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1 .Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action [paperback]
Vujicic, Nick
Crows Nest, NSW Inspired Living 2012.
Summary: Takes up the incredible story of Nick Vujicic where the bestselling Life Without Limits left off - revealing how he retains his amazingly positive high octane approach to life.
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2 .The Lost Journals of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years [hardback]
Miller, Elizabeth, Editor
Stoker, Dacre, Editor
London, UK Biteback 2012.
Summary: Recently a long-lost notebook belonging to Dracula author, Bram Stoker, was discovered in the attic of one of his great grandsons. This notebook, written between 1871 and 1881 mostly in his native Dublin, will captivate scholars of Gothic literature and Dracula fans alike.
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3 .Painkiller Addict: From Wreckage to Redemption - My True Story [paperback]
Kemp, Cathryn
London, UK Piatkus 2012.
Summary: Cathryn Kemp was a successful travel journalist who was struck down by a life-threatening illness. After four years of operations and misdiagnoses she left hospital with a repeat prescription for fentanyl, a painkiller 100 times stronger than heroin.
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4 .The Rise and Fall of the Murdoch Empire [hardback]
Lisners, John
London, UK John Blake Publishing 2012.
Summary: Rupert Murdoch - ruthless visionary, empire builder and business genius. He has created a global media network which has made him one of the most powerful and influential figures in the world. So potent was the force of his empire that he was even on first-name terms with presidents and prime ministers - superpowers were only a telephone call away.
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5 .Gough Whitlam Vol. 2: A Political Biography (Gough Whitlam : a moment in history, 2) [hardback]
Hocking, Jenny
Carlton, Vic Miegunyah Press 2012.
Summary: Recreates the excitement of Whitlams historic win in 1972, forces that never accepted his ascendency &the tragedy that followed. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, interviews with family, colleague sand with the man himself, this second volume finally exposes the truth about the Whitlam years.
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6 .The Untold Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother [hardback]
Campbell, Lady Colin
London, UK Arcadia Books 2012.
Summary: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was called the 'most successful queen since Cleopatra' and the 'best queen consort ever'. But there was another Elizabeth the Queen Mother behind the smiling granny, and the untold story of the life she really lived is fascinating and moving.
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7 .The Shaman in Stilettos [paperback]
Hunt, Anna
London, UK Penguin 2012.
Summary: When celebrity journalist Anna Hunt takes a break from her glamorous, high-powered and fast-paced job to live in Peru for three months, none of her friends take her seriously.
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8 .Life in Limbo: My Battle with Depression, Infertility and Mental Illness [paperback]
Barwick, Matt
Newport, NSW Big Sky Publishing 2012.
Summary: This memoir, based on diary entries, is a frank, moving and at times humorous account of Matt Barwicks struggle with infertility, and diagnosis with bipolar disorder triggered by family suicide. At twenty-nine, still childless after a year of trying, Matt and his wife Ali realised that starting a family was not going to be the cinch it appeared.
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9 .My Journey [hardback]
Stynes, Jim
Camberwell, Vic Michael Joseph Australia 2012.
Summary: In July 2009, Jim Stynes was diagnosed with cancer and given less than a year to live. The diagnosis caught him by surprise ; he was 42, healthy, fit and he didn't have time for illness: he was director of the Reach Foundation, president of Melbourne Football Club, father of two primary school-aged kids, husband of Sam.
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10 .Victory Lap [hardback]
Stoner, Casey
South Yarra, Vic Hardie Grant 2012.
Summary: Casey Stoner is Australia's most successful motorcycle racer of all time. He has recently shocked fans and media alike with his announcement that he is retiring from Bike racing. This tell all autobiography is a celebration of a spectacular Australian sporting career.
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11 .Tomorrow you Die: The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese [hardback]
Coogan, Andy
Ogilvie, Graeme
Edinburgh, UK Mainstream 2012.
