New Items List August 2017

This Months Staff Picks From Librarian’s Choice

Unmasked / Turia Pitt Whether via the numerous media reports, 60 Minutes specials, Women’s Weekly cov-er stories or her first book, Everything To Live For, we know about the why, how and what of that fateful day in September 2011. We know how she died four times on the operating table and her tortuous road to re-

covery. We’ve had a glimpse of the love of her boyfriend, Michael, that sustained her, and seen hints of the inner-strength that has made her one of the most admired women in the country. But until now, the true essence of this most remarkable Australian, plus the toll her accident has all taken on her and those around her, have re-mained a mystery. The Good Girl Stripped Bare / Tracey Spicer From bogan to boned and beyond – a full-frontal femoir Tracey Spicer was always the good girl. Inspired by Jana Wendt, this bogan from the Brisbane backwaters waded through the 'cruel and shallow money trench' of television to land a dream role: national news anchor for a commercial network. But the journalist found that, for women, TV was less about news and more about helmet hair, masses of makeup and fatu-ous fashion, in an era when bosses told you to 'stick your tits out', 'lose two inches off your arse', and 'quit before you're too long in the tooth'. Still, Tracey plastered on a smile and did what she was told. But when she was sacked by email after having a baby, this good girl turned 'bad', taking legal action against the network for pregnan-cy discrimination.

The Choice / Samantha King Then: Madeleine lived for her children. She'd always believed she'd die for them, too. But on the morning of her twins' tenth birthday her love was put to the test when a killer knocked on their door and forced her to make a devastating choice: which child should live, and which should die - her son,

or her daughter? Now: Madeleine stands silent on the periphery of her now fractured family, trying desperately to unravel why her world was so suddenly blown apart. But while everyday life continues around her, memories of everything leading up to that tragic day return in ago-nising flashes. And that's when she realises her family's life still hangs terrifyingly in the balance…

Tattletale / Sarah J Naughton One day changes Jody's life forever. She has shut herself down, haunted by her memories and unable to trust anyone. But then she meets Abe, the perfect stranger next door and suddenly life seems full of possibility and hope. One day changes

Mags's life forever. After years of estrangement from her family, Mags receives a shocking phone call. Her brother Abe is in hospital and no-one knows what happened to him. She meets his fiancé Jody, and gradually pieces together the ruins of the life she left behind. But the piec-es don't quite seem to fit... Beyond the Wild River / Sarah Maine An invitation to accompany her father to Canada is a chance for Evelyn to escape her limited existence. But once there, on the wild and turbulent Nipigon river, she is shocked to discover that their guide is James Douglas, Ballantyre's former stable hand, and once her friend. He disappeared the night of the murder, charged with the shooting. Eve-lyn never believed that James was guilty - and her fa-ther's role in the killing has always been mysterious. What does he have to hide? In the wild landscape of a new world, far from the constraints of polite society, the secrets and lies surrounding that night are finally stripped away, with dramatic consequences.

The Little Breton Bistro / Nina George Marianne Messman longs to escape her loveless marriage to an uncaring husband - an artillery sergeant major named Lothar. On a day trip to Paris, Marianne decides to leap off the Pont Neuf into the Seine, but she is saved from drowning by a homeless

man. While recovering in hospital, Marianne comes across a painting of the tiny port town of Kerdruc in Britta-ny and decides to try her luck on the coast. In Kerdruc, Marianne meets a host of colourful characters who all gravitate around the restaurant of AR MOR (The Sea). It is this cast of true Bretons who become Marianne's new family, and among whom she will find love once again. But with her husband looking to pull her back to her old life, Marianne is left with a choice: to step back into the known, or to take a huge jump into an exciting and unpre-dictable future.

New DVDs & Music CDs New DVDs: Kong: Skull Island — A team of scien-tists explore an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, & must fight to escape a primal Eden. Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, & Tom Hiddleston.

