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BRANCATASIANO, Frank

Jan 3, 2020 | *Featured books, *listed, Design, Designers, Gina Walters, History, History showcase, Memoir, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government
Frank Brancatasiano's self-published book Albert Street Families Interior
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ISBN 978-0-6485046-9-6
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Emigrazione Samese: Eu Vaio E Torno

Emigrazione Samese – EU Vaio E Torno is a history of the families that left their small village of Samo in Reggio Calabria, Italy for Melbourne Australia. Some came before World War I. Many fled from the difficulties of war-torn Italy after World War II. Their journey was typified by the Bonfa, D’Agostino and Verzaci families. They lived side by side in Samo for many years and left when Australia offered opportunities in stark contrast to their beloved village then bereft of employment.

Once arrived, the Samese worked hard and prospered in Melbourne – a big city quite unlike their village home. They worked in factories, fields, building sites and restaurants, often starting their own enterprises. They struggled with language and a different culture. A mixture of determination, ability and a little luck saw them build families, houses and careers.

This book is a tribute to their courage and vision and a recognition of their success.

About the Author

I was born in Samo in 1948 and emigrated to Australia at 9 years of age.

My mother Caterina, and my two brothers Peitro and Vincenzo left Samo in 1957. My father Guiseppe Antonio had left the family five years earlier to ready the way to build a new life in Australia.

Growing up in Australia, I experienced difficulties typical to migrants who leave their home country to settle into a totally different culture.

These experiences motivated me to work on publishing this collection of family migrant stories. The stories are all from families who called the small village of Samo in Reggio Calabria, Italy home.

It is my hope that these stories will inspire and assist future generations to understand their origins and how they came to be in this great country.

The stories are a real testament of the courage and sacrifices made by all of the early migrants. They all shared the common goal of ensuring that their future generations would have greater opportunities in their new homeland of Australia.

WRIGHT, Brett

Jan 3, 2020 | *, *listed, Alternative Spirituality, Biography
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ISBN 978-0-6483239-8-3
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Encounters with the Spirit World

Encounters with Spirit World contains many never-before-documented reports of peoples’ encounters with those who have left this life and gone to the next. Some of these accounts are inspirational and uplifting; some however are truly frightening.

What stops this book from being just another, ‘bump in the night’ , collection of ghost stories is that many of the encounters told within come from respected, professional members of the community: from doctors and police to lawyers and even an astronaut, their encounters are told here, many for the first time.

 

About the Author

Brett Wright was a serving Police Officer with the NSW Police Force for 15 years

He spent the majority of his time as a frontline officer where he saw and dealt with the worst that humanity has to offer. During his career, Brett was awarded the Jim Affleck trophy for bravery and the Commissioner’s Commendation for Courage. He was twice a finalist for Police Officer of the Year from the Campbelltown Chamber of Commerce.

Brett left the Police in October 2016 and began writing from the day he left. When not writing Brett spends his time hiking, taking part in running events, travelling and enjoying his favourite sport, Rugby League.

 

 

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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ISBN 978-0-6484905-0-0
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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.

MACKLIN, Kay

Mar 16, 2019 | *, *listed, Australian, Biography, Christian, Queensland

الرجـــل الرمـــادي by self-published author Bushra Timraz
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Lifted Up By Angels

Kay shares her journey of recovery and resilience to make a difference in the lives of others.

This book has been written for sufferers of mental health and other adversities, to provide the knowledge that there is hope. You are not alone. There is a way out of the mess, and by being courageous and reaching out for help you can overcome anything. It is my intent to start the discussion about mental illness in the hope that others will join the conversation and share their story also.

I had pleaded with God on many occasions throughout my life and I kept getting the same answer.

“God, why did you give this mental illness and these challenges to me and my family?”.

“So that you could share the experience of your recovery and make a difference in the lives of others”.

After struggling with Post-Natal Depression, Clinical Depression, a marriage break-up, a suicide attempt, diagnosis of Bipolar disorder, a stroke, and subsequential poverty, I found my new identity with the birth of my first grandchild – Nanna.

I was lifted up. I became strong and courageous. I found the resilience to bounce forward with a new purpose, direction and identity. I began living a Christ-centred life. I was finally able to call myself an overcomer.

Everyone’s story is different.

This is my story.

MARAN, S. Keshan

Jun 5, 0202 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biography, Memoir

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ISBN 978-1-923589-58-2
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Conversations We Didn’t Finish

 

A Father’s Reflections on Love, Letting go, and Growing up Together

A Father’s Memoir of Love, Distance, and the Words Left Unsaid

Some conversations don’t end. They simply go quiet. A hug that lingered. A question never asked. A phrase remembered years later with a whisper: “Plus one.”

Conversations We Didn’t Finish is a reflective memoir about love without control, presence without proximity, and fatherhood that continues even as roles change. Written with restraint and emotional honesty, it’s for fathers, men, and readers navigating distance, identity, and quiet reinvention.

For those who believe that meaning lives not in what’s said loudly, but in what’s held gently. This isn’t a story about fixing relationships. It’s about holding space for them.

About the Author

 

S. Keshan Maran is a father, mentor, and strategist whose work has spanned leadership development, business growth, and community-building across several countries. His approach has always centred on presence, curiosity, and the belief that love, especially the imperfect kind, can be a powerful teacher.

He wrote this memoir during a period of profound transition, reflection, and healing. It is not a record of events, but a record of becoming. of learning how to love, let go, and continue growing.

He currently lives between Aotearoa New Zealand and Southeast Asia, and continues to work quietly with individuals and organisations on purposedriven transformation.