Books to help you recycle and ‘upcycle’

By Brittnay Riley

Spotlight: National Recycling Week

It’s National Recycling Week! During 2020-2021, Australia generated 75.8 mega tonnes (Mt) of waste (about the total weight of 471 opera houses!) This week provides an important platform for engaging Australians in recycling and sustainable habits. Check out the Planet Ark website for more stats, recycling tips, and other information.

Spotlight: Books on Recycling

If you’re interested in exploring the recycling concept further, peruse our shelves of non-fiction.

We have books upcycling projects, sustainable gardening, reducing plastic consumption, and a number of junior non-fiction titles to educate your little ones.

Spotlight: New books

‘You like it darker? Fine, so do I’, writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of 12 stories that delve into the darker part of life – both metaphorical and literal.

King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. You’ll find You Like it Darker (AF KIN) in general fiction.

Also new to the general fiction collection is The Full Moon Coffee Shop (AF MOC) by Mai Mochizuki.

Under a glittering full moon, a Kyoto coffee shop with no fixed location or fixed hours appears only where and when it’s needed. It is run by talking cats serving the finest teas and coffees, delicious desserts and age-old astrological wisdom.

‘The Full Moon Coffee Shop’ attracts customers who have lost their way in their life, from a down-on-her-luck screenwriter to a failed video game developer. In the middle of the night, the feline guides will set them back on their fated paths.

For the romantics, we have I Love You, I Love You, I Love You (AFR DOC) by Laura Dockrill.

Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet in summer 2000. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safest to love from afar, where the friendship zone is her safety net and she can’t get hurt. Over the next 15 years they share everything: bottles of cider and cigarettes in the rain, gossip and laughter, grief and fear.

But every time Lowe kisses another girl, Ella feels her heart break just that little bit more. She’ll have to choose whether it’s enough to be just friends with the love of her life, or if she’s prepared to let the terrifying, beautiful, all-consuming truth come to light.

Come and say hello at your local library!