWER a locust? a locust is a Swarming Insect of biblical infamy for its prodigious crop destruction abilities! Although I hear they're an invasive weed here so *shrug* maybe it fits?

Heliconia (do you like it when it rains): HECK yes. i LOVE the smell of rain; i LOVE when the humidity gets Used Up and takes temperature with it; i LIKE frolicking around in rain sometimes; i Really Enjoy snuggling up under a warm doona and listening to it rain. that said; Not a fan of continual light drizzle (which can kinda sting when it lands on u sometimes? and makes drying washing a pain); nor am i a fan of overcast cold weather with no rain (synaesthesia stuff - the music is EXCELLENT but not always good for my mental health / can be nostalgic in an unhelpful way.)

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‘In the world’ Hide-Away said sadly, ‘there will always be men who are cruel, just as there will always be men who are lazy or stupid or wise or kind. Today you’ve seen what cruel and stupid men can do.’

Colin Thiele’s Storm Boy - The Game

[gamingcreatures]

Daydreaming life as a bird in Colin Thiele’s: Storm Boy - The Game

[vtgbooks]

colin thiele the fire in the stone hardcover dust jacket

[mybusinesslearning]

Rich will get richer. As a teenager, one of the ways to transition from middle class/ poverty to higher economic strata = getting accepted in better schools, then college.

2016, the same year Vance published his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy, he joined Mithril Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded by Thiel and another veteran investor, Ajay Royan — and which has yet another Tolkien-inspired name.

Two years later, Vance was recruited by AOL co-founder Steve Case for a new venture: a $150mn Washington-based fund that tapped big investors such as Jeff Bezos and Ray Dalio to jump-start young companies in overlooked American cities.

That philosophy would also become the foundation of Narya Capital. Vance relocated to Cincinnati in his home state of Ohio to launch the fund with a former colleague from Mithril, Colin Greenspon.

Narya was backed with about $100mn from Thiel and a cadre of his acquaintances,

[monirios]

Del artista Visual Dominique Fortin

La esperanza es esa

cosa con plumas

que se posa en el alma,

y entona melodías sin palabras.

Emily Dickinson

Acabo de recordar una película realmente hermosa, una segunda versión en cine de la novela, Storm Boy publicada por el australiano Colin Thiele en 1964.

[alrederedmixedmedia]

Alredered Remembers children's book writer Colin Thiele, on his birthday.

“The only other man who lived anywhere near them was Fingerbone Bill, the Aboriginal. He was a wiry, wizened man with a flash of white teeth and a jolly black face as screwed-up and wrinkled as an old boot.”

[444names]

