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The roadmap of loss / Liam Murphy.

"It's 1997 in Melbourne, Australia, and Mark Ward is struggling to make sense of the world following the sudden death of his mother. His father, Dylan, had abandoned him and his mother when Mark was still a child, and Mark has always believed he died in a car accident shortly afterwards. For most of his life, he has carried an unjustifiable sense of guilt about his father's absence, overlaid with memories of him as a cruel and unloving man. Clearing out his mother's house, a bereft, rapidly deteriorating Mark is shocked to discover a collection of letters written to her by Dylan -- some of which postdate his supposed death. Discussing life and love, fears and dreams, set against the backdrop of his bohemian travels across the United States, Dylan's letters become beacons for Mark, who sees in them a final chance to achieve closure, as well as his own redemption. With a burning suspicion that Dylan may still be out there, Mark decides to retrace the journey taken by his estranged father twenty years earlier ... Alone in a foreign land, the search for peace soon becomes a battle with loneliness, addiction and nihilism as Mark begins to see in himself reflections of the father he grew up resenting." -- Back cover.
Author: Murphy, Liam
Published: Sydney, NSW : Echo Publishing, 2024.
Published: ©2024
357 pages, 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - MURP - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 010916222

Dark arena / Jack Beaumont.

When a DGSE agent is brutally murdered in front of his family, the 'Company' swings into action, determined to track down the killers. Meanwhile operative Alec de Payns of the secretive Y Division is turning a Russian intelligence officer by blackmail. His team must establish who is posting classified material against the Kremlin to embassies all over Europe. The clues lead to a secret meeting of businessmen, terrorists and mercenaries on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean, which Alec must infiltrate. What he discovers there will set Europe on course for catastrophe. Can de Payns and his team establish who is setting up an assassination? Who is the target? And will they be able to stop it?
Author: Beaumont, Jack (Former fighter pilot)
Published: Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2024.
Published: ©2024
436 pages ; 24 cm.
Frenchman (Series) ; 2.
Average rating: (1 review)
11 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BEAU - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 010916147
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BEAU - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 22 Apr 2024) - 010916185
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BEAU - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 010982128
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BEAU - In-transit from Beaumaris Library to Hampton Library (Set: 24 Apr 2024) - 010994763
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BEAU - Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 - 010994800
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Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BEAU - Onloan - Due: 06 May 2024 - 010988212

The ghost orchid / Jonathan Kellerman.

Los Angeles is a city of reinvention. Many come to start anew, to strike it big. Many kill the person they once were, the person they left behind. And in turn, someone else can turn around and kill them, too--permanently. A housekeeper enters a secluded, upscale home and discovers two bodies, the heir of an Italian shoe empire and an unknown woman, floating in the swimming pool. The house is untouched, but a "double" in Bel Air certainly makes this case stand out from the usual. No forced entry means this could have been an inside job. After all, the woman floating in the pool is revealed to be Meagin March, a married neighbor from down the street, who lives in an even more opulent and sprawling mansion. Married woman having an affair? That's a perfect motive. But not everything is as it seems. At her wedding, Meagin had no family and a tip from Meagin's mother-in-law raises their suspicions. Who was she, exactly?
Author: Kellerman, Jonathan
Published: London : Century, 2024.
Published: ©2024
290 pages ; 24 cm.
Alex Delaware novels ; 39.
Average rating: (1 review)

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - KELL - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 010995388
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Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - KELL - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 010995364
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - KELL - Onloan - Due: 20 May 2024 - 010995395

Lone wolf / Gregg Hurwitz.

