New Items List November 2018

This Months Staff Picks From Librarian’s Choice

Cedar Valley by Holly Throsby On the first day of summer in 1993, two strangers arrive in the town of Cedar Val-ley. One is a calm looking man in a brown suit. He makes his way down the main street and walks directly to Cedar Valley Curios & Old Wares, sitting down on the footpath, where he leans silently against the big glass window for hours. The other

is 21-year-old Benny Miller. Fresh out of university, Ben-ny has come to Cedar Valley in search of information about her mother, Vivian, who has recently died. Vivian's mysterious old friend, Odette Fisher, has offered Benny her modest pale green cottage for as long as she wants it. Is there any connection between the man on the pave-ment and Benny's quest to learn more about her mother? Holly Throsby is the perfect guide as Cedar Valley and its inhabitants slowly reveal their secrets. The Girl on the Page by John Purcell Amy Winston is a hard-drinking, bed-hopping, hot-shot young book editor on a downward spiral. Having made her name and fortune by turning an average thriller writer into a Lee Child, Amy is given the unenviable task of steering literary great Helen Owen back to publication. When Amy knocks on the door of their beautiful townhouse in north west London, Helen and her hus-band, the novelist Malcolm Taylor, are conducting a silent war of attrition. The townhouse was paid for with the enormous seven figure advance Helen was given for the novel she wrote to end fifty years of making ends meets on critical acclaim alone. The novel Malcolm thinks un-worthy of her. The novel Helen has yet to deliver. The novel Amy has come to collect.

Shell by Kristina Olsson In 1965 as Danish architect Jørn Utzon’s striking vision for the Sydney Opera House transforms the skyline and un-leashes a storm of controversy, the shad-ow of the Vietnam War and a deadly lot-tery threaten to tear the country apart. Journalist Pearl Keogh, exiled to the wom-en’s pages after being photographed at an

anti-war protest, is desperate to find her two missing brothers and save them from the draft. Axel Lindquist, a visionary young glass artist from Sweden, is obsessed with creating a unique work that will do justice to Utzon’s towering masterpiece.

Don’t Stop Believin’ by Olivia Newton-John For more than five decades Olivia New-ton-John has been one of our most suc-cessful and adored entertainers. A four-time Grammy Award winner, she is one of the world’s best-selling recording artists of all time, with more than 100 million al-bums sold. Her starring roles in the iconic

movies Grease and Xanadu catapulted her into super stardom. Her appeal as a performer is timeless. In addi-tion to her music and screen successes, Olivia is perhaps best known for her strength, courage and grace. After her own personal journeys with cancer, she has thrived and become an inspiration for millions around the world. A tireless advocate for countless charities, her true passion is as the founding champion of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in her hometown of Melbourne. Olivia has always radiated joy, hope and compassion - determined to be a force for good in the world. The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Val-ley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs. But the detectives soon found themselves on the trail of a man they didn’t know. The Arsonist takes readers on the hunt for this man, and inside the strange puzzle of his mind. It is also the story of fire in this country, and of a community that owed its existence to that very element. The command of fire has defined and sustained us as a species – under-standing its abuse will define our future.

The Death Knock by Elodie Harper Three women have been found dead in East Anglia. The police deny a connection. TV news reporter Frankie smells a story… Ava knows that the threat is real. She's been kidnapped by someone claiming to be the killer: a stranger who seems to know everything about her. As Frankie fol-lows the case, she enters a terrifying

online world where men's rage against women may be turning murderous - and where her persistence might just make her a target. And Ava must struggle not only to stay alive... but to stay sane. From journalist Elodie Harper, The Death Knock is a compelling story of the worst that man can do and the hunt for the truth - at all costs.

Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encoun-ters people experiencing the worst mo-ments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories – and a terrifying brush with her own mortality – sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our

chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next? In this wise and layered book, Leigh talks intimately with people who’ve faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Expecting broken lives, she in-stead finds strength, hope, even humour. Leigh brilliantly condenses the cutting-edge research on the way the hu-man brain processes fear and grief, and poses the ques-tions we too often ignore out of awkwardness. Along the way, she offers an unguarded account of her own chal-lenges and what she’s learned about coping with life’s un-expected blows. The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell The life of 79-year-old pensioner PEGGY SMART is as beige as the decor in her re-tirement village. Her week revolves around aqua aerobics and appointments with her doctor. Following a very minor traffic acci-dent, things have turned frosty with her grown-up children and she is afraid they are trying to take away her independence. The highlight of Peggy's day is watching her neighbour Brian head out for his morning swim. She dreams of inviting the handsome widower - treasurer of the Residents' Committee and one of the few eligible men in the village - to an intimate dinner. But why would an educated man like Brian, a chartered accountant no less, look twice at Peggy? As a woman of a certain age, she fears she has become invisible, even to men in their eighties.

