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.