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As you probably know the SDRC Library Service has an online catalogue
linked to the council website and has had for some time.
In recent times our presence on the web has increased. We now have a
Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-Downs-
Regional-Libraries/475451612496319?fref=ts where you can find out
about all the goings on in your local library.
The Stanthorpe Library, in conjunction with GraniteNet, received a Digital
Literacy Grant, and as a result there is now a Bookworms of the South-
ern Downs blog, www.bookwormssd.blogspot.com.au, a local history wiki,
www.sdlocalhistory.wetpaint.com as well as a website devoted to the
produce of the Southern Downs Region.
www.regionalfoodfile.wetpaint.com
Also as a result of this funding, the Stanthorpe Library now has webcams
installed on the PCs and access to Skype.
SDRC Libraries and Social Media
Easter and Public Holidays Closures
The SDRC libraries will be closed for the following public holidays.
On the Easter weekend we will be closed Friday 29 March, Saturday 30
March & Monday 1 April.
We are also closed Thursday 25 April for ANZAC Day.
The Warwick Library will be closed Friday 5 April for the Warwick Show
holiday.
Library Lovers News
Southern Downs Regional Libraries March 2013 Volume 2, Issue 2
Inside this issue:
Unusual Libraries 2
Spotlight on Doug-
las Adams
2
New Books 3
Most Borrowed
Books
4
Staff Book Review 4
Logic Puzzle 5
Vintage Book
Week
Posters
from
1930 & 1945
In La Gloria, Colombia, Luis Soriano has set up
a travelling donkey library for children who
have no books in their homes. He has been in
operation since the late 1990’s and operates
along the Caribbean shore, delivering a selec-
tion of donated books with his two burrows,
Alfa and Beto.
Unusual Libraries
Spotlight on Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams was a British
writer, humorist and dramatist.
He was born in Cambridge on
the 11th of March, 1952, and
passed away suddenly on the
11th of May, 2001. He was
best known as the author of
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy, which started as a radio
show and was then developed
into a ―trilogy‖ of five books, a
feature film, a television series,
stage plays, comics, and a com-
puter game.
Adams also wrote three stories
for the television series Doctor
Who, as well as publishing several other novels; Dirk Gently’s Holistic De-
tective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
He was a staunch environmentalist, and said that one of his personal fa-
vorites was a book co-written with zoologist Mark Carwardine called Last
Chance to See which is an account of a search for rare and endangered
species of animals. Well-known Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The
God Delusion to Adams, and wrote upon his death that ―Science has lost a
friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black
rhino have lost a gallant defender.‖
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If you have any
ideas of what
could be
included in this
newsletter
please let us
know; we
would love
your opinions.
This newsletter
can be emailed
to you if you
wish. Ask to be
added to the
email list at
your local
library.
The last thing Ford Elkhart
remembers is walking his girl-
friend back to her car. Now
he's lying tied and gagged on a
cold, dark floor, with only one
chance to escape before he
ends up like the bones sur-
rounding him...
Is Ford's abduction payback for
his mother’s courtroom vic-
tory? Or is he a pawn in an
even more dangerous game?
New Books
Volume 2, Issue 2
You can see a list of recently available books by clicking on the link at the top of the page while on our
online catalogue.
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Astray is a sequence of four-
teen stories. The fascinating
characters that roam across
the pages of Emma
Donoghue’s latest fact-
inspired fictions have all gone
astray: they are emigrants,
runaways, drifters. These
strange, true tales light up four
centuries of wanderings, offer-
ing a past made up of devia-
tions, and a surprising and
moving history for restless
times.
In a case that spans 20 years,
Harry Bosch links the bullet
from a recent crime to a file
from 1992, the killing of a
young female photojournalist
during the L.A. riots. Harry origi-
nally investigated the murder,
but it was then handed off to
the Riot Crimes Task Force and
never solved. Riveting and
relentlessly paced, The Black
Box leads Harry Bosch into one
of his most fraught and peril-
ous cases.
Stone Barrington is back in
Manhattan and pleased to
receive an unexpected visit
from his friend and sometime
lover Holly Barker, now an as-
sistant director at the CIA. For
her part, Holly is glad to leave
the staid, official environs of
the capital for the dining and
atmosphere of New York, but
her sojourn isn’t only for pleas-
ure. An explosive incident re-
quires her immediate atten-
tion—and Stone’s investigative
expertise.
Mattie Engel is one of the ris-
ing stars at Private Berlin, and
believes she's seen the worst
of people in her previous life
with the Berlin police force.
That is until Chris, her col-
league - and until recently, her
fiancé - is found dead, brutally
murdered in an old slaughter-
house outside the city. Mattie
soon realises that a masked
killer is picking off Chris's child-
hood friends, one by one, and
destroying the trail. But who
wants the past buried so
badly? What is the truth about
that slaughterhouse? And will
Mattie become the killer's next
victim?
Army Special Agent John Puller
is the best there is. Now he
has a new case—but this time,
the crime is personal: His aunt
has been found dead in Para-
dise, Florida. The local police
have ruled his aunt’s death an
unfortunate, tragic accident.
But just before she died, she
mailed a letter to Puller’s fa-
ther, telling him that beneath
its beautiful veneer, Paradise
is not all it seems to be. What
Puller finds convinces him that
his aunt’s death was no acci-
dent . . .and that some will go
to unthinkable lengths to make
sure the truth is never re-
vealed.