The Children’s House by Alice Nelson Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each born on a kibbutz in Israel. They meet years later at a university in California, when Jacob is a successful psychiatrist with a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage. The family moves to a brown-stone in Harlem, formerly a convent inhab-ited by elderly nuns. Outside the house one

day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. Unmoored and devas-tated, Constance and Gabriel quickly come to depend on Marina; and her bond with the little boy intensifies. The pure, blinding love that it is possible to feel for children not our own is the thread that weaves through The Children’s House. When Marina learns some disturbing news about her long-disappeared mother, Gizela, she leaves New York in search of the loose ends of her life. As Christmas nears, her tight-knit, loving family, along with Constance and Ga-briel, join Marina in her mother's former home, with a star-tling consequence, an act that will transform all of their lives forever.

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Latest Release Bestsellers A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a

police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and be-gins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters. The Lost Man by Jane Harper Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelent-ing sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last chance for their middle brother, Cameron. The Bright family's qui-et existence is thrown into grief and anguish. Something had been troubling Cameron. Did he lose hope and walk to his death? Because if he didn't, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects…

War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival parties scramble to settle on the identity of the next king. And across the country invading Norsemen continue their relentless incursion, ever hungry for land. Uhtred – a legendary warrior, admired and sought as an ally, feared as an ad-

versary – finds himself once again torn between his two heritages: fighting on what he considers the wrong side, cursed by misfortune and tragedy and facing one of his most formidable enemies. Only the most astute cunning, the greatest loyalty and the most spectacular courage can save him. Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. After six years with her boyfriend, she is no longer sure what she wants, and when her father becomes ill she heads to her family's cottage at Sunset Beach in North Carolina to make some difficult decisions. Tru Walls has been summoned across an ocean from where he was born and raised in Zimbabwe by a letter from a man claiming to be his father. In journeying to Sunset Beach, Tru hopes to unravel the mystery surrounding his mother's life, but the letter will lead him in an unexpected direction. When these two strangers' paths cross, their chance encounter sets in motion a heart-breaking story - one that will trans-cend decades, continents and the workings of fate.

Arcadia by Di Morrissey In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's se-cluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an art-ist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, an-cient forest. And when an unknown pred-ator strikes, she is saved by an unusual protector… Two generations later, Stel-

la's granddaughter, Sally, and her best friend, Jessica, stumble over Stella's secret life in the forest and find themselves threatened in turn. What starts as a girls' adventurous road trip becomes a hunt for the story of the past, to solve the present, and save their future… Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and fight, and learn to reckon with the adult world. It is Clay, the quiet one, who will build a bridge; for his family, for his past, for his sins. He builds a bridge to trans-cend humanness. To survive. A miracle and nothing less. Markus Zusak makes his long-awaited return with a profoundly heartfelt and inventive novel about a family held together by stories, and a young life caught in the current: a boy in search of greatness, as a cure for a painful past.

The Forbidden Door by Dean Koontz Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk is on the trail of the members of a murderous or-ganization who drove her husband - and scores of other fine individuals - to com-mit suicide for no explicable reason. After discovering their plan to subjugate the world by means of an insidious new tech-nology, she has been hunting them down

one by one. Now she is America's most wanted fugitive, and the organization is closing in on her beloved five-year-old son, whom she sent into protective hiding with her dearest friends. Faced with insurmountable odds, but armed with a mother's love for her son, Jane will stop at nothing to save him. But even if she can get to him in time there's still the risk that the forbidden door will be opened and an unimaginable terror unleashed. In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin A missing private investigator is found, locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still - both for his family and the police - the body was in an area that had already been searched, ten years ago. Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is part of a new inquiry, combing through the mistakes of the original case. There were always suspicions over how the investigation was han-dled and now - after a decade without answers - it's time for the truth. Every officer involved must be questioned, and it seems everyone on the case has something to hide, and everything to lose.

