Volume 14, Issue 2 BLIC BLURB Autumn Issue
GET Savvy July Sessions Watch out Please note, our new format of the BLIC BLURB, virtually the same for content with just a new look ! further details Hope you like it ! ~Intro to Beading & LIBRARY & INFORMATION WEEK Jewellery making Monday 19th May : 2-3 pm ~Photography ENTERPRISE & OVERDRIVE LIBRARY 101 (How to use Online Catalogue & e-Books) ~Email 101 INFORMATION Introducing 2
new sessions Tuesday 20th May : 5-6 pm WEEK 19th –23rd ENTERPRISE & OVERDRIVE ~ASTROLOGY (How to use Online Catalogue & e-Books) May
Wednesday 21st May : 10.30am NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORY-TIME & CHILDREN”S ACTIVITY
Wednesday 21st May : 2-4 pm ~GARDENING FAMILY & ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP Come along Thursday 22nd May : 9.30-10.30 am iPAD STORY-TIME & CHILDREN’S & enjoy Please remember ACTIVITY some of our BOOKINGS Thursday 22nd May : 5-7pm Activities ! ESSENTIAL ! PHOTOGRAPHY 101 Thursday 22nd May : 5-7pm RIVERLAND CREATIVE WRITING GROUP REMINDER Children’s Friday 23rd May :10.30 –12.30pm Activities HOOKED ON SNAPFISH ! Each (Term-time) (Intro to Photobooks ~ Turn your photographic memories into a Thursday personalized photobook ) 9:30am
All day Friday, come & enjoy a cuppa ! Fancy yourself as a budding Author ???? Here’s your chance ! Have an unpublished memoir or writing a life-story? Enter the Great Aussie Book Prize Win print, eBook and audio book publication with a reputable Australian publisher and an Aus- tralian agent. We are searching for the great Aussie unpublished memoir, a true story centred on Australian family and home – however that is seen by the author. We hope to unearth either extraordinary – or wonderfully ordinary – stories that will touch the hearts of Australians every- where, stimulate reading, and at the same time serve to support our most vulnerable Australian children. The winner of the Book Prize will receive: agency representation from Australia’s most renowned literary agent Selwa Anthony and guaranteed print, eBook and audio book con- tracts from well-known Australian publishers. Entries will open on June 1 and close on August 31.
BASIC CONDITIONS: $50 entry fee donated to Barnardos Australia Manuscript must be a work of non-fiction Must be original work – author can have been previously published Must be a complete work – first three chapter are to be submitted for entry The entry form will be available on the website http://www.greataussiebookprize.com.au/
HIGHLIGHTS The Pillars of the Earth Please look out for by Ken Follett the Special 25 year Anniversary READER Edition ! RECOMMENDED stickers soon to The Traders Reward arrive ! by Anna Jacobs The last in the series ties together all the loose ends !!
BOOK REVIEWS
The Tailor’s Girl by Fiona McIntosh Ladies, if you fancy reading a truly lovely story, as two of our staff members can highly recommend, this book is for you ! Mystery and Romance what a combo ! Set in England after the first World War, the reality sets in as routines return and emphasizes how much lives and loves are entwined as consequences of the war. The characters are engaging and become very real, its quite sad when you inevitably read the last page. A “feel good” story ! Page 2 BOOK REVIEWS
The Thicket by Joe R Lansdale
Jack Parker is a 16 year old boy growing up the hard way at the turn of the Century in the American West. The story begins with he and his younger sister Lulu surviving an outbreak of smallpox in their small wild Texas town– sadly their parents succumb to the epidemic and Jack and Lulu are left with almost nothing and only their grandfather to look after them.
Their grandfather decides to take them by wagon to stay with relatives but on the way he is murdered by a vicious band of cutthroats who have just robbed a nearby bank. Jacks sister, Lulu is taken by these men and Jack pledges to get her back no matter what the cost!
He employs a couple of unsavoury characters, to help him get his sister back. One is a gun-slinging dwarf named Shorty and the other is an ex-slave with a chip on his shoulder called Eustace.
This story is really about Jacks coming of age and the friendships he develops with both these men and although some of the action was a bit gruesome at times, I thought it was truly a great story!
The Martian by Andy Weir
Before any of you turn off when I say the word Science Fiction, just be aware that this story is essentially a human survival story that just happens to be set on the planet Mars in the not too distant future! Stay with me here, because it’s a pretty good story!
Mark Watney, is the engineer biologist member of a 6 person team set to explore the surface of Mars – in fact this is the first manned mission ever to Mars and it pretty much fails right from the word ‘go’ !
A huge dust storm blows up after the team has only been on the planet for six days and NASA, in their wisdom asks the team to evacuate and take the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) back up to their ship, the Hermes. Unfortunately the MAV can only make the one trip so anybody left behind, stays behind!
