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Title Author Format Format Title Author LP = 1 Large Print copy A = 1 Audiobook copy Actress Anne Enright Addition Toni Jordan A A dog’s purpose W. Bruce Cameron LP A god in ruins Kate Atkinson A All the light we cannot see Anthony Doerr LP A American dirt Jeanine Cummins LP A Amsterdam Ian McEwan And the mountains echoed Khaled Hosseini LP A Apeirogon Colum McCann Any human heart William Boyd Any ordinary day Leigh Sales LP A A spool of blue thread Anne Tyler A Atlas of unknowns Tania James The Auschwitz violin Maria Angels Anglada Belly dancing for beginners Liz Byrski Big brother Lionel Shriver A Big little lies Liane Moriarty LP A Black swan green David Mitchell The Bolter Frances Osborne The Book of Two Ways Jodi Picoult LP A The book thief Markus Zusak The borrower Rebecca Makkai The boy in the striped pyjamas John Boyne Boy swallows universe Trent Dalton LP A Boycott Lisa Forrest Breath Tim Winton Bring up the bodies Hilary Mantel Burial rites Hannah Kent LP A Cast iron Peter May The cat’s table Michael Ondaatje The chocolate tin Fiona McIntosh LP A Company of liars Karen Maitland A 1 Format Title Author LP = 1 Large Print copy A = 1 Audiobook copy Crimson dawn Fleur McDonald LP Curious incident of the dog in the Mark Haddon night-time Cutting for stone Abraham Verghese Dark emu Bruce Pascoe LP A The daughters of Mars Tomas Keneally LP A Dewey Vicki Myron LP The dictionary of lost words Pip Williams LP A Dog boy Eva Hornung Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman The drowning girl Margaret Leroy The dry Jane Harper LP A Eggshell skull Bri Lee LP The elegance of a hedgehog Muriel Barbery The elephant keeper Christopher Nicholson Erotic stories for Punjabi widows B.K. Jaswal LP Every note played Lisa Genova LP A Eyrie Tim Winton Falling leaves Adeline Yen Mah Farm City Novella Carpenter Fatal impact Kathryn Fox LP A The fault in our stars John Green A The fifth letter Nicola Moriarty LP Food, sex and money Liz Byrski For today I am a boy Kim Fu The gift Edith Eger A Gone girl Gillian Flynn The gourmet Muriel Barbery The great Gatsby Scott F Fitzgerald The Guernsey literary and potato peel Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie A pie society Barrows Hand me down world Lloyd Jones A The happiest refugee Anh Do Harmless Julienne Van Loon Heart; a history Sandeep Jauhar The help Kathryn Stockett The heretic’s daughter Kathleen Kent Hidden figures Margot Lee Setterly The hidden hours Sara Foster LP 2 Format Title Author LP = 1 Large Print copy A = 1 Audiobook copy Honeybee Craig Silvey LP Hopetoun wives Fran Cusworth Hotel on the corner of bitter and Jamie Ford LP sweet Identity crisis Ben Elton I stop somewhere T.E. Carter I’m not scared Niccolo Ammaniti Inheritance Nicholas Shakespeare The ink bridge Neil Grant In one person John Irving In the shadow of the banyan Vaddey Ratner Iran awakening Shirin Ibadi Jasper Jones Craig Silvey Jeeves and the wedding bells Sebastian Faulkes Kabul beauty school Deborah Rodriguez A Kathleen O’Connor of Paris Amanda Curtain The land before avocado Richard Glover A The language of flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh The last bookshop Emma Young The last runaway Tracey Chevalier The last sky Alice Nelson Lenny’s book of everything Karen Foxlee LP A Levels of life Julian Barnes The librarian of Auschwitz Antonio Iturbe LP A The library book Susan Orlean LP Life after life Kate Atkinson Life of Pi Yann Martel The light between oceans M. L. Stedman Lion (formally published as A long way Saroo Brierley A home) The list of My Desires Gregoire Delacourt The little stranger Sarah Waters Love in the time of cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Lovesong Alex Miller Major Pettigrew’s last stand Helen Simonson The man in the grey flannel skirt Jon-Jon Goulian Maralinga Judy Nunn LP A Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides The midnight dress Karen Foxlee LP A 3 Format Title Author LP = 1 Large Print copy A = 1 Audiobook copy Mornings in Jenin Susan Abulhawa A most immoral woman Linda Jaivin Mouth full of blood Toni Morrison Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore Robin Sloan The Mystery Woman Belinda Alexander A Never coming back Tim Weaver Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro New boy Tracy Chevalier LP A Next of Kin Joanna Trollope Normal people Sally Rooney LP Norwegian wood Haruki Murakami The ocean at the end of the lane Neil Gaiman Once upon a time in Beirut Catherine Taylor The only