We have new cooking books on the pleasures of slow food, children’s cooking, biodynamic foods, sweets from Savannah’s Lady and sons and the appealingly personal ‘A tale of 12 kitchens: family cooking in four countries’. For the adventurous, Tessa Kiros’ gorgeous ‘Apples for jam: recipes for life’ arranges food by colour.
New science books for July include ‘Frogs : a chorus of colors’, ‘Butterflies of the world’, ‘The illustrated encyclopedia of dinosaurs’ and ‘Galileo’s instruments of credit : telescopes, images, secrecy’. Well-known mathematician Ian Stewart explains what it’s like to be a mathematician. In ‘Chances are… : adventures in probability’, we realise “once you know that daisies usually have an odd number of petals, you can get anyone to love you.”
Our Indigenous peoples resources page highlights books and articles throughout our collection on Māori and first nations of the world. Topics covered include culture, education, environment, sovereignty and literature.
New graphic novels this month feature a lab experiment gone disastrously awry, a beautiful young Japanese woman who can raise the dead, Nikolai Dante (thief, brigand and bastard son of the Romanovs), a camp counselor in 1979 Quebec, and a desert road trip. Comic great Will Eisner’s The plot : the secret story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion dramatises the anti-Semitic hoax, exploring its twisted history from nineteenth-century Russia to modern-day Ku Klux Klan members and Islamic fundamentalists.
DIY and gardening recent picks include lasagna gardening (layering), creating a cosy winter house, tailoring, curtain-making and one-minute organising.
Booklists – new fiction, large print, DVDs and music. We have fiction about wanton redheads, the smell of the moon, dolphin people and the single gentleman’s dining club. We have large print books about Pope Benedict XVI, an ice queen and the pride of Lancashire. New DVDs include The standard of perfection – show cats & show cattle, Love of quilting, The best of queer eye, FIFA fever, Dirty Harry, She-devils on wheels, Walk the line, The Beatles down under, Ricky Gervais live and 8 1/2. And more. Much, much more.
New bestsellers this week include Janet Evanovich’s Twelve Sharp and Frank Schätzing’s The swarm. A publishing phenomenon in Germany, the English version of ecological thriller The swarm was translated by Sally-Ann Spencer of Houghton Bay.
Wellington City Council has voted to end the Mobile Library service. The last day for full library services will be Friday 30 June 2006. More information is available on our website.
New NZ fiction on leftie Wellington students in the 1970s, a brush maker, colonials in London on their OE, a dour missionary uncle and a bird scientist. And isn’t this the best – “A missile has shot down Air Force One after it took off from Christchurch, New Zealand. A call was made to the Washington Post earlier that day from a group claiming responsibility for the assassination of President Cleveland. For Susan Hill, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, it’s a personal tragedy and a national one.” From the book jacket of Unseen element by Bill Rodger.
New computing books this month cover home internet security, Linux toys, Illustrator CS2, Photoshop CS2, Mozilla’s open source browser Firefox, and more.
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