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CRESTANI, Rosalie

Nov 27, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Christian, Melbourne, Memoir, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, Victoria

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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.

KANE, Robert

Nov 18, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Autobiography, Biography, Health & Wellbeing, Medical, Memoir, Psychology \ Mental Health, Self-help \ Personal Development, South Australia

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Your Mate, Hodgkin’s

 

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.

O’LEARY, Bernie

Nov 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Christian, Education Studies & Teaching, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Memoir, Perth, Psychology \ Mental Health, Western Australia

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Transforming Lives

 

God’s Love Through ALPHA in Prisons

This book chronicles the extraordinary journey of a retired civil engineer who heeded God’s call to minister to prisoners. After 42 years in engineering, Bernie embraced a new path as a chaplain, running Alpha courses in Prisons. This book recounts his transformation and the profound impact of Alpha on the lives of inmates. Through heartfelt testimonials, prisoners express their gratitude and newfound faith. With over 500 prisoners completing Alpha at six prisons in Western Australia to date, the ministry has witnessed remarkable spiritual awakenings. The narrative also highlights how spiritual transformation can reduce crime and recidivism, advocating for a rehabilitation-focused prison system. Bernie’s story encourages readers to step out in faith, promising an adventurous journey filled with blessings and purpose in serving the Lord.
Enjoy and be transformed!

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BERNIE O’LEARY HAS had an amazing and awe-inspiring journey, over the last 10 years, running Alpha in Western Australian Prisons.

The Lord specifically led him into this ministry, after a 42 year career as a Civil and Water Engineer, with nothing to do with Prisons in his life! Bernie is the Alpha Prisons Ambassador – Western Australia, with Alpha Australia.

He has seen about 540 prisoners doing Alpha in WA, so far (at 2024), and seen many prisoners coming to the Lord, and being transformed.

This book has also shown the results of some overseas initiatives, in major focuses on spiritual transformation and rehabilitation, rather than only a custodial focus.

These have shown huge reductions in number of prisoners, and recidivism rates.

He has said that this whole journey continues to be an incredible adventure, with huge eternal impacts!

PHILLIPS-MOORE, BARRY

Oct 18, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Memoir, Sport

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Life with 2 Lovers

The story of professional tennis players, Anne and Barry Phillips-Moore, their passionate love for each other, and the game of tennis

In Life with 2 Lovers, Barry Phillips-Moore, a professional tennis player from the golden age of Australian tennis, shares the remarkable story of his two great loves: his wife, Anne Hammond, and the game of tennis. Coached by the legendary Harry Hopman, Barry’s career took him across the European tennis circuit, where he found success both on the court and as an innovator in tennis racquet technology.

But his true devotion was always to Anne, whose love and partnership spanned over 60 years. Filled with captivating stories from his playing days and insights into the world of tennis, this book offers a unique blend of sports memoir and love story.

Published posthumously by his friends, it captures Barry’s warmth, humour, and passion, making it a must-read for tennis enthusiasts and anyone who appreciates a life lived with deep commitment and love.

WENYA, Kimberley

Oct 17, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Alternative Spirituality, Australian, Melbourne, Memoir

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The Manifestation Diaries

Here are the chronicles of exploring manifestation with an open mind and sceptical heart. These are ideas that enchanted and bewildered me, though not without some edge of doubt. The answers for the workings and magic of life, and reality, are mysterious and rarely certain, but at least for a time, I suppose these were mine.

Secrets of a season, stories from a period of youth, seen through my starry eyes, wild imagination and midnight dreams.

– Kimberley Wenya

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About the Author

Kimberley Wenya has a Bachelor of Science from Th e University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Science (Osteopathy) from Victoria
University. Th e Manifestation Diaries is her debut publication. She lives in Melbourne, Victoria and in her free time enjoys rock climbing, watching movies, playing the violin, writing poems and taking her miniature schnauzer, Blue, out for café walks.

LE BAS, James

Sep 23, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology \ Mental Health, Victoria

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Beyond Bipolar

 

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.

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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.