Archive | New Releases

Pamela Cook –

Australian fiction. This is a touching story about finding yourself and learning from past mistakes.Ignoring the recurring dreams that have been keeping her awake night after night and the creeping uncertainty about her impending marriage Miranda takes off on a road trip in search of answers to the family mystery but also in search of herself.

To reserve a copy of this book, email: loans@buderimlibrary.org.au

Kate Rhodes –

The first death looked like a suicide, but someone had tucked a picture of an angel and a handful of white feathers into the banker’s pocket before pushing him in front of a train. A killer is stalking The Square Mile – the financial district in London – an avenging angel intent on punishment. But why these victims? What were their sins? Psychologist Alice Quentin swore she’d never get involved with police work again. But she owes Detective Don Burns a favour.

To reserve a copy, email: loans@buderimlibrary.org.au

From the bestselling author of No God but God comes a provocative and well-researched biography challenging long-held assumptions about Jesus. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor.

To reserve this book, email: loans@buderimlibrary.org.au

Louis Nowra 

Reveals stories and a cast of characters – some household names others little-known – that not even a writer could conjure up. Kings Cross is a no-holds barred place, where backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, mad men, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, sailors, musicians, drug traffickers, eccentrics, judges and artists live side by side. Part flaneur, part historian and part eyewitness, Louis Nowra is the best possible guide to a place both real, and a state of mind.

To reserve this book please email loans@buderimlibrary.org.au

Chris Barns –

Brolga (aka Chris Barns) is the Aussie star of the extraordinary BBC series Kangaroo Dundee. Brolga lives in a simple tin shed in the outback where he raises orphaned baby kangaroos. It is a sad fact of life that kangaroo mothers are at the mercy of speeding cars in this part of the world – killed on the road, their young still tucked up in their pouches. These young joeys holding on to life, have been given a second chance thanks to the kindness and dedication of Brolga, who carefully retrieves them and nurses them back to health. Brolga has been rescuing these special creatures for years, slowly and painstakingly creating a kangaroo sanctuary for the many kangaroos he has saved, reared and loved. Charting Brolga’s life with the joeys and honing in on his relationship with one or two in particular, Kangaroo Dundee tells the heart-warming, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant story of one man’s unique relationship with a group of extraordinary animals.

To reserve this book please email loans@buderimlibrary.org.au

Thomas Keneally, Rosie Scott (ed.) –

One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. Australian writers (27 in all), including Christos Tsiolkas, Rodney Hall, Arnold Zable, Robin de Crepigny, Anna Funder, Elliot Pearlman, and Gail Jones explore the asylum seeker experience.

To reserve this book please email loans@buderimlibrary.org.au

Jung Chang –

Empress Dowager Cixi is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for forty-seven years and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines and sexual partners. When Xianfeng died in 1861, their five-year-old son Tongzhi became the next emperor. Cixi at once launched a palace coup, ousted the regents appointed by her husband and made herself the real ruler of China. Jung Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, the telegraph, an army and navy with up to date weaponry.

To reserve this book please email loans@buderimlibrary.org.au

Jim Eames –

From the ridiculous to the downright dangerous, the story of Australian aviation is full of tales of adventure and nation building. It is also a story about tragedy and eccentric characters with wild larrikin spirits. Jim Eames brings together the great forgotten and untold tales of Australian aviation. There are the stories of the Catalina flying boats that were Australia’s only aviation link to the UK during World War II and that of Qantas’ record-breaking non-stop flight across the world, long-forgotten hijacks and the dramas of the Darwin airlifts after Cyclone Tracy.

To reserve this book please email loans@buderimlibrary.org.au

Kellee Slater — stories from my surgical life – 

In this inspiring, heartbreaking and blackly funny memoir, Kellee opens up the fast-paced world of donor surgery. She takes us with her as she flies to collect transplant organs, rushes out of a department store change room to save the life of a toddler who is choking to death.

To reserve this book please email loans@buderimlibrary.org.au

In the tough world of Queensland sugar mills, it’s not only cane that is crushed …

In 1881 ‘Big Jim’ Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour.

The massive estate becomes a self-sufficient fortress, a cane-consuming monster and home to hundreds of workers, but ‘Elianne’ and its masters, the Durham Family, have dark and distant secrets; secrets that surface in the wildest and most inflammatory of times, the 1960s.

For Kate Durham and her brothers Neil and Alan, freedom is the catchword of the decade. Young Australians leap to the barricades of the social revolution. Rock ‘n’ roll, the Pill, the Vietnam War, the rise of Feminism, Asian immigration and the Freedom Ride join forces to rattle the chains of traditional values.

The workers leave the great sugar estates as mechanisation lessens the need for labour. And the Durham family, its secrets exposed, begins its fall from grace.

To reserve this book please email loans@buderimlibrary.org.au