Ebooks By Design: 22 books

The Chronicles from Iran depict the successive Iranian dictatorships, from the monarchy to the Islamic Republic and its raving puritans. Through real-life scenes in Iran, they highlight humiliations inflicted daily by a religious tyranny upon its population, haunted by fear and bygone traditions. In...

“Down in the hollows, deep in the woods, far far away from the noisy outside world, lay the sleepy little hamlet of Wriggly Bottom. How “Wriggly Bottom” ever got its name no one seems to know. Perhaps lots and lots of wriggly worms lived there once upon a time, or maybe mole families churned...

The investigation of fire scenes is a specialist role and the author of this book, Phil Glover, has passionately undertaken that role on a professional basis since 1989. Following on from his 40 year Fire Service career in New Zealand and Australia, Phil set up his own Forensic Fire Investigation...

A new and exciting science based approach to naturally maximising your testosterone levels from Muscle-Health-Fitness.com author Ed Clements. This manual, backed up by over 220 scientific references, provides all that you need to optimise your testosterone levels and overall hormone balance....

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE A social economic disaster the people of the 21st century are not prepared for. This book is an educational, practical, step by step approach, showing you how to obtain a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. It explains exactly what you need to do and questions to ask. It’s all...

In a darker view of the free-wheeling 1960s, a young woman is forced to flee a violent and dangerous boyfriend. Setting out to look for a job, she finds work as a dicta-typist at the CBC. As she drifts into Toronto’s hippie counterculture, hoping one day to write, the notion of a career is still...

The child of a forbidden marriage, Maha grows up happily in Cape Town until her world changes forever when her parents are killed at a political rally. At the age of eight, Maha is reclaimed by her loving but staid Indian grandparents and taken to live in Durban. Growing up in the claustrophobia of the...

On a rainy October evening, Leo bikes forty kilometres into the country to see his mother. He’s tormented at not knowing who his birth father was, and she’s always refused to tell him. Leo wants connection, he wants to belong. Is he related to the family in a nineteenth-century photograph found...

LOVE WAS AN EASY GAME UNTIL SHE BROKE ALL OF THE RULES ... Amethyst Barclay was everything a modern woman craves, independent, talented, successful and achingly attractive. She had charmed her way into becoming one of the country's most sought-after freelance journalists and her sweet felicity with words...

Rough Places follows the lives of four women and of their home town, Coalport, once a busy industrial township. Not a story from the suffering industrial North, but South: far South, on the Pacific rim, just north of Sydney. Luce comes to terms with the loss of her husband, her changing status at...

Like the classic fairy tales, this fable provides an antidote for the malaise of our times. Set in a mythical kingdom, it inspires hope for those trapped in social roles beyond their control. Not everyone deals with fate's cards in the same fashion, but for the pure of heart both the natural and the...

Astronomy Without A Telescope provides an easy-to-digest introduction to modern astronomy and cosmology, with a few of the author's speculations about alien biology and the ultimate fate of the universe thrown in. This book is packed with spectacular images and hyperlinks to in-depth background articles that will satisfy both novice and expert.

Welcome reader to my third book on Alzheimer's disease. Considering a Care Home? Ask the right questions. This book will provide you with some of the most profound insights and questions you need to consider should you decide that your loved one now requires twenty four hour care. It is not a decision...

The sequel to The Story of Maha : Maha is back older and wiser - but her life is not quite the happily-ever-after she had envisaged. When Maha discovers her husbands infidelity and demands a divorce she risks the stern disapproval of the entire community. Her future as a shameless divorcee appears bleak,...