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1 .The Boy Kings: A Curious Trip into the Heart of the Social Network [hardback]
Losse, Katherine
New York, USA Simon & Schuster 2012.
Summary: In the first insider take on whats really driving both the business and the culture of the social network, Losse answers the biggest question of all: What kind of world is Facebook trying to build, and is it the world we want to live in?
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2 .Love on Forrest Downs [paperback]
McCorry, Sheryl
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2012.
Summary: Sheryl McCorry is a woman in a million. In her runaway bestselling memoir 'Diamonds and Dust' and its sequel 'Stars over Shirlee', Sheryl shared her amazing life story from a childhood in the top end to becoming the first woman in the Kimberly to run a two-million acre cattle station.
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3 .Exploited [paperback]
Jackson, Emma
London, UK Ebury Press 2012.
Summary: 'If you read the papers, you'd think that the only girls to get hooked are from dysfunctional families. But what happened to me could happen to anyone. Your child, your sister, your friend u even yourself if you are young and naive enough, like me' Emma was just 13 when her happy childhood came crashing down.
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4 .Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism [paperback]
Fleischmann, Arthur
New York, USA Touchstone 2012.
Summary: The father of a child who was diagnosed as severely autistic at the age of two describes the intensive therapies that were pursued before young Carly had a breakthrough at the age of 10, when she began using her computer to communicate and reached out to thousands of people on a blog, Facebook and Twitter.
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5 .Building, Always Building: The life and times of Gerry Karidis, AM [hardback]
Karidis, Gerry
Abbey, Brian
Kent Town, SA Wakefield Press 2012.
Summary: Karidis reveals extent of his involvement as 'the Adelaide connection' in the federal political crisis known as Loans Affair of 1974-75, just how close to success money hunt came. Also records public campaigns to forge policy framework that would foster re-population of the inner city of Adelaide, restrict urban sprawl &protect public housing.
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6 .Bound to You: Falling in Love is a Dangerous Game... [paperback]
Hodgson, Nichi
Unabridged ed.
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2013.
Summary: How does it feel to fall in love with a real-life Christian Grey? I was lovelorn and unsure of my path in life when I first met Sebastian. The chemistry was intense and immediate. I could feel all my defences breaking down when he first took my hand. But Sebastian was as beautiful on the outside as he was tormented on the inside.
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7 .The Real Lady Detective Agency: A True Story [paperback]
Jane, Rebecca
London, UK HarperCollins 2013.
Summary: Why wont he ever let you use his phone? Whys he always going on about that girl from work? Is he cheating on you? Theres one way to find out -- ask him. Then (when he lies) call Rebecca Sutton, founder and owner of the Lady Detective Agency. The Agency, run by real women for real women, exists for one purpose: to find the truth.
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8 .Unplanned First Time Mum at 50 [paperback]
Nicholas, Anthea
Southport, Qld Big Picture Management 2012.
Summary: The author, 50 year old mum Anthea Nicholas shares her amazing story that has already captured global media attention and the hearts of millions of people. Her story will give you courage and most importantly hope.
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9 .Human Deadline: A Miraculous Story of Life, Death, Hope and House Arrest [paperback]
Hinch, Derryn
South Melbourne, Vic Cocoon Lodge 2012.
Summary: This is the extraordinary story of 12 months in the life of controversial broadcaster Derryn Hinch. Diagnosed with cancer and given a year to live. Finally got an organ transplant and then spent five months under house arrest for defying suppression orders and naming serial sex offenders. His thoughts on life, death, the courts, and Heaven.
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10 .Scandalands [paperback]
Sandilands, Kyle
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2012.
Summary: From his difficult childhood in Brisbane, through to his steely determination to succeed in radio and the successes and disasters he's experienced along the way, Kyle tells his full life story with disarming honesty.
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11 .Coal to Diamonds [paperback]
Ditto, Beth
London, UK Simon & Schuster (us & Uk) 2012.
