Have a look what is due into our collection in March. These items haven’t made it here yet, but feel free to place your reservation with staff, to ensure you’re the first to get hold of the items.
In Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr .
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When Marie-Laure is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
Goodreads Choice 2014 winner
www.goodreads.com rates : 4.26 of 5
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask.
Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from “aging out” of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie and worse.
Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life – answers that will ultimately free them both.
Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.
www.goodreads.com rates : 4.09 of 5
In Non – Fiction
“Benji equals anybody I’ve seen in terms of flair, and making something happen he is a remarkable talent, born out of living on the edge. That’s the way he is. He was made to be a footballer…” -Wayne Bennett
Benji Marshall is a sporting superstar- a once in a generation player.
This is his story- from growing up in a small NZ town, born to a young mother (and a father he’s never met) to today- winner of the Golden Boot Award, and acknowledged
as the best rugby league player in the world.
He was a natural player from the very beginning. He was just 18 years of age and on a sporting scholarship at the Gold Coast school, when he first played for Wests Tigers against Newcastle and he’s played for Wests ever since.
He’s been a part of the stunning Grand Final victory against the North Queensland Cowboys, New Zealand’s victory in the 2008 world cup, and was New Zealand captain when the Kiwis won the Four Nations series in 2010.
This is Benji Marshall as you’ve never seen him before- an inside account of sport played at the very highest level, by a true master of the game (taken from back and inside cover respectively)
www.goodreads.com : rates 4.00 out of 5
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia …
In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia’s past, from megafauna to Macquarie – the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.
Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of “felony of sock,” and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia.
It recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coconut in Australia’s only military coup.
Our nation’s beginnings are steeped in the strange, the ridiculous and the frankly bizarre. Girt proudly reclaims these stories for all of us.
Not to read it would be un-Australian.
About the author: David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own biographical notes for all the books he has written (one). He has worked as an historical consultant and comedy writer for television, and also has a proper job.
“A sneaky, sometimes shocking peek under the dirty rug of Australian history.”John Birmingham
“Hilarious and insightful — Hunt has found the deep wells of humour in Australia’s history.” Chris Taylor, The Chaser
Winner of the 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction.
www.goodreads.com : rates 4.03 of 5 stars
DVD
Addams Family Values (1993)
A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.
www.imdb.com rates Ratings: 6.6/10
There is a library in Estonian airport, where you can borrow books for your trip and the whole thing operates off an honor system.
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