Summary: The oldest child of poor Irish immigrants, Andy Coogan was born on April Fool's Day, 1917. His amazing recollections of life in Glasgow's slums during the 1920s and '30s are told with humour and candour in Tomorrow You Die.
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12 .Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child [hardback]
Spitz, Bob
New York, USA Alfred A. Knopf 2012.
Summary: The best-selling author of The Beatles draws on the iconic culinary figure's personal diaries and letters to present a 100th-birthday commemoration that explores her private life to offer insight into her role in shaping women's views and influencing American approaches to cooking. 100,000 first printing.
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13 .The Charisma of Adolf Hitler [paperback]
Rees, Laurence
London, UK Ebury Press 2012.
Summary: 'My whole life can be summed up as this ceaseless effort of mine to persuade other people' - Adolf Hitler. More than any other single figure, it is arguably Adolf Hitler who has most changed the course of history.
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14 .Amazing and Extraordinary Facts Royal Family Life: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts) [hardback]
Binney, Ruth
Newton Abbot, UK David & Charles 2012.
Summary: "Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Royal Family Life" unearths a wealth of intriguing truths about British royal domestic life, royal celebrations, royal etiquette, wisdom and sayings, and how they have shaped history. Covering the period from Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II, this amusing and attractive book will be a lovely souvenir and gift.
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15 .Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East [paperback]
Law, Benjamin
Melbourne, A Black Inc (aust) 2012.
Summary: Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognise same-sex marriage. But as the child of migrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to meet his fellow Gaysians.
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16 .Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family [hardback]
Emling, Shelley
New York, USA Palgrave 2012.
Summary: The first book to focus on the relationship between famed scientist Marie Curie and her two remarkable daughters. Drawing on personal interviews with Curie's descendents, as well as revelatory new archives, this is a wholly new story about Marie Curie - and a family of women inextricably connected to the dawn of nuclear physics.
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17 .It's All About the Dog: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog [paperback]
Heyhoe, David
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2012.
Summary: This is the incredible true story of the unbreakable bond forged between Treo, the world's most highly decorated dog, and his handler Sgt Dave Heyhoe, whilst doing the most dangerous job on earth - sniffing out bombs in Afghanistan.
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18 .Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure [hardback]
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Lellenberg, Jon, Editor
London, UK British Library Publications 2012.
Summary: In February 1880, when Arthur Conan Doyle was only 20 years old, he spent seven months as a ships surgeon on an Arctic whaler. During the voyage, he kept a detailed diary. This edition contains a full facsimile of the diary, with a transcription, plus several non-fiction and fiction pieces based on the experience and life on board.
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19 .Four Corners: Stories That Changed Australia [paperback]
Neighbour, Sally, Editor
Sydney, NSW ABC Books 2012.
Summary: A collection of articles from a who′s who of Australian journalism, this, the first book from 4 CORNERS in 25 years, marks 50 years on air for the ABC′s current affairs flagship program.
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20 .Blasphemy: The True, Heartbreaking Story of the Woman Sentenced to Death for Drinking Water from the Wrong Cup [paperback]
Bibi, Asia
London, UK Virago 2012.
Summary: Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45 and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water.
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21 .The Great Charles Dickens Scandal [hardback]
Slater, Michael
New Haven, USA Yale University Press 2012.
Summary: Charles Dickens was regarded as a pillar of respectability in Victorian Britain, but in 1858 this image was nearly shattered by rumours about a scandalous relationship he may have conducted with young actress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan. This is a page-turning account of the scandal that almost ruined Dickens and howthe storydisappeared from history.
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22 .Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov [hardback]
Roberts, Geoffrey
Thriplow, UK Icon Books 2012.
Summary: Drawing on rich new sources from the recently-opened Soviet archives, Geoffrey Roberts has fashioned the definitive, first full-scale biography of this seminal 20th century figure. Marshal Georgi Zhukov is one of military history's legendary names.
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23 .Hope Street, Jerusalem: A Memoir [paperback]
Makler, Iris
London, UK HarperCollins 2012.
