Portraits of German migrants to Australia - refugees, displaced or persecuted persons, adventurors - authentic life stories that span more than half a century in the history of migration. They left behind their homes and families to start a new life and contributed to a multicultural Australia.

"I moved to USA from Poland. I was 22 years old then. I thought it will be so amazing, just like I always thought my life would be. My dream of going to the incredible paradise that USA stands for many, was coming true. So happy, so excited, so fearless. Soon, my "color glasses" felt off and the real, very brutal life has started. Life to survive! My life went from wealthy to poor; from having lots of friends to feeling alone and forgotten; from not worried about food to that excruciating pain in my stomach caused by hunger. Never thought I will have to worry about being homeless but my destiny had different plans for me. I went from being loved, cared to that pain of being abused physically, broken down mentally. I learned the definition of true, deep, incredible love filled with passion, butterflies, happiness. I had the privilege to experience the pain of a broken heart; where my soul had been ripped out of me without any warnings. I went from somebody to nobody, from being smart collage girl to confused, lost little child. Luck of English knowledge, total culture shock and pure fear have welcomed me at the airport, where emotional roller coaster has become my every day companion. My road of life has been very hard, filled with rocks but I am still heading forward, dragging my luggage behind. Luggage filled with my life, life of a Polish immigrant." www.facebook.com/taneyalyn

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Memories of My Life" (From My Early Days in Scotland Till the Present Day in Adelaide) by J. S. O. Mrs. Allen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The last person hotel receptionist Rhona Campbell expected to see walk through the door of the Old Mill Hotel was her ex-husband especially as he had no recollection of who she is. Alun Harrison had discovered that the wife he had no memory of had not signed the final papers freeing him from the marriage and as it was his intention to marry his fiancée he needed to confront this woman. Complications arise as Alun discovers that he has not been given all the facts regarding his ex-wife and Rhona faces a moral dilemma of whether or not to reveal the true circumstances of her departure from the marriage.

"I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust." Walter Benjamin was one of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Unpacking My Library he offers a strikingly personal meditation on his career as a book collector and on the strange relations that spring up between objects and their owners. Witty, erudite and often moving, this book will resonate with bibliophiles of all kinds. Eris Gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and non-fiction.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You can't think about travel without thinking about luggage. And baggage has baggage. Susan Harlan takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorize, and accompany our lives. Along the way, she shows how the materials of travel - the carry-ons, totes, trunks, and train cases of the past and present - have stories to tell about displacement, home, gender, class, consumption, and labor. Luggage considers bags as carefully curated microcosms of our domestic and professional selves, charting the evolution of travel across literature, film, and art. A simple suitcase, it turns out, contains more than you might think. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

In this autobiography John kadiba narrates the story of his unique life’s history. The book brings together various elements of his experiences in his symbolic journey from his traditional village in Papua New Guinea, through other destinations and his settlement in North Australia. The book is a rich tapestry of Kadiba’s story. It records the momentous events in his life, various places he has travelled through, signifi cant people in his life, his spiritual life and thought, and his cultural roots which have shaped him as an individual. The book tells of his childhood, his schooling and his education. Kadiba sees his schooling and search for education as a decisive thread in his symbolic journey which eventually takes him to settle in North Australia away from his people and culture. Growing up in the colonial era, the book traces his journey through many changes in PNG during the colonial and post-colonial times. The story also recounts his long and at times, troubled association with religious institutions both in PNG and Australia. In many ways the book portrays a very personal story. It tells of Kadiba’s family life, his courtship and marriage, death in the family, and his children growing up in contemporary multicultural Australia.