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PHELPS, Renata and Abi Andrews

Dec 15, 2023 | *Featured books, Animals \ Pets Fiction, Australian, Children's Books, Earth \ Nature, New South Wales, Painting & Illustration

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ISBN 978-1-923088-88-7
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If We Care We Can

A Story of How One Glider Helped Save a Forest

Acacia, a tiny Squirrel Glider, is rescued, raised and released by wildlife carers. When she learns that her new forest home is about to be logged, Acacia plans to save the forest by collaborating with the other animals and humans alike.

This story is uniquely illustrated through a series of collages, melding photos, drawings, scanned flora and other artefacts contributed by more than 25 artists and photographers. ‘If We Care We Can’ is part of a collaborative community effort to save Bungabbee Forest on the North Coast of NSW, Australia.

Contributor list

Talia Balzan – Humans, Man, Crowd scene

Melanie Barsony – Masked Owl

Claire Chatfield – Potoroos

Donna Crotty – Goanna , Banksia and photos of burnt forests.

Beki Davies – Python and Banksia

Peter Derrett – Studio photography

Talia Balzan – Humans, Man, Crowd scene of flowers and foliage from Bungabbee

Alice Deschilder – Flying Foxes

Emily Donohoe – Green Tree Frog – Pobblebonk Frog – Lyrebird, White Cockatoo

Amanda Doran – Antechinus, Birdwing Butterfly, Goanna, Pademelon, Nest Box, Psyllids and Lerps

Emmeline Eastwell – Squirrel Glider Family, Glider on Banksia, Glider Juvenile

Layla Flame – Feathertail Glider, Yellow footed Antechinus and Shorter Rainforest Ground-Beetle

Tamara Fogarty – Marbled Frogmouth

Gwendolyn Gray – Kookaburra and Rosella Flower

Kristy Hampson – Brushtail Possum

Natalie Herington – King Parrot and Lorikeet, Kookaburra, Magpie , Koalas, Wrens, Night sky

Phil Jarman – Photos of Bungabbee

Henrietta Mooney – Echidna and Forest Redgum tree – Forest Redgum foliage and flower – Yellow-bellied Gliders

Kerry Negus – Microbats in Hollow, Little Bentwing Bat – Habitat Tree and Trees with Hollows

Rachel Pierssene – Glossy-black Cockatoo, Glossy-black Cockatoo Pair

Dailan Pugh – Quoll

Oral Roberts – Goanna, Glider

Jennifer Unwin – Photos of Bungabbee

Rose Wadsworth – Eucalypt Flowers

Kim Warren – Sugar Glider and Little Lorikeet

SUMMERILL, Roger

Dec 15, 2023 | *Featured books, Australian, Biography, Memoir, New South Wales

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ISBN 978-1-923088-55-9
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ISBN 978-1-923088-98-6
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My Life in Radio

From microphone to management, a fascinating first-hand insight into the Australian radio industry.

In a long and successful career, Roger Summerill worked with many of the biggest names in Australian radio—as an announcer and later in station management. In this frank and revealing memoir Roger chronicles his life and career. He reflects on the many big personalities he encountered along the way—from radio stars like John Laws, Malcolm T Elliott and Richard Glover to the biggest show business names of the last half century—from Australians like Normie Rowe and John Farnham (and a pre-fame encounter with The Easybeats’ Stevie Wright) to international superstars like Roy Orbison and Elton John.

Roger also discusses the importance of family and community, and the role that faith has played in his life.

KOVACS, Joshua

Nov 28, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Exercise \ Fitness \ Health, Health & Wellbeing, Manual \ Training Material, Psychology \ Mental Health, Self-help \ Personal Development, Western Australia

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ISBN 978-1-923156-12-8
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Essentially You

“The most important conversations you need to have are with yourself.”

For your benefit, I’m sharing the physical activities and thought processes I focused on that I accredit my success to through the most challenging time of my life, suffering from poor mental health and low self-esteem.

Once I got myself up and started exercising, it allowed me to start thinking and self-reflect honestly about different situations, choices and interactions from my teen years and throughout my life.

I realised the choices I had made years before only provided limited options. I needed to understand better how I could continually improve my life’s path and create better opportunities going forward.

Over time and with my continual efforts, my mental health improved with my outlook on life being from a more positive perspective, creating greater self-belief and confidence to overcome my challenges.

The lessons learnt via my experiences can provide guidance and support, reducing confusion in your own journey. My dream is to help you continually improve your normal and then be the better you. Read on and believe in yourself.

MORRIS, Don

Nov 28, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biological & Behavioural, Manual \ Training Material, Psychology \ Mental Health

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ISBN 978-1-923589-52-0
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Role Models, Mentors. Leaders, and Elders

 

Our Potential to Be the Difference that Makes a Difference

To quote Hal David’s iconic 1965 song…

“What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love Not just for some but for everyone”.

