Discussion group 2011

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Manly Library presents
Book Discussion Group
Program 2011
January 12
February 9
March 9
April 13
May 11
June 8
July 13
August 10
September 14
October 12
November 9
December 14
Best of 2010
Great heroines
Classics retold
European fiction
Coming of age
Animal stories
Banned books
In the news
Biography
In the garden
World of sport
Celebrations
The Manly Library Book Discussion Group meets on 2nd
Wednesday of each month. All meetings will be in the Library
Meeting Room at 6pm, unless notified otherwise.
Each month the Library staff will prepare a reading list of suggested
titles, held by Manly Library, on the theme for the coming month. This list
will then be distributed at the group discussion, and copies will also be
available on the ground floor of the Library.
Fran Inkster, Customer Services Librarian
Ph: 9976 1732 Email: [email protected]
Manly Library Market Place, Manly NSW 2095
phone. 02 9976 1720 fax. 9976 1422 email. [email protected] web. www.manly.nsw.gov.au
MANLY LIBRARY
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
BOOKLIST
B e s t of 2 0 1 0
The next meeting
of the
Book Discussion
Group
will be on
Wednesday
12 January 2011
at 6 pm
Welcome to the best of 2010. While reading any book is a great way to
relax, and leave the ordinary world behind, there is something magical
about a bestseller. Sometimes it's the subject matter, like the Keith
Richards "Life" or "Decision Points" by George W. Bush. But often it's a
superb read like "The Confession" by John Grisham. In order to enthrall so
many people, a book has to be really well written - characters have to be
vividly portrayed, their adventures and misadventures have to be
believable - and engrossing. The protagonist has to engage the reader otherwise nobody would care what happens to him. So any book that
becomes a bestseller is likely to have done lots of things right - the more
joy and satisfaction in reading such books.
Decision Points by George W. Bush
973.931/BUS
Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush
offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his
life.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Series) by Jeff Kinney
JF/KINN
The series started off on-line on www.funbrain.com in 2004. Although
the author never planned to release the book on the internet, he found
the opportunity to reach millions of kids on Funbrain irresistible, and
published the book in the form of daily entries, much like a blog.
Life by Keith Richards
782.42/RIC
In Life: Keith Richards has created his story in a voice as intimate and
unmistakable as if he were sitting across from you talking.
People say ‘why don’t you give it up?’ I don’t think they quite
understand. I’m not doing it just for the money, or for you. I’m doing it for
me.”
The Confession: A Novel by John Grisham
F/GRIS
An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save
him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on
the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got
the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. When the guilty one
decides to do what’s right and confess, how can he convince lawyers,
judges, and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?
Mastering the Art of French Cooking by: Julia Child, Louisette
Bertholle, Simone Beck
641.5944
'Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,' wrote Mesdames
Beck, Bertholle, and Child, 'with the right instruction.' And here is 'the'
book that, for more than forty years, has been teaching Americans how.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both seasoned cooks and
beginners who love good food and long to reproduce at home the
savoury delights of the classic cuisine.
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
YA/COLL
(The Final Book of The Hunger Games) Against all odds, Katniss
Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's
made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is
angry. The Capitol wants revenge... The thrilling final instalment of this
ground-breaking trilogy promises to be one of the most talked-about
books of the year.
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
YA/MEYE
Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels. It
charts a period in the life of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenage girl who
moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104-year-old
vampire named Edward Cullen. Since the release of the first novel,
Twilight, in 2005, the books have gained immense popularity and
commercial success around the world. The series is most popular
among young adults; the four books have won multiple awards, and the
series as a whole won the 2009 Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Book.
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
F/BROW
In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code,
Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular
thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling--a deadly
race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths,
all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
F/STOCK
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
22-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole
Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her
mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter
would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the
woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one
will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King
F/KING
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the
town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by
an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in
flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes
down on it, people running errands in the neighbouring town are divided
from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what
this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away
Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
973.93/PAL
One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a
comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman
really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential
nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National
Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the
most recognizable women in the world.
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
on-order
The first major work in nearly a decade by one of the world's great
thinkers-a marvelously concise book with new answers to the ultimate
questions of life. When and how did the universe begin? Why are we
here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of
reality? And, finally, is the apparent "grand design" of our universe
evidence of a benevolent creator.”
Those faraday girls by Monica McInerney
F/MACI
As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional
household in Tasmania, with her young mother, four very different aunts
and eccentric grandfather. With her mother often away, all four aunts
took turns looking after her - until, just weeks before Maggie's sixth
birthday, a shocking event changed everything. 20 years on, a surprise
visit from her grandfather brings a revelation and a proposition to reunite
the family. A rich, complex story full of warmth, humour and
unforgettable women.
The Ghost by Robert Harris
F/HARR
The book is called The Ghost – and the phantom in question could be
the slippery, empty, former PM, now out of a job & accused of war
crimes. But more likely it refers to the narrator – The ex PM’s, Adam
Lang, ghostwriter, a guileless political ingénue contracted to ghost the
former PM’s memoirs for an agreeably large sum of money and who is
at first charmed by Lang and then, over a rather short period of time
cloistered with his subject , has his eyes prised open
The Shack by William P Young
FPB/Y
Mackenzie Allen Philip's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted
during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally
murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon
wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack
receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to
that shack for a weekend.
Water for elephants by Sara Gruen
F/GRUE
This is a great, glorious, big-hearted novel set in a travelling circus
touring the backblocks of America during the Great Depression of the
early 1930s. It's a story of love and hate, trains and circuses, dwarves
and fat ladies, horses and elephants - or to be more specific, one
elephant, Rosie, star of Benzini Bros Most Spectacular Show on Earth.
Lazarus Rising by John Howard
324.294/HOW
John Howard's autobiography is one of the most eagerly anticipated
publishing events in recent years. No prime minister of modern times
has reshaped Australia and its place in the world as forcefully as John
Howard. One of Australia's most controversial prime ministers, he lead
the Liberal Party to victory over four elections and became the secondlongest-serving leader in the nation's history.
Happiest Refugee by Anh Do
792.7/DO
The laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia's
best-loved comedians. Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His
entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped
from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not
murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease
or dehydration as they drifted for days - could quench their desire to
make a better life in the country they had dreamed about.
Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
F/LARS
Lisbeth Salander is plotting her revenge - against the men who tried to
kill her, and against the government institutions that nearly destroyed
her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking
a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive
Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted
murder on her eventual release. This final volume of the Trilogy is the
culmination of one of the most mesmerising fictional achievements of
our time.
Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
F/JACO
(Winner Of The 2010 Man Booker Prize) Julian Treslove, a
professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam
Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality,
are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different
lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former
teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with
the wider world than with exam results.
Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
F/BINC
Noel and Lisa are among the most supportive parents at the nursery
school. Never late to pick up their little girl, always patient and delighted
to see her at the end of the day. But in fact neither of them are Frankie's
parents. They are there first because of a promise and they stayed
because Frankie had become a life-line to them both. She was the only
reason their lives stayed on track and because of her they found the
strength to fight their demons.
The Case of the Pope by Geoffrey Robertson
262.13/ROB
This book delivers a devasting indictment of the way the Vatican has run
a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial
around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the
negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished?
Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy an
immunity that places them above the law?
Reversal by Michael Connelly
F/CONN
Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly
unwinnable case in Connelly's latest blistering bestseller. Longtime
defense attorney Haller is recruited to change sides & prosecute the
high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison,
convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA
evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on
with investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, a case fraught with
political and personal danger.
Life Story by Ben Cousins
Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern
Australian sport. He's perhaps the most gifted player of his generation a former captain of the West Coast eagles, a Brownlow medallist, a
premiership winner, voted the AFL's Most Valuable Player - but he's
best known for what he's done off the footy field rather than on it. Ben is
a self-confessed drug addict, whose drug binges would last for days and
involve incredible amounts of cocaine, crack and ice. But what's really
remarkable about Ben's story is that the two sides of his life - were
actually done at the same time, side by side. Ben's book is an account of
this double life, and what it's cost him, his family and his friends. It is a
work of searing emotional and factual honesty.
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
F/COUR
It's the 1960s and the world of advertising is coming alive. Simon Wong,
a Chinese-Australian and promising young advertising executive, is sent
to Singapore to establish an office. He finds himself thrust into an
environment that is at once strangely familiar and profoundly different.
And all is not what it appears to be. Under the veneer of the commercial
world lie some shocking truths - of people smuggling, drug trafficking
and murder.
At Home With The Templetons by Monica Mcinerney
F/MAC
Other people's families aren't as perfect as they seem When the
Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in
country Australia, they set the locals talking. From the outside, the seven
Templetons seem so bohemian, unusual... peculiar even. No one is
more intrigued by the family than their neighbours, single mother Nina
Donovan and her young son Tom. A wonderfully entertaining and
touching story about the perils and pleasures of love, friendship and
family.
Plantation by Di Morrissey
F/MORR
When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild
Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her
sister who disappeared from the family, 60 years before? What caused
such a severe rift? What Julie finds sends her spiralling through
generations of loves, deaths, tragedy and the challenges of the present
until she discovers her grandmother's shocking secret.
Fall Of Giants by Ken Follett
F/FOLL
A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas
of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for
votes for women.In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity,
FALL OF GIANTS moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg,
from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a
palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.
Crescent Dawn by Cussler, Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler F/CUSS
Dirk Pitt is hot on the trail of adventure in the Middle-East. A.D. 327, a
Roman galley, carrying an extraordinary and priceless cargo, barely
escapes a vicious pirate attack. 1916, a British warship mysteriously
explodes in the middle of the North Sea. Present day, a cluster of
mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does
anything link these terrifying events together?
Towers Of Midnight by Jordan and Sanderson
F/JORD
The last battle has started. The seals on the Dark One's prison are
crumbling. The pattern itself is unravelling, & the armies of the Shadow
have begun to boil out of the Blight. Perrin Aybara is haunted by
spectres from his past. To prevail, he must find a way to master the wolf
within him or lose himself to it for ever.
Cross Fire by James Patterson
F/PATT
Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when
Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two
of Washington D.C.'s most hated public figures: a corrupt congressman
and an underhanded lobbyist. Media coverage of the case explodes,
and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and
Siegel battle over jurisdiction, murders continue. As Alex contends with
the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest
adversary, Kyle Craig.
Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
F/CORN
Port Mortuary is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a
treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high tech
highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her
professional career, when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her
medical school debt and found herself ensnared in a gruesome case of
what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate crimes against two
Americans in South Africa. Now, more than twenty years and many
career successes later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover
Air Force Base
Distant Hours by Kate Morton
F/MORT
The discovery of a long-lost letter reveals an old secret and the truth
behind a woman's mysterious past. Edie Burchill and her mother have
never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday
afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on
its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her Mother's emotional
distance masks an old secret. The truth of what happened in the distant
hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it.
American Assassin by Vince Flynn
on-order
Before he was considered a CIA-super agent, before he was thought of
as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and
admired by politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a star college
athlete with an untapped instinct for violence. Tensions in the Middle
East are simmering when Central Intelligence Angency Director Irene
Kennedy pays a visit to Syracuse University, where she hopes to recruit
none other than Mitch Rapp, a student who has quickly climbed up the
academic and athletic ranks.
Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
F/TSIO
Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Christos Tsiolkas's
The Slap is a riveting page-turner and a powerful, haunting rumination
on contemporary middle-class family life. When a man slaps a child who
is not his own at a neighborhood barbecue, the act triggers a series of
repercussions in the lives of the people who witness the event-causing
them to reassess their values, expectations, and desires.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
FPB/HISTORICAL/M
2009 Man Booker Prize winner. Go backstage during the most dramatic
period in English history: the reign of Henry VIII. England, the 1520s.
Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief
advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant.
Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first
as Wolseys clerk, and later his successor. WOLF HALL is that very rare
thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of
individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters,
and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us
Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great
passion, suffering and courage.
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
F/CARE
An exploration of the great adventure of American democracy, it
thrillingly brings to life two characters who, born on different sides of
history, come together to share an extraordinary relationship. Olivier is a
French aristocrat, sent to the New World ostensibly to study its prisons,
but in reality to save his neck in a future revolution. Parrot is the son of
an itinerant English printer, sent to spy and protect him. With the
narrative shifting between the perspectives of master and servant, we
see the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, told
with Carey’s dazzling wit and inventiveness.
Room by Emma Donoghue
F/DONO
Jack is five. He lives in a single room with his Ma.The room is locked.
Neither Jack nor Ma have a key. But now Jack is five, and Ma tries to
explain to him that - contrary to everything she’s told him previously there is a world beyond Room. Jack finds the concept impossible to
grasp, but when Old Nick cuts the power supply to Room, Ma realizes
their situation is even more precarious than she had previously thought.
She decides they have to act, and comes up with a plan. However,
freedom is an alien concept, & the two have to learn how to live together
in a world full of other people.
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
NFPB/BIOGRAPHY
The Number One international bestseller, Eat, Pray Love is a journey
around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment and a story for
anyone who has battled with divorce, depression and heartbreak. It's
3a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in
her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and
she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair
later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to
pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing:
pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she
learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains
twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that
enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the
temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate
age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly
happiness begins to creep up on her.
MANLY LIBRARY
BOOKLIST
Great Heroines
The next meeting
of the
Book Discussion
Group
will be on
Wednesday
9 February 2011
at 6 pm
A heroine, in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult
being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion. Later, heroine
came to refer to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a
position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice—that is,
heroism—for some greater good of all humanity.
Heroine is sometimes used to simply describe the protagonist of a story, or the love
interest, a usage which can conflict with the superhuman expectations of heroism.
The larger-than-life heroine is a more common feature of fantasy (particularly sword
and sorcery and epic fantasy) than more realist works.
In modern movies, the heroine is often simply an ordinary person in extraordinary
circumstances, who, despite the odds being stacked against her, typically prevails in
the end.
―When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds
that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule
that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are
able, work up to something better‖. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moll Flanders in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll
Flanders (commonly known as simply "Moll Flanders") by Daniel Defoe
LPF/DEFO
Full title: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders,
Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety
For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a
Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve
Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew
Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent. Written from her own
Memorandums.
