By Brittany Riley
Spotlight: International Women’s Day and Make It!
Celebrated globally on March 8, International Women’s Day highlights the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day is especially important in developing countries where education, employment, and financial conditions differ vastly between men and women. Visit the official International Women’s Day website for history and other information.
Next Wednesday, March 12 will be our first Make It! session of the month with fat cat silhouettes. The background is painted with a myriad of sunset colours before an adorable chonky cat is pasted on top. It’s sure to be a masterpiece on your living room wall! To book this $3 session, call us on (02) 6740 2190.
Spotlight: Hobbies and Interests
Need some crafting inspiration? Visit our Hobbies & Interests section!
From drawing to painting, whittling to interior design, leather craft to paper art, there’s very little this section doesn’t cover. Hoopla also has a range of craft videos for a visual guide.
You’ll be an expert at the Make it! sessions before you know it.
Spotlight: New books
The Players (AF WAL) is fresh to fiction shelves.
Decades after the end of the civil war, the country is once again divided when Charles II’s illegitimate son, the Protestant Duke of Monmouth, arrives in Dorset to incite rebellion. Armed with pitchforks, Monmouth’s army is defeated by King James II’s superior forces and charged with high treason. As Dorset braces for carnage, Lady Jayne Harrier and her son, assisted by the daughter of a local magistrate, contrive ways to save men from the gallows.
Japanese Paper Craft (745 NAG) by Aya Nagaoka is new to Hobbies and Interests.
The guide starts with an overview of the tools and materials needed to make the projects, along with simple basic techniques such as gluing corners and spines and sewing bindings. It then progresses through 30 projects, including practical step-by-step photos and detailed diagrams, with tips on the best tools, techniques, and materials to use.
From bestselling thriller author, Paula Hawkins, comes The Blue Hour (AFT HAW).
Welcome to Eris – a Scottish tidal island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. . .
Once the hideaway of Vanessa, a famous artist whose notoriously
unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace. A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, Grace receives an unexpected visitor. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . .
If you need a free holiday, come to the library. We’ve got thousands of journeys between the pages!
