West Wimmera Shire Council

MATES Mentors Online Training now available

Want to fill in some time during social distancing? You can learn how to be a youth mentor while sitting on the couch! For more information contact the MATES Team on 03 5381 0122 or email mates@llen.com.au

Country Fire Authority

Edenhope Library

Edenhope Library is still providing a limited, non-contact service. Users can place Holds on Wimmera items by phone, email or online, and when items arrive you will be contacted by Library Staff to arrange a non-contact Collect time-slot. Items can be returned 24/7 via the After-hours chute.

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 longlist announced

The 10 longlisted novels (featuring Goroke resident, Gerald Murnane) are:

The White Girl (Tony Birch)
Room for a Stranger (Melanie Cheng)
Islands (Peggy Frew)
No One (John Hughes)
Act of Grace (Anna Krien)
A Season on Earth (Gerald Murnane)
The Returns (Philip Salom)
Exploded View (Carrie Tiffany)
The Yield (Tara June Winch)
The Weekend (Charlotte Wood).

The shortlist will be announced on Wednesday 17 June, with the winner announcement to follow on Thursday 16 July.

RIPPER READER: The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson – After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies run low, panic sets in and still no help arrives. To protect her daughter, Isobel must take drastic action. The Glad Shout is an extraordinary novel of rare depth and texture. Told in a starkly visual and compelling narrative, this is a deeply moving homage to motherhood and the struggles faced by women in difficult times.

What's new on the shelf this week?

Death in Focus: an Elena Standish novel by Anne Perry (mystery)
11 Missed Calls by Elisabeth Carpenter (mystery)
A Killer Edition by Lorna Barett – a Booktown Mystery with recipes
The Titanic Secret: an Isaac Bell Adventure by Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul
Murder Games by James Patterson & Howard Roughan (serial killer thriller)
Karen Martini: Salads & Vegetables (cookery)
Clancy of the Overflow: verse by Banjo Patterson, drawings by Robert Ingpen
Jane Packer’s Flower Course: easy techniques for fabulous flower arranging
Gnome by Fred Blunt – Gnome is going fishing, and he is about to learn that it never pays to forget your manners!
Richard Scarry's Busy Busy Construction Site
Tilly by Jane Goodwin & Anna Walker – a wistful, timeless story about an old house, a young girl, and how the small things we hold dear stay with us
Killer Instinct by James Patterson & Howard Roughan (CD audiobook)
Texas Outlaw by James Patterson & Andrew Bourelle
I See You by Mary Burton, FBI special agent Zoe Spencer thriller (CD audiobook)
Mary Kate by Nadine Dorries (Liverpool family saga, CD audiobook)

Happy reading,

Melanie Y’lang | Branch Manager

P: 03 5585 9916

E:edenhope.library@wrlc.org.au | W: www.wrlc.org.au

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Primary & Secondary News, The Arts, Technology, Wellbeing, Careers Report

Issue 7 · 22 May 2020

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