New Items List October 2017

This Months Staff Picks From Librarian’s Choice

The History of Bees / Maja Lunde England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive—one that will give both him and his children honor and fame. United States, 2007. George is a beekeeper fighting an uphill battle against modern farming, but hopes that his son can be their

salvation. China, 2098. Tao hand paints pollen onto the fruit trees now that the bees have long since disap-peared. When Tao’s young son is taken away by the au-thorities after a tragic accident, she sets out on a gruel-ling journey to find out what happened to him. Little Fires Everywhere / Celeste Ng In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is play-ing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysteri-ous past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.

Yesterday / Felicia Yap Imagine a world in which classes are divid-ed not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day’s worth of memory; elite Duos have two. In this strati-fied society, where Monos are excluded from holding high office and demanding

jobs, Claire and Mark are a rare mixed marriage. Clare is a conscientious Mono housewife, Mark a novelist-turned-politician Duo on the rise. They are a shining example of a new vision of tolerance and equality-until… A beautiful woman is found dead, her body dumped in England’s River Cam. The woman is Mark’s mistress, and he is the prime suspect in her murder. The detective investigating the case has secrets of his own. So did the victim. And when both the investigator’s and the suspect’s memories are constantly erased—how can anyone learn the truth?

The Perfect Stranger / Megan Miranda Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Penn-sylvania, where Leah can get a teaching

position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resem-blance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy dis-appears days later. Determined to find Emmy, Leah co-operates with Kyle Donovan, a handsome young police officer on the case. As they investigate her friend’s life for clues, Leah begins to wonder: did she ever really know Emmy at all? With no friends, family, or a digital footprint, the police begin to suspect that there is no Emmy Grey. Soon Leah’s credibility is at stake, and she is forced to revisit her past: the article that ruined her career. I Am I Am / Maggie O’Farrell A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encoun-ter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different loca-tions, reveal to us a whole life in a series of tense, viscer-al snapshots. It is a book to make you question yourself: what would you do if your life was in danger? How would you react? And what would you stand to lose? I AM, I AM, I AM is a book you will finish newly conscious of your own vulnerability, and determined to make every heart-beat count.

Up Until Now / Petrea King As a child Petrea King was dogged by health issues, spending months in hospital over many years. After leaving school, her desire to help others impelled her to be-come a nurse, then later to qualify as a na-turopath, herbalist, homoeopath, yoga in-structor and meditation teacher. In her early

thirties Petrea was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukae-mia and given little chance of surviving. She defied her dire prognosis, and believes meditation and coming to terms with past traumas, including the suicide of her brother Brenden, were key to her recovery.

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The Mystery Gut / Kerryn Phelps As practitioners, Prof Phelps and Dr Lee know the problems caused by poor gut health and how an uneasy gut can make life misera-ble. Symptoms such as weight gain, diar-rhoea and cramping are common, but few people receive a definitive disease label. Most of us are entirely unaware that by taking

care of our gut we can improve our overall health. In this meticulously researched and highly practical book, the doc-tors explain how we are on the threshold of a major revolu-tion in the way we think about the gut and its relevance to our health. 5 Ingredients / Jamie Oliver Cooking doesn't have to be complicated - that's why Jamie's Quick & Easy 5-Ingredient Food is sure to become your new best friend in the kitchen. It's all about mak-ing the journey to good food, super-simple. Every recipe uses just five key ingredients, ensuring you can get a plate of food togeth-er fast, whether it's finished and on the table super-quickly, or after minimal hands-on prep, you've let the oven do the hard work for you. We're talking quality over quantity, a little diligence on the cooking front, and in return massive fla-vour.

Guinness World Records 2018 The record-breaking annual is back and full of incredible accomplishments, spectacular stunts, cutting-edge science and amazing sporting feats. Discover hundreds of new photographs, stats and facts. Also new this year is a celebration of the superlative with dazzling info graphic features exploring the

ultimate absolutes, such as the fastest, highest and heavi-est. Pretty Tough Plants There’s a growing demand for dependa-bly hardy plants that require less mainte-nance and less water, but look no less beautiful in the garden. Plant Select—the leading purveyor of plants designed to thrive in difficult climates—meets this need by promoting plants that allow gar-deners everywhere to have stunning, environmentally-friendly gardens that use fewer resources.

I Quit Sugar: Fast Family Meals / Sarah Wilson Sarah Wilson and her IQS team taught the world to quit sugar in eight weeks and then went on to teach everyone how to cook deli-cious essentials, simply. Sarah incorporates her mindful, sustainable and economical practices to show how to feed your family

on any night of the week in a simple, healthy way. Here, she's compiled sugar-free recipes for the whole family to enjoy.

