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Tuesday – Make and Take Craft 

Each Tuesday lunchtime in the library Make and Take Craft activities are available. These are small craft projects you can complete during lunch and take with you. Activities include beadwork, origami, clay, mindful colouring, zines and badge making. All materials are provided free, and all are welcome.  

On Tuesday 22 August it's DIY library tote bags. Come and decorate a library tote bag to celebrate Book Week. All materials provided, all welcome. 

We also invite you to submit your craft ideas. 

 Wednesday– Book Club, lunchtimes in M3 

The library runs an active student led Book Club each Wednesday lunchtime in M3. Come along to join in book discussions, group reads, author events and other book related fun.  

All welcome. 

Please speak to library staff if you are interested in being added to the Make and Take Team.  

New books in the library  

 Here is another selection of great new titles that you can borrow from the library. 

Football Fever: Gala Day 

Everyone's got football fever!  Following their success at the National High Potential Pathway program for Australia's future football stars, the Under 11s Merridale Fever are set to finish their season on a high - if they can win their last game against rivals Newhurst FC, the one team they have never beaten. But before this can happen, a huge storm damages their clubhouse and fields and threatens to cancel their end-of-season Gala Day. Can help from some football greats be the motivation the team needs to be their best both on and off the pitch? 

In the Secret Place 

What does a teenage boy do when he has no friends? When everyone who knows him sneers. When he is laughed at to his face? The answer is simple. That boy chooses his own path. That boy makes his own way in life. That boy grows stronger. He finds his secret place and there - alone, in the dark - he grows even stronger. Ben Gardner is such a boy. Ben Gardner could be you.....  

Inkflower Lisa’s father has six months to live. And a story to tell about a boy sent to Auschwitz. A boy who lost everything and started again. A story he has kept hidden – until now.  But Lisa doesn’t want to hear it, because she has secrets too. No one at school knows she is Jewish or that her dad is sick. Not even her boyfriend.  But that’s all about to change. And so is she. 

Mao Exorcise your destiny in an era-spanning supernatural adventure from manga legend Rumiko Takahashi!  When Nanoka travels back in time to a supernatural early 20th century, she gets recruited by aloof exorcist Mao. What is the thread of fate that connects them? Together, they seek answers...and kick some demon butt along the way!  Nanoka passes through a portal into the Taisho era, where exorcist Mao reluctantly rescues her from the jaws of a grotesque yokai. When Nanoka gets back to the present, she discovers she has some new, incredible abilities. She returns to the past looking for answers, only to get caught up in Mao’s investigation of a series of gruesome murders. As her questions about herself multiply, Nanoka learns that Mao is cursed by a cat demon named Byoki—and so is his sword. If anyone but Mao attempts to wield it, they are doomed. But when Mao’s life is in jeopardy, Nanoka picks up his blade and swings! 

The Other Ones 

Sal lives in a haunted house. He longs to be ordinary, but when the strangest of strangers arrives on his doorstepâ"a fellow outcast called Paxâ"his life grows even more complicated. Sal goes on to develop an unlikely friendship with Pax, whose love for all things spooky drew him to the house and its inhabitants. But as the two grow closer, the true nature of the hauntings is gradually revealed. Will Sal find the courage to conquer his ghosts or will he risk losing Pax for good? 

Girl, Goddess, Queen 

To hell with love, this goddess has other plans...  Thousands of years ago, the gods told a lie- how Persephone was a pawn in the politics of other gods. How Hades kidnapped Persephone to be his bride. How her mother, Demeter, was so distraught she caused the Earth to start dying.  The real story is much more interesting.  Persephone wasn't taken to hell- she jumped. There was no way she was going to be married off to some smug god more in love with himself than her.  Now all she has to do is convince the Underworld's annoyingly sexy, arrogant and frankly rude ruler, Hades, to fall in line with her plan. A plan that will shake Mount Olympus to its very core.  But consequences can be deadly, especially when you're already in hell . . . 

 Come visit us in the library to see the full selection of new books we have on offer. 

Ripples 2022 : Don't forget to pick up your copy

Please remember if you have paid for a copy of Ripples 2022, copies are available for pick up in the library. If you are not sure if you paid for a copy, come to the library and staff can check for you. 

Thanks 

Library Staff