Issue 2
F e b r u a r y 2 0 10
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
New Library
Cards
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Interesting Facts
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Pseudonyms
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What’s Online
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The Inglewood, Texas & Goondiwindi libraries have merged together to offer a more superior and
expansive service to our borrowers.
Goondiwindi Regional Council Library Service
Our new library cards offer you the ability to borrow from any of the
three libraries with the added benefit of being able to return those
books to any library … regardless of where you borrowed from.
Goondiwindi Library:(07) 4671 7470
Inglewood Library:
(07) 4652 0208
Texas Library:
(07) 4653 2611
Come into the library and sign up for your new membership card!
Hmmm … What
To Read? Adults
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Hmmm … What
to Read ? Teens
& Young Adults
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Quick Quiz
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@ the Library
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PLEASE PRESENT THIS CARD WHEN
We are always looking for new members … so don't be shy … come in and start borrowing today!
Remember … library membership is FREE for those living permanently in the region!!!
What have you got to lose? …..that’s right .. Absolutely nothing ….. hmmmm ... except for those
blissful hours you spend immerging yourself into a great novel ...
In 1939, an author
named Ernest Vincent
wrote a 50 000 word
called Gatsby. The only
thing unusual about the
novel is that there is
not a single ‘e’ in the
whole thing
It took Noah
Webster 36 years
to write his first
dictionary
One out of every eight letters you
read is the letter ‘e’
More than two and a half Bibles
have been made. If you put
them on a long bookshelf and
started driving at 90km/h, you
would have to drive for 40
hours per week for over four
months to get to the end
For the last 12
years of his
life, Casanova
was a librarian
In America they buy
57 books per second.
It would take a shelf
125.5 km long to
hold all of one days
books
Leo Tolstoy wrote a
large book called
War and Peace
before computers
and copying
machines. His wife
had to copy his
manuscripts by
hand seven times
Charles
Dickens
had to be
facing
north
before he
could
write a
word
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Pseudonyms, or pen names, are used in literature for a number of reason, but most importantly for marketing. An author’s readership expects his or her books to fall within a specific genre. If the author pens a novel outside that genre a pseudonym will keep the work separate. That way, the writer can build a fan base in both genres without disappointing fans with work that falls outside the realm of expectation. This facilitates fan loyalty, which translates to sales, and that keeps publishers happy. Pseudonym Author’s Real Name Acton Bell >>>>> Anne Bronte Anne Knish >>>>> Arthur Davison Ficke Anne Rice >>>>> Howard Allen O’Brian Artemus Ward >>>>> Charles Farrar Browne “Book lovers never go
to bed alone”
Barbara Cartland >>>>> Barbara McCorquodale Barbara Vine >>>>> Barbara Graseman Boz >>>>> Charles Dickens Currer Bell >>>>> Charlotte Bronte Daniel Defoe >>>>> Daniel Foe Doctor Suess >>>>> Theodore Seuss Geisel Ed McBain >>>>> Evan Hunter Elizabeth Peters >>>>> Barbara Mertz Ellis Bell >>>>> Emily Bronte George Eliot >>>>> Mary Ann Evans George Orwell >>>>> Eric Arthur Blair George Sand -Unknown
>>>>> Amandine Dupin Harold Robbins >>>>> Harold Rubin Jack Higgins >>>>> Harry Patterson James Herriot >>>>> James Alfred Wright John Beynon >>>>> John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris John Le Carre >>>>> David John Moore Cornwell Joseph Conrad >>>>> Jozef Teodor Nalecz Konrad Korzeniowski Lewis Carroll >>>>> Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Mahatma Kane Jeeves >>>>> WC Fields Mark Twain >>>>> Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mary Westmacott >>>>> Agatha Christie Richard Bachman >>>>> Stephen King Ruth Rendell >>>>> Barbara Graseman >>>>> Thomas Lanier Tennessee Williams Page 3
Publish your own work with Authonomy
Authonomy is a free writing-focused social network conceived by publishing house
HarperCollins. Community members upload their work, review and rate the work
of others and polish their writing for potential publication. Through the Authonomy
community, you can read writing guides by published authors, tips from HarperCollins editors, publication guides and more.
If you’re a writer, Authonomy is the place to show your face—and show off your
writing on the web.
You can register for free at http://www.authonomy.com/
ZipList Helps You Manage Your Shopping List
ZipList makes it easy for you to manage your shopping list by storing it online, and
you can share it with family members so they can add their own items or even
help you shop. You can also add and remove items via text message, email or
instant message.
If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch or Android, you can even download ZipList
apps for free.
Take a the tour or sign up for free at http://www.ziplist.com/mylist
Send Your Parents a Tech Support Care Package
Do you get frustrated when trying to explain computer basics to your family?
