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Summer Reading II

The Premier’s Summer Reading Challenge and the Summer Reading Club are both on again this year. Come and collect your Summer Reading ’showbag’ from the Library. In it you will find reading logs, stickers, bookmarks and heaps of other cool stuff. Not only that but you can also win some great prizes if you remember to fill out your reading log. There are some awesome prizes to be won inlcuding iPod shuffles! Check out both the websites above where you will find heaps of stuff do including writing your own book reviews, playing pirate games - argh, and links to some great authors websites including: Matthew Reilly, Morris Gleitzman and Libby Gleeson.”

Here’s your chance to tell us about you. We want to know all about your favourite place to read. Email us and we will publish your answers here on the blog. This is what some of our readers have had to say so far..

“My favourite place to read is in my bed with my cat lying next to me. He is very soft.”
Hannah aged 8

“My favourite place to read is in my tree cubby house which my Dad made for me.  My little brother can’t bother me there”
Curtis  aged 10

Summer Reading

As the festive season approaches and Christmas commitments loom large if you are anything like me you will not be thinking so much about shopping and organising the family but more about organising your Christmas reading! Here are a few suggestions for your Summer Reading List, new to our collection. Speaking of Christmas, the Opening hours for the Gerladton-Greenough Regional Library are available on the Library’s website.

The Unquiet by John Connolly

Daniel Clay, psychiatrist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to children in his care. His daughter tries to come to terms with her legacy, but a revenger (Merrick) and father is obsessed with discovering the truth about his own daughter’s disappearance, and does not believe that Clay is dead. Detective Parker is hired, but it appears other forces are at work – someone is funding Merrick’s hunt, and others are drawn from the shadows intent upon their own form of revenge.

 Bliss by Peter Carey

While this title may not be fresh from the publisher it is new to our shelves it comes from a writer whose style is timeless. Here are a few words from the novel Bliss by Peter Carey:

“For thirty-nine years Harry has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his surburban front lawn, and for the space of nine minutes, Harry becomes a dead guy. And although he is resusitated, he will never be the same again…” (Vintage, 1996)

Maybe you are a Patricia Cornwell fan looking for something with more ‘edge’. Why not give this title a go?

Written On the Skin – an Australian forensic casebook.

 Liz Porter’s riveting casebook shows how forensic investigators – including pathologists, entomologists and DNA experts – have used their specialist knowledge to identify victims, catch perpetrators, exonerate innocent suspects and solve dozens of crimes and mysteries. 

What’s hot?

Here are the most popular titles in the Library at the moment..

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

Dead Heat by Dick Francis

Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs

The Road to Paradise by Paulina Simons

The media we deserve: underachievement in the fourth state by David Salter

Guinness World Records 2008

Those Faraday girls by Monica McInerney

As for the kids, they’re all reading Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, originally published in 1977.

New in November

Here is a small taste of some of the new titles recently added to the Geraldton-Greenough Regional Library’s collection. Already read, seen or heard it? Loved it? Hated it? Why not tell us more?

Would you like to read, see or hear it? Why not reserve it? You can reserve your items online on the Library’s catalogue or you can ask one of our friendly staff members to assist you.

Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs

Under the microscope, the outer bone surface is a moonscape of craters.

”I don’t have a diagnosis.”

The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old- and forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling to keep her emotions in check. Coroner Jean Bradette is being evasive. But, it doesn’t quite add up, and Temperance is convinced that Bradette is hiding something. A memory triggered deep in her hind brain - the diappearance of a childhood friend; no warning, no explanation.

Detective Ryan is working a series of parallel cases and requires Temperance;s forensic expertise. Three missing persons, three unidentified bodies - all female, all early to mid-teens.. Could there be a serial killer at work? Can she and Ryan put their personal tensions aside and stop the killer before another young girl falls prey?

Working on instinct, Temperance takes matters into her own hands. But she couldn’t have predicted where this case would lead or the horrors it would eventually uncover.

World Without End by Ken Follett
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor.
In the forest, they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by love, ambition, greed and revenge. One will travel the world, one will be powerful but corrupt, the girl will defy the church, and the other pursue an impossible love and all will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day.