December 2020

What’s New? Fiction / Non-Fiction /

Biographies / DVDs

Fiction Hidden in plain sight / ARCHER, Jeffrey

William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he,

along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately

tasked with apprehending a notorious drug dealer who operates out of South London. As Wil-

liam's team closes the net around a criminal network like none they have ever faced before, he

devises a trap they would never expect, one that is hidden in plain sight.

Daylight / BALDACCI, David

Ever since her twin sister Mercy was abducted when the girls were just six years old, Atlee Pine

has been relentless in her search for the truth. Now, just as time is running out on her investiga-

tion, she finally gets her most promising breakthrough yet - the identity of her sister's kidnapper:

Ito Vincenzo. Last known location: New Jersey.

The last druid / BROOKS, Terry

As the Four Lands reels under the Skaar invasion - spearheaded by a warlike people determined

to make this land their own -our heroes must decide what they will risk to save the integrity of

their home. Even as one group remains to defend the Four Lands, another is undertaking a peri-

lous journey across the sea to the Skaar homeland, carrying with them a new piece of technology

that could change the face of the world for ever.

The wise friend / CAMPBELL, Ramsey

Patrick Torrington's aunt Thelma was a successful artist whose late work turned to-

wards the occult. While staying with her in his teens he found evidence that she used to visit mag-

ical sites. As an adult he discovers her journal of her explorations, and his teenage son Roy be-

comes fascinated too. His experiences at the sites scare Patrick away from them, but Roy carries

on the search, together with his new girlfriend.

The sentinel / CHILD, Lee

When Reacher ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee, there's nothing pleasant

about the place. When he spots someone walking into an ambush, the odds are four against one--

until Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution.

Fiction Present tense / CONYER, Natalie

Veteran cop Schalk Lourens wants a quiet life. Like the rest of the country, he's trying to put the

past behind him. But the past has a way of hanging on, and when Schalk's old boss, retired police

captain Piet Pieterse is murdered, Schalk must confront old demons. Pieterse has been necklaced.

A tyre was placed over his head, doused in petrol, and set alight. Who would target Pieterse this

way, and why now, 25 years after apartheid ended?

War lord / CORNWELL, Bernard

England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies

from all sides, by land and sea and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty and

sworn oaths, the warrior king Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg faces his greatest ever battle and pre-

pares for his ultimate fate.

Consolation / DISHER, Gary

Winter in Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is

stealing women's underwear, and Hirsch knows enough about that kind of crime-how it can esca-

late-not to take it lightly. But the more immediate concerns are a call from the high school, a

teacher worried about a student who may be in danger at home. The cold, seeping feeling that

something is very, very wrong.

Fortune and glory / EVANOVICH, Janet

When Stephanie's beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only

thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair... and the keys to a life-changing fortune. But as

Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli's treasure, they discover that they're not

the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way-along with a

new adversary who's even more formidable.

The lying life of adults / FERRANTE, Elena

wo years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence

was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in

Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything - the spaces of Naples, the blue

light of a very cold February, those words - remained fixed.

Fiction Lethal white / GALBRAITH, Robert

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his

help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While

Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is some-

thing sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from

his office in a panic.

Death in Daylesford / GREENWOOD, Kerry

When a mysterious invitation for a spa holiday arrives for Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown

retired Captain Herbert Spencer, Phryne's curiosity is piqued. Spencer runs a retreat in Victoria's

rural spa country for shell-shocked veterans of World War I. It's a cause after Phryne's own heart,

but what can Spencer want from her? Phryne and her faithful servant Dot set out for Daylesford,

viewing their rural sojourn as a short holiday. But their relaxation is short-lived.

A time for mercy / GRISHAM, John

Deputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. Though he's turned his drunken rages on his girlfriend,

Josie, and her children many times before, the police code of silence has always shielded him. But

one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before he passes out. Her son, six-

teen-year-old Drew, knows he has only this one chance to save them. He picks up the gun and

takes the law into his own hands. Jake Brigance doesn't want this impossible case.

The dressmaker’s secret / HAM, Rosalie

t is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and cele-

brations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is, however, working for a pittance in a second-

rate Collins Street salon. Her talents go unappreciated, and the madame is a bully and a cheat,

but Tilly has a past she is desperate to escape and good reason to prefer anonymity.

The survivors / HARPER, Jane

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequenc-

es. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small

coastal community he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes

are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn. When a body is discovered on

the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge.

