Биографии и Мемуары
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"<i>I am a Jew. Between 1933 and 1945 I lived in Germany, the country of my birth, with the many who perished and with the few who survived the Holocaust.</i>"<br /> <br />With these bald statements Ken Arkwright commences the story of his life. There have been countless stories written by and about Holocaust survivors, and each one has its own perspective, each being a witness statement, an eye-witness account – and each deserves to be told. <br...
| Автор | Kenneth Arkwright |
Set in 1920s Sydney, the heyday of Theosophy and other 'new religions', <b><i>Towards a Better World</i></b> explores a time bursting with new and exciting ideas – but also with rumours concerning clergy and young boys. Based on family stories and careful research, Stephanie Claire tells the story of a group of young Theosophists and their new friend Ed Best, who mix in a heady world featuring luminaries such as activist and orator Annie Besant, 'new world...
| Автор | Stephanie Claire |
In Did You Ever See A Horse Go By? new author Frank DeFrancesco invites the reader into his personal tug-of-war and ultimate triumph over the psychological and sociological restraints that immobilized him for half a lifetime. The author uses biographical events, old letters. unpolished poetry, and excerpts from his journals along with a few fictional composites to recreate memories and moods. DeFrancesco pokes fun at his own naiveté, self-doubts, and Catholic guilt, as well as clueless...
| Автор | Chuck Radda |
Bright Swallow, a young girl labelled as of 'bad origins' in Mao's Cultural Revolution, becomes motherless at fifteen in 1972. Determined to live a full life like her mother had known, she seizes every chance, creates choices where there appear to be none and finally has the world open up to her. The memoir distinguishes itself from other accounts of this period in being a story of hope. It celebrates resilience, the power of literature, music and the imagination; and pays tribute...
| Автор | Vivian Bi |
"Colour Blind tells the story of two wars affecting Australia a hundred years ago: World War I that everyone knows about, and the lesser known one, the battles that past generations of Aboriginal Australians faced. Not the British Invasion, but the struggle more than a century later when Aboriginal men who were willing to serve alongside non-Aboriginal Australians, their mates, were not seen as worthy of doing so. And the battle for ordinary citizen rights – such as joining the local...
| Автор | G. S. Willmott |
Ian Higgins BA (Hons), BEd, DipDiv has been fascinated by words for as long as he can remember. He has written short stories, poetry and many letters to the editor, as well as editing the Religious Education Journal of Australia at its inception.<br /> <br />He has now retired on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria with his wife Barbara.<br /> <br />In his late seventies he was diagnosed as having late onset bipolar disorder. These memoirs are written from a bipolar...
| Автор | Ian Higgins |
There is a history with this gentleman of, shall we say, a reluctance to stay in custody.' – Detective Inspector Aldo Lorenzutta<br /> <br />On a sunny Thursday morning, in a helicopter near Silverwater Prison Complex, a woman pulled a gun from a shopping bag and said 'This is a hijack.'<br /> <br />The pilot, options running out, dropped into the prison and lifted John Reginald Killick, armed robber and escapee, to freedom.<br /> <br...
| Автор | John Kerr |
Four and a half months after her boyfriend became a paraplegic in a motorbike accident, he and Emma travelled to Australia, Emma's home country, and embarked upon a 18,000 kilometre backpacking trip.<br /> <br />This story takes the reader on a whirlwind trip around Australia. A young woman struggling to accept her boyfriend's paralysis, and a paraplegic man backpacking during a time many spinal injured patients remain in hospital.<br /> <br />Written with...
| Автор | Emma White |
In 1940, a seventeen year old girl Carys Harding Browne comes of age in Adelaide, Australia. At this time young clever men meet together at St, Mark's University College to share their love of poetry. By December 1940, St. Marks is leased to the Royal Australian Airforce as an embarkation depot. The Second World War is in earnest. This story is about young people growing up and falling in love against the backdrop of war where dances, friendship and the arts become a consolation in a...
| Автор | Carys Harding Browne |
The Christian is defined by wilderness. On this earth, Christ calls each of us to share in His own wilderness suffering. But we don’t go alone. He goes before us. And together in our wilderness, in our tragedy, in our sickness, in our hurt, He sustains us with the power of the Gospel. Here in the wilderness, a man will either run to Jesus or run from him. Obbie Todd had that choice. But he wasn't alone in navigating his pain. This is the story of one man's walk in the dark. And the...
| Автор | Obbie Todd |
A baby is born in Warsaw in 1939. Stalin has signed a pact of nonaggression with Hitler, marking the beginnings of the Second World War. As the city is attacked, Ola, a young nurse, escapes with her husband-to-be and their newborn baby to a small town in Soviet territory just across the border. Two years later, when the German forces attack the Soviets, she is separated from her partner and again has to flee. With immense courage and resourcefulness, Ola keeps herself alive, along with her baby...
| Автор | Halina Rubin |
Since the suicide of Maris, his beloved wife of forty-two years, Noel Braun struggled to find himself. All his life assumptions were overturned and he lost his sense of identity. Endeavouring to find some anchorage, he embarked on a spiritual quest of self-discovery. He decided to walk the most popular routes of the Camino; the ancient pilgrimage route that lead across France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the north-west of Spain. This journey is described in his earlier book...
