Peacock Books

John Powell applies his valuable insights into self-awareness and interpersonal communication to help us develop self-esteem and improve our relationships with others. We all fear rejection. We are afraid that people will not like us if they know what we are really like, so we often assume poses to avoid being honest with them and with ourselves. Powell identifies five levels of communication and suggests that the kinds of information we disclose determine the level of depth of our relationships. Who are you? Are you the “Know-it-all”? Are you a “body beautiful”? Are you “the clown,” “the competitor,” the cynic,” or one of the many other characters people portray to protect themselves? Only when we face our fears openly and honestly can we learn to like ourselves and trust that others will accept us as we really are.

Living under a pseudonym with his grandfather in a small town, the son of a celebrity teams up with the local tomboy, "an alliance he calls Nothing Power and she calls Going Steady."

Following her father's death, a sixteen-year-old English girl spends an unsettling summer convinced that she has lived before as Emily Bronte.

While vacationing on a remote part of the Northumberland coast, a troubled English family has a series of unsettling experiences traveling back in time and confronting the legendary power of St. Cuthbert.

Answering an advertisement for an artist's assistant involves seventeen-year-old Dickory Dock in several mysteries and their ultimate solutions.

Relates the joys and sorrows of adolescence as experienced by a young girl growing up in a boy's boarding school.

A girl's foolish desire to return her bushbaby to the wild with the help of her father's former assistant, a bushman, is complicated by fire, drought and flood and by the authorities who assume she has been kidnapped.