This is obviously bad news for Mark because at the time the MAV leaves the surface of Mars everybody (including Mission Control on Earth) has written Mark off as ‘dead’! And, thus begins the story, because Mark is very much alive and stranded alone on a dangerous and desolate planet.
His circumstances are dire! The dust storm has knocked his communication link to earth and the Hermes out. He has food and oxygen to last only for the duration of the mission, his temporary refuge is just that – temporary – the HAB is only designed to last 31 days. He is reliant on the oxygenator to give him air, the water reclaimer for water and he is hoping that the HAB doesn’t breach which means he would ‘kind of explode’ (to use Mark’s terminology).
I am not going to tell you how Mark survives the initial dust storm and why the rest of the team leaves him for dead on the surface of Mars. I am also not going to tell you how he attempts to survive because this would spoil a really fantastic and gripping story!
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DVDs ADULT FICTION NEW
Blood Red by Heather Graham ITEMS The Barrow by Mark Smylie TV SERIES Unwrapped Sky by Rjurik Davidson
~Under the Dome ****************** ~Big Rio Bounty Hunters Season 1 ~Vikings The Complete Sinister Intent by Karen M. Davis First Season The Art of the Devil by John Attman The Frozen Dead by Bernard Minier MOVIES ~20 Film Western Pack ***************** ~The 25th Reich ~INXS Never tear us Tyringham Park by Rosemary McLoughlin apart The Black Country by Alex Grecian ~A Little Bit Zombie The Twin’s Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logsted ~The Story of Wales The Fallen by Charlie Higson ~Shaun the Sheep ~The Very Best of ABC ****************** for Kids Charlotte’s Creek by Theresa Creed SPECIAL INTEREST Purple Roads by Fleur Mcdonald ~Heston’s Mission Beneath Outback Skies by Alissa Callen Impossible ~Forever Summer with ********************* Nigella ~David Attenborough’s Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts by Mary Gibson Natural Curiosities The Trouble with Virtue by Stephanie Laurens
Chocolate Cake for Breakfast by Danielle Hawkins
NON FICTION
Parenting beyond Pink & Blue by Christia Spears Brown, PHD Expecting a Baby by Penelope Law The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook by Liz Harful Ultimate Wellness by Professor Kerryn Phelps The Weather Watchers by David Day Stories of WW1 edited by Tony Bradman The 30-Day Heart Tune-up by Steven Masley, MD Colour with Splosh by David Melling One Yelpy Kelpie by Jo Rothwell Olivia and her Alien Brother by Maggie Testa Clementine’s Walk by Annie AUDIO BOOKS White Marvin gets MAD ! by Joseph ~ Private LA by James Patterson Theobald Esau the Paw by Chris ~ A Seachange by Veronica Henry Gurney ~ Bridget Jones : Mad about Gordon runs dry : Thomas & the Boy by Helen Fielding Friends AFL Game Day (a touch & feel book) LARGE PRINT
The Baby Farmers by Annie Cossins All new books in the popular NYC Angels :Tempting Nurse Scarlet by Wendy S Marcus series of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” The Cattleman’s Ready-Made Family by Michelle Douglas Outback Towns & Pubs by Bill “Swampy” Marsh Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates RECENT HAPPENINGS
BE BUSHFIRE READY ! Another successful “Get Savvy“session was held on he 13th March, “Be Bushfire Ready” implemented by Sue Mickan, CFS Community Engagement Officer, with a local flavor, Dave De Grancy and Matthew Humphrey, CFS Monash Lieutenants. Among distinguished guests to attend were local Liberal identity Tim Whetstone and Berri Mayor Peter Hunt. This program highlighted the necessity to have a Pictured after our fire plan to protect your house and property, OR the decision to session, Tim Whetstone, evacuate. Also we were enlightened with information about fire Peter Hunt with Sue behaviours. Hopefully now we will be better prepared for next fire Mickan, Dave De Grancy & Matthew Humphrey season !
Another “Bushfire Ready” Session will be held later in the year, maybe BY POPULAR DEMAND September or October. Watch out for further details !
BOOK LAUNCH Pictured with Pam by local Author are some of the group that attended PAM GRIFFIN the session.
Pam Griffin’s Book Launch , followed by an afternoon tea was well attended earlier in the year. Pam’s book “Widow Makers” is now on our shelves for you to borrow if you wish.
Alan & Margaret Delaine with Pam Griffin signing a copy of the books debut.
Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you need to keep moving ! Albert Einstein COMPETITION WINNERS
Winners are grinners !
1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize Pictured left, are our 3 Caleb Emily Bianca lucky Holiday Competition Wood with Feher winners after receiving Scott with with her his proud her little prize ticket tickets to the Chaffey Dad & sister. Theatre to watch brother ! “Mr Peabody & Sherman”
CHILDREN’S CORNER
Our Library was hopping with Easter Activities !
Holiday fun ! BALLOON-MAKING
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