Xlibris Au: 1907 books

This book depicts the struggles and the hardships that a young girl endures growing up with a single parent background in a hostile ethnic environment where she was expected to live up to certain high standards. Caught in a vicious circle of false humility, hypocrisy, jealousy and competitiveness...

On Fathers Day, I hadnt received any calls from my kids. As I lay on the couch, my whole life flashed before me, remembering I left Greece as a young boy working on a ship as a captain cadet. I jumped ship in Australia and became an illegal immigrant. I write about my first job, first affair, going...

This is a story that leads from growing up in a small country town into adulthood and the darkest depths of hell and insanity and out the other side to a wonderful life, completely free from the past, to an enlightenment few get to experience. It is a journey, which is not really a journey but a gradual...

This is a family memoir, a work of creative nonfiction covering the period from 1910 to 2013, which is more than one hundred years. Gitas father, Ram, a recently qualified doctor, leaves the shores of his birth place, India, for the first time. He leaves together with her mother, Lalitha, to look...

Eden was once a peaceful town, filled with boisterous and bustling residents. Where the fauna stayed a constant green and birds sung melodies of songs. Twenty-three years later Eden had started to burn. The disease had gained a foothold on its population with deceitful intentions, with no cure in...

Peter Patches knows the heart ache, loneliness of being at the mercy of cruel individuals. Bullies have very little to offer to this world in the way of love or true friendship. This book is for all who have been scarred by those lost individuals. My hope is that may be one bully might read this book...

Noises in the deep of night, though separated from any source, seem attached, and whispers in the darkness that approach the dreams and thoughts that such topics arise contain these sounds. An initiation ritual for indigenous Australian cultures takes place in the burial grounds in the face of the...

River Stone genre is magic realism. His archetype is a reluctant hero. His main objective is to become immortalised by successfully creating a new genre of art. Impeding him is a supernatural gift hes been given, which he defies; to take away lives by a force of arcane energy when he lays his hands...

This is a compilation of poetry associated with a timing of running and flowing rhythm in the essence of time that sings us the song of living and coinciding truth in the faith and grace we share accompaniment. Words flow off the tongue, and we are possessed by delivery and the need for persuasion,...

I spent a good deal of my time talking to the older generation gaining their wisdom and insights. These people were from a gentler time and had seen the deverstation brought to the world in the first part of the 20th century. Their wisdom and insights will always be a part of my life. I hope that you will enjoy walking through the Australian village life while reading this book.

Poetry is an art to reveal a depth in truth, when composed in rhymes it syncs o create a thoughtful memory. To some it touches them with tears for some poetry motivates the reader, though it may amuse a reader, but always another Poet may be left for judgments, in any scenario poems are to...

Our Fathers' Fate Is an account of my adventures or misadventures, is better late than never! And I hope to share through it the fabulous hospitable times I spent submerged in cultures and visualise the magnificent places and enjoy the humorous and sad events that accrued in my life's journey a part...

Life Is a Living Breathing Poem is Yosipas second collection of heartfelt poems. Inspired by life and the beauty of nature, Yosipas style of simplicity and depth of each verse is pure poetry that engages your senses. The authors journey endures through painful changes, while learning to embrace the shadows of life with a silver lining. The art of poetry is alive throughout these pages.

Self unto SELF will speak, SELF unto GOD will speak, and GOD unto SELF shall reveal. This well-crafted book is about the lower self (physical) engaging the higher self (spiritual) in a dialogue. If you are keen on knowing who you truly are, why you are here, what your mission is on this...