french forenames + norse runes names BUT removed diacritics in source

Adenne Adetand Adine Alaud Alaude Alaukanny Albel Albene Alberandrie Alberine Algiste Alien Aliene Amelienne Anclaur Andie Andrine Anfrane Anicel Annia Annine Anone Argaberent Arguiste Arice Arichric Ariechris Artriechaz Audence Audette Audianpie Aumen Aunoel Aurene Aurenn Beanadeline Beane Beann Bentianna Bergaz Berie Berre Berrene Berry Bertine Bervelyne Bethuruzane Bette Bjacque Brice Brine Brise Calie Calionnee Camue Carick Cascarle Catheneste Cathuruz Catrandrel Catriamur Ceath Celin Cenadren Cenietinese Chaliane Chard Chariert Charlette Chelique Chellaine Chelphie Chene Chlouise Chrichaette Chriche Chrick Chrie Chrin Chrine Chriness Claid Clandrie Clanique Claromed Claukael Claukas Claume Clauraymond Clemmaud Coine Coinn Coiseriang Coitte Colaudo Coline Corgen Cyriste Cyritephie Dagabrierre Daglas Daglaudine Dagne Damelaz Damennine Danceanuel Dandeliel Danelyd Dannine Danpieu Davichel Daviregores Delle Denclaz Detiene Dette Domane Domarc Dylags Dylaul Dylval Ehugora Ehuguy Ehurette Ehurs Eihagale Eiharole Eille Elette Eline Eloel Elyngette Emath Emence Emien Emyrin Enoichrise Enrinel Esevinifehu Etinel Ettel Etthele Evertine Fabelle Fabiel Fabin Fabinette Fabril Fandre Fannievelle Fanoeliene Flois Florgine Florice Flory Flouiline Flouille France Frane Franiene Franne Frarc Frellenne Gabrianie Gaellauren Gaette Galan Galiele Gelle Gence Genee Gennier Gentine Georenne Georiste Geregore Gerienne Geristie Gette Gilbertrick Gilien Ginaun Gissimonic Gitel Gitelie Gitine Guzandre Halagabin Helia Helie Helion Hellen Hennis Hernaz Herole Herre Hugorant Hurelle Hurianuen Inick Irellexime Isevette Issabine Jacque Jacquelle Jacquenie Jacquent Jamirenrine Jeanaz Jeane Jeaneman Jeanes Jeangetine Jeanique Jeanludie Jeannee Jeannick Jeannient Jeanpie Jeantaletia Jeantine Jeanues Jeatrice Jeran Jeroric Jerveste Joemie Juliel Juliele Julin Juliviechaz Justiamen Justianfra Kanisabine Karic Kaude Kaume Kevidovice Kevidovieu Laeline Lagael Lagne Laguerre Laidiang Lance Lanie Lanmadree Lanpie Laude Laudomene Laudregiz Lauline Laumel Laurelynge Laurick Leannine Lethael Lette Lexissane Lienrie Lodiette Loiste Lorge Lorgine Lorgueloisa Louilla Lucia Luciecilie Lucielle Lucilberres Lucile Lucille Lucine Ludomanlo Ludre Ludredrene Ludrine Lydine Lyneve Madiette Magabrine Magalaude Magancelyne Maine Mainique Mancille Manlo Mannan Manne Manue Marange Marce Marichel Marienzo Maris Marle Marnard Marond Maror Martrin Mathelinee Mathierve Mathugo Matra Matraymon Matric Matrick Matrie Matrine Matte Maxise Melille Melle Menne Micarannie Micaric Micas Miceli Micelyd Michere Miene Mirgeornade Moniannyd Monie Moregingwaz Morenne Muelle Myrie Nadiangwaz Nanmarle Natrissaz Nistephame Noelle Nonie Noniquele Nydieroger Ocenrine Odann Odene Odetalera Odientine Odievele Odine Paste Pathal Pathent Pathie Patra Patrie Patrien Patrieu Patte Paude Paule Paure Paurence Pauron Paurs Pernade Pernand Querenric Rance Ranisaz Raptine Raymona Redene Relaur Relean Relie Remene Rence Rencoree Ressabienzo Roberre Roberry Rolancieu Rolas Romancois Romelis Romenelyne Saberomie Sabie Sabiette Sancory Sepherry Sevin Simohaz Simond Solaguel Solivine Soniquette Sowildence Sowilia Sowille Stiam Stine Stinevine Sylaine Sylval Sylvielas Sylvielle Sylvientia Thaele Thele Theline Thelique Thenicel Therthaette Thiel Thienne Thient Thier Thierth Thine Thure Thuri Thuris Tyrie Uricecie Urisetianoe Vaine Vaingwaz Vairelyne Valauroge Valgilexis Verkan Vettephine Vicory Vidomaine Vidovie Virgaetia Xandree Xavietie Yangwe Yanique Yaniquelle Yanne Yannie Yanoel Yantine Yvellie Yvonadine Yvond Yvone

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Grimbert, nel nuovo libro l'amicizia con un pinguino

SIBYLLE GRIMBERT, ‘L’ULTIMO PINGUINO’ (SOLFERINO, PP. 176, EURO 17) Un celebre libro per ragazzi dal titolo ‘Storm Boy’, scritto dall’australiano Colin Thiele, racconta di una straordinaria amicizia tra un bambino e un pellicano di nome Mr. Percival. La francese Sibylle Grimbert, editrice e scrittrice, nel nuovo romanzo pubblicato in Italia da Solferino si rifà alla tradizione letteraria che…

[monriatitans]

QUOTE OF THE DAY Wednesday, November 23, 2022

"A magpie can be happy or sad; sometimes so happy he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak. This magpie was like that." - Colin Thiele, Magpie Island

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Quote choice inspired by Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day: haggister.

Image made with the Quotes Creator App. See the original post on Instagram! Watch MonriaTitans on Twitch and YouTube!

[elusivemellifluence]

This is such a great list! Lots of new books for me to check out.

