ISBN 978-1-922957-63-4
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Louie is a kind and curious dinosaur who is learning about the world with his friends and family.
Louie the Dinosaur – Learning to Share follows Louie and his cousin Heath while they learn about sharing and compromise through play.
ISBN 978-1-922957-80-1
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‘Profoundly insightful with a good dose of wit… a light-hearted, nostalgic read’
D.J. Coster describes his life journey against the background of profound socioeconomic change in Australia in the 80 years since the end of WWII.
Coster is a perceptive observer of what has gone on around him and acknowledges the impact of national and international events on his life – and everyone else’s.
He describes the transitions that have tested him – from a working-class home into elite educational institutions, from medical student to junior doctor and the metamorphosis into a clinician scientist, and the tricky transition from doctor to patient. The story is told honestly and reflectively by someone not afraid to provoke. It is not a story of personal achievement against the odds, but a description of factors that made the baby boomer generation more privileged than any other generation before or since, and the way national and global events, chance encounters, and luck, shape lives.
D.J. Coster AO, DSc, FTSE, is a retired ophthalmologist with a distinguished career in academic medicine.
He lives in Adelaide with his wife Marion.
ISBN 978-1-922957-55-9
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Someone wisely wrote that “where words fail, music speaks.” There is much more in music than any of us can ever imagine; and often we take music for granted. In this book, Jenny Chi has carefully brought her readers to an awareness of how music has the potential of positively impacting all of us in our everyday situations.
The title A Simple Melody came from an Irving Berlin popular tune in the fifties (around 1950) sung by Bing and his son, Gary Crosby. The message is that a simple melody can go a long way by its uses and benefits. Here, Jenny shares her personal experience with music, how it has impacted her own life and especially how she utilized it so effectively in various and numerous ways. The book also contains the stories of her friends and family members and what music meant to them and how it enriched their lives.
Up to the point of her departure to be with her Lord Jesus Christ, it had been Jenny’s hope that many will be personally inspired to allow both sacred and secular music to flow into their lives, and boldly explore the myriad benefits as to how music can so wonderfully bless them.
Jenny Chi passed away and went into Glory with her beloved Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, on May 15, 2022. She left behind her dear husband, Rev Dr Tony Chi, two sons Jonathan and Jeremy, and their respective wives, Sandra and Stephanie, and five lovely grandchildren, Michael, Lauryn, Lucie, Christoppher, and Norah. Jenny was born on June 16, 1941 in Melacca, Malaysia, and she grew up with six siblings. She was a secondary school teacher by training, but stopped her teaching career in 1968, when she went to Evanston, Illinois, USA to be with Tony who had enrolled as a graduate student at Northwestern University.
Tony completed his Master of Arts Degree and Doctor of Philosophy (Comparative Religions) Degree by way of a joint graduate study degree program between Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University in 1973. While Tony studied, Jenny worked full time at the administration department of the United Methodist Board of Pensions. In their five years there, Jenny earned enough money to help pay for Tony’s tuition fees. Thus all her USA friends declared that Jenny had earned her “PHT” degree (putting hubby through).
Jenny lived an extraordinary life. She shared more than 60 years of church ministry together with Tony. Jenny gave unfailing support and encouragement to Tony as the untiring, self-giving Pastor’s wife, and also as a devoted mother and a much loved grandmother to her five grandchildren. On top of all these, she believed she had a God ordained ministry of her own. In answering God’s call to ministry, she started Sunday schools, set up youth ministry programs, organised choirs, initiated ladies’ meetings, prayer groups, and floral arranging classes. She also did a lot of home visitation, and conducted worship services in many of the church’s agedcare homes and centres.
She left a legacy which will never be forgotten by all who knew her. Jenny had an unfathomable love for people – any and every person in need. She loved being in service for others and gave herself completely to anyone who might undergo distress, discomfort, or any sojourner who might be spiritually lost, weary, or heavy laden with personal problems.
