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1 .Salinger / David Shields, Shane Salerno.
Shields, David, 1956-
Salerno, Shane
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Summary: Based on eight years of research and exclusive interviews and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company. The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century.
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2 .Behind the candelabra / Scott Thorson with Alex Thorleifson.
Thorson, Scott
Thorleifson, Alex
London : Head of Zeus, 2013, c1988.
Summary: Scott Thorson, a poor boy from a succession of foster homes, met Liberace when he was just 16 years old. Liberace, aged 57, took Scott under his wing as 'the son he'd never had'. By the time Scott was 17, he was also Liberace's lover.Liberace lived life by his credo 'too much of a good thing is wonderful' and Scott shared in it: the fur coats, the Rolls-Royces, the jewellery, the celebrity friends, the 26 lap dogs. A more opulent lifestyle is hard to imagine but it came at a price: Liberace sent Scott to his plastic surgeon to have his face remodeled in Liberace's own image. By turns bizarre, shocking and touchingly intimate, Behind the Candelabra is a compulsive insight in to Liberace, the man behind the flamboyant performer whose successes provide a bright counterpoint to a darker tale of a man hungry for power, a man given to every excess.
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3 .Swingland : between the sheets of the secretive, sometimes messy, but always adventurous swinging lifestyle / Daniel Stern.
Stern, Daniel, author
First Australian edition.
Collingwood, Vic. : Black Inc., 2013.
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4 .Can a duck swim? : an autobiography / June Porter.
Porter, June, 1919-, author
Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, c2013.
Summary: Can a duck swim? Young June Porter's reply was immediate when Lady Rutherford, wife of the Governor of Bihar, invited her to India to become her lady-in-waiting. This was in 1944, when June was twenty-five and the world was at war.
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1 .The Astaires : Fred & Adele / Kathleen Riley.
Riley, Kathleen, 1974-
New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Summary: In the first comprehensive study of the Astaire's theatrical career together, Riley traces their rise to fame from humble midwestern origins and early days as child performers on small-time vaudeville stages. From the start, Adele was the more natural performer, while Fred had to hone his trademark timing and elegance through endless hours of rehearsal.
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2 .Broken / Sara Davies.
Davies, Sara., author
New edition.
London John Blake, 2013.
Summary: " I was just five years old when my father abused me and robbed me of my childhood. This is my true story of how I never gave up on hope and happiness"
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3 .Tell me who I am / Alex and Marcus Lewis with Joanna Hodgkin.
Lewis, Alex, author
Lewis, Marcus, author
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2013.
Summary: Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin. Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood, your family, and the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to begin again. This has been Alex's reality: a world where memories are just the stories people tell you, where fact and fiction are impossible to distinguish. With dogged courage he has spent years hunting for the truth about his hidden past and his remarkable family. His quest to understand his true identity has revealed shocking betrayals and a secret tragedy, extraordinary triumph over crippling adversity and, above all, redemption founded on brotherly love. Marcus his twin brother has sometimes been a reluctant companion on this journey, but for him too it has led to staggering revelations and ultimately the shedding of impossible burdens. Their story spans continents and eras, from 1950s debutantes and high society in the Home Counties to a remote island in the Pacific and 90s raves. Disturbing, funny, heart-breaking and affirming, Alex and Marcus's determination to rebuild their lives makes us look afresh at how we choose to tell our stories.
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1 .Baby steps : having the child I always wanted (just not as I expected) / Elisabeth Rohm ; with Eve Adamson.
Rohm, Elisabeth, 1973-,author
Adamson, Eve
First Da Capo Press edition.
Boston : Da Capo Life Long, 2013.
Summary: The blogger and actress recounts her struggles with infertility and efforts to have a child through in-vitro fertilization, explaining how talking about her challenges have enabled her to learn about herself and become the woman she was meant to be.
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1 .The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible ... on Schindler's List [hardback]
Leyson, Leon
Harran, Marilyn J.
London, UK Simon & Schuster 2013.
Summary: A remarkable memoir of strength and bravery from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler's list. Ages 10+
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2 .House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two [paperback]
Perron, Andrea
United States Baker & Taylor 2013.
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3 .House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One [paperback]
Perron, Andrea
Bloomington, USA AuthorHouse 2011.
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4 .I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan [paperback]
Partridge, Alan
Film/TV tie-in ed.
London, UK Harpercollins Publishing Aust 2012.
Summary: Alan Gordon Partridge is the best , and best-loved, radio presenter in the region. Born into a changing world of rationing, Teddy Boys, apes in space and the launch of ITV, Alan's broadcasting career began as chief DJ of Radio Smile at St. Luke's Hospital in Norwich.
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5 .Kidman: The Extraordinary Life of Sir Sidney Kidman [hardback]
Reid, Christo
Bowen, Jill
NSW Strangelove Press 2013.
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6 .The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter [hardback]
Hawksley, Elizabeth
London, UK Random House Uk + Us 2013.
Summary: The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain forever hidden. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumour and gossip than hard facts?
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1 .Top cop : 'Emergency Man' : some amazing experiences of Chief Inspector Gary Raymond APM, OAM (Rtd) / by David R. Nicholas.
Nicholas, David R., author
Mona Vale, N.S.W. : Ark House Press, [2013].
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2 .A house in the sky : a memoir of a kidnapping that changed everything / Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett.
Lindhout, Amanda, author
Corbett, Sara, author
Summary: At the age of eighteen, the author moved from her hardscrabble hometown to the big city and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could travel the globe. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a reporter. This title tells the story of courage, resilience, and grace.
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3 .Black leather / Lisa Lou.