I have some more suggestions (putting them under the cut because it got long):

Fiction

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow - NA fractured fairytale starring a terminally ill Sleeping Beauty

The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco - YA fantasy, one of the protagonists has a magical chronic illness and one has a prosthetic hand

The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden - science fiction/fantasy, one of the protagonists has chronic pain and increasing mobility issues

Brute by Kim Fielding - fantasy m/m romance where the protagonist has a missing hand

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman - queer Jewish fantasy, the protagonist has food allergies that can be quite disabling in the context and a secondary character has reduced mobility in his right hand after an old battle injury

Shaman by Noah Gordon - historical fiction about a deaf doctor in the 1860s

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - science fiction/horror about mermaids, there's an ensemble cast with several disabled characters (Deafness, autism, mobility issues)

The First Thing About You by Chaz Hayden - contemporary YA, the protagonist is a wheelchair user with SMA and the author has the same condition

Blood Price by Tanya Huff - urban fantasy, the protagonist has progressive vision loss

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (second in the Dread Nation duology) - alternate history with zombies, one of the protagonists is an amputee

The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (second in The Inheritance Trilogy) - fantasy, the protagonist is blind

The Raging Quiet by Sheryl Jordan - historical fiction, the protagonist discovers that the local "madman" is actually deaf, she develops a form of sign language to communicate with him and they fall in love

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer - YA fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, the protagonist has cerebral palsy

Breath by Donna Jo Napoli - middle grade historical fantasy retelling of the Pied Piper story, protagonist has cystic fibrosis

The Doctor's Discretion by E.E. Ottoman - historical m/m romance, one of the protagonists has a prosthetic hand

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley - historical fantasy, the protagonist uses a cane and has chronic pain

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse - fantasy, one of the protagonists is blind

Jodie's Journey by Colin Thiele - Australian YA from the '90s, protagonist has juvenile arthritis

The Stake Sauce series by RoAnna Sylver - urban fantasy, the protagonist has a prosthetic leg and ptsd

Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor - YA science fiction, two of the protagonists have a heart condition

Hench by Natalia Zina Walschots - science fiction, protagonist has chronic pain and mobility issues following a broken leg

The Lion Hunter by Elizabeth Wein - YA historical fiction, protagonist is an amputee

Anthologies

Artificial Divide by Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey - short stories about visually impaired characters

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens by Marieke Nijkamp

Nonfiction

Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay

We've Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents by Eliza Hull

The Disability Library

I love books, I love literature, and I love this blog, but it's only been recently that I've really been given the option to explore disabled literature, and I hate that. When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be able to read about characters like me, and now as an adult, all I want is to be able to read a book that takes us seriously.

And so, friends, Romans, countrymen, I present, a special disability and chronic illness booklist, compiled by myself and through the contributions of wonderful members from this site!

As always, if there are any at all that you want me to add, please just say. I'm always looking for more!

Updated: 12/08/2023

Articles

The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Essaka Joshua, 2012

Early Modern Literature and Disability Studies, Allison P. Hobgood, David Houston Wood, 2017

Making Do with What You Don't Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Anna Hinton, 2018

Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2003 OR Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2019

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts, Zygmunt Bauman, 2004

Witchcraft and deformity in early modern English Literature, Scott Eaton, 2020

Books

Fiction:

10 Things I Can See From Here, Carrie Mac

Akata Witch, (Series), Nnedi Okorafor

A Mango-Shaped Hole, Wendy Mass

An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee

A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd

A Song of Ice and Fire, (series), George R. R. Martin

A Time to Dance, Padma Venkatraman

Bath Haus, P. J. Vernon

Beasts of Prey, (Series), Ayana Gray

Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack

Cafe con Lychee, Emery Lee

Cinder, (Series), Marissa Meyer

Clean, Amy Reed

Connection Error, (Series), Annabeth Albert

Crazy, Benjamin Lebert

Crooked Kingdom, (Series), Leigh Bardugo

Dear Fang, With Love, Rufi Thorpe

The Degenerates, J. Albert Mann

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily R. Austin

The Extraordinaries, (Series), T. J. Klune

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, (Series), Trenton Lee Stewart

The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix

Forever Is Now, Mariama J. Lockington

Fortune Favours the Dead, (Series), Stephen Spotswood

Fresh, Margot Wood

Harmony, London Price

Highly Illogical Behaviour, John Corey Whaley

Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers

How to Become a Planet, Nicole Melleby

I Am Not Alone, Francisco X. Stork

The Immeasurable Depth of You, Maria Ingrande Mora

In the Ring, Sierra Isley

Iron Widow, (Series), Xiran Jay Zhao

Izzy at the End of the World, K. A. Reynolds

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, (short story) (anthology), Seiko Tanabe

