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2015-03-15T11:01:00.001-07:00

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1 .Girl in a Band [paperback]
Gordon, Kim
New York, US Faber & Faber (uk & Us) 2015.
Summary: Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band. Telling the story of her family, her life in visual art, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship with her daughter, her music, and her band, Girl in a Band is a rich and beautifully written memoir.
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2015-03-12T11:01:00.001-07:00

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1 .Alan Turing: The Enigma - Film Tie In [paperback]
Hodges, Andrew
Film/TV tie-in ed.
London, UK Vintage (uk + Aust) 2014.
Summary: This film tie-in tells the true story behind the nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing (pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code) and his brilliant team at Britain's top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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2015-03-10T11:01:00.001-07:00

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1 .Margaret Whitlam : a biography / Susan Mitchell.
Mitchell, Susan, 1945-
Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2006.
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2 .Sophia : princess, suffragette, revolutionary / Anita Anand.
Anand, Anita, author
Summary: In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistible to the British, who plundered everything, including the fabled Koh-I-Noor diamond. Exiled to England, the dispossessed Maharajah transformed his estate at Elveden in Suffolk into a Moghul palace, its grounds stocked with leopards, monkeys and exotic birds. Sophia, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, was raised a genteel aristocratic Englishwoman: presented at court, afforded grace-and-favour lodgings at Hampton Court Palace and photographed wearing the latest fashions for the society pages. But when, in secret defiance of the British government, she travelled to India, she returned a revolutionary. Sophia transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality,a far cry from the life to which she was born. Her causes were the struggle for Indian independence, the fate of the Lascars, the welfare of Indian soldiers in the First World War - and, above all, the fight for female suffrage. She was bold and fearless, attacking politicians, putting herself in the front line and swapping her silks for a nurse's uniform to tend wounded soldiers evacuated from the battlefields.
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2015-03-08T11:01:00.001-07:00

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1 .Tennis' greatest stars / Mike Ryan.
Ryan, Mike, 1974- author
Summary: The exciting history of the modern game with profiles of its greatest players. From the heat of the Australian Open to the red clay of the French Open, to the majesty of Wimbledon All England Club to the humidity at the US Open, tennis has been a global sport for decades. Starting with the tennis pioneers of the 20th century right up to today, star players have influenced cultural movements, ushered in the casual sporting style and sex appeal and the fight for equal rights. Tennis was the first sport to have openly gay athletes and is the only major sport where women and men take home equal earnings. Tennis has been a leader in race relations starting in the 1960s and 1970s. Tennis' Greatest Stars profiles the 50 greatest and most influential players of the game and presents a historical narrative of athletic prowess, popular culture and social responsibility. Tennis' Greatest Stars features 50 player profiles in the following categories: PIONEERS AND TRAILBLAZERS: The players who set the stage for modern tennis, including Don Budge, who won the Grand Slam before becoming a professional; Rod Laver, one of the first to adopt the topspin; and Althea Gibson, the first African-American to win a major tennis championship. THE GOLDEN AGE: The rise of tennis players as celebrities, including Billie Jean King, who defeated Bobby Riggs in the 'Battle of the Sexes'; tantrum-throwing John McEnroe; and equal rights advocate Arthur Ashe. THE 21st CENTURY: Tennis has reached new heights in skill and speed as well as entered popular culture. Champions include the powerhouse Williams sisters, Venus and Serena; Roger Federer; Rafael Nadal; and Novak Djokovic. Tennis' Greatest Stars is packed with action photographs that celebrate the game and thoughtful essays, which cover such topics as the birth of modern tennis, the major tournaments, international play, the various court surfaces and new technologies. This is a superb book for the fan and a compelling history of a great game.
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2 .The short, strange life of Herschel Grynszpan : a boy avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris / Jonathan Kirsch.
Kirsch, Jonathan, 1949- author
Summary: On the morning of November 7, 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee, Herschel Grynszpan, walked into the German embassy in Paris and in an act of desperation assassinated Ernst vom Rath, a low-level Nazi diplomat. He did it, he said, out "of love for my parents and for my people." Two days later, vom Rath lay dead, and the Third Reich exploited his murder to inaugurate its long-planned campaign of terror against Germany's Jewish citizens, in the mass pogrom that became known as Kristallnacht. In a bizarre concatenation of events that would rapidly involve Ribbentrop, Goebbels, and Hitler himself, Grynszpan would become the centerpiece of a Nazi propaganda campaign that would later describe his actions as 'the first shot of the Jewish War'. Best-selling author Jonathan Kirsch brings to light this wrenching story, reexamining the historical details and moral dimensions of one of the most enigmatic cases of World War II. Was Grynszpan a crazed lone gunman, or was he an agent of the Gestapo, recruited to provide a convenient pretext for a major escalation of Nazi aggression? Was he motivated by a desire to strike a blow for the Jewish people as an early partisan fighter, or did his act of violence speak to an intimate connection between the assassin and his target, as Grynszpan later claimed?.
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2015-03-03T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Separated @ Birth: A true love story of twin sisters reunited [hardback]
Bordier, Anais
Futerman, Samantha
New York, US Baker & Taylor 2014.
Summary: Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, I think we might be twinsdont freak outIt all began when design student Anais Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back.
