Librarians’ Choice – May 2018

The top 10 May 2018 release books as voted for by library staff around Australia is here. There are a variety of genres in the list with the Australian Vogel Literary Award 2018 Winner – The Yellow House being one of them. Click on a title to reserve a copy now.

Whisper – Lynette Noni (Librarians’ Choice Favourite)

For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours and sixteen minutes… Subject Six-Eight-Four, ‘Jane Doe’, has been locked away and experimented on, without uttering a single word. Life at Lengard follows a strict, torturous routine that has never changed. Until now.
When Jane is assigned a new—and unexpectedly kind—evaluator, her resolve begins to crack, despite her best efforts. As she uncovers the truth about Lengard’s mysterious ‘program’, Jane discovers that her own secret is at the heart of a sinister plot.
…. And one wrong move, one wrong word, could change the world.

The yellow house – Emily O’Grady
The jade lily– Kirsty Manning
LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike) – Jay Kristoff
Lovesome – Sally Seltmann
The perfect mother – Aimee Molloy
Hot pursuit – Rebecca Freeborn
The making of Martin Sparrow – Peter Cochrane
Flames – Robbie Arnott
Staying – Jessie Cole

Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2018

10 novels have been shortlisted for the 2018 International DUBLIN Literary Award, proudly sponsored by Dublin City Council and managed by Dublin City Libraries. The list includes two novels by Irish authors, The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride and Solar Bones by Mike McCormack; six novels in translation from France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Mexico and South Korea; and novels from South Africa and the USA. Continue reading

Brain Science in the Library

Brain science and neuroscience has been such a popular read subject in the library science publishing of The brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge in 2008. The rapid development of neurological researches and discoveries has drawn more attention from readers on topics like brain development in new born, digital technology impact to our brain, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, plasticity of neurological restructure and re connect, etc.

The Library will invite some brain scientists coming in to meet our clients and a neurologist will talk about bilingualism and what does that mean to kids born and grow up in bilingual families in August Science week. Stay tuned.

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