Friday, September 15, 2006

New non-fiction titles

We've also been busy adding these non-fiction titles to our branches:

Alice Pung ~ Unpolished gem
Barbara Smith ~ The superannuation handbook 2006/2007 : creating wealth for retirement
Carly Crawford ~ The Maria Korp case
Daniel Tammet ~ Born on a blue day : a memoir of Asperger’s and an extraordinary mind
Don Woodland/Simon Bouda ~ Picking up the pieces : a life of compassion and care
Donna Davis/Amy Willesee ~ Sins of the mothers : a memoir of abandonment, love and redemption
Ian W Shaw ~ Bloodbath : the 1945 VFL Grand Final
Jonathan Raban ~ My holy war : dispatches from the home front
Karen Booth (editor) ~ Choosing a school for your child – Victoria
Michael Zifcak ~ My life in print
Rob Lowing ~ Family DVD guide
Ron Suskind ~ The one percent doctrine : deep inside America’s pursuit of its enemies since 9/11
Ruth Ritchie ~ Waterlemon : husband in a coma and other setbacks
Scott Russell Hill ~ Psychic detective : a spiritual investigation into unsolved crimes

Search for them in our web catalogue. Type in your search in the box next to Find a Book. If you have a password on your card you can reserve books, cds & dvds to be sent to your closest branch. It costs $2.20 per item for adults, $1.10 for govt. concession card holders, free reservations for children.

Find out about reserving and more with the catalogue tutorials.

Cheers, Maryanne

1 comment:

Elizabeth Kilpatrick said...

In another just released book, Strange Son, a very unusual young man named Tito who falls on the opposite end of the autism spectrum, shares his equally unusual experience of the world. Tito is severely autistic and nonverbal and yet, astoundingly, he has a high IQ and writes poetry. One hopes that these two books appearing on the scene at nearly the same moment in history, suggests that we are on the verge of a new understanding of the autism spectrum disorders; an understanding that comes from the inside out instead of from the theories and hypotheses of "experts". While the biological causes of autism still remain undiscovered, these firsthand accounts are not only the most valuable tool scientists have to study autism, they are the beginnings of a new understanding of autism for us all. Although the wide-ranging abilities and expressions of the human mind never cease to amaze us, the opportunity to glimpse the world through the unique consciousness of these two young men offers a dazzling and unexpected gift like none that we have encountered in recent memory.