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Waterfall City Book Reviews

Raising Good Humans
By Hunter Clarke-Fields
A kinder, more compassionate world starts stress response when difficult emotions arise.
with kind and compassionate kids. In You’ll also discover strategies for cultivating
Raising Good Humans, you’ll find powerful respectful communication, effective conflict
and practical strategies to break free from resolution, and reflective listening. In the
“reactive parenting” habits and raise kind, process, you’ll learn to examine your own
cooperative, and confident kids. unhelpful patterns and ingrained reactions
that reflect the generational habits shaped by
Whether you’re running late for school, your parents, so you can break the cycle and
trying to get your child to eat their respond to your children in more skillful ways.
vegetables, or dealing with an epic
meltdown in the checkout line at a grocery When children experience a parent reacting
store, being a parent is hard work! And, as with kindness and patience, they learn to
parents, many of us react in times of stress act with kindness as well, thereby altering
without thinking and often by yelling. generational patterns for a kinder, more
But what if, instead of always reacting on compassionate future. With this essential
autopilot, you could respond thoughtfully guide, you’ll see how changing your own
in those moments, keep your cool, and get “autopilot reactions” can create a lasting
from A to B on time and in one piece? positive impact, not just for your kids, but
for generations to come.
With this book, you’ll find powerful
mindfulness skills for calming your own Price: R419.00

Place Mr Einstein’s
By Justin Fox Secretary
In this gripping travelogue, By Matthew Reilly
Justin Fox goes on a A secretary like no other
one-of-a-kind journey. in an epic spanning forty
Marrying his love for travel years. All Hanna Fischer ever
and writing, he sets off wanted to do was to study
to explore the places of physics under the great
his favourite books. From Albert Einstein. But when, as
the mountainous eastern a teenager in 1919, her life
Karoo of Olive Schreiner is suddenly turned upside
to the big-game Lowveld down, she is catapulted into
of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, a new and extraordinary life
from Deneys Reitz’s wide- – as a student, a secretary, a
open Cape interior to the sister and a spy.
Bushveld of Eugène Marais’s Waterberg, Fox reveals the
majestic power of place. From racist gangs in Berlin to gangsters in New York
City, Nazis in the 1930s and Hitler’s inner circle during
Through the savannah of Herman Charles Bosman’s Marico, the Second World War, Hanna will encounter some of
the dusty plains of JM Coetzee’s Moordenaars Karoo, the history’s greatest minds and most terrible moments, all
forests of Dalene Matthee’s Garden Route, the subtropical while desperately trying to stay alive. She is a most unique
hamlets of Zakes Mda’s Wild Coast, and finally the sandstone secretary, and she will work for many bosses – from shrewd
crags of Stephen Watson’s Cederberg, he brings to life the businessmen to vile Nazis, to the greatest boss of them all,
settings we’ve only seen through characters’ eyes. Mr Albert Einstein.

Place is a moving love letter to South Africa, merging This is the thrilling tale of a young woman propelled through
literature and landscape, and taking the reader on a history’s most dangerous times. But read it carefully, because
breath-taking journey – into the heart of South Africa’s all may not be as it seems...
spectacular landscape and the inner-worlds of its most
celebrated authors. Price: R465.00

Price: R320.00

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