Jul 23, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Language \ Culture \ Linguistics, Memoir, Relationships, Victoria
ISBN 978-1-923214-54-5
PAPERBACK
As a child, Mila and her brothers were taken, under a cloud of secrecy, by their parents from their home, school, extended family, country and culture. They were not allowed by their parents to talk about their forthcoming journey. When either parent made an order, the children obeyed. This order not to speak drew eight-year old Mila to pay special attention to her life.
This is a story with an interesting scope. It is about escape from oppression, about family, and about her various journeys through different cultures. Mila writes about her adjusting to the challenge of a new culture, home and language in Australia. She highlights the different ways that members of her family respond to this same challenge.
At the heart of this book is Mila’s understanding of our obligation to stay true to ourselves that reveal to us who we are, unrelated to our family or culture. Through the gift of her story, she is also celebrating the common humanity that binds us all, no matter where we come from.
Jul 18, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology \ Mental Health, Reference, Self-help \ Personal Development, Western Australia
ISBN 978-1-923214-22-4
PAPERBACK
Changing the direction of your life to be resilient.
Everyone has challenges in their life, this is part of a normal life. Resilience is the ability to experience
these challenges and keep living a good life. It is not having a perfect life, it is more not getting derailed by the challenges and stuck in them.
Resilience is often marketed as a bunch of strategies like mindfulness, self-care, gratitude, and ‘boom’ you are resilient. These approaches generally don’t work. That is because they don’t address the problems in your life and they don’t give you a reason to do the work. They don’t answer questions like: Why should I engage in healthy relationships or mindfulness? Why should I forgive someone? Why am I so angry? A self-care walk is lovely to do, but you have to understand why you are going on the walk and do something about that.
This book will help you to understand your challenging experiences, and why some have impacted you and others have not. You will see why you set poor boundaries, give up on things too easily, or have conflict in relationships. It will also help you to develop better coping skills – embracing both your emotions and your practical side to work though challenges. Most importantly, this book will help you to redefine your worth. When you understand your value, you will work to change what is not working in your life.
Once you make different choices, you will experience a turning point. This is when you turn away from the current path you are on and start to travel on a more helpful one. These turning points aren’t always large changes, but they are enough to help you to live a resilient life. I hope through reading this book you experience your own turning points, and that you get to live the life you want. Life can throw some big challenges, but if you know how to manage them you can be resilient.
About the Author
Dr Mandie Shean has completed a Bachelor of Education (primary), Bachelor of Arts with First Class
Honours (Psychology), and combined Masters/PhD in community psychology (Resilience in adolescence)
at Edith Cowan University.
She is a registered teacher and psychologist. She has worked as a primary teacher for 20 years, a school psychologist in government schools, and a lecturer in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University (ECU). She is currently working in a K-12 school as the College Psychologist and holds an adjunct position at ECU.
Mandie’s research and practice is focused on increasing family, student, and teacher wellbeing. She believes in developing healthy community that support individuals to the be the best version of themselves
Jul 17, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Children's Books, Relationships, Victoria
ISBN: 978-192-326-516-5
PAPERBACK
James stands toes buried in the sand, ankles brushed by the cool waves of his beach.
Why should he leave?
Why should he have to go ?
…It’s their choice not his.
‘It’s not fair!’ he mutters.
James is faced with a difficult choice…he doesn’t want to leave his special place, but his family is moving and there is no way for him to stay.
Serendipity – a moment in time – intervenes and a surprise encounter helps him to stand up and be counted.
About the Author
KAREN LUKIN is a retired English teacher from Western Australia, who now lives in rural Victoria. Growing up, she was an avid reader and always wanted to be a published writer.
She uses family stories as her inspiration. She is married
to a retired farmer and has a love of the country life.
Serendipity is her first published work – it was awarded the state
prize in the Victorian Country Women’s Association Literature
competition in 2019. For publication as a picture book, she has
collaborated with a family friend and artist, Tania Vanzetti.
Other short stories she has written were included in the Kyabram Town
Hall Writers Group Anthology Celebrating Women published in 2021.
Jul 16, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Animals \ Pets Fiction, Australian, Children's Books, Miscellaneous
ISBN 978-1-923214-0-7
PAPERBACK
ISBN 978-1-923265-31-8
HARDCOVER
The Royal Hen House at 851
Mr Daly’s hen house appeared to be ideal.
For the royal hen. Queen Catherine, that was all about to change…
Jul 16, 2024 | *, *Featured books, Australian, Health & Wellbeing, LGBTQ+ Non-fiction, Manual \ Training Material, Parenting & Family, Psychology \ Mental Health
ISBN 978-1-923214-18-7
FORMAT
An epic teen guide for autistic girls and gender diverse youth
Well, so are we, and we remember exactly what it was like as a teen. That’s why we’ve created this epic teen guide—because we want you to have all the info we wished we had back then!
We packed it with insider knowledge, personal stories, and helpful tips, so you don’t have to go on this journey alone. We’ll go through all the stuff you need to know as an autistic teen girl, or autistic gender diverse teen, from home and school life, to friends and relationships, puberty and all the tricky stuff like mental health, and bullying.
Learn heaps about autistic identity and culture, and discover how to embrace yourself exactly as you are.
Jul 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Children's Books, Melbourne, Victoria
ISBN 978-1-923265-00-4
BOARDBOOK
Introduce your little one to the world of coffee with C IS FOR COFFEE!
This delightful book uses vibrant, playful illustrations to teach the alphabet through the art of home coffee making.
Watch as your child learns their ABCs while discovering the essential brew that fuels new parents everywhere.