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2 .I, Mick Gatto [paperback]
Noble, Tom
New ed.
Carlton, A Melbourne University Press 2011.
Summary: Mick Gatto. Gambler. Underworld veteran. Melbourne gangland survivor. Made into a household name Australia-wide by the hit television series Underbelly, in his autobiography, Mick Gatto finally reveals the man behind the headlines.
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3 .Pete Townshend: Who I Am [paperback]
Townshend, Peter
Pymble, A Harpercollins Publishing Aust 2013.
Summary: Noting that he has sold over 100 million records over a fifty-year period goes some way to quantifying his accomplishments, but numbers only scratch the surface of his contribution to popular culture.
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4 .Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre [paperback]
Wall, Mick
London, UK Orion Publishing Group 2014.
Summary: The Doors have become the stuff of music legend, having being one of the first bands to bring the dark side of rock to a mass following. They formed in 1965 and went on to dizzying levels of success - with the wild rock 'n' roll lifestyle to match.
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5 .The Wright Brothers [paperback]
McCullough, David
London, UK Simon & Schuster (us & Uk) 2015.
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6 .Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II [hardback]
John Van der Kiste
New York, US Woodslane Pty Ltd 2014.
Summary: The first proper biographies of the three younger sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II, each whose lives were wrecked by tragedy
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7 .Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography [hardback]
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Hill, Pamela Smith, Editor
United States Baker & Taylor 2014.
Summary: Laura Ingalls Wilder's unedited, and unpublished, draft of her autobiography that was written for an adult audience and eventually served as the foundation for her popular Little House on the Prairie series includes not-safe-for-children tales that feature stark scenes of domestic abuse, love triangles gone awry and a man who lit himself on fire
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8 .Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir 1935-1975 [hardback]
Lodge, David
London, UK Harvill Press 2015.
Summary: 'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England..
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9 .The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family [hardback]
Hunt, Amber
Batcher, David
Guilford, US Baker & Taylor 2014.
Summary: The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to them comes most strongly through the wives, whose pain, heartbreak, and grief seemed immensely public and lonely and personal at the same time.
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10 .Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor [hardback]
Mayer, Catherine
New York, US Baker & Taylor 2015.
Summary: A provocative, surprising, and utterly fresh portrait of Charles, Prince of WalesHe is one of the worlds most fascinating and least understood figures: now sixty-six, Prince Charles has spent his entire life preparing to be king while insisting on being his own man.
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11 .Ugly [paperback]
Briscoe, Constance
Revised ed.
London, UK Hodder Headline 2009.
Summary: Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care.
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2015-02-25T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Epilogue : a memoir / Will Boast.
Boast, Will, author
Summary: "Will Boast thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought he'd have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Boast ... finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep: he'd had another family before Will's--a wife and two sons in England"--Provided by publisher.
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2 .Fathomless riches : or, How I went from pop to pulpit / The Reverend Richard Coles.
Coles, Richard, 1962-, author
Summary: The Reverend Richard Coles is a parish priest in Northamptonshire and a regular host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live. He is also the only vicar in Britain to have had a number 1 hit single: the Communards' 'Don't Leave Me This Way' topped the charts for four weeks and was the biggest-selling single of its year. Fathomless Riches is his remarkable memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life of sex and drugs to a life devoted to God and Christianity. Music is where it began. Richard Coles was head chorister at school, and later discovered a love of saxophone together with the magic of Jimmy Somerville's voice. Against a backdrop of intense sexual and political awakening, the Communards were formed, and Richard Coles's life as a rock star began. Fathomless Riches - a phrase characteristic of St Paul and his followers - is a deeply personal and illuminating account of a transformation from hedonistic self-abandonment to 'the moment that changed everything'. Funny, warm, witty and wise, it is a memoir which has the power to shock as well as to console. It will be hailed as one of the most unusual and readable life stories of recent times.
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3 .Don't give up, don't give in : lessons from an extraordinary man / Louis Zamperini and David Rensin.
Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014, author
Rensin, David,, author
Summary: Champion. Survivor. Hero. Legend. Completed just two days before Louis Zamperini's death at age 97, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In shares a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and humor from one of America's most inspiring lives. Zamperini's story has touched millions through Laura Hillenbrand's biography Unbroken, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. Now, in his own words, Louis Zamperini reveals, with warmth and great charm, the essential values and lessons that sustained him throughout his remarkable journey. He was a youthful troublemaker from California who turned his life around to become a 1936 Olympian and a world-class miler at the University of Southern California. Putting aside his superstar track career, Louis Zamperini volunteered for the army before Pearl Harbor and was thrust into the violent combat of World War II as a B-24 bombardier. While on a rescue mission, his plane went down in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where he survived, against all odds, drifting two thousand miles in a small raft for forty-seven days. His struggle was only beginning: Zamperini was captured by the Japanese and, for more than two years, he courageously endured torture and psychological abuse in a series of prisoner-of-war camps. He returned home to face more dark hours, but in 1949 Zamperini's life was transformed by a spiritual rebirth that would guide him through the next sixty-five years of his long and happy life. Cowritten with longtime collaborator David Rensin, Louis Zamperini's Don't Give Up, Don't Give In is an extraordinary last testament that captures the wisdom of a life lived to the fullest. A son of Italian immigrants, Louis Zamperini (1917-2014) was a U.S. Olympic runner, World War II bombardier, and POW survivor. After the war, he returned to the United States to found the Victory Boys Camp for at-risk youth and became an inspirational speaker. Zamperini's story was told in his 2003 autobiography Devil at My Heels, as well as in Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 biography Unbroken. David Rensin worked closely with Louis Zamperini for many years and cowrote Devil at My Heels.
