Library Lovers News Southern Downs Regional Libraries
March 2013
Volume 2, Issue 2
SDRC Libraries and Social Media As you probably know the SDRC Library Service has an online catalogue linked to the council website and has had for some time. In recent times our presence on the web has increased. We now have a Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-DownsRegional-Libraries/475451612496319?fref=ts where you can find out about all the goings on in your local library. The Stanthorpe Library, in conjunction with GraniteNet, received a Digital Literacy Grant, and as a result there is now a Bookworms of the Southern Downs blog, www.bookwormssd.blogspot.com.au, a local history wiki, www.sdlocalhistory.wetpaint.com as well as a website devoted to the produce of the Southern Downs Region. www.regionalfoodfile.wetpaint.com Also as a result of this funding, the Stanthorpe Library now has webcams installed on the PCs and access to Skype.
Inside this issue: Unusual Libraries
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Spotlight on Doug- 2 las Adams New Books
Most Borrowed Books
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Staff Book Review 4
Logic Puzzle
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Easter and Public Holidays Closures The SDRC libraries will be closed for the following public holidays. On the Easter weekend we will be closed Friday 29 March, Saturday 30 March & Monday 1 April. We are also closed Thursday 25 April for ANZAC Day. The Warwick Library will be closed Friday 5 April for the Warwick Show holiday.
Vintage Book Week Posters from 1930 & 1945
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Unusual Libraries If you have any ideas of what could be included in this newsletter please let us know; we would love your opinions.
In La Gloria, Colombia, Luis Soriano has set up a travelling donkey library for children who have no books in their homes. He has been in operation since the late 1990’s and operates along the Caribbean shore, delivering a selection of donated books with his two burrows, Alfa and Beto.
Spotlight on Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams was a British writer, humorist and dramatist. He was born in Cambridge on the 11th of March, 1952, and passed away suddenly on the 11th of May, 2001. He was best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which started as a radio show and was then developed into a ―trilogy‖ of five books, a feature film, a television series, stage plays, comics, and a computer game. Adams also wrote three stories for the television series Doctor Who, as well as publishing several other novels; Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. He was a staunch environmentalist, and said that one of his personal favorites was a book co-written with zoologist Mark Carwardine called Last Chance to See which is an account of a search for rare and endangered species of animals. Well-known Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The God Delusion to Adams, and wrote upon his death that ―Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender.‖
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Volume 2, Issue 2
New Books
The last thing Ford Elkhart remembers is walking his girlfriend back to her car. Now he's lying tied and gagged on a cold, dark floor, with only one chance to escape before he ends up like the bones surrounding him... Is Ford's abduction payback for his mother’s courtroom victory? Or is he a pawn in an even more dangerous game?
Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin, and believes she's seen the worst of people in her previous life with the Berlin police force. That is until Chris, her colleague - and until recently, her fiancé - is found dead, brutally murdered in an old slaughterhouse outside the city. Mattie soon realises that a masked killer is picking off Chris's childhood friends, one by one, and destroying the trail. But who wants the past buried so badly? What is the truth about that slaughterhouse? And will Mattie become the killer's next victim?
Astray is a sequence of fourteen stories. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue’s latest factinspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. These strange, true tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past made up of deviations, and a surprising and moving history for restless times.
In a glorious farmhouse just outside the village of Ménerbes, Shannon immerses himself in the life of Provence. With no recipes from home, his first task is to find old books and learn the history of local dishes. His aim is to re-engage with a culinary tradition that has been such a part of his life, and to nourish and enjoy time with his young family. He invites us to join them all and step inside this beautiful part of France, to grab a glass of Côtes du Ventoux and live life à la français.
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photojournalist during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Riveting and relentlessly paced, The Black Box leads Harry Bosch into one of his most fraught and perilous cases.
Stone Barrington is back in Manhattan and pleased to receive an unexpected visit from his friend and sometime lover Holly Barker, now an assistant director at the CIA. For her part, Holly is glad to leave the staid, official environs of the capital for the dining and atmosphere of New York, but her sojourn isn’t only for pleasure. An explosive incident requires her immediate attention—and Stone’s investigative expertise.
Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. Now he has a new case—but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida. The local police have ruled his aunt’s death an unfortunate, tragic accident. But just before she died, she mailed a letter to Puller’s father, telling him that beneath its beautiful veneer, Paradise is not all it seems to be. What Puller finds convinces him that his aunt’s death was no accident . . .and that some will go to unthinkable lengths to make sure the truth is never revealed.
