New Items List September 2017

This Months Staff Picks From Librarian’s Choice

The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club / Sophie Green In 1978 the Northern Territory has begun to self-govern. Cyclone Tracy is a recent memory and telephones not yet a fixture on the cattle stations dominating the rugged outback. Life is hard and people are isolat-ed. But they find ways to connect. Sybil is

the matriarch of Fairvale Station, run by her husband, Joe. With her oldest friend, Rita, now living in Alice Springs and working for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and Ben's English wife, Kate, finding it difficult to adjust to life at Fairvale, Sybil comes up with a way to give them all companionship and purpose: they all love to read, and she forms a book club. The Way Back / Kylie Ladd Charlie Johnson is 13 and in her first year of high school. She loves her family, netball and Liam, the cute guy who sits next to her in Science-but most of all she loves horses and horse-riding. Charlie's parents have leased her a horse, Tic Tac, from the local pony club, but one day they go out for a ride in the national park and only Tic Tac returns... Four months later, long after the police and the SES have called off the search, Charlie is found wandering injured and filthy miles from where she was last seen. Her family rejoice in her return, but can anyone truly recover from what Charlie's been through?

Friend Request / Laura Marshall Maria Weston wants to be friends on Face-book. Because Maria Weston has been missing for over twenty-five years. She was last seen the night of a school leavers' par-ty, and the world believes her to be dead. Particularly Louise, who has lived her adult life knowing herself responsible for Maria's

disappearance. But now Maria is back. Or is she? Colombiano / Rusty Young In Colombia you have to pick a side. Or one will be picked for you . . . All Pedro Gutiérrez cares about is fishing, playing pool and his girlfriend Camila’s promise to sleep with him on his sixteenth birthday. But his life is ripped apart when Guerrilla soldiers callously execute his father in front of him, and he and his mother are banished from their farm.

On the Java Ridge / Jock Serong On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are an-chored beside an idyllic reef off the Indone-sian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border In-tegrity, a Federal election looms and (not coincidentally) a hardline new policy is be-

ing announced regarding maritime assistance to asylum-seeker vessels in distress. A few kilometres away from Dana, the Takalar is having engine trouble. Among the passengers fleeing from persecution are Roya and her mother, and Roya’s unborn sister. The storm now closing in on the Takalar and the Java Ridge will mean catastro-phe for them all. Tex / Tex Perkins Singer. Songwriter. Swamp child. Soul man. Tex Perkins is a true rock'n'roll ani-mal. In this loud, uncut, no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud and take-no-prisoners mem-oir, the enigmatic king of the Australian mu-sic underground lays bare an extraordinary life lived on the road, on the stage and on the edge. Raised a bible-thumping Catholic and beaten bloody on the streets of Brisbane for being a "cow-punk", skinny Gregory Perkins flees to Sydney and mutates into "Tex", rogue leader of the Dums Dums, Thug and Sala-mander Jim before finding a strange kind of success, ce-lebrity, sex symbol and icon status as Tex Perkins, snake-hipped, honey-voiced, often bloodied front man of influ-ential Aussie bands the Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon and Tex, Don & Charlie... and inventor of "Zoneball".

Every Lie I’ve Ever Told You / Rosie Waterland It was all going so well for Rosie Water-land. Until it wasn't. Until, shockingly, something awful happened and Rosie went into agonising free fall. Until late one evening she found herself in a hospital emergency bed, trembling and hooked to

a drip. Over the course of that long, painful night, she kept thinking about how ironic it was, that right in the mid-dle of writing a book about lies, she'd ended up telling the most significant lie of all. A raw, beautiful, sad, shocking - and very, very funny - memoir of all the lies we tell others and the lies we tell ourselves.

