Earth Hour 2015: Make it a reading hour!

Sutherland Shire Libraries Thursday, March 26, 2015

This Saturday 28 March, 8.30pm marks Earth Hour, when everyone is encouraged to switch of the lights for an hour as a symbol of your commitment to the planet.
Why not spend the hour reading by candlelight! It's the perfect time to borrow something from the Library you can read in an hour- a short story!

Hover over the book covers below to find out more more about each book.

The scent of almonds and other stories
by Camilla Lackberg

Redeployment
by Phil Klay

An enchanting and unsettling collection of short stories. Eli is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary gift. It will shape the course of his whole life but, he learns the hard way, he must keep it hidden from those who know him best. Seeing death is a mixed blessing. Eli is not the only one defying the world's expectations of him. Cousin Francesca, a charming spinster and a favourite with the children, is harbouring kleptomaniac tendencies. Sarah Palliser, living alone next to a ramshackle graveyard, is more scared of the small box under her stairs than the ghosts outside her window. Meanwhile dreamy artist Nan is nursing a growing obsession with wolves in Britain and the recently widowed Frances finds herself inventing an exotic imaginary boyfriend to pass the time. Push through an unassuming front door on an unremarkable street or peer into the glowing fluorescent windows of an urban office block and within you'll find strange and unforgettable scenes, normal people caught in situations they do not quite comprehend...

The boy who could see death
by Sally Vickers

Stone Mattress
by Margaret Atwood

Trigger Warning
by Neil Gaiman

Dancing in the Dark
by Karl Ove Knausgaard