Twin Peaks — before you start watching the revamped new series revisit the origi-nal David Lynch classic where an idiosyn-cratic FBI agent, investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idio-syncratic town of Twin Peaks. Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick

Newton’s Law - The ABC’s 'Upstairs Downstairs' of legal dramas follows Josephine Newton as she juggles the high-powered barrister's world of Knox Chambers and the haphazard legal tan-gles of her former solicitor's office. Stars: Claudia Karvan, Toby Schmitz, Georgina Naidu

New Music CDs: Closed circuits: Australian alternative electronic music of the 70s & 80s

Fleet Foxes: Crack-up

Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

Lorde: Melodrama

Nickelback: Feed the machine Also: Portugal.The Man: Woodstock Royal Blood: How did we get so dark? Sing your heart out! So fresh: the hits of winter 2017 Vans Warped Tour '17 New Music CDs for Kids: Putumayo Kids: Cuban playground

Putumayo Kids: French dreamland

Putumayo Kids: Italian playground

Also: The Aliens Alone in Berlin American Gods Bleed for this Brimstone Chips Drone Green zone The hollow crown I am Michael Jasper Jones Kickboxer: vengeance La belle saison : Sum-mertime Let me make you a martyr Life Maigret The masked saint Morgan Silicon Valley Sophie & the rising sun SS-GB Table 19 Terraformars Underworld The Warriors

Anh's brush with fame Eric Clapton: Live San Diego The Galahs: a footy journey

Gimme danger Hairspray live!

Handa Opera Live Life, animated

Mars Spy in the wild

Tony Robinson's Wild West

For Kids: Air bound

The boss baby Fireman Sam: on thin ice

Go Jetters LEGO Nexo knights

PAW patrol Peter Rabbit

Play School: patterns Prisoner Zero: history

Revolting rhymes Sesame Street: count on

Elmo Shaun the sheep: Happy

Farmer's day Smurfs: the lost village

Teacup travels: adventures in Ancient Egypt

The Wiggles: Wiggle around Australia

Latest Release Bestsellers The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four gener-ations, it’s kept running by Bodine Long-bow with the help of a large staff, includ-ing new hire Callen Skinner. There was another member of the family once: Bodine’s aunt, Alice, who ran off before

Bodine was born. She never returned, and the Longbows don’t talk about her much. The younger ones, who never met her, quietly presume she’s dead. But she isn’t. She is not far away, part of a new family, one she never chose―and her mind has been shattered… Renee Ballard works the night shift at the LAPD in Hollywood, beginning many in-vestigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harass-ment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prosti-tute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is deter-mined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night.

‘I always thought memories were un-changeable. Set in stone, shaped by the years. But there are always others too, ones you haven’t let yourself remember . . . ’ The wilful and eccentric Lola Quinlan is off on the trip of a lifetime, taking her beloved granddaughter and great-granddaughter with her. More than sixty years after emigrating to Australia, she's

keeping a secret promise to return to her Irish homeland. But as she embarks on her journey, the flamboyant Lola is still hiding the hurtful reasons she left Ireland in the first place. What - and who - will be waiting for her on the other side of the world? When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacif-ic, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don’t—that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthink-able proportions.

A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course. But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why. Struggling with the death of his first serious girlfriend and the return of

profiler Jenny Fuller into his life, Banks feels the need to dig deeper into the murders, and as he does so, he un-covers forensic and psychological puzzles that lead him to the past secrets that might just provide the answers he is looking for. When the surprising truth becomes clear, it is almost too late. Everyone has an idea of what their perfect life is. For Agatha, it's Meghan Shaugh-nessy's. These two women from vastly different backgrounds have one thing in common - a dangerous secret that could destroy everything they hold dear. Both will risk everything to hide the truth, but their worlds are about to collide in a shocking act that cannot be undone.

Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers bru-tally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an en-

velope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable to secure employ-ment without references or connections, Angélique desperately makes her way to Paris, where she res-cues a young woman fleeing an abusive madam--and suddenly sees a possibility: Open an elegant house of pleasure that will protect its women and serve only the best clients. With her upper-class breeding, her impeccable style, and her father's be-quest, Angélique creates Le Boudoir, soon a sensa-tional establishment where powerful men, secret desires, and beautiful, sophisticated women come together. But living on the edge of scandal, can she ever make a life of her own--or regain her rightful place in the world?

