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ISBN 978-1-923763-11-1
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The Journey and Legacy of Early Karitsiotes in Australia

 

From Karitsa to Goodwood

A Bouquet of Memories
One Hundred Moments Between Two Homelands

In those early days, they came with a suitcase, a name, and a stubborn bit of hope.

They stepped onto the wharf in a land that smelled of salt, dust, and promise They worked wherever the day would take them, factory, field, railway, kitchen. They learned new streets, new words, new ways of getting by. But every night, somewhere between fatigue and sleep, the village returned.

Letters crossed oceans, folded with longing and a little bit of dust from home. Children grew, half in the old stories, half in the new land. One eye still watched the mountain slopes of Tsouka, or Elatias and of Asfaka.

And from those years of sweat, laughter, and stubborn courage, memories bloomed.

Here they are now, gathered like flowers from two distant fields.

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ISBN 978-1-923843-20-2
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Το Ταξίδι και η Παρακαταθήκη Οι Πρώτοι Καριτσιώτες στην Αυστραλία

 

Από την Καρίτσα στο Γκούντγουντ

Ένα μπουκέτο αναμνήσεων
Χίλιες και μια στιγμές ανάμεσα σε δυο πατρίδες

Tα πρώτα εκείνα χρόνια, έφτασαν με μια βαλίτσα, τ’
όνομά τους, και μια πεισματάρικη ελπίδα.

Πάτησαν στο λιμάνι μιας χώρας που μύριζε αρμύρα, σκόνη και ελπίδα. Δούλεψαν όπου τους έβγαζε το μεροκάματο: στο εργοστάσιο, στις φάρμες, στον σιδηρόδρομο, στις κουζίνες. Έμαθαν καινούργιους δρόμους, καινούργιες λέξεις και νέους τρόπους να τα βγάζουν πέρα. Μα κάθε βράδυ, κάπου ανάμεσα στην κούραση και στον ύπνο, το χωριό γύριζε πάλι κοντά τους.

Τα γράμματα ταξίδευαν πέρα από τις θάλασσες, διπλωμένα με λαχτάρα και λίγη σκόνη από την πατρίδα. Τα παιδιά μεγάλωναν, μισά μέσα στις παλιές ιστορίες και μισά στην καινούργια τους πατρίδα. Μα η καρδιά και η ματιά έμεναν πάντα στραμμένες στις πλαγιές της Τσούκας, του Ελατιά και της Ασφάκας.

Κι από εκείνα τα χρόνια, τα ποτισμένα με ιδρώτα,
γέλιο και πείσμα, άνθισαν οι αναμνήσεις.

Να τες τώρα, μαζεμένες σαν λουλούδια από δυο μακρινά χωράφια.

CANNIZZO, Phillip

ISBN 978-1-923763-75-3
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ISBN 978-1-923763-76-0
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From Sicily to Caulfield

 

This book tells the story of how seven life-size bronze figures came to live in the most popular park in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield. As nothing substantial has so far been written about the installation, the many locals who enjoy the park have no idea about the origin of these bronze figures. Nor has the art world taken note of this major public sculpture.

To this day there is not a foundry in Australia capable of casting a life-size bronze figure in a single molten bronze pour. But a determined sculptor had the half-mad idea of building his own infrastructure, capable of handling moulds weighing up to 3 tons, to create these figures. The book is also a memoir of the ten-year-old boy who migrated from Sicily to Melbourne.

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About the Author

 

PHILLIP CANNIZZO WAS BORN in April 1945 in the Medieval town of Licodia Eubea in Sicily, where he first experienced the wonder of sculpture. He migrated to Australia in 1956, and soon took on various jobs, including wedding photography, factory work, and bookkeeping. He attended University Secondary College night school and was awarded a studentship to become a secondary art teacher, and a subsequent scholarship for further study at RMIT.

