Hades by Candice Fox

Homicide detective Frank Bennett has an intriguing new partner. Dark, beautiful, coldly efficient, Eden Archer is one of the most enigmatic colleagues Frank has ever worked with—that includes her brother Eric, who’s also on the Sydney Metro police force. All of them are tested to the core when a local man discovers a graveyard of large steel toolboxes lying at the bottom of the harbor. Each box contains a grisly trove of human body parts.For Frank, the madman’s clues are a tantalizing puzzle. For Eden and Eric, the case holds chilling links to a scarred childhood—and a murderous mentor named Hades. But the true evil goes beyond the bloody handiwork of a serial killer.

Category: Crime Fiction

Who'll want to read it? Readers of the dark and compelling. A original thriller that will have you spellbound from its atmospheric opening pages to its shocking climax.

Publisher: Random House Books Australia

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Story Box Library

 At Newcastle Library, we love stories… we also love interactive resources for our members and Story Box Library is both! Your library card now gives you access to the wonderful world of Australian children's literature through film. Story Box Library provides a vibrant, interactive experience via a diverse range of everyday Australian storytellers - sportspeople, musicians, grandparents, teenagers, comedians, actors, with varying accents and from different cultures - each sharing past and present book titles. 

The result is meaningful, entertaining readings that focus on both teller and tale. Listen to Andy Griffith read you his 'The 39-Storey Treehouse' or Nick Cave lend his voice to spooky narration of 'The Ghost of Annabel Spoon'.  Updated regularly with wonderful new titles the website is user-friendly with hand held devices - perfect for families 'on the go'. You can always find Story Box Library through the Library's website under e-Collections > e-Kids. 

Whether it's a book read on a road trip with the family or a bedtime story under the covers, Story Box Library help children journey to that most uniquely precious place; the wilds of their own imagination.

Enjoy a little example of The Brothers Quibble read by author Aaron Blabey.



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Zinio Magazine of the Month!

Australian Home Beautiful is every home decorator's best friend. With more pages dedicated to homes than any other Australian title, Australian Home Beautiful guides readers towards transforming their own homes into the kind of showplace they see within the magazine.  We demystify the rules of decorating and empower readers to become their own savvy decorators. Covering five main pillars - indoors, outdoors, renovate, decorate and food, Australian Home Beautiful is a magazine catered to those who love the home they’re in.

With the colder weather surrounding us, June’s edition of Australian Home Beautiful focuses on the interior of your home, particularly on using your furnishing to create a romantic and cosy luxury feel to your favourite spaces. Read the latest tips for design experts on the right lighting for the right mood and room, plus learn a few quick, cheap and easy tricks to update your bathroom in an instant. For all readers with packed-tight closets, this edition of Australian Home Beautiful will have you creating your dream closet wish list, with breath-taking ideas and designs. Read this all for yourself by logging in to Zinio and reading on your computer or mobile device, and don’t forget, it’s entirely free!

Download the magazine FREE from Zinio, simply visit Newcastle Region Library's Catalogue and Website to find out more. 

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

The size of this slender book lures you in.. what possible impact could such a story have that can be read cover to cover on one Sunday afternoon. It's been months since I finished it and I still can't stop thinking about it. Extremely funny, often sad - Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill invites you in for a cup of tea and kicks you in the guts. From the point of view of a young writer referred to simply as 'the wife', we are shown short bursts of observation and memory—comic, startling, searing. Daily life, narrative of marriage, parenthood, ageing, introspective questions - how to be the artist. A book I couldn't put down and then forced into the hands of all my friends.





Category: Literary Fiction

Who'll want to read it? Lovers of intense and witty meditations on motherhood, infidelity, and identity.

Point of no return: “My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.” 

Classic line: So many...

“And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.” 

“I bought a warmer coat with many ingenious pockets. You put your hands in all of them.”

“Advice for wives circa 1896: The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject. Besides the false views of human nature it will impart … it produces an indifference to the performance of domestic duties, and contempt for ordinary realities.” 

“Her neighbor’s husband fell in love with a girl who served coffee to him every morning. She was twenty-three and wanted to be a dancer or a poet or a physical therapist. When he left his family, his wife said, “Does it matter to you how foolish you look? That all our friends find you ridiculous?” He stood in the doorway, his coat in his hand. “No,” he said. The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.” 

Publisher: Penguin Random House

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PK e-Magazine

Newcastle Library wants to introduce you to another great online resource for students and teachers. PK Magazine is an Australian digital magazine for primary kids that publishes creative works in writing, video, music, art sent in by kids all over Australia. You can read it on your computer, iPad or tablet; flick through the pages just like a magazine.

Find the link in the libraries e-Magazines collection and start reading book reviews by kids  - for kids, meet talented authors and illustrators, discover fun facts, and enter into awesome competitions. It's educational and great fun!

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