Librarian’s Choice titles Fiction: Australia day / Melanie Cheng. Beneath the Parisian skies / Alli Sinclair. The boy who saw / Simon Toyne. Broken River / J. Robert Lennon. The child / Fiona Barton. Close to me / Amanda Reynolds. Court of lions / Jane Johnson. Dating you hating you / Christina Lauren. Deeper than the sea / Nelika McDonald. The destroyers / Christopher Bollen. Edge of truth / Brynn Kelly. Eureka run / Bruce Venables. Fatal mistake / Karen M. Davis. Fierce kingdom / Gin Phillips. The final hour / Tom Wood. Forgotten / Nicole Trope. Get poor slow / David Free. The good teacher / R.M. Anderson. Greatest hits / Laura Barnett. Half wild / Pip Smith. The hearts of men / Nickolas Butler. Hello, goodbye / Emily Brewin. Heloise / Mandy Hager. Hinterland / Steven Lang. If we were villains : a novel / M. L. Rio. IQ / Joe Ide. Jarulan by the river / Lily Woodhouse. Jews, Queers, Germans / Martin Duberman. The last man in Europe / Dennis Glover. The lying game / Ruth Ware. Mad / ChloeÌ Esposito. Marlborough man / Alan Carter. The mayfly / James Hazel. The mercury visions of Louis Daguerre / Dominic Smith. My mother's shadow / Nikola Scott. The mountain / Luca D'Andrea. Overwatch / Matthew Betley. The party / Robyn Harding. Persons unknown / Susie Steiner. Sad girls / Lang Leav. Saints for all occasions / Courtney Sullivan. The scandal / Fredrik Backman. The shark club / Ann Kidd Taylor. Siracusa / Delia Ephron. Some tests / by Wayne Macauley. The street where you live / Roisin Meaney. Sympathy / Olivia Sudjic. The weight of him / Ethel Rohan. Troll / D.B. Thorne. Wilde like me / Louise Pentland. Wimmera / Mark Brandi. Non Fiction: Australian desperadoes / Terry Smyth. The memory of music / Andrew Ford. The most beautiful : my life with Prince / Mayte Garcia. Sons of God : inside the secret world of our Special Oper-ations Group / Heath O'Loughlin. Trans like me : a journey for all of us / CN Lester. Wellmania : misadventures in the search for wellness / Brigid Delaney.

Biography & Autobiography: Amazons : the real warrior women of the ancient world / John Man. Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens / Eddie Izzard with Laura Zigman. The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying / by Nina Riggs. But seriously / John McEnroe. Charlatan : the dishonest life and dishonoured loves of Thomas Guthrie Carr, stage mesmerist / Catherine Jinks. Dancing with demons / Tim Watson-Munro. Dare to be kind : how extraordinary compassion can trans-form our world / Lizzie Velasquez ; with Catherine Avril Morris. Diana : her true story - in her own words / Andrew Morton. Dirty rotten scoundrels / Matthew Benns. Farewell my French love / Nadine Williams. The finch in my brain / Martino Sclavi ; foreword by Russell Brand. How to dress a dummy / Cassie Lane. Hunger : a memoir of (my) body / Roxane Gay. I was toId to come alone : my journey behind the lines of Jihad / Souad Mekhennet. Jewish Anzacs : Jews in the Australian military / Mark Dapin. Letters from the suitcase / edited by Rosheen and Cal Fin-nigan. My lovely wife : a memoir of madness and hope / Mark Lukach. The new girl : a trans girl tells it like it is / Rhyannon Styles. No way! Okay, fine : a memoir of pop culture, feminism and feelings / Brodie Lancaster. The Pacific room / Michael Fitzgerald. Patient 71 / Julie Randall. The rag tag fleet / Ian W. Shaw. The trial of Adolf Hitler : the Beer Hall Putsch and the rise of Nazi Germany / David King. Understory : a life with trees / Inga Simpson. Don’t forget the wide range of digital titles also available via Wheelers, One Click Digital and cloudLibrary. http://libraries.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/books/Pages/e-books-e-audio.aspx

