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  • Ordinary People, Remarkable Lives
    Glenn Martin
    This book is a collection of eight stories from people in Glenn Martin’s family tree. It begins with two of his great great grandparents who were convicts who met in Hobart. He followed the meagre clues in the records to determine how it was that they met. Another great great grandparent was a convict who later established a hotel in Sydney and became the publican. Some of the ...
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    21,16 €

  • A Singular Book of Great Esteem
    Glenn Martin
    The I Ching is the 'singular book of great esteem', having originated in China around 5,000 years ago as a form of divination. Around 3,000 years ago it was formulated into a system of sixty-four images with corresponding text, built up from the foundational yin-yang (binary) concept. It has been used since then by emperors, officials and ordinary people for wisdom and guidance...
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    20,34 €

  • The Night Dragons and the Moon
    Glenn Martin
    'The Night Dragons and the Moon' follows Jal, an unusual blue dragon born to a family of fire-breathers. But there’s a problem-Jal can’t produce smoke, let alone fire! His parents, worried about his future, consult, Dr. Emdee, who reveals a shocking truth: Jal will never breathe fire.As Jal grows, he struggles with feeling different, especially during dragon games where fire is...
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    12,51 €

  • The Sailor, The Baron And the Dressmaker
    Glenn Martin
    A young German sailor comes to Australia in 1928, spending two years in Australia and New Zealand working on farms and becoming an elephant handler in Wirth’s Circus. He returns to Germany, but leaves again in 1936 for America. He returns to Australia as a seaman, but deserts ship in Adelaide. Travelling up to Sydney, he meets a lady, Glenn Martin’s father’s cousin, and they ma...
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    18,25 €

  • Library Meets Book Fair
    Glenn Martin
    The author has a personal library of around four thousand books, substantial in a domestic setting, although miniscule in comparison to public libraries. The author’s library has grown over fifty years. Living in Sydney now, he goes to book fairs. And he buys books that interest him. The question is, does he come across books that he already owns?In 2023, at one book fair, he f...
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    22,55 €

  • Travel with a Pen
    Glenn Martin
    'Travel with a pen', these days, is a metaphor for travelling with a laptop. I went to Tasmania for two weeks, intending just to keep a diary of my experiences. I was going there to graduate from my Diploma of Family History course, and I was going to Oatlands, in the midlands, to explore more of my great great grandmother’s story as a young Irish convict in the 1850s. And I wa...
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    18,90 €

  • The Little Tree
    Glenn & Bobbe Martin
    A little tree that was once surrounded by his pine-boughed friends, finds himself now standing alone in the pine tree forest.  Where did they go?  Why was he left?The little tree soon finds out that his friends were picked to be Christmas trees and he was not the kind of tree people usually took home - until something wonderful happens and the sad little tree gets his wish. May...
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    18,69 €

  • Long Time Approaching
    Glenn Martin
    Glenn shares threads of his life in this searching memoir. It includes glimpses into his doomed relationships, his experiences as a teacher - despite this not being his chosen career, and his experiences in other roles. He has been a manager, a magazine editor, head of a national organisation, and a writer of commentary for management professionals. He has been a hippie living ...
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    25,10 €

  • The Way Is Open
    Glenn Martin
    This is a book of poems, Glenn Martin’s fifth collection. The poems were written at various times of Glenn’s life. They are set out in three themes - Young, Living, and Firm Ground. He is old enough for his life to have assumed some shape, be it unconventional or apparently not career-focused. However, he has written over fifteen books that are not poetry books, on themes rangi...
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    15,31 €

  • All the Rivers Come Together
    Glenn Martin
    This is a collection of over forty stories drawn from the family history of Glenn Martin. Our family history can be illuminating, even inspiring. At its worst it is still cautionary, and suggests to us how we might steer our own lives better, and that of our own families and communities. The stories span five generations, going back to the early 1800s. There are no famous or we...
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    23,54 €

  • A Modest Quest
    Glenn Martin
    'A Modest Quest' describes the author’s quest to find out about his family’s past. It was intended just to find out the basic facts about his parents’ brothers and sisters, and his grandparents. Growing up, he had thought that all his grandparents had died before he was born. This was not the case, but it took some serious research and more than two years to bring the facts to ...
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    23,07 €

  • To the Bush and Back to Business
    Glenn Martin
    A young man who should have found a corporate ladder somewhere and climbed up it, turns his back instead and goes off into the bush. Years later he comes back to the city that he left. In this book he rakes over the ground: the search for a viable livelihood living close to the earth, the search for an alternative community. He asks himself, was the questing anything more than ...
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    23,39 €

  • I in the stream
    Glenn Martin
    This book is a collection of poems, intended as the fourth volume from the author. It includes short poems and long poems. There are poems about writing poetry, poems about living, and poems about observing life. The poet may look with a hard eye at times, but his intention is always to encourage the heart. ...
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    20,46 €

  • Flames in the open
    Glenn Martin
    This is one of two collections of poems and stories from the period around 1970 to 1988. The latter date denotes when the collection was chosen, the theme intending to evoke the paradox of fire, that it is both vulnerable and powerful. Some of the poems are accompanied by a story about the context in which the poem was written, personal life with wounds and wonder. Occasionally...
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    12,15 €

