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SHARMA, Terri-lee

Jun 27, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Romance Fiction, Western Australia

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ISBN 978-1-923214-55-2
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Citrus Hues

 

Can fate preclude destiny?

The girls listened tentatively as Maatla told them about the tangelo, the clementine and his favourite, the honeybell, which is a mix of a sweet tangerine flavour and the sour flavour of the tart grapefruit.

“The honeybell is like life,” he said, “a mix of sweet and sour. We can feel hope and love, yet sometimes we experience hate and despair.”

Rows of citrus trees laden with colourful fruit create the perfect playground for Janco and Naledi, two young children who are inseparable friends. But Piet, Janco’s father and the owner of the South African estate, does not want his son mingling with the farm workers’ children. Piet’s upbringing and deeply ingrained prejudice lead him to make it clear that a lion and a zebra do not drink from the same waterhole.

But over the years, the children’s friendship blossoms into forbidden love. Janco explains to Naledi that every snowflake is unique and destined to fall where it is meant to: they are meant to be together. Then a series of events changes everything. Naledi ends up far away in Australia, a land filled with opportunities and new connections. She refuses to let her past shackle her and is determined to live her life to the fullest. Along the way, she learns that sometimes decisions are taken away from you, but you need to keep moving forward in life to discover what can be. And the choices you make and the chances you take will lead you in the direction in which you need to go.

ROGER, Ian

Jun 11, 2024 | *, *Featured books, Australian, Autobiography, Memoir, Victoria

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ISBN 978-9-23214-2-62
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The Life Story of a Jolly Roger

From War to Pandemic

A life worth living

Embark on a journey through the vivid memories of Ian Roger’s life, from the poignant pre-war era to his life changing settlement in Australia. The Life Story of a Jolly Roger – from War to Pandemic weaves the threads of family, friendship and the unforgettable moments in the life of a man whose existence has been anything but ordinary.

Discover the resilience and warmth that defined Ian’s early years, the challenges and triumphs that shaped his character and the adventurous spirit that led him across the world to call Australia home. Through laughter, tears, from many experiences, this book captures the spirit of a life fully lived.

ANVIL, Michael

Dec 15, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, South Australia, Thriller Fiction, War Fiction

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ISBN 978-1-923088-21-4
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The Limehouse Chronicles

Part 1

THE MOMENT YOU START READING YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN.

Step into a riveting WWII saga as Peter Wayman and Anne Colyer’s lives are upended by the German Luftwaffe during ‘The Blitz.’ Follow their journey from London’s East End to the nuclear disarmament marches of the 1950s, where they face an unforeseen future.

As Peter, a Royal Navy Signals officer, is drawn into the secretive world of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) by Captain Smith, they embark on daring night flights to Southern France. Their mission: to establish escape lines for downed pilots and refugees, obstructing the Nazi war machine. From the wartime Savoy Hotel in London to the Arctic Circle and the Mediterranean, follow their perilous adventures, entangled in a web of American bases, ‘Cold War’ spies, and unexpected alliances. Immerse yourself in the fascinating first part of The Limehouse Chronicles, an unforgettable journey through history in Michael Anvil’s debut masterpiece.

DISCOVER THIS CAPTIVATING SERIES IN THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES.
FROM THE DARK EDGES OF SECRECY, TREACHERY AND WAR.
COLLUSION IS SURVIVAL AND DECEPTION IS THE GAME.

KOVACS, Joshua

Nov 28, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Exercise \ Fitness \ Health, Health & Wellbeing, Manual \ Training Material, Psychology \ Mental Health, Self-help \ Personal Development, Western Australia

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ISBN 978-1-923088-93-1
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ISBN 978-1-923156-12-8
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Essentially You

“The most important conversations you need to have are with yourself.”

For your benefit, I’m sharing the physical activities and thought processes I focused on that I accredit my success to through the most challenging time of my life, suffering from poor mental health and low self-esteem.

Once I got myself up and started exercising, it allowed me to start thinking and self-reflect honestly about different situations, choices and interactions from my teen years and throughout my life.

I realised the choices I had made years before only provided limited options. I needed to understand better how I could continually improve my life’s path and create better opportunities going forward.

Over time and with my continual efforts, my mental health improved with my outlook on life being from a more positive perspective, creating greater self-belief and confidence to overcome my challenges.

The lessons learnt via my experiences can provide guidance and support, reducing confusion in your own journey. My dream is to help you continually improve your normal and then be the better you. Read on and believe in yourself.

