Spotlight: International Literacy Day & Make It!
Celebrated on September 8, International Literacy Day aims to create a more “literate, just, peaceful, and sustainable society.” For more information about this important initiative, visit the ILD website.
The first Make It! session of the month will be gift hats on Wednesday, September 10 at 3:30pm. Bookings are essential for these $3 craft sessions, so call us on (02) 6740 2190 to book your place.
Spotlight: Biographies
We all know libraries are full of fiction, but the biography section contains lived experiences.
With a combination of personal tales and fantastic retellings, these stories span lifetimes, eras, career sectors, and adventures of every category. And the best part? They’re true stories!
Just look for the bright yellow dots on the library shelves.
Spotlight: New books
The Other People (AFM EVE) by C. B. Everett is new to mysteries.
Ten strangers wake up trapped inside a locked house. They have no recollection of how they got there. In order to escape, they have to solve the disappearance of a young woman. But a killer also stalks the empty corridors, and soon the body count starts to rise…
From children’s author, Alistair Chisholm, comes One Cheeky Octopus (Easy C).
When Sylvester sees his friends having fun, he decides to have some of his own! Using his long tentacles, Sylvester GRABS and NABS all the games and toys! Oh no! Will this cheeky octopus ever learn to share?
Fresh to general fiction shelves is Cleopatra (AF SOL) by Natasha Solomons.
Told from the perspectives of both Cleopatra and Caesar’s mistress Servilia, this book is a powerful, unmissable new retelling, drawing out the real woman behind the great legend. A captivating story of female power and vulnerability, of love and loss, fierce friendship, and terrible betrayal: it’s time to meet the real Cleopatra.
Lauren Ward famously said, “Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.” Come find some good things at 291 Conadilly Street.
The Other People by C. B. Everett is new to mysteries at the Gunnedah Shire Library.
