Red Hot Favourites! Fiction

Egg Drop Dead: A Cackleberry Club Mystery by Laura Childs.

Suzanne, Petra, and Toni - co- owners of the Cackleberry Club café—are back to track down another bad egg. Suzanne is looking forward to visiting Mike Mullen’s dairy farm to pick up some wheels of cheese, but when she arrives, Mike is nowhere to be found. The moaning of his cows leads her to look in the barn, where she discovers his body. Suzanne, Petra and Toni vow to find the farmer’s murderer.

Peppercorn Street by Anna Jacobs.

Foxing the Geese by Janet Woods.

Win. Lose or Draw by Peter Corris.

Audio Chaos by Patricia Cornwell.

Killer Instinct by Zo Sharp.

No Second Chance by Harlen Coben.

Non Fiction Magical Miniature Gardens: Create tiny worlds of fairy magic and delight with natural, hand- made décor by Donni Webber.

Playful and imaginative trend of miniature and fairy gardening. Easy to make beginner accessories and furniture projects using natural materials or commonly used craft supplies.

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Issue 65 February 2017

Happy New Year!

With even more events for children and adults coming up this year, our motto for 2017 could be “There’s always something happening at the Library!”

As well as our regular displays (Good Reads, Western Australian Writers, Sublime Non Fiction), and events (Library Lovers’ Day, Lego League, Crafty Corner, Games Days, Children’s Book Week), we’ll be having more guest speakers, literary lounges, competitions, and a few colourful surprises!

Look for new magazines like Peppermint, and of course, new books that you can reserve in the Library or online. Even our website is new! Now when you click on New Titles in Stock, you’ll see all new reserve items as images that you can click open for more information, and you can even give a star rating.

We’ve increased loans for DVD’s and CD’s to 10 of each. You can borrow up to 20 items on one card. Plenty to read, listen to, and watch.

We are also asking you to send us your reviews of books and movies, or a favourite recipe. You can hand them in at the counter, or send us an email. We’ll publish them here and on Facebook and the Library website.

Celebrate Library Lover’s Day with us by writing a short love poem for our

Wall of Love Write your poem about loving a book, how you love to read or why you love your Library. All ages welcome.

All entries will be displayed on our Wall of Love. There’ll be a $25 book voucher prize for the best adult’s entry and the best

children’s entry. Forms available from the front desk, Facebook and our website. All entries must be in by Monday, 13th February. The winner will be announced

on Facebook and on our website Tuesday, 14th February.

Congratulations Facebook Winners! Claire Brooks (left) picked up a $25 book voucher for being our 600th ‘Like’, and Karen McGlue won a $25 book vouche for correctly answering our Secret Life of Spine Labels quiz.

I just loved

More New Stock

Fiction James Patterson’s Bookshots (Adult Quick Reads) Come and Get Us; Black & Blue; The Royals.

Non Fiction

Weaving Made Easy: 17 projects using a Rigid-heddle loom by Liz Gipson.

500 Bead Weaving Patterns for Bracelets by Milie Ramon.

Take Control of Your IBS: The complete guide to managing your symptoms by Professor Peter Whorwell.

Reverse Your Diabetes in 12 Weeks: The scientifically proven program to avoid, control, and turn around your diabetes by George L King, M.D.

Crocheting for Dummies by Karen Manthey, Susan Brittain.

New! Peppermint magazine. “Peppermint is an Australian quarterly print magazine focused on style, sustainability and substance. Covering slow food, ethical fashion, natural living, health and beauty, diversity, social entrepreneurs and more. It was created for those who appreciate good design and creativity, and also care about social and environmental issues and things that matter.”

David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky.

Written about 50 years before Dallas, this family saga is a powerful story of greed, betrayal, and a businessman who has sold his soul. BD

A quick reminder! Our Book Amnesty means we’ll remove fines on your overdue books if you bring them back

by the end of February.

Take a look at the constantly

changing books on our display, and have fun choosing from an amazingly diverse range of subjects:

The Menopause Maze,

Flight MH370: The mystery,

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls,

Black Box Thinking,

Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones.

