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25.01.2022 From Sid Harta Publishers New Featured Title Release Graham's Story Author: David W. Roberts 364 pages... Australian Fiction 140mms X 216pp ISBN: 978-1-925707-34-2 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book This is the story of Graham, a nine-year-old lad living in country New South Wales around 1960. Life on the family farm is far from idyllic for Graham though, as he is confronted by a series of challenges; dealing with the realisation that he has been adopted, a difficult relationship with his philandering father and the tragic decline of the health of his much adored younger sister. And then there is the discovery of a mysterious man living like a hermit in Paddy’s Gorge. Fortunately, Graham is a resolute lad surrounded by a sufficient number of life-affirming adults and friends to enable him to overcome the many challenges life has thrown at him. Author Bio David Roberts migrated as a qualified teacher from the United Kingdom. After seventeen years working as a teacher, deputy principal and principal in country New South Wales, he became a university academic. University appointments and consultancies enabled David to travel widely and broaden his horizons. Now retired, he lives with his wife in Adelaide. Graham's Story is David's third novel; the earlier ones being One Thing Leads to Another and Easytimes.

23.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Kiya's Journal Author: Julie Priebbenow 90 pages Young Adult fiction ISBN: 978-1-925707-27-4... RRP $25.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Excited for the start of school life, Kiya was eager to make new friends. Hopeful to belong, she strived to fit in and yet she found herself an outcast, which threw her into an unlikely friendship with another outcast: a boy named Dorian. Now, Kiya keeps a journal which has become her safe place where she pours out her thoughts, feelings, and fears, as she and Dorian journey through the years of school together. Life is tough for the two friends as they battle their way through not only school, but bullying and mental illness as well. These battles could either draw them closer together, or pull them apart forever. Author bio Wife to a farmer and mother to an energetic and lovable little boy, Julie works part time as a hairdresser in their small town, and enjoys writing, reading, studying, and binge-watching her favourite TV shows! She and her sister were both home schooled, and Julie enjoyed a few years of Irish dancing lessons followed by joining the Australian Air Force Cadets. Julie then completed her Certificate III in Hairdressing during her last year of school. She is an introvert with a love for God and people, and enjoys helping others realise that they matter and are loved. As someone who has struggled with her own mental health, Julie believes it’s important to raise awareness for mental illnesses, particularly depression and anxiety. Her goal is to help other people realise they aren’t alone in their struggles, to love like Jesus, and be a ray of hope in the darkness.

23.01.2022 Featured New Book Title Release From Gallipoli with Love ‘Letters from the Anzacs of the Wimmera’ Author: Florence Breed Australian history 342 pages... 140mms X 216mms ISBN: 978-1-925707-35-9 RRP $29.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book It was the soldier, not the poet, Gave us freedom of expression. ‘Twas the soldier, not the preacher, Gave us freedom of religion. ‘Twas the soldier, not Trade Unions, Gave us better work conditions. And ‘twas the soldier made this country free, Not party politicians. Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear, And Freedom of Speech which we hold dear. ‘Lest We Forget’ are words we say When marching every Anzac Day. So keep alight that undying flame To honour those who deserve great fame. Author bio Florence Breed lives in Donald, Victoria. An active local historian, she hails from Cornish stock and is the author of "A Devonshire lad : from Mullacott to Jeffcott", "Woodbine wives from World War I, "Donald duck country", " Forgotten heroes of the South African war 1899 - 1902" and "Old Cornish Tales".

22.01.2022 Featured Book Title release Endless Memories Author: Sandra Tam Memoir 162 pages Paperback/Colour... ISBN: 978-1-925707-38-0 RRP $25.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book An extraordinary life of a Chinese woman who was born into a very rich family in the Republic of China, ten years after the last Manchuria Dynasty was overthrown. Her indulgent life was torn by the Sino-Japanese War in the 1940s and had to flee the country to Hong Kong after the Communist Revolution in 1949. Her retirement life was shattered by the impending handover of Hong Kong to China due in 1997 and she moved to Australia in 1991 and started a new life. Readers will be able to share her hard and interesting life journey over three countries with distant cultures. This story of the resilience of a woman who did not even know how to boil a kettle of water until her mid-twenties to owning her home business and building up her fortunes promises to be fascinating to readers.

