New Items List November 2017

This Months Staff Picks From Librarian’s Choice

Soon / Lois Murphy An almost deserted town in the middle of nowhere, Nebulah’s days of mining and farming prosperity – if they ever truly ex-isted – are long gone. These days even the name on the road sign into town has been removed. Yet for Pete, an ex-policeman, Milly, Li and a small band of others, it’s the only place they have ever

felt at home. One winter solstice the birds disappear. A strange, residual and mysterious mist arrives. It is a real and potent force, yet also emblematic of the complacen-cy and unease that afflicts so many of our small towns, and the country that Murphy knows so well. Partly in-spired by the true story of Wittenoom, the ill-fated West Australian asbestos town, Soon is the story of the death of a haunted town, and the plight of the people who either won’t or simply can’t abandon all they have ever had. Manhattan Beach / Jennifer Egan Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery be-tween the two men. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished.

All the Wicked Girls / Chris Whitaker Everyone loves Summer Ryan. A model student and musical prodigy, she's a ray of light in the struggling small town of Grace, Alabama - especially compared to her troubled sister, Raine. Then Summer goes missing. Grace is already simmering, and with this new tragedy the police have their hands full keeping the peace. Only

Raine throws herself into the search, supported by a most unlikely ally. But perhaps there was always more to Summer than met the eye . . .

Sixty Seconds / Jesse Blackadder You can never go back - but can you for-give? A gripping story of pain and re-demption. The Brennans - parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby - have made a sea change, from chilly Hobart to subtropical Murwillumbah. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they're still adjusting to work,

school, and life in a sprawling purple weatherboard, when one morning, tragedy strikes. In the devastating after-math, the questions fly. What really happened? And who's to blame? Determined to protect his family, Finn finds himself under the police and media spotlight. Guilty and enraged, Bridget spends nights hunting answers in the last place imaginable. Jarrah - his innocence lost - faces a sudden and frightening adulthood where nothing is certain. Danger Music / Eddie Ayres Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical ex-perience - from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his thirties and landing in Australia to present an ex-tremely successful ABC Classic FM morn-ing radio show. But all of this time Eddie was Emma Ayres. In 2014 Emma was spiralling into a deep depression, driven by anguish about her gender. She quit the radio, travelled, and decided on a surprising path to salvation - teaching music in a war zone. Emma applied for a position at Dr Sarmast's renowned Afghani-stan National Institute of Music in Kabul, teaching cello to orphans and street kids.

Goodbye Christopher Robin / Ann Thwaite Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite’s acclaimed biog-raphy of A. A. Milne, one of the most suc-cessful English writers ever, and the crea-tor of Winnie-the-Pooh, and of Piglet, Tig-ger, Eeyore and Christopher Robin. But

the fictional Christopher Robin was based on Milne’s own son. This heart-warming and touching book recounts the true story that inspired the film Goodbye Christopher Robin, directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie and Kelly Macdonald, and offers the reader a glimpse into the relationship between Milne and the real-life Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of the Hundred Acre Wood.

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For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with

skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charis-matic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to at-tend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever”. The evening’s host is his friend and former stu-dent, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no excep-tion: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough to challenge the fundamentals of human existence. But Langdon and several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrat-ed evening is blown apart before Kirsch’s precious dis-covery can be revealed.

A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corpo-rate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghost write his memoir in six weeks. But as the writing gets under way,

Kehlmann begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws closer, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghost writing a memoir, or if Heidl is rewriting him—his life, his future. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Siegfried Heidl—and who is Kif Kehlmann? Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon “Nap” Dumas hasn’t been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo’s girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks—and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. For fifteen years, Nap has been searching, both for Maura and for the real rea-son behind his brother’s death. And now, it looks as though he may finally find what he’s been looking for.

When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church proclaims it a punishment from God but Lady Anne of Develish has different ideas. With her brutal husband absent, she de-

cides on more sensible ways to protect her people than the daily confessions of sin recommended by the Bishop. Anne gathers her serfs within the gates of Develish and refuses entry to outsiders, even to her husband. She makes an enemy of her daughter by doing so, but her resolve is strengthened by the support of her leading serfs … until food stocks run low and the nerves of all are tested by their ignorance of what is happening in the world outside. In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place... The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal de-vices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is im-mune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a de-mon who must be slain?

Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past—for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin, a messy divorce. Looking to make a new start, each sets out alone to walk two thousand kilome-

tres from Cluny to Santiago, in northwestern Spain, in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the Camino—the Way—for centuries. The Camino changes you, it’s said. It’s a chance to find a new version of yourself. But can these two very different people find each other? 1950s London. Tom Knelston is charis-matic, working class and driven by ambi-tion, ideals and passion. He is a man to watch. His wife Alice shares his vision. It seems they are the perfect match. Then out of the blue, Tom meets beautiful and un-happily married Diana Southcott, a fashion model. An exciting but dangerous affair is inevitable and potentially damaging to their careers. And when a child becomes ill, Tom is forced to make deci-sions about his principles, his reputation, his marriage, and most of all, his love for his child.

Librarian’s Choice titles Fiction: The windfall / Diksha Basu

Sixty seconds / Jesse Blackadder

The visitors / Catherine Burns

The good daughter / Alexandra Burt

The dark isle / Clare Carson

Prodigal daughter / Jane Carter

Dancing home / Paul Collis

The lie of the land / Amanda Craig

Manhattan Beach / Jennifer Egan

The vengeance of mothers : the journals of Margaret

Kelly & Molly McGill / Jim Fergus

What she left / Rosie Fiore

The night brother / Rosie Garland

All the dirty parts / Daniel Handler

The Sparsholt affair / Alan Hollinghurst

Peculiar ground / Lucy Hughes-Hallett

A good country / Laleh Khadivi

Unleashed / Peter Laws

An act of silence / Colette McBeth

The wardrobe mistress / Patrick McGrath

A history of running away / Paula McGrath

The black sheep / Sophie McKenzie

The one / John Marrs

The world of tomorrow / Brendan Mathews

You can run / Steve Mosby

The boat runner / Devin Murphy

Soon / Lois Murphy

Set me free: how shakespeare saved my life /

Striano Salvatore

The light we lost / Jill Santopolo

A traitor in the family / Nicholas Searle

Lost and found sisters / Jill Shalvis

The gulf / Anna Spargo-Ryan

The necessary angel / C. K. Stead

All the wicked girls / Chris Whitaker

Biography & Autobiography: High voltage : the life of Angus Young, AC/DC's las t

man standing / Jeff Apter

Lou Reed : a life / Anthony DeCurtis

Ali : a life / Jonathan Eig

Danger music / Eddie Ayres

Climbing the mountain / Allan Moffat with John Smailes

We are all shipwrecks : a memoir / Kelly Grey Carlisle

All the burning bridges : a memoir / Steve Bisley

Victoria & Abdul : the extraordinary true story of the

queen's closest confidant / Shrabani Basu

Goodbye Christopher Robin : A.A. Milne and the

making of Winnie-the-Pooh / Ann Thwaite

Non Fiction: Saving the snowy brumbies : the Wilson sisters'

adventures taming horses from Australia's

Snowy Mountains / Kelly Wilson

Life of brine : a surfer's journey / Phil Jarratt

The fair and the foul : inside our sporting nation /

David Hill

Workshy / Dave Graney

A hard place / Brett Stevens

Adventures of a young naturalist : the zoo quest

expeditions / David Attenborough

Don’t forget the wide range of digital titles also available via Wheelers, One Click Digital and cloudLibrary. http://libraries.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/books/Pages/e-books-e-audio.aspx

Literary Award Winners 2017 Indie Book Awards Best Fiction - The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland as a master painter, the first woman to be so hon-oured. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known

to remain-a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the Manhattan bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australi-an grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the land-scape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibition of fe-male Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive. Man Booker Prize - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers re-port that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, super-natural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lin-coln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm – called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo – and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.

Miles Franklin Award - Extinctions by Josphine Wilson Professor Frederick Lothian, retired en-gineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. His wife, Martha, is dead and his two adult children are

lost to him in their own ways. Surrounded and ob-structed by the debris of his life – objects he has col-lected over many years and tells himself he is keeping for his daughter – he is determined to be miserable, but is tired of his existence and of the life he has cho-sen. When a series of unfortunate incidents forces him and his neighbour, Jan, together, he begins to realise the damage done by the accumulation of a lifetime’s secrets and lies, and to comprehend his own short-comings. Finally, Frederick Lothian has the opportuni-ty to build something meaningful for the ones he loves.