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2015-02-24T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Joe's fruit shop & milk bar / Zoe Boccabella.
Boccabella, Zoë, author
Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2015.
Summary: A true story of love and loss, dreams and determination, friendships and family from the author of Mezza Italiana 'Nonno Anni gives me a nudge. "You know, when I first came to Australia, I knew that my life would change forever.
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2 .Matthew McConaughey : the biography / Neil Daniels.
Daniels, Neil (Neil Andrew), author
Summary: Matthew McConaughey is a Hollywood star with an Oscar to his name and the world at his feet. Growing up in Texas, the youngest of three boys, he was known for his good looks and charm. His acting career began with TV commercials, B movies and low-budget independent films, which included the much respected coming of age drama Dazed and Confused. His big break came as lawyer Jack Brigance in 1996's A Time to Kill, based on the best-selling legal thriller by John Grisham, and he was subsequently cast in such acclaimed films as Amistad, Contact, EdTV and U-571. The new millennium brought an unfortunate change in his fortunes as he moved into risible romantic comedies. Movies such as The Wedding Planner, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, Failure To Launch, Fool's Gold and Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past were only moderately successful and failed to win over the critics; the critical acclaim that he garnered in the nineties as a serious actor was a thing of the past, and McConaughey desperately needed to reinvent himself. The Lincoln Lawyer, released in 2011, commenced McConaughey's revival and he returned to serious roles in such revered films as Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike and Dallas Buyers Club, which won him a Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Lead Actor in 2014. He was also cast with Woody Harrelson in HBO's critically acclaimed series True Detective which won him rave reviews. Happily married to Brazilian model Camila Alves, the McConaughey's live in Austin, Texas with their three children. This is the authoritative biography of one of Hollywood's leading lights.
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3 .The great reformer : Francis and the making of a radical pope / Austen Ivereigh.
Ivereigh, Austen, author
Summary: When Pope Francis was elected in March 2013, he was virtually unknown. He fast captivated the world with his rejection of papal pomp, his love of the poor, his fearless critiques of injustice and corruption, and his far-reaching reforms of the Catholic Church...This is the first intimate, in-depth biography of a pope whose visionary leadership has breathed new life into the Church and turned him into a global phenomenon...Through extensive interviews in Argentina and elsewhere, and drawing on the author's deep knowledge of the country and Church that shaped him, 'The Great Reformer ' reveals the life, the spirituality and the thought of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as never before. It tells for the first time the story of how his visionary reform of the Jesuit order led to his internal exile in Argentina. It also offers the first behind-the-scenes accounts of the conclaves of 2005 and 2013...'The Great Reformer' shows how a shy, austere assistant bishop came to be the leader of the Latin-American Church and eventually pastor of over a billion Catholics...
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2015-02-22T10:02:00.001-08:00

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1 .Franz Liszt : illustrated lives of great composers / Bryce Morrison.
Morrison, Bryce, author
Summary: Arguably the greatest of all piano virtuosi, Liszt was one of the few composers of his day who had the technique to perform his own compositions. A child prodigy pianist who could read music before he could recite the alphabet, Franz Liszt is one of the most outrageously gifted and most controversial figures in classical music. Unconventional in both his approach to composing and his personal life, he had a reputation for courting hostility and riding rough-shod over other people's feelings, particularly those of his musical peers. This lavishly illustrated book chronicles Liszt's life and times with the help of many rare photographs and contemporary prints. With numerous quotations from the people who knew him best, extracts from personal letters and diaries, this remarkable book gives an intimate picture of the composer's private life, and also investigates the complex religious and emotional forces which inspired his music. Includes a CD featuring a selection of recordings by the composer.
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2015-02-15T10:01:00.000-08:00

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1 .Marzipan and magnolias / Elizabeth Lancaster.
Lancaster, Elizabeth
Sydney : Finch, 2010.
Summary: "Marzipan and Magnolias is a charming, poignant and humorous story that traces Elizabeth Lancaster's complex relationship with her somewhat eccentric mother Ruth. The relationship becomes even more complicated when Elizabeth refuses to acknowledge the early signs of her own incurable illness."--Back cover.
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2015-02-11T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Million dollar arm : sometimes to win, you have to change the game / J.B. Bernstein with Rebecca Paley.
Bernstein, J. B., 1968-, author
Paley, Rebecca, author
Summary: JB Bernstein seemed to have it all. One of the top sports agents in the US, he worked hard and enjoyed the bachelor lifestyle to the full. But he hankered for more, and when he set himself a challenge - to unearth someone in India capable of becoming a pro baseball pitcher - most people thought he was mad and doomed to face a costly and public failure. The reality show Million Dollar Arm brought thousands of contestants hoping for a shot at glory, but eventually they unearthed two candidates: Rinku and Dinesh. Bernstein brought them back to the US, put them up in his home and helped them to get used to a very different world, while they also worked hard to learn the game that was second nature to most American sportsmen. Finally, they got their chance and - against all the odds - they were both awarded pro contracts.