This book suggests that Role Models, Mentors, Leaders and Elders can nurture and build love for one and all. Over time … more and more of ‘us’ … in these roles … can help build loving values in families, relationships, communities, and ecologies … locally and globally.

Through ever-increasing role-modelling, mentoring, leading and eldership, many persons and peoples of the Earth can nurture and proliferate love in the form of dignity, respect, kindness, fairness, generosity, integrity, and accountability.

You and I and ‘a host of us’ can nurture loving-valuesin- action to benefit all people, all our fellow species, and all of Nature. Millions of ‘us’ have the combined potential to fulfil these noble and necessary roles to help serve and heal our World and our Earth.

Over decades, a minority of exemplars can become many. Exemplars of love can become the new norm, the new normal way to be human. We can do this. We must do this.

This book is original and thought-provoking.

It is a quick and easy read.

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ISBN 978-1-923443-85-3
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ISBN 978-1-923523-43-2
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Dickheads, Wankers, and Arseholes

 

A bold and cheeky guide to decoding three male types and syndromes

If you haven’t read a book about Dickheads, Wankers, Arseholes? Here it is.

If you haven’t read about the syndromes of dickheadery, wankery and arseholery? Now you can.

It’s about time someone wrote about these bleedingly obvious personality ‘types’ … and about three enmeshed, problematic, and far-reaching cultural syndromes.

This book is plain-speaking, perceptive, penetrating, cheeky, and original. It is widely relevant, practical, and replete with insightful analysis. It is written in a distinctly Aussie voice.

And … it is written by a ‘man’ … with decades of experience through a blend of Policing, Community Corrections, Social Work, teaching at university, Consultancy, and training Police at all levels in a range of subject areas.

For some readers … there may be some seismic shocks. Look out … men.

Get ready to nod and sigh and refl ect on the painfully obvious that you may have intuited and-or observed … but had not crystalized into detailed understanding.

Grab this book … and get reading!

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ISBN 978-1-922957-98-6
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Can We Do Better?

All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity. As clarified in all the poems — misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.

The poems weave a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. They highlight the impact of manmade harms to the earth, First Peoples, women, children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings.

Some men might struggle with this unusual and confronting anthology. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they work their way through the poems and the themes.

The poems advocate that societal evolution is contingent upon a critical mass of us facing key facts, truths and realities about wayward masculinity. The anthology concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.
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Are We Better Than?

ARE WE BETTER THAN? is the fourth in series of books that tackle pervasive and perplexing human issues. It is the scaled-down, abridged little-sister version of Can We Do Better? … which is the first and by the far the largest of the series. Comprising about half the number of pages of Can We do Better? … Are We Better Than? is less daunting and more manageable. This will appeal to people who prefer a smaller, easier, more compact read.

All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity.  As clarified throughout the book, misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere … by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.

Are We Better Than? weaves a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. It highlights the impact of man-made harms to the Earth, First Peoples, Women, Children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings. Some men might struggle with these unusual and confronting themes. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they read.

Are We Better Than? concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.

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About the Author

Don Morris is a family man and a retired veteran social worker. His professional background integrates counselling, program management, organisational improvement, cultural change, leadership development, teaching at university, and running his consultancy business.

Don is people-focused, a big-picture thinker, and a change agent. He is dedicated to promoting social justice and critical analysis of human issues. Don is perceptive, an original thinker, and solution-focused. He tackles issues with clarity, focus and determination.

In this anthology, Don is a ‘conscious dreamer’ and a mindful visionary. He is lucid about respective and combined influences of religion, populism, political machinations, pop-psychology, junk-science, conspiracy madness, internet misinformation, and social media inanity. In the face of these, Don is committed to educational processes that give voice to facts, truths and realities. He is also committed to possibilities for us to do better than so much unhelpful stuff that dumbs us down and holds us back.

In all his books, Don drills down into ‘inconvenient truths’ and synthesizes diverse macro and micro issues. He proposes ways for us to build a conscious blend of awareness, dignifying values, rationality, integrity, and accountability. Don reminds us that these interrelated priorities apply to individuals, relationships, institutions, communities, cultures, and governance. They are also crucial to our care and custodianship of human and environmental ecologies.

Don is person of mind, heart and hand. He is thinker, a lover, and a doer. His books encourage readers to think intelligently, rationally and strategically … to feel sentiently, passionately and earnestly … and to act purposefully, constructively and hopefully.

HILLIER, Kevin

Nov 22, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Mystery Fiction, South Australia

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Murder on the Linley River

This story is set on the fictional Linley River in South Australia, based on the real South Australian River Murray.

