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PETERS, Shane

Jan 14, 2020 | *listed, Children's Books, New South Wales, The Arts
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ISBN 978-0-6480268-3-9
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ISBN 978-0-6481662-1-4
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Skylah Dreams

What our grown up minds

set out to achieve

Is from our young

minds once dreamed.

 
arty's rainbow party shane peters book
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ISBN 978-1-922337-08-5
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Arty’s Rainbow Party

Join Arty and his friends!

They have all gathered to celebrate his birthday with a fun filled party.

About the Author

Shane Peters began his writing journey in 2015 and is also a full-time entertainer who performs in tribute shows as well as cabaret.

In 2017 he started his own entertainment agency (A.T.S.Organisation) in which specializes in booking tribute shows in venues/cruise ships as well as corporate events.

With Shane’s longtime dream to become a children’s author now being realized, he will continue to write children’s books and create great stories for them that he hopes stay with them for years to come.

 

JOHNSON, Scott

Jan 7, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, New South Wales, Poetry
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ISBN 978-0-6485046-8-9
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The Abandoned Poet

Shade of all shades, many sights go unseen still beckoned in confusion, of a most stormy dream.

These eyes will shut, the light will cut upon opening; an unexplored valley of shock and disbelief, of many streams coping. Comfort mixed with fear… I do remember, the angry fire in one’s heart, an inextinguishable ember.

About the Author

After a young life, of almost impossible horror; my heart still never stopped beating for others. I stood up, with my head held down and later held high, tackling everything horrific in life, as I had no choice to and others shied away from the horror. Once I’d beaten just about everything the world could possibly throw at me, in agony, physical, emotional, mental and psychological torment of complexities I never stopped or had a peaceful day in my life… I didn’t understand why these things were happening to me… I didn’t deserve it and I was simply an innocent and bright eyed child who just wanted to frolic in the garden, reaching out my hand for love and friendship. So, I set out on a mission. Knowing I’d be sacrificing my life as a child, teenager and in adulthood with chronic alcoholism and chain smoking, just to barely get through these situations, I realized that no one around me was listening as I reached out for help for years. So, through my writing, I decided to help others. I dislike the world we live in and I didn’t just want a better future for myself… I wished the entire world, to have a safe and fear free future even though my future is now limited. I set out on a suicide mission in life by using my vices to face my fears, knowing the inevitable would be tragic from a young age. No one was willing to change the world and someone had to do it, at all costs no matter what the consequences may be. I fight for truth… I fight for justice… I fight for you… I am…

For whatever reason, life has a habit of putting everyone under the microscope and exposing every weak point possibly imaginable. The microscope exposes flaws, insecurities, fears, self-doubt, anger, rage and much more… The questionable nature of why we’re here and why the pain won’t stop no-matter which approach is taken is a mystery to all of us. Just knowing there’s no way out and nowhere to hide, as the miserable world around us tries to take us down with them kicking and screaming. The sick, the perverted (to whom tread no lines of boundaries or right or wrong), the greedy, the cruel, the violent and the utterly shocking! Many people have found all of this out, the hardest way possible…

Welcome to The Abandoned Poet and brace yourself, for a journey like no other…

DREW, Gillian

Jan 3, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Business, Manual \ Training Material, New South Wales, Self-help \ Personal Development
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ISBN 978-0-6486785-9-5
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GPS: Your Guide to Navigating Change

Get help with:

  • Where to start with change and how to get a handle on what’s just happened.
  • Knowing when to take action and when to step back and allow life to unfold.
  • The steps you can take to understand change and work with it, instead of against it.
  • Tips on what you can do to influence change in your world.

Any life change is a journey. There’s a starting point when your world begins to change, an end point when you think you’ve made it through, and a pathway between the two. That pathway can have twists and turns, roundabouts, and hairpin bends, or it can be a direct line from start to end.

The GPS consists of three key tools to help you on this journey:

  1. A compass,
  2. A road map, and
  3. A travel guide.

The GPS as a whole gives you a systemised way to proceed through life’s challenging, confusing, and overwhelming moments. It isn’t the crystal ball you’d sometimes like to have in times of change, but its structure will give you reassurance when everything else seems out of control.

