Stories from the stack...February
While searching the Library catalogue you may have encountered a book listed as available at Sutherland Stack Fiction.
These are a collection of books which are housed behind the scenes at Sutherland Library - items that the Library definitely wants to keep, but for some reason (e.g. older condition, or not in as high demand) the open shelf is not the right place for them.
The Hundred and One Dalmations/ Dodie Smith
Pied Piper / Nevil Shute
The Min Min/ Mavis Thorpe Clark
The Red Badge of Courage/Stephen Crane
Gone Troppo/ John Grady
The Witch's Thorn/ Ruth Park
The Bodysurfers/ Robert Drewe
These are a collection of books which are housed behind the scenes at Sutherland Library - items that the Library definitely wants to keep, but for some reason (e.g. older condition, or not in as high demand) the open shelf is not the right place for them.
The Hundred and One Dalmations/ Dodie Smith
Pied Piper / Nevil Shute
The Min Min/ Mavis Thorpe Clark
The Red Badge of Courage/Stephen Crane
Gone Troppo/ John Grady
The Witch's Thorn/ Ruth Park
The Bodysurfers/ Robert Drewe
Criminally Good Reads... February
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| All fall down/ CassandraAustin |
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| Crimson Lake/ Candice Fox |
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| Behind her eyes/ Sarah Pinborough |
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| Fear/ Dirk Kurbjuweit |
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| The nowhere man/ Greg Hurwitz |
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| The book of mirrors/ E.O Chirovici |
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| Something for nothing/ Andy Muir |
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| The unfortunate victim/ Greg Pyers |
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| Police at the station and they don't look friendly/ Adrian McKinty |
Local history, local stories...Amy Isabel and Donald George Mackay
On 13 July 1935 a public drinking fountain, situated at the
intersection of Port Hacking Road and the Kingsway in Caringbah, was officially
received by then Shire President, Councillor Edward Seymour Shaw, on behalf of
the citizens of the Sutherland Shire. The elaborate structure, which featured a
bubbler fountain for people, water troughs for horses and smaller animals,
seats around the sides, a sundial, a bronze lighting standard with 14 inch opal
ball perched atop, and the inscription, ‘Come ye to the waters’, was presented
as a gift by Mrs Amy Mackay who the Propeller
newspaper reported ‘had lived in Sutherland Shire for many years, and had
always wanted to show her appreciation for the people in the area by some small
token.’
Two years later Donald Mackay and his young bride, Amy,
settled into their newly erected home at Port Hacking which they’d named ‘Wallendbeen
Lodge’ after the merino sheep station near Yass where Donald was born in 1870. This
beautiful and romantic Federation residence still occupies a prominent position
as one of the deepest water frontages at Burraneer Bay. The couple shared a love
of nature and Donald and Amy regularly enjoyed many of the outdoor activities
Sutherland Shire has to offer such as fishing on the waterways, hiking in the
National Park and taking a double-scull outrigger for a spin from Cronulla to
Audley and back. “They say marriage is a lottery, with more blanks than
prizes,” recalled Donald many years later, “well, in my case, my luck was in; I
got a real sport for a life-mate.” For some years it appeared as though the
adventurer may have settled down, but Donald’s days of roaming were not yet
behind him.
In 1926 Donald Mackay financed the first of his expeditions
to Central Australia. Travelling with anthropologist, Dr Herbert Basedow from
the University of Adelaide, he set out on camel to explore and cross the
Petermann Ranges in the south-west of the Northern Territory. Earlier ventures
by white explorers into this unforgiving land had been met with death and
disaster, but Donald’s careful preparation and dogged determination, coupled (crucially)
with the assistance of the local Indigenous inhabitants, meant that the expedition successfully traversed
nearly 1200 miles (1900 km) and added valuable geographical data to the
official map of terra incognita. Despite
these achievements, the Petermann Ranges is probably best remembered as the
place where Lewis Hubert Lasseter (1880 – 1931) starved to death whilst
searching for his mythical lost reef of gold.
Over the next decade Donald Mackay led five further explorations
to Central and Northern Australia. In 1928 he journeyed to Arnhem Land on horseback,
again with Dr Basedow. In 1930, 1933, 1935 and 1937 Donald took advantage of developments
in aviation technology and returned to the Red Centre where he supervised
aerial surveys of huge tracts of previously uncharted areas. The Mitchell
Library in Sydney holds copies of all Donald Mackay’s reports and the maps which
have contributed significantly to increasing our understanding of remote areas of
Australia. Additionally, during his 1930 expedition Donald discovered the large
lake on the border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory which
the Commonwealth Government later named after him.
Donald Mackay was appointed an O.B.E. in 1934 and C.B.E. in
1937. Many, however, felt that these accolades did not fully recognise the
services Donald had rendered to this country. At a welcome home event in 1937
Shire President, Councillor Shaw said that "a photograph of Mr Mackay should be
hung in every school as a tribute to Australia’s greatest explorer". Council even
approached then Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons, to award Donald Mackay with a
greater honour, namely a knighthood. The request was unsuccessful, perhaps in
part due to statements Donald had made in July 1933 criticising the harsh treatment
and conditions endured by Indigenous Australians, thus instigating official
denials from Prime Minister Lyons. The Sydney
Morning Herald reported on 25 July 1933 Donald’s declaration “that if the Prime
Minister can prove to him that the treatment of aborigines in the past has been
humane, he will admit publicly that his own statements were incorrect and
unjustified.”
