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http://spydus/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/SDIENQ?QRY=IRN%281672%29&NRECS=11 .Unexpected Gift: My life as a medium [paperback]
Munro, Patricia
Melbourne, Vic Tidal River 2012.
Summary: 'I discovered late in my life that I was a medium. It was at a time when I thought that there would be few new major things to learn about myself... This mediumistic ability was always there.
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2 .Amy Winehouse: A Losing Game [paperback]
O'Shea, Mick
South Yarra, Vic Hardie Grant 2012.
Summary: In this richly illustrated biography, Mick OShea delves into every aspect of Amys life from childhood through to her tragic early death capturing the legacy of her raw and heartfelt music, along with everything that made her so very special.
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3 .The Man Without a Face: The Rise and Crimes of Vladmir Putin [hardback]
Gessen, Masha
London, UK Granta Books 2012.
Summary: The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative came to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world.
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4 .True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack [paperback]
Niall, Brenda
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2012.
Summary: Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north.
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5 .A Youth Not Wasted [paperback]
Parkes, Ian
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2012.
Summary: At sixteen, Ian Parkes left home in Perth to start work as a jackeroo on a merino stud in the South Australian outback, and the adventure of a lifetime. It was the early 1950s, Australia was riding on the sheep's back, the pastoralist was king and a stint as a jackeroo was a time-honoured rite of passage.
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6 .Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty [paperback]
Fitoussi, Michele
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2012.
Summary: Long before ; La Prairie or the coveted ;me de la Mer there was Helena Rubinstein. Your mother or grandmother probably used Helena Rubinstein creams or cosmetics once upon a time. But not that many people know about Helenas Australian connections.
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7 .The Perfume Lover: A Personal Story of Scent [hardback]
Beaulieu, Denyse
London, UK Collins 2012.
Summary: What if the most beautiful night in your life was inspired by a fragrance? What if it could be recreated and relived over and over again at the opening of a bottle... Denyse Beaulieu is a successful fragrance writer; it is her world, her love, her life. Born allergic to fragrance, her childhood curiosity became an intellectual and sensual passion.
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8 .Slim: an Australian biker's tale of sex and drugs, cops and violence [paperback]
Spires, Slim
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2012.
Summary: One man. One bike. A whole lotta trouble. Slim's first-hand account shows us the thrills and perils of riding on the highway and reveals life inside some of Australia's toughest jails where he learnt how not to do an armed hold-up and a lifetime's worth of human behaviour.
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9 .A Way Through: The Life of Rick Farley [paperback]
Brown, Nicholas
Boden, Susan
Sydney, NSW University of New South Wales Press 2012.
Summary: Rick Farley was an extraordinary man. As head of the Cattlemen's Union and National Farmers Federation, a key figure in the Landcare movement and a public campaigner for Indigenous rights and Reconciliation, Farley had an insiders view of many key political and social changes in Australia over his thirty years in the public eye. Australian authors.
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10 .Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legacy [hardback]
Orlean, Susan
London, UK Atlantic Books 2012.
Summary: From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he recognizes something in the pup that he needs to share with the world. Rin Tin Tin's improbable introduction to Hollywood leads to the dog's first blockbuster film and over time, the many radio programs, movies, and television shows that follow.
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11 .A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein [paperback]
Kerr, John
Facsimile ed.
London, UK Atlantic Books 2012.
Summary: In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional.
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12 .Hitler: a short biography [hardback]
Wilson, A. N.
London, UK HarperPress 2012.
Summary: In 1923, a thirty-four year old Adolf Hitler was in prison after taking part in an unsuccessful putsch to overthrow the German government. Within a decade, he was the most powerful man in Europe.
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13 .We Are One Village: The inspiring true story of an African community's impact on a young Australian girl [paperback]
Lovell, Nikki
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2012.
Summary: The extraordinary story of how an 18 year old Australian girl set up a grassroots development organisation in Namwenda, Uganda.
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14 .Marty Feldman: The Biography [hardback]
Ross, Robert
London, UK Titan Books 2012.
Summary: A biography of the iconic British comedian draws on interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues to discuss his early years as a comedy writer, his success on British television, and the film roles that made him a star in the U.S.
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15 .Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt [paperback]
Holloway, Richard
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2012.
Summary: At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his working-class home north of Glasgow and travelled hundreds of miles to an English monastery to be trained for the priesthood. By twenty-five, he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow.
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16 .Aiming for the Skies [hardback]
Marles, Fay
Carlton, Vic Melbourne University Press 2011.
Summary: Fay Marles made history when she became the first woman Chancellor of the University of Melbourne in February 2001, but firsts were not unusual for her: she had already served as Victoria's first Equal Opportunity Commissioner.