Fiction A longer fall / HARRIS, Charlaine

Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate

into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But

what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up

against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to

go undercover with an old friend to spark a rebellion.

Just like you / HORNBY, Nick

Lucy married a man with whom she had everything in common but he made her miserable. When

she meets Joseph, she would rather have a baby-sitter for her sons than a boyfriend, but she dis-

covers that sometimes happiness comes from unexpected places

Flying the nest / JOHNS, Rachael

The first time Ashling Wood realises her marriage is on the rocks is when her husband, Adrian,

suggests they try nest parenting. Heartbroken, Ash suddenly finds herself living a double life - one

week with her children, the next cohabiting with her happily single sister-in-law. Her friends

think the modern custody solution is an exciting opportunity for her to spread her wings, but all

Ash wants is her family back together.

The only good Indians / JONES, Stephen Graham

Ten years ago, four young men shot some elk then went on with their lives. It happens every year;

it's been happening forever; it's the way it's always been. But this time it's different. Ten years

after that fateful hunt, these men are being stalked themselves. Soaked with a powerful gothic

atmosphere, the endless expanses of the landscape press down on these men - and their children

- as the ferocious spirit comes for them one at a time.

Love your life / KINSELLA, Sophie

Ava is sick of online dating. She's always trusted her own instincts over an algorithm, anyway, and

she wants a break from it all. So when she signs up to a semi-silent, anonymous writing retreat in

glorious Italy, love is the last thing on her mind. Until she meets a handsome stranger… All she

knows is that he's funny, he's kind and - she soon learns - he's great in bed.

Fiction Elsewhere / KOONTZ, Dean R.

Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life

for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a lo-

cal eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a

strange and dangerous object - something he calls "the key to everything" - and tells Jeffy that he

must never use the device.

Blunt force / LA PLANTE, Lynda

Things can't get much worse for detective Jane Tennison. Unceremoniously kicked off the adrena-

line-fuelled Flying Squad, she now plies her trade in Gerald Road, a small and sleepy police station

in the heart of London's affluent Knightsbridge. With only petty crime to sink her teeth into, Ten-

nison can feel her career slowly flatlining. That is until the discovery of the most brutal murder

Jane has ever seen.

Infinite splendours / LAGUNA, Sofie

Lawrence Loman is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his

mother and younger brother, and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is

ten, an experience of betrayal takes it all away, and Lawrence is left to deal with the devastating

aftermath. As he grows into a man, how will he make sense of what he has suffered? He cannot

rewrite history, but must he be condemned to repeat it?

Jingle all the way: a novel / MACOMBER, Debbie

Everly Lancaster helps run a burgeoning startup in Chicago, where her professional goals leave

little time for friends...or a vacation. Everly's mother urges her to come home for Christmas, but

she hesitates to return to the life she's worked so hard to escape. When her vengeful assistant

books a guided cruise in the Amazon instead of the luxury beach vacation she expected, Everly is

horrified to realize that she's about to spend the next two weeks trapped in the rain forest.

Home sweet home / MAGRO, Mandy

Sienna Lewis knows firsthand about being an Aussie battler, but she has her beautiful daughter,

Zara, to keep fighting for. One day she dreams of giving Zara the life and big family she deserves.

For now, Sienna can only focus on her work at the hospital. But when she connects with a new

patient who has driven away nearly everyone in his life, she is astounded when he leaves her his

sprawling Far-North Queensland property.

Fiction The house of a hundred whispers / MASTERTON, Graham

Dartmoor, with its mists, bleak winter weather and overwhelming sense of isolation,

is the perfect place to build a prison. It's not a place many would choose to live -

yet the Governor of Dartmoor Prison did just that. When Herbert Russell retired, he bought All

Hallow's Hall - a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the moor, and lived there all his life. Now

he's dead, and his estranged family are set to inherit his estate.

The bush telegraph / McARTHUR, Fiona

It's been more than ten years since Maddy Locke left Spinifex, the small outback town where she

gave birth to her daughter, Bridget. Now she's back to prove she's got what it takes to

run the medical centre and face the memories of that challenging time in her life. But everything's

changed - the old pub is gone, her new colleagues aren't pleased to see her, and it's drier and

hotter than ever.

The shearer’s wife / McDONALD, Fleur

1980: Rose and Ian Kelly arrive in the small South Australian town of Barker for supplies, before

driving a further couple of hundred kilometres to begin shearing at Jacksonville Station. 2020:

When the Australian Federal Police swoop unheralded into Barker and make a shocking arrest for

possession of narcotics, Detective Dave Burrows is certain there is more to the story than

meets the eye.