Using the road map, compass, and travel guide, you’ll come to approach change (and life!) from a completely different perspective. Change is usually uncomfortable, it can even be a little (or a lot) scary, but with the GPS you have a strategy that keeps you on track, and in tune with where you’re at along the way.

 

About the Author

Author, kinesiologist, workshop facilitator

Gillian has first-hand experience in navigating stress and change.  Burnout from a corporate career led her to change life direction to one more supportive of self; and now she helps others do the same! 

Creating personal change takes a combination of logic and strategy, soul searching and insight.  Gillian’s broad experience enables her to bring those skills together to guide others through stress and change and towards happier results.

Gillian is a country-girl at heart, and is on a personal mission to create change by reducing the use of single-use plastic!

ANN SNODGRASS, Perry

Jan 2, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biography, Design, Family History, History, New South Wales, South Australia
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ISBN 978-0-9946431-9-3
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Against The Tide

Pride in their new country, hard work, entrepreneurship, love affairs and heartbreak are part of the story of four young women and their lives in colonial New South Wales.

Against the Tide is a true story of the three wives and sister of an educated convict, Thomas Armitage Salmon who arrived in Sydney in 1831 on the York. For his white collar crime, he served seven years as a clerk to the Superintendent of Stores at Emu Plains.

Thomas’s beautiful young wife Sarah and their four young children, accompanied by his devoted sister Mary Ann, followed on the Princess Victoria arriving in Sydney in 1834. After a year the enterprising Sarah opened the successful Rose Inn on the Western Highway in Penrith.

The vehement politics of the day were chronicled by another wife. She was Ann the widow of Robert Howe, of the Howe family newspaper dynasty. Her paper, The Sydney Gazette supported the liberal Governor Richard Bourke and her stand, and that of her lover, William Watt, saw many enemies made among the elites. Ann’s enterprising spirit saw her as one of the first settlers on the newly explored Macleay River.

This book follows the lives of these interesting women interwoven with the growth of the colony. It details the changes to self government and the law, the end of transportation, opening of large tracts of agricultural land serviced by road, rail and sea travel, public schooling, the arts and leisure.

The Colour of Shame by self-published author Perry Anne Snodgrass
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Colour of Shame

Set amid the tropical beauty of the Tweed Valley this true story unfolds before World War I. Stella, a confidant young woman from a respected South Coast family, travels alone by steamer and train to Murwillumbah in Northern New South Wales. She is visiting her German grandfather Carl Ahrens and his young wife and family. Carl a blacksmith by trade is trying his hand growing sugar cane on the slopes of Terranora. Sugar, the growing industry, is supported by a workforce of Pacific Islander whose families had been brought to Queensland as indentured labourers.

Stella is swept off her feet by Claude, a young man from a prominent family and the story begins.

Family tragedy, heartbreak, love and courage are the elements of this poignant tale.

About the Author

After a career as a colourist for a firm of commercial photographers in Sydney; an entrepreneurial life in Sydney with her own catering and events design company (Perry Snodgrass Catering); becoming co-founder of the Sydney chapter of the International Special Events Society (ISES); then in her holiday rental and real estate firm dealing exclusively with French properties (Perry Snodgrass French Fields).

Perry moved to Daylesford in Victoria and practiced full time as an artist for ten years. She exhibited in the Convent Gallery, Pantechnicon, Impressions Gallery and Hill End Gallery all in Daylesford, Tin Shed Arts Gallery in Malmsbury, Woollahra Times Gallery in Sydney and the ARTspace@209 gallery in North Adelaide. Her colourful work has also appeared on wine labels and greeting cards.

She moved to Adelaide in 2007 and completed an Associate Visual Arts Degree at the Adelaide Central School of Art followed by a Graduate Diploma in Art History and a Degree of Master of Arts (Studies in Art History) at the University of Adelaide.

Having lived her passions of food, France, art and scholarship, Perry has taken up a pen and crafted her first book painting a well researched picture-in-words of life in colonial Australia as seen through the lives of four strong and productive women.