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1 .Shirl: The Life and Time of a Legendary Larrikin [paperback]
Apter, Jeff
South Yarra, Vic Hardie Grant 2012.
Summary: Chippie, surfie, glam rocker in bib n braces, kids show host, breakfast DJ and straight-talking superstar, Graeme Ronald Strachan was many things to many people. But he was always Shirley, from the time his teenage surfie mates re-christened him to the day he died in a helicopter crash in 2001, aged 49.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817791994%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

2 .Fev: In My Own Words [hardback]
Fevola, Brendan
McNicol, Adam
South Yarra, Vic Hardie Grant 2012.
Summary: The sports autobiography of the year. Tells the story of Brendan Fevola's controversial life, his AFL accomplishments and the turbulence of his life. For fans of Ben Cousin's biography.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817791995%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

3 .Fev Exposed: The Brendan Fevola Story - unauthorised and uncut [hardback]
Franklin, Roger
Rowville, Vic Five Mile Press 2012.
Summary: Brendan Fevola is a football enigma. Revered for his goal kicking feats at Carlton, he had the talent to be one of his clubs all-time greats. Fevola was every clubs dream: he was quick on the lead, a strong mark and a prodigious kick. But as Carlton discoveredover an 11-year journey, he was every clubs worst nightmare.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817791996%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

4 .The Story of Billy Young [paperback]
Hill, Anthony
Hawthorn, Vic Viking Australia 2012.
Summary: Young Bill is the true story of the suffering - and survival - of an underage prisoner-of-war during World War II. Bill Young, who is still alive, enlised in the army in July 1941 aged only 15, though he said he was 19.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817791997%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

5 .Say It Again in a Nice Voice [paperback]
Mason, Meg
London, UK HarperCollins 2012.
Summary: Mothers. Those women with purses the size of meat trays that hold an entire deck of school portrait photos and a chequebook, make a casserole without a recipe, make the tightest bed you'll ever sleep in and only swear under extreme duress.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817791998%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

6 .Little Prisoners: A Tragic Story of Siblings Trapped in a World of Abuse and Suffering [paperback]
Watson, Casey
London, UK Element Books 2012.
Summary: The shock that strikes Casey and her family when Ashton and Olivia arrive is immeasurable. Two dirty, frightened little waifs stand before them, huge eyes staring around their new surroundings. Ashton - 9, Olivia - 6, have the same urchin look; hair running wild with head lice, filthy nails and skin covered in scabs. And the smell is horrific.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817791999%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

7 .QF32 [paperback]
de Crespigny, Richard
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2012.
Summary: In 2010, what began as a routine long-haul flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife-edge of becoming one of the world's worst ever air disaster. When a sudden mid-air explosion shattered engine no.2of the Qantas A380 shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage creating chaos as it destroyed vital flight systems.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792000%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

8 .60 Glorious Years: Queen Elizabeth II - Diamond Jubilee 1952-2012 [hardback]
Murphy, Victoria
Newbury Park, USA Haynes Manuals 2012.
Summary: Since Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the throne sixty years ago Britain has seen huge social, political and economic change. As her people have celebrated the highs and mourned the lows, she has remained a constant and stable figure at the head of the world's most famous Royal Family.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792001%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

9 .Fighter Pilot: Adventures beyond the sound barrier with an Australian Top Gun [paperback]
Tucker, Mac "Serge"
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2012.
Summary: Sit down and strap yourself in for an exhilarating ride to the sound barrier and beyond with a real life Topgun!
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10 .Amy, My Daughter [paperback]
Winehouse, Mitch
London, UK HarperCollins 2012.
Summary: In this intimate account of Amy Winehouse's life, music, and untimely death, her father Mitch Winehouse gives readers full access to his daughter's private life in the midst of her immensely public triumphs and tragedies. Amy Winehouse needs no introduction.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792132%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

11 .The Boy Who Wouldn't Die: The inspiring true story of a child who survived famine, war and 15 years in refugee camps to build a new life [paperback]
Vincent, David Nyoul
Crows Nest, NSW Fairfax Books 2012.
Summary: David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged i country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood. He would never return. For months David and his father walked across southern Sudan, barefoot, desperately searching for safety, food and water. Living in Brimbank
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12 .Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse [hardback]
Ferguson, Maggie
London, UK Fourth Estate 2012.
Summary: Without stories, in which all of us - living, dead, not yet born - participate, we are, as T.S. Eliot wrote, no more than 2 bits of paper blown on the cold wind. But, over the past century, the old, oral traditions of storytelling have withered; and today even printed stories are beleaguered.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792161%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