The champagne war / McINTOSH, Fiona

In the summer of 1914, vigneron Jerome Mea heads off to war, certain he’ll be home by Christ-

mas. His new bride Sophie Delancre, a fifth generation champenoise, is determined to en-

sure the forthcoming vintages will be testament to their love. But as the years drag on, authorities

advise that Jerome is missing, considered dead.

Cloud atlas / MITCHELL, David

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious

livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's Califor-

nia; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on

death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civiliza-

tion—the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history.

Fiction Before the storm / MORRISSEY, Di

After being double-crossed by a devious colleague, career woman Ellie Conlan quits her job on

principle. With no idea what to do next, she retreats to Storm Harbour, an idyllic Victorian beach

town. Ellie's grandfather runs The Storm Harbour Chronicle, the trusted local newspaper. Dark

clouds gather as rumours fly and tensions mount. And when a violent storm breaks and rages,

Ellie will finally have to confront her past.

The flatshare / O’LEARY, Beth

Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends

think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at

work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. They're about to discover

that if you want the perfect home, you need to throw the rulebook out the window.

Tiny white lies / PALMER, Fiona

Ashley has recently lost her husband. Daughter Emily is being bullied online. Best friend Nikki is

holding a huge secret. And why is husband, Chris, receiving so many text messages lately? Their

teenage children are glued to technology. The two women hatch a plan: for three weeks, both

families will stay in a rustic, remote coastal camp with no phone reception. While the teenagers

struggle to embrace this new world, the adults are trying to maintain a certain facade.

Three women disappear / PATTERSON, James & SHAN, Serafin

Sarah, his personal chef, Anna, his wife, Serena, his maid. Mob accountant Anthony Costello has a

talent for manipulating both numbers and people. When he's found murdered in his own home,

the three people who had most reason to want him dead are missing. Detective Sean Walsh,

whose personal connection to the case makes his desire to solve it even stronger, is short on

leads to track down the three missing women. If he finds them alive, can they be trusted?

The discomfort of evening / RIJHNEVELD, Marieke Lucas

Ten-year-old Jas lives with her devout farming family in the rural Netherlands. One winter's day,

her older brother joins an ice skating trip; resentful at being left alone, she makes a perverse plea

to God; he never returns. As grief overwhelms the farm, Jas succumbs to a vortex of increasingly

disturbing fantasies, watching her family disintegrate into a darkness that threatens to derail

them all.

Fiction Honeybee / SILVEY, Craig

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail

and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vic,

smokes his last cigarette. The two see each other across the void. A fateful connection is made,

and an unlikely friendship blooms. Slowly, we learn what led Sam and Vic to the bridge that night.

Bonded by their suffering, each privately commits to the impossible task of saving the other.

Rodham / SITTENFELD, Curtis

Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that's the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her

star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader- and catches the eye of driven, hand-

some and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, Hillary gives him a firm No. The

rest, as they say, isn't history. How might things have turned out for them, for America, for the

world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton?

The silent wife / SLAUGHTER, Karin

When a battered young woman is left for dead, a prisoner in the state penitentiary points out

that the attack closely resembles the one for which he was convicted-and which he insists he did-

n't commit. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent enlists the help of his girlfriend,

medical examiner Sara Linton, to investigate the new case in light of the older one.

A gentleman in Moscow / TOWLES, Amor

On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and

through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat

by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of

his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous

upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?

The Queen’s captain / WATT, Peter

In October 1863, Ian Steele, having taken on the identity of Captain Samuel Forbes, is

fighting the Pashtun on the north-west frontier in India. Half a world away, the real Samuel

Forbes is a lieutenant in the 3rd New York Volunteers and is facing the Confederates at the Battle

of Missionary Ridge in Tennessee. Neither is aware their lives will change beyond recognition

in the year to come.

Non-Fiction

MACKAY, Hugh The inner self 158.1 / MACK

KUCHARSKI, Adam The rules of contagion 302 / KUCH

MEEK, Michael K. Lawbook Co. nutshell: Australian legal system 349.94 / MEEK

BAINBRIDGE, David How zoologists organize things 590.1 / BAIN

COLLINS, Anita The music advantage 612.8233 / COLL

NESTOR, James Breath 616.192 / NEST

MOSLEY, Michael Covid-19: what you need to know about the

coronavirus

616.2414 / MOSL

SPENCE, Ian Gardening through the year in Australia 635 / SPEN

DIXEY, Jo Creative thread 746.44 / DIXE

SHARWOOD, Anthony From snow to ash 796.522 / SHAR

PLATT, Stephen R. Imperial twilight 951.033 / PLAT

NOPPERT, Narelle Australian memories & stories of the

Wollondilly Shire 2014 by Clare Bell

994.45 / BELL

Author Title Call No.

