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Issue 90

HOT New Books

Fiction

Changing Lara by Anna Jacobs.

Lara Perryman has spent her whole

life travelling for her busy corporate

job, so it's a relief when she takes

early retirement and settles in a leisure

village in Wiltshire. She quickly

makes friends with the other residents

and finds herself entangled in the ups

and downs, triumphs and tragedies

of her new community. This is the

perfect follow up for fans who loved

Moving On.

The Dangerous Kind by Deborah

O’Connor.

The Forgotten Letters of Esther

Durrant by Kayte Nunn.

Non Fiction

Rescuing Ladybugs: Inspirational

moments with animals that changed

the world by Jennifer Skiff.

Rescuing Ladybugs highlights the

true stories of remarkable people

who didn't look away from seeming-

ly impossible-to-change situations

and instead worked to save animals.

Prepare to be transported to Borneo

to release orangutans, Brazil to pro-

tect jaguars, Africa to connect with

chimpanzees and elephants, the Mal-

dives to free mantas, and Indonesia,

the only place where dragons still

exist in the wild.

Improving Wellbeing

Did you know that 1 in 5 Australians are

affected by a mental health condition?

Most of us know how to become more physically healthy, but did you know it is possible to become

more mentally healthy too?

Join HelpingMinds for this one hour session where we discuss:

Risk factors for mental illness

Managing Stress

Mentally healthy activities and strategies Physical health

Wednesday 24 July 11am-12 noon.

Book: https://www.trybooking.com/BDIIY

Button Art

with Betty ‘Choose to re-use’

Local artist Betty Ludlow invites you to join her in making a beautiful and unique button art piece.

You will have the chance to bring in all your old

buttons, badges, earrings, and anything else that

shines and sparkles. We will be gluing them in an artistic arrangement to create an individual, and

special piece of art. This is a wonderful opportunity to make something

unique, and recycle old treasures. Betty is happy to provide buttons if you are not a secret hoarder, but don't be afraid to beg, borrow and steal

from friends and family. Everything will be put to good use, as we find

another purpose for old loves.

Friday 26 of July at Bassendean Memorial Library 12.30-2.30 pm.

Booking- via the following link.

https://www.trybooking.com/BDNPN

Plastic free July 2019.

Choose to re-use with Bassendean Library

Join millions of people reducing their plastic waste.

Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps

millions of people be part of the solution to plastic

pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans,

and beautiful communities.

Check the Library

website for New Titles

in Stock, updated weekly.

Fiction

A Sand Archive by Gregory Day.

A Stolen Season: A novel by Rodney Hall.

Inappropriation by Lexi F reiman.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.

Audio Book

The Pearl Thief by F iona McIntosh.

Fire & Blood by George R R Martin.

The Mister by E L James.

Non Fiction

Naturally Tan by Tan France.

Essential grammar in use : a self-study

reference and practice book for elementary

learners of English by Raymond Murphy.

Advanced grammar in use : a self-study

reference and practice book for advanced

learners of English by Martin Hewings.

The Bariatric Bible by Carol Bowen Ball.

The Ravenmaster: My life with the ravens

at the Tower of London by Christopher

Skaife.

Tell us what you would like to

read, watch or listen to. Suggest an item anytime.

Look for the forms at the

Information Desk.

A Sister’s Struggle by Mary Gibson.

London, 1935. Ruby is always hungry,

but she will go without if it means her young brothers can eat. 1930s

Bermondsey might be called the larder

of London, with its pie, pickle and jam

factories, but for the poor working classes, starvation is a heartbeat away.

When Ruby's neighbour suggests she

go to the Methodist Mission for free food, Ruby knows her father will be

furious, but that she has no other option. It is a decision that will

change the course of her life forever and lead her to face a terrible choice between duty and a great love.

Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robert-

son on October 10, 1950) is an Amer ican

author of more than 225 romance novels.

She writes as J. D. Robb for the in Death series

and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K.

as Sarah Hardesty.

Nora was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, the

youngest of five children. She married young

and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. She worked briefly as a legal secretary. “I could

type fast but couldn’t spell, I was the worst

legal secretary ever,” she has said.

