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Author Title Pages Audio Available Boo, Katherine Behind the beautiful forevers : Life, Death and hope in a Mumbai undercity Katherine Boo spent three years among the residents of the Annawadi slum, a sprawling, cockeyed settlement of more than 300 tin-roof huts and shacks in the shadow of Mumbai’s International Airport. From within this “sumpy plug of slum” Boo unearths stories both tragic and poignant- -about residents’ efforts to raise families, earn a living, or simply survive. These unforgettable characters all nurture far-fetched dreams of a better life. Boo’s writing is superb and the depth and courage of her reporting from this hidden world is astonishing. At times, it’s hard to believe this is nonfiction. New book Boyce, James 1835 : The Founding of Melbourne and the Brown, Damien conquest of Australia Winner, 2012 Age Book of the Year Award (Overall) Winner, 2012 Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the History Prize in the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award James Boyce traces the power plays in Hobart, Sydney and London, and describes the key personalities of Melbourne's early days. He conjures up the Australian frontier – its complexity, its rawness and the way its legacy is still with us today. And he asks the poignant question largely ignored for 175 years; could it have been different? New book Band-aid for a broken leg : Being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single) A powerful, heart-breaking, surprisingly funny, honest and ultimately uplifting account of life on the medical frontline, and a moving testimony of the work done by Medecins Sans Frontieres (doctors without borders) and the extraordinary and sometimes eccentric people who work for it. New book Availability 256 No Fully Booked 257 No Fully Booked 344 No Fully Booked
Author Title Pages Audio Available Croom, Andrew Midnight Empire Midnight Empire, is utterly contemporary, all about technology, and the remotely piloted planes being used by the US military. Daniel Carter is a bright young technician who works for a small technology company. This company has invented new software that the US military wants to trial, and Daniel is sent to an air force base near Las Vegas to oversee its installation. When not working, Daniel is put up in a hotel in Las Vegas, where he starts playing poker and meets Polish-born poker pro Ania at the tables. As Daniel’s relationship with Ania develops, pilots attached to the project begin to die in mysterious circumstances. Daniel doesn’t know who to trust or to turn to for help. New book Eliott, Sumner Locke Careful He might Hear You Eugenides, Jeffery "The story of a bitter struggle between two women for the possession of a six-year-old boy, written with tenderness, humour and irony." New book The Marriage Plot The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot – authors of the great marriage plots. Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing – that he and Madeleine are destined to be together. New book Availability 241 No Available 495 No Available 406 Yes Fully Booked
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