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1 .A Bite of the Big Apple: My Food Adventure in New York [hardback]
Trapaga, Monica
Camberwell, Vic Lantern 2013.
Summary: New York, New York. It's Ella and Louis. It's Seinfeld and Woody Allen. It's the bright lights of Broadway, it's hot dogs at 2 a.m., it's bagels and doughnuts and pastrami on rye. It's also Mexican, Jamaican, Filipino, Puerto Rican and Chinese food, all thrown together in a cultural cacophony quite unlike anywhere else in the world.
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2 .A Flower Between the Cracks: A Memoir of Hope, Care and Disability [hardback]
Sage, Helen
Mulgrave, A Hardie Grant 2013.
Summary: One ordinary evening, Helen's 22-year-old daughter Jayne is involved in a catastrophic car accident. Lying in a coma, her young life in the balance, Helen composes tender letters to Jayne, trying to make sense of the inexplicable tragedy. When Jayne finally wakes, she can't talk or walk.
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3 .Love with a Chance of Drowning: A Memoir [paperback]
deRoche, Torre
Hawthorn, Vic Viking Australia 2013.
Summary: Love can make a person do crazy things. . . A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeRoche is not someone you would ordinarily find adrift in the middle of the stormy Pacific aboard a leaky sailboat – total crew of two struggling to keep an old boat, a new relationship and her floundering sanity afloat.
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4 .Instant Mom: I Thought I Knew Love, and Then I Met My Daughter [hardback]
Vardalos, Nia
New York, USA HarperOne 2013.
Summary: On a rainy morning in early 2003, Nia Vardalos found out that she had been nominated for an Oscar. But her mind was not on champagne and celebratory cheer. Instead, she was alone, en route to a fertility clinic, trying yet again for another chance at motherhood. Star of My Big fat Greek wedding.
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5 .Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England [paperback]
McKenna, Neil
London, UK Faber & Faber 2013.
Summary: 28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of the gentlemen in the stalls.
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6 .Ghost Wife: A Memoir of Love and Defiance [paperback]
Dicinoski, Michelle
Melbourne, A Black Inc (aust) 2013.
Summary: Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she's in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America recognises same-sex marriage. What to do when pride and prejudice love and the law collide?
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7 .Outback Women's Stories: Amazing Australian Amazons [paperback]
Bugeja, Paul
Ringwood, Vic Brolga Publishing 2013.
Summary: Outback Women's Stories is a compilation of significant Australian women of simple but important character traits strength, fortitude and courage.
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8 .Free the Bears [paperback]
Hutton, Mary
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2013.
Summary: In 1993, Perth grandmother Mary Hutton started a petition at her local shopping mall after seeing a news story about the extraction of bile from a caged and traumatised Asiatic Black Bear.
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9 .My Wild Ride: The inspiring true story of how one woman's faith and determination helped her overcome life's greatest odds [paperback]
Johnson, Fiona
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2013.
Summary: The inspiring true story of how rodeo champion, Fiona Johnson's faith and determination helped her acheive her dreams and overcome some of life's greatest obstacles.
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10 .Hopper: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream [hardback]
Folsom, Tom
New York, USA IT Books 2013.
Summary: The kid gone wrong in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. The hippie outlaw in EASY RIDER. The crazed photojournalist in APOCALYPSE NOW. The drunken dad in HOOSIERS. The twisted psychopath in BLUE VELVET. The actor once taken under the wing of none other than John Wayne, who wanted to be the next Orson Welles.
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11 .Galbally's Lore: Crime, Collingwood, Politics and Life [hardback]
Galbally, David
Lockwood, Kim
Melbourne, Vic Wilkinson Publishing 2013.
Summary: Barrister David Galbally QC has many more strings to his bow than a life with the law and its rich tapestry of anecdotes. His family has also been involved with the Collingwood Football Club for 70 years, and Galbally spent time on the committee. He knows where the bodies are.
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12 .The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War [hardback]
Feigel, Lara
London, UK Bloomsbury 2013.
Summary: As poetic as it is enlightening, this detailed biography of five literary figures is achingly beautiful in its depiction of the disturbing, everyday realities of war.
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13 .The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham [hardback]
Jago, Michael
London, UK Biteback 2013.
Summary: John le Carrs intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy. Le Carr has revealed that the model for Smiley was the author and MI5 officer John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris. Jagos account of Binghams life is not just the story of a perfect spy, it is also of a writer whose thrillers transcended the genre.
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14 .Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei [paperback]
Reggio, Jonathan
London, UK Faber & Faber 2013.
Summary: In October 2010, Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern. In April 2011, he was arrested and held for over two months, in terrible conditions.
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15 .Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John [paperback]
Trinca, Helen
New ed.
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2013.
Summary: Madeleine would write. But not for some time. The Women in Black, a sparkling gem that belied the difficulties that had dogged her own life, was published when Madeleine St John was in her fifties
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16 .Vivien Leigh: A Biography [paperback]
Edwards, Anne
Lanham, US Rowman & Littlefield 2013.
Summary: This is the story of the actress who became a Hollywood legend by winning the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara. But behind the dazzling exterior lay the sinister shadow of another Vivien Leigh, a shadow which pursued her throughout her frustrating first marriage, her tempestuous romance with Laurence Olivier, and her meteoric rise to stardom.