Librarian’s Choice titles Fiction Frieda : a novel of the real Lady Chatterley /

Annabel Abbs

The bus on Thursday / Shirley Barrett

The fallen architect / Charles Belfoure

City of sinners / A.A. Dhand

Washington Black / Esi Edugyan

An absolutely remarkable thing / Hank Green

The year of the farmer / Rosalie Ham

The death knock / Elodie Harper

Body & soul / John Harvey

The valley / Steve Hawke

Make them sorry / Sam Hawken

Matryoshka / Katherine Johnson

It all falls down / Sheena Kamal

Flight or fright / edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent

The winter soldier / Daniel Mason

Ghost virus / Graham Masterton

The single ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village /

Joanna Nell

The children's house / Alice Nelson

The girl without skin / Mads Peder Nordbo

Shell / Kristina Olsson

The girl on the page / John Purcell

Radiant shimmering light / Sarah Selecky

The Baghdad clock / Shahad al-Rawi

Astroturf / Matthew Sperling

Miss Kopp just won't quit / Amy Stewart

Cedar Valley / Holly Throsby

Perfect ten / Jacqueline Ward

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

Non-Fiction Challenge accepted! / Celeste Barber

Small fry / Lisa Brennan-Jobs

On air / Mike Carlton

Rage becomes her : the power of women's anger /

Soraya Chemaly

The Warburgs / Ron Chernow

Wedderburn : a true tale of blood and dust / Maryrose

Cuskelly

Full disclosure / Stormy Daniels with Kevin Carr O'Leary

Women kind : unlocking the power of women supportin g

women / Dr Kirstin Ferguson and Catherine Fox

In pieces : a memoir / Sally Field

Boys will be boys / Clementine Ford

The guilty feminist / Deborah Frances-White

Half the perfect world : writers, dreamers and drif ters on

Hydra, 1955-1964 / Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell

Magic / Jan Golembiewski

Brief answers to the big questions / Stephen Hawking

Judas : how a sister's testimony brought down a

criminal mastermind / Astrid Holleeder

The arsonist : a mind on fire / Chloe Hooper

Michael : my brother, the lost boy of INXS / Tina

Hutchence

Always look on the bright side of life / Eric Idle

Weatherboard & iron / Barnaby Joyce

Bad Buddhist / Meshel Laurie

The beekeeper of Sinjar / Dunya Mikhail

Leather soul / Bob Murphy

Don't stop believin' / Olivia Newton-John

The Whiskey Au Go Go massacre / Geoff Plunkett

Any ordinary day / Leigh Sales

Now, where was I? / Glenn Shorrock

The scandalous Freddie McEvoy / Frank Walker

No spin / Shane Warne with Mark Nicholas

The Peter Norman story / Andrew Webster & Matt Norman

Whiskey in a teacup / Reese Witherspoon

Woo's wonderful world of maths / Eddie Woo

New & Interesting Non-Fiction Europe: A Natural History by Tim Flannery About 100 million years ago, the inter-action of three continents—Asia, North America and Africa—formed the tropical island archipelago that would become the Europe of today, a place of exceptional diversity, rapid change and high energy. Europe: A Natural

History is full of surprises. Over the millennia Europe has received countless immigrant species and trans-formed them. It is where the first coral reefs formed. It was once home to some of the world’s largest ele-phants. And it played a vital role in the evolution of our own species. This enthralling ecological history is more than the story of Europe and the Europeans, it will change our understanding of life itself. The Barefoot Investor for Families by Scott Pape The eagerly anticipated follow-up, The Barefoot Investor for Families, sticks to the same script. It's aimed fairly and squarely at parents, grandparents, and basically anyone who read that book and said: 'Why the hell wasn't I taught this years ago?' Scott lays out ten mon-ey milestones kids need to have nailed before they leave home, and it's all structured around one family 'money meal' each week (so roughly 20 minutes). Scott's mission is to make sure your kids are financial-ly strong so they never, ever get sucked into the traps that middle-aged bankers have devised to rob them of their money and their confidence. There are only ten things every kid needs to know about money, and you can teach them over dinner, once a week.

Brew a Batch: A Beginner’s Guide to Home-Brewed Beer by Christopher Sidwa Be the most popular person at the party with your own home brew - as good as the wildly popular Batch beers. Join the craft beer phenome-non by learning to brew and bottle your own beer, brewed the way you

like it and using only basic home brewing equipment. Christopher Sidwa - head brewer and co-founder of wildly popular craft brewery Batch Brewing Co. - walks you through the entire process, from choosing the best ingredients to setting up your home brewery, a full guide to brewing techniques, even how to taste and assess your batch. There is no mistake Christo-pher hasn't made while brewing at home, so that you don't have to. This lively handbook assumes no prior knowledge and covers all the advice you need to start brewing great beer.

