The SDRC Libraries are excited to have new online content available. We

now have subscriptions to Transparent Language Online, Universal Class

and magazines through Zinio.

To access these services, as well as The Computer School, you can either

go to the SDRC council website (www.sdrc.qld.gov.au) and click on the

Libraries link under Facilities and Services. This will take you to the library

page, where you will find links to our digital services, or you can access

the links from the library catalogue.

Zinio supplies complete digital magazines which are exactly the same as

the printed versions. Once you have clicked on the link, you will need to

login using your library barcode and follow the prompts. This will allow

you to select magazines to download. Once you have downloaded a

magazine it is yours to keep. There are over 30 magazine titles to chose

from.

Transparent Language Online gives you access to courses to learn over

80 languages. Once again, it is as simple as clicking the link, and logging

in with your library membership.

Universal Class offers over 500 online non-credit courses. You are able to

enrol in up to five courses, and have six months to complete each course.

Each course has an instructor who you can communicate with using

email. These courses are provided for personal enrichment and cover a

wide range of subjects. You use your library barcode to log into Universal

Class.

The Computer School offers step by step online computer courses. To log

into The Computer School, use the user name: member and the pass-

word: member4370.

New Online Services

Library Lovers News

Southern Downs Regional Libraries September 2013 Volume 2, Issue 4

Inside this issue:

Unusual libraries 2

Spotlight on Sue

Grafton

2

New Books 3

Authors of

Westerns

4

Top Reads 4

Authors of

Sea Stories

4

Funny Book Titles 4

Children’s Book

Title Quiz

5

Staff Book Review 5

New DVDs 6

Logic Puzzle 7 The Dream Bookshelf is

constructed from fiber-

glass and wood. The UK

design is said to be in-

spired by ‘the ability of

every design to be made

about fun and imagina-

tion’

Queen Mary’s dollhouse was built

for Queen Mary as a gift from her

cousin, Princess Marie Louise. The

building of the dollhouse was super-

vised by a leading architect of the

time, Edwin Lutyens. The dollhouse

library has 171 volumes, some writ-

ten exclusively for the dollhouse, by

leading writers of the day.

Unusual Libraries - Queen Mary’s Dollhouse Library

Page 2 Library Lovers News

If you have any

ideas of what

could be

included in this

newsletter

please let us

know; we

would love to

hear your

opinions.

This newsletter

can be emailed

to you if you

wish. Ask to be

added to the

email list at

your local

library.

These authors include Sir Arthur Co-

nan Doyle and J. M Barrie.

Each book in the library was bound in

leather by book binders, Sangorski &

Sutcliffe and is about the size of a

postage stamp.

Before working on her alphabet series, Sue worked

as a screenwriter, and has refused to sell the film or

television rights to her novels, saying that working

on screenplays cured her of any desire to work with

Hollywood.

Sue began writing when she was 18 years old, and

has now had her books published in 28 countries,

and 26 languages. She has won multiple awards for

her novels, including the Grand Master Award from

the Mystery Writers of America, awarded in 2009.

The library now has a Pinterest account. You can find us at

http://pinterest.com/sdrclibraries/

Sue Grafton is well known for her alphabet series of murder mysteries. Start-

ing with A is for Alibi, the latest in the series, W is for Wasted, will be on sale

later this month. The series is set in a town called Santa Teresa, and follows

the life of Kinsey Millhone, a private investigator.

Spotlight on Sue Grafton

Dead Ever After by

Charlaine Harris

New Books

Volume 2, Issue 4

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. -

Charlaine Harris

Page 3

Absolutely by Joanna

Lumley

Currawong Creek by

Jennifer Scoullar

Bricks & Mortality by

Ann Granger

A Dangerous Dress

by Julia Holden

Death Angel by Linda

Fairstein

Big Brother by

Lionel Shriver

Americanah by

Chimamanda Ngozi

Adichie

The Cuckoo’s Calling

by Robert Galbraith

The 9th Girl by Tami

Hoag

Astaire and Rogers

by Edward Gallafent

Bomb Shell by

Catherine Coulter

These are some of our most borrowed

titles over the last two months.