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2015-02-09T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Ivan Lendl : the man who made Murray / Mark Hodgkinson.
Hodgkinson, Mark, author
[s.l.] : Aurum press ltd, 2014.
Summary: When Andy Murray broke the news in March 2014 that he was parting company with Ivan Lendl it caused shock waves across the world. In just over two years Lendl had turned Murray from a perennial runner-up into the most successful British tennis player since Fred Perry - a winner of the US Open, Olympic Gold and Wimbledon Champion. However, when Murray - a 4 times Grand Slam finalist - announced, in 2011, that he was teaming up with the man they called the 'chokoslovakian' for the number of times he had lost a Slam final, there was widespread consensus that whoever had made the decision was either a genius or taking a huge gamble.
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2 .The girl who lived / Susan Jane Berg.
Berg, Susan Jane, author
Tumanow-West, Lucy, editor
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2015-02-04T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .A Bone of Fact [hardback]
Walsh, David
Sydney, A Pan Macmillan Australia 2014.
Summary: David Walsh - the creator of The Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart - is both a giant and an enigma in the Australian art world. A millionaire who made his wealth gambling, he has turned a wild vision into a unique and bizarre reality, he is in turns controversial, mysterious and idolised.
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2 .Travelling To Infinity The True Story Behind The Theory Of Everything [paperback]
Hawking, Jane
Film/TV tie-in ed.
Richmond, UK Alma Books 2014.
Summary: In this compelling memoir Jane Hawking relates the inside story of an extraordinary marriage. As Stephen's academic renown soared, his body was collapsing under motor neurone disease, and Jane's candid account of trying to balance his 24-hour care with the needs of their growing family will be inspirational to anyone dealing with family illness.
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3 .Yes Please [paperback]
Poehler, Amy
Sydney, A Pan Macmillan Australia 2014.
Summary: Goodreads Choice Awards 2014 - Winner. Yes Please is Amy's first book. Part intimate memoir, part stand-up routine, part comedy exorcism - this collection of essays drawn from real life is juicy, funny, biting, brilliant and wise. It riffs on everything from sex, love, friendship, plastic surgery to parenthood and does so with style and sass.
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4 .The Remarkable Mr Morrison [paperback]
Collins, Merv
Melbourne, A Melbourne Books 2014.
Summary: This extremely well researched and written book delves into the life and musicality of James Morrison, one of Australia's most internationally acclaimed musicians. It follows his development from a child who cried each day in primary school to a confident performing maestro.
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5 .Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte [hardback]
Williams, Kate
New York, US Baker & Taylor 2014.
Summary: From CNNs official royal historian, a highly praised young author with a doctorate from Oxford University, comes the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the woman who conquered Napoleons heartand with it, an empire.Their love was legendary, their ambition flagrant and unashamed.
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2015-02-02T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Entirely up to you, darling / Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins.
Attenborough, Richard
Hawkins, Diana
London : Hutchinson, 2008.
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2015-02-01T10:01:00.000-08:00

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1 .Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found [paperback]
Strayed, Cheryl
Film/TV tie-in ed.
London, UK Atlantic Books (UK) 2014.
Summary: A powerful, blazingly honest memoir - the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again.
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2015-01-28T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Jackson's Track : memoir of a dreamtime place / Carolyn Landon & Daryl Tonkin.
Landon, Carolyn, 1945-
Tonkin, Daryl, 1918-
Ringwood, Vic. : Viking, 1999.
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2015-01-27T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Young Winstone / Ray Winstone and Ben Thompson.
Winstone, Ray, 1957-
Thompson, Ben
Summary: Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast - has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate salt-of-the-earth diamond geezer? The answer lies in the East End of his youth. Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author's trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, 'Young Winstone' offers a fascinating social history of East London, as well as a school of hard knocks coming-of-age story with a powerful emotional punch.
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2 .There was a little girl : the real story of my mother and me / Brooke Shields.
Shields, Brooke, 1965-, author
[Australia] : Penguin Random House Australia, [2014].
Summary: The award-winning actress and best-selling author of Down Came the Rain explores her relationship with her tough single mom, detailing her role in shaping Shields' career, her fierce protectiveness and her struggles with alcohol.
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2015-01-25T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Into the black : the inside story of Metallica / Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood.
Brannigan, Paul
Winwood, Ian
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2 .If horses could talk / Gary Witheford, with Brough Scott.
Witheford, Gary, author
Scott, Brough, author
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3 .Joan of Arc : a history / Helen Castor.
Castor, Helen, author
Summary: Helen Castor brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman; a roaring girl fighting the English, and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing fifteenth century France apart. Here is a portrait of a 19-year-old peasant who hears voices from God; a teenager transformed into a warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believed women should not fight. And it is also the story behind the myth we all know, a myth which began to take hold at her trial: that of the Maid of Orleans, the saviour of France, a young woman burned at the stake as a heretic, a woman who five hundred years later would be declared a saint. Joan and her world are brought vividly to life in this refreshing new take on the medieval world. Helen Castor brings us to the heart of the action, to a woman and a country in turmoil, a world where no-one - not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knew what would happen next.