story Julian Barnes LP The orchard of lost souls Nadifa Mohamed LP The other side of the world Stephanie Bishop LP Our sunshine Robert Drewe A The painted veil William Somerset Maugham The pajama girls of Lambert Square Rosina Lippi The perfume collector Kathleen Tessaro Perks of being a wallflower Stephen Chbosky The photograph Penelope Lively Pomegranate soup Marsha Mehran The prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Project hail Mary Andy Weir LP Pure gold baby Margaret Drabble Reading in bed Sue Gee Reality Ray Glickman LP Relativity Antonia Hayes LP A The road Cormac McCarthy Room Emma Donoghue Rosewater and soda bread Marsha Mehran Salvation creek Susan Duncan The scholar Dervla McTiernan LP A Second suns David Relin The secret river Kate Grenville The secrets she keeps Michael Robotham LP A The Shelly Bay ladies swimming circle Sophie Green 4 Format Title Author LP = 1 Large Print copy A = 1 Audiobook copy Shuggie Bain Douglas Stewart A Silent house Orhan Pamuk The silent listener Lyn Yeowart Silkworm Robert Galbraith LP The single ladies of the Jacaranda Joanna Nell LP Retirement Village Skin and bone Kathryn Fox A Smokey Joe’s cafe Bryce Courtenay A The snow child Eowyn Ivey Song of Achilles Madeline Miller South of the border, west of the sun Haruki Murakami The spare room Helen Garner Speak Laurie Halse Anderson Still Alice Lisa Genova The Sunday philosophy club Alexander McCall Smith The survivors Jane Harper A Sweet tooth Ian McEwan Teatime for the firefly Shona Patel Theft : a love story Peter Carey The thirteenth tale Diane Setterfield This is how it always is Laurie Frankel LP Three cups of tea Greg Mortenson Too much lip Melissa Lucashenko Trip of a lifetime Liz Byrski The true story of butterfish Nick Earls The Tsar of love and techno Anthony Marra Turn of mind Alice LaPlante A Underground railroad Colson Whitehead A The vanishing act of Esme Lennox Maggie O’Farrell The voluptuous delights of peanut Lauren Liebenberg butter and jam Water for elephants Sara Gruen Weather Jenny Offill The well Elizabeth Jolley Where Reasons End Yiyun Li Where the crawdads sing Delia Owens LP A While we were watching Downton Wendy Wax abbey Wildflower Mark Seal Wimmera Mark Brandi LP 5 Format Title Author LP = 1 Large Print copy A = 1 Audiobook copy Win Harlen Coben LP A Wishes for starlight Linda J Bettenay Wolf hall Hilary Mantel The women in black Madeline St John The world without us Mireille Juchau A You need to know Nicola Moriarty Legend LP – 1 Large print copy included in set A – 1 Audio book copy included in set 6 About the book: Actress Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theatre legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother’s celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career on Ireland’s bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London’s West End, Broadway, and finally Hollywood. Every moment of her life is a star turn, with young Norah standing in the wings. But the mother-daughter romance cannot survive Katherine’s past or the world’s damage. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, her grip on reality grows fitful and, fuelled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime. Her mother’s protector, Norah understands the destructive love that binds an actress to her audience, but also the strength that an actress takes from her art. Once the victim of a haunting crime herself, Norah eventually becomes a writer, wife, and mother, finding her way to her own hard-won joy. Actress is a book about the freedom we find in our work and in the love we make and keep. About the book: Addition Grace Lisa Vandenburg: she's just like the girl next door, the best friend you hope to find, except for one thing --- Grace counts. The letters in her name (19); the steps she takes every morning to the local café (920); the daily slice of orange cake and the number of poppy seeds on top dictate the number of bites she'll take to finish it. Numbers hold Grace's world together but that world threatens to come apart when she finds Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (also a 19) sitting at the table where she always sits, and on top of that the café is out of orange cake. When Grace accepts Seamus's invitation to join him and then orders pancakes, it's the beginning of something either dreadful…or wonderful, and it's up to Grace to figure it out. About the book: A Dog’s Purpose Heart-warming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.
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