Activities aplenty at library

OPEN DOORS

Did you visit the library last Thursday for our Open Day? If you couldn’t attend, don’t worry – our doors are always open and we always welcome new members!

We have a busy week to come: Brain Training on Monday, Singalong & Storytime and Bookends on Tuesday, Book Buddies, Make It! and Housebound deliveries on Wednesday, Book Buddies, Bookends and Comic Hub on Thursday, as well as three outreach preschool visits.

At Make It! on Wednesday 12 August at 3.30pm we are making our own badges. The cost is $3 per person and bookings can be made by calling 6740 2190.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE…

Do you love to learn about creatures with feathers, fur or fins?

Well, here is a something just for you. Browse through the Animals section of our non-fiction collection and find answers to all your questions about creatures of the land, sea or sky.

There are books for junior readers filled with pictures and fascinating facts, and books for adults that are both informative and entertaining. Want to know more about animal anatomy? We’ve got you! Want to identify that bird, bee or butterfly? Come to us! Need tips to train your dog? We’re on it! Having problems with your livestock? We have the book you need!

NEW BOOKS

Go behind the scenes in a hospital in A Little Unwell (AFA JEW) by Kerry Jewell. Amy’s med school dreams were never like this – patients who don’t want to be ‘helped’, ridiculous hours, inadequate pay and a surgical trainee boyfriend who has been ‘preoccupied’.

But the friendships she has forged are carrying her through, and the self-belief that it is all worth it. Until the day she is forced to ask herself: how much is she willing to give? And is it truly worth it?

The Last Poem (AF PEP) by Courtney Peppernell will stay with you long after the final page. Wren was a successful author and preparing to marry the love of her life.

But when her fiancee, Lucy, dies in a tragic car crash, Wren embarks on a road trip to escape the media frenzy. She winds up in the small town of Everston, Colorado and joins the local library which hosts a grief support group. As she builds her new community there, can she leave her old life behind? Or will old truths come to light?

Read about the world’s longest flying female airline pilot in Touching the Sky (BIOG 994 LAW) by Deborah Lawrie. In this candid and cheeky memoir, she explains her journey from a young girl in 1950s Australia who was determined to fly to taking on Ansett Airlines in the High Court – and winning.

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.” – Louisa May Alcott