New DVDs & Music CDs

New DVDs:

Alone in Berlin

Berlin Syndrome Black Butterfly

The Coroner: Season 1

Get Out

Going in Style The Hippopotamus

Snatched

Once Upon a Time in Venice

The Young Pope: Season 1

The Zookeeper’s Wife

New Music CDs:

100% hits best of 2017

101 Classic Hits

Beautiful a Tribute to Carole King

Kaleidoscope / Coldplay

Grateful / D J Khaled

Neva Left /

Snoop Dogg

Those Were the Days / Ray Hadley

Quiet Ferocity / Jungle Giants

Rainbow / Kesha

Life is Fine / Paul Kelly

Killer / Dan Sultan

Latest Release Bestsellers

Two girls are forced into the woods at gun-point. One runs for her life. One is left be-hind… Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying at-tack on their family home. It left their moth-er dead. It left their father — Pikeville's no-torious defense attorney — devastated.

And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary’s new vineyard, Whipbird, six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to cele-brate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ire-land. Hugh has been meticulously plan-ning the event for months – a chance to proudly show-case Whipbird to the extended clan. Some of these fam-ily members know each other; some don’t. As the wine flows, it promises to be an eventful couple of days.

Two country weddings, fifty years apart … and the miracle of second chances In the tiny Tablelands township of Burralea, mu-sician Flora Drummond is preparing to play at the wedding of a very close friend. If only she could forget the embarrassing teenage crush she once had on the hand-some groom. All is as it should be on the

big day. The little church is filled with flowers, the ex-pectant guests are arriving, and Mitch is nervously wait-ing – but his bride has failed to appear. Two separate homicides, at different loca-tions, with unrelated victims, have more in common than just being investigated by Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. In both cases, the bodies bear startling wounds—yet the actual cause of death is unknown. It’s a doubly challenging case for the cop and the coroner to be taking on, at a fraught time for both of them. As Jane struggles to save her mother from the crumbling marriage that threatens to bury her, Maura grapples with the imminent death of her own mother—infamous serial killer Amalthea Lank.

Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king’s half sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner’s block, where Jane

transformed her father’s greedy power grab into tragic martyrdom.

From her small Quantico office Special Agent Maggie O'Dell has profiled serial kill-ers using Polaroids and faxed copies of evidence provided by homicide detectives from across the country. She's profiled the killers and solved the crimes without ever stepping foot at a real crime scene. Then comes Albert Stucky and nothing will ever

be that same. Stucky is a sadistic madman who places pieces of his victims in takeout containers and leaves them for innocent bystanders to find. He enjoys his twist-ed games as much as he enjoys the kill. Maggie is tasked with profiling his murders. Instead of feeling threatened, Stucky is pleased and he taunts her: 'Let the chase begin'. For the first time, James Malory and his Anderson in-laws agree on something: It’s payback time for the culprit who kid-napped James and Georgina’s beloved daughter Jack from her American debu-tante party and whisked her away to the Caribbean, no matter that she escaped unscathed. James figured out who mas-terminded the dastardly plot and is leading a fleet of ships to the West Indies to deliver some Malory-style retribution. More interested in revenge than in finding a husband during her first London Season, Jack is furious that her father left her behind. Then an intriguing stranger leads her and her older brother Jeremy to her mysterious abductor.

A wild heart beats within New York City. Amid concrete and skyscrapers, the Wild-life Conservation Society works to pre-serve and protect the animal kingdom both within and beyond the borders of the five boroughs. But dangerous creatures don’t always have claws and fangs, as Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and NYPD detec-

tives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace know all too well. Predators lurk close to home, and in the aftermath of the shocking assassination of an iconic public figure—someone Alex has worked with for years—the trio must unravel the motive behind the shooting to discover who is the bigger snake: the killer or the victim. There is nothing in the universe the curs-ed dragon, Falcyn, hates more than hu-manity . . . except Greek humans. In a war he wanted no part of, they systematically destroyed everything he’d ever cared for. Now he waits for the day when evolution will finally rid him of the human vermin. Medea was born the granddaughter of the Greek god Apollo, and among the first of his people that he cursed to die. But she will not let anyone rule her life. Not even her notorious grandfather. And when Apollo sends a new plague to destroy what remains of her peo-ple, she refuses to stand by and watch him take every-thing she loves from her again.