Anna Karenina in Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
F/TOLS
In the character of Anna, Tolstoy creates a woman who is perhaps most
unhappily destined for tragedy. Anna falls in love with Count Vronsky,
only to find that her passions are uncontrollable. She might have
continued the relationship in secret, but she defies the "rules," and is
forced to pay the ultimate price... She loses all contact with her son; and
she is shunned from proper society.
Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
FPB/CLASSIC/F
Emma Rouault, a farmer‘s daughter, perceives herself as a romantic, a
sensitive soul surrounded by clods and dolts. Addicted to wild fantasies
nourished by popular literature and art, she longs for a grand passion
that will somehow liberate her from her stultifying provincial existence.
She is famed for the vain romantic longings that were all that stirred her
selfish and shallow personality. She is the kind of person who believes
there must be more to life than this but never stops to wonder why there
is so little to herself.
Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
F/BRON
Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a
woman‘s quest for freedom. Having grown up an orphan in the home of
her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an
independent and spirited survivor—qualities that serve her well as
governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic
employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to
make a choice.
Elizabeth Bennett in Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
F/AUST
Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous,
sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her
sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but readers can‘t help but warm
to her, for if provoked, she is not above skewering her antagonist with a
piece of her exceptionally sharp -- but always polite -- 18th century wit.
Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne F/HAWT
Hester Prynne is the wearer of the scarlet A, a punishment for the crime
of adultery in Massachusetts during Colonial times. She refuses to name
the father of her child and carries the burden of their sin on herself.
Hester is shunned by the community, although they seek her out for her
work as a seamstress. She meekly endures the stares and jeers of the
villagers until she becomes something of legend. Despite her unfair
treatment, she endures and punishes the villagers by not hiding her
shame. She wears the letter openly reminding them of their own sins.
Josephine (Jo) March in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott F/ALCO
A poignant tale of a four sisters, Little Women addresses issues, which
are surprisingly relevant even today. The story takes us through the lives
of the March sisters – Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth who live with their mother.
Their father is away at war. Meg teaches little kids, Jo is a tomboy with a
mercurial temper, Beth is a homemaker at heart, whereas Amy is the
spoilt brat. Life progresses smoothly until tragedy strikes. Jo takes to
writing stories. She gets fame as a writer when a story expresses her
anguish at her sister‘s death.
Lily Bart in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
F/WHAR
Lily Bart is an impoverished socialite who lives off a small inheritance
and her Aunt Julia‘s generosity. She travels the inner circle of the New
York elite by being charming and beautiful; something she finds
increasingly more difficult the older she gets. There is a price to pay,
when living off the rich. Lily has to be lively and entertaining, even when
she doesn‘t feel up to it.
Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen F/AUST
Elinor, a reserved, practical and thoughtful young woman, compared to
her younger sister Marianne, represents the "sense" of the title. She
possesses a coolness of judgement and strength of understanding. She
is her mother's frequent counsellor, and sometimes indeed shows more
common sense than her mother, whose judgement, though by no means
weak, is very often sunk beneath her exaggerated notions of romantic
delicacy
Hermione Grainger in the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
JF/ROWL
Hermione is a very strong female character and the brightest in the
Harry Potter Series. She is the perfect expository character; because of
her encyclopaedic knowledge, she can always be used as a plot dump
to explain the Harry Potter universe. She is an overachiever who excels
academically, and is described by Rowling as a "very logical, upright and
good" character. There is still a lot of insecurity and a great fear of failure
beneath Hermione's ‗swottiness‘.
Peony in Peony in Love by Lisa See
F/SEE
Based on a true story, Peony in Love uses the richness and magic of the
Chinese afterlife to transcend death and explore the many
manifestations of love. Ultimately, it‘s about universal themes: the bonds
of female friendship, the power of words, the desire all women have to
be heard, and finally those emotions that are so strong that they
transcend time, place, and perhaps even death.
Ann Shirley in Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery JF/MONT
Anne Shirley, a talkative redheaded 11-year-old girl, with a sunny nature
and quirky imagination. Anne's feisty spirit soon draws many friends-and much trouble--her way. Not a day goes by without some
melodramatic new episode in the tragicomedy of her life. Lucy Maud
Montgomery's series of books about Anne have remained classics since
the early 20th century. Her portrayal of this feminine yet independent
spirit has given generations of girls a strong female role model, while
offering a taste of another, milder time in history.
Scout Finch in To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee FPB/CLASSIC/L
The narrating character 'Scout', unveils the hypocrisy of some people in
a fictional American town during the Great Depression - in their attitudes
towards people of a different colour, economic status and different
religion as well as people with disabilities. Human nature is drawn bare
as people pass judgement on others without judging themselves first.
Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
F/LARS
A multipierced and tattooed investigator, Lisbeth Salander is a
misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues - a feral but
vulnerable superhacker. Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there
is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with
the dragon tattoo.
Kay Scarpetta in Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
F/CORN
Arguably America‘s favourite medical examiner, Scarpetta is a
perfectionist, a hard worker and completely absorbed by her work. She
works close to death everyday and her choice of profession comes from
her experiences as a child when she saw her father die slowly from
leukaemia.
Adelia Aguilar in Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
FPB/HISTORICAL/F
A historical crime thriller introduces the compelling Adelia—abandoned
as a child, adopted by doctors, trained in Salerno (a center of learning),
and now a woman of modern sensibilities. Franklin perfectly recreates
the barbarous culture of the Middle Ages and the Crusades—an era of
religious persecution and idealism that clashed with the burgeoning
importance of science and the rule of law.
Temperance Brennan in Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs FPB/DETECTION
Temperance Brennan is as stubborn and as astute as Kay Scarpetta
when it comes to sleuthing. Montreal, with its French culture, is an
enticing setting for Reichs' first mystery, and as a forensic anthropologist
who spends part of her time working for the Province of Quebec, Reich
knows the city well. She also contributes a wealth of authentic medical
detail as she follows Tempe on her gripping, convoluted quest to catch a
psychotic killer. A high-voltage thriller that readers won't want to put
down.
Miss Marple in The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
FPB/DETECTION
This is where Agatha Christie first introduces us to Miss Marple. The
narrator of the story describes Miss Marple as a ‗white-haired old lady
with a gentle, and appealing manner.‘ He also calls her ‗dangerous.‘
Miss Marple, demonstrating for the first time the quiet brilliance that
indeed makes her ‗dangerous‘ to evil-doers, makes sure that the villain
is unmasked and will ultimately be punished
Emma Woodhouse in Emma by Jane Austen
F /AUST
Emma is a story of a wealthy young woman's schemes to match up her
new, and much more poor, friend with the town's unsuspecting (and
sometimes unwilling) bachelors. What is revealed, however, is not
Emma's skills in match-making, but her inability to see the true feelings
of those around her, as well as her own heart.
Lorna Doone in Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
FPB /CLASSIC/B
The historical romance set in southwest England tells the tale of John
Ridd, a young farmer who clashes with the Doones, a Scottish family of
murderers and outlaws. Ridd eventually meets Lorna, a ward of the
Doone family, and falls in love. It's a classic tale complete with love,
murder, revenge, and, of course, a cliff-hanger ending. The Lorna
Doone character was symbolic of Scotland.
Elizabeth Costello in Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
F/COET
Elizabeth Costello is an aging Australian writer, famous for a book she'd
written years ago and now traveling the lecture circuit, although she's a
poor public speaker. As Elizabeth confronts death, the deepest
questions are raised through fictional safeguards -- without settling on
answers. A thought provoking novel.
Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
FPB/CLASSIC/M
Scarlett O'Hara, a headstrong Southern belle, survives the hardships of
the war. She is motivated by her unfulfilled love for Ashley Wilkes, an
honorable man who is happily married. After a series of marriages and
failed relationships with other men, notably the dashing Rhett Butler, she
has a change of heart and determines to win Rhett back.
Clare Randall Fraser in the Cross-stitch or Outlander Series by Diana
Gabaldon
F/GABA
Strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a
husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity
and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart.
Claire's resourcefulness and intelligent sensitivity make the loveconquers-all, happily-ever-after ending seem a just reward.
Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf F/CLASSIC/W
The central character is the delicate Clarissa Dalloway, a disciplined
English gentlewoman who provides the perfect contrast to another of the
book's characters, Septimus Warren Smith, an ex-soldier whose world is
disintegrating into chaos. The book is set on a June day in 1923, as
Clarissa prepares for a party that evening. Unfolding events trigger
memories and recollections of her past, and Woolf offers these bits and
pieces to the reader who must then construct the psychological and
emotional makeup of Clarissa Dalloway in his own mind.
Isabella (Bella) Swan in the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
YA/MEYE
Isabella Swan (Bella), is an ordinary girl when she moves to the dreary
town of Forks. Bella just wishes to be left alone. A striking young woman
with mezmorizing brown eyes, pale skin, and chocolate colored hair,
Bella recieves the attention she was hoping to avoid. When Bella meets
the dark, gorgeous, and mysterious Edward Cullen she falls head over
heels with this vampire and he does the same with her. However Bella
carries trouble wherever she goes and Bella gets the fairy tale she never
expected.
Stephanie Plum in One for the Money by Janet Evanovich F/EVAN
Working-class Jersey girl and former lingerie buyer Stephanie Plum is a
bond bailsma-er-bailsperson, working out of the blue collar "burg" in
Trenton, New Jersey, where "houses and minds are proud to be
narrow". And family ties tend to strangle. Rather than move in with her
parents (and Grandma), she goes to work for her cousin Vinnie, the bail
bondsman. Stephanie isn't exactly the toughest thing on earth, but she
has a knack for trouble with humour.
Kinsey Millhone in “A” is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
F/GRAF
Kinsey's charm lies in the fact that she's a woman of "rare spunk and
independence," and that not only does she think she's tougher and
smarter than she is, but that she consistently surprises us by being
smarter and tougher than we think she is. At first glance, she's an
accident waiting to happen. She drives a decrepit Volkswagen, she cuts
her own hair with toenail scissors, she lives in a garage with a closet full
of neuroses and one dress, a remarkable piece of synthetic miracle
fabric which seems more capable of handling the slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune than Kinsey is. Oh, and she's seemingly permanently
stuck in the eighties.
Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins YA/COLL
Katniss offers to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, but
after this ultimate sacrifice, she is entirely focused on survival at any
cost. It is her teammate, Peeta, who recognizes the importance of
holding on to one's humanity in such inhuman circumstances. It's a
credit to Collins's skill at characterization that Katniss, like a new
Theseus, is cold, calculating and still likable. She has the attributes to be
a winner, where Peeta has the grace to be a good loser. Collins‘s
characters are completely realistic and sympathetic as they form
alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is
tense, dramatic, and engrossing.
Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
F/HARR
As part of the search for a serial murderer, FBI trainee Clarice Starling is
given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security
facility for the criminally insane and interview him. That man, Dr.
Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an
intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind and an intimate
understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself.
Rebecca De Winter in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
F/DUMA
Rebecca is a novel of mystery and passion, a dark psychological tale of
secrets and betrayal, dead loves and an estate called Manderley that is
as much a presence as the humans who inhabit it. Manderley is filled
with memories of the elegant and flamboyant Rebecca, the first Mrs.
DeWinter. Rebecca may be physically dead, but she is a force to
contend with, and the housekeeper's evil matches that of her former
mistress as a purveyor of the emotional horror thrust on the innocent
new Mrs. DeWinter.
Precious Ramotswe in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by
Alexander McCall Smith
F/MACC
A folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom
that, combined with an understanding of human nature, invariably
penetrates into the heart of a puzzle. Precious goes against any
conventional notion of what an unmarried woman should do, spending
the money she got from selling her late father's cattle to set up a Ladies'
Detective Agency- her country's first female detective.
Rachel in My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
F/CLASSIC/D
A young Philip Ashley inherits the fortune of the cousin who raised him,
who has recently married abroad (Italy) and died under mysterious
circumstances. Philip's pleasant life is disrupted by the sudden arrival of
his cousin's beautiful widow, Rachel. Initially planning to send her on her
way with a generous pension, he soon finds himself falling in love with
her--even as he begins to suspect that she murdered his cousin and
may be planning the same fate for him. The tension and suspense of
this novel arise almost exclusively from character. Who is this woman?
What is she doing? How is the young hero going to respond to her?
Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte F/BRON
Catherine is Heathcliff's love and heroine of the story, although she dies
part of the way through the book. Her character, both alive and dead,
haunts Heathcliff. She is free-spirited and beautiful, but can also be
spiteful and arrogant. Growing up alongside Heathcliff, their love is more
like that of twins than lovers, and she marries Edgar because of his
position and breeding.
Eustacia Vye in Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
FPB/H
Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate
love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon
Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her
heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life
and find fulfilment elsewhere. The Return of the Native illustrates the
tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to
recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies.
Claire in Where the light remains: a novel by Hayden Gabriel
This novel weaves the stories of two remarkable women linked by art,
landscape, and the intricacies of marriage. In 1886 Cornwall, an artist
paints a portrait of Claira, the wife of a Methodist farmer. In the painting,
Claira basks in the luminescence of a woodland sunset, violin in hand. In
1986, Claire, a painter, and her husband settle with their two boys in the
Cornish farmhouse where Claira once lived. As Claire falls in love with
the rugged landscape -- and her husband with another woman -- Claire
makes two discoveries that change her as a woman and as a painter.
Maud Bailey in Possession by A.S. Byatt
FPB/B
Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university
libraries, old letters, and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a
fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair
between the two Victorian writers the pair has dedicated their lives to
studying. At first, Roland and Maud's discovery threatens only to alter
the direction of their research, but as they unearth the truth about the
long-forgotten romance, their involvement becomes increasingly urgent
and personal. Desperately concealing their purpose from competing
researchers, they embark on a journey that pulls each of them from
solitude and loneliness, challenges the most basic assumptions they
hold about themselves.
Rhoda Nunn In Odd Women by George Gissing
Virginia and Alice Madden are odd women', growing old alone in
Victorian England with no prospect of finding love. Forced into poverty
by the sudden death of their father, they lead lives of quiet desperation
in a genteel boarding house in London. Meanwhile, their younger sister
Monica, struggles to endure a loveless marriage she agreed to as her
only escape from spinsterhood. But when the Maddens meet an old
friend, Rhoda Nunn, they are soon made aware of the depth of their
oppression. Astonishingly ahead of its time, "The Odd Women" is a
pioneering work of early feminism. Gissing's depiction of the daring
feminist Rhoda Nunn, it is an unflinching portrayal of one woman's
struggle to reconcile her own desires with her deepest principles.
