Macdonald: 1436 books

The Man in the Needlecord Jacket is thought-provoking relationship fiction written from the perspectives of two women who are involved with one man. The reader is in the privileged position of knowing what’s going on for both of the women, while each of them is being kept in the dark about a very important issue.

This book is about Ester Reid, a young girl running her family’s boardinghouse largely on her own in the early 1900’s. Her mother being quite often sick, Ester has a very large share of the responsibilities. The hard work makes her irritable, and it is hard to keep her patience with the many...

The Sydney Hobart yacht race is world famous: the crowds at the Boxing Day start; the Harbour full of colour; giant super-maxis competing for line honours and glory. But in the wrong weather it can be deadly. No one will ever forget the carnage of 1998. This year, Kirsten McKenzie must win....

Benjamin Sword Hoppner, philanthropist and visionary, has created his own utopia, hidden in the Central American cloud forests and governed by a strict moral code. He’s also made an offer: anyone who can convince him of their virtue will walk away with a fortune for the good cause of their choice....

Help young children develop problem-solving skills, and you'll boost their kindergarten readiness and set them up for long-term success in STEM subjects. In this timely and practical book, you'll discover how to support the problem-solving skills of all young children by teaching them basic practices...

People and Change in Indigenous Australia arose from a conviction that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion remains embedded in traditionalizing...

A guide to the City, the University and local walks suitable for visitors of all ages. The following walking tour of St Andrews takes the visitor through the main streets of St Andrews and the local Lade Braes Walk. Other places to visit and walks in the East Neuk of Fife are noted with information....

Windham, a reclusive old man, has survived numerous disasters and tragedies before finding his last refuge in the Colorado Mountains. He finds and rescues Max, a brash young businessman caught by a sudden winter storm while on a long distance drive home to resolve a personal crisis. While traveling...

This book is a story about my family, mixed with the journey I have taken through this world. Life is never easy, it’s not supposed to be, it’s a learning process, a mixture of joyous memories, combined with some painful experiences.

When archaeologist Edward Harvey’s wife Felicity inherits almost a million, she gives up her job, buys a restaurant and, as a devotee of Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall, starts turning their home into a small eco-farm. Edward is not happy, not least because she seems to be losing interest in him. Taryn...

If the secular university by definition is non-sectarian or non-denominational, then how can it accommodate a discipline like Christian theology?　 Doesn’t the traditional goal of theological study, which is to attain knowledge of the divine, fundamentally conflict with the main goal of secular...

The Sun is the brightest and most accessible object in the sky, and it has much to offer the amateur astronom er with modest equipment. On most days it shows sunspots and other features that displaya wealth of fine detail and change their appearance strikingly from day to day. But observing the Sun...

Women 16-35 years of age each write a chapter about a hard time they have gone through in their lives and what they did to get through it. An inspirational book with chapters from such women as Stacey McKenzie from Next Top Model and Andrea Lewis from Degrassi Next Generation, writing emotional, heartwarming...

The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick. Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters...