Autumn Issue BLIC BLURB Volume 14, Issue 2 GET Savvy July Sessions Watch out for further details ~Intro to Beading & Jewellery making ~Photography 101 ~Email 101 Introducing 2 new sessions ~ASTROLOGY ~GARDENING Please remember BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL ! REMINDER Children’s Activities Each (Term-time) Thursday 9:30am Please note, our new format of the BLIC BLURB, virtually the same content with just a new look ! Hope you like it ! LIBRARY INFORMATION WEEK 19th –23rd May LIBRARY & INFORMATION WEEK Monday 19th May : 2-3 pm ENTERPRISE & OVERDRIVE (How to use Online Catalogue & e-Books) Tuesday 20th May : 5-6 pm ENTERPRISE & OVERDRIVE (How to use Online Catalogue & e-Books) Wednesday 21st May : 10.30am NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORY-TIME & CHILDREN”S ACTIVITY Wednesday 21st May : 2-4 pm FAMILY & ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP Thursday 22nd May : 9.30-10.30 am iPAD STORY-TIME & CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY Thursday 22nd May : 5-7pm PHOTOGRAPHY 101 Thursday 22nd May : 5-7pm RIVERLAND CREATIVE WRITING GROUP Friday 23rd May :10.30 –12.30pm HOOKED ON SNAPFISH ! (Intro to Photobooks ~ Turn your photographic memories into a personalized photobook ) All day Friday, come & enjoy a cuppa ! Come along & enjoy some of our Activities !
Ladies, if you fancy reading a truly lovely story, as two of our staff
members can highly recommend, this book is for you !
Mystery and Romance what a combo !
Set in England after the first World War, the reality sets in as routines
return and emphasizes how much lives and loves are entwined as consequences of the war.
The characters are engaging and become very real, its quite sad when
you inevitably read the last page. A “feel good” story ! Page 2
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Please look out for the READER RECOMMENDED stickers soon to arrive !
Before any of you turn off when I say the word Science Fiction, just be aware
that this story is essentially a human survival story that just happens to be set on the planet Mars in the not too distant future! Stay with me here, because it’s a
pretty good story!
Mark Watney, is the engineer biologist member of a 6 person team set to explore
the surface of Mars – in fact this is the first manned mission ever to Mars and it
pretty much fails right from the word ‘go’ !
A huge dust storm blows up after the team has only been on the planet for six days and NASA, in
their wisdom asks the team to evacuate and take the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) back up to their
ship, the Hermes. Unfortunately the MAV can only make the one trip so anybody left behind, stays behind!
This is obviously bad news for Mark because at the time the MAV leaves the surface of Mars
everybody (including Mission Control on Earth) has written Mark off as ‘dead’! And, thus begins the
story, because Mark is very much alive and stranded alone on a dangerous and desolate planet.
His circumstances are dire! The dust storm has knocked his communication link to earth and the
Hermes out. He has food and oxygen to last only for the duration of the mission, his temporary
refuge is just that – temporary – the HAB is only designed to last 31 days. He is reliant on the
oxygenator to give him air, the water reclaimer for water and he is hoping that the HAB doesn’t breach which means he would ‘kind of explode’ (to use Mark’s terminology).
I am not going to tell you how Mark survives the initial dust storm and why the rest of the team
leaves him for dead on the surface of Mars. I am also not going to tell you how he attempts to
survive because this would spoil a really fantastic and gripping story!
The Thicket by Joe R Lansdale
Jack Parker is a 16 year old boy growing up the hard way at the turn of the
Century in the American West. The story begins with he and his younger sister
Lulu surviving an outbreak of smallpox in their small wild Texas town– sadly their parents succumb to the epidemic and Jack and Lulu are left with almost nothing
and only their grandfather to look after them.
Their grandfather decides to take them by wagon to stay with relatives but on the way he is murdered
by a vicious band of cutthroats who have just robbed a nearby bank. Jacks sister, Lulu is taken by
these men and Jack pledges to get her back no matter what the cost!
He employs a couple of unsavoury characters, to help him get his sister back. One is a gun-slinging
dwarf named Shorty and the other is an ex-slave with a chip on his shoulder called Eustace.
This story is really about Jacks coming of age and the friendships he develops with both these men and
although some of the action was a bit gruesome at times, I thought it was truly a great story!
BOOK REVIEWS
The Martian by Andy Weir
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TV SERIES ~Under the Dome
~Big Rio Bounty Hunters
Season 1 ~Vikings The Complete
First Season
MOVIES
~20 Film Western Pack ~The 25th Reich
~INXS Never tear us
apart
~A Little Bit Zombie
~The Story of Wales
~Shaun the Sheep ~The Very Best of ABC
for Kids
SPECIAL INTEREST
~Heston’s Mission
Impossible ~Forever Summer with
Nigella
~David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities
DVDs
AUDIO BOOKS
~ Private LA by James Patterson
~ A Seachange by Veronica Henry
~ Bridget Jones : Mad about
the Boy by Helen Fielding
Colour with Splosh by David Melling One Yelpy Kelpie by Jo Rothwell Olivia and her Alien Brother by Maggie Testa Clementine’s Walk by Annie White Marvin gets MAD ! by Joseph Theobald Esau the Paw by Chris Gurney Gordon runs dry : Thomas & Friends AFL Game Day (a touch & feel book) All new books in the popular
series of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”
NEW
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ADULT FICTION Blood Red by Heather Graham The Barrow by Mark Smylie
Unwrapped Sky by Rjurik Davidson ******************
Sinister Intent by Karen M. Davis
The Art of the Devil by John Attman
The Frozen Dead by Bernard Minier
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Tyringham Park by Rosemary McLoughlin The Black Country by Alex Grecian
The Twin’s Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
The Fallen by Charlie Higson
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Charlotte’s Creek by Theresa Creed
Purple Roads by Fleur Mcdonald
Beneath Outback Skies by Alissa Callen
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Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts by Mary Gibson The Trouble with Virtue by Stephanie Laurens
Chocolate Cake for Breakfast by Danielle Hawkins
NON FICTION
Parenting beyond Pink & Blue by Christia Spears Brown, PHD Expecting a Baby by Penelope Law The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook by Liz Harful Ultimate Wellness by Professor Kerryn Phelps The Weather Watchers by David Day Stories of WW1 edited by Tony Bradman The 30-Day Heart Tune-up by Steven Masley, MD
LARGE PRINT
The Baby Farmers by Annie Cossins
NYC Angels :Tempting Nurse Scarlet by Wendy S Marcus
The Cattleman’s Ready-Made Family by Michelle Douglas
Outback Towns & Pubs by Bill “Swampy” Marsh
Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you need to keep moving !
Albert Einstein
RECENT HAPPENINGS
BE BUSHFIRE READY ! Another successful “Get Savvy“session was held on he 13th March,
“Be Bushfire Ready” implemented by Sue Mickan, CFS Community
Engagement Officer, with a local flavor, Dave De Grancy and
Matthew Humphrey, CFS Monash Lieutenants. Among distinguished guests to attend were local Liberal identity Tim Whetstone and Berri
Mayor Peter Hunt. This program highlighted the necessity to have a
fire plan to protect your house and property, OR the decision to
evacuate. Also we were enlightened with information about fire
behaviours. Hopefully now we will be better prepared for next fire
season !
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Another “Bushfire Ready” Session will
be held later in the year, maybe
September or October.
Watch out for further details !
Pictured after our
session, Tim Whetstone, Peter Hunt with Sue Mickan, Dave De Grancy & Matthew Humphrey