Now engraved with the words ‘Lest We Forget’ and used each
Anzac Day as a commemorative site, the fountain Amy Mackay donated over 80
years ago still stands, although it was reconstructed to a more simplified
shape when relocated in 1972 to its current position in the small park in front
of the Caringbah Hotel on the corner with Mackay Street, named after Donald George Mackay, ‘the last Australian explorer.’
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Looking for a good book? Staff favourites Week Six
The Book Thief / Markus Zusack
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
Readalikes:
Once/ Morris Gleitzman
Tamar/ Mal Peet
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas/ John Boyne
Jasper Jones/ Craig Silvey
Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress.
Jasper takes him through town and to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother; falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.
Readalikes:
Ordinary Grace/ William Kent Krueger
The Round House/ Louise Erdrich
The Black Arrow/ Robert Louis Stevenson
Dead Witch Walking [ebook]/Kim Harrison
All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party ... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining -- and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead ... or undead.
Readalikes:
The Book of Life/ Deborah Harkness
Kushiel's Dart/ Jacqueline Carey
Dark Currents: Angel of Hel/ Jacqueline Carey
The Miniaturist/ Jessie Burton
On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin.
Readalikes:
Year of wonders/ Geraldine Brooks
Girl with a pearl earring/ Tracy Chevalier
The Secret Chord/ Geraldine Brooks
The Rosie Effect/ Graham Simsion
'We've got something to celebrate,' Rosie said. I am not fond of surprises, especially if they disrupt plans already in place. I assumed that she had achieved some important milestone with her thesis. Or perhaps she had been offered a place in the psychiatry-training programme. This would be extremely good news, and I estimated the probability of sex at greater than 80%. 'We're pregnant,' she said. Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are now married and living in New York. Don has been teaching while Rosie completes her second year at Columbia Medical School. Just as Don is about to announce that Gene, his philandering best friend from Australia, is coming to stay, Rosie drops a bombshell: she's pregnant. In true Tillman style, Don instantly becomes an expert on all things obstetric. But in between immersing himself in a new research study on parenting and implementing the Standardised Meal System (pregnancy version), Don's old weaknesses resurface. And while he strives to get the technicalities right, he gets the emotions all wrong, and risks losing Rosie when she needs him most.
Readalikes:
One last thing before I go/ Jonathan Tropper
The Storied Life of A.J Fikry/ Gabrielle Zevin
The things we keep/ Sally Hepworth
The Shipping News/ Annie Proulx
A darkly comic portrait of human life and possibility. Quoyle is a hopeless hack journalist working in New York. When his two-timing wife dies in a road accident, he retreats to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland where he must confront the unpredictable forces of nature and society.
Readalikes:
Chocolat/ Joanne Harris
The God of Small Things/ Arundhati Roy
Cloudsplitter/ Russell Banks
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
Readalikes:
Once/ Morris Gleitzman
Tamar/ Mal Peet
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas/ John Boyne
Jasper Jones/ Craig SilveyLate on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress.
Jasper takes him through town and to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother; falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.
Readalikes:
Ordinary Grace/ William Kent Krueger
The Round House/ Louise Erdrich
The Black Arrow/ Robert Louis Stevenson
Dead Witch Walking [ebook]/Kim Harrison
All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party ... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining -- and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead ... or undead.
Readalikes:
The Book of Life/ Deborah Harkness
Kushiel's Dart/ Jacqueline Carey
Dark Currents: Angel of Hel/ Jacqueline Carey
The Miniaturist/ Jessie Burton
On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin.Readalikes:
Year of wonders/ Geraldine Brooks
Girl with a pearl earring/ Tracy Chevalier
The Secret Chord/ Geraldine Brooks
The Rosie Effect/ Graham Simsion
'We've got something to celebrate,' Rosie said. I am not fond of surprises, especially if they disrupt plans already in place. I assumed that she had achieved some important milestone with her thesis. Or perhaps she had been offered a place in the psychiatry-training programme. This would be extremely good news, and I estimated the probability of sex at greater than 80%. 'We're pregnant,' she said. Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are now married and living in New York. Don has been teaching while Rosie completes her second year at Columbia Medical School. Just as Don is about to announce that Gene, his philandering best friend from Australia, is coming to stay, Rosie drops a bombshell: she's pregnant. In true Tillman style, Don instantly becomes an expert on all things obstetric. But in between immersing himself in a new research study on parenting and implementing the Standardised Meal System (pregnancy version), Don's old weaknesses resurface. And while he strives to get the technicalities right, he gets the emotions all wrong, and risks losing Rosie when she needs him most.
Readalikes:One last thing before I go/ Jonathan Tropper
The Storied Life of A.J Fikry/ Gabrielle Zevin
The things we keep/ Sally Hepworth
The Shipping News/ Annie Proulx
A darkly comic portrait of human life and possibility. Quoyle is a hopeless hack journalist working in New York. When his two-timing wife dies in a road accident, he retreats to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland where he must confront the unpredictable forces of nature and society.
Readalikes:
Chocolat/ Joanne Harris
The God of Small Things/ Arundhati Roy
Cloudsplitter/ Russell Banks
Want More?
Looking for something new to read these holidays? Let the Library help! During January, fill in the reading profile form on the library website, tell us about the books you like and don't like and we'll suggest a personalised list of 3 books we think you'll love.
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