New Items List August 2018

This Months Staff Picks From Librarian’s Choice

Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical is-land of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the

sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water. . . . Could the life of your dreams be the stuff of night-mares? Suddenly the newlyweds must make a danger-ous choice: to speak out or to protect their secret. After all, if no one else knows, who would be hurt? Their deci-sion will trigger a devastating chain of events. . . . Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute broth-er, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a step-father and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing ob-stacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, leg-endary Brisbane drug dealer. But Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.

The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and ex-hausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just another beautiful object captured within the walls of Cloudesley, her husband's Chilterns

manor house. But, with a young step-son and a sister to care for, Lillian accepts there is no way out for her. Then Charles makes an arrangement with an enigmatic artist visiting their home and her world is turned on its head. Maggie Oberon ran from the hurt and resentment she caused. Half a world away, in Australia, it was easier to forget, to pretend she didn't care. But when her grand-mother, Lillian, falls ill she must head back to Cloudesley. Forced to face her past, she will learn that all she thought was real, all that she held so close, was never as it seemed.

The Nowhere Child by Christian White On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is ap-proached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Ken-tucky home twenty-eight years earlier. He believes Kim is that girl. At first she brush-es it off, but when Kim scratches the sur-

face of her family history in Australia, questions arise that aren’t easily answered. To find the truth, she must travel to Sammy’s home of Manson, Kentucky, and into a dark past. As the mystery of Sammy’s disappearance unravels and the town’s secrets are revealed, this superb novel builds towards an electrifying climax. The Far-Back Country by Kate Lyons In 1979, at the age of fourteen, Ray McCullough ran away from his home on a western New South Wales sheep property following a violent confrontation with his dad, Jim McCullough. He left behind his mother, Delly, and his sisters, Ursula and Tilda. Now forty-one, Ray works as an itin-erant cook and labourer across the remote outback. A practical man in love with history and landscape, Ray leads a solitary life, convinced he's inherited Jim's streak of violence. Ray has spent his life running away from memories of family and home. When the body of a man is found in a country pub along with Ray's identification, Ursula believes that she can finally lay to rest the search that has defined most of her adult life. After Ursula col-lects Ray's belongings, she begins to follow the tracks left by Ray across the far-back country, each one leading her closer to understanding the man he became and why he disappeared all those years ago.

Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat. A stay-at-home mom whose trou-bled son is her full-time job, she thought that the day he got accepted into the elite Forrester Academy would be the day she started living her life. Overweight, inse-cure, and lonely, she is desperate to fit into

Forrester’s world. But after a disturbing incident at the school leads the other children and their families to ostra-cize the Metcalfes, she feels more alone than ever be-fore. Until she meets Kate Randolph. Kate is everything Frances is not: beautiful, wealthy, powerful, and confi-dent. And for some reason, she’s not interested in being friends with any of the other Forrester moms—only Frances. As the two bond over their disdain of the For-rester snobs and the fierce love they have for their sons, a startling secret threatens to tear them apart.

Second Sight by Aoife Clifford Eliza Carmody returns home to the country to work on the biggest legal case of her ca-reer. The only problem is this time she’s on the ‘wrong side’ – defending a large corpora-tion against a bushfire class action by her hometown of Kinsale. On her first day back Eliza witnesses an old friend, Luke Tyrell,

commit an act of lethal violence. As the police investigate that crime and hunt for Luke they uncover bones at The Castle, a historic homestead in the district. Eliza is con-vinced that they belong to someone from her past. As Eliza becomes more and more entangled in the investigation, she is pulled back into her memories of youthful friend-ships and begins to question everyone she knows … and everything she once thought was true.

The Barefoot Surgeon by Ali Gripper Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordi-nary story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world's medical establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to hundreds and thou-sands of the world's poorest and most isolat-ed people. It is the story of a boy from the lowest tiers of a rigid caste system who grew up in a tiny, remote Himalayan village with no school to become one of the most respected ophthalmologists in the world and a medical giant of Asia. Compelling and compassionate, it is also the story of a young doctor who became Fred Hollows' medical soul mate and who chose to defy the world's medi-cal establishment and the lure of riches to make the world a better place.

The Dogs That Made Australia by Guy Hull Hunter. Worker. Legend. The untold story of the dog's role in building our nation. The Dogs That Made Australia pays tribute to the dogs that gave their all for our prosperity: the fearless hounds that saved fledgling colo-nies from famine; the courageous heelers

and tireless collies that powered the rise of beef and wool; the tough little home-grown terriers that protected the homestead and garden; and the extraordinary police dogs, ahead of their time, loved by the nation. The selfless ex-ploits of our heroic dogs are writ indelibly in our nation's heritage and identity. The Dogs That Made Australia is a vivid and meticulously researched history of Australia told from the perspectives of the dingo and of the dogs that were imported and developed here, as well as the humans who loved, feared and worked them.