Biographies

Author Title Call No.

DOYLE, Glennon Untamed: stop pleasing start living BIOG 158.1 / DOYL

MORRI, Mark A woman of force: the true story of Deborah

Wallace, the cop known as the gangbuster

BIOG 363.2 / WALL

WINKS, Travis Shattered: 67 days to a family’s self-destruction BIOG 616.89 / WINK

EDDY, Dan Crimmo: the Peter Crimmins story BIOG 796.336 / EDDY

JAKU, Eddie The happiest man on Earth BIOG 940.5318 / JAKU

GLENCONNER, Anne Lady in waiting: my extraordinary life in the

shadow of the Crown

BIOG 841.085 / GLEN

Graphic Novels Snowpiercer, Volume 3: Terminus / BOCQUET, Oliver

This is Snowpiercer: one thousand and one carriages long. The last bastion of human civilization.

Or is it? Amidst the icy wastelands that blanket all human civilization, hope glimmers like the

snow. A faint radio signal hints of sanctuary beneath the freezing surface. But the safety the peo-

ple of the Snowpiercer discover is anything but, and their benign Shangri-la soon has them des-

perate to return to the sanctuary of their god-like train.

DVDs The Durrells. Series 1

The Durrells sees impoverished but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to seek

out a new destiny for her family when her options in late 1930's England seem to be limited to

struggling on or marrying a wealthy but dreary older man. Concerned that the lives of her four

'children', ranging in age from 11 to 21, are heading down the wrong track, she relocates her re-

luctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun.

Once upon a time, Season 7

A few years after the Final Battle in Storybrooke, a grown-up Henry Mills leaves home in search of

his own destiny. What he finds is true love with a new incarnation of Cinderella and unexpected

danger from her hateful stepmother and stepsister, plus the added menace of Mother

Gothel, a villainous sorceress.

Nashville. The complete first season

Behind the music of Nashville lies a web of betrayal, heartbreak, and rivalry second to none.

Rayna James, is the Queen of Country, but there's a new 'royal' on the rise. Meet Juliette Barnes,

a hot, young diva poised to knock Rayna off her throne, both on the charts and in the heart of

Rayna's lead guitarist and former lover, Deacon Claybourne. All twenty-two riveting episodes and

never-before-seen bonus features.

Les Norton. Season 1

Set in 1985, Les Norton follows the exploits of a country boy who has escaped a troubled past to

find himself in Sydney, working as a bouncer/fixer at the city's most notorious illegal casino. A

classic fish out of water, he soon finds himself seduced by the city's illicit charms and dragged

deeper into the web of underground criminality.

DVDs The personal history of David Copperfield

The personal history of David Copperfield re-imagines Charles Dickens classic ode to grit and per-

severance through the comedic lens of its award-winning filmmakers giving the Dickensian tale

new life for a cosmopolitan age with a diverse ensemble cast of stage and screen actors from

across the world.

Vikings. Season 6, volume 1

Following the battle between brothers, Bjorn Ironside is left victorious and a hero to the people

who have been under the tyrannical rule of Ivar for so long. As the new leader of Kattegat, Bjorn

struggles to fill his late fathers shoes as King, while facing several dilemmas and wrestling with the

idea that power overshadows morals.

Rosehaven. Series 2

Daniel and Emma are back in Rosehaven. They are housemates and workmates again and they

finally both feel like they belong. Daniel returns from his month on the mainland and is juggling

his long-distance relationship with Grace, using Skype and a spreadsheet, while attempting to find

his way back into McCallum Real Estate. Barbara has promoted Emma, both domestically where

they share breakfast smoothies and professionally where she is running the meetings!

Rosehaven. Series 1

When Daniel returns to his hometown, Rosehaven, to take over his family's troubled real estate

business, he's surprisingly joined by his best (city) friend Emma - who's on the run from a mar-

riage that didn't last the honeymoon. Between Daniel's crippling anxiety and Emma's exuberant

irresponsibility will they be able to save the business?

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