Summary: A love story that shines a hopeful light on a city where the choice of a romantic table by the window can turn into a life or death decision.
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24 .Joseph Anton: A Memoir [paperback]
Rushdie, Salman
London, UK Jonathan Cape 2012.
Summary: On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being 'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran'.
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25 .Letters From Berlin [paperback]
Lieff, Kerstin
New York, USA Random House 2012.
Summary: A vivid recreation of a largely untold side of the war story. Drawing on hundreds of hours of taped interviews with her mother, Kerstin Lieff has recreated Margarete's story from her childhood and her child's eye view of the rise and fall of the Reich through the family's increasingly desperate circumstances as the war's end neared.
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26 .Tender Prey: A Biography of Nick Cave [hardback]
Mordue, Mark
London, UK Orion Books 2012.
Summary: Major biography of a modern rock icon, written with Nick Cave's input. In Mordue's words the book tells 'the story of a man on the run from himself and his demons, and how he has documented that journey in song; a movement through hell and high water with one of the world's greatest musical artists.'
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27 .Swampy: Tall Tales and True From Boyhood and Beyond [paperback]
Marsh, Bill
Sydney, NSW ABC Books 2012.
Summary: For me, Beckom was one vast playground. From the plover-infested homestead to its dam crawling with yabbies; along the meandering mysteries of the Mirrool Creek; up to the forgotten pine forest; over to the dusty silos of harvest; this was my backyard.
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28 .The Swimmer: My Autobiography [hardback]
Thorpe, Ian
London, UK Simon & Schuster 2012.
Summary: Ian Thorpe's achievements in the water are nothing short of phenomenal. He has won a record-holding eleven World Championship titles and ten Commonwealth Games gold medals. He has broken twenty-two world records and won five gold, three silver and one bronze Olympic medals.
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29 .The Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti, 1954 - 1963 [hardback]
Diederich, Bernard
London, UK Peter Owen Publishers 2012.
Summary: In 1965, Graham Greene joined journalist Bernard Diederich in the Dominican Republic to embark on a tour of its border with Haiti, then ruled by 'Papa Doc' Duvalier. They were accompanied by an activist priest, Jean-Claude Bajeux. This major new biography finally and fully illuminates a pivotal episode in Greene's life and career.
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30 .Our Sarah: Made in Alaska [hardback]
Heath, Chuck Snr
Heath, Chuck Jnr
New York, USA Center Street 2012.
Summary: Combining the appeal of Sarah Palin's bestselling book, Going Rogue, with the flavour of the hugely successful TV show 'Sarah Palin's Alaska', here are intimate stories from Sarah's life along with a celebration of growing up in and sharing all that Alaska means to Sarah and her family.
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31 .Mickey O: My Life Story [paperback]
Main, Jim
O'Loughlin, Michael
Sydney, NSW ABC Books 2012.
Summary: When Michael O'Loughlin was drafted by the Sydney Swans at just 17 years of age, he was the no. 40 selection and the last player picked. Back then he could not have imagined the extraordinary future that awaited him.
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32 .January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her [paperback]
Schofield, Michael
South Yarra, Vic Hardie Grant 2012.
Summary: A compelling, unsparing and passionate account, "January First" vividly details Schofield's commitment to bring his daughter back from the edge of insanity. It is a father's soul-baring memoir of the daily struggles and challenges he and his wife face as they do everything they can to help Janni while trying to keep their family together.
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33 .The Man from Coolibah: The Extraordinary Outback Life of a Northern Territory Cattleman [paperback]
Jones, Milton
Knight, James
Sydney, NSW Hachette Australia 2012.
Summary: In the tradition of Mailman of the Birdsville Track, The Man from Coolibah details the life of outback cattle property owner, helicopter muster operator and knockabout bloke Milton J Jones.The Man from Coolibah shows us what it is like to live in the never never and brings the Outback to life.
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