New DVDs

12 Strong

800 Words: Series 3, Volume 1

Finding Your Feet

Game Night

Hangman

Lady Bird

The Mercy

Nashville: Season 5

Peter Rabbit

Red Sparrow

Sweet Country

Younger: Season 4

Latest Release Bestsellers A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Un-til now… Determined to enjoy her immi-nent retirement, Adele invites her fellow bibliophiles to help her house-sit in the Blue Mountains. It's a tantalising oppor-

tunity to spend a month walking in the fresh air, napping by the fire and, of course, reading and talking about books. But these aren't just any books: each member has been asked to choose a book which will teach the others more about her. And with each woman facing a crossroads in her life, it turns out there's a lot for them to learn, not just about their fellow book-clubbers, but also about themselves. The Other Wife by Michael Robotham William and Mary have been married sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both are strong be-lievers in right and wrong. William and Olivia have been together twenty years. Olivia was once a tennis star, but her ca-reer has long since faded. Clinical psy-chologist Joe O'Loughlin knows only one of these stories to be true. But when he is called to his father's hospital bed after a brutal attack, everything he once knew is turned upside down. Is it possible his father, the upstand-ing citizen, was leading a double life?

The Shattered Mirror by Iris Johansen Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is once again thrown into a deadly game of in-trigue when she receives a cryptic pack-age containing a skull and a two sided mirror. Eve is determined to reconstruct the skull and uncover the mystery of the person’s identity, and when she does, the

face of a beautiful woman begins to emerge. But who is she? As Eve gets closer and closer to finding the an-swer, she becomes swept up in a lethal chase that spans continents and threatens to destroy the family that she has worked so hard to bring together. Eve and her team must work quickly to discover who is behind the murder – and maybe even prevent more loss of life. The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever. For Piet has a dangerous mission of his own, and he will need Minou’s help if he is to get out of La Cité alive.

The Crooked Staircase by Dean Koontz Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk knows she's living on borrowed time. But as long as she's breathing, she'll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspira-cy that threatens the freedom - and free will - of millions. Battling the mysterious epi-demic of murder-suicides that claimed

Jane's husband, and is escalating across the country, has made Jane a wanted fugitive, hunted relentlessly not only by the government but by the secret cabal behind the plot. Deploying every resource their malign nexus of power and technology commands, Jane's enemies are determined to see her dead . . . or make her wish she was. The Moscow Offensive by Dale Brown On a remote island estate, a billionaire investor sells his air freight company to a mysterious new owner. The purchaser is none other than the President of Russia, Gennadiy Gryzlov. The Russians will use these private planes to secretly transport dangerous cargo into the United States. The inept American President Stacy Anne Barbeau has failed to account for the Russian threat. But others have been vigilant and will not leave America defenceless.

One in a Million by Lindsey Kelk Everyone wants that special someone…. Annie Higgins has given up on love: she's too busy trying to get her tiny business off the ground. Infuriated by the advertising agency across the hall making fun of her job, Annie accepts their crazy challenge – to make a random stranger Instagram-

famous in just thirty days. And even when they choose Dr Samuel Page PhD, historian and hater of social me-dia, as her target, Annie's determined to win the bet – whether Sam likes it or not. But getting to know Sam means getting to know more about herself. And before the thirty days are out, Annie has to make a decision about what's really important… The Outsider by Stephen King An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and finger-prints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most pop-ular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detec-tive Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