Stephen Gordon in The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall F/HALL
The Well of Loneliness is a path-breaking novel. It was banned in Britain
due to its lesbian theme. The novel concerns a girl born into a wealthy
English family at the turn of the century and named Stephen by her
father who desperately wanted a boy. Practically from birth, Stephen is
described as "different," yet while Radclyffe Hall delivers the powerful
message that lesbianism is natural, she also asks the reader to have
pity on Stephen Gordon, for, along with the popular psychoanalysts of
her day, Radclyffe Hall describes lesbianism as an "inversion." The
"terrible mark of Cain" compels Stephen to forsake the woman she loves
to protect her from a life of ostracism.
Francie Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
F/SMIT
Betty Smith drew from her own experiences in growing up in Brooklyn to
create the character of a tenacious little girl, Francie Nolan. Because
Smith wrote about some of the more unsavory aspects of human
existence, some critics found the book unacceptable.
Smith wrote about a young girl coming to grips with some of the horrific
realities of her life in Brooklyn: death, hunger, pure human hatred, and
meanness.
MANLY LIBRARY
BOOKLIST
Classics reworked
The next meeting of the Book Discussion Group
will be on Wednesday 9 March 2011 at 6 pm
Some stories never seem to get old. In ancient times, stories were passed along verbally for
hundreds of years, and when finally recorded, provided the grist for countless derivative tales.
These, in their turn, have been updated and modernized often to suit the cultural tastes of a given
time period. In the past two decades, we have seen many modernistic re-workings of classic tales
in literature and film, ranging from Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (The Odyssey) and Grendel
(Beowulf), to Wicked (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) and Clueless (Emma). Do these re-workings
cheapen the originals, or add a new dimension to them? What is the relationship between
‘canonical’ literature and popular culture? What is it about the classics that inspires modern writers
to revisit them and offer a new spin on an old story?
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: the classic
Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie
mayhem!/by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.
Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2009.
F /AUST
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Sense and sensibility and sea monsters by Jane
Austen and Ben H. Winters.
F /AUST
Barron, Stephanie.
Jane and his lordship's legacy: being a Jane Austen
mystery.
New York: Bantam Books, 2005.
F /BARR
FPB /DETECTION
Barron, Stephanie.
Jane and the barque of frailty
FPB /DETECTION
Barron, Stephanie.
Jane and the ghosts of Netley: being a Jane Austen
mystery.
F /BARR
Barron, Stephanie.
Jane and the prisoner of Wool House: being the
sixth Jane Austen mystery.
New York: Bantam, 2001.
F /BARR
Barron, Stephanie.
Jane and the stillroom maid.
F /BARR
Barron, Stephanie.
Jane and the wandering eye: being the third Jane
Austen mystery.
London: Headline, 1998.
F /BARR
Bespelling Jane Austen by Mary Balogh, Colleen
Gleason, Susan Krinard, Janet Mullany.
Don Mills, Ontario: HQN, 2010.
Jane Austen Parodies
FPB /SHORT
STORY/B
Bolano, Roberto, 1953-2003.
Antwerp
New York: New Directions Pub., 2010.
Summary: A police sergeant searches for someone
(perhaps a hunchback) and a nameless young
woman (red-haired, a drug addict, a witness)
sodomized by a cop - or is it the narrator? A
collation of 56 "scenes" set in 1980 Barcelona.
Bonavia-Hunt, D. A. (Dorothy Alice)
Pemberley shades.
Naperville: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2008.
(Pride & Prejudice)
F /BOLA
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 1930-1999.
The firebrand.
London: Michael Joseph, 1987.
F /BRAD
Collins, Rebecca Ann.
Netherfield Park revisited: the acclaimed Pride and
prejudice sequel series
Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Landmark, c2008.
F /COLL
Collins, Rebecca Ann.
Recollections of Rosings: the acclaimed Pride and
prejudice sequel series
XX(798458.1)
INPROCESS
Coover, Robert.
Briar Rose.
New York: Grove Press, 1996.
F /COOV
Cunningham, Michael.
The hours.
London: Fourth Estate, 1999.
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
F /CUNN
FPB/HISTORICAL/C
F /BONA
Dogar, Sharon.
Annexed.
London: Andersen Press, 2010.
(Diary of Anne Frank)
YA /DOGA
Donald, Angus.
Outlaw
London: Sphere, 2009.
General Note: "Outlaw : meet the Godfather of
Sherwood Forest"--Cover.
FPB /HISTORICAL/D
Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989.
Rebecca.
London: Gollancz, 1938.
A classic in its own right, but inspired by Jane Eyre.
F /DUMA
Erwin, Sherri Browning.
Jane Slayre
Sydney: Gallery Books, 2010.
Summary: "Jane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying
heroine, a courageous orphan who spurns the
detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on
the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as
the fearless slayer she’s meant to be. When she
takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she
falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr.
Rochester, only to discover he’s hiding a violent
werewolf in the attic - in the form of his first wife.
Can a menagerie of bloodthirsty, flesh-eating,
savage creatures-of-the-night keep a swashbuckling
nineteenth-century lady from the gentleman she
intends to marry?"--Back cover.
Fforde, Jasper.
The Eyre affair.
London: New English Library, 2001.
F /FFOR
FPB /F
F /ERWI
Ford, Michael Thomas.
Jane bites back.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2010.
FPB /CHICK-LIT/F
Fowler, Karen Joy.
The Jane Austen book club.
New York: Putnam, 2004.
F /FOWL
FPB /F
F /FFOR
FPB /F
Harrison, Cora.
I was Jane Austen's best friend
London: Macmillan, 2010.
F /HARR
Halstead, Helen.
A private performance: continuing Jane Austen's
"Pride and prejudice"
[Belair, S. Aust.]: Thalwood Books, 2004.
FPB/HISTORICAL/H
Hockensmith, Steve.
Dawn of the dreadfuls.
Sequel to: Pride and prejudice and zombies.
F /HOCK
Hoffman, Alice.
Here on Earth.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997.
F /HOFF
James, Syrie.
The lost memoirs of Jane Austen
New York: Avon Trade, c2008.
FPB/HISTORICAL/J
Jeffers, Regina.
FPB/HISTORICAL/J
Darcy's passions: Pride and Prejudice retold through
his eyes.
Berkley, CA: lysses Press, 2009.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Ulysses / the 1922 text
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
(The Odyssey)
FPB /CLASSIC/J
F /JOYC
Kohler, Sheila.
Becoming Jane Eyre.
London: Penguin, 2009.
FPB/HISTORICAL/K
Lathan, Sharon.
Loving Mr. Darcy : journeys beyond Pemberley :
Pride and Prejudice continues
F /LATH
Levine, Gail Carson.
Ella enchanted.
New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
YA /LEVI
Mullany, Janet.
Jane and the Damned.
FPB/HISTORICAL/M
Pitkeathley, Jill, 1951Dearest Cousin Jane: a Jane Austen novel
New York: Harper Paperbacks, 2010.
FPB/HISTORICAL/P
Rhys, Jean, 1894-1979.
Wide Sargasso Sea.
London: Deutsch, 1966.
General Note: Prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane
Eyre.
F /RHYS
FPB /CLASSIC/R
Rigler, Laurie Viera.
Confessions of a Jane Austen addict: a novel.
New York: Dutton, 2007.
F /RIGL
Roberson, Jennifer.
Lady of Sherwood.
New York: Kensington, 1999.
General Note: Sequel to: Lady of the forest.
(Robin Hood)
Rowlatt, Bee.
Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad
London: Penguin Books, 2010.
F /ROBE
Shinn, Sharon.
Jenna Starborn.
New York: Ace Books, 2002.
(Jane Eyre)
F /SHIN
Tennant, Emma.
Jane Eyre's hidden story.
New York: Morrow, 2002.
F /TENN
305.4/ROW
Tolstoy, Leo, Graf, 1828-1910.
FPB /T
Android Karenina / by Leo Tolstoy & Ben H. Winters.
Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk, c2010.
Wilson, Kim.
In the garden with Jane Austen.
London: Frances Lincoln, 2009.
712/WIL
The hours [digital videorecording].
Paramount, 2003.
DVD 791.43/HOU
Mary Reilly [digital videorecording].
Columbia Tristar, 2000.
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his
darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
DVD 791.43/MAR
My fair lady [digital videorecording].
Warner Home Video, 1994.
(Pygmalion)
DVD MOVIE/M/1-2
West Side story [digital videorecording].
MGM Home Entertainment, 2004.
(Romeo & Juliet)
DVD 791.43/WES/1-2
Bride & prejudice [digital videorecording].
[Australia] : Roadshow Entertainment, [2005]
Summary: Based on Jane Austen's classic novel,
Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In
Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to
find matches for her four daughters. Second sister,
Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love?
(Pride & Prejudice)
Clueless [digital videorecording].
Paramount, 1995.
(Emma)
DVD 791.43/BRI
Other Titles not held by Manly Library
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Sleeping Beauty set against the Holocaust
DVD 791.43/CLU
Jane by April Linder
A modern retelling of Jane Eyre in contempo0rary pop culture
King of Ithaka by Tracy Barrett
Barrett tackles Homer’s Odyssey, crafting a rip-roaring adventure as told by
Telemachos. His father Odysseus departed for the Trojan war when
Telemachos , now 16, was an infant; his mother Penelopeia has kept the
peace in Ithaka during Odysseus’ absence, but now the people demand a king
as they ridicule spoiled Telemachos
The Dark Deeps by Arthur Slade
This continues on from The Hunchback Assignments – 14 year old secret
agent Modo is fully healed from his run-in with the devious Clockwork Guild
and he’s back in the field. Another agent of the Permanent Association has
failed to report in; he was in New York following up on rumours of a sea
monster sinking ships near Iceland and a missing French spy, Colette, who
was looking into the matter.
Night Magic by Charlotte Vale Allen
A retelling of Phantom of the Opera
iDrakula by Bekka Black
An inventive take on Bram Stoker’s classic tale. Told in epistolary form, the
events of the story unfold for us via electronic media.
Frankly Scarlett, I do Give a Damn! by Beverly West & Nancy K. Peske
13 retellings of classic romance tales, including Casablanca, romeo and Juliet,
and gone With the Wind, the romantic heroes have leaned to behave like
responsible adults and go out of the their way to make a relationship work.
http://austenprose.com/
Austenprose is a Jane Austen Blog, where you can join the discussion of Jane
Austen's novels, movies, sequels and the pop culture she has inspired. It’s a
great place to read about all the spin-offs, both written and audio-visual from
the relatively small number of Austen works
O Brother where art thou (movie)
Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey", set in the deep south during the 1930's. In
it, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman
pursues them.
MANLY LIBRARY
BOOKLIST
European Literature
will be on Wednesday 13 April 2011 at 6 pm
An American college student recently asked; What was better to study – European or
American literature?
Some interesting answers were received, but the following best sum up the
responses –
“American Literature is much easier to read because it is our style of English” and
“..both are really interesting, but most American authors found inspiration in
European works; therefore ... European literature might help you to fully understand
the symbolism and messages of American authors.”
What do you think? Are Australians different in their reading preferences?
Agus, Milena.
The house in via Manno
Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2009.
FPB /WORLD/A
Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850.
Wrong side of Paris
New York: Modern Library, 2005.
FPB /CLASSIC/B
Agus, Milena.
The Countesses of Castello
Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2010.
FPB /WORLD/A
Baricco, Alessandro, 1958City.
New York: Random, 2003.
FPB /WORLD/B
Allende, Isabel, 1942Zorro: the novel
F /ALLE
FPB /WORLD/A
Baricco, Alessandro, 1958Ocean sea.
London : Hamish Hamilton, 1999.
F /BARI
Antunes, Antonio Lobo.
The return of the caravels.
New York: Grove Press, 2003.
FPB /WORLD/A
Baricco, Alessandro, 1958Silk
London: The Harvill Press, 1997.
FPB /WORLD/B
Barbery, Muriel.
The elegance of the hedgehog
London: Gallic Books, 2008.
F /BARB
FPB /WORLD/B
Baricco, Alessandro, 1958Without blood
Melbourne Text Publishing, 2004.
FPB /WORLD/B
Barbery, Muriel.
The gourmet
London: Gallic, 2009.
F /BARB
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.
When things of the spirit come first.
Lond.: Deutsch, 1982.
F /BEAU
Barbery, Muriel.
Gourmet rhapsody.
New York: Europa Editions, 2009.
FPB /WORLD/B
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.
She came to stay
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.
FPB /WORLD/B
Cousin Bette
Melbourne: Penguin, 1998.
F /BALZ
Bello, Antoine.
The missing piece.
London: Serpent's Tail, 2002.
FPB /WORLD/B
The girl with the golden eyes.
New York: Melville House, 2009.
FPB /CLASSIC/B
Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940.
Black snow
London: Vintage, 2005.
FPB /WORLD/B
Lost illusions
F /BALZ
FPB /WORLD/B
Calvino, Italo, 1923-1985.
The complete cosmicomics
FPB /WORLD/C
2
Difficult loves.
FPB /CLASSIC/C
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
The first man
Hamish Hamilton; London, 1995.
F /CAMU
If on a winter's night a traveller
London: Vintage, 1998
FPB /CLASSIC/C
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
The plague.
London: Hamilton, 1970.
FPB /CLASSIC/C
Camilleri, Andrea.
August heat
New York: Penguin Books, 2009.
F /CAMI
FPB /DETECTION
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 15471616.
Don Quixote.
London: Everyman, 1991.
F /CERV
Camilleri, Andrea.
Excursion to Tindar
London: Picador, 2006.
FPB /DETECTION
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Les enfants terribles.
FPB /C
Camilleri, Andrea.
The paper moon.
New York: Penguin, 2008.
FPB /DETECTION
Colette, 1873-1954.
Cheri: The last of Cheri.
Harmondsworth, M'sex : Penguin, 1954.
F /COLE
FPB /WORLD/C
Camilleri, Andrea.
The patience of the spider
New York: Picador, 2007.
F /CAMI
Colette, 1873-1954.
