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Set in the post-civil war of Vietnam, read this heartwarming tale of salvation and redemption, told from the viewpoint of  three seemingly unconnected characters, who are brought together in greed fear and hope.







To read or not to read?-That is the question. Read the opening paragraphs of this book and you decide...

All that was left of the little lizard was a skeleton. It was trapped behind the browning tape which held the tattered mosquito net across the window. Tail curled, body strained and snaking, it looked like it had struggled to the very end. Alexander and the lizard sat together in the dusty cafe in Hanoi's Old Quarter, watching people and sharing time. Alexander was stony faced. Dead teeth bared, the lizard smiled.

Alexander knocked back the dregs of his watery coffee and lit a cigarette. he took a long drag and ran his finger around the rim of his cup, listening to the stern, tin voice of the loudspeakers crackle in the heat as the Party marched through their evening bulletin. The street was insufferably busy, as were all in Hanoi. The buildings here squatted closer than in any other city he'd seen, and the trees they hid behind were all taller and thicker. His eyes sifted through the mess of brown faces and patrolling government uniforms and snagged on an elderly woman, crouched in a doorway on the opposite kerb. She was bending her head to the bowl in her hand and shovelling rice into her mouth through the gaps where her teeth should have been. A cat paced beside her, rubbing his mangy fur on her shin and flicking the stump of his tail, impatiently. The woman dropped a scarp and the animal chomped frantically at the ground. She paused and watched him, her tongue licking out from the corner of her mouth and her chopsticks upright in the bowl, like incense at a funerary rite. God, no, not her, thought Alexander. The lizard smiled.

Dusk was staring to creep in, but the air still boiled. In the searing heat, the sewers sweated, and hot, wet air rose up from underground and soaked people with stench. All along the tree-lined street, shops and eateries spilled over from their doorways. Women sat on the tiled steps, fanning their children with the latest order of government pamphlets. Faded red falgs hung from every awning, and they drooped as though weary of the heat too, and the strain of parading their loyalty.

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All but one of the ten featured books have been written under a nom de plume, with a husband and wife writing team behind it. These couples are not  writing romance though,   more often they are collaborating on crime and mystery ....

Mia James is the pen name of Tasmina Perry and John Perry, writing a young adult paranormal mystery series,  the Ravenwood mysteries.  Darkness falls is set in London,  in Highgate, featuring vampires and murder....









There is no non de plume for this Scandanavian husband and wife team Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö,   who have collaborated on ten mysteries featuring Detective Inspector Martin Beck. Roseanna is the first in this masterful series of ten novels, collectively titled "The story of a crime."



Written by well known crime writing duo,  Nicci Gerard and Sean French, who use the slogan- 'one writer, two minds'. Their current project is a new series of books  featuring psychotherapist Frieda Klein.
Blue Monday. A day for murder is the first book in the new series.









Jan Coffey is the pseudonym of married couple James A McGoldrick and Nikoo K. Coffey McGoldrick. Fourth Victim combines a heartwarming romance with a tense, edgy, wholly convincing suspense,  creating a great romantic suspense story. 









Lars Kepler is actually a  Swedish marriedcouple, Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril. Their book, The hypnotist, was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2013. 
Read the number one Scandanavian crime bestseller taking the world by storm.
Karolinska Hospital,Stockholm.  Detective Inspector Joona Linna is face with a boy who has witnessed the gruesome murder of his family.He's suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and is comatose with shock.



Cleo Coyle, Cozy mysteries are written by Alice Alfonsi and husband Mark Cerasini. 
A brew to Kill : A shocking hit and run in front of her Village Blend coffeehouse spurs Clare Cosi into action. A divorced, single mom in her forties, Clare is also a dedicated sleuth, and she is determined to track down this ruthless driver who ran down an innocent friend and customer.






Simon Beaufort is the pseudonym of Susanna Gregory and Beau Riffenburgh when they write together. The Bishops brood  is a Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery. 
When the treacherous Bishop of Durham escapes from the Tower of London, Geoffrey and his frined Roger-who is the Bishop's son-must travel north in search of a killer who threatens the stability of the entire country. 





Barbara Allan-is the joint pseudonynm of acclaimed short story writer Barbara Collins and New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins. They write the Trash and treasure mysteries.
  Antiques knock off is a laugh out loud cozy mystery. Brandy Borne is pretty sure her charmingly eccentric(aka off the meds)mother, Vivian, did not kill that viperous mousy haired busybody Connie Grimes. But there's the small matter of her guilty plea...





Alex Rutherford is the pen name of Dianna and Michael Preston, who write a series historical sagas, Empire of the Moghul. Book one is Raiders from the north. This series covers the rise and height of the Moghul Empire in early modern India. 








Michael Gregorio, consisting of Daniela De Gregorio and Michael G. Jacob, are crime writers. Critique of criminal reason  is the first in a series of books set in East Prussia in the height of the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the attempts of magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis to solve a murder mystery. 

