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How did a seven-year-old boy born in a small Polish town get caught up in the dislocation, losses and trauma of the Holocaust, one step ahead of the advancing Nazis, yet

survive? Despite hunger, fear, loneliness and loss, with the help and guidance of others, Zwi Lewin eventually came to Australia which he gratefully embraced.

 

Though a successful businessman and now patriarch of a large family, he has never forgotten his 'sack full of memories', and has spent a lifetime remembering the family members lost to him.

 

Now, without bitterness or sentimentality, he tells his story in this moving memoir, creating a vivid account of the places and people on his journey, the different languages he had to learn and his wonderful subsequent family life in Australia.

A collection of poems examining love, self, devotion, and opening to a wider cosmos. Whimsical, meditative, rapturous, these poems are a contemporary expression of spirit.

 

there, wobbling on the wire

of my neighbour's rooftop

aerial

 

backlit against

the early summer

sky

 

this young magpie riffs,

delirious with the possibilities

of joy

 

Victor Marsh is the author of Mr Isherwood Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood and the Search for the 'Home Self'; the memoir The Boy in the Yellow Dress; and Speak Now: Australian Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage (editor).

Marilla and Jerry are two merfolk who live in the waters of Port Stephens, where they have many friends in the sea and on the shores.

Years ago, when she was very small, Marilla's parents disappeared. Now she only has her grandmother to care for her.

On a trip with her dolphin friends up the east coast of Australia, Marilla learns of the mystery of Esmeralda Cove. Convinced it involves the fate of her lost family, she is determined to solve it. Marilla and Jerry embark on a dangerous adventure.

Tales of love and lust between heroic men of the human and no-so human kind.

Kerry Greenwood's take on a host of myths, legends and fairy tales are all imbued with a wonderful sense of time and place.

There may be vampires, minotaurs, wolves, selkies and wizards in these pages but they all add up to a wonderful collection of happy-ever-after male-male love stories.

The third in a 3-book series, following Herotica: Adventures in Love & Time vols 1 and 2. Mytherotica explores myth and legend in 23 stories of adventure, romance, lust, and above all love.

Kerry Greenwood - the creator of the fabulous Phryne Fisher - is also the author, for Clan Destine Press, of Out of the Black Land; the Delphic Women trilogy: Medea, Cassandra and Electra; and Salmancis.

Nail Your Renovation Without Getting Screwed has everything you need to think about before you get started on your home renovation and then while it’s progressing. Learn from a professional builder and award-winning renovation specialist – Steve Burke – as he shares the tricks and traps to watch out for. The book includes invaluable advice on such topics as: how to make sure every step in your renovation is done in the right order; options for an environmentally sensitive renovation; checklists for kitchens, bathrooms and home extension projects; and how to avoid becoming a building horror story! With more than 20 years specialising in renovations, the authors have amassed a catalogue of stories and lessons learnt, met all sorts of interesting characters, and have discovered the many do’s and don’ts of renovating homes. The book is also full of inspirational before and after photographs.

Nature is full of wisdom. Tapping into this can be as simple as stepping into a garden - observing, listening and feeling. Nature's Whispers encourages us to do just that.

Through delightful descriptions and visuals, this book reveals how connecting to nature can be a way to peace, joy, creativity and more. The affirmations supporting this intention are powerful and uplifting.

Let Nature's Whispers be your inspirational companion.

The book that carers have been waiting for...

There are currently an estimated 50 million people worldwide living with dementia. It is anticipated by Alzheimer's Disease International that this number will almost double every 20 years, reaching 74.7 million in 2030 and 131.50 million in 2050.

International author Carolyn Cranwell has 18 years experience as a self-taught Alzheimer's carer. This remarkably insightful book is an easy-to-read account of a carer navigating her family through her husband Richard's diagnosis of Alzheimer's when he was in his early fifties.

Carolyn's thought-provoking and entertaining style of writing guides the reader gently through sensitive and confronting topics. Her first-hand knowledge and expertise will provide confidence to those wanting to help but feeling uncertain how to approach the person with Alzheimer's, the carer or the family.

'Navigating Alzheimer's' aims to break down the barriers surrounding Alzheimer's disease and make it as familiar a topic of discussion to the public as cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

Compelling reading for anyone searching for inspiration, courage and resilience.

You'll learn:

- That Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia and how to recognise the top 10 early warning signs

- When is the right time to stop driving and travel tips for the unwary

- How to maintain balance in your family life while nurturing the person with Alzheimer's independence

- The importance of supporting carers to avoid carer burnout and how primary carers can release themselves from carer's guilt

- Successful tips for visiting and communicating with someone who has dementia

- Suggestions for respite, nursing home entry and coping with loss

- How to think and act like a survivor and tips for a resilient lifestyle.

Glory is a rock chick. She's fierce. From a distance, she keeps seeing a gorgeous woman with fantastic hair.

Ness is a hairdresser. She was named for the Loch. She's been admiring the lead singer of Glory Be for ages.

Fate keeps preventing them from meeting, until the night of the yarnbombing in Melbourne's Treasury Gardens - a night that knits their lives together.

‘For some, especially those who’ve been born in the twenty-first century, the accounts of my early years may seem like the reports from a planet in a different galaxy. If so, I cannot altogether blame them. There are times when I feel just the same.
‘But I hope, as they read about my inter-planetary travel, and as perhaps some of my friends and Nosson’s join them for the journey, they’ll be able to share the adventure. For that is what life with Nosson was: a marvellous and thrilling adventure … I know what a blessing it is to have friends and family. Life has been good to me. I try to do whatever I can the best way I know how.’

