SMSA (Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts)
AUSTRALIANA
| Condon, Matthew | All fall down | AUS 364.132309943 COND | |
| Eames, Jim, | The flying kangaroo | AUS 387.706594 EAME | |
| Kavanagh, Joan, | Van Diemen’s women | AUS 364.37409946 | |
| Kelly, Paul, | The dismissal | AUS 320.994 KELL | |
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BIOGRAPHY
| Hotchner, A. E., | Hemingway in love |
| Hsu, Huan, | The porcelain thief |
| Keyes, Marian, | Making it up as I go along |
| Passarlay, Gulwali, | The lightless sky |
| Sisman, Adam, | John le Carre |
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COOKING
| Little, Valli, | Delicious | C LITT |
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GENERAL FICTION
| Archer, Rosie, | The canary girls |
| Barton, Fiona, | The widow |
| Bayard, Louis. | The School of night |
| Coe, Jonathan, | Number 11 |
| Cunnington, Janita, | The river house |
| Dennis, Patrick, | Auntie Mame |
| Dunn, C. F., | Death be not proud |
| Dunn, C. F., | Rope of sand |
| Evans, Tess, | Mercy Street |
| Ferrante, Elena, | Those who leave and those who stay |
| Fforde, Jasper. | The well of lost plots |
| Grey, Iona, | Letters to the lost |
| Krentz, Jayne Ann, | Secret sisters |
| Macgregor, Virginia, | The astonishing return of Norah Wells |
| Mariani, Scott. | The alchemist’s secret |
| McPartlin, Anna, | Somewhere inside of happy |
| Portis, Charles. | True grit |
| Potts, Graham, | No free man |
| Punke, Michael, | The revenant |
| Rosenberg, Alexander, | The girl from Krakow |
| Ryan, Chris, | Deathlist |
| Seddon, Holly, | Try not to breathe |
| Seymour, Gerald, | No mortal thing |
| Thomas, Rosie. | Daughter of the house |
| Weisberger, Lauren, | Last night at Chateau Marmont |
| Yan, Geling, | Little Aunt Crane |
| Yapa, Sunil, | Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist |
| Yeldham, Peter, | Dragons in the forest |
The girl from Krakow / Alex Rosenberg
A sweeping novel encompassing 1930s Paris, the slums of Krakow, war-torn Spain, and Nazi Germany, The Girl from Krakow follows Rita Feuerstahl through good times and bad. From her first date with her future husband as a college girl in Poland to her terrifying trip through the Krakow ghetto to search through a decrepit orphanage in a vain attempt to find her son, Rosenberg immerses the reader in Rita’s history. Guarding a vital secret, Rita must change her name and her attitude as she lives among the Germans while the world swirls around her. The novel doesn’t shy away from the realities of wartime Europe, blending some of Rita’s happiest moments with many of her saddest and scariest.
(Booklist, vol 111, number 22)
The widow / Fiona Barton
What would you do if your spouse suddenly became the prime suspect in the kidnapping of a two-year-old girl? That’s the stomach-churning prospect that confronts London hairdresser Jean Taylor in this exceptional debut from British journalist Barton, who circles her story as if it were a lurking panther, unseen but viscerally sensed. […] Multiple narrators maximize suspense, with perspectives switching among tough-to-read Jean, whose husband, Glen, has just been fatally hit by a bus at the book’s start; haunted Detective Bob Sparkes, the lead investigator, whose career the case jeopardizes; and tabloid reporter Kate Waters, most resourceful of the frenzied journalistic pack chasing the story.
(Publishers Weekly, vol 262, issue 48)
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HISTORICAL FICTION
| Christie, Sally, | The sisters of Versailles |
| Freeman, Philip, | Sacrifice |
| Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia, | Keep the home fires burning |
| O’Brien, Anne, | The queen’s choice |
| Senior, Antonia, | The winter isles |
Sacrifice / Philip Freeman
Freeman’s sequel to Saint Brigid’s Bones, gives readers another fascinating glimpse into sixth-century Irish life, with the story of a killer’s attacks on the nuns of Saint Brigid’s monastery. Only someone with a deep-set knowledge of Druidic sacrificial techniques could be responsible. Sacrificial killings—beginning with the decapitated, exsanguinated body of Sister Grainne, discovered in a bog—continue despite Sister Deirdre’s efforts to identify and stop the slayer. Death after gruesome death creates panic and suspicion among the sisters, until even Deirdre is expelled from the community for her druidic leanings.
(Booklist, vol 112, number 2)
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MYSTERY
| Armstrong, Kelley, | City of the lost |
| Ballantyne, Lisa, | Everything she forgot |
| Baugh, Carolyn, | Quicksand |
| Bennet, Louisa, | Monty and me |
| Bingham, Harry, | This thing of darkness |
| Blake, Heather, | Ghost of a potion |
| Block, Lawrence, | The girl with the deep blue eyes |
| Bowen, Rhys. | The twelve clues of Christmas |
| Bryan, Mollie Cox, | Scrapbook of the dead |
| Burke, James Lee, | House of the rising sun |
| Carter, Chris, | I am death |
| Collins, Kate, | Florist grump |
| Connelly, Michael, | The black echo |
| Corris, Peter, | That empty feeling |
| Douglas-Home, Mark, | The sea detective |
| Dugoni, Robert, | My sister’s grave |
| Fortunato, John, | Dark Reservations |
| Goodman, Carol, | River Road |
| Herring, Peg, | The dead detective agency |
| Hjorth, Michael, | The man who watched women |
| Hoag, Tami, | The bitter season |
| Holt, Anne, | Dead joker |
| Jacobsen, Steffen, | When the dead awaken |
| Katzenbach, John, | The dead student |
| Kellerman, Faye, | The theory of death |
| Kirby, William S., | Vienna |
| Knight, Renee, | Disclaimer |
| Koontz, Dean R. | Ashley Bell |
| Ledson, Kathryn, | Grand slam |
| MacBride, Stuart, | In the cold dark ground |
| Marston, Edward. | Blood on the line |
| Martin, Andrew, | Yellow diamond |
| Marwood, Alex, | The darkest secret |
| May, Peter, | Coffin road |
| McCrery, Nigel, | The thirteenth coffin |
| McDermid, Val, | Splinter the silence |
| McKay, Shirley, | Queen & country |
| McKinty, Adrian, | Rain dogs |
| Mofina, Rick, | Every second |
| Morgan, Ann | Beside myself |
| Mosby, Steve, | I know who did it |
| Perrin, Kayla. | We’ll never tell |
| Perry, Leigh, | The skeleton haunts a house |
| Preston, Douglas J., | Crimson shore |
| Raybourn, Deanna, | A curious beginning |
| Sanders, Ben, | American blood |
| Ward, Sarah, | In bitter chill |
| Weeks, Lee, | Cold justice |
My sister’s grave / Robert Dugoni
D
ugoni’s latest novel combines the best of a police procedural with a legal thriller, and the end result is outstanding. Seattle police officer Tracy Crosswhite lost her sister Sarah over 20 years ago, and she has never forgiven herself. With no corpse discovered, there was still enough evidence to convict the man thought responsible for Sarah’s disappearance. Now a body has been found and Tracy learns the remains are of her sister. Tracy has had her doubts about the guilt of the man behind bars, and she’s absolutely sure there is a murderer still loose. Can she get a new trial to free an innocent man and also find out the truth?
(Library Journal, vol 139, issue 14)
Disclaimer / Renee Knight
When a mysterious novel appears on her bedside table, a successful documentary filmmaker finds herself face to face with a secret that threatens to unravel life as she knows it. Catherine Ravenscroft has built a dream life, or close to it: the devoted husband, the house in London, the award-winning career as a documentary filmmaker. But when she stumbles across a sinister novel called The Perfect Stranger, no one’s quite sure how it came into the house. Catherine sees herself in its pages, living out scenes from her past she’d hoped to forget. Meanwhile, Stephen Brigstocke, a retired teacher, widowed and in pain, is desperate to exact revenge on Catherine and make her pay for what happened all those years ago.
(Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2015)
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NON FICTION
| Butt, Peter, | Merchants of menace | 364.10994 BUTT |
| Coates, Ta-Nehisi, | Between the world and me | 305.896073 COAT |
| Fraser, Antonia, | The pleasure of reading | 028.9 FRAS |
| Hannigan, Tim, | A brief history of Indonesia | 959.8 HANN |
| Harkup, Kathryn, | A is for arsenic | 615.9 HARK |
| Jones, Michael K., | Bosworth 1485 | 942.046 JONE |
| Kolbert, Elizabeth. | The sixth extinction | 576.84 KOLB |
| Mezrich, Ben, | Bringing down the house | 795.01 MEZR |
| Riley, Bronwen, | Journey to Britannia | 936.103 RILE |
| Sellers, Robert. | The secret life of Ealing Studios | 791.43 SELL |
| Shapiro, James, | 1606 : Shakespeare and the year of Lear | 822.33 SHAP |
A is for arsenic / Kathryn Harkup
Harkup, a chemist and Agatha Christie fan, celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Dame’s birth with this intriguing and illuminating examination of Christie’s use of poisons in her mysteries. She begins by examining Christie’s background with regard to poisons, as well as her commitment to the ethos of the detective writer. Harkup includes more than a dozen poisons, arranged in alphabetical chapters from Arsenic to Veronal. She gives detailed, layperson-friendly explanations of how each poison acts on the body, along with its history and origin. Readers will also find real-world cases, including some that may have inspired Christie. In addition, the science, history, and literary explication are all leavened with a generous dose of poison trivia.
(Publishers Weekly, vol 262, issue 28)
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ROMANCE
| Cready, Gwyn, | First time with a highlander | R CREA |
| Hannay, Barbara, | Forever Romance Duo | R HANN |
| Lowe, Fiona, | A Daddy for Baby Zoe?. | R LOWE |
| Milburne, Melanie, | Awakening the Ravensdale Heiress. | R MILB |
| Williams, Cathy, | Wearing the de Angelis Ring. | R WILL |
| Winters, Rebecca, | Forever Romance Duo | R WINT |
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SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
| Cogman, Genevieve, | The masked city |
| Novik, Naomi. | Uprooted |
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New additions to eBooks at SMSA
EBOOKS
And Yet… | Christopher Hitchens | Non Fiction |
Beauty Is a Wound | Eka Kurniawan | General Fiction |
Black Rabbit Hall | Eve Chase | Historical Fiction |
A Few Days in the Country | Elizabeth Harrower | General Fiction |
Gimson’s Kings and Queens | Andrew Gimson | Non Fiction |
The High Mountains of Portugal | Yann Martel | General Fiction |
That Empty Feeling | Peter Corris | Mystery |
When This Thing Happened | Michael McKernan | Biography |
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AUDIOBOOKS
The Beautiful Mystery | Louise Penny | Mystery |
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | General Fiction |
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New Books – February 2016
The new books for February 2016 are now available to borrow, with new ebooks and audiobooks.
We hope you enjoy them!
- New books may be borrowed for a period of two weeks only and may not be renewed.
- Books remain listed as “New Books” for two months.
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