20.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Benito’s Gold Author: Bob Menzies Australian Fiction ISBN: 978-1-925707-29-8 RRP $24.95... Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Pirates, treasure & modern-day murder. This is the story of pirate treasure that people have been looking for in Australia for over 150 years. The story of how it got here, of the adventurous team that is hired to find it, and the man who would commit murder and much more to keep it all to himself. Follow the ABC Adventure Team as they battle to save a missing boy, discover lost treasure while trying to avoid a killer determined to stop them. ABC Adventure Tours. Archie, baz and Chris are three war veterans who, with the help of friends, make up ABC Adventure Tours. They are hired to travel the country looking for ship wrecks, missing gold from the past and other mysteries. Follow their stories as they dive through history and hidden dangers to uncover the truth behind some of Australia’s most baffling mysteries. Author bio Bob Menzies was born in Seymour, Victoria. His father was in the army which resulted in Bob being educated in various schools and colleges around Australia. After he finished school, he joined the Royal Australian Navy where he spent 14 years travelling around the world. After this, he spent 14 years with the South Australian Correctional Services Department reaching the position of Manager. When Bob retired from this part of his life, he started writing and continues to do so to this day. Bob lives with his wife, Heather, in the mountains just out of Melbourne. This is his second novel.

19.01.2022 No Bed of Roses is the important historical and personal record of Polish Australian Teodor Bryndzej’s survival story through the disruptions of World War II in his native Europe, then building a new life in the mining communities of Western Australia. In this book, his daughter Helena records the story of his journey between old and new worlds with great skill and sensitivity. As all our memories of the twentieth century slide towards more distant memory, the experiences ...and legacies of European migrants like Teodor are increasingly important in contemporary Australia including to help us understand our own evolving place and possibilities in the wider world. Dr Natasha Cica - Director, Kapacity.org and co-editor of Griffith Review 69: The European Exchange (Text, 2020).

16.01.2022 Featured Advance Title Davidia and the Foreboding Dinner Author: Ken Spargo ISBN: 978-1-925707-32-8 Young Adult Pages 278...Continue reading

13.01.2022 About the Book And then came a very, very sad day for me 17 April 1942. In no bed of roses, Teo speaks his story of being taken from his Polish village and forced into labour in Germany during World War II. He recalls the hardship, longing for home and perplexity of having his life turned upside down. ... At fifteen, he struggles to cope with work, hunger and cold. He fails in an attempt to go home, sees the Allied Forces advance and at the end of the war, decides he cannot return to Poland, so he emigrates to Australia. Often the history of everyday ordinary people is lost. This engaging oral narrative is part of Australia’s shared history. Told with an endearing innocence and subjective humour, Teo’s account will resonate for all Australians and for the many displaced persons and refugees who have made Australia their home. About the author Helena Bryndzej Studdert served for over 20 years with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including service as Ambassador to Serbia, Republic of Northern Macedonia, Montenegro and Romania and three years as Australian Consul-General in Bali, Indonesia. She resigned from the Australian Army as a Captain in 1986, returning to university where she gained a First Class Honours and PhD in History. She lives in Western Australia with her husband Martin. Helena enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and travelling. She also works on projects such as compiling an oral history of her father’s life; community volunteering; dabbling in art, walking and swimming.

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11.01.2022 Featured Book Release Keep Pressing On, Brother Author: Noel Braun 326 pages Memoir ISBN: 978-1-925707-26-7... RRP $29.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Noel Braun commenced his working career as a country school teacher, then moved into a corporate career, which took him from Melbourne to Perth and Sydney. He has had a lifelong passion for writing and wrote the first words of his novels over forty years ago. After a busy career and raising a family of four, he has found the time in retirement to fulfill his long-held ambition to see his work in print. Noel has published two novels: Friend and Philosopher and Whistler Street. He has published a memoir, No Way to Behave at a Funeral which describes his grief journey following the death by suicide of his wife Maris, and two explorations of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela The Day was Made for Walking and I Guess I’ll Just Keep on Walking. Keep Pressing On, Brother is the third. Noel is working on other manuscripts. He lives in the Snowy Mountains where he is involved in the community. He is a keen walker and enjoys getting out in the national parks surrounding his home. Author bio Noel Braun commenced his working career as a country school teacher, then moved into a corporate career, which took him from Melbourne to Perth and Sydney. He has had a lifelong passion for writing and wrote the first words of his novels over forty years ago. After a busy career and raising a family of four, he has found the time in retirement to fulfill his long-held ambition to see his work in print. Noel has published two novels: Friend and Philosopher and Whistler Street. He has published a memoir, No Way to Behave at a Funeral which describes his grief journey following the death by suicide of his wife Maris, and two explorations of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela The Day was Made for Walking and I Guess I’ll Just Keep on Walking. Keep Pressing On, Brother is the third.