Latest Release Bestsellers Five women reluctantly pick up their back-packs and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side. The hike through the rugged Giralang Ranges is meant to take the office col-leagues out of their air-conditioned comfort zone and teach resilience and team build-ing. At least that is what the corporate re-

treat website advertises. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a particularly keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing bushwalker. Alice Russell is the whistle-blower in his latest case. She knows all the secrets: about the company she works for and the people she works with. March, 1976. The height of The Troubles. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is safe. When detective constable Jane Ten-nison survives a deadly explosion at Cov-ent Garden tube station, she finds herself in the middle of a media storm. Minutes before the blast, she caught sight of the bomber. Too traumatised to identify him, she is neverthe-less a key witness and put under 24-hour police protec-tion. As work continues round the clock to unmask the terrorists, the Metropolitan police are determined nothing will disrupt their annual Good Friday dinner dance. Amid tight security, hundreds of detectives and their wives and girlfriends will be at St Ermin's Hotel in central London. Jane, too, is persuaded to attend.

Abandoned by her mother and only occa-sionally visited by her secretive father, Jus-tine is raised by her pop, a man tormented by visions of the Burma Railway. Justine finds sanctuary in Pop's chooks and The Choke, where the banks of the Murray Riv-er are so narrow it seems they might touch - a place of staggering natural beauty. But

the river can't protect Justine from danger. Her father is a criminal, and the world he exposes her to can be lethal. Justine is overlooked and underestimated, a shy and often silent observer of her chaotic world. She learns that she has to make sense of it on her own. On the day of Barack Obama’s inaugura-tion, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architec-tural jewel of “the Gardens,” a cloistered community in New York’s Greenwich Vil-lage. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediate-ly intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family. Along with his improbable name, untraceable accent, and unmistakable whiff of danger, Nero Golden has brought along his three adult sons.

The darkest and most disturbing case re-port from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old class-mate—and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In

the investigation that follows, one boy turns state’s evi-dence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ring-leader escapes without a trace. Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed. The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in tur-moil as high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty and love, and Ned soon finds himself on the opposite side from the girl he longs to marry, Margery Fitzgerald. Then Eliza-beth Tudor becomes queen and all of Europe turns against England. The shrewd, determined young mon-arch sets up the country’s first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebellions and inva-sion plans.

Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile seeker of justice for herself and others—even she has never been able to uncover the most telling facts of her traumatic childhood, the secrets that might finally, fully explain her to herself. Now, when she sees a chance to uncover

them once and for all, she enlists the help of Mikael Blomkvist, the editor of the muckraking, investigative journal Millennium. And she will let nothing stop her—not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who pass-es a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseu-doscientific experiment known only as The Registry. A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective superintendent, and now inmate, John Brace. Brace was convicted of corruption and involvement in the death of a gamekeeper – and Vera played a part in his downfall. Brace promises Vera infor-mation about the disappearance of Robbie Marshall, a notorious wheeler-dealer, if she will look out for his daughter and grandchildren. He tells her that Mar-shall is dead, his body buried close to St Mary’s Island in Whitley Bay. However, when a search team investigates, officers find not one skeleton, but two.

Librarian’s Choice titles Fiction: Burning down / Venero Armanno

The girl from Munich / Tania Blanchard

Marlena / Julie Buntin

Terra nullius / Claire G. Coleman The floating theatre / Martha Conway

The child finder / Rene Denfeld

Bad to worse / Robert Edeson

Dinner at the centre of the Earth / Nathan Englander The Mitford murders / Jessica Fellowes

How bright are all things here / Susan Green

The city always wins / Omar Robert Hamilton

Cold feet : the lost years / Carmel Harrington

The Susan effect / Peter Hoeg Forest dark / Nicole Krauss

Girl in snow / Danya Kukafka

Now let's dance / Karine Lambert

The history of bees / Maja Lunde You be mother / Meg Mason

The seven imperfect rules of Elvira Carr / Frances Maynard

Lea / Pascal Mercier

The burning girl / Claire Messud All the galaxies / Philip Miller

The perfect stranger / Megan Miranda

Parting words / Cass Moriarty

Lightning men / Thomas Mullen

Little fires everywhere / Celeste Ng Another woman's husband / Gill Paul

The lightkeeper's daughter / Jean E. Pendziwol

Nineteen letters / Jodi Perry

Best day ever / Kaira Rouda A promise to kill / Erik Storey

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore / Matthew Sullivan

My absolute darling / Gabriel Tallent

Flights / by Olga Tokarczuk The mummy bloggers / Holly Wainwright

False lights / K. J. Whittaker

Yesterday / Felicia Yap

Young Jane Young / Gabrielle Zevin Just another week in suburbia / Les Zig

Biography & Autobiography: The museum of words : a memoir of language, writing , and mortality / Georgia Blain What happened / Hillary Rodham Clinton

Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker / A. N. Wilson

The enigmatic Mr Deakin / Judith Brett

Adventurous spirit / Heather Hawkins

Up until now : the inspiring story of the founder o f Quest for Life / Petra King