Homespun Style by Selina Lake Showcasing inspiring homes around the world, the book reflects our growing passion for crafting, stitching and painting. These are homes packed with personality and interest, full of homemade pieces, restored junk-shop finds and one-off treasures. Interiors

stylist Selina Lake and writer Joanna Simmons will show you how this homely, crafty look has been given a modern twist with vivid colours, tactile fabrics and bold combinations. The book begins with the Themes, from the basics of modern craft to making colour and pattern work. It also focuses on imaginative ways to recycle and reuse, from transforming furniture with a lick of paint to finding inspired new uses for everyday items. Next, Details looks at textiles, furniture and dis-play, while the third section, Spaces, shows how the style works beautifully in living rooms, kitchens, bed-rooms and bathrooms, children's rooms, workrooms and even out of doors. The CSIRO Healthy Gut Diet by Pennie Taylor, Michael Conlon & Tony Bird The explosion of scientific research in this field - with CSIRO at the forefront - has also led to the dis-covery that feeding our gut bacteria with a particular type of fermenta-ble fibre called resistant starch is a major piece in the gut health puzzle. This book pro-vides information on how the gut functions and what can go wrong, along with a collection of recipes spe-cifically developed to be high in fibre and resistant starch. Written by a team of experienced CSIRO re-searchers, including nutritional scientists and dieti-tians, many of whom are internationally recognised authorities in nutrition and gut health, this book con-tains simple, practical advice and a wide range of tasty, easy-to-make recipes designed to benefit the gut and overall health.

Baking Basics: Simple Easy to Follow Recipes for the Homebaker Included 200+ essential recipes No-body knows baking like AWW does, with thousands of recipes developed over decades, we are well positioned to share our tips for success. You will find best version of all classics: gooey brownies, light sponges, syrupy

cakes, slices and more. Start off by mastering a basic recipe, build on it with fun flavour variations, or add a further flourish to impress. This blue-ribbon cookbook is for novice to advance bakers, and those that under-stand the joy in baking.

What staff are Reading / Watching / Listening

Judy is reading - The Invitation by Belinda Alexandra Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Caroline invites Emma to

visit her in New York, on one condition: Emma must tutor her shy, young niece, Isadora, and help her pre-pare for her society debut. Caroline lives a life of un-imaginable excess and opulence as one of New York's Gilded Age millionaires and Emma is soon im-mersed in a world of luxury beyond her wildest dreams - a far cry from her bohemian lifestyle as a harpist and writer with her lover, Claude, in Montmar-tre. Marina is reading - Don’t Believe it by Charlie Donlea The Girl of Sugar Beach is about to become the most watched documen-tary in television history. The ten-part true-crime serial centers on the burning question: did Grace Sebold really mur-der her boyfriend, or is she the victim of a shocking miscarriage of justice? For Grace has spent the last ten years in prison, and now she’s reaching out to filmmaker Sidney Ryan in a final, desperate attempt to prove her innocence. As the first episodes go to air, exposing startling new evidence and additional suspects, the series quickly becomes a ratings smash - and Sidney a celebrity in her own right.

Alison is watching - Hotel Transylvania 3 The monster family embarks on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer va-cation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sail-ing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the

cruise has to offer, from monster volleyball to exotic excursions, and catching up on their moon tans. Jessie is reading - This Is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Ro-sie and Penn want Claude to be who-ever Claude wants to be. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world.

Cat is reading - Boys Wil Boys by Clementine Ford Fearless feminist heroine Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspira-tion to hundreds of thousands of Aus-tralian women and girls. Her incendiary first book, Fight Like A Girl, is taking the world by storm, galvanising women to demand and fight for real equality

and not merely the illusion of it. Now Boys Will Be Boys examines what needs to change for that equality to become a reality. It answers the question most asked of Clementine: 'How do I raise my son to re-spect women and give them equal space in the world? How do I make sure he's a supporter and not a perpe-trator?' Amanda is reading - Blood Road by Stuart MacBride Logan McRae’s personal history is hard-ly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards he’s policing his fellow officers. When Detective In-spector Bell turns up dead in the driver’s seat of a crashed car it’s a shock to eve-ryone. Because Bell died two years ago, they buried him. Or they thought they did.

Shana is reading - Him by Clare Empson Catherine has witnessed something so traumatic that she can't speak. Or won't speak.The doctors say the only way forward is to look into her past. Cathe-rine needs to start with HIM. Fifteen years ago she met Lucian at university and fell into a passionate love affair.

They were meant to be together forever. But some-thing happened. Something that destroyed them. Catherine married someone else. Had two children. She moved on - or so she thought. Now Lucian is back, showing her how different life could have been. Simone is watching - I, Tonya Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, TONYA is a darkly comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensa-tional scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan.

Cathy is watching - Absentia While hunting one of Boston's most notorious serial killers, FBI Agent Emi-ly Byrne (Stana Katic) disappears without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, Emily is found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive, and with no memory of the years she was missing.