Our new management books claim they will help you master consultancy, spot ideas, become an exceptional manager, build a better business, get good people to stay, win the war against bloated bureacracy and distinguish between hard facts, dangerous half-truths and total nonsense. So, no powers of invisibility then.
Nina Dewdrop loves ballet; a goat travels on Cook’s first voyage and saves everyone from scurvy; a Tennessee mountain boy experiences the horrors of the American Civil War; kennel boy Brind is more dog than human; and Jax stumbles upon a mysterious monastery hidden deep in an ancient rainforest park. Visit MyLibrary for more new children’s fiction.
The characters in our new historical fiction recent picks include an East End gangland boss with a devastatingly attractive personality; Memnon of Rhodes; sensual dancer Nesrin; desperately poor Marjorie, unable dislodge her writer’s block; and Sunderland and Middlesbrough football marksman Brian Clough. Philippa Gregory is back with more on Henry VIII’s wives, and Bernard Cornwell with more of Richard Sharpe and the Napoleonic Wars.
Fiction about historical figures is featured on our seniors page.
From Shirley Bassey to Haydn, from Maurice Gee to Health solutions for sleep, our DVD and CD collection is full of great material. Also check out Smartview which allows you to view text, images and objects on an enlarged scale. For more information and new website picks, please visit our seniors page.
We have a few new magazines – Redbook (sex, parenting, food, health, beauty, fashion, celebrity profiles…), Invest today : for people who want more (New Zealand mag), Spoke : New Zealand’s mountain biking magazine – check them out at Central Library today.
Our children’s non-fiction picks look at Atlantis and other lost cities, how Egyptian pyramids were built, global warming and rare and endangered animals. New to the great cross-sections series with fascinatingly detailed pictures is ‘Greece: in spectacular cross-section’. ‘Pirates’ by John Matthews is a gorgeous book full of maps, letters tucked into envelopes and other intriguing tid-bits.
New popular music books this month include ‘Highway of legends : on the road with the kings and queens of country music’ by Dianne Haworth about NZ country music stars, Julian Cope on himself, and a definitive guide to heavy metal. ‘Life on Planet Rock : from Guns n’ Roses to Nirvana : a backstage journey through rock’s most debauched decade’ by music journo Lonn Friend is full of fascinating gossip.
Celebrate New Zealand Book Month by reading some NZ fiction or non-fiction. Our September featured genre is also NZ fiction.
There are more ideas on the official NZ Book Month 2006 website. “Thinking man’s rugby player” Anton Oliver recommends Owls do cry by Janet Frame, When gravity snaps by Owen Marshall and Footfall by Brian Turner. Naked Samoan Oscar Kightly recommends The God boy by Ian Cross, The halfmen of O by Maurice Gee and The mango’s kiss by Albert Wendt.
“Smart and punchy” new book ‘Disaster movies’ has four exclamation points in its title, so I’ve gone one better. Anne Billson unravels Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s magic and examines her antecedents and influences. ‘Getting Lost’ collects essays on the hit TV series from people such as science-fiction writer Adam-Troy Castro and paranormal-romance author MaryJanice Davidson. Want more new movie books? Check out our movies page.
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