Green wheat: a novella
Louisville, Ky: Sarabande Books, 2004.
FPB /WORLD/C
Camilleri, Andrea.
Rounding the mark
F /CAMI
Les infants terribles.
FPB /WORLD/C
Camilleri, Andrea.
The scent of the night
FPB /DETECTION
The impostor.
London: Peter Owen, 1993.
F /COCT
Camilleri, Andrea.
The shape of water
New York: Viking, 2002.
FPB /WORLD/C
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Inferno
FPB /CLASSIC/D
Camilleri, Andrea.
Voice of the violin
F /CAMI
FPB /WORLD/C
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
The Divine Comedy. 3, Paradiso
FPB /CLASSIC/D
Camilleri, Andrea.
The wings of the Sphinx.
London: Penguin Books, 2009.
FPB /DETECTION
3
De Bernieres, Louis, 1954Captain Corelli's mandolin.
F /DEBE
FPB /WORLD/D
Eco, Umberto, 1932The name of the rose
London: Pan Books, 1984.
F /ECO
De Bernieres, Louis, 1954A partisan's daughter.
London: Harvill Secker, 2008.
F /DEBE
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
Madame Bovary
F /FLAU
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Crime and punishment
New York: Everyman's library, 1993.
F /DOST
Memoirs of a madman.
London: Trafalgar Square, 2003.
FPB /WORLD/F
Dubois, Jean-Paul.
Vie Francaise
New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
FPB /D
The temptation of Saint Anthony.
New York: The Modern Library, 2002.
FPB /CLASSIC/F
Dubois, Jean-Paul.
A French life
London : Hamish Hamilton, 2007.
FPB /WORLD/D
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852.
The Collected tales
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
F /GOGO
Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895.
Camille: the lady of the camellias
New York: New American Library, 1984.
FPB /CLASSIC/D
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852.
Dead souls.
Moscow: Raduga, 1987.
F /GOGO
The Corsican brothers
London: Hesperus, 2007.
FPB /CLASSIC/D
Grass, Günter, 1927The box: tales from the darkroom
London: Harvill Seeker, 2010.
F /GRAS
The Count of Monte Cristo.
F /DUMA
FPB /CLASSIC/D
Grass, Günter, 1927Crabwalk
London: Faber, 2002.
F /GRAS
FPB /WORLD/G
Knight of Maison-Rouge / a novel of
Marie Antoinette.
F /DUMA
Grass, Günter, 1927My century
London: Harvill, 1999.
FPB /WORLD/G
Grass, Günter, 1927The tin drum
Boston : Houghton Miflin, 2009.
F /GRAS
FPB /WORLD/G
The last cavalier: being the adventures of
Count Sainte-Hermine in the age of
Napoleon
New York: Pegasus Books, 2007.
F /DUMA
Grass, Günter, 1927Too far afield
New York: Harcourt, 2000.
F /GRAS
4
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962.
Siddhartha: an Indian poem
F /HESS
FPB /WORLD/H
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
The trial
London: Octopus Books, 1976.
F /KAFK
FPB /CLASSIC/K
Hoeg, Peter, 1957The quiet girl
F /HOEG
Metamorphosis and other stories
F /KAFK
Houellebecq, Michel, 1958Lanzarote
London: William Heinemann, 2003.
F /HOUE
Kundera, Milan, 1929Ignorance
London: HarperCollins, 2002.
F /KUND
Houellebecq, Michel, 1958The possibility of an island.
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.
F /HOUE
Kundera, Milan, 1929Immortality.
F /KUND
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.
The last day of a condemned man: and
other prison writings
FPB /WORLD/H
Kundera, Milan, 1929The unbearable lightness of being
London: Faber & Faber, 1984.
F /KUND
Kurkov, Andrey, 1961Death and the penguin
London: Harvill Press, 2001.
FPB /WORLD/K
Les misérables
F /HUGO
Kurkov, Andrey, 1961The good angel of death
F /KURK
The toilers of the sea
FPB /CLASSIC/B
Kurkov, Andrey, 1961A matter of death and life
London: The Harvill Press, 2005.
FPB /WORLD/K
Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946The piano teacher
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
FPB /WORLD/J
Marcel, 1871-1922.
The prisoner; and, The fugitive
London: Allen Lane, 2002.
F /PROU
Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946Greed
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007.
F /JELI
Marciano, Francesca.
Casa Rossa.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
F /MARC
Amerika: the man who disappeared
New York: New Directions Books, 2002.
F /KAFK
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.
Bel-ami
FPB /CLASSIC/M
5
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.
The necklace and other tales
FPB /WORLD/M
Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970.
All quiet on the western front
FPB /CLASSIC/R
Nooteboom, Cees, 1933All souls' day
FPB /WORLD/N
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos.
The shadow of the wind
New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
F /RUIZ
FPB /WORLD/R
Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness, 1865-1947.
The Scarlet Pimpernel.
FPB /CLASSIC/O
Saramago, Jose.
All the names
F /SARA
FPB /WORLD/S
Pelevin, Victor.
Homo Zapiens.
New York: Penguin, 2003.
FPB /WORLD/P
Saramago, Jose.
Death at intervals
F /SARA
Pelevin, Victor.
The sacred book of werewolf
London: Faber and Faber, 2008.
F /PELE
Saramago, Jose.
The elephant's journey
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010.
F /SARA
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
The Guermantes way
F /PROU
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
The age of reason.
FPB /WORLD/S
In search of lost time: within a budding
grove
F /PROU
Iron in the soul
FPB /WORLD/S
In the shadow of young girls in flower
F /PROU
Nausea
Harmondsworth, M’dlesex: Penguin,
1986.
FPB /CLASSIC/S
Sodom and Gomorrah
Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2003.
F /PROU
Schogt, Philibert.
Daalder's chocolates
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005.
FPB /WORLD/S
Swann's way
F /PROU
Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944Austerlitz
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2001.
F /SEBA
FPB /WORLD/S
6
Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944The emigrants
London: Harvill Press, 1996.
F /SEBA
Suskind, Patrick.
Perfume: the story of a murderer
FPB /WORLD/S
Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944Vertigo
FPB /WORLD/S
Suskind, Patrick.
The pigeon.
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1988.
F /SUSK
Sole, Robert, 1946Birds of passage
London : Harvill, 2000.
FPB /WORLD/S
Thomas, Chantal.
Farewell, my Queen
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
FPB /WORLD/T
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
F /SOLZ
Tokarczuk, Olga.
House of day, house of night
London: Granta, 2002.
FPB /WORLD/T
Soucy, Gaétan, 1958The little girl who was too fond of
matches: a novel
New York: Arcade Pub., 2001.
FPB /WORLD/S
Resurrection.
Geneva : Edito-Service, 197?!
F /TOLS
War and peace
London: Harper Perennial, 2007.
F /TOLS
Steinhauer, Olen.
The Bridge of sighs.
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003.
F /STEI
FPB /WORLD/S
Toussaint, Jean-Philippe.
Running away
London: Dalkey Archive, 2009.
FPB /WORLD/T
Steinhauer, Olen.
The Istanbul variations
F /STEI
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883.
Rudin.
Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1985.
F /TURG
Steinhauer, Olen.
The nearest exit
New York: Minotaur Books, 2010.
F /STEI
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883.
Fathers and sons
London: Heron, 1962.
F /TURG
Vargas Llosa, Mario.
Conversation in the cathedral.
N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1993.
F /VARG
Steinhauer, Olen.
The tourist
F /STEI
Steinhauer, Olen.
The Vienna assignment
F /STEI
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936The bad girl
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.
F /VARG
7
Death in the Andes
New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
FPB /WORLD/V
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.
The golden volcano
Lincoln, Neb: Uni of Nebraska Pr, 2008.
F /VERN
The feast of the goat
FPB /WORLD/V
The Kip brothers
Middletown: Wesleyan Uni Pr, c2007.
F /VERN
The green house
New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
F /VARG
FPB /WORLD/V
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Candide
New York: Dover Publications, 1991.
FPB /CLASSIC/V
In praise of the stepmother.
FPB /WORLD/V
Vorpsi, Ornela.
The country where no one ever dies
Champaign [Ill.]: Dalkey Archive Press,
2009.
FPB /WORLD/V
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936The storyteller
New York: Picador, [2001?].
F /VARG
Wolf, Christa.
Medea : a modern retelling.
London : Virago, 1998.
F /WOLF
The war of the end of the world
New York: Picador, 2008.
FPB /WORLD/V
Zola, Emile, 1840-1902.
The belly of Paris
FPB /CLASSIC/Z
The way to paradise.
F /VARG
Zola, Emile, 1840-1902.
The drinking den
FPB /CLASSIC/Z
Vasquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973The informers
London: Bloomsbury, 2008.
F /VASQ
Zola, Emile, 1840-1902.
The earth
Harmondsworth [etc.]: Penguin, 1980
FPB /WORLD/Z
Vasquez, Richard.
Chicano.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
FPB /WORLD/V
Zola, Emile, 1840-1902.
For a night of love.
London: Trafalgar Square, 2003.
F /ZOLA
FPB /WORLD/Z
Around the world in eighty days
London: Pavillion Books, 2000.
F /VERN
Zola, Emile, 1840-1902.
Nana.
London: Elek Books, 1957.
FPB /CLASSIC/Z
Carpathian castle.
Lond.: Hart-Davis, 1979.
F /VERN
Zola, Emile, 1840-1902.
Therese Raquin
FPB /CLASSIC/Z
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Coming of Age
Coming Of Age Painting by Rochelle Carr
will be on Wednesday 11 May at 6 pm
Coming of age is usually a young person's transition from childhood to adulthood, however no
particular age is prescribed. It is typified by a character undergoing adventure, trial or inner turmoil,
undertaking responsibility, learning a lesson and thereby growing and developing as a person.
Characters may have to come to grips with the reality of cruelty in the world--with war, violence,
death, racism, and hatred--while others deal with family, friends, or community issues.
“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the
world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its
adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.” G. K. Chesterton.
Abi-Ezzi, Nathalie.
A girl made of dust.
FPB /WORLD/A
Catton, Eleanor.
The rehearsal.
London: Granta, 2008.
F /CATT
Atkinson, Kate.
Started early, took my dog.
London: Doubleday, 2010.
F /ATKI
Chabon, Michael.
The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
New York: Random House, 2000.
F /CHAB
Barry, Brunonia.
The map of true places.
New York: Morrow, 2010.
F /BARR
Courtenay, Bryce.
The power of one.
Richmond, Vic.: Heinmann, 1989.
FPB /AUSTRALIAN/C
Bashi, Parsua, 1966Nylon road: a graphic memoir of coming of
age in Iran
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.
GN
Darcas, Christine.
Spinning out.
Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2010.
F /DARC
Bajwa, Rupa.
The sari shop.
London: Viking, 2004.
F /BAJW
FPB /WORLD/B
Beauman, Sally.
The Sisters Mortland
New York: Warner Books, 2006.
FPB /B
Blacklock, Dianne.
The right time.
Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2010.
F /BLAC
Brugman, Alyssa.
Solo
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2007.
YAPB /B
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 18921973.
The good earth.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1976.
F /BUCK
FPB /CLASSIC/B
Bukowski, Charles, 1920-1994.
Ham on rye: a novel.
Santa Rosa, Calif.: Black Sparrow, 1982.
FPB /B
Buxbaum, Julie.
After you.
London : Bantam Press, 2009.
F /BUXB
Delinsky, Barbara, 1945The summer I dared.
New York: Scribner, 2004.
F /DELI
Diamond, Elizabeth.
An accidental light
F /DIAM
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Great expectations
London: Penguin Classics, 2008.
F /DICK
Endicott, Marina.
Good to a fault
Calgary: Freehand Books, 2009.
F /ENDI
Everett, Mark Oliver.
Things the grandchildren should know.
London: Little, Brown, 2008.
780.42/EVE
Gargash, Maha.
The sand fish.
New York: Harper, 2009.
FPB /WORLD/G
Genova, Lisa.
Left neglected: a novel
New York: Gallery Books, 2011.
F /GENO
Giffin, Emily.
The heart of the matter.
London: Orion, 2010.
F /GIFF
Jiji, Jessica.
Sweet dates in Basra
New York: Avon, 2010.
F /JIJI
FPB /WORLD/J
Golding, William, 1911-1993.
Lord of the flies.
F /GOLD
FPB /CLASSIC/G
Juby, Susan.
Alice, I think.
Sydney, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2003.
YAPB /J
Giordano, Paolo.
The solitude of prime numbers.
London: Doubleday, 2009.
F /GIOR
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
On the road. 50th aniversary edition.
F /KERO
Goodman, Carol.
Arcadia Falls: a novel
New York: Ballantine Books, 2010.
F /GOOD
Kidd, Sue Monk.
The secret life of bees.
F /KIDD
Green, Jane, 1968Promises to keep
F /GREE
Kneubuhl, Lemanatele M.
The smell of the moon
Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2006.
FPB /K
Greenwood, Gillian.
Satisfaction.
London: John Murray, 2006.
FPB /G
Knight, Dominic.
Disco boy.
Sydney: Transworld, 2009.
F /KNIG
Hannah, Kristin.
Night road
F /HANN
Kwok, Jean.
Girl in translation.
Camberwell, Vic.: Fig Tree, 2010.
F /KWOK
Hoffman, Alice.
The ice queen.
New York: Little,Brown, 2005.
F /HOFF
FPB /H
LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole.
Random family: love, drugs, trouble and
coming of age in the Bronx
London: Harper Perennial, c2004.
NFPB /BIOGRAPHY
Hoffman, Alice.
The story sisters: a novel.
New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2009.
F /HOFF
FPB /H
Iweala, Uzodinma.
Beasts of no nation.
F /IWEA
Jacobson, Howard, 1942Kalooki nights
F /JACO
Lee, Harper, 1926To kill a mockingbird.
London: Heinemann, 1960.
F /LEE
FPB /CLASSIC/L
Levy, Andrea.
The long song.
London: Headline Review, 2010.
F /LEVY
Li, Moying, 1954Snow falling in spring: coming of age in China
during the cultural revolution.
951.056/LI
Lynch, Jim.
The highest tide: a novel.
F /LYNC
FPB /L
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919The catcher in the rye.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951.
F /SALI
McCabe, Patrick, 1955Winterwood
London: Bloomsbury 2006.
