New Books
ANIMAL STORIES
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AUSTRALIANA
Overington, Caroline | Last woman hanged | AUS 364.15230944 OVER |
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BIOGRAPHY
Archer, Jeffrey | A prison diary |
Bevan, Scott | Bill |
Dann, Lotta | Mrs D is going without |
Fraser, Antonia | Must you go? |
Hilton, Lisa | Elizabeth I |
Holt, Hazel | A lot to ask |
Shah, Sami | I, migrant |
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COOKING
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CLASSICS
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CRAFT
Orriss, Linda | Craft bookbinding |
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GARDENING
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GENERAL NOVELS
Appignanesi, Lisa | Sacred ends |
Baldacci, David | The escape |
Barker, Susan | The incarnations |
Brown, Helen | Tumbledown Manor |
Burke, James Lee | Wayfaring stranger |
Carter, John | Last judgement |
Connor, Alexandra | The Bosch deception |
Cussler, Clive | Havana storm |
Egan, Jennifer | A visit from the Goon Squad (Large print) |
Ferrante, Elena | My brilliant friend |
Follett, Ken | Edge of eternity |
Fowler, Karen Joy | We are all completely beside ourselves |
Fraser, Caro | Errors of judgment |
Freeman, Kimberley | Evergreen Falls |
Griffin, W. E. B. | Top secret |
Hancock, Penny | A trick of the mind |
Holtby, Winifred | South Riding |
James, Cormac | The surfacing |
Jansson, Tove | The summer book |
Jenoff, Pam | The winter guest |
Lanagan, Margo | Sea hearts |
Laukkanen, Owen | Criminal enterprise |
McNab, Andy | For valour |
Morrissey, Di | The road back |
Nakamura, Fuminori | Evil and the mask |
Newton, P. M. | The old school |
Packer, Nigel | The restoration of Otto Laird |
Petterson, Per | I refuse |
Quirk, Matthew | The directive |
Rawson, Jane | A wrong turn at the office of unmade lists |
Reilly, Matthew | The great zoo of China |
Rinaldi, Nicholas | The remarkable courtship of General Tom Thumb |
Ryan, Chris | Hunter killer |
Self, Will | Shark |
Shaw, Rebecca | Village rumours |
Smiley, Jane | Some luck |
Smith, Ali | How to be both |
Steel, Danielle | Pegasus |
Swan, Karen | Christmas in the snow |
Tsiolkas, Christos | Merciless gods |
Williams, John | Butcher’s Crossing |
Williams, Niall | History of the rain |
Various | Award winning Australian writing |
![]() | Fowler, Karen Joy We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Short-listed for this year’s Man Booker Prize, Karen Joy Fowler’s sixth novel is said to be her most accomplished yet – high praise considering the reception that greeted her “unforgettable and incandescent” first book, Sarah Canary, and her bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club. The Cookes aren’t quite your average American family. Rosemary’s father is a pedantic college professor, her mother has had a nervous breakdown, her brother is wanted by the FBI, and her sister Fern is – well, without giving away the story, something happened that meant Fern had to be sent away, and the mystery of what happened exactly is the hook that pulls the reader into this novel. Fowler’s compelling story of an extraordinary family life “examines what it means to be human, nonhuman and something in between…holds a mirror up to reflect what we’re really made of” (Elena Seymenliyska, The Telegraph). |
HISTORICAL NOVELS
Carey, Mike | The house of war and witness |
Davies, J. D. | The battle of all the ages |
Donald, Angus | Holy warrior |
Kingsnorth, Paul | The wake |
Severin, Timothy | Privateer |
![]() | Angus, Donald Holy Warrior It is 1190 anno domini and Richard the Lionheart has launched his epic crusade to seize Jerusalem from the Saracens. It will prove to be no mean feat, but fortunately for the King he rides alongside Britain’s most famous, most feared, and most fictionalised folk hero: Robin Hood himself. From the crimson battlefield of the Holy Land to a danger lurking in his very own camp, the notorious Outlaw of Nottingham will face his most deadly challenge yet. Once again the tale is told through the voice of Alan Dale, one of Robin’s most trusted advisors, the characters reveal yet more of themselves in this, the second instalment of Angus’ Outlaw Chronicles, and one again the author doesn’t shy away from the “portrayal of the brutality and malice born of the fear and ignorance,” providing the reader with a vivid examination of “the dangers of dogmatic religious hatred” (Hoover Book Reviews). |
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
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MYSTERY
Allen, Robin | If you can’t stand the heat (Large print) |
Andrews, Donna | Duck the halls |
Ash, Maureen | Murder for Christ’s mass |
Bowen, Gail | Deadly appearances |
Brody, Frances | Death of an avid reader |
Brown, Rita Mae | A nose for justice |
Casey, Donis | Hell with the lid blown off |
Castle, Richard | Wild storm |
Christie, Agatha | Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore folly |
Clark, Mary Higgins | The Cinderella murder |
Clark, Mary Jane Behrends | Nowhere to run |
Connolly, Sheila | Picked to die |
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels | Flesh and blood |
Gentill, Sulari | A murder unmentioned |
Hess, Joan | Murder as a Second Language |
Hill, Susan | The soul of discretion |
Jaffarian, Sue Ann | Twice as dead (Large print) |
James, Peter | A twist of the knife |
McRae, Cricket | Wined and died (Large print) |
Nadel, Barbara | Poisoned ground |
Ng, Celeste | Everything I never told you |
Patterson, James | Hope to die |
