Hugh Mackay Australia's best known social commentator at Hurstville City Library

Hugh Mackay, one of Australia's pre-eminent social commentators is a familiar name to many from his days on ABC radio as a regular guest on the Caroline Jones morning program. More recently he has been a regular television commentator on the lastest federal election.

His new book What Makes Us Tick? is a hightly personal account of the things he has learnt from his experiences listening to people talk: about their dreams, fears, faith, hopes, disappointment, frustrations and fantasies.

Join Hugh at Hurstville City Library, cnr Queens Rd & Dora St

Friday 15th October at 7pm to hear about his new book What Makes Us Tick?

Bookings can be made at the Information Desk or phone 9330 6142.

Nutty's Adventures in Shelving.

Check out the mischief that our favourite little library helper got up to this week!

Being helpful as always.

Not being so helpful... Poor Nutty

Look who survived! This is Nutty's favourite book. Come into Hurstville Library sometime and check it out!

MOVIES AND MUSIC COMING SOON

There are a variety of DVDs and music CDs coming soon to the library and should be on the shelves with in the next few months.

Music CDs Coming Soon

• So Fresh Hits of Spring 2010 - 20 of the biggest hits of the season. Songs from Pink, Guy Sebastian, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift to name a few.
  
• Flamingo - Brandon Flowers : Brandon is the front man for the Killers. The album is a mix of Electo-pop, Gospel and Alternative Blues Rock.
  
• Obadiah - Frazey Ford : Ford is a member of "Be Good Tanyas", a trio from Canada.
  This is a laid back album from classic R&B to soul.
  
• I Believe You Liar - Megan Washington : an Australian musician, songwriter who sings, plays piano and guitar. The album is a little bit of Rock, Pop, Jazz and Blues.

DVDs coming soon

• Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief: A fantasy-adventure movie starring Pierce Brosnan, Rosairo Dawson and Uma Thurman. Percy Jackson has learned he is the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt, the most powerful weapon ever created. Percy embarks on a cross-country journey to prove his innocence and recover the bolt to prevent a war amongst the gods.


• Dear John: from the author of "The Notebook". Starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried . Soon after John and Savannah meet and fall in love their relationship is put on hold. John has to leave to complete his service in the armed forces and Savannah has to finish her college education so they keep in touch by writing letters to each other. When war breaks out their relationship has to survive the test of time.


• Natalee Holloway: a true story based on the book "Loving Natalee" by Beth Holloway Twitty: Starring Tracy Pollan, Grant Show and Catherine Dent. Natalee Holloway is a teenager on class trip and disappears without a trace. Together her mother, father and best friend search to uncover the truth which takes more the four years.
  
• In The Loop: nominated for "Best Adapted Screenplay" Academy Awards 2010. Starring Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini. A British comedy about an American President and a bumbling British Prime Minister on the brink of war and the possibility of things spinning out of control.

*Do you have any suggestions for us add to our DVD and CD collection? If so please post your suggestions here.

Local Natives

Something for the collection? Let us know if you digg this tune by comment. Could end up on the order list.

Katie Duncan - Trainee of the Year!

Congratulations to Katie Duncan who won ‘Trainee of the Year’ at the MG My Gateway 2010 Apprentice & Trainee Awards.

This year MG My Gateway employed 300 apprentices and trainees making it a very competitive field.The winners for all MG My Gateway awards were announced at an awards night at Campbelltown RSL, on Friday 3 September 2010.

Katie has been working as a Trainee in both Customer Service and Library, Museum & Gallery services over the past year. Katie now works as a Trainee in the Museum & Gallery. Katie is an outstanding trainee, who is dedicated to excellent customer service. She is always willing to assist colleagues as well as internal and external customers.

Katie shows enormous respect for her colleagues, her supervisors and to all staff within Council. Her maturity, calm attitude and enthusiasm are valued by all Council departments.

Katie commits 100% to her work and as a consequence Hurstville City Council has extended Katie’s traineeship by offering her the opportunity to complete Certificate IV in Business Administration earlier this year. Hurstville City Council feels fortunate to have had the opportunity to host Katie’s traineeship.

Treasures from the Reference Collection now available for loan

Ever browsed through Hurstville Library's reference collection and wished you could borrow that special book? Now many titles from the collection have been transferred to the lending collection and are available for loan. Check out some of the titles now on the display stands when next you visit. Many more titles will be available in the coming months for you to borrow and read in the comfort of your own home. A few are listed below:

A History of the Islamic World
Entertaining and informative, with over 70 illustrations, photos, and maps this is a stimulating depiction of the world's second-largest religion, with over one billion adherents.






How I Write The Secret Lives of Authors

Where do writers get their ideas? How do they deal with writer's block? What do they do all day?
Find out the answers from the authors themselves. Original contributions are from well known authors including Jonathan Franzen, Joyce Carol Oates, Will Self and A. S. Byatt. Letters, photographs, drawings, illustrations, and other scattered mementos make up this book.



Oxford Guide to Style
Contains 16 topic-based chapters
offering advice on how to present
the written word.

Fighting Talk
Stirring speeches and battle cries
from history's greatest warriors and
revolutionaries.

Australia's Quarter Acre
A spirited defence of the home garden, includes explanations of how Australia became the world's first great suburban nation, how the layout of the back and front yard has changed over time and why manicured lawns and productive vegetable gardens have declined. The hidden meanings of the ordinary garden are explored along with fascinating insights into everything from fruit trees, woodsheds, rotrary clotheslines and illuminated Santas.

Sneakers: The Complete Collectors' Guide
This book comprises over 550 specially taken colour photographs; over 180 sneaker designs from 11 leading brands chosen for the mark they have made on sneaker culture worldwide, brand histories and information on creating and caring for your collection.Encyclopedic in scope it is a delight for both the novice and hard core aficionado of all things sneaker.

It's a book

From children's author Lane Smith comes this book trailer (and how awesome is that, a book trailer!).



Genius! Think I'll put in a suggestion for purchase...