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1 .Am I black enough for you? / Anita Heiss.
Heiss, Anita, 1968-
North Sydney, N.S.W. : Bantam, 2012.
Summary: I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author and passionate campaigner for Aboriginal literacy, was born a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales, but was raised in the suburbs of Sydney and educated at the local Catholic school. She is Aboriginal - however, this does not mean she likes to go barefoot and, please, don't ask her to camp in the desert. After years of stereotyping Aboriginal Australians as either settlement dwellers or rioters in Redfern, the Australian media have discovered a new crime to charge them with: being too 'fair-skinned' to be an Australian Aboriginal. Such accusations led to Anita's involvement in one of the most important and sensational Australian legal decisions of the 21st-century when she joined others in charging a newspaper columnist with breaching the Racial Discrimination Act. He was found guilty, and the repercussions continue. In this deeply personal memoir, told in her distinctive, wry style, Anita Heiss gives a first-hand account of her experiences as a woman with an Aboriginal mother and Austrian father, and explains the development of her activist consciousness. Read her story and ask: what does it take for someone to be black enough for you?
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2 .A cook's life / Stephanie Alexander.
Alexander, Stephanie, 1940-
Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin Group (Australia), 2012.
Summary: "A Cook's Life is a very personal account of one woman's uncompromising commitment to good food, and of how it shaped her life and changed the eating habits of a nation."--Back flap.
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3 .Sanders DFC : out of the darkness / Frank Madill.
Madill, Frank
Sanders, Max, 1924-
Launceston, Tas. : F. Madill, 2011 (Launceston, Tas. : Bokprint, Printer)
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4 .What am I Still Doing Here?: My life as a nobody [paperback]
Lewis, Roger
London, UK Coronet 2012.
Summary: Having written acclaimed biographies of uncompromising and glittering geniuses such as Peter Sellers, Laurence Olivier, Carry On star Charles Hawtrey, and Anthony Burgess, of A Clockwork Orange fame, Roger Lewis, rotund, dark, and difficult, has at long last stumbled upon the greatest monster of allhimself.
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5 .I've Never Meet an Idiot on the River: Reflections on Family, Photography and Fly Fishing [hardback]
Winkler, Henry
San Rafael, USA Insight Editions 2012.
Summary: The former star of Happy Days uses his trademark sense of humor to discuss the lessons he learned from family, fatherhood and, most importantly, fly fishing! 10,000 first printing.
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6 .From Eskimo Point to Alice Springs: Outback nurse [paperback]
Watts, Anne
London, UK Simon & Schuster 2012.
Summary: In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager to use her skills. Her father expected her to work locally, not too far from North Wales, where Anne had grown up, and to them settle down and have children. However, Anne was a chip off the old block who had inherited her fathers adventurous spirit!
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7 .Waiting at the Gate: a memoir [paperback]
Caughlan, Robyn
Foster, Jason
Broome, WA Magabala Books 2012.
Summary: From humble and sometimes horrific beginnings Robyn became one of Australia's leading fashion and textile designers and an accomplished artist. In Waiting at the Gate, Robyn transforms her life in front of the readers eyes and comes back from the brink of suicide to build a happy and successful life.
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8 .Diary Of A Combatant: Sierra Maestra - Santa Clara 1956-1958 [paperback]
Guevara, Ernesto Che
London, UK Ocean Press Ltd 2012.
Summary: Che Guevara's original, unpublished diaries from the guerrilla war in Cuba's Sierra Maestra.
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9 .Switching Suits: The Year I Became a Poker Shark [paperback]
Braithwaite, Julie
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Religious Australia 2012.
Summary: It could be me. It could be you. But in this case it's Julie Braithwaite: fifty-something, a psychologist, divorced, two sons almost grown, a house (with a renovated garden), good friends, a dog and a tendency to become obsessed with projects. One night when watching TV (yet again) she stumbles on Celebrity Poker. And her life changes.
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10 .The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy [paperback]
Pimlott, Ben
London, UK HarperCollins 2012.
Summary: The Royal Family have been through a tumultuous decade, but with the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton, Prince Philips 90th birthday and the forthcoming Diamond Jubilee celebrations, there is renewed interest and appreciation of our monarchy
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11 .Bert Hinkler: The Most Daring Man In The World [paperback]
Kieza, Grantlee
Sydney, NSW ABC Books 2012.
Summary: He's all but been lost from history but once upon a time, Bert Hinkler, a small, unprepossessing man from Bundaberg was feted as one of the most daring aviators in the world.
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12 .F Scott Fitzgerald [paperback]
Schwartz, Shelia
London, UK Haus Publishing 2012.
Summary: A short, introductory biography of the life and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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13 .Mark Twain: Strange and Wonderful [paperback]
Prosser, Lee
Atglen, USA Schiffer 2012.
Summary: This book is a fresh appraisal of the writer who made American fiction and travel writing popular worldwide. Looking at his life and his body of writing, this book recounts tales of the young Samuel Clemens learning of other worlds from slaves and playing with ghostly friends in the Hannibal cemetery.
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14 .Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut [paperback]
Abdelnour, Salma
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2012.
Summary: Salma Abdelnour was just nine years old when, in July 1981, as rockets exploded around them, her parents grabbed her and her brother, flew them out of the bloody civil war in Lebanon and planted them in a quiet, safe place in suburban America.
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15 .Last Hours on Everest [hardback]
Hoyland, Graham
London, UK Harpercollins Publishing Aust 2012.
Summary: Inside the ice-crusted shelter, two forms lay still as death. Then there was a groan, a stirring, and eventually the slow scratch of match against sandpaper. Low voices shared the high-altitude agonies of waking, the heating of water, the struggle with frozen boots.