The Australian Women’s Weekly [magazine}

Australian Home Beautiful [magazine]

Australian House & Garden [magazine]

Gardening Australia [magazine]

Australian Country Style [magazine]

Inspector Morse [DVD]

Better Homes & Gardens [magazine]

Chasing fire by Nora Roberts

Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb

They Came to a Plateau: the Stanthorpe

Saga by Jean Harslett

Authors of

Westerns

Bombproof Your Horse*

How To Avoid Huge Ships

Zombie Raccoons and Killer

Bunnies

The Practical Pyromaniac

Living With Crazy Buttocks*

How You Are Like Shampoo

What To Say When You Talk To

Yourself

The Bedwetter: stories of re-

demption, courage and pee*

*These titles are available from SDRC Libraries

Brian Callison

Bernard Cornwell

C.S. Forester

Alexander Fuller-

ton

Duncan Harding

Alexander Kent

Bill Knox

Sam Llewellyn

J.E. MacDonnell

Philip McCutchan

Patrick O’Brian

Dudley Pope

Douglas Reeman

John Winton

Richard Woodman

Julian Stockwin

Douglas Terman

Antony Trew

Warren Tute

John Wingate

Authors of Sea Stories

Frank Bonham

Max Brand

Al Cody

Elliot Conway

William R. Cox

Jack Cummings

Eugene Cunningham

Dan Cushman

J. T. Edson

Steve Frazee

Will Henry

Zane Grey

William W. Johnstone

Louis L’Amour

William Colt Mac-

Donald

Larry McMurtry

Lee Martin

Nelson Nye

T. V. Olsen

Lauran Paine

Lewis B. Patten

Brock & Bodie

Thoene

Jim Walker

Can you figure out the real children’s book titles?

1. Emerald Yolky Food With Accompanying Pig Product

2. Evening Salutations to the Celestial Orb

3. Soft Cotton Bunny Toy

4. Trifecta of Minute Swine

5. Pretty Girl Slumbering

6. Unsightly Aquatic Bird

7. Brunette Furry Mammal, Brunette Furry Mammal, I Ask About Your

Observations

8. Famished Butterfly Predecessor

9. Fedora Wearing Feline

10. A Breeze Blowing Through the Salix Trees

Alternative Names For Children’s Books - a quiz

Page 5 Library Lovers News

Books and

doors are the

same thing,

you open

them, and

you go

through into

another

world. -

Jeanette

Winterson

Staff Book Review- Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner

This is my family: Vanished without a trace. . . .

This is what I know: Pain has a flavour. . . .

This is what I fear: The worst is yet to come…

This is the truth: Love, safety, family, it is all touch and go.

Touch and Go is Lisa Gardner’s latest thriller and for me, it certainly did not

disappoint. Featuring her character Tessa Leoni, who was introduced in Love

You More, along with a brief appearance by D. D. Warren, Touch and Go fol-

lows the story of an entire family who have been kidnapped.

This novel does not just follow the kidnapping of Justin and Libby Denbe and

their daughter Ashlyn, but also explores the relationships and dynamics of

families, and the notion that things are not always how they seem. “Strangers

can hurt you, but the people you love can do it so much better.” What seems

to be a picture perfect life, with a loving family, beautiful home and successful

business, can have underlying currents of deceit, addiction and deception.

I found Touch and Go a real page turner. It was easy to read and left me want-

ing to read more of Lisa Gardner’s novels.

Reviewed by Bronwyn Pearce

Page 6 Library Lovers News

Books are not made for furniture, but there is

nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a

house.” ~Henry Ward Beecher

New DVDs and CDs

21 Jump Street

Season 5 [DVD]

Adios Sabata

[DVD]

Adam

Resurrected

[DVD]

21 Grams

[DVD]

Black Sab-

bath - 13 [CD] Ashes to Ashes

Bryan Adams: 2 CD

Australian tour

Edition [CD]

Celtic Gypsy -

Alesa Laiana

[CD]

The Southern Downs

Regional Library

branches will be closed

on Monday the 7th of

October for the Labour

Day Holiday.

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices

of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships

on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message:

You are not alone. Roald Dahl, Matilda.

Logic Puzzle - The Brothers

Southern Downs

Regional Libraries

Allora Library 4666 3742

Mobile Library 4661 0342

Stanthorpe Library 4681 2141

Warwick Library 4661 0342

www.sdrc.qld.gov.au

Five brothers, including Jake, have various occupations in different cities. Who does what

where?

1. Travis is not a carpenter or financial advisor and he does not work in Manchester.

2. Bob is the bus conductor.

3. The florist does not work in Liverpool.

4. Is Bill the TV presenter?

5. The financial advisor works in London or Liverpool.

6. Bill works in Birmingham.

7. The carpenter works in Swansea.

8. Simon works in London.

Volume 2, Issue 4 Page 7

CAT FIREMAN TREE

Fluffy Boris Willow

Percy Jock Oak

Ratchett Rick Ash

Slater Dirk Beech

Tiddles Ken Elm

Rescue that cat! - the solution