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1 .A Singular Vision: Harry Seidler [hardback]
O'Neill, Helen
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2013.
Summary: Harry Seidler, a stylish, decisive and highly opinionated man, was a key figure in international modern architecture and in the establishment of post-war modern design in Australia. He emerged as Australia's preeminent architect, the man who effectively shaped the look of modern, urban Australia.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2820563047%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

2 .Wild Tales: A Rock and Roll Life [hardback]
Nash, Graham
London, UK Viking 2013.
Summary: Graham Nash, lead singer and principal songwriter of the Hollies, then member of supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. In this candid and riveting autobiography Nash tells it all: growing up in poverty in postwar Manchester, founding the Hollies with schoolfriend Allan Clarke and the incredible success that followed.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2820563048%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

3 .A Century of Royal Children (Majesty) [hardback]
Seward, Ingrid
Romford, UK Gardners Books Ltd 2013.
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4 .The Boy Colonel [paperback]
Davies, Will
Milsons Point, A Vintage (uk + Aust) 2013.
Summary: Known as The Boy Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks, was the youngest battalion commander in the AIF and highly regarded not only as a future military commander, but as a business and community leader. It was a blustery day on the 25th January 1920 at Palm Beach to the north of Sydney and the surf was wild.
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5 .Flaws in the Ice: In search of Douglas Mawson [paperback]
Day, David
Carlton North, Vic Scribe Publications 2013.
Summary: David Day takes off on a five-week odyssey in search of the real Douglas Mawson. Beginning his book on board an expedition ship bound for the Antarctic, Dr Day asks the difficult questions that have hitherto lain buried about Mawson.
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6 .Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus [hardback]
Dando-Collins, Stephen
Milsons Point, NSW Knopf Australia 2013.
Summary: Sir Henry Parkes: Father of Federation, Premier of NSW, Statesman, Visionary, Political Leader, Poet, Humanist May 27, 2015 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes. After he died, the London Times described him as 'a colonial colossus.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%2820563052%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert

7 .Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Centenary Edition [paperback]
Hodges, Andrew
Princeton, US Baker & Taylor 2012.
Summary: It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades - all before his strange and tragic suicide at age forty-one.
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