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17 .Billionaire Boy: Mark Zuckerberg In His Own Words [paperback]
Beahm, George, Editor
South Yarra, Vic Hardie Grant 2013.
Summary: The Mark Zuckerburg most people know is the one depicted in Academy Awardwinning film The Social Network: a nerdy, insecure and socially awkward young man hardly the image of a topflight CEO in command of one of the worlds largest and most successful companies.
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18 .My Nan and Me: Lessons learnt at my Nan's knee [hardback]
Rowntree, Catriona
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2013.
Summary: Catriona Rowntree loves her Nan. She grew up in the same household and it was to this wise, loving woman that the young Catriona took all her worries and joys. Always there was a sympathetic ear and advice worth following.
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19 .Girl A: The Truth about the Rochdale Sex Ring by the Victim Who Ended Their Reign of Terror [paperback]
Girl A.
London, UK Ebury Press 2013.
Summary: 'Most days, I was raped by four or five men. At first I felt dirty and ashamed, but after a while it had been going on for so long and with so many different men it became normal. I didn't feel anything anymore.' This is the shocking true story of how a young girl from Rochdale became the victim of one of Britain's most notorious paedophile rings.
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20 .High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze [paperback]
Stark, Jill
Carlton North, Vic Scribe Publications 2013.
Summary: In re-examining her habits, Jill also explores Australias love affair with alcohol, meeting alcopop-swigging teens who drink to fit in, beer-swilling blokes in a sporting culture backed by booze, and marketing bigwigs blamed for turning binge drinking into a way of life.
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21 .Girl in the Water: A True Story of Sibling Abuse [paperback]
Kilgore, Nancy
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2013.
Summary: When Nancy Kilgore was nine years old, her eleven-year-old sister Sherry led her into the scorching midday sun, tied her to a chair, and taped her eyelids to her eyebrows with electrical tape, leaving Nancy helpless for hours to stare into a blinding blue sky.
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22 .The Real Inspector Rex: Stand Aside for Real Life Action in the Dog Squad [paperback]
McCredie, Matt
Chatswood, NSW New Holland Australia 2013.
Summary: A moving, yet often highly amusing book containing tales about a man and his dog who are inseparable and together fight crime on a daily basic. Tales include vicious criminals that the super dog trails and catches.
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23 .Cliffy: The Cliff Young story [paperback]
Jameson, Julietta
New ed.
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2013.
Summary: When a 61-year-old potato farmer from Colac came out of nowhere to win the most arduous road running race ever attempted in Australia, a new national folk hero was born.
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24 .The Girl With No Name [paperback]
Chapman, Marina
Millers Point, NSW Pier 9 2013.
Summary: A young girl who is abducted and abandoned in the Colombian jungle. She spends five years living with a family of monkeys before being found and sold in to slavery. This is her truly astonishing story.
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25 .Seven Deadly Sins: The downfall of Lance Armstrong [paperback]
Walsh, David
London, UK Simon & Schuster 2012.
Summary: The story of Lance Armstrong - the cyclist who recovered from testicular cancer and went on to win the Tour de France a record seven tmes, the man who wrote a bestselling and inspirational account of his life, the charitable benefactor - seemed almost too good to be true. And it was.
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26 .Welcome to Your New Life [paperback]
Goldsworthy, Anna
Melbourne, A Black Inc (aust) 2013.
Summary: From the best-selling author of Piano Lessons. When Anna Goldsworthy, pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, her excitement is tempered by the daunting journey ahead. In Welcome to Your New Life, she shares the dizzying wonder and crippling anxiety that come with creating new life.
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27 .Neil Young: Long May You Run [hardback]
Durchholz, Daniel
Graff, Gary
2nd ed.
Minneapolis, USA Voyageur Press 2013.
Summary: Heavily illustrated biography of singer-songwriter Neil Young spanning 1945 to 2012 and covering all of his musical endeavors, including the Squires, Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse, CSNY, solo work, and more--Provided by publisher.
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28 .Dream Times: 1000 games + counting [paperback]
Sheedy, Kevin
Rowville, Vic Five Mile Press 2013.
Summary: Kevin Sheedy has seen it all. An uncompromisingly tough player during his time at Richmond, where he played 251 games, and now as coach for the AFLs newest club Greater Western Sydney. Dream Times is a series of short essays of the inspiration and insight Kevin Sheedy has developed over more than 40 years in football.
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29 .The Velvet Pouch [paperback]
Hill, Holly
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2013.
Summary: The true and very sexy story of Hollys search for a sugar-daddy to bankroll her day-to-day expenses in exchange for sexual favours was a runaway best-seller. Now, Holly returns with a daring new story about what happens when she embarks on a new sex-periment: allowing her boyfriend to sleep with other women in a negotiated infidelity arrangement.
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30 .Open Mike: Conversations with greats of the AFL game [paperback]
Sheahan, Mike
Rowville, Vic Five Mile Press 2013.
Summary: Since 2009 leading AFL journalist Mike Sheahan has interviewed some of Australian footballs biggest names on his Fox Sports program Open Mike. With his compassionate interview style, Sheahan manages to open up even the most reticent of guests, offering fascinating insights into the inner workings of some of AFLs most famous names.
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