Librarian’s Choice titles

Fiction

Retribution / Richard Anderson

The consolation of maps / Thomas Bourke

How do you like me now? / Holly Bourne

Milkman / Anna Burns

Social creature / Tara Isabella Burton

Second sight / Aoife Clifford

The songs of us / Emma Cooper

Dead heat / Peter Cotton

The puppet show / M. W. Craven

Antidote to a curse / James Cristina

The man between / Charles Cumming

The boy at the door / Alex Dahl

Boy swallows universe / Trent Dalton

Take me in / Sabine Durrant

Deceit / Richard Evans

Prize fighter / Future D. Fidel

The charmed life of Alex Moore / Molly Flatt

Swan song / Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

The Shanghai wife / Emma Harcourt

Her pretty face / Robyn Harding

The book shop of the broken hearted / Robert Hillman

We see the stars / Kate van Hooft

The last equation of Isaac Severy / Nova Jacobs

The good sister / Morgan Jones

An ocean of minutes / Thea Lim

The cult on Fog Island / Mariette Lindstein

The tall man / Phoebe Locke

The far-back country / Kate Lyons

Lonely girl / Lynne Vincent McCarthy

The great believers / Rebecca Makkai

A weekend in New York / Benjamin Markovits

Three little lies / Laura Marshall

The trouble with choices / Trish Morey

The deathless / Peter Newman

Promising young women / Caroline O'Donoghue

The geography of friendship / Sally Piper

The Italian teacher / Tom Rachman

The peacock summer / Hannah Richell

The anomaly / Michael Rutger

You were made for this / Michelle Sacks

Love will tear us apart / Holly Seddon

A room at the manor / Julie Shackman

The book of M / Peng Shepherd

Something in the water / Catherine Steadman

Days of wonder / Keith Stuart

Never anyone but you / Rupert Thomson

Under your wings / Tiffany Tsao

House of Stone / Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

When Elephants fight / Majok Tulba

Ghosted / Rosie Walsh

True blue / Sasha Wasley

The nowhere child / Christian White

The coves / David Whish-Wilson

Return to Roseglen / Helene Young

Non-Fiction A coveted possession : the rise and fall of the piano in

Australia / Michael Atherton

Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley

startup / John Carreyrou

The barefoot surgeon / Ali Gripper

Am I doing this right? / Tanya Hennessy

The dogs that made Australia / Guy Hull

The power of hope / Kon Karapanagiotidis

The mind behind the crime / Dr Helen McGrath and

Cheryl Critchley

Room to dream / David Lynch and Kristine McKenna

Going to the mountain : life lessons from my

grandfather, Nelson Mandela / Ndaba Mandela

The sinking of HMAS Sydney / David L. Mearns

Women like us / Mandy Nolan & Ellen Briggs

Bruce Lee : a life / Matthew Polly

Murder at dusk : how US soldier and smiling

psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime

Melbourne / Ian W. Shaw

Loving Pablo, hating Escobar / Virginia Vallejo

A man called Yarra / Stan Yarramunua

Don’t forget the wide range of digital titles also available via Wheelers, One Click Digital and cloudLibrary. http://libraries.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/books/Pages/e-books-e-audio.aspx

Davitt Award Shortlist for Best Novel 2018 Sisters in Crime Australia launched the Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women at its 10th anniversary convention, SheKilda 2001 to provide some much needed – and overdue – recognition for Australian women crime writers.

The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local police-woman Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to the case, concealing the fact that she knew the murdered woman in high

school years before. But that's not all Gemma's trying to hide. As the investigation digs deeper into the vic-tim's past, other secrets threaten to come to light, se-crets that were supposed to remain buried. The lake holds the key to solving the murder, but it also has the power to drag Gemma down into its dark depths. The Hidden Hours by Sara Foster Arabella Lane, senior executive at a children’s publisher, is found dead in the Thames on a frosty winter’s morning after the office Christmas party. No one is sure whether she jumped or was pushed. The one person who may know the truth is the newest employee at Par-ker & Lane – the office temp, Eleanor. Eleanor has travelled to London to escape the repercussions of her traumatic childhood in outback Australia. To her hor-ror, she has no memory of the crucial hours leading up to Arabella’s death – memory that will either incrim-inate or absolve her. As Eleanor desperately tries to remember the events of that fateful night, her own extended family is dragged further into the dark, terri-fying terrain of blame, suspicion and guilt. Caught in a crossfire of accusations and lies, Eleanor isn’t sure she can trust anyone – not even herself.

Crimson Lake by Candice Fox Six minutes – that’s all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Ac-cused but not convicted of abducting a teenage girl, he escapes north, to the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. Amanda Pharrell knows what it’s like to be public enemy num-

ber one. Maybe it’s her murderous past that makes her so good as a private investigator, tracking lost souls in the wilderness. Her latest target, missing au-thor Jake Scully, has a life more shrouded in secrets than her own – so she enlists help from the one per-son in town more hated than she is: Ted Conkaffey. But the residents of Crimson Lake are watching the pair’s every move. And for Ted, a man already at breaking point, this town is offering no place to hide . .