Summary: Beth Ditto, lead singer of punk group The Gossip and the NME's Coolest Person on the Planet, tells the story of her 'dirt poor, trailer trash' childhood in Arkansas and how she escaped and found acceptance and success in music.
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12 .Michael Douglas: A Biography [hardback]
Eliot, Marc
New York, USA Crown 2012.
Summary: An in-depth portrait of the Academy Award-winning Hollywood star known for such iconic films as Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction traces his successful career while offering insight into his competitive relationship with father Kirk Douglas, his marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones and his current health and personal challenges.
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13 .Unlikely Liberal: Sarah Palin's Curious Record as Alaska's Governor [hardback]
Zencey, Matthew
Dulles, USA Potomac Books 2012.
Summary: How much do you really know about former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin? The revelations in Matthew Zencey's account of her tenure will surprise you. A conservative social ideologue, Sarah Palin's political career in Alaska was marked by a progressive fiscal approach that is at odds with her current right-wing Republican identity.
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14 .Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Mafia Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra [hardback]
Burnstein, Scott
Philadelphia, USA Running Press 2012.
Summary: Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent Mafia families ever"Little" Nicky Scarfos reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980sby Scarfos underboss and nephew, Crazy Phil Leonetti.
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15 .J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend [paperback]
Duriez, Colin
Oxford, UK Lion Publishing 2012.
Summary: Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films, J.R.R. Tolkiens creations, imagination, and characters had captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth?
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16 .My Life in Politics: Jacques Chirac [hardback]
Chirac, Jacques
New York, USA Palgrave 2012.
Summary: Along with Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl, and Francois Mitterand, Jacques Chirac is one of the most iconic statesmen of the twentieth century. Two-time president of France, mayor of Paris, and international politician, a recent poll voted him the most admired political figure in France, with current president Nicolas Sarkozy ranking in 32nd place.
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17 .Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster [hardback]
Birmingham, Lucy
McNeill, David
New York, USA Palgrave 2012.
Summary: Blending history, science, and gripping storytelling, Strong in the Rain brings the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its immediate aftermath to life through the eyes of the men and women who experienced it. Following the narratives of six individuals, the book traces the shape of a disaster and the heroics it prompted:
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18 .Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War [paperback]
Harrison, Frances
London, UK Granta (UK) 2012.
Summary: The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns and other civilians.
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19 .False Start: A Memoir of Things Best Forgotten [paperback]
O'Flynn, Mark
Lane Cove, NSW Finch Publishing 2013.
Summary: In the early 1960s recently graduated arts student Mark O'Flynn is told in no uncertain terms by his father to stop fruit picking and get a proper job! In an effort to kickstart his son';s career in the workplace he arranges for Mark to work in a quarry in outback Australia.
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20 .Beyond Pain [paperback]
Ratnachandra, Anjelo
Bittern, Vic Clan Destine Press 2012.
Summary: Much more than a pain-management handbook, this is also the inspiring story of Australian physiotherapist Anjelo Ratnachandrra who went to work in a cutting-edge London pain clinic. Caught in the crossfire of a vicious gang warm, Anjelo suffered second-degree burns to his face and hand. He gained a profound understanding of chronic pain.
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21 .Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife [paperback]
Alexander, Dr Eben
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2012.
Summary: This is the story of a prominent US neurosurgeon who has a profound afterlife experience while in a coma When an unknown bacteria attacks Dr Alexander's brain, sending him into a coma, his doctors say and MRIs show that his neocortex the part of the brain that forms images, makes memories, makes connections is functionally dead.
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22 .A Lasting Record [paperback]
Downes, Stephen
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2013.
Summary: A LASTING RECORD tells the unique true story of two separate but interconnected lives: New Yorker William Kapell, Americas greatest home-grown concert pianist, and Roy Preston, Melbourne-based Myer cosmetics salesman and classical music aficionado.
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23 .Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman [hardback]
Humes, James C.
Washington, USA Regnery Publishing 2012.