Lou, Lisa, author
Chatswood, NSW : New Holland, 2013.
Summary: Having worked as an escort all over the world, experiencing every extreme of sexuality and desire, Lisa Lou finally meets her Prince Charming. After a chance meeting in Copenhagen, her rich and enigmatic Prince whisks her away to Sydney, where she becomes his plaything ...in every sense of the word. But as Lisa falls deeper into a seductive world of sex, drugs and money, and struggles to find new ways to please her sugar daddy, she begins to wonder if true love really has found her - or if she will ever escape her past. In Black Leather, Lisa Lou continues the sexy, funny and incredible true story she began in Red Velvet. Told in her unique and intimate voice, her erotic memoir exposes the secret life of a kept woman.
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4 .The iron house : Jane Cannan and the rush to Melbourne / Crescy Cannan.
Cannan, Crescy, 1947-, author
Summary: Jane Cannan's delicate sketches of mid-nineteenth century houses are collected in Australia's National Library and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, but who was she? From a cosmopolitan background, and growing up in England's literary Lake District, Jane escaped a tedious life of provincial spinsterhood by marrying a younger Scotsman with a posting to Australia. His firm, Morewood & Rogers, was one of several exporting ingenious prefabricated iron buildings to Britain's colonies. Jane's lively letters describe her journey to Melbourne by sailing ship, her reactions to seeing a city grow amid the turbulence of the gold-rush, the pressure on young men from 'distressed' middle-class backgrounds to make their fortunes in boom and bust times, and her experience of life in a tiny corrugated iron house.
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5 .And then like my dreams : a memoir / Margaret Rose Stringer.
Stringer, Margaret Rose, author
North Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Press, 2013.
Summary: This is the story of Charles 'Chic' Stringer, written by his widow Margaret Rose. It celebrates the career of one of the Australian film industry's most respected stillsmen of the 1970s and '80s, and in doing so depicts their shared journey.
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6 .Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace [paperback]
Thorson, Scott
London, UK Head of Zeus 2013.
Summary: Scott Thorson, a poor boy from a succession of foster homes, met Liberace when he was just 16 years old. Liberace, aged 57, took Scott under his wing as 'the son he'd never had'. By the time Scott was 17, he was also Liberace's lover.
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7 .GI brides
Barrett, Duncan
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8 .The incredible rise of Mumford & Sons / Chloe Govan.
Govan, Chloe
London : Omnibus, 2013.
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1 .Ugly : my memoir / Robert Hoge.
Hoge, Robert, 1972-, author
Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2013.
Summary: Robert Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless. His mother refused to look at her son, let alone bring him home. But home he went, to a life that, against the odds, was filled with joy, optimism and boyhood naughtiness.
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1 .Hustling Hinkler : the short tumultuous life of a trailblazing Australian aviator / D. R. Dymock.
Dymock, Darryl, author
Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2013.
Summary: Part adventure, part mystery and part tragedy, HUSTLING HINKLER is the unforgettable true story of Bert Hinkler's astonishing life. Herbert John Louis Hinkler was a working-class lad, born in Bundaberg, Queensland, in 1892. From his earliest years, Bert was captivated by stories of flight and, inspired by the Wright brothers, build his first plane while still a teenager. Determined to make a life of adventure, he became a mechanic for a barnstorming pilot before making his way to England. At the outbreak of World War I he joined up, becoming a decorated air gunner before achieving his pilot's wings in the RAF. Ambition finally aligned with skill, and he became famous for his death-defying aviation triumphs. In 1928 he thrilled the world with his first solo flight from England to Australia, and another across the South Atlantic in 1931.Yet behind this publicly feted hero was a complex man who struggled to find his place in the world when not in the sky.
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2 .Saul Bellow's heart : a son's memoir / Greg Bellow.
Bellow, Greg
London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Summary: "An intimate and honest portrait of a fiercely private man, of a moving father-son relationship, and of the family man behind the iconic writer...'The greatest American author ever, in my view ...His sentences seem to weigh more than anyone else's. He is like a force of nature ...He breaks all the rules ...The people in Bellow's fiction are real people, yet the intensity of the gaze that he bathes them in, somehow through the particular, opens up into the universal' Martin Amis 'What Bellow had to tell us in his fiction was that it was worth it, being alive' Linda Grant 'The backbone of twentieth-century American literature has been provided by two novelists - William Faulkner and Saul Bellow. Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the twentieth century' Philip Roth 'If the soul is the mind at its purest, best, clearest, busiest, profoundest, then Bellow's charge has been to restore the soul to American literature' Cynthia Ozick Greg Bellow's bond with his famous-writer father was grounded in a tenderness, social optimism, and light-hearted humour rarely attributed to a man more often remembered for being quick to anger and schooled in rational argument. This intimate memoir gives voice both to the 'Young Saul' - the rebellious, irreverent and ambitious young writer, and dedicated father - and to the 'Old Saul', the writer known to the wider world, whose edges hardened as his social views turned pessimistic. The change taxed the relationship between Bellow and his son so sorely that Greg feared it might not survive. Saul Bellow's Heart is an affectionate, revealing portrait of a fiercely private man, a picture of a moving father-son relationship and a unique insight into one of America's greatest twentieth-century writers."--Publisher's description.
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3 .Uncle Bill : the authorised biography of Field Marshal Sir William Slim / Russell Miller.
Miller, Russell
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013.
Summary: In 2011 the National Army Museum conducted a poll to decide who merited the title of 'Britain's Greatest General'. In the end two men shared the honour. One, predictably, was the Duke of Wellington. The other was Bill Slim. Had he been alive, Slim would have been surprised, for he was the most modest of men - a rare quality among generals.
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