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CUNNINGHAM, Terry

Jan 20, 2021 | *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Melbourne, Victoria
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ISBN 978-1-922527-27-1
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Power House & Mary Kathleen

The challenges and experiences which shaped my life.

My first book ‘Black Tea & Hay Dust’ was published in 2008 and represented the formative years of my life from age 3 to 18 years. Foreshadowed in this book two more books were proposed to complete a trilogy of my life up to and including retirement. However I have now decided to combine the second book ‘Power House’ with the third book ‘Mary Kathleen’ in a single book titled ‘Power House and Mary Kathleen’. This book covers the remainder of my life up to retirement and is divided into two parts:

Part 1 covers the period when I left home to continue my education in the city of Melbourne where I completed a Civil Engineering Diploma, courted, married and began a family life and a working career.

Part 2 covers my working career which initially was very difficult but blossomed later after a lucky break sent my family and me to far North West Queensland to a place called Mary Kathleen. This move changed our lives forever with some very big consequences.

About the Author

Terry Cunningham grew up on a dairy farm and later graduated in civil engineering at Swinburne College in Hawthorn, Melbourne. His career spanned 45 years where he spent time working throughout Australia and overseas in the Middle East, Montreal, Borneo, New Guinea, New Caledonia and Guinea. His autobiography covers an intriguing career with lifetime experiences including all the dramas, fears, hopes, disappointments, joys and achievements along the way. The anecdotes and life episodes are many and varied, making this autobiography a real ‘page turner’.

Terry retired in 2013 at age 67. Together with wife Christina he experienced cruises to the Nordic countries and Asia, also visiting China and the UK. His main hobbies include writing, pencil sketching and gardening.

 

MCRAE, John

Oct 14, 2020 | *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, New South Wales

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ISBN 978-1-922452-50-4 PAPERBACK

Reminisces

These recollections of a lad growing up at the end of the second millennium on a farm near a small Upper Hunter Valley town in New South Wales, Australia, recreate a glimpse of the way we were not so very long ago.

The tale tells of surviving illness and abuse in sometimes barefoot scarcity, yet with sufficient nurture, nourishment, new things – and hand-me-downs – to inspire feelings of wealth. There was a richness of family and friends, and foes enough to keep life interesting. This heart-warming yarn keeps the reader entertained, yet might challenge your views on public issues regarding people, prejudice and politics. It may even encourage you to think squarely.

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NASSIF, Fred

Sep 14, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Christian, New South Wales

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ISBN 978-1-922452-1

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Higher Power

ONE MAN’S STORY OF OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD

Growing up independent and the youngest of three siblings, I felt protected. Life was good, I had great friends, family and school. But little by little, things began to change in and out of home. As a child, I reached out and had experiences – an amazing touch from above, a spiritual encounter with our Almighty. But the mistake of straying saw me slide down as far as you can go. With the love and care of my amazing mother who never gave up on me, whose love was too much to repay, and the support of my fiance, Chantal, and her prayers, patience and love, I was taught that I was not washed up yet.As mum’s health deteriorated, a promise I made to her was starting to be fulfilled. Higher Power is exactly what I had to rediscover to show Mum that her prayers would come true. Watch and see how I overcame life’s ugliest battles to show my hero that I had one last fight in me.

JAMIESON, Dean

Jul 8, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, South Australia
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ISBN 978-1-922337-60-3
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They Called Me Lightning

They called me Lightning is the story of Dean Jamieson. Born in Adelaide in 1940, Dean left school at sixteen to chase a childhood dream of becoming a real-life cowboy.

This is the story about a young teenage boy who decides to leave Urrbrae High School in Adelaide and begin a new life working on an outback station. From stepping off the Old Ghan at Abminga rail siding in the middle of the night, to living off the land with Aboriginal people in the Simpson Desert, to mustering cattle on foot, to chasing brumbies along the Birdsville Track, to how he earned his nickname “Lightning”; Dean recounts these and other entertaining stories about early sexual encounters, drought, isolation and near-death experiences.

Told in Dean’s own words, They called me Lightning describes tales of fear, adventure, survival and growing up whilst working on outback stations in South Australia and the Northern Territory in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

About the Author

DEAN W. JAMIESON was born in Adelaide in 1940 and worked in outback stations in the Northern Territory and South Australia as a teenager and in his early 20s. Now in his late seventies, Dean lives in Victor Harbor, South Australia with his wife Jennifer. They called me Lightning is his first book.

JOHNS, Andrea

Jun 23, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Memoir, South Australia
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ISBN 978-1-922337-58-0
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ISBN 978-1-922629-09-8
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Like a Dandelion in the Wind

Andrea endured many hardships in her life while travelling around Australia with her lovable rascal of a father. She was taught cunningness, survival, love, gambling, hunting and fishing, unlike any education you get from sitting in a classroom. Taken out of school at 13, married at 16 and a mother at 17. War and a traumatic birth of her second child only made her stronger. Evacuated to London, she spent two harrowing years trying to return to her beloved Australia. Once back, she fought the biggest battle of her life, saving her children from an evil spirit.

Her limited education would not deter her from documenting her life’s journey.

These are her own words, based on her memories. Any reference to anyone passed or living is purely coincidental.

GRAHAM, Felicity

Jun 10, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Autobiography, Self-help \ Personal Development
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ISBN 978-1-922337-51-1
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Not Held Down

The long and hard, but meaningful, journey of writing Not Held Down started because Felicity Graham wanted to share her experience in the foster care system.

This is her story.

“Every knock that the system threw at me I thought would break me; I didn’t think I would survive. I found the strength to make it through. I realised that I did not ever want someone going through the pain I had gone through. I didn’t want any kid to ever blame themselves for something that they had no control over. I had seen friends and family changed by the system because it was easier to let it break them than to rise above it. I want to advocate for the next generation of foster kids. This book was written to help others in care to find their strength and not feel silenced or alone.”