Topic: Library notes 21 October 2009
Topic type: General
What do they really read? Join us to hear 5 local personalities talk about their reading choices.
Library notes
By Beth Bolton
Do policemen read crime novels? Do politicians read political thrillers? Join us on Wednesday 28th October between 2 and 3pm in Levin library to hear 5 local personalities talk about their reading preferences. Our guests will include, Mayor Brendan Duffy, Chair of the Library Trustees, Sharon Crosbie, Script writer Bill Mooney, Gardener Mary Robertson and Community Constable Graham Wright. You never know you might pick up some tips for good books to read!
Speaking of tips for good books, check out our latest list below.
Playing with bones by Kate Ellis is a new mystery from this popular author. Singmass Close has a sinister past. Reputedly haunted by the ghosts of children, it was the hunting ground of the Doll Strangler in the 50’s, a ruthless killer that was never brought to justice. So When the strangled body of a teenage girl is found in the same street with a mutilated doll by her side, DI Joe Plantagenet wonders whether a copycat killer is at work.
From the author Tracy Chevalier of Girl with a pearl earring fame comes a new book called Remarkable creatures. Set in the early 19th century on a windswept beach along the English coast strewn with fossils just waiting for a collector to discover. From the moment she’s struck by lightning, Mary is marked for greatness. When she uncovers fossils of unknown creatures in the cliffs near her home, she sets the scientific world alight, challenging ideas about the world’s creation and stimulating debate over our origins. In an arena dominated by men however, Mary is soon reduced to a serving role, facing prejudice from the academic community, vicious gossip from neighbours and the heartbreak of forbidden love. Luckily Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly, intelligent Elizabeth, a middle-aged spinster who is also fossil obsessed.
In Game over by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The murder of any journalist is bound to whip the news media into a frenzy. So when ex-BBC correspondent Ed Stonax is found dead the last thing Detective Inspector Bill Slider needs to complicate his life is the reappearance of an old enemy issuing death threats. Trevor Bates, aka The Needle, is on the loose and trying to kill him. With a high profile murder to solve, he must try to find a spare moment – and stay alive long enough – to marry Joanna before their baby is born
Fourteen years ago, a scientist implanted four babies with the Medusa gene-a gene for psychic abilities. But the scientist died and the babies were hidden away. Now they are teenagers- and unaware that their psychic powers are about to kick in. The Medusa project: the set-up by Sophie McKenzie we meet cocky charismatic Nico, who thinks his emerging powers will bring him money, power and the girl of his dreams.
The amazing story of a boy who makes every day matter is A passion for living by Alexander Stobbs. Life is precious and never more so than for 19-year-old music scholar, who has suffered from cystic fibrosis from birth. For him, every day could be his last. But as he said you can’t do stuff if you are afraid. A truly inspiring story of a young musician determined to live his dreams, Alex takes us on his journey as he survives daily rounds of drugs and treatments while also preparing to fulfil a long ambition to conduct Bach’s three hour long St Matthew Passion. Alex’s account of living with no certainty about his future is a spur to all to make the most of every day we have.
Non-fiction
100 essential New Zealand films by Hamish McDouall
A passion for living by Alexander Stobbs
Eat smart: the Kiwi family cookbook
The royal tour: a souvenir album
Fit food fast: healthy food for families on the run
Villa: from heritage to contemporary by Patrick Reynolds
Six of the best by Murray Ball
Colourful gardens by Dennis Grenville
Escaping Daddy by Maria Landon
A treasury of New Zealand baking
Fiction
The jeweller’s niece Alexandra Connor
Lustrum by Robert Harris
Fever of the bone by Val McDermid
The good luck girl by Kerry Reichs
Playing with bones by Kate Ellis
Remarkable creatures by Tracy Chevalier
The lost art gratitude Alexander McCall Smith
The king’s mistress Emma Campion
Large print
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
A step too far by Meg Hurtchinson
92 Pacific Boulevard by Debbie Macomber
Little bird of heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
And a golden pear by Jean Chapman
Friends and secrets by Grace Thompson
Game over by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
No time for tears by Kitty Neale
Young Adult
Wildfire by Sarah Micklem
The Medusa project: the set-up by Sophie McKenzie
