Spotlight: INFORMATION SESSION
If you have ever been responsible for handling the arrangements after a loved one dies, you will understand the stress and endless confusion – and at a time when your brain just doesn’t work. Imagine if you could get all these plans in order ahead of time, allowing your loved ones (or yourself) to mourn, knowing everything will be just as you/they wished.
Our Seniors Talk for October will be courtesy of Lightfoot Funerals, who will speak about the paperwork and arrangements associated with death and funerals. This free information session will be held at the Gunnedah Shire Library at noon on Monday 19 October.
Tea and coffee will be provided, so come along, listen, and ask all your questions.
Spotlight: WHO MAKES THE TOP 100?
It’s time again for the Top 100 Books and the focus for 2026 is Australian books.
Votes were cast during September for Australia’s favourite books about this amazing place, its people and its culture, and the answers will be revealed on 17 and 18 October on ABC Radio National.
Tune in this Saturday and Sunday afternoon and make your own To Be Read list, check the library’s online catalogue for all the titles, and reserve and collect them during the week.
Spotlight: NEW BOOKS
The Australian Wars (994 PER) is based upon the television series of the same name, previously broadcast on SBS. Brought together by a group of leading scholars and documentary filmmakers, this book explores an aspect of Australia’s history that has been neglected – and hidden.
Journey across The Shallows in Mayhem and the Mortal (FSF WIL) by Shanora Williams. To save her sister, Zaira must enter a nightmare landscape of ruined magic, shifting paths and vicious creatures that eat people alive. Her guide is an assassin whose true motives are hard to determine. She knows better than to trust him. She just doesn’t have a choice.
Welcome to Shellwater Bay, where three women are quietly planning a revolution. The Angry Wives Club (AFA STR) by Gabbie Strout is a story of secrets behind closed doors, marriages on the rocks and husbands who refuse to pull their own weight. The women swap stories of what they’ve done to keep the peace at home, but peace has its price…
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami
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