Summary of stories of Shadows Across the Outback. These stories depict 3 young women finding work on properties in outback Australia. Samantha Hunter finds her true heritage when inheriting a small pub at Gidgee in Queensland. Rebecca Hudson takes on the demanding tasks of becoming a Shearers Cook to prove she can survive on a busy isolated sheep station at Binalong. Susan Thompson takes on the job of off-sider with her father, Thomo The Rabbit Trapper, hoping to lose weight to win the love a handsome station owners son, who unwittingly mistakes her for a young fellow looking for work.
This compulsively readable autobiography traces the journey of a remarkably courageous woman from a childhood under Nazi Germany, through her marriage and then emigration to Australia to make a new start by developing an organic winery in McLaren Flat in South Australia. After traumatic experiences she has had to battle with bipolar mental disorder. Giselle tells her story in flawless prose and with compelling honesty. This is the story of a strong woman adding to the growing literature on women's lives. The story takes you in from the first page and never lets you go. --DR. BASIL MOORE, PHILOSOPHER/LECTURER An honest and precise account of a life journey, demonstrating life struggle and immense resilience of the author to bounce back and reinvent herself. Great buoyancy shown for the life by Giselle as she immerses herself in her many endeavors. --VESNA ILICIC, SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WRITERS CENTRE Triumph of the spirit over adversity. --BILL GUY, JOURNALIST, EDITOR AND WRITER I cannot believe the strength and courage of Giselle. --MEMBER OF UNITY HOUSING COMPANY I found the story most informative and have enjoyed reading it. --LORRAINE ROSENBERG, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ONKAPARINGA Giselle's story is a story of the triumph of determination and optimism in the face of tougher challenges than many of us could imagine surviving. An interesting read indeed. --JENNY RUSSELL, EDITOR AND FOUNDER OF THE GREEN DIRECTORY TRADING CO. PTY LTD What a truly amazing life Giselle has led. Her book is bursting at the seams with the full panoply of what life can bring -- or throw at us. Giselle's story has it all. I was warmed by her spirit in truly tough times and her irrepressible sense of adventure that has helped her to pick herself up and get on with life. After her difficult journey through episodes of mental illness which led to spiritual healing she has no doubt much wisdom to share with others on a similar journey. --ANNA BYAS, MENTAL ILLNESS FELLOWSHIP SOUTH AUSTRALIA A life with so much sadness and trauma begs the question of how Giselle Robin survived. However, she not only survived but has ultimately triumphed over a mental illness -- which was mismanaged most of the time. Again and again Giselle has picked up the shards, worked out how to piece them together and then got on with life. Her story -- in all its innocent frankness -- is an inspiring one. --HON. SANDRA KANCK, MEMBER OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT for 15 YEARS 2017 WINNER IN THE CATEGORY OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Pinanacle Book Achievement Award)
Stepping 'Out of the Shadows'... ...Life becomes complicated for Lee Cross who is trying to gain Native Title for the Jabirr Jabirr people and their country. The past has cast long shadows over his family's future happiness as his wife Jill embarks on a journey into the past and through the remote outback of Western Australia in search of her parents' identity. How can Lee protect his family when this journey proves harder than surviving the harshest land?Each will need to find the courage to step 'out of the shadows' and face the 'awful truth' of the past to find who they are, before they can find happiness and love.
A lemonade stand, a principals tender heart, a Bundt cake, and a young boys invitation to a funeral all come together to begin this extraordinary journey. Does everything happen for a reason? Is there such a thing as divine providence? How does one reconcile belief in a merciful God of love with the inscrutable, inequitable nature of human suffering? Only A Shadow is an amazing story of resilience, perseverance, and the power hidden in a single moment. It tells a tale of a remarkable relationship and examines the myriad of ways that the human spirit endeavors to accept and deal with trials that come with the gift of life.
From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2 Sarah Keller is a skip tracer, tracking criminals who have gone on the lam. She’s also a single mother to five-year-old Zoe, living quietly in small-town Oklahoma—until an accident sends Zoe to the ER, and their life changes in a heartbeat. Medical tests reveal a desperate secret Sarah has been hiding for years: Zoe is not her daughter, but rather a girl once rescued from a nightmare of murder, vengeance, and harrowing family ties she can’t possibly remember. Sarah does. And someone wants to make sure she never forgets. Now Sarah must abandon her carefully constructed life and take Zoe on the run. Using her knowledge as a skip tracer to stay off the grid, she must remain one step ahead of her pursuers if she is to stay alive, save Zoe, and bury the past once and for all.
-White House Protection Force story #2- Colonel Michael Gibson left the field after twenty years to take command of Delta Force. Two years later he wonders at what mental aberration made him do it. A lifelong warrior, White House and Pentagon politics are now his battlefield, not directing operations as he should be. With a child on the way, his normal mission plans for survival are all failing him. A lifetime ago, retired spy Miss Watson, turned White House librarian, gave her all for her country. Her one regret? Betraying the Soviet general she fell in love with. Betraying him to his death. Perhaps together, with some help from their young friend Dilya, they can find the answers lost Between Shadow and Soul.
When an ancestor saddles them with the responsibility to purge Australia of a demon threatening to wipe our humanity with black flames, fraternal siblings Amber and Michael Hauksby lay their lives on the line. As the world crumbles around them into chaos, and ancient marsupials wreack havoc in their hometown, they must journey into the treacherous wild lands of the outback to extinguish the black flames that loom on the horizon. First, Amber must seek the counsel of a mysterious being, who calls himself the light spirit.
When two spiritist swindlers accidentally summon something horrific from beyond the stars, they must thwart a sinister time-spanning plot, in this first Victorian-era gaslight fantasy set in the world of Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu. London, 1891. Elizabeth Whittle and William Grant enjoy scalping London’s bourgeoisie, taking on the personas of grand spiritist Cerulia Trent and her agent to connect the living and the dead. When a detective arrives, sniffing out fraud with a scientifically minded spiritualist society, the duo decides to take one last job before escaping to the continent. However, their final séance ends horrifically… and soon Lizzie isn’t Lizzie anymore. William, desperate to banish whatever monster they summoned, is soon embroiled in an electrifying eldritch mystery where he makes a deal with the devil to save his friend and stop an even greater evil from transforming the known world.
Lucy Cavanagh has experienced periods of missing time since her childhood. They have estranged her from her friends and family, who are unable to cope with things out of the ordinary and who refuse to believe her explanations that she does not know what is happening to her. Once she shares her secret, even the people in the Christian churches she has attended end up judging her as insane, or worse, demon-possessed. It is not until she finds herself in a meadow totally unaware of how she has gotten thereand comes face to face with a handsome stranger who claims to believe herthat she finds the love and acceptance she has been longing for. But this man has secrets of his own, secrets that she is unwilling to believe. Can love conquer disbelief? A mixture of fate and fantasy pushes the boundaries of Lucys faith until she questions her own sanity.