F /MACC
Scotch, Allison Winn.
Time of my life
Sydney: Pier 9, 2008.
F /SCOT
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.
The heart is a lonely hunter.
London: Cresset Press, 1943.
F /MACC
Smith, Betty.
A tree grows in Brooklyn.
London: Heinemann, 1947.
F /SMIT
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967.
The member of the wedding.
London: Heinemann Educational, 1975.
FPB /M
McEwan, Ian, 1948Atonement.
F /MACE
Mapson, Jo-Ann.
Solomon's oak
F /MAPS
Morley, Isla.
Come Sunday.
F /MORL
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
Intensely Alice
New York: Atheneum Books, c2009.
YA /NAYL
Perry, Tasmina.
Kiss heaven goodbye.
F /PERR
Rayner, Sarah.
One moment, one morning
F /RAYN
Richardson, Nigel.
The wrong hands
YA /RICH
Strauss, Darin.
Half a life
San Francisco, Cal.: McSweeney's, 2010.
920/STR
Tan, Amy.
The Joy Luck Club.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.
F /TAN
Tartt, Donna.
The little friend.
New York: Knopf, 2002.
F /TART
Trevor, William, 1928The story of Lucy Gault.
F /TREV
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
JF /TWAI
Veitch, Kate.
Trust
Melbourne: Viking, c2010.
F /VEIT
Whitehead, Colson.
Sag Harbor.
New York: Doubleday, 2009.
F /WHIT
Wilson, Susan.
One good dog.
New York: St Martins, 2010.
F /WILS
Young, William P.
The shack: a novel
Los Angeles: Windblown Media, 2007.
FPB /Y
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Animal Stories
will be on Wednesday 8 June at 6 pm
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. - Groucho Marx
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel
Butler
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends - George Bernard Shaw
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful
and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. - Alfred A. Montapert
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Elliot
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. - Jean Cocteau
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting
them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.- Mark Twain
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.- Abraham Lincoln
When I lost my way, I was accustomed to throw the reins on his neck, and he always discovered
places where I, with all my observation and boasted superior knowledge, could not.- Napoleon
Bonaparte speaking of Marengo, his horse.
Ackerman, Diane.
The zookeeper's wife: a war story.
New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2007.
940.5318/ACK
Conte, Steven.
The zookeeper's war.
Sydney: Fourth Estate, 2007.
F /CONT
Adams, Richard, 1920Watership Down.
FPB /CLASSIC/A YA /ADAM
Dando-Collins, Stephen.
Pasteur's gambit: Louis Pasteur, the
Australasian rabbit plague & a ten million
dollar prize.
North Sydney, N.S.W.: Vintage Books, 2008.
579.3/PAS
Adamson, Joy.
Born free: the full story.
Edition: 50th anniversary ed.
London: Pan, 2010.
599.75/ADA
Albert, Susan Wittig.
The tale of Hawthorn House
New York: Berkley Pub. Group, 2007.
F /ALBE
Barnes, Simon.
How to be wild.
London: Short, 2007.
590/BAR
Bourke, Anthony.
A lion called Christian
London: Bantam, 2009.
599.757/BOU
Bradshaw, G. A. (Gay A.)
Elephants on the edge: what animals teach us
about humanity
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
599.67/BRA
Brown, Chris.
Tales from a Bondi vet.
Sydney, N.S.W.: Hachette Australia, 2009.
636.08/BRO
Child, Lincoln.
Terminal freeze: a novel.
F /CHIL
Childs, Craig Leland.
The animal dialogues: uncommon encounters
in the wild
New York: Little, Brown, 2007.
590/CHI
Grandin, Temple.
Animals make us human: creating the best life
for animals
Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2009.
636.08/GRA
Grandin, Temple.
Animals in translation: using the mysteries of
autism to decode animal behaviour
591.5/GRA
Grogan, John, 1957Marley & me: life and love with the world's
worst dog.
Sydney: Hodder, 2006.
636.7/GRO
Hammond, Diane Coplin.
Hannah's dream
London: Piatkus, 2010.
FPB /H
Harris, Rolf, 1930True animal tales
London : Century, 1996.
636.0887/HAR
Heinrich, Bernd.
Summer world: a season of bounty.
[London]: HarperCollins, 2009.
591.43/HEI
Helfer, Ralph.
Modoc: the true story of the greatest elephant
that ever lived.
791.32/HEL
Herriot, James, 1916-1995.
James Herriot's animal stories
Sydney: Random House, 1997.
636.089/HER
Hillenbrand, Laura.
Seabiscuit: the making of a legend.
798.4/HIL
Jones, Philip G., 1955Australia's Muslim cameleers: pioneers of the
inland, 1860s-1930s
Kent Town, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 2007.
305.8927/JON
Myron, Vicki.
Dewey: the small-town library cat who touched
the world
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008.
636.8/MYR
O'Brien, Stacey.
Wesley the owl: the remarkable love story of
an owl and his girl.
New York: Free Press, 2008.
598.97/OBR
Kirk, Jay.
Kingdom under glass: a tale of obsession,
adventure, and one man's quest to preserve
the world's great animals.
New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt, 2010.
590.92/AKE
Olmert, Meg Daley.
Made for each other: the biology of the
human-animal bond.
Cambridge : Da Capo Press, 2009.
304.2/OLM
Kyle, Aryn.
The God of animals.
London: Weidenfeld, 2007.
F /KYLE
Orr, Aileen.
Wojtek the bear: Polish war hero.
Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2010.
940.54/ORR
Mathews, Dan.
Committed: a rabble-rouser's memoir
Pymble, N.S.W.: Simon & Schuster
(Australia), 2007.
Summary: Dan Mathews is vice president of
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals), charged with increasing awareness
of animal rights through a variety of highprofile events. He has dressed as a carrot to
promote vegetarianism, strutted naked before
a fur convention in Tokyo and taken on the
Australian wool industry. This is his bold, offbeat memoir.
920/MAT
Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Animal farm: a fairy story
F /ORWE
YA /ORWE
Me Cheeta: the autobiography.
791.43/CHE
Oz, Amos, 1939Suddenly in the depths of the forest
London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.
F /OZ
Parton, Allen.
Endal: how one extraordinary dog brought a
family back from the brink
London: HarperTrue, 2009.
636.088/PAR
Mitchinson, John, 1963The book of animal ignorance
591.5/MIT
Pepperberg, Irene M. (Irene Maxine).
Alex & me: how a scientist and a parrot
discovered a hidden world of animal
intelligence and formed a deep bond in the
process.
Carlton North, Vic: Scribe, 2009.
636.686/PEP
Munro, Sharyn (Sharyn Therese)
Mountain tails: the lives and loves of my
animal neighbours.
Wollombi, N.S.W.: Exisle Publishing, 2009.
591.994/MUN
Philbrick, Nathaniel.
In the heart of the sea: the epic true story that
inspired Moby Dick.
London: Flamingo, 2000.
910.452/PHI
Rollins, James, 1961Altar of Eden.
F /ROLL
Siebert, Charles.
Roger's world: toward a new understanding of
animals.
Carlton North, Vic: Scribe Publications, 2009.
179.3/SIE
Smith, Roland, 1951Jungle hunters
London: Scholastic, 2010.
Summary: When 13-year old twins Grace and
Marty lose their parents in a freak accident,
they are sent to live on a secret island with
their mysterious Uncle Wolfe. He is a scientist
obsessed with dinosaurs and cryptids animals that have never been proved to exist.
YA /SMIT
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Travels with Charley in search of America.
New York: Penguin Books, 2002.
917.3/STE
Strahan, Ronald, 1922Beauty and the beasts: a history of Taronga
Zoo, Western Plains Zoo and their
antecedents.
Sydney: Zoological Parks Board of N.S.W.,
1991.
590.744/STR
Stuart, Julia.
Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London
zoo.
London: Harper Press, 2010.
Summary: Balthazar Jones, Beefeater, lives
and works at the Tower of London, a magical
place of ancient buildings and weird
characters including the Reverend Septimus
Drew, the Ravenmaster and Ruby Dore,
landlady of the Rack & Ruin Tavern. When
Buckingham Palace decides to move the
Queen's exotic animals from the zoo to the
Tower, things become very interesting.
F /STUA
FPB /S
Sutherland, Amy.
What Shamu taught me about life, love, and
marriage: lessons for people from animals and
their trainers.
158.2/SUT
Thomas, Amelia.
The zoo on the road to Nablus: a story of
survival from the West Bank.
Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2008.
590.73/THO
Vaillant, John.
The tiger: a true story of vengeance and
survival
London: Sceptre, 2010.
599.756/VAL
Weston, Christopher.
Animals on the edge: reporting from the
frontline of extinction
New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 2009.
General Note: "This book focuses attention on
some of the terrestrial mammals that are
categorized as Endangered or Critically
Endangered on the IUCN red list of threatened
species"--Foreword.
599.0222/WES
Williamson, Duncan.
Land of the seal people
Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2010.
Summary: No stories were more potent, more
engaging, more subtle or profound than these
half-animal, half-human tales of the sea. Time
and time again listeners enthralled by Duncan
Williamson's lore would ask him for the silkie
tale.
FPB /SHORT STORY/W
Winn, Rhylle.
Up a hollow log
Camberwell, Vic.: bPenguin, 2010.
590/WIN
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Banned books
will be on Wednesday 13 July at 6 pm
Banned books are books to which free access is not permitted. The practice of
banning books is a form of censorship, and often has political, religious or moral
motivations.
Bans on books can be enacted at the national or sub-national level, and can carry
legal penalties for their infraction. Books may also be challenged at a local,
community level. As a result, books can be removed from schools or libraries,
although these bans do not extend outside of that area. Similarly, religions may issue
lists of banned books, which do not always carry legal force.
Title
Author
Location or Type
of Literature
The Absolutely
True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian
Sherman
Alexie
YA /ALEX
Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
JF /CAR
YA /CARR
QJF /CARR
All Quiet on the
Western Front
Erich Maria
Remarque
FPB /CLASSIC/R
YA /REMA
F /ELLI
American Psycho
Bret Easton
Ellis
General Note: At
Manly this book has
restricted access and
is not to be lent to
persons under 18
years of age.
Reason
Banned in high school in Stockton, Missouri,
USA, by the local school board after a parent
complained about its content.
Banned in the province of Hunan, China,
beginning in 1931 for its portrayal of
anthropomorphized animals acting on the
same level of complexity as human beings.
Banned in Nazi Germany for being
demoralizing and insulting to the Wehrmacht
Sale and Purchase banned in the Australian
State of Queensland. Sale restricted to
persons 18 years old or older in the other
Australian states
Willoughby copy not available to persons under 18
years of age. Available at the Information Desk.
Mosman copy kept in Stack as it's restricted and
not available to persons under the age of 18.
Animal Farm
George
Orwell
F /ORWE
YA /ORWE
The author’s preface was suppressed in nearly
all of its editions. During 1940 - 45, Allied
forces found this entire book to be critical of
the U.S.S.R., & therefore the text was
considered to be too controversial to print
during wartime. Publishers were reluctant to
print the novel then, and copies of it were
withdrawn from circulation at libraries. In 2002,
the novel was banned in the schools of the
United Arab Emirates, because it contained
text or images that goes against Islamic and
Arab values
Bad Samaritans:
The Myth of Free
Trade and the
Secret History of
Capitalism (2008)
Ha-Joon
Chang
Held by:
LANECOVE &
CHATSWOOD
One of 23 books from Aug 1st 2008 Banned
for distribution in South Korean military.[
Borstal Boy
Brendan
Behan
Autobiographical
Novel
Brave New World
Aldous
Huxley
FPB /CLASSIC/H
Burger's Daughter
Nadine
Gordimer
Held by:
LANECOVE
MOSMAN
CHATSWOOD
Banned in South Africa in July, 1979 for going
against the government's racial policies; the
ban was reversed in October of the same year.
Candide
Voltaire
F /VOLT
FPB /CLASSIC/V
Seized by US Customs in 1930 for obscenity.
The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
Held by:
LANECOVE
STANTON
CHATSWOOD
F /BROW
FPB /THRILLER
Dianetics
L. Ron
Hubbard
Religion
The Diary of Anne
Frank
Anne Frank
920/FRA
Banned in Ireland in 1958. The reason was not
revealed. It was banned in Australia and New
Zealand shortly after. It was allowed to be
published in New Zealand in 1963.
Banned in Ireland in 1932, due to alleged
references of sexual promiscuity.
Banned by Ireland's censorship board in 1960
for its explicit sexual content.
Banned in Lebanon after Catholic leaders
deemed it offensive to Christianity.
Banned in Russia, along with all of the author's
books, under a 2010 law empowering the
Russian government to ban written work
categorized as "extremist materials."[
Banned in Lebanon for "portray[ing] Jews,
Israel or Zionism favorably".
Dick and Jane
William S.
Gray
Novel
Dictionary of
Modern SerboCroatian
Language
Miloš
Moskovljević
dictionary
Doctor Zhivago
Boris
Pasternak
F /PAST
Droll Stories
Honoré de
Balzac
Held by: STANTON
LANECOVE
Fanny Hill or
Memoirs of a
Woman of
Pleasure
John Cleland
DVD MOVIE/F
The God of Small
Things
Arundhati
Roy
F /ROY
FPB /WORLD/R
The Grapes of
Wrath
John
Steinbeck
F /STEI
FPB /CLASSIC/S
The Gulag
Archipelago
Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn
Nonfiction
How to make
disposable
silencers
Unknown
How to
July's People
Nadine
Gordimer
Novel
The King Never
Smiles
Stanley
Wolpert
Paul M.
Handley
Lady Chatterley's
Lover
D. H.
Lawrence
F /LAWR
FPB /CLASSIC/L
Lolita
Vladmir
Nabokov
Novel
The Lonely Girl
Edna O'Brien
Novel
Madame Bovary
Gustave
Flaubert
FPB /CLASSIC/F
F /FLAU
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
943.086/HIT
The
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
F /KAFK
Jinnah of Pakistan
Biography
Biography
Seized in Soviet Russia for its obvious proAmericanism.
Banned in Yugoslavia by court order in 1966,
at request of Mirko Tepavac, because "some
definitions can cause disturbance among
citizens".
Banned within the U.S.S.R until 1988 for its
criticism of the Bolshevik Party.