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16 .And Then Life Happens: A Sister's Memoir [paperback]
Obama, Auma
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2012.
Summary: While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblings' shared father.
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17 .Unspoken Trust: The Forbidden Goodbye of a Husband's Suicide [paperback]
Anderson, Jill
London, UK Simon & Schuster 2012.
Summary: In 2005, Jill Anderson went on trial at Leeds Crown Court for the manslaughter of her husband of eight years. Paul, a 43-year-old linguist, had been suffering for several years from the debilitating effects of ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with complications, and had previously attempted suicide.
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18 .Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady [hardback]
Summerscale, Kate
London, UK Bloomsbury 2012.
Summary: On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone house lit by gas lamps.
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19 .Run Like Crazy [paperback]
Miller, Tristan
Camberwell, A Michael Joseph 2012.
Summary: In 2010, Tristan Miller ran 52 marathons in 52 weeks, in 47 countries, across seven continents. Why on earth would anyone do that, you may ask. First of all, he wanted to see if he could. Secondly, he'd lost his well-paid IT job and took the opportunity to follow his dream, in a now-or-never kind of way.
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20 .Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times A Diamond Jubilee Celebration [hardback]
Titchmarsh, Alan
London, UK BBC Books 2012.
Summary: A touching and nostalgic look back at the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the life and times of Great Britain and the Commonwealth under her rule
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21 .The boxer and the goal keeper: Sartre versus Camus [hardback]
Martin, Andy
London, UK Simon & Schuster 2012.
Summary: Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: 'Hell is other people'. Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in Occupied Paris in the middle of the Second World War, and quickly became friends, comrades, and mutual admirers.
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22 .The Lost Woman [paperback]
Smith, Sydney
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2012.
Summary: When Sydney Smith was nine, she thought about killing herself because of her mother's cruelty. When she reached puberty, her mother sexually assaulted hera pattern repeated over the years.
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23 .A Vietnam Vet's Remarkable Life: The true meaning of mateship [paperback]
Thompson, John
Ringwood, A Brolga Publishing 2012.
Summary: It's 1967 and Jethro is a 20-year-old Aussie lad who is about to take up his new posting in Vietnam. Five months later Jethro is on his way home in a medic chopper with a third of his body blown away: one leg is amputated, his right hand and half of his left hand - gone.
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24 .It Worked for Me: Lessons in Leadership and Life [hardback]
Powell, Colin L.
Koltz, Tony
New York, USA HarperCollins 2012.
Summary: A collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that have driven the four star-general and former Secretary of States legendary career in public service. Leading off with his 13 Rules, culled together from scraps of paper that he accumulated at his desk, the book sheds light on the making and success of one of our most revered statesmen.
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25 .Cadel Evans: My Tour de France [hardback]
Evans, Cadel
Guinness, Rupert
South Yarra, Vic Hardie Grant 2012.
Summary: The campaign to win the Tour de France begins the day the last Tour finishes. Planning begins, the lessons learnt from the just completed Tour are analysed and the team looks at how they can improve.
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26 .Errol Flynn: The Life and Career [paperback]
McNulty, Thomas
Jefferson, USA McFarland & Company 2012.
Summary: Errol Flynn set the standard for the modern action hero in films like The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dodge City, and The Sea hawk. This biography follows Flynn from his birth in Tasmania, Australia in 1909, to his death in Vancouver, Canada, in 1959. Included is analysis of his films, discussion of the 1943 rape trial that changed his life
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27 .I'm Awesome: One Man's Triumphant Quest To Become The Sweetest Dude Ever [hardback]
Ellis, Jason
New York, USA HarperCollins 2012.
Summary: Australian born, Jason Ellis is the new voice of extreme sports and a successful shock jock in the US. Before he owned the radio waves, he owned the skate ramps, competing for twenty years alongside extreme sports legends like Tony Hawk. Drugs got in the way of his ultimate success in the sport, but he was known for his fearlessness.
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28 .Royal Mistresses of the House of Hanover-Windsor: secrets, scandals and betrayals [paperback]
De Vries, Susanna
Brisbane, Qld Pirgos Press 2012.
Summary: The genuine love match between Prince William and Kate Middleton has rekindled enthusiasm for the British monarchy. In the past, young princes reluctantly made arranged marriages and took mistresses.
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29 .Both Of Us: My Life with Farrah [hardback]
O'Neal, Ryan
New York, USA Crown 2012.
Summary: Ryan ONeal and Farrah Fawcett. He was the handsome Academy Awardnominated star of Paper Moon. She was the beautiful, all-American Charlies Angel, whose poster adorned the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere. One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood history, their romance has captivated fans for more than three decades.
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30 .Todo in Tuscany: the dog at the villa [hardback]
Badger, Louise
Kershaw, Lawrence
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2012.
Summary: Louise and Lawrence weren't thinking of buying the very first house they looked at in Tuscany ...but there was something enchanting about the dog waiting at the gates. If they were honest, they wanted Todo - the scruffy dog with the huge grin - as much as they wanted the house.
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31 .The Queen Elizabeth II Pocket Bible [hardback]
Paddington, Teresa
Sydney, NSW Crimson Publishing 2012.
Summary: Did you know the Queen loves pigeon racing? Did you know Elizabeth served with the ATS as a mechanic during World War Two? And that she is the first monarch to circumnavigate the globe? If you're a fan of Queen Elizabeth II or just fascinated by the British monarchy then The Queen Elizabeth II Pocket Bible contains everything you need to know.
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