Librarian’s Choice titles

Fiction: Anna / by Niccolo.. Ammaniti

The twilight wife / A.J. Banner

Living the dream / Lauren Berry

To kill the president / Sam Bourne

The list / Michael Brissenden

Leaving Ocean Road / Esther Campion

The reminders / Val Emmich

Crossing the lines / Sulari Gentill

The lone child / Anna George

The chalk artist / Allegra Goodman

Too easy / J.M. Green

After I've gone / Linda Green

How to stop time / Matt Haig

The half-drowned king / Linnea Hartsuyker

The sisters chase / Sarah Healy

The making of Christina / Meredith Jaffe

Beneath the skin / Melissa James

The twentieth man / Tony Jones

The answers / Catherine Lacey

The way back / Kylie Ladd

A stranger in the house / Shari Lapena

Fletcher of the Bounty / Graeme Lay

The children / Ann Leary

Bridget crack / Rachel Leary

Free food for millionaires / Min Jin Lee

The last place you look / Kristen Lepionka

The watch house / Bernie McGill

Give me the child / Mel McGrath

Don't worry, life is easy / Agnes Martin-Lugand

Evening primrose / Kopano Matlwa

Siren / Rachel Matthews

Soul of the world / David Mealing

Gather the daughters / Jennie Melamed

Under the sun / Lottie Moggach

The Supremes sing the happy heartache blues /

Edward Kelsy Moore

The sixteen trees of the Somme / Lars Mytting

The sari of Surya Vilas / Vayu Naidu

The reason you're alive / Matthew Quick

Before everything / Victoria Redel

My name is nobody / Matthew Richardson

The Walworth beauty / Michelle Roberts

Conversations with friends / Sally Rooney

Waiting for Monsieur Bellivier / Britta Rostlung

Final girls / Riley Sager

Don't close your eyes / Holly Seddon

She be damned / M. J. Tjia

Can you hear me? / Elena Varvello

And fire came down / Emma Viskic

Mothers / Cath Weeks

The zoo / Christopher Wilson

Non Fiction: The road to Jonestown / Jeff Guinn

Everything all at once / Bill Nye

Live, lead, learn / Gail Kelly

Traitors / Frank Walker

Painting the sand / Kim Hughes, GC.

The contractor / Mark Abernethy

The reality check-up / Dr. Andrew Rochford

Dragon & kangaroo : Australia and China’s shared

history from the goldfields to the present day /

Robert Macklin

The shipwreck hunter / David L. Mearns

Biography & Autobiography: Last king of the X / John Ibrahim

One halal of a story / Sam Dastyari

Thirty days / Mark Raphael Baker

A J : how Alan Jones climbed to the top of formula

one / Alan Jones

Sam's best shot : a father and son's life-changing

journey through autism, adolescence and Africa /

Dr James Best

A long way from Wyandra : my story -- from the bush

to Black Caviar / Peter Moody

Balcony over Jerusalem / John Lyons

The Angels / Bob Yates

Touchstones : rugby league, rock’n’roll, the road and

me / Steve Mascord

Daring to drive : the young Saudi woman who stood

up to a kingdom of men / Manal al-Sharif

Rev head : my life as a motoring tragic /

Shane Jacobson

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

Ned Kelly Award Shortlist 2017 The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious prizes honouring our published crime fiction and true crime writing. When it came to deciding on a name, co-opting the nation’s most infamous villain seemed a natural fit. Known affectionately as ‘The Neds’, the awards have grown in importance and scope with more categories, more entries and greater acclaim for the winners, who read like a Who’s Who of Australi-an crime writing.

Best Fiction:

Best True Crime:

Best First Fiction: Burn Patterns / Ron Elliott To her clients and colleagues, Iris is a therapist in a city psychology practice. But to the police and fire services, she is the Fire Lady – a profiler of arsonists. After a troubled young man burns down her office, Iris just wants a quiet life. But her peace is

shattered when a bomb goes off at a local school. The Dry / Jane Harper It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son.