MORRIS, Don

Nov 28, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biological & Behavioural, Manual \ Training Material, Psychology \ Mental Health

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ISBN 978-1-923589-52-0
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Role Models, Mentors. Leaders, and Elders

 

Our Potential to Be the Difference that Makes a Difference

To quote Hal David’s iconic 1965 song…

“What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love Not just for some but for everyone”.

This book suggests that Role Models, Mentors, Leaders and Elders can nurture and build love for one and all. Over time … more and more of ‘us’ … in these roles … can help build loving values in families, relationships, communities, and ecologies … locally and globally.

Through ever-increasing role-modelling, mentoring, leading and eldership, many persons and peoples of the Earth can nurture and proliferate love in the form of dignity, respect, kindness, fairness, generosity, integrity, and accountability.

You and I and ‘a host of us’ can nurture loving-valuesin- action to benefit all people, all our fellow species, and all of Nature. Millions of ‘us’ have the combined potential to fulfil these noble and necessary roles to help serve and heal our World and our Earth.

Over decades, a minority of exemplars can become many. Exemplars of love can become the new norm, the new normal way to be human. We can do this. We must do this.

This book is original and thought-provoking.

It is a quick and easy read.

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ISBN 978-1-923443-85-3
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ISBN 978-1-923523-43-2
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Dickheads, Wankers, and Arseholes

 

A bold and cheeky guide to decoding three male types and syndromes

If you haven’t read a book about Dickheads, Wankers, Arseholes? Here it is.

If you haven’t read about the syndromes of dickheadery, wankery and arseholery? Now you can.

It’s about time someone wrote about these bleedingly obvious personality ‘types’ … and about three enmeshed, problematic, and far-reaching cultural syndromes.

This book is plain-speaking, perceptive, penetrating, cheeky, and original. It is widely relevant, practical, and replete with insightful analysis. It is written in a distinctly Aussie voice.

And … it is written by a ‘man’ … with decades of experience through a blend of Policing, Community Corrections, Social Work, teaching at university, Consultancy, and training Police at all levels in a range of subject areas.

For some readers … there may be some seismic shocks. Look out … men.

Get ready to nod and sigh and refl ect on the painfully obvious that you may have intuited and-or observed … but had not crystalized into detailed understanding.

Grab this book … and get reading!

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ISBN 978-1-922957-98-6
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Can We Do Better?

All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity. As clarified in all the poems — misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.

The poems weave a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. They highlight the impact of manmade harms to the earth, First Peoples, women, children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings.

Some men might struggle with this unusual and confronting anthology. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they work their way through the poems and the themes.

The poems advocate that societal evolution is contingent upon a critical mass of us facing key facts, truths and realities about wayward masculinity. The anthology concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.
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Are We Better Than?

ARE WE BETTER THAN? is the fourth in series of books that tackle pervasive and perplexing human issues. It is the scaled-down, abridged little-sister version of Can We Do Better? … which is the first and by the far the largest of the series. Comprising about half the number of pages of Can We do Better? … Are We Better Than? is less daunting and more manageable. This will appeal to people who prefer a smaller, easier, more compact read.

All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity.  As clarified throughout the book, misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere … by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.

Are We Better Than? weaves a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. It highlights the impact of man-made harms to the Earth, First Peoples, Women, Children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings. Some men might struggle with these unusual and confronting themes. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they read.

Are We Better Than? concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.

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About the Author

Don Morris is a family man and a retired veteran social worker. His professional background integrates counselling, program management, organisational improvement, cultural change, leadership development, teaching at university, and running his consultancy business.

Don is people-focused, a big-picture thinker, and a change agent. He is dedicated to promoting social justice and critical analysis of human issues. Don is perceptive, an original thinker, and solution-focused. He tackles issues with clarity, focus and determination.

In this anthology, Don is a ‘conscious dreamer’ and a mindful visionary. He is lucid about respective and combined influences of religion, populism, political machinations, pop-psychology, junk-science, conspiracy madness, internet misinformation, and social media inanity. In the face of these, Don is committed to educational processes that give voice to facts, truths and realities. He is also committed to possibilities for us to do better than so much unhelpful stuff that dumbs us down and holds us back.

In all his books, Don drills down into ‘inconvenient truths’ and synthesizes diverse macro and micro issues. He proposes ways for us to build a conscious blend of awareness, dignifying values, rationality, integrity, and accountability. Don reminds us that these interrelated priorities apply to individuals, relationships, institutions, communities, cultures, and governance. They are also crucial to our care and custodianship of human and environmental ecologies.

Don is person of mind, heart and hand. He is thinker, a lover, and a doer. His books encourage readers to think intelligently, rationally and strategically … to feel sentiently, passionately and earnestly … and to act purposefully, constructively and hopefully.