After her sons were born she stayed home and

tried every craft that came along. A blizzard in February 1979 forced her to try another

creative outlet. Nora had never known a time

that she wasn’t reading or making up stories,

so she began to write one of them. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first

book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by

Silhouette in 1981.

Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder,

when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Since that

time, they’ve expanded their home, travelled

the world and opened a bookstore together.

Nora is a member of several writers groups and

has won countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry. The New Y ork-

er has called her “America’s favorite novelist.”

She was the first author to be inducted into the

Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. More info: www.noraroberts.com

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Movies

Green book

Blended

Kingsman: the secret

service

The man with the iron

heart

Unbreakable

The hidden soldier

Cold war

The house that Jack built

The ABC murders

Can you ever forgive me?

Five feet apart

Destroyer

Junior

The LEGO movie 2

Castle Rock (Series 1) 2019.

A psychological-horror series,

Castle Rock is an original story

that combines King's best-loved works, played out on a few square miles of

Maine woodland.

An anonymous phone call lures death-row

attorney Henry Deaver back to Castle Rock.

He is unsettled by his hometown, but he returns to help a sinister, mostly mute man

being kept in a cage underneath Shawshank

Prison.

The series begins with an actual storyline, but

progresses into a confusing mix of relating episodes - one being Sissy Spacek’s character

dealing with Alzheimer’s disease. Her excep-

tional performance doesn’t detract from the

bewilderment this viewer felt at the end of series one. Perhaps another series will help

tie up the countless loose ends. JR

(Available for loan)

DVD Review

New DVDs

TV Series

Better call Saul:

season 4

Outlander: season 4

Fuller house: season 1-3

9-1-1: season 1

Friday nights lights:

seasons 4 & 5

Vikings: season 5, vol 2

13 reasons why:

season 2

Vera: series 8

Taken: season 1

Project blue book:

season 1

Warehouse 13:

Seasons 1-3

Historic Homes in Bassendean walk (free)

Tuesday 6 August 10.00am-12.00pm (Multiple Dates between Tue 06 Aug 2019 - Tue 03 Dec 2019)

Walk around Bassendean with an experienced volunteer guide and learn about some amazing places and architecture

including Daylesford House and Holme House.

Start (9.45am for 10am) and finish at Bassendean Primary School administration centre, West Road.

Participants walk at their own risk.

No booking required.

What to bring? Comfortable shoes, a water bottle and weather appropriate apparel. Enquiries 9279 2966.

baslib@bassendean.wa.gov.au

Local author May O'Brien was born near Laverton, Western Australia and at the age of

seven was taken to Mount Margaret Mission

to begin her education. May became the first

Aboriginal teacher in Western Australia, and as an educator for over 25 years, May fought

for Aboriginal rights and helped to establish

Aboriginal committees on education. She wrote a report on Aboriginal education,

helping to bridge the gap between cultures.

1n 1984 she was awarded a Churchill Fellow-

ship to study programs on indigenous issues

in North America and England. On her return May was appointed Acting Superintendent of

Aboriginal Education. Since retiring, May has

been writing bilingual children’s books that

feature her Wongatha language. As an ambas-sador for numeracy and literacy, she remains

involved in a wide range of community

activities.

May O’Brien books are available for loan.

NAIDOC Week 2019 7-14 July

You don’t have to be a

poet to use your library

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear -

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.’ Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817.

I wish I’d written this! JR

Do you have a favourite poem? Email or hand

it to a Bassendean Library staff member to see it in print!

Opening Hours

Mon 9am - 8pm Tue 9am - 8pm Wed 9am - 6pm Thu 9am - 6pm Fri 9am - 6pm Sat 9am - 1pm Closed Sundays

and Public Holidays

library.bassendean.wa.gov.au

House-Bound Service (Books on Wheels)

A delivery service is available to people

unable to visit the library. This service is

provided fortnightly on alternate Thursday or Friday afternoons, depending on location,

and it is supported by volunteers, who select

and distribute the items.

People wishing to use the house-bound

service must live in the Town of Bassendean

and be members of the library. For further information, contact the

Library on 9279 2966, or email:

baslib@bassendean.wa.gov.au

This month’s Library

Code of Conduct selection is

Be Responsible

For your behaviour

and the behaviour of

those in your care