  • FREE AT LAST!
    Glenn W. Martin / Glenn WMartin
    Everything seemed to be progressing nicely for author Glenn Martin. He lived in the country of Charlottesville, Virginia with his family of six and was building upon his career as an electronics technician. However, he began to struggle with depression, which caused him to be crippled at work and home with many anxious fears. Now recovered from his depression, he seeks to share...
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    13,95 €

  • 7 Successful Stock Market Strategies
    Glenn Martin
    7 strategies with historic annual returns ranging from 9.2% to 36.9% For the UK investor, the long-term benefits of investing in the stock market are clear. Over the long term - ten years upwards - equities have delivered higher returns than any other non-physical UK asset class. Those investing for the long term, whether for a pension pot, to meet a future financial demand, or...
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    39,21 €

  • The big story falls apart
    Glenn Martin
    This book is a reflective journey through the disintegration of the 'big story'. The big story is the one we live inside of, the one that gives us the certainties and continuities of our lives. The disintegration occurred in Sydney in the late 1960s, amid social and personal turmoil, and led to the narrator's flight to the country. He finds a place to settle, gives up books, be...
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    23,75 €

  • Remember My Name In Sheboygan - Sheboygan Revisited
    Glenn W. Martin / Glenn WMartin
    A few years ago, I went back to my home town to attend my 60-year high school class reunion. The day after the festivities, I took my camera in hand, got in my car, and spent most of the day on a sentimental journey. I drove around the town, remembering what it had been like when I was a boy growing up there many, many years ago. The stories in this book will tell you about the...
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    17,14 €

  • Sustenance
    Glenn Martin
    Patrick begins under a cloud of gloom, rejected by his girlfriend and unsure of his occupation. But an encounter with an old Chinese man gives him a message of hope - his fate is his to create if he is willing to let go of things as they are. So he begins again elsewhere, finding a job working with unemployed youth. But the simple search for sustenance can lead into vexing terr...
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    25,97 €

  • The Little Book of Ethics
    Glenn Martin
    Ethics is a central part of our lives. It is as basic and pervasive as thinking and feeling. And it is not just what keeps us compliant with the law, it is the gateway to the quality of our relationships and the spiritual fulfilment of our lives. The Little Book of Ethics introduces us to ethics through the lens of values, and offers us five core human values - honesty, peace, ...
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    22,61 €

  • Human Values and Ethics in the Workplace
    Glenn Martin
    This book presents a framework for understanding human values and their role in life, work, business and leadership. It offers an explanation for the spectrum of human behaviour, from a self-focused, survivalist mindset that has scant regard for ethics, through to compliance with laws and conventions, and then to the aspiration to live a higher ethical and spiritual life. The b...
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    38,82 €

  • The Ten Thousand Things
    Glenn Martin
    Glenn Martin’s first novel tells the story of a man’s journey towards leadership, a story that takes us into the heart of the I Ching and its universal values. A man comes to a leadership position after a series of life-shaping experiences. He brings with him as a companion the I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of changes. He faces an immediate crisis, when the president is arr...
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    32,66 €

  • Out of the darkness of Academics into the Light of Jesus Christ-
    Glenn W. Martin / Glenn WMartin
    This book is about the nuances of college life as viewed from a Christian perspective. Dr. Martin came to the conclusion that the quest for human knowledge is endless in its own seductive way. Our educational bastions are an arms length from the church; yet it appears the church is being neglected by many who labor in the halls of academics by their lack of participation in c...
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    23,45 €

  • Things I Learned Along The Way
    Glenn W Martin
    Each of us has only one life to live. Some lives are long and some are cut too short. They can be full of happy times, but there can also be sad moments. The events that shape our lives are all pieces of our life’s puzzle. The choices we make, the lessons we learn from our life’s experiences, and the people who share them with us, all help to influence who we are and who we wil...
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    15,82 €

  • Some of the Funniest Things Happen in the Most Unlikely and Unexpected Places
    Glenn W Martin
    This collection of stories was written for only one purpose--to make you laugh!These stories are not aimed at your mind, but at your funny bone. They are not supposed to make you smarter or wiser, but might keep you from taking yourself and life too seriously. When enjoying these stories, you may venture into restaurants or churches, attend weddings or funerals, and spend some ...
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    14,34 €

  • Christmas Memories And Merry Moments
    Glenn W. Martin / Glenn WMartin
    This is a collection of stories about the celebration of Christmas, as I experienced this holiday during my lifetime. Some of these stories are nostalgic and some are sentimental; a few are funny and a couple I would like to forget.Christmas began to take on special meaning for me when I came to realize that Christmas is not just another holiday. It is a special time, when God ...
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    12,85 €

  • Remember My Name In Sheboygan
    Glenn W. Martin / Glenn WMartin
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    16,20 €

  • Christmas Stories for Children of All Ages
    Glenn W Martin
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    12,44 €

  • Christmas Stories My Grandpa Wrote for Me
    Glenn W. Martin / Glenn WMartin
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    7,95 €