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COOPER, David

Nov 9, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Science Fiction, Western Australia

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-71-9 PAPERBACK

Nova Sapiens

Kasih is a robotic child drawn into a project to discover her secrets, and into a war that threatens all humanity, including her own.

The murder of her family by Union troops in Bandung leaves the rebels’ robotics experts, Losana Maraiwai and Wei Dingxiang, with nobody to explain Kasih’s design but Kasih herself.

She is not what anyone expected. In Darwin, Dingxiang suspects a magic trick may explain away her human-like artificial intelligence. In Beijing, Union politician Gabriel da Costa fears an extinction-level technology. Both sides of the war see a weapon that might win it. But Kasih is not strong, fast, or even particularly coordinated. She tries in vain to make sense of her father’s death, and of a world ready to dismantle her and repurpose her technology. And she cannot escape the Union’s plans.

The rebels, including Kasih’s original rescuers, Paul Kanner and Debra Hall, are powerless in the face of a new army of robotic soldiers based on her design. The Union has created monsters, whose cold efficiency unleashes wholesale destruction. They threaten the world’s only chance for freedom, and perhaps its very survival.

Neither Kasih nor Dingxiang understand why Kasih herself is not like them. Kasih must fight back against the fate others have determined for her, and for the world, and Dingxiang needs her ingenuity to solve the very conundrum that her existence represents. For Kasih to save her human friends, she must help them destroy her own kind.

MARKHAM, Elizabeth

Nov 6, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Melbourne, Victoria

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-69-6 PAPERBACK

Surprise Packet

For the second time Gillian Porter is facing a tragic event in her life, and this time she’s on her own.

When her world was first turned upside down at the age of twenty, Liam Dempsey was by her side, but he doesn’t occupy that place anymore. After twenty-two years together they have been forced apart by a heartbreaking situation and a powerful enemy.

Essentially alone, Gillian moves to country Victoria and begins teaching again after a long absence from the classroom. With only her cavalier puppy Sybil for company, she vows to make the best of things as she begins her new life. However, it seems both life and Liam have other plans for her, when she meets an endearing little girl and her family who offer her everything she’s ever wanted.

Would it be a betrayal of Liam to accept?

And why is he encouraging her to do just that?

Can life knock you down and pick you up at the same time?

Elizabeth Markham self-published author of 'Surprise Packet'

About the Author

ELIZABETH MARKHAM is retired and lives with her husband and their cavalier, Abby in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia. She has two adult children and one very special grandson. Liz is a former teacher, who has also worked in Recruitment and Training, Human Resources and Aged Care. She developed a love of reading from an early age, and remembers always having books on her birthday list for her parents when she was growing up. Liz was encouraged to write by a well known author of children’s and young adult fiction, and she remains grateful to Robin Klein for giving her the push she needed. Liz completed a number of creative writing courses in 2014 before beginning her first novel in 2015. She describes Surprise Packet as having a lot of her heart and soul in it, and being truly a labour of love.

TRELOAR, Alexandra

Nov 6, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Animals \ Pets Fiction, Children's Books, Melbourne, Painting & Illustration, Victoria

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-53-5
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Farmer Don and His Farm Family

Written by Alexandra Treloar & Illustrated by Holley Rentsch
For: Ages 4 – 6

A heartfelt children’s book set in the Mallee. Farmer Don aims to show young people the resilience of family life in outback Australia.

Farmer Don lives on a wheat farm in a town called Ouyen. The farm has bushy trees, an old farm house, red dusty dirt, flat bits and hilly bits.

 
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EATTS, Steve

Nov 5, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Business, Comedy \ Humour Fiction, Design, Fiction \ Novel, South Australia, Technology \ Computer \ Internet

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-52-8
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StupIT People

StupIT People is a tongue in cheek exposé of the world of modern big technology business. It’s a world where corporate madness and self-interest rules. One in which clients and employees simply don’t matter, as senior executives (aka company psychopaths) pursue short-term personal profit and internal point-scoring at absolutely any cost.

The story revolves around Michael Mansfield, a loyal and hard-working IT Sales Executive who strives to do the right thing by his company. For Michael, saving stupid people from themselves, navigating the constant back-stabbing within the business, and dealing with corporate political correctness gone mad has become a way of life.

This light-hearted tale of redemption will resonate with anyone who has experienced the sheer head-scratching absurdity that often exists within the modern business bubble.

About the Author

Born and raised in Adelaide, Steve Eatts worked in the field of Information Technology for more than 30 years, in many different roles across both public and private sector organisations. Throughout his career his work has taken him on business assignments in the United Kingdom, USA, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines and across all states of Australia.

After a hectic career involving far too much time away from family and friends, Steve decided to step off the corporate treadmill of IT and big business to pursue some other interests including writing his debut novel.  He now describes himself as semi-retired, and is a widower who lives in South Australia with his two sons.

PRIGENT, Anthony

Nov 2, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Memoir, Self-help \ Personal Development, South Australia

Jeffrey's Beach Box by self-published author Noni Bousfield
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ISBN 978-1-922452-70-2
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In the Blink of an Eye

My life changed forever on November 8 2002.

In a way that I did not see coming.

This is my story, but my hope is that everyone who reads it can take something away for themselves. It is not a story that was always easy to write, however it is a story I wanted to tell.

My accident happened when I was 21 years old and I still feel it’s impact in some way, all these years later. What I learnt about myself and about life in the years after, in many ways makes me thankful that I went through what I did.

I learnt not to take things for granted, I learnt not to focus on the things that don’t matter and most importantly, I learnt that everything can change in the blink of an eye.

PARKINSON, Kirsty

Oct 28, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Animals \ Pets Fiction, Children's Books, South Australia

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ISBN 978-1-922452-78-8 PAPERBACK

Koala Rescue

 

Koala Rescue is a fictional children’s story for the entire family. Set in the bush of South Australia, follow the adventures of a koala family as they fall into good fortune and navigate their way from a deadly bushfire to safety. Illustrated using photographs from the 2020 bushfires, this book is a keepsake for you to treasure.

Jess is a small koala with a big heart. What will Jess do when a ferocious bushfire threatens her home? Who will come to help? Will the bush ever be the same?

Illustrated by a collection of photographs, this little book reflects some of the characteristics, values and spirit of what it means to be Australian.

About the Author

Kirsty wrote Koala Rescue for her nieces and nephews following the catastrophic Australian bushfires of 2019/2020. Spanning a variety of genres, Kirsty writes short stories, poems and novellas. Koala Rescue is her first published children’s book.

Kirsty currently lives by the sea in South Australia. She enjoys reading, stargazing, whale spotting and watching the dune wildlife. Despite many family suggestions, Scrabble remains her favourite board game.