Natalie is a young Gold Coast mother with a loving husband, two small children and a happy lifestyle. While helping her mother move house, she finds a little box containing a Burmese artefact. When Natalie learns its unique history through a letter left by her great-great uncle, it ignites an interest in its country of origin and her uncle's unfulfilled plans for this curio. Her investigations collide with her own dramatically changing circumstances and create a catalyst for a moral dilemma that challenges the core of her marriage as she finds herself immersed in two very different golden lands.
You can see a list of recently available books by clicking on the link at the top of the page while on our online catalogue.
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Currently the most borrowed books are: Fiction 1. The Drop - Michael Connolly 2. Trip Wire - Lee Child 3. Blue Skies - Fleur McDonald 4. The Silent Country - Di Morrissey 5. Kindred in Death - J D Robb
Non-Fiction 1. Save: your money, your time, your planet - Shannon Lush 2. A Stolen Life: Jaycee Dugard 3. Calf Rearing: a practical guide 4. What’s wrong with my vegetable garden - David Deardorff & Kathryn Wadsworth 5. Fresh & Light: 180 new recipes and flavor-packed ideas to find the perfect balance - Donna Hay
Staff Book Review Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson-Wright – an autobiography at times astonishing and sad, but also written with humour. This book details the life of Clarissa Dickson-Wright of the very successful BBC series Two Fat Ladies. Her father, Chief Surgeon to the Royal Household, was also an alcoholic at whose hands Clarissa and her mother suffered terrible physical and emotional abuse. Astonishingly, he was able to keep his alcoholism and domestic violence a secret from his public life. The effect on Clarissa was long lasting and very damaging emotionally. Going against her fathers wishes to become a surgeon like himself, Clarissa become a highly successful barrister. However, after the deaths of her mother and her partner Clive, whom she cared for very deeply, she became an alcoholic herself and was eventually struck off from the bar and forced into bankruptcy. The alcoholism ravished her so badly she found herself completely homeless and without friends. After spending time in a detox centre, she turned to AA for support and eventually became a recovered alcoholic. It was at this stage of her life that she started cooking at a pub to support herself and her passion for food and cooking eventually led her to the extremely successful BBC cooking series – Two Fat Ladies. While the book gives a very good insight into the life and relationships of an alcoholic, it is also an extremely good read as Clarissa led such an interesting and varied life, having travelled widely and meeting and often working with so many people from very diverse backgrounds. The only down side to this book is that unfortunately, there were no recipes to be shared with the reader! Reviewed by Cheryl
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Volume 2, Issue 2
Logic Puzzle/Quiz The bunnies in Easter Village are excited once again, for their annual Easter egg hunt has just been finished. In the hunt, four bunnies search around the town for one of the Easter eggs. Once they have each found one, they hop back to the finish line! Can you figure out which rabbits found which eggs, what places they got in the hunt, and the prizes that were in their Easter egg? Bunnies: Mr. Hops, Jumper, Long Ears, Ms. Littlenose Eggs: Blue, Red, Green, Yellow Prizes in Eggs: Chocolate Candy, Jelly Bean, Gold Coin, Visor
Clues: 1. The four bunnies were Mr. Hops, the bunny that found the red egg, the bunny that finished in fourth place, and the bunny that found the gold coin in their egg. 2. Long Ears did not find the visor in his egg. 3. The bunny that placed second found the chocolate candy in his/her egg. 4. Neither Long Ears nor Ms. Littlenose found the red egg. 5. The bunny who placed first found the green egg. 6. The bunny who found the red egg did not finish the hunt in third place. 7. Long Ears did not find the gold coin. 8. The bunny who found the blue egg did not find the jelly bean in his/her egg. 9. The bunny who finished first did not find the visor in his/her egg.
Solution to the Library Lovers Day Quizzes. Author amours, writer romances, poetic pairings, journalistic joinings Answers: 1I, 2D, 3A, 4B, 5H, 6G, 7E, 8F, 9C, 10J
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Literary lovers Answers: 1C, 2G, 3E, 4H, 5I, 6D, 7J, 8A, 9F, 10B The movie or book they came from: Pride & Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, The Thorn Birds, Wuthering Heights, Jayne Eyre, Bridget Jones Diary, Romeo & Juliet, Gone With The Wind, Outlander, Twilight.
Allora Library
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Mobile Library
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Stanthorpe Library
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Warwick Library
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