Nechama Werdiger has had a long and fascinating life. Growing up under the Soviet Union’s harsh antisemitism, she endured the war years as a child in Uzbekistan where thousands of Jews sought refuge from the Holocaust. She and her family managed to escape to Poland and France before arriving in 1949 in Australia. Through hard work, a strong sense of family and unswerving faith, she and her husband Nossom built a successful new life in Melbourne. Generous, wise, kind and caring, Nechama will inspire you with her life story.

Neddy Smith's life story, smuggled out of Long Bay prison, created a sensation on publication. He wrote that:

- Detective Sergeant Roger Rogerson and other NSW police gave him a rare 'green light' to rob, bash, deal drugs, whatever... without fear of arrest.

- He robbed payrolls, dealt heroin and took full advantage

- He was the star witness at ICAC hearings into police corruption that changed policing in NSW

And he wrote it like he was telling it in a pub - immediate, compelling, straight from the shoulder.

This is the book that inspired the TV drama, Blue Murder

Attractive Nell Tritton was determined to embrace a life of adventure after her elder siblings died in the 1919 flu pandemic. She became Brisbane’s first female journalist and won prizes for rally driving before moving to Paris, met struggling writers and fell in love with a penniless Tsarist officer.

 

Warned by her wealthy father to avoid fortune hunters, Nell married after a whirlwind courtship. She wrote Tales from the Left Bank but her publisher demanded sexual privileges so she sold individual chapters as short stories. Her spy novel set against the infamous ‘Lockhart plot’ to kill Lenin in September 1918 was banned under the Official Secrets Act.

 

When divorced, Nell worked in Paris for the former Russian Prime Minister, Alexander Kerensky who edited an anti-Communist anti-Hitler newspaper. Her rally driving skills saved her husband from Stalin’s assassins in a harrowing car chase through the narrow streets of Montparnasse. As the Germans invaded Paris, Kerensky was on Hitler’s death list and they joined a long queue of cars heading south. German planes bombed cars and machine-gunned their drivers so they sheltered in a ditch with only polluted water to drink. Eventually they reached the coast and were rescued by a British warship.

 

The American government financed their passage to New York, where Kerensky became an advisor on Russian affairs and they were treated like royalty by exiled Russians. Nell suffered kidney damage as a result of drinking polluted water. They returned to Brisbane for the last months of Nell’s life when her family home became a centre of international intrigue.

Nemarluk, one of the most feared Aboriginal renegades in the north of Australia, had vowed to rid his land of all intruders. This is the story of the last three years of his life, and his extraordinary battle with the tracker, Bul-Bul, brought in by the Northern Territory police in a final desperate attempt to put an end to Nemarluk's fight.

Ion L. Idriess had already brought Lasseter and Flynn to the public's attention with his action-packed stories. He had first-hand knowledge of the courage of Nemarluk and wanted to immortalise the man he called the King of the Wilds.

'Jack [Idriess] understood the depth of Nemarluk's hatred for the Japanese and the white intruders who had come, unasked, into his people's tribal lands of which he was chief. It was not only Nemarluk's desire to protect his people and their lands from the invaders, it was also his obligation and duty.' - Beverley Eley, biographer of Ion L. [Jack] Idriess

How to take immediate control of your emotional, mental, spiritual and financial destiny!

This book contains a profound and unique process for individual healing and transformation.

International author, clairvoyant and consultant to the stars, JeanClare shares 30 years of research and self-discovery, which she reveals to you in 7 simple steps. The information will help you understand yourself so you can make new choices and commitments to live the best life possible for you and your loved ones. Step up to the next level of your journey. Embrace the new, authentic version of yourself how you always dreamed of being and know it is possible to truly transform how you feel, act and live life. Use these 7 powerful secrets to create positive, permanent long lasting results in your life.

You'll learn:

- How to understand and release self-sabotage and activate your own inner healing

- How to make yourself the most important person in your own life

- Essential ways to release years of emotional and mental blocks

- Secret tips to manifest a life of unlimited happiness

- How to create acceptance and experience inner peace

- How to create amazing and exciting relationships

- The steps to produce permanent positive breakthroughs emotionally, mentally, spiritually and financially

Featuring inspiring experiences with Miranda Kerr (model and author), Luke Gottwald (songwriter, award winning music producer), Yael Lilienfeld (model and creator of yaeljewelry.com), Jeannine Kaspar (award winning actress), Orlando Blum (actor), Elyse Taylor (international model), Scarlett Vespa (brand expert) and Pete Everett (actor/TV presenter)

A childless couple find an abandoned baby on the beach. A father is prosecuted by his small-town community. Two men on the coast share an unspoken love. A young woman has a threatening first date. A writer is terrorised by the ghosts of his fiction. City folk visit a room for crying. New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best. These stories will move, entertain and enlighten you.

 

Featuring: Tony Birch • Zoë Bradley • Mikaella Clements • Craig Cormick • Laura Elvery • Andrea Gillum • Anne Hotta • Joshua Kemp • Jack Kirne • Julie Koh • Wayne Marshall • Chloe Michele • A.S. Patrić • Allee Richards • Melanie Saward • Gretchen Shirm • Khalid Warsame • Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Vampires and other ravenous nasties satisfy their bloodlust in this dark collection of horror stories.