10.01.2022 Featured Book Release Obese No More Follow My Journey Author: Judith Coppe Kersten 104 pages... Genre: Health/Weight Loss ISBN: 978-1-925707-23-6 RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book I found ‘The Holy Grail’ to maintaining goal weight. Keeping to the daily 1200 calorie count for life is the secret! I know myself - The weaknesses and the strengths. My weakness was eating too much food. The strength I had was a positive mindset to lose weight. I had to be realistic from the beginning and serious about losing excess weight. I had to put in the time to achieve what I had set out to do, as well as the hard work to be successful in reaching my goal. It was a revelation to discover the secret to keeping the weight off. Author Bio Judith Coppe Kersten is Australian. She was brought up in Cowra NSW. At age 17, she had a calling to become a nurse. Helping people was natural to her. Her general training began in Sydney, marriage followed then she started a family. She’s travelled around Australia and overseas. Her interest in nutritional food started because she wanted to give her children a healthy life. Judith is retired and lives in Chittaway Bay, NSW, to be near her family.

09.01.2022 Featured Advance Review Title Nobody Chews an Oyster Author: S. "Jessie" Keyssecker Memoir ISBN: 978-1-925707-25-0 358 pages... RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book A funny and sensitive memoir about growing up on the semi-rural outskirts of Brisbane in the 1960s and 1970 and living and working in the Queensland Outback. From there to the opposite end of the spectrum and to urban Japan. Hilarious things happen when the assumptions we make are wrong. Come with me on this crazy journey and expect plenty of belly laughs from this easy read. With short anecdotal chapters, it is the ideal commuting or bedtime read. With few or no phrasal verbs, it is also a great book for readers for whom English is a second language. Author Bio Born in Brisbane in 1961, the author attended primary school at Serviceton and high school at Corinda. She studied Japanese from the age of twelve with the goal of teaching English in Japan. After working in the Queensland Outback she taught English as part of her work over five years in Japan. She eventually returned to Brisbane and put herself through university as a mature-aged-student. Her career spanned a very diverse range of occupations including executive secretary, copy writer and office manager for a Japanese language newspaper, head waitress in a Japanese restaurant, and treatment scheduling clerk for cancer patients. Jessie is now retired and lives in Brisbane with a rescue cat named Thomas. Her hobbies, apart from writing, include pastel and watercolour painting.

05.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Dancing in the Daintree Author: Gary McKay 140mms X 216mms 330 pages Thriller - Australian Fiction... ISBN: 978-1-925707-37-3 RRP $24.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Bob McTaggart returns from a tour of duty with his special forces unit in Afghanistan and his world is turned upside down. He tries to put his life back on an even keel only to find himself dangerously involved in the dirty and dangerous world of drug trafficking. McTaggart has to rely on all of his sharply honed skills to survive in the tropical rainforests of Far North Queensland and on the Great Barrier Reef. The prize is worth millions, but the deceit, betrayal and uncompromising greed by merciless and unscrupulous men and women make life hazardous for all who want to play in this deadly game. This fast moving, action-packed thriller will take you deep into the deadly world of organised crime where the only thing that matters is money. To dance with the devil is to engage in risky, reckless, or potentially immoral behaviour. To dance in the Daintree is to put your life in harms’ way where the slightest slip will bring an ugly end. Author’s Biography Gary McKay was conscripted into the Army when he was 20 years old. He served as a rifle platoon commander in South Viet Nam and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. He decided to remain in the military and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel before he retired after 30 years service. He served in the USA, Canada, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, New Zealand and Fiji. He is an accomplished non-fiction author with over 20 titles to his credit. He is Australia’s most prolific author on the subject of the Viet Nam war. He works as a freelance historian and author. He is a battlefield tour guide in Viet Nam, Gallipoli, Singapore and Guadalcanal. Gary is married and lives in Kiama, NSW. Dancing in the Daintree is his first novel and the first in a trilogy. Dancing is based on an actual operation that he was involved in during his Army service.

03.01.2022 Featured Book Release: Once in Vienna - The Remarkable Life of Dr Siegmund Defris Author: Michael Pryles Pages 256 Biography / European History ISBN: 978-1-925707-33-5... RRP $34.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Vienna was a magnificent city in the last decades of the Austrian empire, a glittering centre of culture and opportunity. A young Jewish man from the provinces dreamed of a bright future there. He chose the new field of electricial engineering and became an immediate success. When the First World War broke out he established and commanded the Electrotechnic Group, providing electric defences for the army and all its electrical services. But the Hapsburg Monarchy fell and two decades later the Nazi German annexation of Austria posed an existential threat. This is the true story of Siegmund Defris, a man who was brilliant in peace and war.