Penny, Louise. | Bury your dead |
Rose, Karen | Closer than you think |
Sandford, John | Deadline |
Todd, Charles | An unwilling accomplice |
Winspear, Jacqueline | The care and management of lies |
Winspear, Jacqueline | Leaving everything most loved |
Various | Death sentences |
![]() | Casey, Donis Hell with the lid blown off In the summer of 1916, a big twister brings destruction to the land around Boynton, Oklahoma. Alafair Tucker’s family and neighbours are not spared the ruin and grief spread by the storm. But no one is going to mourn for Jubal Beldon, who made it his business to know the ugly secrets of everyone in town. As Sheriff Scott Tucker and his deputy Trenton Calder look into the circumstances surrounding Jubal’s demise, Alafair, with injuries of her own, has her suspicions… Donis Casey has twice won the Arizona Book Award and her latest novel promises “a solid mystery with a sophisticated plot and a satisfying ending” (Sandra Dallas, New York Times) and “a good mystery with an odd final twist…eclipsed by frighteningly detailed descriptions of the terrors of tornadoes” (Kirkus Reviews). |
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NON FICTION
Cannon, Christopher P. | The anti-inflammation diet | 616.0473 CANN |
Clancy, Robert | Mapping Antarctica | 526.09989 CLAN |
Deary, Terry | Dangerous days in Elizabethan England | 942.055 DEAR |
Entwisle, Timothy J. | Sprinter and sprummer | 577.230994 ENTW |
Kirn, Walter | Blood will out | 364.1523092 KIRN |
Klein, Naomi | This changes everything | 363.73874 KLEI |
Nafisi, Azar | The Republic of imagination | 306.4880973 NAFI |
Pickford, N. A. | Lady Bette and the murder of Mr Thynn | 941.066 PICK |
Porter, Richard | Top Gear epic failures | 629.222 PORT |
Richtel, Matt | A deadly wandering | 303 RICH |
Turner-Vesselago, Barbara | Writing without a parachute | 808.02 TURN |
McGrath, Amy (editor) | Wolves in sheep’s clothing | 335.14 MCGR |
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OCCULT
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POETRY
Various | The best Australian Poems 2014 |
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ROMANCE
Douglas, Michelle | Snowbound surprise for the billionaire |
George, Louisa | A baby on her Christmas list |
Kendrick, Sharon | Christmas on Da Conti’s bed |
Lane, Soraya | The billionaire in disguise |
Lee, Miranda | Taken over by the billionaire |
MacKay, Sue, | A family this Christmas |
McArthur, Fiona, | Midwife’s Christmas proposal |
Milburne, Melanie, | The Valquez bride |
Roberts, Alison | In her rival’s arms |
Roberts, Alison | A little Christmas magic |
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SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
Benford, Gregory | Bowl of heaven |
Kenyon, Sherrilyn | Born of silence |
Koch, Gini | Alien diplomacy |
Lowell, Nathan | Half share |
Marillier, Juliet | Dreamer’s pool |
Shinn, Sharon | Angel-seeker |
Shinn, Sharon | Reader and raelynx |
Shinn, Sharon | Fortune and fate |
Walton, Jo | Half a crown |
Wilson, Geoffrey | The war of the Grail |
![]() | Kenyon, Sherrilyn Born of Silence As leader of The Resistance, Zarya Starska has only one goal: toppling the corrupt government which destroyed her family and left her penniless. Her greatest asset in this struggle is known only to one other, but this other has a secret of his own. His real name is Darling Cruel, and he is none other than the heir to the very government Zarya is fighting against! As the fifth on Kenyon’s The League series unfolds, we learn that even the noblest of hearts are not incorruptible, and that the corrupt may be more pure of heart that those fighting against them. |
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TRAVEL
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New additions to eBooks at SMSA
EBOOKS
Castle, Richard | A Raging Storm: Derrick Storm Series |
Castle, Richard | A Bloody Storm: Derrick Storm Series |
Deveny, Catherine | The Happiness Show: A Novel |
Deveny, Catherine | Stamping Ground: Stories of the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne |
Hasluck, Nicholas | Dismissal |
Krauth, Kirsten | Talking Writing: 50 Contemporary Writers on Novels |
Macomber, Debbie | White Lace and Promises |
Slaughter, Karin | A Grant County Collection |
Alan Tansley | Bold, Brash and Brave |
Clarke, Gerald | Capote: A Biography |
Enright, Skeeter | Carnival Charlatan |
Hedges, Carol | Honour & Obey |
Seaman, Damien | Berlin Burning: A Weimar Republic Murder Mystery Novella |
Spencer, Matt | Chapel of the Falcon |
Halleck, Mindy | Return to Sender |
Ames, Ritter | Organized for Homicide: Organized Mysteries Series |
Bator, Diane | Death of a Jaded Samurai: Yin-Yang Mystery Series |
Byrne, Wendy | Hard to Kill: Hard Targets Series |
DeLeon, Jana | Louisiana Longshot: Miss Fortune Mystery Series |
DeLeon, Jana | Rumble on the Bayou |
Hart, Jennifer | Murder Al Dente: Southern Pasta Shop Mystery Series |
Jones, Gin | A Dose of Death: Helen Binney Mystery Series |
Nelson, Kerri | Remote Consequences: Working Stiff Mystery Series |
Swan, Maria | Murder Under the Italian Moon: Lella York Mystery Series |
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AUDIOBOOKS
Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
Callinan, Ian | The Russian Master |
Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities |
Penny, Louise | The Cruelest Month: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series |
Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace |
Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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