| Автор | Noel Braun |
'What you are thinking about me is right,' says I, 'and it's wonderful and beautiful, and if you make it ugly for me I'll hate you for the rest of my life!' So flopping down and turning my poor brave face to the wall … I'm still glad I said that. Raised in a Sydney family of successful older brothers and sisters, young Barbara Whitley is determined to find her own direction. Her choices are instinctive but not always wise in the cramped world of the 1930s – a...
| Автор | Barbara Whitley |
In the 1890s in a bizarre social experiment, a band of over 500 Australians – mostly men and just three single women – sailed to South America to create a communal Utopia, a New Australia, in the jungles of Paraguay. One of them was a red-headed schoolteacher Mary Cameron, a poet and feminist, who left the writer Henry Lawson behind, despairing on the wharf. Politics in the Australian colony were soon tumultuous. Mary, rejected by one man she loved, married another, had a son, and she and her...
| Автор | Anne Whitehead |
It is the late 1960s. Rebellion and "doing your own thing" is in. But while the majority of Australians flock to the beaches, one young man heads inland to find his patch of dirt and follow his dream.<br /> <br />On the banks of Moonan Brook, surrounded by inhospitable and barely accessible bushland, a local on his horse stumbles across this twenty-three-year old with his inappropriate vehicle, a dog named Doggo, and a girlfriend sitting under a tree reading a book....
| Автор | Philip Du Rhone |
The Waters family amazed and inspired their neighbour Margaret Wentworth. She'd never met a man with bigger dreams than Ces, the charismatic father, nor one from such unpromising beginnings.<br /> <br />He'd bashed, thieved and pimped in Manchester slums, did time and migrated to Australia. There he planned an assault on some of the world of sport's most glittering prizes. Sons Dean, Guy and Troy rose to dizzying heights. Troy came close to a world title in a San Diego...
| Автор | Margaret Wentworth |
Obbie Todd and his wife Kelly Beth live in Chaplin, KY. After graduating from the University of Kentucky in 2008 with plans to attend dentistry school, Obbie decided to leave the United States and deliver the good news of Christ in the third world. Three continents and three mountain ranges later, he returned with a new purpose in life: to preach the Word of God. 'Mountain Man' is a book of adventure. A young man's search for identity and purpose becomes a chance to experience the...
| Автор | Obbie Todd |
Martin Sharp was an integral part of international Pop Art in the 1960s, magnified through his covers for OZ magazine in Sydney and London, his covers for Cream, and posters of Dylan, Hendrix and Donovan. His efforts at making The Yellow House and Luna Park cultural precincts were aided by his screen prints and exhibitions to flaunt the work of others, especially the singer Tiny Tim. <br /> <br />In this first of two volumes, Lowell Tarling offers us a way into the enigmatic and...
| Автор | Lowell Tarling |
In the 1890s after a period of social unrest, a brave band of Australians sailed from Sydney to found a communal Utopia in South America. Under the charismatic journalist William Lane, over 500 settlers, including poet Mary Gilmore, created a New Australia in the Paraguayan jungle. Their hopes soon collapsed. Many returned home. Others stayed, becoming part of the culture of their adopted country. They learned about Paraguay's Jesuit missions of the 17th and 18th centuries, perhaps the...
| Автор | Anne Whitehead |
Ion Idriess was a spotter for the famous Australian sniper, Billy Sing, and this book draws on his own experiences in the Gallipoli trenches during World War One. Sing had a reputation as an excellent marksman, lurking in the dark and silently sneaking up on the enemy. One day he was shot by a Turkish soldier. The bullet travelled down the barrel of his telescope, wounding both hands then went through his mouth, out his cheek and into his shoulder. He recovered from the injury, but was never...
| Автор | Ion Idriess |
Signs of a Struggle illustrates the creative journey, from working-class North East England to the current Queer-art scene of Sydney, through the eyes of award-winning artist Guy James Whitworth. Uniquely using the fierce and fabulous LGBTIQ community of Sydney as a visual metaphor, Whitworth contemplates life's challenges and triumphs. With dramatic backdrops including a troubled childhood, 80s London in the midst of the AIDS crisis, and activism for global transformation in the modern...
| Автор | Guy James Whitworth |
"El Segundo" is the compelling life story of Pastor James Newton's struggle and perseverance to break the bonds of repression and poverty, and find prosperity through a family tradition of faith and God's Grace. Set in the racially and socially divided cotton fields of Mississippi's Deep Slough, El Segundo shines an uncomfortable spotlight on the systemic oppression of the King Cotton Land Owners, the suffering of the people under these cruel conditions, and the «Secret»...
| Автор | Dana Matthews |
During WWII Australia's sports lovers were denied access to national and international sport, something which had captivated them since long before Federation.<br /> <br />The popularity of racing and prize fighting during this time was amazing. Two of the most admired sports heroes were a dynamic southpaw boxer named Vic Patrick and a thoroughbred equine diva named Flight. Their careers which ran side by side had great similarities. Each was extremely talented, each created...
| Автор | Peter Fenton |
Jeanette Crickett has lived for the past 20 years in the Fiji Islands. She is currently a Christian school principal.This book is a collection of short stories taken from her childhood spent in Sydney, Australia. Jeanette has lived most of her adulthood overseas. In Israel, she did volunteer work in Jerusalem's hospitals, in Hong Kong she was a Vietnamese refugee camp co-ordinator and music teacher and in China studied Mandarin and worked in IBM computer seismic sites.
| Автор | Jeanette Crickett |