02.01.2022 Featured Book Title Release Stranded In Exile Volume 2 Author: McDonnell, A.L. ISBN: 978-1-925707-28-1 Pages 430 RRP $24.95... Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Dr Jemma Anderson is a respected Australian scientist. The idea of alien visitation, UFOs and time travel have always been, to her, a fanciful myth. But, as she hurtles through time and space in a massive spaceship, she is forced to re-evaluate. She had no idea she was born on the planet Anders Major but, rejected by Earth and unable to return to the war-torn Anders, she gratefully accepts the protection of the Inter-Planetary League. Arriving on Earth in the year 2099, she is shocked at the devastation caused by decades of war and sets about to help with the re-establishment, only to find that her mortal enemy Fredrick Pritchard has somehow followed and has formed an alliance with unfriendly aliens from the planet Ailazant. Pritchard and the Zants abduct Jemma’s husband, Sean Bellamy. With IPL help, she travels across the universe to rescue him, but when their spaceship is stolen, they are stranded on the planet Condona, millions of light years from Earth. Author Bio The author, A.L. McDonnell is a medical practitioner and psychologist who lives in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley. She has written many scientific pieces and articles for lifestyle magazines and, as a medical practitioner, has worked extensively throughout the outback which is home to some of life’s most colourful characters. Odd experiences are often the norm in the remote far west, and she was fascinated by the way individuals could spin their yarns, in pubs or around the campfire, turning ordinary events into something beyond this world and, even more, the many methods they claimed to have used to confront their bizarre encounters. Abandoned grew from such a tale when she was asked what she would do if a spaceship landed in one of her own paddocks For more https://almcdonnell.com

01.01.2022 Author bio I was born into a middle-class family in Hong Kong. Being the only girl and youngest in the family, I was spoilt, especially during my childhood. Mum placed a lot of importance on my education and did not let me do any household chores. I did not disappoint my parents and excelled in my studies including the award of a scholarship with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where I finished my tertiary education in Business Studies majoring in Banking.

01.01.2022 An Introduction to Bernard Lonergan Second Edition Peter Beer 230 pages 140mms X 216mms... ISBN: 978-1-925707-36-6 RRP $34.95 Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne Australia About the Book Bernard Lonergan was a mid 20th century Canadian philosopher and theologian. This book aims to help form a basis for inquiry into Lonergan’s achievement in his new approach to the great philosophical questions: what do I do when I know something? (cognitional theory), why is doing that ‘knowing’? (epistemology) and what do I know when I do that? (metaphysics). Lonergan deals with these questions somewhat more deeply in his major works, Insight (1957, 1992) and Method in Theology (1972, 2017). Here he invites one to discover in oneself the dynamic structure of one’s own cognitional and moral being and in doing this, one finds an operative procedure that is not open to radical revision. In fact, Lonergan has unearthed a dynamic, conscious framework for creativity, a method that grounds all investigation that is intelligent and critical. It is a resource that is transcendental in that it is the concrete and dynamic unfolding of human attentiveness, intelligence, reasonableness and responsibility, and this unfolding occurs whenever one uses one’s mind in an appropriate fashion. This method, for investigators too, is new in its finding eight tasks that are distinct and separable stages in the single process from data to results and can be adapted to any subject in which investigations are responding to past history and are to influence future history. About the Author Peter Beer SJ is Director of the Lonergan Centre, Canisius College, Pymble, Sydney, New South Wales. He joined the Jesuit Order, graduated in arts at Melbourne University, was ordained to the priesthood and pursued doctoral studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, graduating in 1972. He was awarded a travelling scholarship for postgraduate research at the Lonergan Center at Regis College, Toronto, in 197475 where he studied Lonergan’s seminal works, Insight and Method in theology. After teaching at the diocesan seminary in Melbourne, in 1976 he was appointed to the Union Theological Institute of the Sydney College of Divinity, where he taught systematic theology and methodology until 1998. He has published a number of articles applying Lonergan’s transcendental method. In 1979, he invited Professor Frederick Crowe, of Regis College, on a lecture tour to the Australian capital cities. After this successful tour, he invited others to join with him in setting up a Lonergan workshop that meets regularly for the presentation of papers and discussion.