Read this unabashedly romantic story of love, life, death, food and the magic of new possibilities.








To read or not to read?-That is the question. Read the opening paragraphs of this book and you decide...

Here is one way to say it: Grief is a love story told backward.
Or Maybe that is not all. Maybe I should be more scientific. Love and the loss of that love exist in equal measure. Hasn't an equation like this been invented by a romantic physicist somewhere?
Or maybe I should put it this way: Imagine a snowglobe. Imagine a tiny house inside of it. Imagine there's a woman inside of it, and this one is standing in the kitchen, shaking another snowglobe, and within that snowglobe...
Every good love story has another hiding within it.

Part One
Ever since Henry's death, I'd been losing things. I lost keys, sunglasses, checkbooks. I lost a spatula and found it in the freezer, along with a bag of grated cheese.
I lost a note to Abbot's third grade teacher explaining how I'd lost his homework.
I lost the caps to toothpaste and jelly jars. I put these things away open mouthed, lidless, airing. I lost hairbrushes and shoes-not just one of a pair, but both.
I left jackets behind in restuarants, my pocketbook under my seat at the movies, my keys on the checkout counter of the drugstore-afterward I sat in my car for a moment, disoriented, trying to place exactly what was wrong and then trudged back to the store, where the checkout girl jingled them for me above her head.
I got calls from people who were kind enough to return things. and when things were gone-just gone-I retraced my stpes and then got lost myself.

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The Adult Summer Reading Club  for 2013-2014 has come to an end. Congratulations to Cronulla Library customer, Martin, who has won the Major Prize of an iPad Mini for his entry reading, rating and reviewing  The Navigator by Clive Cussler. Martin rated this book 5 stars.



Martin's review:
Iran.2013. When UN investigator Carina Mechadi learns about a missing statue in the Iran Museum. she locates this statue and ships it to America, but on route the boats attacked by pirates. The statue ends up in Turkey....But is the original or another statue made by the Phoenicians? A great mystery!













Thank you to all participants in the Adult Summer Reading Club for your  reading, rating and reviews of lots of books borrowed from the Library. Keep telling us what you think of the books you are reading!  It's easy to do, by simply posting your reviews on the Sutherland Shire Library Catalogue:

• Login to your library account from the Sutherland Shire Libraries website.
• Click on new search. From the drop down menu, choose Encore. 
• In the search box, type in the name of the book you would like to review. 
• Click on the title of the book. 
• On the next screen, scroll down to community reviews, and click on add a review.
• Type in your book review, and press submit.  

A police procedural series by a Swedish husband and wife writing team. Translated into English in 2011, it was made into a film in 2012. 

It's February, the month of love and romance.  Paranormal, classic, historical or contemporary there is romance novel for everyone...










Ellie Wilding has been running from her past, but when the residents of Half Moon Bay call for help, she knows its time to finally return home. As an international photojournalist, she's used to violence in war zones, but she is shocked when it erupts in the sleepy hamlet on the North Coast of New South Wales, threatening all she holds dear.   

#smoochread

Knowing where to start to locate research to support arguments for essays or assignments can be fraught with angst. Sutherland Shire Libraries have Research Databases in our Online Collections, which can make it easy.

Sutherland Library Service subscribes to many databases to which current library members have access, both in the library and at home. The library's biggest (but by no means the only) providers are:

Proquest - ABI/Inform Global, Proquest Australia & New Zealand Newstand, Proquest Research Library and Proquest Science Journals.                                 



EbscoHost  - ANZ Reference Center, Consumer Health Complete, Greenfile,Literary Reference Center, Masterfile Premier, Science Reference Center,   Academic Search Elite, Points of view reference centre.

These can be searched singly for a targeted result or simultaneously for a broad result.



Australian Public Affairs - Full Text or APA-FT comes from Informit. It offers articles from over 500 Australian academic journals.


On the Research Databases page one can look for a particular database, or do
 a search and decide which one to use further by the number of hits retrieved.

Once one has results, the search can be refined using the facets
on the left hand side.














Your library card number and pin number will be required to actually
 view the article.

A library home page search will also retrieve articles. It will produce
a list of items held by the library service, the first 3 of which are items
in the collections. The next 3 results are article titles retrieved from the
library's subscription databases.

Follow the links to retrieve the article itself.






















Once you are familiar with the databases you may wish to start
 in your favourite. Locate the Research Databases page and scroll
down the alphabetical list until you find the one you want and click
Start Searching. In each database you will find features which can
be used to tailor your experience.


Each database is slightly different, but all have very similar features.
The picture below highlights some of the options available for creating
 and managing your searches, look for them in any database you use.















There are very useful features once you are on the detail page
 of the article as well.













Contact the library for further information about this service and
 minimise your research stress.