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Author Title Pages Audio Available Robertson, Kel Stedman, M.L. Smoke and Mirrors Winner of the 2009 Ned Kelly Award & voted to represent the ACT in the National Year of Reading 2012 collection Brad Chen is a member of the Australian Federal Police who is called back from sick leave (arising from events in the first book) to help in the investigation of the murders of a former Whitlam Government Minister and the editor who was helping him finalise his memoirs. The manuscript of the almost completed book is missing. Could there be anything explosive enough in the memoirs – perhaps something concerning the dismissal of the Whitlam Government – to kill for? Or are more personal factors likely to be the motive? New book Light Between Oceans After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own. New book Stegner, Wallace Earle Crossing to Safety The story is one of marriage and of friendship. At its centre are two couples: the Morgans, Larry and his angelic wife Sally; and the Langs, the weak but charming Sid, and the vibrant and impossibly bossy Charity. We journey with them into the problems that beset their lives: the physical challenges that Larry's wife, Sally, faces, and the threads that weave themselves thickly through the Langs' relationship. New book Availability 326 No Available 362 No Fully booked 327 No Available
Author Title Pages Audio Available Tench, Watkin 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet in January 1788. He was in his late twenties, a captain of the marines, and on the adventure of his life. Insatiably curious, with a natural genius for storytelling, Tench wrote two enthralling accounts of the infant colony - A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson. Tench brings to life the legendary figures of Bennelong, Arabanoo and Governor Phillip, and records the voices of convicts trying to make new lives in their new country. New book Walker, Karen Thompson Age of Miracles White, Patrick On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues. New book Happy Valley Happy Valley is a place of dreams and secrets, of snow and ice and wind. In this remote little town, perched in its landscape of desolate beauty, everybody has a story to tell about loss and longing and loneliness, about their passion to escape. I must get away, thinks Dr Oliver Halliday, thinks Alys Browne, thinks Sidney Furlow. But Happy Valley is not a place that can be easily left, and White's vivid characters, with their distinctive voices, move bit by bit towards sorrow and acceptance. "Happy Valley" is the missing piece in the extraordinary jigsaw of Patrick White's work. New book Availability 320 No Fully booked 373 No Available 407 No Fully booked
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