In a glorious farmhouse just
outside the village of Méner-
bes, Shannon immerses him-
self in the life of Provence.
With no recipes from home, his
first task is to find old books
and learn the history of local
dishes. His aim is to re-engage
with a culinary tradition that
has been such a part of his
life, and to nourish and enjoy
time with his young family. He
invites us to join them all and
step inside this beautiful part
of France, to grab a glass of
Côtes du Ventoux and live life à
la français.
Natalie is a young Gold Coast
mother with a loving hus-
band, two small children and
a happy lifestyle. While help-
ing her mother move house,
she finds a little box contain-
ing a Burmese artefact. When
Natalie learns its unique his-
tory through a letter left by
her great-great uncle, it ig-
nites an interest in its country
of origin and her uncle's un-
fulfilled plans for this curio.
Her investigations collide with
her own dramatically chang-
ing circumstances and create
a catalyst for a moral di-
lemma that challenges the
core of her marriage as she
finds herself immersed in two
very different golden lands.
Fiction
1. The Drop - Michael Connolly
2. Trip Wire - Lee Child
3. Blue Skies - Fleur McDonald
4. The Silent Country - Di Morrissey
5. Kindred in Death - J D Robb
Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson-Wright – an autobiography at times
astonishing and sad, but also written with humour.
This book details the life of Clarissa Dickson-Wright of the very successful
BBC series Two Fat Ladies. Her father, Chief Surgeon to the Royal Household,
was also an alcoholic at whose hands Clarissa and her mother suffered terri-
ble physical and emotional abuse. Astonishingly, he was able to keep his alco-
holism and domestic violence a secret from his public life. The effect on
Clarissa was long lasting and very damaging emotionally. Going against her
fathers wishes to become a surgeon like himself, Clarissa become a highly
successful barrister. However, after the deaths of her mother and her partner
Clive, whom she cared for very deeply, she became an alcoholic herself and
was eventually struck off from the bar and forced into bankruptcy. The alco-
holism ravished her so badly she found herself completely homeless and with-
out friends. After spending time in a detox centre, she turned to AA for sup-
port and eventually became a recovered alcoholic. It was at this stage of her
life that she started cooking at a pub to support herself and her passion for
food and cooking eventually led her to the extremely successful BBC cooking
series – Two Fat Ladies.
While the book gives a very good insight into the life and
relationships of an alcoholic, it is also an extremely good
read as Clarissa led such an interesting and varied life, hav-
ing travelled widely and meeting and often working with so
many people from very diverse backgrounds.
The only down side to this book is that unfortunately, there
were no recipes to be shared with the reader!
Reviewed by Cheryl
Currently the most borrowed books are:
Staff Book Review
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Non-Fiction
1. Save: your money, your time, your
planet - Shannon Lush
2. A Stolen Life: Jaycee Dugard
3. Calf Rearing: a practical guide
4. What’s wrong with my vegetable
garden - David Deardorff & Kathryn
Wadsworth
5. Fresh & Light: 180 new recipes
and flavor-packed ideas to find the
perfect balance - Donna Hay
Logic Puzzle/Quiz
Southern Downs
Regional Libraries Allora Library 46663742
Mobile Library 4661 0342
Stanthorpe Library 4681 2141
Warwick Library 4661 0342
www.southerndowns.qld.gov.au
The bunnies in Easter Village are excited once again, for their annual Easter egg hunt has just been finished. In the hunt, four bunnies
search around the town for one of the Easter eggs. Once they have each found one, they hop back to the finish line! Can you figure out
which rabbits found which eggs, what places they got in the hunt, and the prizes that were in their Easter egg?
Bunnies: Mr. Hops, Jumper, Long Ears, Ms. Littlenose
Eggs: Blue, Red, Green, Yellow
Prizes in Eggs: Chocolate Candy, Jelly Bean, Gold Coin, Visor
Clues:
1. The four bunnies were Mr. Hops, the bunny that found the red egg, the bunny that finished in fourth place, and the bunny that found
the gold coin in their egg.
2. Long Ears did not find the visor in his egg.
3. The bunny that placed second found the chocolate candy in his/her egg.
4. Neither Long Ears nor Ms. Littlenose found the red egg.
5. The bunny who placed first found the green egg.
6. The bunny who found the red egg did not finish the hunt in third place.
7. Long Ears did not find the gold coin.
8. The bunny who found the blue egg did not find the jelly bean in his/her egg.
9. The bunny who finished first did not find the visor in his/her egg.
Solution to the Library Lovers Day Quizzes.
Volume 2, Issue 2 Page 5
Author amours, writer romances, poetic
pairings, journalistic joinings
Answers: 1I, 2D, 3A, 4B, 5H, 6G, 7E, 8F, 9C, 10J
Literary lovers
Answers: 1C, 2G, 3E, 4H, 5I, 6D, 7J, 8A, 9F, 10B
The movie or book they came from: Pride & Prejudice, The Great
Gatsby, The Thorn Birds, Wuthering Heights, Jayne Eyre, Bridget
Jones Diary, Romeo & Juliet, Gone With The Wind, Outlander, Twi-
light.