13 .Titian: His life [hardback]
Hale, Sheila
London, UK Harpercollins Publishing Aust 2012.
Summary: Devoted father and loyal friend, Titian was notorious for disregarding authority and was an international celebrity by his late fifties. He was notoriously difficult but his stubbornness and horrendous timekeeping did nothing to deter his patrons who included the Hapsburgs, the Pope and his family and Charles V.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792162%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

14 .Raphael: A Passionate Life [hardback]
Forcellino, Antonio
Cambridge, UK Polity Press 2012.
Summary: A major new biography on one of the greatest artists of all time, Raphael Sanzio, written by a leading Renaissance expert. Retraces Raphael's career by re-examining contemporary documents & interpreting the artist's works with the eye of a professional restorer. Raphael's paintings are vividly described & placed in their historical context.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792163%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

15 .Band-Aid for a Broken Leg: Being a Doctor with No Borders (and Other Ways to Stay Single) [paperback]
Brown, Damien
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2012.
Summary: Damien Brown is a twenty-nine-year-old Australian doctor, inexperienced but motivated by a strong desire to help, when he arrives in Angola - an impoverished, war-torn country in south west Africa - for a six-month posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres. It's his first stint with the organisation, and he thinks he's ready.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792164%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

16 .Shakespeare: The World as a Stage - Illustrated Gift Edition [paperback]
Bryson, Bill
London, UK HarperCollins 2012.
Summary: Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare pairs the most celebrated playwright in history with one of the most popular writers in the English language today. In this exquisitely illustrated edition, the age of Shakespeare is vividly evoked through full-colour paintings, portraits, documents and photographs.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792165%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

17 .Michael Kirby [hardback]
Dellora, Daryl
Hawthorn, Vic Viking Australia 2012.
Summary: Drawing on interviews with Kirby, his family, friends, and Johan van Vloten, his partner of more than forty years, this intimate biography takes us behind the bench to explore the personal, moral and spiritual convictions of one of our most fascinating and brilliant citizens.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792166%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

18 .Churchill and Company: Rivals and Alliances in War and Peace [hardback]
Dilks, David
London, UK I.B. Tauris 2012.
Summary: Presents Churchill, not only as a war leader and international statesman, but also as a private person with a rich variety of friendships and rivalries. New and penetrating light is directed on Churchill during World War II.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792167%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

19 .Man in a Grey Suit [paperback]
Orgias, Glenn
Hawthorn, Vic Viking Australia 2012.
Summary: I caught a wave and paddled back out. I was just inside the crowd when I ducked a small wave and it left white water boiling around me. A lump of swell came from the north. It reared as it approached the sand bank. I changed direction, and paddled towards it. I didn't see it. It came from behind, and below.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792169%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

20 .Stolen: Escape from Syria [paperback]
Monaghan, Louise
London, UK William Heinemann 2012.
Summary: In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history, Irish mother Louise Monaghan walked across a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old child from the father who had snatched her from her home.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792170%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

21 .Marilyn: The Passion and Paradox [hardback]
Banner, Lois
London, UK Bloomsbury 2012.
Summary: As one of the founders of the field of women's history, Lois Banner reveals Marilyn Monroe in the way that only a top-notch historian and biographer could. Banner appreciates the complexities of Monroe's personal life in the context of her achievements as an actor, singer, dancer, comedian, model and courtesan.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792171%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

22 .To Hell and High Water: Walking in the Footsteps of Henry Lawson [paperback]
Bryan, Gregory
Newport, NSW Big Sky Publishing 2012.
Summary: No Blurb Defined
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23 .Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton: The gruesome True Story of a man who survived Thailand's deadliest Prison [hardback]
Hoy, T. M.
New York, USA Skyhorse Publishing 2012.
Summary: A collection of unspeakable degradation, fear, and agony through the eyes of an American locked up abroad.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792173%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

24 .George Lazenby [hardback]
Lazenby, George
London, UK Century 2012.
Summary: George Lazenby was born in 1939, in a small Australian town called Goulburn. He moved to London into the swinging late sixties and worked as a car salesman and model before wangling his way in to see the casting director of the new James Bond film. The audition process consisted of George swimming, fighting, riding horseback and kissing Diana Rigg.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792174%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

25 .Up beat and down Dale: Life and Crimes in the Yorkshire Countryside [paperback]
Pannett, Mike
Irvine, USA Hobby Farms Press 2012.
Summary: Mike Pannett, once of the Metropolitan Police, is back in Yorkshire, policing one of the largest rural beats in England. Mike is called to investigate a series of burglaries, which are sending shock waves through the area. Remote farmhouses appear to be the targets, which stretches Mike's small team to the limits.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2817792175%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert



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