With Google’s Teach Parents web app you can send helpful tech support videos
to your family.
From changing desktop backgrounds, to upgrading browsers … No Problem!!!
20 Things I Learned About Browsers & the Web
This is an interactive web app meant to look like a children’s book.
The book’s contents is all about web technology. Interesting things about
the book include a clickable table of contents, a quick-jump area along the
bottom and if you hover over the corner of a page, it will even curl and the
bookmark which doubles as a share button.
Take a look at this book at http://www.20thingsilearned.com/
“Be as careful of the
books you read as the
company you keep”
-Paxton Hood
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Adult Fiction
TICK TOCK by James Patterson
A Bomb in one of New York’s busiest places is discovered before it
explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation to come.
DON’T BLINK by James Patterson
New York’s Lombardo’s Steak House is famous for three reasons: the
menu, the clientele and now the gruesome murder of an infamous mob
lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police’s fingers and his
absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit.
MORTAL REMAINS by Kathy Reichs
When Temp is called to the scene of an autoerotic death, she has little idea
of the tangled chain of events that will follow. Because the man whose
body she is examining apparently died in a helicopter crash in Vietnam 40
years before.
THE PLANTATION by Di Morrissey
When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild
Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her
great aunt. She decides to visit and what she discovers sends her spiraling
through generations of loves, deaths, tragedy and the challenges of the
present until she discovers her grandmother’s secret.
THE INDIGO SKY by Alison Booth
It is the spring of 1961 and the sleepy little town of Jingera is at its most
perfect with its clear blue skies, pounding surf and breathteaking lagoon.
Yet all is not so perfect behind closed doors. George Cadwallader—
butcher by day and stargazer by night—is loved by everyone, except his wife. He only
wants the best for his family—yet it’s all falling apart. Phillip Chapman is a sensitive
young boy, a musical prodigy—and a target for bullies. But with his wealthy parents
indifferent to his cries for help, and entire future is at risk. Then there’s Ilona Vincent
and her daughter, Zidra, former refugees, now fully-fledged ‘Jineroids’. When a voice
from the past reaches out to them, they’re soon in a race against time to reunite a family that has been cruelly torn apart …
“Once again weaving together the enchanting stories on Jinera and its townsfolk,
Alison Booth offers up a heart-warming sequel to the acclaimed Stillwater Creek”.
“ A library is thought
in cold storage”
-Herbert Samuel
Teens & Young Adults
FALLEN by Lauren Kate
What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?
17year old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy Daniel,
at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross … only to find
out that Daniel is a fallen angel and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good and evil forces plot to keep them
apart.
NIGHTSHADE by Andrea Cremer
She can control her pack, but not her heart …
While other teenage girls daydream about boys, Calla Tor imagines
ripping out her enemies throats. And she wouldn't have it any other
way. Calla was born a warrior and on her eighteenth birthday she’ll become the alpha
female of the next generation of Guardian wolves.
Officials
decide who people love. Where they work. When they die. But Cassia is determined to make some choices of her own. And that’s when her whole
world begins to unravel …
HUSH, HUSH by Becca Fitzpatrick
QUICK QUIZ ...
How well do you know the classics???
Q1. This story was written by the English writer Charles Dickens. A grumpy old miser named
Ebenezer Scrooge is transformed into a generous and kind person after being visited by three
ghosts who show him the error of his ways. What is the book’s title?
Q2. This French author wrote about space and undersea travel long before they were considered a real possibility and has often been called ‘the father of science fiction’. His books include such daring adventures as ‘A Journey to the Center of the Earth’, ‘Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea’ and ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’. Who was he?
Q3. An adventurous boy plays hooky from school and is made to whitewash a fence for his
mischief. The boy and his friend witness a murder in a graveyard, run away to become
‘pirates’, get lost in a cave. Mark Twain is the creator of this story which has been a favourite
Answers:
Q2. Jules Verne
Q3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
-Judah ibn-Tibbon
(12th Century)
MATCHED by Ally Condie
On her seventeenth birthday, Cassie meets her match. Society dictates
he is her perfect partner for life. Except he’s not. In Cassia’s society,
Q1. A Christmas Carol
“Make thy books thy
companions. Let thy
cases and shelves be thy
pleasure grounds and
gardens”
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Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day, is an annual
commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and
affection between intimate companions.
The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine
and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 500 AD. It was deleted from the Roman calendar of
saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI, but its religious observance is still permitted.
It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers,
offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as ‘valentines’). The day first became
associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the
tradition of courtly love flourished.
Modern Valentine’s Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves and the figure of the
winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have largely given way to
mass-produced greeting cards.