Banned for obscene material of a sexual
nature in Canada in 1914 and Ireland in 1953,
the ban was lifted in Ireland in 1967.
Banned in the U.S.A in 1821 for obscenity,
then again in 1963. This was the last book ever
banned in the U.S.A.
Written in 1996, claimed to be portraying
occasional interrelgious sex scenes involving a
Christian woman and low caste-Hindu servant.
Ban overturned in India in 1997.
Was temporarily banned in many places in the
US. In the region of California in which it was
partially set, it was banned because it made
the residents of this region look bad.
Banned in the Soviet Union because it went
against the image the Soviet Government tried
to project of itself and its policies. This ban has
been lifted. In 2009, the Education Ministry of
Russia added The Gulag Archipelago to the
curriculum for high-school students.
An example of a class of books banned in
Australia that "promote, incite or instruct in
matters of crime or violence".
Banned during the Apartheid-era in South
Africa. July's People is now included in the
South African school curriculum.
Banned in Pakistan for recounting Jinnah’s
taste for wine and pork.
Banned in Thailand for its criticism of King
Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Temporarily banned in the US & the UK for
violation of obscenity laws; both bans were
lifted in 1959 and 1960, respectively.
Temporarily banned in Australia.
French officials banned it for being "obscene,"
as did the United Kingdom, Argentina, New
Zealand (uncensored 1964) and South Africa.
Banned in Ireland in 1962 after Archbishop
John Charles McQuaid complained personally
to Justice Minister Charles Haughey that it
"was particularly bad".
Banned and Flauvert prosecuted for "offenses
against public morals".
Effectively banned in Germany - the rights are
currently claimed by the Freestate of Bavaria
and the state tries to prevent any re-printing
but there is no law against owning or trading
the original. Banned in some European nations
and the Russian Federation as extremist.
Banned by the Nazis and Communists.
Naked Lunch
William S.
Burroughs
F /BURR
Nineteen EightyFour
George
Orwell
F /ORWE
Not Without My
Daughter
Betty
Mahmoody
Held by:
LANECOVE
MOSMAN
STANTON
CHATSWOOD
One Day in the
Life of Ivan
Denisovich
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
F /SOLZ
The Peaceful Pill
Handbook
Philip
Nitschke and
Fiona
Stewart
Instructional
manual on
euthanasia
The Satanic
Verses
Salman
Rushdie
F /RUSH
SlaughterhouseFive
Kurt
Vonnegut
F /VONN
Spycatcher
Peter Wright
Held by:
LANECOVE
MOSMAN
STANTON
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
FPB /CLASSIC/M
Ulysses
James Joyce
FPB /CLASSIC/J
Uncle Tom's
Cabin
Harriet
Beecher
Stowe
FPB /CLASSIC/S
Radclyffe
Hall
F /HALL
Noam
Chomsky
Politics
The Well of
Loneliness
Year 501: The
Conquest
Continues
Banned by Boston courts in 1962 for
obscenity, but that decision was reversed in
1966 by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial
Court.
Banned by the Soviet Union in 1950, as Stalin
understood that it was a satire based on his
leadership, it was nearly banned by U.S.A and
U.K in the early 1960s during the Cuban
Missile Crisis. It was not until 1990 that the
U.S.S.R legalised the book and it was rereleased after editing.
Banned in Iran. It is a real life story of an
American citizen's escape along with her
daughter from the clutches of her husband in
Iran. It created furor in Iran for showing the
general conditions there in bad light as well as
for being critical of Iranian Islamic customs.
Banned from publication in the Soviet Union in
1964.
Initially banned in New Zealand, as deemed to
be objectionable. In May 2008 it was allowed
for sale if sealed and an indication of the
censorship classification was displayed. The
book was initially restricted in Australia: after
review the 2007 edition was banned outright.
Banned for alleged blasphemy against Islam
by Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Iran, Kenya,
Kuwait, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan,
Senegal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and
Thailand.[
Banned frequently in the U.S.A following the
Island Trees School District v. Pico case. It
remains banned from school libraries and is
the 76th entry in the American Library
Association's "100 Most Frequently Challenged
Books By Decade".
Banned in the U.K 1985-1988 for revealing
secrets. Wright was a former MI5 intelligence
officer and his book was banned before it was
even published in 1987.
Banned in the U.S.A in the 1930s until the
early 1960s, seized by US Customs for
sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest
of Miller's work was also banned by the US.
Banned in U.K during the 1930s and in
Australia during the 1930s and 1940s
Challenged and temporarily banned in the
U.S.A for its sexual content.
Banned in the Southern US during the Civil
War due to its anti-slavery content. In 1852, it
was banned in Russia due to the idea of
equality it presented, and for its "undermining
religious ideals."[
Banned in the U.K in 1928 for its lesbian
theme, republished in 1949.
Banned for distribution in South Korean military
as one of 23 books banned on Aug 1st 2008.
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BOOKLIST
In the News
Persons of interest: the ASIO Files
will be on Wednesday 10 August at 6 pm
It‘s estimated that ASIO files have been opened on more than half a million Australians; it's
possible you might be a ‘person of interest’. Persons of interest: the ASIO files explores the
recently declassified dossiers of people whose every move was once closely watched by
Australia's foremost intelligence agency. Previously secret intelligence files, photographs and films
will be on display for the first time along with unique surveillance tools used by ASIO agents.
Documentary footage shows the very personal reactions of some of these persons of interest as
they explain firsthand how their idealism and beliefs were misconstrued by ASIO as something far
more sinister.
ASIO was set up in 1949 to combat a Soviet spy ring operating in Australia, a serious threat to our
national security. However, during the 1950s and 60s ASIO shifted its focus to target groups and
individuals it considered subversive, including the Communist Party of Australia, various feminist
groups and those involved in the anti-apartheid movement. ASIO has been quietly following,
recording and photographing persons of interest for more than 60 years. The resultant files are
dark biographies documenting a secret history of Sydney where spies lurked among unsuspecting
citizens.
Justice & Police Museum
Saturday 18 June 2011 – Sunday 29 April 2012
Akermanis, Jason, 1977Jason Akermanis : open season
Prahran, Vic: Hardie Grant Books, 2010.
796.336/AKE
Boat people: personal stories from the Vietnamese
exodus 1975 - 1992
Cloverdale, W.A.: Carina Hoang Communications,
2010.
325.94/BOA
Allen, Paul, 1953Idea man: a memoir by the co-founder of Microsoft Bolkovac, Kathryn.
Camberwell, Vic: Portfolio Penguin, 2011.
The whistleblower: sex trafficking, military
XX(831698.1) on order
contractors, and one woman's fight for justice
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Andersen, Christopher P.
364.15/BOL
William and Kate: a royal love story
New York: Gallery, 2010.
Boyle, Susan, 1961929.72/WIL
The woman I was born to be
Baksi, Kurdo, 1965782.6/BOY
Stieg Larsson, my friend
London: MacLehose, 2010.
Brown, A.J. (Alexander Jonathan)
839.7/LAR
Michael Kirby: paradoxes and principles
Annandale, N.S.W.: Federation Press, 2011.
347.94/KIR
Baksi, Kurdo, 1965Stieg Larsson: our days in Stockholm
Burton, Pamela.
New York: Pegasus, 2010.
From Moree to Mabo: the Mary Gaudron story.
839.738/LAR
Crawley, W.A.: UWA Publishing, 2010.
347.94/GAU
Benaud, Richie, 1930Over but not out: my life so far
Callahan, Maureen.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010.
Poker face: the rise and rise of Lady Gaga.
796.358/BEN
New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, 2010.
780.42/LAD
Betts, Kate.
Everyday icon: Michelle Obama and the power of
Campbell, Caesar.
style.
Enforcer: the real story of one of Australia's most
New York: Clarkson Potter, 2011.
feared outlaw bikers
646.7/BET
364.1066/CAM
Bengtsson, Jesper, 1968Struggle for freedom: Aung San Suu Kyi: a
Chugg, Michael.
biography
Hey, you in the black t-shirt: the real story of
Pymble, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2011.
touring the world's biggest acts
XX(830842.5) on order
920/CHU
Best Australian political cartoons 2010
Melbourne, Vic.: Scribe, 2010.
Collins, Ben.
320.994/BES
The man in the white suit: the Stig, Le Mans, the
fast lane and me.
Blain, Georgia, 1964London: HarperCollins, 2010.
Too close to home
796.72/COL
Sydney: Vintage Books Australia, 2011.
F /BLAI
Cousins, Ben.
Ben Cousins autobiography
Blair, Tony, 1953Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2010.
A journey: my political life.
796.336/COU
London: Hutchinson, 2010.
942.085/BLA
Dalai Lama, XIV, 1935My spiritual journey: personal reflections,
teachings, and talks
New York, NY: HarperOne, 2010.
294.3/DAL
Gilchrist, Adam.
True colours
796.358/GIL
Dench, Judi, 1934And furthermore
792.092/DEN
Guthrie, Bruce.
Man bites Murdoch: four decades in print, six days
in court
Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Pr., 2010.
070.4/GUT
De Rossi, Portia.
Unbearable lightness: a story of loss and gain.
791.45/DER
Halligan, Marion, 1940Shooting the fox
Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2011.
F /HALL
De Waal, Edmund.
The hare with amber eyes: a family's century of art
and loss.
London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.
920/WAA
NFPB /BIOGRAPHY
Hicks, David, 1975Guantanamo: my journey
North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House, 2010.
303.625/HIC
Ebadi, Shirin
Iran awakening: from prison to Peace Prize: one
woman's struggle at the crossroads of history
London: Rider, 2006.
920/EBA
Elias, John, 1962Sin bin: the untold story of a true footy bad boy
796.333/ELI
Fingleton, Diane.
Nothing to do with justice: the Di Fingleton story
Chatswood, N.S.W.: New Holland, 2010.
347.943/FIN
FitzSimons, Peter.
A simpler time: a memoir of love, laughter, loss
and billycarts
Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010.
920/FITZ
Fowler, Andrew John.
The most dangerous man in the world: the inside
story on Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks
secrets
Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Pr., 2011.
323.445/ASS
Fry, Stephen, 1957The Fry chronicles
London: Michael Joseph, 2010.
792.7/FRY
Garvey, Nichola.
Beating the odds: Alan Tripp's rise from illegal SP
bookmaker to gambling kingpin.
798.4/TRI
Hinch, Derryn, 1944Human headlines: my 50 years in the media
Melbourne, Vic.: Cocoon Lodge, 2010.
070.4/HIN
Hooker, Natalia.
LJ Hooker the man: the untold story of an
Australian icon.
Lower Portland, N.S.W.: N. Hooker, 2010.
338.76/HOO
Jewell, Matina
Caught in the crossfire: an Australian peacekeeper
beyond the frontline
Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2011.
355.357/JEW
Kardashian, Kourtney, 1979Kardashian confidential
New York: St Martins Press, 2010.
791.45/KAR
Knox, Malcolm.
The life: a novel
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2011.
F /KNOX
Lambert, Stephen.
Undercover boss: inside the TV phenomenon that
is changing bosses and employees everywhere
San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
658.302/LAM
Lebor, Adam.
The believers: how America fell for Bernard
Madoff's $65 billion investment scam.
London: Phoenix, 2010.
364.168/MAD
Lloyd, Peter, 1966Inside story: from ABC foreign correspondent to
Singapore prisoner #12988.
070.4332/LLO
Reeves, Tony, 1940The real George Freeman: thief, race-fixer,
standover man and underworld crim
XX(832317.2)
Lowndes, Craig.
The inside line
796.72/LOW
Rice, Condoleezza, 1954Extraordinary, ordinary people: a memoir of family
New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.
327.73/RIC
Luker, Philip
Phillip Adams: the ideas man: a life revealed.
Docklands, Vic.: JoJo Publishing, 2011.
070.92/ADA
Rushdie, Salman.
Midnight's children.
London: Cape, 1981.
F /RUSH
McDonald, Roger, 1941When colts ran
Sydney: Vintage Books, 2010.
F /MACD
Scheuer, Michael.
Osama bin Laden
Oxford; N Y: Oxford University Pr., 2011.
363.325/BIN
Morton, Andrew, 1953Angelina: an unauthorized biography.
Sydney: HarperCollins Press, 2010.
791.43/JOL
Smiley, Jane.
The man who invented the computer: the
biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer.
004.092/ATA
Nable, Matt.
Faces in the clouds
Camberwell, Vic: Viking, 2011.
F /NABL
O'Brien, Soledad.
The next big story: my journey through the land of
possibilities
New York: New American Library, 2010.
070.92/OBR
INPROCESS
Ponting, Ricky.
The captain's year
Pymble, N.S.W: HarperCollins, 2010.
796.358/PON
Priest, Tim.
On deadly ground: the assassination of John
Newman MP.
Chatswood, N.S.W.: New Holland Pub., 2010.
364.152/NEW
Ramsey, Alan.
The way they were: the view from the hill of the 25
years that remade Australia.
Kensington, N.S.W.: Uni of NSW Press, 2011.
070.994/RAM
Sugar, Alan, 1947What you see is what you get: my autobiography
338.04/SUG
Twine, France Winddance, 1960Outsourcing the womb: race, class, and
gestational surrogacy in a global market
New York: Routledge, 2011.
XX(833824.2)
Van Dyk, Jere
Captive: my time as a prisoner of the Taliban.
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010.
958.104/VAN
Venuti, Maria, 1941A whole load of front
780.42/VEN
Watts, Jonathan.
When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the
frontline of climate change.
XX(837917.1)
Writer, Larry.
Ratcliffe, Graham.
Bumper: the life and times of Frank 'Bumper'
A day to die for: 1996: Everest's worst disaster: the Farrell.
untold true story.
Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2011.
Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2011.
796.333/FAR
796.522/RAT
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Reasons to Read Biography:
1: To discover fascinating people.
2: To rediscover people we think we know well.
3: To reassess infamous characters.
4: To get the story behind legendary characters.
5: To get the dirt.
6: To find a hero, warts and all.
7: To learn history through the life of an individual.
8: To experience adventure from the safety of one's armchair.
9: To celebrate one's culture.
10: To enjoy a good book.
Ten seems a nice number at which to stop. You might write some more reasons of your own
after reading a few good biographies.