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2015-01-08T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Deranged marriage : a memoir / Sushi Das.
Das, Sushi
North Sydney, N.S.W. : Bantam, 2012.
Summary: For Sushi Das, growing up in 1970s London was a culturally messed-up time. From the age of fourteen, I was aware my parents expected me to have an arranged marriage, a big Bollywood wedding. There was just one hitch: nobody asked me. How do you turn your back on centuries of tradition without trashing your family's honour? Breaking free meant emigrating to the other side of the world, only to find life in Australia was just as culturally confusing.
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2015-01-05T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Finding ultra : rejecting middle age, becoming one of the world's fittest men, and discovering myself / Rich Roll.
Roll, Rich, author
First paperback edition.
New York : Three Rivers Press, 2012.
Summary: On the eve of his 40th birthday, Rich Roll was in bad shape. His days were filled with work, stress, and junk food, and his nights were spent on the couch, remote in hand. Taking out the trash was the closest he came to exercise, and, at 50 pounds overweight, a walk up the stairs left him winded. He decided it was time to make a change. After undergoing a diet detox, adopting a vegan lifestyle, and pushing his fitness regimen to undreamed-of heights, he was profiled by Men's Fitness as one of the world's 25 fittest men. Among Roll's many jaw-dropping athletic feats: he completed the unprecedented Epic 5 five back-to-back Ironman distance triathlons on five different Hawaiian islands in under a week an achievement many said was impossible. This is the story of that remarkable transformation, a complete physical and spiritual rejuvenation that proves that anyone can find ultra if they know how.
Summary: Marathon Running.
Summary: Biography.
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2014-12-31T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Cricket as I see it / Allan Border.
Border, Allan, 1955-, author
Summary: In the twenty years since Allan Border retired as Australian cricket captain he's been one of the game's closest and most astute observers. His views on cricket - based on his experiences as a player, a captain, a selector and a commentator - are fascinating, forthright and informed by more than three decades of involvement at the game's highest level. In Cricket as I See it he gives us his wisdom and opinions on the game he loves - from epic Tests, the rising power of India, and the Twenty20 revolution, through to his thoughts on captaincy, and the essential arts of batting, bowling and sledging. He reflects on the great players and contests of his generation, as well as controversies such as the underarm bowling affair, the turbulent events that led to him shouldering the captaincy, the rebel tour of South Africa, Steve Waugh's dropping as one-day captain, and the divisive 'Monkeygate' scandal. With cricket, Allan calls it as he sees it, and the result is a book to be savoured and enjoyed by cricket lovers everywhere.
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2014-12-21T10:01:00.000-08:00

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1 .Green Vanilla Tea - Finch Memoir Prize Winner 2013 [paperback]
Williams, Marie
Lane Cove, A Finch Publishing 2013.
Summary: Green Vanilla Tea is a family story of love, tragedy and hope. Winner of the 2013 Finch Memoir Prize Marie Williams watches helplessly as an undiagnosable condition debilitates her husband, Dominic, in both body and mind.
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2 .Herbie Hancock: Possibilities [hardback]
Hancock, Herbie
New York, US Viking Uk & Us 2015.
Summary: In Herbie Hancock the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on a life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator, Hancock has had an enormous influence on both acoustic and electric jazz, R&B and hip-hop, with his ongoing exploration of different musical genres, winning fourteen Grammy awards along the way.
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3 .Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee [hardback]
Himmelman, Jeff
New York, USA Random House 2012.
Summary: I hope were as good friends when you finish your book as we are now, Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. But I dont give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.
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2014-12-17T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Shadows of the workhouse / Jennifer Worth.
Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011
London : Phoenix, 2009.
Summary: In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House, she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within 6 months of each other and the children were left destitute. At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, visits the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety year old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room.
Summary: Midwife.
Summary: Biographies and Autobiographies.
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2 .Neil Patrick Harris : choose your own autobiography / by Neil Patrick Harris ; as unshredded and pasted back together by David Javerbaum.
Harris, Neil Patrick, 1973-, author
Javerbaum, David, contributor
Melbourne, Victoria : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014.
Summary: Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened?Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the 'u' back in 'aUtobiography'? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You will be born in New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to try out for Doogie Howser, M.D. You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. You will decide what kind of caviar you want to eat on board Elton John's yacht.Choose correctly and you'll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you'll find misery, heartbreak, and a guest stint on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. All this, plus magic tricks, cocktail recipes, embarrassing pictures from your time as a child actor, and even a closing song. Yes, if you buy one book this year, congratulations on being above the American average, but make that book Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography!
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2014-12-16T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .The Last Showman [paperback]
Brophy, Fred
Camberwell, A Michael Joseph 2014.
Summary: Son of a sideshow operator and a trapeze artist, Fred Brophy grew up on the road, travelling the length and breadth of Australia. He did time in jail as a teenager before touring his own boxing tent at a time when the tradition was alive and well.
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2014-12-15T10:00:00.001-08:00

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1 .Leonard Cohen : everybody knows / Harvey Kubernik.