Someone wrote that Jenny had taught him the true meaning of love in Christ by her generosity, hospitality, and selfless giving of care to countless others. “I’m a better person for having known her.” Jenny’s extraordinary life is best summed up by another’s testimony of her: “Jenny, you are an amazingly lovely person, and the closest thing to an ANGEL Of GOD on earth.”
A timely quotation says: “IN JESUS, THERE IS NO LOSS.” God, in His Wisdom gave Jenny to live among us through decades of selfless giving ministry. In 2022, after over sixty years of total giving of herself in the service of God, Jenny found her place among God’s angels, and heard Him declare: “well done, good and faithful servant, enter now into the joy of thy Lord” (Matthew 25:21 KJV). Jenny, truly it can be said of you: You have fought the good fight, you have finished the race, you have kept the faith (2 Timothy 4: 7).
ISBN 978-1-922803-74-0
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Shedding Light explores the rich history of St. Columb’s Anglican Church, Hawthorn, using its beautiful stained-glass windows as a point of reference. With more than 150 illustrations, it celebrates the artistry of some of Melbourne’s most gifted stained-glass creators, and remembers the lives of the parishioners to whom those windows are dedicated. Drawing extensively upon church records and newspaper reports across 140 years, it provides a careful historical examination of the significant influence and ministry of this local church. The meaning of the symbols and stories contained in the windows are analysed and explained, shedding light on the gospel message.
The Rev. Malcolm Woolrich is an Anglican priest and lawyer. Since 2013, he has served as a chaplain at Melbourne Grammar School, Wadhurst. For the last decade, he has been a member of the Peter MacCallum Hospital Ethics Committee, as well as a member and chair of Anglicare Victoria’s Ethics Committee. Together with his wife Karina and three daughters, he has worshipped at St. Columb’s, Hawthorn for over 30 years.
“With its imposing and longstanding presence in Hawthorn, St Columb’s is a worthy local history subject. However, Shedding Light is anything but merely parochial. Malcolm Woolrich takes us on a journey that includes everything from the British empire, architecture and aesthetics to church politics, biblical story and personal anecdote, even throwing in some occasional scandal and controversy. A rollicking read, from a true polymath, I highly recommend this beautifully produced volume.”
Brian Rosner
Principal, Ridley College
“This book is an important addition to the understanding of the connection of a local church to the people and social movements which shaped both the Hawthorn and wider Melbourne communities from the late nineteenth century.”
Elizabeth Yewers
President, Hawthorn Historical Society
ISBN 978-1-922957-87-0
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The passage from birth to death is a journey that binds us all…
In this debut anthology entitled Marching with a Broken Shadow, readers are invited to embark on that journey; delving profoundly into their innermost thoughts and prevailing feelings – from the deepest and darkest layers of hurt and confusion, to the most hypnotic forms of happiness and dream.
Take the quest with the central character, and look forward to exploring, with reminiscence and wonder, the voyage that we call life, the ending we know as death, and all that lies in between.
Dyson began writing poetry after studying William Blake in Year 12 Literature. By 2015 his poetry had become a means of catharsis and reflection as he cared for his sick mother.
Discovering her hidden poems after she passed away in 2017, Dyson began to write with the intention of producing a thematically linked and conceptually realised body of work – this work is what became Marching with a Broken Shadow.
Now, with a penchant for writing and storytelling, Dyson aims to continue to produce artistic and thought-provoking material, and is busily completing his follow up project entitled Stories Heard From the Hearts Whisper.
ISBN 978-1-922890-46-7
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Forced from the sea he once roamed as an apex predator, the Leviathan must fight to survive on land.
With a new face and name, the Leviathan carves a place for himself in a volatile and violent world where monsters and humans wage war against each other and amongst themselves for survival and supremacy.
An unlikely alliance is forged between the Master of the Vanguard, the leader of the kingdoms royally sanctioned monster hunters, and the Leviathan, once the most notorious and elusive monster of the sea. United by a terrible circumstance and abound by a shared purpose, the Master and the Leviathan struggle to overcome the hatred and fear which rules and rots the realm.
The Leviathan must defend the realm from all things monstrous, including himself. He must find a way to conquer the turmoil of the kingdom and the darkness of his own nature.