Alexander, June L., 1950A girl called Tim: escape from an eating
disorder hell.
Chatswood, N.S.W.: New Holland Pub, 2011.
616.8526/ALE
Buckley, Patricia.
My journey with the angels
Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2011.
202.15/BUC
Allen, Jeff.
Get laid or die trying: the field reports.
306.81/ALL
Cheney, Terri, 1959The dark side of innocence: growing up
bipolar
New York: Atria Books, 2011.
616.89/CHE
Allen, Paul, 1953Idea man: a memoir by the co-founder of
Microsoft
Camberwell, Vic.: Portfolio Penguin, 2011.
338.76/ALL
Bauby, Jean-Dominique.
The diving-bell and the butterfly: a memoir of
life in death
616.81/BAU
Clifton, Jane, 1949The address book: a memoir about my homes
(all 32 of them)
920/CLI
Cockburn, Patrick, 1950Henry's demons: living with schizophrenia, a
father and son's story
616.898/COC
Bogle, Donald.
Heat wave: the life and career of Ethel
Waters.
780.42/WAT
Cook, Kevin.
Titanic Thompson: the man who bet on
everything.
New York: Norton, 2011.
795.092/THO
Bono, Chaz.
Transition: the story of how I became a man
New York: Dutton, 2011.
306.768/BON
D'Amboise, Jacques.
I was a dancer: a memoir.
792.8/DAM
Brennan, Nigel.
The price of life: a true story of kidnap &
ransom.
Camberwell, Vic.: Michael Joseph, 2011.
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ON-ORDER
Breslin, Ed.
Drinking with Miss Dutchie: a memoir.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.
070.5/BRE
Brown, A.J. (Alexander Jonathan)
Michael Kirby: paradoxes and principles
Annandale, N.S.W.: Federation Press, 2011.
347.94/KIR
Darnton, John.
Almost a family: a memoir.
813.54/DAR
Dugard, Jaycee Lee.
A stolen life: a memoir
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
364.154/DUG
Fey, Tina, 1970Bossypants.
New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2011.
791.43/FEY
Fowler, Andrew John.
The most dangerous man in the world: the
inside story on Julian Assange and the
WikiLeaks secrets
Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Pr, 2011.
323.445/ASS
Gilman, Priscilla.
The anti-romantic child: a story of unexpected
joy.
306.874/GIL
Giner, Francois.
Heart of Arnhem Land: a memoir.
Woollahra, N.S.W.: Longueville Books, 2011.
994.295/GIN
Glover, Stephen.
Professional idiot: a memoir
New York: Hyperion, 2011.
791.092/GLO
Goulian, Jon-Jon
The man in the gray flannel skirt.
920/GOU
Greitens, Eric.
The heart and the fist: the education of a
humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL.
2011.
359.984/GRE
Haag, Christina.
Come to the edge: a memoir.
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2011.
792.02/HAA
Hamilton, Gabrielle.
Blood, bones & butter: the inadvertent
education of a reluctant chef.
641.5092/HAM
James, Jesse (Jesse Gregory)
American outlaw
920/JAM
Jones, Joanne W.
When the bough breaks.
Warriewood, N.S.W.: Finch Publishing, 2011.
618.178/JON
Kent, Nick.
Apathy for the devil: a 1970s memoir.
070.449/KEN
Knudsen, Nancy.
Shooting stars and flying fish: swapping the
boardroom for the seven seas.
797.124/KNU
Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell.
Quantum man: Richard Feynman's life in
science/
New York: Atlas & Co.: W.W. Norton, 2011.
530.092/FEY
Levin, Gail.
Lee Krasner: A biography.
New York: William Morrow, 2011.
759.973/KRA
Levy, Steven.
In the plex: how Google thinks, works, and
shapes our lives.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
338.76/LEV
Logelin, Matthew.
Two kisses for Maddy: a memoir of loss &
love.
New York: Grand Central Pub., 2011.
155.937/LOG
McMillan, David.
McVillain: the man who got away.
Ice-T (Musician)
Ice: a memoir of gangster life and redemption- Camberwell, Vic.: Sly Ink, 2011.
364.177/MACM
-from South Central to Hollywood
New York: One World Books, 2011.
780.42/ICE
Masino, Susan, 1955Family tradition: three generations of Hank
Williams
San Francisco, Calif : Backbeat Books, 2011.
780.42/WIL
Ruston, David.
A life with roses
Kenthurst, N.S.W.: Rosenberg, 2011.
635.933/RUS
Means, Howard B.
Johnny Appleseed: the man, the myth, the
American story
920/APP
Styron, Alexandra
Reading my father: a memoir.
813.6/STY
Milton, Giles, 1966Wolfram: the boy who went to war
London: Sceptre, 2011.
940.5413/AIC
Nutt, Amy Ellis.
Shadows bright as glass: the remarkable story
of one man's journey from Brain Trauma to
artistic Triumph.
New York: Free Press, 2011.
920/SAR
Page, Greg.
Now and then: Greg Page, the life-changing
journey of the original yellow Wiggle.
XX(830837.6)
ON-ORDER
Paul, Alan.
Big in China: my unlikely adventures raising a
family, playing the blues, and becoming a star
in Beijing.
920/PAU
Porrello, Rick.
Kill the Irishman: the war that crippled the
Mafia.
New York: Pocket Books, 2011.
NFPB /TRUE CRIME
Raparapa: stories from the Fitzroy River
drovers
Broome, W.A.: Magabala Books, 2011.
994.14/RAP
Sultana, Farida, 1965Purple dandelion: a Muslim woman's struggle
against violence and oppression
Auckland, N.Z.: Exisle, 2011.
305.486/SUL
Sunderland, Abby.
Unsinkable: a young woman's courageous
battle on the high seas
Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2011.
910.45/SUN
Taylor, Natalie (Natalie Kelland)
Signs of life: a memoir
London: Two Roads, 2011.
920/TAY
Tintner, Tanya Buchdahl.
Out of time: the vexed life of Georg Tintner.
784.2/TIN
Venuti, Maria, 1941A whole load of front
780.42/VEN
Walker, Alice, 1944The chicken chronicles: sitting with the angels
who have returned with my memories:
Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor,
Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, &
Babe: a memoir
813.54/WAL
Weiland, Scott.
Not dead & not for sale
780.42/WEI
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In the Garden
will be on Wednesday 12 October at 6 pm
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ~George Bernard
Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1932
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a
kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much
feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. ~Victoria Glendinning
Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. Anon
Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours.
~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782
Gardens are a form of autobiography ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, Aug/Sept
1993
You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown
Aitken, Richard.
The garden of ideas: four centuries of
Australian style.
Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah Press, 2010.
712.6/AIT
Australia's open gardens: national garden
guide 600 gardens 2010-2011.
Prahran, Vic.: Hardie Grant Magazines, 2010.
635.0991/AUS 2009/10
919.4/AUS
2001/02
Challis, Sarah.
The garden party
F /CHAL
Cherry, Derelie Ann.
Two dogs & a garden
Kulnura, N.S.W.: Paradise Publishers, 2009.
635.092/CHE
City permaculture: sustainable living in small
spaces
Trentham, Vic.: Earth Garden Books, 2010.
Summary: Have you ever wanted to keep
chooks, grow some of your own food, bake
your own bread or harvest your own
rainwater... but assumed that was only for
people with large blocks of land? Think again:
city living and city growing are perfectly
compatible, with City Permaculture to guide
you along the path to urban sustainability.
Learn how to choose the right species to
plant, the right time of year to plant food, how
to prepare your courtyard, balcony or even
nature strip so you can enjoy the buzz of
growing your own food.
631.58/CIT
Delmage, Neil.
From coast to country : waterwise garden
designs for Australian living
Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, 2010.
712.6/DEL
Dickey, Page.
Embroidered ground: revisiting the garden.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Contents: A stroll through Duck Hill -- The
shaping of the garden -- A husband in the
garden -- New architecture -- Multi-seasonal
plants -- Native and organic -- On fragrance -Dividends in the garden -- Bringing the garden
indoors -- The mature garden -- Prescriptions
for the aging gardener -- Final threads.
635/DIC
Docx, Edward.
The devil's garden.
Summary: Dr Forle is a scientist living on a
river station deep in the South American
jungle. His small band of colleagues are
working with the locals to study the eerie
forest glades, created by poison ants, that the
Indians call 'devil's gardens'. When one of his
assistants is murdered, Forle is forced to take
sides. But what kind of a man is he?
F /DOCX
Don, Montagu.
The Ivington diaries.
Summary: A personal collection of Monty's
jotting and photographs over the past 15 years
whilst creating his garden from scratch. He
and his wife Sara moved into their semiderelict farmhouse at Ivington in 1992 and
their garden is the most tangible symbol of the
spectacular way in which they have since
thrived.
712.6/DON
Dudman, Phil.
Down-to-earth garden design : how to design
and build your dream garden.
Pymble, N.S.W.: Harper Collins Pub, 2010.
635.967/DUD
Eames, Andrea.
The cry of the go-away bird
Summary: Elise loves the farm that is her
home; she loves playing with beetles and
chameleons in the garden, buying sweets
from the village shop and listening to the
stories of spirits and charms told by her
nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl in 1990s
Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic.
F /EAME
Epstein, Randi Hutter.
Get me out: a history of childbirth from the
Garden of Eden to the sperm bank.
618.2/EPS
Fornatale, Pete.
Back to the garden: the story of Woodstock.
New York: Touchstone, 2009.
780/FOR
Jenkins, Jessica Kerwin.
Encyclopedia of the exquisite : an anecdotal
history of elegant delights.
New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2010.
Summary: Jenkins focuses on the elegant, the
rare, the commonplace, and the delightful. A
compendium of style, it merges whimsy and
practicality, traipsing through the fine arts and
the worlds of fashion, food, travel, home,
garden, and beauty.
001.94/JEN
Forsyth, Holly Kerr, 1953Kearsley, Susanna, 1966Seasons in my house and garden
Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Pub, 2010. The rose garden.
London: Allison & Busby, 2011.
635.0994/FOR
F /KEAR
Halligan, Marion, 1940Long, Kelly.
Shooting the fox
Sarah's garden
Sydney Allen & Unwin, 2011.
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010.
F /HALL
F /LONG
Hannah, Kristin.
Mate, Ferenc.
Winter garden.
The wisdom of Tuscany : simplicity, security &
New York: St Martins, 2010.
the good life--making the Tuscan lifestyle your
F /HANN
own.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
Holmes, Katie.
920/MAT
Between the leaves: stories of Australian
women, writing and gardens.
Monajem, Barbara.
Sunrise in a garden of love & evil.
Contents: Introduction: writing the garden -New York: Love Spell, 2010.
Gertrude Bell: a garden's beginning -- Eva
FPB /ROMANCE
Kirk: the niece's story -- Mildred Hood: a
garden of dreams -- Ann Tully: a defiant
Montefiore, Santa.
garden -- Jean Galbraith: a garden of
friendship -- Winifred Stephensen: a garden of The mermaid garden.
dissent -- Katharine Susannah Prichard: a
F /MONT
garden of consolation -- Wendy O'Dowd: a
garden in a marriage -- Judith Wright: the
Morphett, Bruce.
poet's gardens -- Epilogue.
Kitchen garden: a beginner's guide.
920/HOL
Adelaide: Board of the Botanic Gardens and
State Herbarium, 2010.
Hwang, Sok Yong.
635.0994/MOR
The old garden
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2009.
Nair, Kamala.
F /HWAN
The Girl in the garden.
New York: Grand Central, 2011.
Hwang, Sok Yong.
F /NAIR
The ancient garden
Newbury, Tim.
F /HWAN
The ultimate garden designer
London: Hamlyn, 2009.
712.6/NEW
Peacock, Molly.
The paper garden: Mrs Delany {begins her
life's work} at 72.
Carlton North, Vic: Scribe Publications, 2010.
Summary: The Paper Garden is unlike
anything else you have ever read. At once a
biography of an extraordinary 18th century
gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life
creativity, it is a beautifully written tour de
force.
920/DEL
Pembroke, Michael Andrew.
Trees of history & romance : essays from a
Mt Wilson garden
Hawthorn, Vic.: Bloomings Books, 2009.
808.8/PEM
Prelitz, Chris.
Green made easy: the everyday guide for
transitioning to a green lifestyle.
Carlsbad, Calif.: Hay House, Inc., 2009.
640/PRE
Prosper or perish
Brisbane, Qld.: Griffith University, 2010.
Summary: "Prosper or Perish explores what's
at stake in getting the mix right, and reports on
the realities for a new generation of global
citizens whose work, lives and relationships
stretch across borders and blend traditional
identities. It includes moving memoirs,
reportage from the front line and insightful
analysis of the competing perspectives."
304.6/GRI
Thompson, Peter.
Seeds, sex and civilization : how the hidden
life of plants has shaped our world
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2010.
Contents: The roots of agriculture -- The genie
released -- The making of seeds -- Strategies
for survival -- Travellers in time and space -Seeds in the garden -- The pursuit of plenty -Banking on seeds -- Future prospects.
631.521/THO
Vance, Lee.
The garden of betrayal.
London: Corvus, 2010.
F /VANC
Waterwise gardening : how to create and
maintain a beautiful garden without wasting a
drop.
Sydney: Reader's Digest, 2010.
635.95/WAT
Way, Twigs.
Garden gnomes: a history.
Botley: Shire, 2009.
717/WAY
Winchester, Simon, 1944The Alice behind wonderland
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Summary: "In the summer of 1858, in a
garden behind Christ Church in Oxford,
Charles Dodgson--better known by his
pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the sixyear-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes,
and then snapped the camera's shutter. In
The Alice Behind Wonderland, Simon
Skea, Ralph
Vincent's gardens : paintings and drawings by Winchester uses the famous photograph of
Alice as the launching pad for an appreciative
Van Gogh.
energetic and penetrating look at the
London: Thames & Hudson, 2011.
inspiration behind, and the making of, one of
759.9492/GOG
the greatest classics of children's literature.
Indeed, Winchester shows that Dodgson's
Stewart, Angus, 1959love of photography deeply influenced his
Creating an Australian garden
view of the world, helping to transform this shy
and half-deaf mathematician into one of the
Summary: A gloriously illustrated guide to
world's best-loved observers of childhood.
planning the design and choosing the right
823.8/CAR
plants to make a rich and sumptuous garden
featuring Australian natives from the ABC
You don't have to be a Buddhist to know
garden guru.
nothing: an illustrious collection of thoughts on
635.9676/STE
naught / edited by Joan Konner.