Kubernik, Harvey, 1951-, author
Kubernik, Harvey, 1951-
Summary: Published to co-incide with Cohen's 80th birthday in September 2014, this book celebrates the life, music and poetry of Leonard Cohen. It features new interviews with Cohen's band, producers and collaborators and is illustrated with hundreds of photographs.
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2014-12-14T10:01:00.001-08:00

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1 .Still Travelling [paperback]
Leyland, Mal
Crows Nest, A Allen & Unwin 2015.
Summary: Next year is the 50th anniversary of the making of the Leyland Brothers' ground-breaking documentary, Down the Darling, which records Mike and Mal Leyland travelling down the Darling. Their film was sold to Channel 9 and later to the BBC. It was shown in 65 countries and selected by the Australian Government to be shown at Expo 67 in Canada.
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2 .Breaking the Silence [paperback]
Milne, Jo
London, UK Hodder Headline 2015.
Summary: Jo Milne had already lived a lifetime surrounded by silence, deaf from birth, when she began to lose her sight. Just before turning thirty, Jo was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic and progressive condition that will one day rob her of her sight altogether. In 2014 she made a life-changing decision to have cochlear implants fitted.
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3 .Love: The Saint and the Seeker [paperback]
Stevens, Christina
Carlsbad, US Hay House (US) C/ Penguin 2015.
Summary: 'God will write through you.' Those were almost the last private words Mother Teresa spoke to acclaimed filmmaker Christina Stevens, urging her to share her story with the world. A similar calling had come months earlier, when Mother Teresa appeared to Christina in a dream, summoning her to India to film her message to the world.
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4 .Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography [hardback]
Schruers, Fred
New York, US Crown Publishing 2014.
Summary: Fred Schruers provides an unfettered look into Billy Joel's journey from a pint-sized kid growing up in a cookie-cutter Long Island suburb to a rockstar of monumental success, and the person who remains behind his iconic status.
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5 .Motherless Child: The definitive biography of Eric Clapton [paperback]
Scott, Paul
London, UK Headline Publishing 2015.
Summary: Timed for release around Clapton's 70th birthday, MOTHERLESS CHILD will be the ultimate celebration and definitive biography of one of the most influential musicians alive today. Featuring new and exclusive information from those closest to Clapton at the pinnacle of his fame, the book will uncover the truth behind some of the most famous stories.
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6 .Clint: A Retrospective [paperback]
Schickel, Richaard
Eastwood, Clint
Bath, UK Peribo Pty Ltd 2014.
Summary: Over the course of a celebrated and spellbinding career - both on screen and behind the camera - Clint Eastwood has become one of the all-time Hollywood greats. From early starring roles in Sergio Leone's genre busting Spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars to recent movies, eg Gran Torino, he has captivated audiences with his tough guy persona:
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7 .You Cant Have My Daughter: A mothers desperate fight to save her daughter from sex traffickers. A powerful true story. [paperback]
McDonnell, Elizabeth
London, UK Pan Macmillan 2015.
Summary: As a single 51-year-old woman, Elizabeth had given up hope of ever becoming a mother. When she was approved to adopt ten-year-old Lara, a sweet and caring girl, it was a dream come true.
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8 .Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth [hardback]
Bostridge, Mark
New York, US Bloomsbury 2015.
Summary: This book, published to coincide with the film's release, explores the effects of the First World War on Vera Brittain, both in terms of her personal life (she lost the four young men closest to her) and in terms of its effect on her development as a writer and her eventual decision to become a pacifist.
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9 .Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano [hardback]
Thomas, Dana
London, UK Allen Lane 2015.
Summary: In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the fashion world was dominated by two very different but equally successful and turbulent figures. But, within twelve months, Alexander McQueen had committed suicide, and John Galliano has professionally imploded.
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10 .A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War and a Ruined House in France [paperback]
Richmond, Miranda Mouillot
Melbourne, A Text Publishing 2015.
Summary: After surviving World War II by escaping the Nazi occupation, Miranda Richmond Mouillot's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the south of France. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their children.
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11 .Foxglove Spires : Stories from the cottage under the big pines [hardback]
Southam, Susan
Millers Point, A Murdoch Books 2015.
Summary: Susan Southam allows readers to look through the window of 'Foxgloves Spires'-her former home of 30 years, located in rural Australia-and into the lushly romantic and soul-filled interior within.
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12 .The Old Man and the Sea : A True Story of Crossing the Atlantic by Raft [hardback]
Smith, Anthony
London, UK Constable & Robinson (UK) 2015.
Summary: Octogenarian Anthony Smith's journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew ) and the incredible story of the survivors of a 1940 boat disaster, who spent 70 days adrift in the Atlantic, eventually reaching land emaciated and close to death.
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13 .Leila's Secret [paperback]
Karimi, Kooshyar
Hawthorn, A Viking 2015.
Summary: A kind of People Smuggler of the medical profession, Kooshyar Karimi's memoir tells the true story of a young Iranian woman for whom pregnancy means certain death. In working to save Leila, and countless like her, Doctor Karimi risks the lives of himself and his family.
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14 .The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad [paperback]
Mukhina, Lena
London, UK Pan Macmillan 2015.