Outback legends / Evan McHugh

Great Australian outback nurses stories / Bill 'Swampy' Marsh

I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death / Maggie O'Farrell

Billy Slater autobiography / Billy Slater

Worth fighting for / Dana Vulin Non Fiction: Bush doctors / Annabelle Brayley

Please explain / Anna Broinowski

The prince and the assassin / Steve Harris

Stealth raiders : a few daring men in 1918 / Lucas Jordan

Jane & me : my Austen heritage / Caroline Jane Knight

Here it is : coaching, leadership and life / Paul Roos

Emergencies only / Amanda McClelland

The fatalist / Campbell McConachie

The smack track : inside the navy's war / Ian McPhedran

Escape artist / Peter Monteath

Secret army / Federico Varese 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

Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2017 Autumn / Ali Smith Autumn 2016: Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK is in pieces, divid-ed by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith's

new novel is a meditation on a world filling up with borders, on what richness and worth are, on what har-vest means. From Shakespearian jeu d'esprit, via Keatsian melancholy and the sheer bright energy of 1960s Pop Art, this first in a quartet of novels casts an eye over our own time, asking who we are, where we are, right now. Here is time, ever-changing, ever cycli-cal. Here comes Autumn.

4321 / Paul Auster On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single be-ginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic ma-terial, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectu-al passions contrast. Chapter by chapter, the rotating narratives evolve into an elaborate dance of inner worlds enfolded within the outer forces of history as, one by one, the intimate plot of each Ferguson's story rushes on across the tumultuous and fractured terrain of mid twentieth-century America. A boy grows up-again and again and again.

History of Wolves / Emily Fridland How far would you go to belong? Four-teen-year-old Linda lives with her par-ents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own

devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into their orbit. She begins to babysit Paul and feels welcome, that she finally has a place to belong. Yet something isn't right. Drawn into secrets she doesn't understand, Linda must make a choice. But how can a girl with no real knowledge of the world understand what the con-sequences will be?

Exit West / Mohsin Hamid In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon clois-tered in a premature intimacy by the un-rest roiling their city. When it explodes,

turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if peri-lously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Na-dia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives be-hind, they find a door and step through. . . . Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and cour-age that is both completely of our time and for all time. Elmet / Fiona Mozley Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them with his bare hands. They foraged and hunted. When they were younger, Daniel and Cathy had gone to school. But they were not like the other children then, and they were even less like them now. Sometimes Daddy disappeared, and would re-turn with a rage in his eyes. But when he was at home he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vul-tures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.

Lincoln in the Bardo / George Saunders February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has be-gun in earnest, and the nation has be-gun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies

upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspa-pers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying.

What staff are Reading / Watching / Listening

Cathy is reading - Wellmania by Brigid Delaney Cold-pressed juices, quitting sugar, Paleo, hot yoga, mindfulness … if you embrace these things you will be happy, you will be well – just ask Instagram. Wellness has become a global mega-industry. But does any of this stuff actual-ly work?

Micah is watching - Taboo Series 1 Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Ke-ziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father's shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. But his father's legacy is a poisoned chalice, and with enemies lurking in every dark corner, James must navigate increasingly complex territories to avoid his own death sentence.

Catherine is listening to - Triple J Hottest 100 Vol. 24 Now in its 24th year, triple j’s Hot-test 100 remains the most talked about and listened to radio event of the year, counting down the hottest songs of 2016. 1. Flume – Never Be Like You

Tony is reading - The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh——one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today——reveals an art of living in mindful-ness that helps us answer life’s deepest questions and experience the happiness and freedom we desire.

Di is watching - River Cottage Australia Fifteen years ago, Englishman Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall, embarked on an experiment in sustainability and self sufficiency. His numerous TV series and books have served as an inspira-tion to the aspirations of viewers who

want to embrace a simpler, healthier life. Now, Hugh is ready to take that experiment in downshifting and the message of sustainability down under, with RIVER COTTAGE AUSTRALIA.

Jessie is reading - The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by re-nowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-

being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story - and it is a terrifying one. More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder's world-leading advances in Artificial Intel-ligence, is his connection with a certain female super hacker. It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters - and a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snow-bound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves. Skye is reading - The Attachment by Ailsa Piper & Tony Doherty This is the story of an unlikely friend-ship. When priest and Sydneysider Tony Doherty emailed Melbourne-based writer and performer Ailsa Piper to say how much he had enjoyed her latest book, he was met with a swift reply from a similarly enquiring mind. Soon emails were flying back and forth and back again. They ex-changed stories of their experiences as sweaty pil-grims and dissected dinner party menus. They shared their delight in Mary Oliver's poetry and wrestled with what it means to love and to grieve. This energetic exchange of words, questions and ideas grew into an unexpected but treasured friendship.

Alison is watching - The Edge of Seventeen Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother Darian (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best

friend Krista (Haley Lu Richardson). All at once, Na-dine feels more alone than ever, until the unexpected friendship of a thoughtful boy (Hayden Szeto) gives her a glimmer of hope that things just might not be so terrible after all. Catherine is reading - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and our narra-tor, Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I spent the first eighteen years of my life defined by this one fact: that I was raised with a chimpanzee," she tells us. To find out what’s happening in our libraries sub-scribe to the E-news: http://libraries.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/news-and-events/Pages/E-News.aspx