David Whish-Wilson is an Australian author of short stories and novels The Summons, Line of Sight, Zero to the Bone and Old Scores.

He has lived in Europe, Africa and Asia and has worked as a barman, actor, street-seller, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug trial guinea pig. He currently teaches creative writing.

David will be the Library’s special guest at the next Literary Salon, Wednesday 22th March at 6.00pm for a 6.30pm start.

Refreshments provided.

Sublime Non-Fiction

New DVDs

Reserve online @

www.bassendean. wa.gov.au/library

The Library is a

Movies Mechanic: Resurrection (Thriller)

The Infiltrator (Thriller)

The Broken Circle Breakdown (Romance)

Café Society (Romantic comedy)

Spin Out (Australian)

Don’t Breathe (Horror)

Crimson Peak (Horror)

Sinister (Horror)

The Magnificent Seven (Western)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Fantasy)

Dracula Untold (Fantasy)

Inside Llewyn Davis (Drama)

TV Series Bones: Season 11, 1-3

Bones: Season 11, 4-6

Oz: Season 4, 1-3

Oz: Season 4, 4-6

Oz: Season 5

Rizzoli & Isles: Season 6

The Magicians: Season 1

The Five

The Wrong Girl

My Mother’s Castle (Le Chateau de ma Mere) Rated G. In French/ English subtitles

This is a light, delight-fully funny, refreshing family movie about a family revisiting French holiday home with a child’s nostalgic holiday experiences and narration. A European holiday without leaving your armchair! Recommended by Janet.

True Detective Second season 2016 MA15+

The original True Detective was a mind-blowing, brilliant series, with superb interaction between the lead play-ers. In this new season, complete with a new cast and set in California, I found nothing worthy to hold my attention. There’s a bizarre murder, with three cops (one of them the typical feisty woman), and a career criminal after the culprit, etc. It’s a heavy-handed crime drama, and even heavier on the back stories. Colin Farrell’s eyebrows did most of his act-ing, and Vince Vaughn, trying hard, looked like he had sat on something sharp for the entire series. Two stars out of five - and that was for the scenery. Let’s hope series three has more to offer… JR

5 July 2 August 6 September 4 October 1 November

Guided Walk (Free!) Learn about local history, culture and architecture on Old Perth Road with your volunteer guide.

First Wednesday of each month in 2017.

Meet at the Bassendean Memorial Library foyer at 9.45am for a 10am start. Duration 1.5 hours.

What to bring? Comfor table shoes, a water bottle and weather appropriate apparel.

Walking Wednesday dates in 2017

1 February 1 March 5 April 3 May 7 June

Corner of Guildford Road and Old Perth Road, c.1940.(Bassendean Local Studies Collection)

Desert Island DVDs! What movie would you choose

to watch on a desert island? Give us your review of a

favourite movie and you could win a $25 book voucher.

(Email or bring your review to the Library)

Opening Hours Mon 9am - 8pm Tue 9am - 8pm Wed 9am - 6pm Thu 9am - 6pm Fri 9am - 6pm Sat 9am - 1pm Closed Sundays

and Public Holidays

And speaking of our craft group, here we are at Crafty Corner making origami fireworks for Australia Day celebrations. They went on display in the Library.

You can join in the fun by making whatever makes you happy - each Thursday from 12.30 - 2.00pm in the Library.

This is Ngaire - with a finely embroidered tapestry of her son. Ngaire says “I have always loved craft and cross stitch and by a happy accident discovered that I could scan photos and make a cross stitch pattern. I have now been sewing my family for the past 15 years.”

You can see Ngaire’s incredible sewing skills in the Library in February. What an incentive to join our craft group!

Now with more games!

Game Days are held in the Library on the first Saturday of each month

from 9:30am -1.00pm.

So come on down and join in the fun or bring your own games to play and share!!!

Game days are casual gatherings - no bookings or fees required.

Following our games day on Saturday 4th February we will be launching our board games collection - making them available for loan!!!. Most games will be available to loan out: 1 week only [no Renewals]. 1 game per person. Some games will not be available for loan but can be used in the library only.

GAME ON!

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had

more light to read by.

Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle.

Remember