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17 .Cairo: My City, Our Revolution [hardback]
Soueif, Ahdaf
London, UK Bloomsbury 2012.
Summary: Over the past few months I have delivered lectures, presentations and interviews on the Egyptian Revolution. I have had overflowing houses everywhere, been stopped by old ladies in the street and had my hand shaken by numerous taxi drivers and shopkeepers. And all because I'm Egyptian and the glitter of Tahrir is upon me.
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18 .Ashoka: The search for India's lost Emperor [hardback]
Allen, Charles
London, UK Little, Brown 2012.
Summary: India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone Ashoka turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion and set up a new yardstick for government which had huge implications for Asia.
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19 .The Rules of Inheritance [paperback]
Bidwell, Claire Smith
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2012.
Summary: Claire Bidwell Smith, a fourteen-year-old only child, learns that both her parents have cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one compels her to make a series of fraught choices, set against the glittering backdrop of New York and Los Angeles—and the pall of regret.
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20 .The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man's Battle to Save a Species [paperback]
Anthony, Lawrence
Spence, Graham
London, UK Sidgwick & Jackson 2012.
Summary: Life on Lawrence Anthony's game reserve, Thula Thula, is rarely dull. But at least his orphaned rhino Heidi is calm around people, and a favourite of staff and guests alike. Until she is brutally slaughtered for her horn.
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21 .Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the stars [hardback]
Bowers, Scotty
New York, USA Grove Press 2012.
Summary: Scotty Bowers, a dashing young ex-Marine exuding sex appeal, arrived in Hollywood in 1946 and quickly caught the attention of many of the town's stars. Scotty's attitude to sex and sexuality were far ahead of his time; in a moralistic age, he was game for anything and equally happy to jump into bed with men or women.
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22 .Letter from my Father [paperback]
Black, Dasia
Blackheath, A Brandl & Schlesinger 2012.
Summary: Ester was a four-year-old child during the Holocaust in Poland when she was told that both her parents had been killed. In 'Letter from my Father' Dasia Black (born Ester Hadasa) tells of her struggle as a child to survive the loss of her family, her name and identity.
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23 .House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley ( a memoir) [paperback]
Leonard, Susan
Fremantle, WA Fremantle Press 2012.
Summary: Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one
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24 .Barry and the Fairies of Miller Street [paperback]
Dickins, Barry
South Yarra, Vic Hardie Grant 2012.
Summary: It's 1953 and Barry has been sent to stay with Nan and Pop during the school holidays while his mum waits for the new baby. Barry is six-and-three-quarters and 22 Miller Street - the last house Pop built on the West Preston street - proves full of novel experiences.
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25 .Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans [paperback]
Williams, Isobel E.
Stroud, UK The History Press 2012.
Summary: The first biography of Royal Naval petty officer Edgar Evans of Scott's fatal Antarctic expedition. Scott selected Evans for both Antarctic expeditions (1901 and 1910) for his sense, skill, strength and courage. He was included as one of the final five who reached the South Pole on 17th January 1912.
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26 .A Card from Angela Carter [hardback]
Clapp, Susannah
London, UK Bloomsbury 2012.
Summary: A unique and dazzling portrait of Angela Carter, who was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century: much studied, copied and adored. When she died at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from the shortlists of any Booker Prize led to the foundation of the Orange Prize.
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27 .Reaching One Thousand: A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism [paperback]
Robertson, Rachel
Melbourne, A Black Inc (aust) 2012.
Summary: 'This is the best kind of memoir ; there is a beautiful calm clarity that drew me in, and held me until the end.' ; Georgia Blain 'He'll grow out of it,' my friends told me. 'He's so intelligent,' my family said. 'Your parents are mathematicians,' people reminded me. 'What did you expect?' What did I expect? We expect many things of our children.
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28 .Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams [hardback]
Cassidy, Tina
New York, USA IT Books 2012.
Summary: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has been one of America's most beloved icons, capturing the public's interest with her grace and style from her first steps into the spotlight during John F. Kennedy's political campaigns. But Jackie aspired to be so much more than a fashion plate.
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29 .Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero [paperback]
Hingson, Michael
Flory, Susy
Nashville, USA Nelson Books 2012.
Summary: When the World Trade Centre was attacked on Sept 11 in 2001, it was as though the world stood still. It was a day that captured the worlds attention and a day Michael Hingson and his guide dog Roselle would never forget
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30 .Good in a Crisis: A Memoir [paperback]
Overton, Margaret
London, UK Bloomsbury 2012.
Summary: During the four years of anaesthesiologist Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and sometimes indiscriminately, determined to find her soul mate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it at a particularly awkward moment on a date with one of many Mr. Wrongs..
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31 .Escape from Camp 14 [paperback]
Harden, Blaine
London, UK Macmillan 2012.
Summary: Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a "complete control district," a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life.
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