Summary: In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova, the boy she liked, liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia's Nazi ally. And she was keeping a diary, in which she recorded her hopes and dreams.
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15 .Grace: A Biography [hardback]
Wydra, Thilo
New York, US Perseus Books 2015.
Summary: Since her tragic death, Grace Kelly has become a myth, a style icon existing between the glamour of Hollywood and the royalty of Monaco. This comprehensive biography draws from previously unreleased photographs and documents from the Grimaldi family archive and letters between Kelly and Hitchcock.
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16 .The New Tsar [paperback]
Myers, Steven Lee
London, UK Simon & Schuster (us & Uk) 2015.
Summary: An epic tale of the path to power of Vladimir Putin. New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief, Steven Lee Myers follows Putin's path in a gripping, page-turning narrative about Russian power and prestige, elucidating the cool and calculating leader whose ambitions are as great as Peter's, his means as ruthless as Ivan the Terrible's.
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17 .Inside Alcatraz: My Time on the Rock [hardback]
Quillen, Jim
London, UK Century (UK) 2015.
Summary: Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. Jim Quillen, #586: a runaway, problem child and petty thief, was jailed several times before his 20th birthday.
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18 .Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer [paperback]
Murphy, Antonia
Melbourne, A Text Publishing 2015.
Summary: The fact that vampire worms were reproducing by the tens of thousands in the belly of my goat should not have come as a surprise. By now I'd learned that country life is not a pastoral painting. Sure, at various times during the year you might see fluffy white lambs prancing in the tall grass, but those moments are rare.
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19 .Kerry Packer: Tall Tales and True [paperback]
Stahl, Michael
South Yarra, A Hardie Grant 2015.
Summary: Kerry Packer was instrumental in shaping Australia's media landscape and culture. For 30 years he controlled televisions perennial ratings leader Channel Nine, and a large percentage of the nations most influential magazines. So much of what Australians watched, read and believed came through the prism of this larger-than-life man.
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20 .The Utopia Experiment [paperback]
Evans, Dylan
London, UK Picador 2015.
Summary: The story of an experiment in human psychology that goes horribly wrong. In this book, Dylan Evans tells his own extraordinary story: his frenzied early enthusiasm for this unusual project, the many challenges of post-apocalyptic living, his descent into madness and his gradual recovery.
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21 .Life Could Be Verse: Reflections on Love, Loss, and What Really Matters [hardback]
Douglas, Kirk
Deerfield Beach, US Health Communications Inc (US) 2015.
Summary: One of Hollywood's greatest icons offers an intimate and never-before-seen side of his life, both on screen and off, in this thought-provoking gift book filled with poetry, prose, and photos. Kirk Douglas is an American legend-crowned as one of greatest male screen legends in American film history by the American Film Institute.
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22 .Ready for Hillary? [hardback]
Renwick, Robin
London, UK University New South Wales Press 2015.
Summary: Candid, concise biography of Hillary Clinton and assessment of her chances and abilities should she reach the highest office in the world.
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23 .Hell and High Water: One Man's Attempt to Swim the Length of Britain [paperback]
Conway, Sean
North Sydney, A Ebury Press 2015.
Summary: 'Rain pelted down on the back of my neck and saltwater rushed down my throat as I tried to breathe into a wave. A foghorn started booming from a lighthouse in the distance. For a moment I thought it was a rescue siren for me. Imagine if I got rescued on day two. That would be embarrassing.
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24 .The Lonely War: One Woman's Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran [hardback]
Fathi, Nazila
New York, US Basic Books (US) 2015.
Summary: As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries?most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized?seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight.
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25 .41: A Portrait of My Father [paperback]
Bush, George W.
London, UK Ebury Press 2014.
Summary: Forty-four men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told the story of his father, another President, through his own eyes and in his own words.
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26 .Alexander McQueen [hardback]
Wilson, Andrew
London, UK Simon & Schuster (us & Uk) 2015.
Summary: When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary fashion designer. McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as the youngest child of an East London taxi driver to scale the heights of fame, fortune and glamour.
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27 .Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival [hardback]
Bligh, Anna
Pymble, A Harpercollins Publishing Aust 2015.
Summary: An uplifting memoir of resilience and strength from ex-Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh. Anna Bligh knows something about hard knocks and high walls. She was raised by a single mother in the working class Gold Coast, a young girl with a soon-to-be-estranged dad who struggled with alcoholism.
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28 .Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life [hardback]
Macdonald, Eve
New Haven, US Yale University Press 2015.
Summary: If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman conquerors?
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29 .Becoming Westerly [paperback]
Brisick, Jamie
Crows Nest, A Allen & Unwin 2015.
Summary: 'Peter was always looking for a princess, he wanted to find his princess. Unfortunately, the princess was me. I'm the princess that Peter always wanted but never met.' Westerly Windina'Westerly's affection for Peter comes in many guises. Most of the time it's wistful and forlorn.
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30 .The Other Side of No Man's Land: Arthur Wheen World War I Hero [paperback]
Ramsland, John
Ringwood, A Brolga Publishing 2015.
Summary: Arthur Wheen was the most daring, resourceful signaller in the 1st AIF. His extraordinary exploits in the epic Battles of Fromelles, Polygon Wood, Villers-Bretonneux and Peronne are told as well as his subsequent career as a Rhodes Scholar.