His graduate exhibition earned high praise from Leonard French and Clifford Last, which led to his first one-man show in 1971 at the prestigious Rudy Komon Gallery in Sydney. He completed
postgraduate studies in sculpture at RMIT in 1973. While teaching full-time at different high schools in Victoria, he worked on the Caulfield Park commission and exhibited at the Australian Galleries in Melbourne in 1974 and 1981. His work is represented in private and public collections.

He joined with other notable artists in contributing a chapter to
the anthology, 52 Views of Rudy Komon, 1999. ed., Robert Raymond.
Beagle press: Sydney pp 61-64.

OATES, Zack

ISBN 978-1-923523-44-9
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Barista on an Island

 

Australia’s Barista Memoir

WHEN A TEACHER SEES YOUR POTENTIAL, IT CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING.

15 years in hospitality taught me the trade, but it took a pandemic and an island resort to help me find my voice.

From the biggest fast-food chain to the world’s biggest hotel group, I’ve navigated this industry while managing social anxiety.

Now, I’m launching the hospitality memoir I wanted to read at 20 years old when I had anxiety as young Aussie learning new skills and the industry with my TAFE NSW teacher at the training restaurant.

Join me as I move beyond the classroom, from behind the espresso machine and the sequence of service to sharing a story that is finally my own.

CARMODY, J.P.

ISBN 978-1-923843-05-9
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ISBN 978-1-923843-06-6
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Northbound

 

An Inherited Silence Story

While the world fell apart in a single morning, some families were already broken.

When his father is unable to choose his son over the bottle, young Ashley Walker sets out across a shattered Australia searching for his mother and younger sister. Determined to continue the journey alone, every step north brings new dangers, old wounds and impossible choices.

To reach the family he’s desperate to find, Ashley must confront grief, betrayal and the loss of the life he once knew, all while navigating a harsh and unforgiving landscape where survival is never guaranteed and every survivor has the potential to become either an ally or a threat.

Northbound is a gripping Australian post-apocalyptic novel about resilience, family, the invisible things we inherit, the trauma we can’t outrun, and the fragile hope that the things that shape us don’t have to define us.

About the Author

 

J.P. CARMODY WAS BORN and raised in South Australia, where his love of storytelling began with a fascination for Australian history, landscapes, and the resilience of ordinary people. Having spent more than twenty years serving and leading in complex, pressure environments, he has witnessed both the strength and fragility of the human spirit—experiences that continue to shape his writing.

His novels explore the invisible things we inherit—trauma, resilience, hope and the choices that shape who we become. Drawn to stories where ordinary people face extraordinary choices, he writes character-driven fiction that asks what survives when everything else is lost.

Northbound is his debut novel and the first book in the Inherited Silence Stories series.

BROWNE, S.A.

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Not Created For This

 

Investigating what we are CREATED for and dismantling the submission to what we are not.

This book equips the reader to saturate life with the eyes of the Creator, rather than with the opinions of others.

When we see religion framed as the enemy, “Not CREATED for This” quenches the thirst for truth in a chaotic world, settling the soul on a firm foundation of reality. When searching for meaning meets trite phrases, this book does not impose top-down expectations but develops what our souls long for, presenting Jesus and His life as the soothing balm for chaos.

Good people flounder under church structure that dampens flourishing the Bible actually calls for. With the basic information presented in the text, lives can transform. This is the antidote our church culture is desperate for.

By the final chapter, the reader will be resolute in who they are and what they are created for. God has a plan for humanity, and Jesus is the vital hinge on which the plan turns. The Church (Body) is the means of implementing the plan, yet looking at the Church today, you could be forgiven for thinking God’s plan is failing.

People are losing their faith and walking away from the organised Church.

The good news is that we have been created by a good God for inclusion in his family, to change the atmosphere on earth, and to be wise stewards today and into eternity with Him.

About the Author

 

S.A. BROWNE HAS DEDICATED years to studying new perspectives on biblical ideas, through the eyes of the original authors, and focuses on distilling content to support everyday life, holds a Diploma in Ministry and Theology from Tabor Christian College, Adelaide, and is married with adult children.