Miles Franklin Award Shortlist 2017

The Last Days of Ava Langdon / Mark O’Flynn It has been twenty years since Ava Lang-don published her much-lauded novel The Apple Pickers. Now, she leads a re-clusive life in the Blue Mountains, with two rats and her typewriter as her com-panions. She dresses in men’s clothes

and carries a machete in her belt; she speaks French to the townspeople, paying no heed to their confusion. Their Brilliant Careers / Ryan O’Neill Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret source of the great literature of our time - and paid a terrible price for her discovery. Meet Rand Washington, huge-ly popular sci-fi author (of Whiteman of Cor) and inveterate racist. Meet Addison Tiller, master of the bush yarn, "The Che-khov of Coolabah", who never travelled outside Syd-ney.

An Isolated Incident / Emily Maguire When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is bru-tally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose apparent easy-

going nature conceals hard-won wisdom and the kind of street-smarts only experience can bring. Extinctions / Josephine Wilson Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engi-neer, world expert on concrete and con-noisseur of modernist design, has quar-antined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. His wife, Martha, is dead and his two adult children are lost to him in their own ways. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life – objects he has collected over many years and tells himself he is keep-ing for his daughter – he is determined to be misera-ble, but is tired of his existence and of the life he has chosen.

Waiting / Philip Salom Waiting is a story of two odd couples in prose as marvellously idiosyncratic as its characters. Big is a hefty cross-dresser and Little is little. Both are long used to the routines of boarding house life in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, but Little, with the prospect of an inheritance, is

beginning to indulge in the great Australian dream, which has Big worried. Little’s cousin, Angus, is a soli-tary man who designs lake-scapes for city councils, and strangely constructed fireproof houses for the bushfire zone.

What staff are Reading / Watching / Listening

Ruth is reading — The Good People / Hannah Kent — In 1825, in a remote Irish valley, three women are brought together by strange and troubling events. Nora Leahy, a widow, has lost her daugh-ter and her husband in the same year, and is now burdened with the care of her grandson, Michael. The boy cannot walk or speak and Nora has kept him hidden from neighbours, who might see in his deformity evi-dence of supernatural interference... Down by the river, an old woman known as Nance Roche lives alone, act-ing as a 'doctress' to the community, a person said to possess knowledge from the Good People that enables her to cure inexplicable ills. With the arrival of a new priest and his determination to cleanse the valley of superstitious practices, the purity of Nance's actions is called into question. As misfortune begins to befall Nance's patients and her need to assert her importance to the community intensifies, Nora Leahy brings Mi-chael to be cured. The women begin to banish the changeling and restore the healthy child, but as their desperation increases, their folkloric practices become more dangerous, until all their lives are in danger.

Tony is watching — American Gods — Based on Neil Gaiman’s bestselling novel, follow Shadow Moon as he em-barks on a road trip with the enigmatic conman Mr Wednesday. Shadow dis-covers that Mr Wednesday is in fact one of the old gods brought to this country by settlers long ago, who warns of a war

brewing between the forgotten old gods of myth and the new American Gods of money, technology and media. As Shadow finds himself evermore deeply embroiled in this world of gods among men, he has a choice to make. Should he follow Mr Wednesday into battle and find out more about his own mysterious past or attempt to reconcile with his recently deceased wife returned from the grave? (R18+) Judy is listening to - The Spider Goddess / Tara Moss - It's been two months since Pandora English left her small hometown to live with her mysteri-ous great-aunt in a haunted mansion in Spektor... With the help of her great-aunt and the beautiful, but dead, Lieu-tenant Luke, Pandora is beginning to understand the significance of the Lucasta family heritage her late mother kept secret from her... Meanwhile, she seems doomed to be forever underestimated in the mortal world. Her fashion editor boss doesn't seem to know she exists. But New York needs Pandora's special gifts. There is a new designer in town, and her ambitions extend far beyond taking over the fashion world one knit at a time.