Ned Kelly Award Best Fiction - Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty Belfast 1988: a man has been shot in the back with an arrow. It ain't Injuns and it isn't Robin Hood. But uncovering exactly who has done it will take Detec-tive Inspector Sean Duffy down his most

dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on the high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave. Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece. NSW Premier’s Literary Award & Stella Prize Winner - Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose Arky Levin is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has asked him to keep one devastating promise. One day he finds his way to The Atrium at MOMA and sees Marina Abramovic in The Artist is Present. The performance continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky. As he watches and meets other people drawn to the exhibit, he slowly starts to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do. This dazzlingly original novel asks beguiling questions about the nature of art, life and love and finds a way to answer them.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even

greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Rail-road, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they man-age to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Un-derground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora em-barks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.

What staff are Reading / Watching / Listening

Judy is listening to - Eagles Prey by Simon Scarrow It is late summer 44 AD and the battle-weary Roman legions are in their second year of campaigning against the British tribes. The troops’ com-mander, General Plautius, is under considerable pressure from the em-

peror to crush the natives once and for all. Centurions Macro and Cato are with the crack Second Legion under the precarious leadership of Centurion Maximus and it’s their task to hold a ford across the river Tame-sis when the natives are forced into a trap. Tony is reading - 101 Amazing Uses For Coconut Oil by Susan Branson Coconut oil is a well-known super food, but the benefits are not limited to the kitchen. Boost your metabolism, heal cold sores, reduce hypertension, dis-cover natural remedies for your skin, and so much more in 101 Amazing Uses for Coconut Oil. Millions of people are turning away from the harsh effects of modern solutions and back to the gentle but powerful benefits of nature's oldest remedies.

Jessie is reading - Nevermoor : The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut Australian author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who es-capes death and finds herself in a mag-ical world - but is then tested beyond

her wildest imagination. Morrigan Crow is cursed. Born on an unlucky day, she is blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks - and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on Eventide. But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupi-ter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. Catherine is reading - Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig Reasons to Stay Alive is about making the most of your time on earth. In the western world the suicide rate is high-est amongst men under the age of 35. Matt Haig could have added to that statistic when, aged 24, he found him-self staring at a cliff-edge about to jump off. This is the story of why he didn't, how he recovered and learned to live with anxiety and depression. It's also an up-beat, joyous and very funny exploration of how to live better, love better, read better and feel more.

Shana is reading - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Missis-sippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hos-pital one stormy night, Rill is left in

charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Chil-dren’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prose-cutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. Ruth is reading - The Eye of the Reindeer by Eva Weaver Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Rit-va is sent away to Seili, an island in the Southern Archipelago of Finland. A for-mer leper colony, Seili is now home to 'hopeless cases' - to women the doc-tors call mad. But Ritva knows she doesn't belong there. As biting winter follows biting winter, she longs to be near to her sister, and wonders why her father ever allowed her to be taken to this desolate place. Hope arrives in the form of Martta, a headstrong girl who becomes Ritva's only friend. Mart-ta is a Sami, from the north. All through her childhood, Ritva's mother told her wonderful Sami legends and tales - of Vaja the reindeer, the stolen sealskin, of a sacred drum hidden long ago.

Tony is watching - The Leftovers: Season 1 Three years after the disappearance of 2% of the global population, a group of people from New York struggle to con-tinue their lives, while they cope with the tragedy of the unexplained nature of the event.

Alan is watching - Pulse When successful high-flier Frankie Bell (Claire van der Boom) is brought crashing to earth by chronic kidney failure she targets an alternate future. Eight years on she is in her second year as a practicing doctor starting her first day in a Renal rotation. Driven to use her second chance to save others, Frankie must confront an ailing health system, and face her tough-est challenge - learning to let go. To find out what’s happening in our libraries sub-scribe to the E-news: http://libraries.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/news-and-