Crossing the Lines by Sulari Gentill When Madeleine d’Leon conjures Ned McGinnity as the hero in her latest crime novel, she makes him a serious writer simply because the irony of a protagonist who’d never lower himself to read the story in which he stars, amuses her. When Ned McGinnity cre-

ates Madeleine d’Leon, she is his literary device, a writer of detective fiction who is herself a mystery to be unravelled. As Ned and Madeleine play out their own lives while writing the other’s story, they find themselves crossing the lines that divide the real and the imagined. Force of Nature by Jane Harper Five women pick up their backpacks and start walking along a muddy track. Only four come out on the other side. The hike through the rugged Giralang Ranges is meant to take the office col-leagues out of their air-conditioned comfort zone. At least that's what the corporate retreat website advertises. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a particularly keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing bushwalker. Alice Russell is the whistleblower in his latest case – and Alice knew secrets. About the company she worked for and the people she worked with. Far from the hike encouraging teamwork, the women tell Falk a tale of suspicion, violence and disintegrating trust. And as he delves into the disappearance, it seems some dan-gers may run far deeper than anyone knew.

And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic used to meet life head-on. Now he’s struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hours. But when a young

woman is killed after pleading for his help in sign lan-guage, Caleb is determined to find out who she was. And the trail leads straight to his hometown, Resurrec-tion Bay. The town is on bushfire alert and simmering with racial tensions. As he delves deeper, Caleb un-covers secrets that could threaten his life and any chance of reuniting with Kat. Driven by his demons, he pushes on. But who is he willing to sacrifice along the way? To find out what’s happening in our libraries subscribe to the E-news: http://libraries.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/news-and-events/Pages/E-News.aspx

What staff are Reading / Watching / Listening

Simone is reading - Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer As children, Lexie and Annie were in-credibly close. Bonded by the death of their beloved father, they weathered the storms of life together. When Lexie leaves home to follow her dream, Annie is forced to turn to her leather-bound

journal as the only place she can confide her deepest secrets and fears... As adults, sisters Lexie and Annie could not be more different. Lexie is a successful doc-tor and happily engaged. Annie is an addict - a thief, a liar and unable to remain clean. When Annie's new-born baby is in danger of being placed in foster care, Annie picks up the phone to beg her sister for help. Cat is reading - Bluebottle by Belinda Castles On a sweltering day in a cliff-top beach shack, Jack and Lou Bright grow suspi-cious about the behaviour of their char-ismatic, unpredictable father, Charlie. A girl they know has disappeared, and as the day unfolds, Jack's eruptions of pan-ic, Lou's sultry rebellions and their little sister Phoe-be's attention-seeking push the family towards revela-tion. Twenty years later, the Bright children have re-mained close to the cliff edges, russet sand and moody ocean of their childhood. Behind the beautiful surfaces of their daily lives lies the difficult landscape of their past, always threatening to break through. And then, one night in late summer, they return to the house on the cliff...

Alison is listening to - Chiaroscuro by Ocean Alley The album features the singles The Comedown and Overgrown, along with new single Confidence.

Catherine is reading - The Terrans by Jean Johnson Born into a political family and gifted with psychic abilities, Jacaranda Mac-Kenzie has served as a border-watcher and even spent time as a representative on the United Planets Council. Now she just wants to spend her days in peace and quiet as a translator—but the universe has other plans… Humans have long known that they would encounter more alien species, and while those with precognitive abilities agree a terrible war is coming, they do not agree on who will save humanity—a psy-chic soldier or a politician. But Jackie is both. After she is pressured into rejoining the Space Force to forestall the impending calamity, Jackie makes an unsettling discovery.

Shana is reading - Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernan-do police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town’s 3-person detective squad sift

through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch’s LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems to have new evidence to prove it. Bosch left the LAPD on bad terms, so his former colleagues aren’t keen to protect his reputation. He must fend for himself in clearing his name and keep-ing a clever killer in prison. Marina is reading - The Outsider by Stephen King An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An elev-en-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. De-tective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest.

Jessie is reading - The Geography of Friendship by Sally Piper When three young women set off on a hike through the wilderness they are anticipating the adventure of a lifetime. Over the next five days, as they face up to the challenging terrain, it soon be-comes clear they are not alone and the

freedom they feel quickly turns to fear. Only when it is too late for them to turn back do they fully appreciate the danger they are in. As their friendship is tested, each girl makes an irrevocable choice; the legacy of which haunts them for years to come. Now in their forties, Samantha, Lisa and Nicole are estranged, but decide to revisit their original hike in an attempt to sal-vage what they lost. Wendy is reading - Brain Rules for Ageing Well by John Medina How come I can never find my keys? Why don’t I sleep as well? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Ageing Well, by developmental molecular biolo-gist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts — and the prescription to age well — in his engaging signature style.