Summary: Who could have foreseen the start of World War I twenty-five years before the assassination of a Serbian archduke plunged Europe into war? Who could have predicted the rise of al-Qaeda nearly eight decades before anyone had heard of Osama bin Laden? Winston Churchill did. And for the first time bestselling author James C.
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24 .At the Very Heart: 100 years in remote Australia [hardback]
Walton, Storry
Kent Town, SA Wakefield Press 2012.
Summary: This book draws together words and images of the people who live and work across Australia's farthest horizons, together with the staff of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) and its successor Frontier Services, who have devotedly served remote families and provided vital services which they would not otherwise have received.
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25 .Dipper: Life on the rollercoaster [paperback]
DiPierdomenico, Robert
Chatswood, NSW New Holland Australia 2012.
Summary: The Big Dipper Robert Di Pierdomenico is not only one of the true legends and most popular figures the game of Australian Rules football has ever produced.
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26 .A Soldier's Soldier: A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly (Australian Army History) [hardback]
Grey, Jeffrey
Port Melbourne, Vic Cambridge University Press 2012.
Summary: Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a reorganisation of the Army. The author shows how Daly prepared himself for the challenges of command in a time of political upheaval. Author from UNSW
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27 .Twists and Turns [paperback]
Mitcham, Matthew
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2012.
Summary: No one who has ever seen Matthew Mitcham perform one of his heartstopping dives or make Olympic history would ever guess the obstacles he had to overcome just to be a contender.
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28 .Not Your Ordinary Housewife: How the man I loved led me into a world I had never imagined [paperback]
Stern, Nikki
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin House of Books 2013.
Summary: The fascinating and extraordinary true story of how a young woman from a privileged background found herself drawn into the dark world of petty prostitution and pornography by the troubled man she loved.
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29 .A Road Back from Schizophrenia: A Memoir [paperback]
Lauveng, Arnhild
New York, USA W.W. Norton 2012.
Summary: For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic.
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30 .Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair With Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints [paperback]
Stoke, Joy E.
Brenner, Angie
Austin, USA GreenLeaf Book Group 2012.
Summary: When Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner meet on the balcony of a guest-house in a small resort town on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey they think they have only a mutual friend and a summer dream in common. Soon, they discover a shared love of travel, history, culture, cuisine, and literature, and they begin a ten-year odyssey through Turkey
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31 .The Monks and Me: What a Bunch of Singing Buddhists, a Fat Suitcase, and a Single Pomegranate Seed Can Show Us about Taking Refuge in Our Wise Selves [paperback]
Paterson, Mary
Charlottesville, USA Hampton Roads 2013.
Summary: "Death can be a destabilizing force. And when it touches you closely, you must somehow discover a way to find and rebuild your secure home," popular yoga instructor Mary Paterson writes. With the death of her father, she felt as if she had no place to stand. She had lost her home.
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32 .Interventions: A Life in War and Peace [hardback]
Annan, Kofi
Mousavizadeh, Nader
London, UK Allen Lane 2012.
Summary: Over forty years of service to the United Nations - the last ten as Secretary-General - Kofi Annan has been at the centre of the major geopolitical events of our time. Drawing on his recollections of major figures from Tony Blair to George W.
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33 .David Graham: From Ridicule to Acclaim [paperback]
James, Russell
Melbourne, Vic Ryan Publishing 2012.
Summary: Widely regarded in the golfing world as arrogant and abrasive, David Graham is deeply respected by a few close friends for his unswerving loyalty and honesty. A loner, yet devoted family man, he has risen from a difficult background of ridicule and failure to the highest levels of acclaim in professional golf.
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34 .Grace: A Life In Fashion [paperback]
Coddington, Grace
Milsons Point, NSW Vintage Australia 2012.
Summary: Grace Coddington's extraordinary life revealed in her own words, drawings and photographs. Exquisite! Grace Coddington, the passionate and flame-haired doyenne of fashion.
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