Dec 18, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Philosophy, Psychology \ Mental Health, Queensland
ISBN 978-1-923333-25-3
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Memories full of courage, resilience, love, and joy
A life-story that is captivating, historical and thrilling. A young man torn in wartime Germany during WW2 adapts to a new life with
all its challenges in a strange, far away country, different customs and language.
During this transition he asks poignant questions about life and its meaning not only for himself but for all mankind.
Spurred by the turmoil of his life, excruciating pain and the death of his loved ones, he recalls fears experienced during the Nazis, Gestapo and the SS domination. And the horrific and senseless Allied bombings of his beloved homeland from without.
He examines the psychological aspects of his life and how it has affected his thoughts and responses. Theological avenues surfaced when he endeavoured to search for the higher being and the reason for existence. The good and the bad that haunts all of
us in our To the Edge of Eternity. Philosophical thoughts invaded his mind questioning love, hate and lastly death and what they really mean to us as spirits on a human journey.
Subject to a lifetime of much suffering and doubt, the writer has experienced firsthand the plight of the needy.
The author is now inspired to share his story and deep thoughts on these very contentious issues.
Nov 27, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Christian, Melbourne, Memoir, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, Victoria
ISBN 978-1-923333-11-6
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Standing Firm For God And Nation
Rosalie Crestani wasn’t just a Deputy Mayor – she was a fierce force for change in one of Australia’s fastest growing and most diverse regions. As a Councillor in the City of Casey, home to over 300,000 people from 150 different cultural backgrounds, Rosalie stood out for her bold, conservative values, igniting controversy and heated debates at every turn.
In this compelling memoir, follow Rosalie through the high-stakes battles of local government, where she faced both victories and crushing defeats. A story full of courage and endurance. From her family’s harrowing survival in war-torn Berlin, to the red dust of the Australian outback, to the harsh winters of upstate New York, Rosalie’s life is a tale of grit, perseverance, and the unyielding pursuit of her vision for a better community.
Strap in for the Rosalie rollercoaster – one woman’s courageous fight for her beliefs, a fight that echoes across all of Australia.
Nov 18, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Health & Wellbeing, Medical, Memoir, Psychology \ Mental Health, Self-help \ Personal Development, South Australia
ISBN 9781923333666
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ISBN 9781923333871
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A True Story Of Resilience, Positivity and Self-Help
AT THE AGE OF 32, STAYING POSITIVE WAS ROB’S BIGGEST HURDLE, WHEN HE FOUND HIMSELF FACE TO FACE WITH STAGE 4 HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA.
While the doctors excelled in diagnosis, surgical procedures and prescribing chemotherapy regimens, when it came to maintaining
optimism or prescribing diets that nourish a body ravaged by cancer and treatment, the advice on hope and healing was scarce.
As Rob’s journey progressed, he seized the unique opportunity to analyse and document his path to maintaining a positive mindset.
Through simple yet powerful ideologies, Rob delves into the importance of perspective and captures deeply vulnerable moments through his journaling. Through the face of uncertainty, the agonising wait for a diagnosis, and the chilling realisation of death’s
veil over his life, Rob offers profound insights into the crucial strategies that enabled him to break free from the grip of negativity.
“I couldn’t escape by travelling overseas or quitting my job, the way most young people deal with their issues. My philosophy was to break the journey down into steps. One by one, there is a step to recognition, to recovery, and to maintain mindfulness and self-strength.”
Your Mate, Hodgkin’s is a compelling and detailed account of Rob’s journey through cancer. This must-read story weaves together extensive research with the firsthand experience of a chemotherapy patient. It offers valuable guidance to patients, support networks, and practitioners alike, providing essential tools for everybody coping with cancer and other life-altering traumatic events.
Sep 23, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology \ Mental Health, Victoria
ISBN 9781923333208
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Ancient Realms New Directions
Imagine that you wake overseas one night and think you are in hell. In this darkness you fight oriental demons and dodge laser beams. You are strapped to the bed of a baffling building, tended by people you don’t recognise. Then imagine you are home again, and that you gradually get better on no medication. You take a year off to travel.
What would you then think and feel? Far from being broken you finish a medical degree and study psychiatry whilst holding on to your secret. Spin forward forty years after a career in community psychiatry. You decide to study and Beyond Bipolar- Ancient Realms New Directions is incepted, about living mood and psychotic disorders from the inside and the outside.
About the Author
Australian born psychiatrist Dr James Le Bas PhD is the author of Beyond Bipolar, Ancient Realms, New Directions. As a sufferer himself, his career was awakened in a basement ward in Manilla, the first of four hospitalisations for psychosis, depression, and mania. His new book explores the role of ostracism in the determination of what he has termed the tripolar disorders and incorporates the models of Jaak Panksepp and Jeffrey Gray. In his new book he deals with the difficult issues – love, addiction, and loss, as he faces up to the mystery of mental illness, both at large and within himself, with his new mode of understanding – the Tesseract.
Aug 16, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, History, Military, South Australia
ISBN 978-1-923214-92-7
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This remarkable story, compiled by his daughter, draws from Stanley’s manuscripts, letters, and newspaper articles written throughout his life.
TWISTS OF FATE spans eighty-five years, from 1914 to 1999, chronicling Stanley’s incredible journey from orphan to farm hand, Medic and POW, and ultimately, a foreign correspondent. The narrative offers a contemporary journalistic account of global history, covering pivotal moments like the 1926 British General Strike, life in German POW camps, post-war Europe, and the civil wars and unrest in Greece, Palestine, and China.
About the Author
Born in the slums of London’s East End and raised as an orphan, Stanley Arthur Bond’s life took an extraordinary turn during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Moving to a farm in New Zealand opened doors to work and study, setting him on a path of global travel and participating in and observing many of the twentieth century’s historic events.
Aug 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Memoir, New South Wales, Psychology \ Mental Health, Sydney
ISBN 978-1-923214-41-5
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Living with Schizophrenia
“My dad found me on the street and he approached me and said hello, but I told him to piss off because I thought he was someone with a mask and that he wasn’t my father. It was very damaging for my dad to cop this. To think that I thought my dad was a man with a mask … I was so far gone. I told him I nearly tried to rip the mask off his face because I was so sure it wasn’t him. ”
Misdiagnosed, angry, and homeless, James’ journey through life became a nightmare for him and others around him. paranoid schizophrenia.
Afterall, that’s how it can be with paranoid schizophrenia.