Just by Looking at Him, Ryan O'Connell

Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore

Learning Curves, (Series), Ceillie Simkiss

Let's Call It a Doomsday, Katie Henry

The Library of the Dead, (Series), TL Huchu

Long Macchiatos and Monsters, Alison Evans

Love from A to Z, (Series), S.K. Ali

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

The No-Girlfriend Rule, Christen Randall

Noor, Nnedi Okorafor

One For All, Lillie Lainoff

On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis

Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper

Parable of the Sower, (Series), Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents, (Series), Octavia E. Butler

Percy Jackson & the Olympians, (series), Rick Riordan

Pomegranate, Helen Elaine Lee

The Pursuit Of..., (Series), Courtney Milan

The Quiet and the Loud, Helena Fox

Roll with It, (Series), Jamie Sumner

Russian Doll, (Series), Cristelle Comby

Scar of the Bamboo Leaf, Sieni A.M

Six of Crows, (Series) Leigh Bardugo

Sizzle Reel, Carlyn Greenwald

The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal

The Stagsblood Prince, (Series), Gideon E. Wood

Stars in Your Eyes, Kacen Callender [Expected release: Oct 2023]

The Storm Runner, (Series), J. C. Cervantes

The Theft of Sunlight, (Series), Intisar Khanani

Throwaway Girls, Andrea Contos

Top Ten, Katie Cotugno

Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Treasure, Rebekah Weatherspoon

Verona Comics, Jennifer Dugan

We Are the Ants, (Series), Shaun David Hutchinson

The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf

The Whispering Dark, Kelly Andrew

Wicked Sweet, Chelsea M. Cameron

Wonder, (Series), R. J. Palacio

Wrong to Need You, (Series), Alisha Rai

Ziggy, Stardust and Me, James Brandon

Graphic Novels:

Constellations, Kate Glasheen

The Golden Hour, Niki Smith

Magazines: Anthologies and Articles:

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175: Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds, (Article), R. B. Lemburg

Uncanny #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, (Anthology), edited by: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Dominik Parisien et al.

Uncanny #30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy, (Anthology), edited by: Nicolette Barischoff, Lisa M. Bradley, Katharine Duckett

Manga:

Perfect World, (Series), Rie Aruga

Non-Fiction:

Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, Jay Timothy Dolmage

A Disability History of the United States, Kim E, Nielsen

The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, David Gissen

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism, Elsa Sjunneson

Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, Eli Clare

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, Barker, Clare and Stuart Murray, editors.

The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship, Stacy Clifford Simplican

Capitalism and Disability, Martha Russel

Care work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach, Dr Amitta Shah

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esme Weijun Wang

Crip Kinship, Shayda Kafai

Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, Jules Sherred

Culture �� Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, Liat Ben-Moshe

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World, Ben Mattlin

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space, Amanda Leduc

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, Eli Clare

Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafer

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability, Kelly Davio

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

Language Deprivation & Deaf Mental Health, Neil S. Glickman, Wyatte C. Hall

The Minority body: A Theory of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes

My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick, Lyndsey Medford

No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Sarah F. Rose

Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, James I. Charlton

The Pedagogy of Pathologization Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus, Subini Ancy Annamma

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, Essaka Joshua

QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Raymond Luczak, Editor.

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar

Sitting Pretty, (memoir), Rebecca Taussig

Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black & Deaf in the South, Mary Herring Wright

Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms, Ilana Jacqueline

The Things We Don't Say: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Truths, Julie Morgenlender

Unmasking Autism, Devon Price

The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe, Ellen Clifford

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, (memoir) (essays) Alice Wong

Picture Books:

Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster, Manka Kasha

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[myrtaceaae]

"And everything lives on in their hearts — the wind-talk and the wave-talk, and the scribblings on the sand; the Coorong, and the salt smell of the beach; the humpy; and the long days of their happiness together. And always, above them, in their minds eye, they can see the shape of two big wings in the storm-clouds and the flying scud — two wings of white with trailing black edges — spread across the sky.

For birds like Mr Percival do not really die."

[vtgbooks]

COLIN THIELE Pinquo Book Penguin Book Illustrated Young Adult Book Chapter Book

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Storm Boy

Let your heart soar. 

When Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman starts to see images from his past that he can't explain, he's forced to remember his childhood and how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival.

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Cataracts of sheep in flood down ledges / Leaping and bucking in angles and edges

Colin Thiele