Adult Summer Reading Club by City of Canterbury Library

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Summer Reading

Welcome

Dear Readers, Welcome to our first Adult Summer Reading Club. Our staff have specially selected 30 fantastic titles that we think you will enjoy over the summer break. We also have great prizes to give out to those who read from our book list. The more titles you read, the better your chances of winning. What do you need to do? All you have to do is submit your name to any library staff, when you pick up your summer booklet. We will monitor your reading history over the summer break. Each title read, will mean an entry into the draw. Write a book review ‐ 1 entry http://canterburycitylibrary.wordpress.com/what‐are‐you‐ reading/ Like us on Facebook ‐ 1 entry www.facebook.com/canterburylibrary So enjoy your holidays and try something new from our specially selected titles. Names will be drawn out on 14 February 2012 at the launch of National Year of Reading at Campsie Library, we hope to see you there.

The City of Canterbury Library Summer Reading Guide Titles can be found in a number of formats, follow our easy guide to find the one you want.

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Talking Books

Community Language

Fiction

Non Fiction

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DVD

Biography

A warm and captivating story on family, faith and a love of food. Born of Palestinian migrants, Arwa did not have a country that she could call home. Her parents came to Australia to give their daughters the greatest gift they could, the right of citizenship and a country to call their own.

An inspiring story that will make you both laugh and cry. Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war‐torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat.

A warm, witty and wise debut about the ups and downs of life as a TV presenter. Can Christie find a way to balance her role as a mother with her increasingly demanding job? And will she make it in the cut‐throat world of TV? Whatever happens, Christie's going to give it all she's got.

A brilliant lawyer, Sam’s messy office habits may cost her firm $50 million. In a panic, Sam rushes out of the office and finds herself in a small suburb of London, lost and terrified. She ends up on the doorstep of the Geiger’s, who mistake her for a housekeeper come to apply for a job. The problem is, she has never made her own bed, let alone cleaned a house.

Chick lit

Classic

A gloriously entertaining comic narrative, that will keep you entertained till the end. Her Majesty develops a new obsession with reading. She finds herself devouring works by a tantalizing range of authors. It’s not long before the Queen begins to develop a new perspective on the world ‐ one that alarms her closest advisers and tempts her to make bold new decisions.

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Widely considered as one of the greatest American classics of today. An English class staple, Harper Lee’s rightfully lauded, quintessential and distinctly Southern coming‐of‐age story should prove more enjoyable without having to analyze every page.

Loved reading ‘The Secret River’? Con‐ tinue the story into the third generation. Sarah’s father, William Thornhill, is an ex‐convict who’s made good in the new colony of Australia. He is a man who’s re‐ invented himself. As he tells his daughter, he never looks back and Sarah grows up learning not to ask about the past.

The third of the Edith Campbell trilogy by the imitable Frank Moorehouse. Edith stops working for the League of Nations and returns to Australia to pursue a career in diplomacy. This historical novel explores the evolution of a moral and social revolution in Australia and other Western countries in the late 1960s.

Australian Fiction

Fantasy

A thrilling and original coming‐of‐ age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world. Quentin Coldwater is a brilliant but miserable high school student, obsessed with a series of fantasy novels about a magical land called Fillory. When he is admitted to an exclusive college of magic he learns the practice of modern sorcery. Magic doesn't bring Quentin the hap‐ piness and adventure he thought it would.

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“I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.” The story of time traveling Henry, a man whose genetic clock resets periodically and who finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. His disappearances are spontaneous and his experiences are alternately harrowing and amusing.

Lunacy, Alaska, was Nate Burke’s last chance. Nate accepts a job as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town and wonders whether this has been all a big mistake. An unexpected kiss on New Year’s Eve under the brilliant Northern Lights of the Alaska sky lifts his spirit and convinces him to stay just a little longer.

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“Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Mystery buffs who’ve never read Rebecca should toss it in their beach bags immediately. Snuggle into the sand and get lost in the story of a woman obsessed with learning the truth about her hus‐ band’s mystifying first wife.

Mystery

Comptemporary Fiction

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“Their lost daughter still hovered between them; their lives had shaped themselves around her absence.” One winter night Dr. David Henry deliver’s his own twins. In that mo‐ ment, he makes a split‐second decision that will alter lives forever. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, this is a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets and the redemptive power of love.

The freedom of Freedom isn't freedom of choice, it's freedom from it. A comic and tragic portrayal of the temptations and burdens of liberty. In charting the mistakes and joys of these characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

A timeless and universal story about the lives of three unforgettable women. Mississippi 1962, Skeeter seeks her beloved maid, only to discovered she has disappeared. As she delves into her maids disappearance her eyes are slowly opened to the unjust world for the help.

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Books into movies

"I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control Family is a central theme of many popular beach reads and none capture the triumphs, challenges and heartbreaks like these interweaved narratives of Chinese mothers and their first generation American daughters.

Humour

A delightfully yummy read When talented baker Corinna, accepts an offer to do the baking for the film set of a new soap called 'Kiss the Bride', twists and turns ensue with complications involving nursery rhymes and a tiger called Tabitha.

Paul Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage. All in a day’s work He's almost died of dysentery in Asia, toothache in Russia and watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia. All in the span of a normal working day.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. As gut‐bustlingly hilarious and absurd as it is genuinely provocative (on occasion), this heavily lauded science‐fiction work delights even the most ardent genre detractors and makes for a surprisingly excellent beach read.

Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun... Set in the dystopian world of Panem, Katniss steps up to replace her sister’s place in the annual Hunger Games. A cruel and sadistic fight to the death event that is used to keep the districts under harsh Capitol’s control.

Science fiction

Thriller

Being a parent can be awfully hard when bodies start dropping. When Lake Warren learns that her husband Jack is suing for full custody of their two children four months after their separation, she's pretty certain that things can't get any worse. Worse? ‐ they can become deadly.

An adventure, a mystery and a literary journey with many reference to classical works. Set in Spain 1945 against the backdrop of beautiful Barri Gotica, a young boy adopts a very rare book written by an obscure writer. As he attempts to find out more about the author he discovers that someone is hunting down copies of the book, including his own.

Bill Bryson uses his wit and humour to uncover the mystery of the man who was Shakespeare. William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biogra‐ phy has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.

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All men live in the shadow of their fathers ‐‐ the more distant the father, the deeper the shadow. In this lyrical, unsentimental and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American.

Memoirs

Romance

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books. This haunting romance is as substantial as it is sensual, relaying the story of two academics slowly falling in love over their intense research.

A first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Webster is raising his teenage daughter as a single parent; his wife, the daughter's mother, left years ago when she couldn't conquer her alcoholism. Rescue explores the story of how Webster and his wife met and follows their life full of love, loss and redemption.

I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.

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“The words stuck to his tongue like...the ashes that had fallen in a warm rain after the last book burning.” Inspired by the true story of the one of the most valuable books in the world, this book is a fictional account of the history of a Jewish prayer book known as the Sarajevo Haggadah. A journey using carefully linked chapters, from Sarajevo in 1996 all the way to Arnhem Land in 2002.

Historical

General fiction

A gritty and confronting story about a four year old child left to fend for himself. Abandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four‐year‐ old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. And so begins Romochka’s life as a dog.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.” A provocative novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest‐‐a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.

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