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2009.
111.5/YOU
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World of Sport
Sydney Showground, Homebush, NSW.
will be on Wednesday 9 November at 6 pm
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the
front page has nothing but man's failures. ~Earl Warren
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their
own. ~Alistair Cooke
Sports is human life in microcosm. ~Howard Cosell
If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a
lot. ~Dean Smith
Auchincloss, Louis, 1917-2010.
A voice from old New York: a memoir of my
youth
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
813.54/AUC
Baime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Go like hell: Ford, Ferrari, and their battle for
speed and glory at Le Mans
2009.
796.72/BAI
Barnes, Simon.
The meaning of sport
London: Short, 2007.
NFPB /SPORT
Beilock, Sian
Choke.
Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Pr, 2011.
158.1/BEI
Benjamin, David, 1949Sumo: a thinking fan's guide to Japan's
national sport
North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Pub., 2010.
796.812/BEN
Brenkus, John.
The perfection point: sport science predicts
the fastest man, the highest jump, and the
limits of athletic performance.
New York, NY: Harper, 2010.
796/BRE
Cooper, Chris (Christopher Scott)
Long may you run: all things running
796.42/COO
Davidson, Max.
Winning isn't everything: inspiring moments in
sporting mateshi.
London: Little, Brown, 2009.
Summary: From Ancient Greece to the Beijing
Olympics, sport has delivered thrilling victories
and gut-wrenching defeats, but moments of
good sportsmanship are increasingly rare. Is
chivalry dead? Or have rumours of its demise
been exaggerated? Whether displayed by an
Australian sculler an Egyptian judoka,
sportsmanship has come in many guises.
796.08/DAV
De La Hoya, Oscar.
American son: my story
796.83/DEL
Fahey, Michael.
The baggy green: the pride, passion and
history of Australia's sporting icon
West Pennant Hills, N.S.W.: The Cricket
Publishing, 2008.
796.358/FAH
Forrest, Lisa.
Boycott
Sydney: ABC Books, 2008.
796.48/FOR
Gibson, John.
Hating America: the new world sport.
New York: Regan Books, c2004.
327.73/GIB
Gordon, Jaimy.
Lord of misrule: a novel
Kingston, N.Y: McPherson & Co., c2010.
Summary: At the rock-bottom end of the sport
of kings sits the ruthless and often violent
world of cheap horse racing, where trainers
and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan
sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge,
or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts
Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora
Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters,
scarred and lonely dreamers in the American
grain, through a year and four races at Indian
Mount Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West
Virginia.
F /GORD
Green, Danny, 1973Closed fists, open heart: Danny Green story
796.83/GRE
Halloran, Bob.
Irish thunder: the hard life & times of Micky
Ward.
Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2011.
796.83/WAR
Harris, Tim.
Sport: almost everything you ever wanted to
know.
London: Yellow Jersey, 2007.
796.09/HAR
Harvie, Robin.
Why we run: a story of obsession.
796.42/HAR
Karnazes, Dean, 1962Run!: stories of blisters and bliss.
796.42/KAR
Hiaasen, Carl.
Fairway to hell: a hacker's return to a ruinous
sport.
796.352/HIA
Kitamura, Katie, 1979The longshot
London: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
F /KITA
Hirshey, David.
The ESPN World Cup companion: everything
you need to know about the planet's biggest
sports event
New York: Ballantine Books: ESPN Bks, 2010.
796.334/HIR
Holyfield, Evander.
Becoming holyfield: a fighter's journey
796.83/HOL
Hyde, Elisabeth.
In the heart of the canyon
Summary: Peter, twenty-seven and
unemployed, embarks on this journey to avoid
his family, while Evelyn, a fifty-year-old biology
professor, comes in search of a more visceral
life. Ruth and Lloyd, veteran white-water
rafters in their seventies, know they will never
make this trip again. Jill, a stay-at-home
mother with her husband and two boys in tow,
craves the luxury of relinquishing control and
following someone else's rules. Mitchell and
his wife, Lena, are re-creating a historic river
journey undertaken years before. Seventeenyear-old Amy Van Doren and her mother set
off on this journey expecting little, especially
from each other; together they will face the
most daunting journey of all, one that has
nothing to do with whitewater rapids.
F /HYDE
Isaacs, Stan.
Ten moments that shook the sports world :
one sportswriter's eyewitness accounts of the
most incredible sporting events of the past fifty
years.
New York, NY: Skyhorse Pub., 2008.
796/ISA
Kremmer, Christopher.
The chase
Sydney: Picador, 2011.
F /KREM
Kuper, Simon.
Soccernomics: why England loses, why
Germany and Brazil win, and why the U.S.,
Japan, Australia, Turkey - and even Iraq - are
destined to become the kings of the world's
most popular sport
New York: Nation Books, 2009.
796.334/KUP
Leonard, Sugar Ray, 1956The big fight: my life in and out of the ring
Summary: The International Boxing Hall of
Fame icon shares the story of his rise from
impoverished origins to become a national
Golden Gloves champion, Olympic gold
medalist, and top-rate pro, discussing his
professional relationships, exposure to sports
corruption, and struggles with addiction.
796.83/LEO
Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
The blind side: evolution of a game
New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
796.332/LEW
NFPB /SPORT
Maclean, John, 1966Full circle: one life, many lessons
Sydney: Pier 9/Murdoch Books, 2009.
920/MACL
Maguire, Joseph A., 1956Power and global sport: zones of prestige,
emulation, and resistance
Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2005.
796/MAG
Meares, Peter.
All piss and wind: the inside stories of 30
leading Australian sports commentators.
070.44/MEA
Oden, John E.
Life in the ring: lessons and inspiration from
the sport of boxing.
New York: Hatherleigh, 2009.
Summary: There is no sport more unforgiving
than boxing. Boxing represents the best of
who we are as individuals. Those who have
participated in the sport, at any level, can use
the lessons they have learned in all aspects of
their lives, including business and politics, as
there are many parallels to life and boxing.
796.83/ODE
Sport, history and Australian culture:
passionate pursuits
Sydney: Walla Walla Press, 2011.
R 306.483/SPO
Sport in Australia: a social history / edited by
Wray Vamplew and Brian Stoddart.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Pr, 2008.
306.483/SPO
Stradling, Jan.
More than a game: when sport and history
collide.
Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2009.
796/STR
Swanton, Will, 1969Murderball: head to head with Australia's
toughest team.
796.3336/SWA
O'Neill, John, 1951It's only a game: the autobiography of John
O'Neill
North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House, 2007. Thompson, Wyatt.
Trailblazers: Australia's first olympic
338.76/ONE
equestrians
The only game in town: sports writing from the Dural, N.S.W: Rosenberg, 2008.
798.0994/THO
New Yorker/ edited by David Remnick.
Truss, Lynne.
796.0973/ONL
Get her off the pitch!: how sport took over my
life.
Parker, John L.
Once a runner.
070.449/TRU
Sydney: Pier 9, 2008.
F /PARK
Upham, Paul.
Kostya Tszyu: something worth fighting for : a
Potter, D. S. (David Stone), 1957boxing legend faces his toughest choice.
The victor's crown: a history of ancient sport
Sydney, N.S.W.: ABC, 2007.
from Homer to Byzantium
796.83/TSZ
London: Quercus, 2011.
Summary: What is sport and why do we love
Wilkins, Peter.
it? These two questions drive David Potter's
analysis of the western tradition of competitive Don't rock the boat: the untold story of the
women's rowing eight Olympics debacle.
athletics from eighth century BC to the sixth
century AD. Not just a history of ancient sport, Sydney, N.S.W.: ABC Books, 2008.
Summary: "At a critical stage of the women’s
the Victor's Crown is also an examination of
rowing eight final at the 2004 Athens
the role sport has played throughout history.
Olympics, Australian rower Sally Robbins
796.09/POT
suddenly put down her oar and lay back in the
boat. Though the team had been challenging
Smith, Tommie, 1944for the lead at the halfway point and were
Silent gesture: the autobiography of Tommie
headed for a medal placing, they were left to
Smith
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Pr, 2007. trail a distant last"--Provided by publisher.
797.123/WIL
796.42/SMI
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Celebrations
New Year’s Eve, Sydney NSW.
will be on Wednesday 14 December at 6 pm
Everything is created from moment to moment, always new. Like fireworks, this universe is a
celebration and you are the spectator contemplating the eternal Fourth of July of your absolute
splendor. Francis Lucille
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. M. Scott Peck
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! Barbara Hoffman
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The
order varies for any given year. Paul Sweeney
I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays! Norman
Rockwell
Barcott, Rye.
It happened on the way to war: a marine's
path to peace.
362.556/BAR
Bauermeister, Erica.
The year of the unexpected
Sydney, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2011.
F /BAUE
Bauermeister, Erica.
Joy for beginners.
New York: Putnam, 2011.
F /BAUE
Boesky, Amy.
What we have: a memoir.
New York: Gotham Books, 2010.
616.994/BOE
Buch, Esteban, 1963Beethoven's Ninth: a political history
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Review: "Who hasn't been stirred by the
strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?
That's a good question, claims Esteban Buch.
German nationalists and French republicans,
communists and Catholics have all, in the
course of history, embraced the piece. It was
performed under the direction of Leonard
Bernstein at a concert to mark the fall of the
Berlin Wall, yet it also serves as a ghastly and
ironic leitmotif in Stanley Kubrick's A
Clockwork Orange. Hitler celebrated his
birthdays with it, and the government of
Rhodesia made it their anthem. And played in
German concentration camps by the
imprisoned, it also figured prominently at
Mitterand's 1981 investiture.".
784.2/BEE
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
The complete stories of Truman Capote
F /CAPO
FPB /SHORT STORY/C
men took their place in a line of trenches that
spread through Belgium and France from the
North Sea to the Swiss Alps. Beyond the
trenches was no-man's land, an eerie
wasteland where rats lived in the ribs of the
dead and the wounded cried for help. Beyond
that was the German Army."--Back cover.
NFPB /HISTORY
Diffenbaugh, Vanessa.
The language of flowers
Sydney: Picador, 2011.
F /DIFF
The dreaded feast: writers on enduring the
holidays / edited by Taylor Plimpton and
Michele Clarke.
New York: Abrams Image, 2009.
394.2663/DRE
Faulks, Sebastian.
A week in December.
London: Hutchinson, 2009.
F /FAUL
501 must-be-there events.
London: Bounty, 2009.
910.202/FIV
Flynn, Katie.
Christmas wishes
London: Arrow, 2011.
F /FLYN
Forster, Dayo.
Reading the ceiling
F /FORS
Furiya, Linda.
How to cook a dragon: living, loving, and
eating in China.
Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008.
641.5/FUR
Goldberg, Carey.
Three wishes: an ext[r]aordinary true story of
good friends on their journey to motherhood
Davidson, Leon, 1973Zero hour: the ANZACs on the Western Front. London: Piatkus, 2011.
920/GOL
Melbourne, Vic.: The Text Publishing
Company, 2010.
Ham, Rosalie.
Summary: "When the Australians and New
There should be more dancing
Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in
Sydney: Random House Australia, 2011.
1916, the fighting had been going for a year
and a half and there was no end in sight. The F /HAM
Hammond, Richard.
Great escapes: 500 unforgettable travel
experiences
London: Rough Guides, 2010.
910.2/ROU
Hansen, Derek, 1944Remember me... : a novel.
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2007.
F /HANS
Harris, Rosie, 1925A brighter dawn
London: Arrow, 2011.
F /HARR
Hawson, Louise.
52 suburbs: a search for beauty in the 'burbs.
Coogee, N.S.W.: University of New South
Wales Press, 2011.
Summary: When Louise Hawson realised she
was a stranger in her own city, she set herself
a mission to explore and photograph one new
Sydney suburb a week for a year.
994.441/HAW
INPROCESS no circ
Henry, Veronica.
The birthday party.
F /HENR
Hinton, Lynne.
Pie Town
New York: Avon A, 2011.
F /HINT
Holden, Wendy, 1965Marrying up.
F /HOLD
Holmes for the holidays / edited by Martin H.
Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg and Carol-Lynn
Waugh.
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1996.
F /SHORT/H
Hylton, Sara.
Easter at the lakes.
London: Piatkus, 1998.
F /HYLT
Keneally, Thomas, 1935Three cheers for the paraclete.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1968.
F /KENE
FPB /AUSTRALIAN/K
Knight, India, 1965Comfort and joy
London: Fig Tree, 2010.
F /KNIG
Lindsay, Patrick.
The spirit of the digger.
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2011.
355.0994/LIN
Lindsey, Johanna.
Holiday present.
New York: Avon, 2003.
FPB /ROMANCE
Lonsdale, Akasha.
Do I kneel or do I bow? : what you need to
know when attending religious occasions :
Roman catholic, protestant, orthodox christian,
jewish, muslim, hindu, sikh, buddhist.
London: Kuperard, 2010.
200/LON
Macomber, Debbie.
Call me Mrs. Miracle.
Don Mills, Ont.: Mira, 2010.
F /MACO
Martin, Kat.
A song for my mother
New York: Vanguard, 2011.
F /MART
Murray, Les, 1945The world game : the story of how football
went global.
796.334/MUR
O'Flanagan, Sheila.
A season to remember
F /OFLA
On holidays: a history of getting away in
Australia /Richard White ...[et al.].
North Melbourne, Vic.: Pluto Press, 2005.
306.481/ONH
One hundred: a tribute to the Mitchell Library /
with an essay by David Marr.
Sydney: State Library of New South Wales,
2010.
027.5/MIT
One got past the keeper / written by Neil
Young [et al.].
Cover title: One got past the keeper: the true
story of fertile FC, an amateur football team's
journey into fatherhood
Hachette Australia, 2011.
306.8742/ONE
O'Neal, Tatum, 1963Found: a daughter's journey home
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2011.
791.43/ONE
O'Neill, Jamie.
At swim two boys.
F /ONEI
Silverman, Sarah.
The bedwetter: stories of courage,
redemption, and pee
New York: Harpercollins, c2010.
792.7/SIL
Slover, Tim.
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