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Harry reads books, he asks questions; he's a naturally curious young man. So when he and his parents head out to the country for Great-uncle Frank's fourth wedding, he prepares himself. He learns what he can before they leave. After all, he doesn't want to look stupid when Frank's time in the Vietnam War comes up in conversation. If it comes up.

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The story of a 10-year-old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands, beginning with the very first night of her married life, and ending the day she slipped away during an errand.

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Achieving fame in the eighties with hits like "Barbados" and "Modern Girl", James Freud was voracious for everything and anything life had to offer. This title chronicles James' physical, mental and spiritual demise as time and again he drove himself to the brink of death through booze and drugs, to the despair of his loyal wife and sons.

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Several years ago over 100 well-known Australians tackled the biggest question of all, exploring their personal truths, in a collection of essays. The world has changed and the author asks another 100 Australians to open up their hearts and articulate the beliefs they hold most dear.

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I lost my mobile at the mall and am now facing certain death. My mother will accuse me of being lazy, ungrateful and plain old stupid. My father will sentence me to die by disappointment. I am not an overly dramatic person, but a year's worth of numbers, texts and photos were in my phone, and if I don't get them back my life is not worth living.

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An autobiography of his life by David Stratton. "My only encounter of Federico Fellini occurred in a toilet. This was in 1966, when he was one of the most celebrated and admired film directors of the world." When he was 26, David Stratton directed his first Sydney Film Festival, and then travelled to visit European Festivals. Aust author.

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Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, is dead. His young acolyte, Miguel, sets out to investigate the author's suspicious death and the strange disappearance of an unfinished manuscript. To understand the death, Miguel scours the life. The literary fragments become patterns, become stories, become epic: a family saga of four generations.

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Imagine this. You are a country boy and just eighteen. The war has been raging for two years and because of your age, you have not been eligible for enlistment. Your mates, older by a few months are joining up and disappearing to the great adventure across the world in Europe.

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Personal privacy is threatened in our present world. Every time an individual uses an ATM, makes a claim on medical insurance, fills a prescription, etc., information about that person is recorded. Karr Robinson is a teenager for whom life is going well. But this changes when both his and his father's identities are obliterated.

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An eye-opening, firsthand account of Indonesia's campaign of terror in Aceh.

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Anders is back - its autumn in the EU, and the temperature is falling in more ways than one when Inspector Anders is ordered back to Italy. Two right-wing politicians have been murdered with an identical M.O. This is Anders' toughest assignment.

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During the winter of 1922, the exploration vessel, Raven, became trapped in the Antarctic ice, entombing 28 men aboard it. This is their story. Ages 14+.

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With a sudden jerk, squealing of brakes and a loud puff of the steam engine, the train shunted forward... At the age of five, Donna was taken away from her natural family and sent to a foster family in Newcastle. In this book, she reflects on her childhood memories and recalls her struggle with her identity.

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John Eales holding the Webb Ellis Cup aloft after Australia's triumph at the 1999 Rugby World Cup. John Aloisi tearing off his jersey after driving home the penalty kick against Uruguay to lead the Socceroos to the 2006 World Cup for the first time in 30 years.

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Sparks fly in this unputdownable young adult novel about two teenagers who don't get along - until it becomes a matter of life or death.

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Jasper Zammit is going to be a soccer legend. The only problem is that he needs to learn how to play first, instead of daydreaming about the future right in the middle of a game with his actual team. When a new girl, Lil, joins the team, Jasper thinks he has found someone as obsessed with soccer as he is. Ages 8+.

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There's a new kid at Jasper's school. His name is Aamir and he can't speak English. But when Jasper remembers his grandad saying that you don't need language to play sport, he takes Aamir onto the soccer field to teach him, but Aamir already has a few tricks of his own. This book is for children aged 8 to 12.

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It's a few weeks before the finals and Coach Wallace has to go overseas, but he leaves the Rovers in the hands of a new coach. His methods lead to bitter divisions and a game that is no longer fun. When Lil's brother arrives home from playing for the state team, he helps the Rovers devise a plan to get them back on track. Ages 8+.

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A biography of Joy Hester, the Australian woman artist married to Albert Tucker, who ran off with Guy Grey Smith, was a friend of Sunday Reed, and part of the art circle which included Sydney Nolan in the1940s and 1950s. Ignored in her lifetime (1920-1960) and neglected until the 1980s, she drew mainly with brush and ink.

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