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31 .Carla Zampatti: My Style, My Life [hardback]
Zampatti, Carla
Pymble, A Harpercollins Publishing Aust 2015.
Summary: The compelling story behind a fascinating Australian legend - fashion designer Carla Zampatti. Carla Zampatti is an enduring Australian fashion icon. In 2015, in a remarkable feat of longevity, she'll be celebrating the 50th anniversary of her fashion house in Australia.
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32 .Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness [hardback]
Close, Jessie
New York, US Hodder Headline 2015.
Summary: The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament.
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33 .Not So Lonely Planet [paperback]
Cornwell, Jane
Pymble, A Harpercollins Publishing Aust 2015.
Summary: A sexy and witty travel memoir about men, music and mistakes. London-based Jane Cornwell, high profile journalist and world music critic, has always thrown herself in head, heart and, very often, loins-first into relationships.
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34 .Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields [paperback]
Casey, Kathryn
New York, US Harpercollins Publishing Aust 2015.
Summary: From the critically-acclaimed writer who Ann Rule has called, "one of the best in the true crime genre," comes an account of the brutal murders of young women in an area loosely dubbed by the press as The I-45/Texas Killing Fields.
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35 .The Reluctant Psychic: A Memoir [paperback]
Saxman, Suzan
Finn, Perdita
London, UK Pan Macmillan Australia 2015.
Summary: 'No matter where I move or how many times I change my name or what colour I dye my hair, people find me. I don't advertise. I don't have a website. I don't even answer the phone. And still when I arrive at my used-clothing store in town, there are people lurking in the parking lot hoping to get a reading with me.
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36 .With Every Step: A Son's Quest and a Father's Promise [paperback]
Cadigan, Neil
Melbourne, A Black Inc (aust) 2015.
Summary: The story of my son, who made an epic solo trek around Australia in honour of a mate who died too young, only to lose his own life weeks later- Neil Cadigan In late 2010 Andrew 'Cad' Cadigan quit his job, sold his home and set out to walk around Australia.
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37 .One More Hurdle to Jump [paperback]
Thompson, Lois
Crows Nest, A Ark House Press & Media Inc 2014.
Summary: Most people face challenges and problems in their life. In this inspiring account of a couples race together on the track of life, challenges are viewed as hurdles to jump. One More Hurdle to Jump reveals how Pastor Pat and Lois Thompson overcome lifes challenges with faith and hope in the God they love and served together for 33 years. In .....
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38 .The Country Wife [paperback]
Gorman, Anne
Sydney, A Bantam Books (uk + Us + Aust) 2015.
Summary: When she is five, Anne Gorman's family disintegrates. After thirteen pregnancies and the death of two children, her devout Catholic mother has a breakdown and Anne and her sisters are placed in a convent. Struggling to survive a childhood marred by fear and uncertainty, Anne sees education as her lifeline to freedom.
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39 .History's Worst Crimes: And the people who solved them [paperback]
Price, Bill
Millers Point, A Murdoch Books 2015.
Summary: History's Worst Crimes takes an informative look at fifty of the world's most notorious robberies, murders, frauds, forgeries, kidnappings, and hijackings, and explains how they were solved-or, in some cases, why they remain unsolved.
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40 .Bad Behaviour [paperback]
Starford, Rebecca
Crows Nest, A Allen & Unwin 2015.
Summary: Everyone remembers those stomach churning teenage years full of angst, hormones and changes. When you are locked up away from your parents in a complicated world of teenagers and authority figures, the trauma of those years can be hugely magnified.
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41 .My Dear Bessie : A Love Story in Letters [paperback]
Barker, Chris
Moore, Bessie
Edinburgh, UK Canongate (UK) 2015.
Summary: In September 1943, a twenty-nine-year-old postal clerk from North London named Chris Barker found a spare hour to write to a work colleague named Bessie Moore. His letter was innocent enough, but Bessie's response was unexpectedly enthusiastic.
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42 .Love Triangle: Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, & Nancy Davis [paperback]
Porter, Darwin
Prince, Danforth
New York, US Blood Moon Productions (US) 2015.
Summary: Long before two of its members became the most publicized leaders of the Free World, they were part of an amorous, "winner-take-all" love triangle that rocked Hollywood. Published after decades of research, this triple biography focuses on the one of the strangest three-sided love affairs in presidential history.
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43 .Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America [hardback]
Leovy, Jill
Westminster, US Baker & Taylor 2015.
Summary: A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of black Americans murdered that year.
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44 .Laughing All the Way to the Mosque: The Misadventures of a Muslim Woman [paperback]
Nawaz, Zarqa
London, UK Virago Press Ltd (UK) 2015.
Summary: Being a practicing Muslim in the West is sometimes challenging, sometimes rewarding and sometimes downright absurd.
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45 .Live Like Sally [paperback]
Fitzgibbons, Sally
Warriewood, A Woodslane Pty Ltd 2014.
Summary: I have a simple approach to healthy living: I put the best into my body, to get the best out of it, says Sally. And that applies to decisions across the board; in the gym, out in the ocean and on to the plate everything Ive shared with you in Live Like Sally.
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