This book starts with a victim of a stabbing, who is taken to the forensic Mortuary, where Kev and Sully help the forensic Pathologist, Doctor Malloy do a first assessment for the attending detectives.

Kevin, after this late-night call-out, is at work the next day, his last day before giving a talk to pre-deployment troops. Kev after this talk spends a week on the river to reset his work life balance.

Follow the investigation and follow Kev’s part in MURDER ON THE LINLEY RIVER.

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ISBN 978-1-923088-46-7
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Murder at the Linley Cove Lighthouse

“The broken railing and askew post on the outside of the fourth-floor balcony was a giveaway to the attending detective Peter.”

In the early morning, Kev is woken by a phone call; a body had been found at the base of a seven-storey lighthouse. As a senior mortuary technician, Kev is tasked with preparing this new patient for analysis.

Paul is the supposed victim, and close friend of Peter the detective assigned to the case. Paul’s body had been removed from the scene before Peter got there, authorised by Peters Chief Superintendent so he would not have to see his friend looking like he did at the foot of the lighthouse. The investigation progresses, more and more is revealed that leaves the police questioning everything.

In the midst of the investigation, Kev’s relationship with his co-worker, Liz, unexpectedly blossoms and Kev finds his attention split between his job and this fledgling love affair.

Discover the true inner workings of a forensic mortuary and the training of a new employee. Also follow the homicide detective Peter to discover the truth behind the Murder at the Linley Cove Lighthouse.

About the Author

 

Kevin is the third son of Robert George Hillier and Dorothy Margaret Hillier. Stephen and Andrew being his two older brothers. Kev was born in the lounge room of the family home soon after ten pm on the 21st of October 1966. His childhood was a good and loving one. From the age of fourteen, Kev worked in a butcher’s shop after school. It was situated in the small village of Alverstoke in Gosport, Hampshire, on the south coast of England, to the left of Portsmouth Harbour.

When he left school, he gained a position with a large supermarket chain, working in their meat preparation room. That was, until he damaged an eye in an accident at home, which made it impossible to work with all the equipment at that time. After working in a few different departments over the next six months or so, he decided he needed something new.

He then worked for a maritime engineer, helping with everything from building or repairing slipways, to painting and varnishing yachts. At this time, Kev lived on a boat to try to save money, and that is when he started writing as he had no television. He would while away the hours in the evenings drafting stories that came into his head like waking dreams. These stories were handwritten in a book and wouldn’t have been able to be read by anyone other than Kev due to his dyslexia. The stories were badly written, spelt and had hardly any punctuation.

After six months of working with the marine engineer, he joined a jewellery retail company as a trainee manager and made it to the position of manager a couple of years later. When a competitor bought out the company, Kev went for another change and became a trainee mortuary technician.

That’s where he met Liz, you may say the rest is history. He is now settled in South Australia with Elizabeth and their two grown up daughters. He started writing again as a hobby in January 2023. After his father heard Kev had completed his first draft he said about the story “that should be published.” Kev’s father died three days later. Kev decided to approach a publisher and this is his novel. Thank you for reading it.

HOLT, Jeremy

Nov 22, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Victoria, War Fiction

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ISBN 978-1-923088-17-7
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Everything That Stands

Dare you push against the doors?

Will you brave the darkness to find your light?

September 3, 1978.

At the height of the revolutionary war for Rhodesia, twin brothers face a harrowing ordeal when their passenger plane the Viscount Hunyani is struck down by a SAM-7 missile.

In escaping the wreckage, Baron and Blaise Black, co-incidental players in a conflict they neither desire, nor fully comprehend, witness a calculated act of brutality that sets them on a relentless and hazardous journey through unforgiving African bush.

The consciousness of the older twin becomes a prism through which the complexities of purpose, truth, and conscience are explored, against the backdrop of civilians forced to confront unbearable choices.

With this debut novel, the author invites readers to extend their search for meaning beyond the doors of the known, to the undiscovered country that beckons to us all.

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About the Author

Jeremy grew up in Durban, South Africa, during the turbulent, apartheid-era Sixties, and countercultural Seventies. For forty years, he has worked in various educational communities across the globe as a teacher, mentor, lecturer, sports-coach, residential leader, and consultant.

Apart from guarding against his life-narrative becoming an idiot’s tale, Jeremy nurtures a love of family, along with an admixture of literature, philosophy, writing, rugby, and swimming. He is married to Anne, a theatre-nurse manager, who spent her youth in Salisbury, Rhodesia. They are based in Hidden Valley, north of Melbourne, Australia, where their search for meaning continues.

Jeremy’s debut novel, Everything That Stands, is the first book of a larger conceptual framework, The Baron Black Trilogy.