Only Daughter / Anna Snoekstra In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She’d been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Myste-riously ominous things began to happen —

blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of be-ing watched — though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come. Eleven years later she is replaced. The Love of a Bad Man / Laura Elizabeth Woollett The twelve stories in The Love of a Bad Man imagine the lives of real women, all of whom were the lovers, wives, or mistress-es of various ‘bad’ men in history. Beauti-fully observed, fascinating, and at times horrifying, the stories interrogate power, the nature of obsession, and the lengths some women will go to for the men they love.

Goodwood / Holly Throsby Goodwood is a small town where every-one knows everything about everyone. It's a place where it's impossible to keep a secret. In 1992, when Jean Brown is sev-enteen, a terrible thing happens. Two terri-ble things. Rosie White, the coolest girl in

town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood's most popular resident, Bart McDonald, sets off on a fishing trip and never comes home. Something for Nothing / Andy Muir It’s not every day a bloke stumbles across a dismembered torso on Nobby’s beach. Lachie Munro is starting to feel like he’s a magnet for trouble. Only the day before he fished a giant haul of heroin out of his fa-vourite abalone poaching spot near New-castle.

What staff are Reading / Watching / Listening

Catherine is reading - Norse Mythology / Neil Gaiman The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling – from Tol-kien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil

Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales. Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the page – irascible, visceral, playful, passionate – and the tales carry us from the beginning of everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanised by Gaiman's prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freya are irresistible forces for modern readers and the crack-ling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an open fire on a freezing, starlit night. Catherine is watching - Alien Covenant Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: COVENANT, a new chapter in his groundbreaking AL-IEN franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote plan-et on the far side of the galaxy, discov-ers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.

Di is reading - A Monster Calls / Patrick Ness An unflinching, darkly funny, and deep-ly moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected mon-strous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor

wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the night-mare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And wild. And it wants some-thing from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. Ingrid is reading - Picnic at Hanging Rock / Joan Linsday Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock – a shimmering summer morning warm and still . . .In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private school go on an excursion to the isolated Hanging Rock, deep in the Australian bush. The excursion ends in tragedy when four girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock. Only one girl returns, with no memory of what has become of the others . . .

Lois is reading - Department 19 / Will Hill Jamie Carpenter's life will never be the same. His father is dead, his mother is missing, and he was just rescued by an enormous man named Frankenstein. Ja-mie is brought to Department 19, where

he is pulled into a secret organization responsible for policing the supernatural, founded more than a centu-ry ago by Abraham Van Helsing and the other survi-vors of Dracula. Aided by Frankenstein's monster, a beautiful vampire girl with her own agenda, and the members of the agency, Jamie must attempt to save his mother from a terrifyingly powerful vampire. Jessie is reading - Half Wild / Pip Smith Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. Doctors talk across her body, nurses jab her in the arm with morphine, detectives arrive to take her fingerprints. She has £100 in her pocket, but no identification. Memories come back to her - a murder trial, a life in prison - but with each prick of the needle her memories begin to shift. Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papa takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geroni-mo - life gallops on the way it should, until a brother, baby William, is born. 'Go and play with your sisters,' Papa says, but wearing dresses and sipping tea is not the life for Tally Ho. Taking the advice of her hero, Harry Crawford, she runs away.

Tony is watching - Hell on Wheels Hell on Wheels is an American West-ern television series about the con-struction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series, which featured Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common, and Dominique McElligott, chronicled the

Union Pacific Railroad and its laborers, mercenaries, prostitutes, surveyors, and others who lived, worked, and died in the mobile encampment, called "Hell on Wheels", that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains. In particular, the story focused on Cullen Bohannon (Mount), a former Confederate soldier who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad, initially attempted to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War. 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