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http://spydus/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/SDIENQ?QRY=IRN%281672%29&NRECS=11 .Worth fighting for: Love, Loss and Moving Forward [hardback]
Swayze, Lisa Niemi
London, UK Simon & Schuster 2012.
Summary: From the widow of Patrick Swayze, a remarkable moving account of grief and moving on, with never before revealed stories from Patricks final months. Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mothers dance studio. He was older and just a bit cocky; she was the gorgeous waif who refused to worship the ground he walked on.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798691%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
2 .Sammy, I Love You [hardback]
Nielsen, Sally
Film/TV tie-in ed.
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2012.
Summary: As seen on ABC TV's Australian Story Sally Nielsen is a wedding planner, whose own wedding plans were turned upside down when her fiance suffered a catastrophic stroke, leaving him completely dependent on her and his family for all his needs. When others said she should put him in a home and get on with her life, Sally refused.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798692%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
3 .The First Girl Guide: The Story of Agnes Baden-Powell [paperback]
Gardener, Helen
Chalford, UK Amberley Publishing 2012.
Summary: Agnes Baden-Powell, The story of the first Girl Guide is the first ever biography of the extraordinary, and often overlooked, creator of the guiding movement. From her early years, growing up with her brothers and partaking in many boyish activities, Agnes Baden-Powell had all the hallmarks of a Scout.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798693%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
4 .Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome (Roman Imperial Biographies) [paperback]
Billows, Richard
London, UK Routledge 2011.
Summary: Julius Caesar offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar's life and times. Richard Billows' dynamic and fast paced narrative offers an imaginative recounting of actions and events, providing the ideal introduction to Julius Caesar for general readers and students of classics and ancient history.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798694%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
5 .Martin Amis: The Biography [hardback]
Bradford, Richard
London, UK Constable 2011.
Summary: Martin Amis is probably the most famous and controversial author writing today. For this biography Richard Bradford has undertaken numerous interviews with his subject, giving the most complete portrait of this towering literary persona.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798695%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
6 .Charles Dickens at Home [hardback]
Macaskill, Hilary
Schweizer, Florian
London, UK Frances Lincoln 2011.
Summary: One of the best-loved of English authors, Charles Dickens is revered as a storyteller, social campaigner and chronicler of his time and place. This book tracks the places Dickens lived, from his Portsmouth birthplace and childhood home in Chatham to his last home back in Kent, at Gad's Hill Place in Rochester.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798696%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
7 .Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography [hardback]
Sladen, Elisabeth
London, UK Aurum Press 2012.
Summary: An autobiography of Elisabeth Sladen, the actress behind Sarah Jane Smith, "Doctor Who's" most popular companion.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798697%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
8 .The Uncharted Path: The Autobiography of Lee Myung-Bak, Vol Vol1 of 2 [hardback]
Lee Myung-Bak
Naperville, USA Sourcebooks 2011.
Summary: The 1st volume in a 2 part autobiography, this is the inspiring and engrossing memoir of South Korean president Lee Myung-Baks journey from extreme poverty to head of one of the worlds largest corporations, Hyundai , laying the foundation for a political career that would reshape Korea. Official support of the South Korean presidents office.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798698%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
9 .Instead of a book: Letters to a Friend [hardback]
Athill, Diana
London, UK Granta Books 2011.
Summary: Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and a passionate zest for life.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798699%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
10 .Terry Pratchett: The Spirit of Fantasy [hardback]
Cabell, Craig
London, UK John Blake Publishing 2012.
Summary: Terry Pratchett is one of the most loved writers in the world. With worldwide sales of over 65 million copies in 37 languages, his novels are eagerly awaited by his legions of fans year after year. His first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic was released in 1983 and ever since then the series, with its whimsical heroes and fiendish foes:
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798700%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
11 .The Real Romney [hardback]
Kranish, Michael
New York, USA HarperCollins 2012.
Summary: From the investigative reporters who have tracked his career for years comes a riveting, no-holds-barred biography of Mitt Romney, the early frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798701%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
12 .100 notable popes: The Lives of the Popes from St Peter to the Present [hardback]
Noel, Gerard
London, UK Gibson Square Books 2011.
Summary: As these engaging papal biographies of 100 most interesting popes show power comes with great temptations, particularly in the time up to World War II.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798702%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
13 .Queen Anne: the politics of passion [hardback]
Somerset, Anne
London, UK HarperPress 2012.
Summary: Often derided as weak-willed and insecure, Queen Anne was in fact one of Britains most remarkable monarchs. In many ways a stolid, conventional woman, she nevertheless presided over some of the most momentous events in British history and led a personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798703%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
14 .Hemingway's Boat: All He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 [hardback]
Hendrickson, Paul
London, UK The Bodley Head Ltd 2012.
Summary: Paul Hendrickson has delved into the life of Ernest Hemingway and done the seemingly impossible: present him to us in a whole new light. With poetic sensibility, tireless research, and dazzling writing, Hendrickson focuses on the period from 1934 to 1961, from the pinnacle of Hemingway's fame to his suicide.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798704%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
15 .An Unexpected Life: A Mother and Son's Story of Love, Determination, Autism, and Art [hardback]
Chwast, Debra
Chwast, Seymour
New York, USA Sterling Publishing 2011.
Summary: Diagnosed with severe autism as a toddler, Seth Chwast seemed trapped in his own insular universe. His family endured anguish, sought countless therapies and almost gave up hope. Then, at age 20, Seth took a painting class and everything changed.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798705%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
16 .A Girl Aboard the Titanic: A Survivor's Story [hardback]
Hart, Eva
Chalford, UK Amberley Publishing 2012.
Summary: `I was 7, I had never seen a ship before... it looked very big... everybody was very excited, we went down to the cabin and that's when my mother said to my father that she had made up her mind quite firmly that she would not go to bed in that ship, she would sit up at night..
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798706%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
17 .The Complete Verse of Noel Coward (Diaries, Letters and Essays) [hardback]
Coward, Noel
Day, Barry, Editor
London, UK Methuen Drama 2011.
Summary: The Complete Verse of Noel Coward brings together the three volumes of verse produced during his lifetime together with previously unpublished material for the very first time. For the legions of fans of The Master, this definitive collection of Coward's verse writings will prove irresistible.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798943%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
18 .The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper [hardback]
Carnac, James
London, UK Bantam Press 2012.
Summary: This memoir recently discovered appears to have been written in the 1920s by somone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper. This person is James Willoughby Carnac, this memoir written shortly before his death is an account of his entire life, including a few short months in 1888 when he became the murderer known to posterity as Jack the Ripper.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798944%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
19 .Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss and Moving Forward [paperback]
Swayze, Lisa Niemi
London, UK Simon & Schuster 2012.
Summary: From the widow of Patrick Swayze, a remarkable moving account of grief and moving on, with never before revealed stories from Patricks final months. Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mothers dance studio. He was older and just a bit cocky; she was the gorgeous waif who refused to worship the ground he walked on
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798945%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
20 .Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover [paperback]
Summers, Anthony
London, UK Ebury Press 2012.
Summary: For nearly fifty years, Hoover was the most powerful man in the USA. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death in 1972, he played a key role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth Century. When he died, Hoover was lauded as an American hero.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2816798946%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
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