"AN ASSASSIN IN FREEFALL. Following a career in which he was always the most dangerous man in the room, ex-government assassin Evan Smoak is the last person his friends should ever have to worry about. But when Evan, formerly codenamed Orphan X, drops out of sight they're concerned. They were right to be. A personal crisis has left him on his knees. A RECLUSIVE BILLIONAIRE. If anyone remembered his first name they never cared to use it. But Allman's lack of empathy hasn't proven any barrier to building a tech empire whose tentacles reach into every aspect of people's lives. And in the rush to praise his genius, no one's asking what it could mean for humanity. Nor what Allman's got coming next. A KILLER AT LARGE. Someone is leaving a trail of dead in their wake. Apparently chosen at random, their deaths dressed up as accidents or suicides. The woman responsible is known only as the Wolf and looks to be every bit Evan's equal. She now has him in her sights. How does it all connect? What is at stake? And will Evan rediscover the instinct and skill he needs to prevail? Or die trying . . ."-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Hurwitz, Gregg
Published: [London] : Penguin Michael Joseph, 2024.
Published: ©2024
419 pages ; 24 cm.
Orphan X novel ; 9.
Average rating: (1 review)
7 reserves

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - HURW - Onloan - Due: 24 Apr 2024 - 010988656
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - HURW - Onloan - Due: 06 May 2024 - 010994404

The atlas maneuver / Steve Berry.

1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day. Retired Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is in Switzerland doing a favor for a friend. But what was supposed to be a simple operation turns violent and Cotton is thrust into a war between the world's oldest bank and the CIA, a battle that directly involves the Black Eagle Trust. He quickly discovers that everything hinges on a woman from his past, who suddenly reappears harboring a host of explosive secrets centering around bitcoin. The cryptocurrency is being quietly weaponized, readied for an assault on the world's financial systems, a calculated move that will have devastating consequences. Cotton has no choice. He has to act. But at what cost?
Author: Berry, Steve, 1955-
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.
Published: ©2024
vi, 401 pages ; 24 cm.
Cotton Malone novels ; 18.
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - BERR - Onloan - Due: 20 May 2024 - 010988830

The 24th hour / James Patterson & Maxine Paetro.

The Women's Murder Club is out celebrating an engagement at San Francisco's finest restaurant when a blood-curdling scream interrupts the festivities. They soon discover a young woman who has been the victim of a violent assault. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer makes an arrest. Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano takes the case. But assigning blame is made impossible due to the victim's chaotic version of events - and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing memory. As Yuki argues the toughest case of her career, Lindsay must chase down a high-society killer whose target practice may leave the Women's Murder Club short a bridesmaid... or two.
Author: Patterson, James, 1947-
Published: London : Century, 2024.
Published: ©2024
369 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Women's murder club ; 24.
Average rating: (1 review)
10 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - PATT - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 010990239
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - PATT - Onloan - Due: 06 May 2024 - 010990246
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - 813.00 - On order
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - 813.00 - On order

Argylle [Paperback] / Elly Conway.

"A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special. Enter Argylle, a troubled agent with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world. If only he can save himself first."-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Conway, Elly
Published: London : Bantam, 2024.
Published: ©2024
ix, 367 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
6 reserves

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - CONW - In-transit from Sandringham Library to Hampton Library (Set: 23 Apr 2024) - 010988762

The Rivertown vet / Jennifer Scoullar.

Local vet Jana Malinski is content with her quiet life in Rivertown helping her sister run a wombat sanctuary on their family's serene property by the Murray River. But Jana's routine is up-ended after a chance encounter with handsome lawyer and single dad Mark - the man who broke her heart in high school. Jana has never forgiven him for the tragic consequences of his betrayal, and when it turns out he doesn't remember her at all, she hates him even more. Offered a chance to run Wildfell Park, the town zoo that has fallen into disrepair, Jana must push past her hostility to save the local landmark and home to countless native and exotic animals, all with their own unique quirks and entertaining personalities. But working alongside Mark every day isn't easy, and Jana can't shake the undeniable attraction between them. While she fights her feelings, a new danger emerges - one that could threaten the existence of Wildfell Park and Jana's dreams of building a life with Mark, the man she hopes has truly changed . . .Set in the gorgeous river country of South Australia and with a thrilling enemies-to-lovers romance at its core, The Rivertown Vet is a heartfelt and charming tale about community, forgiveness and not allowing your past to define your future.
Author: Scoullar, Jennifer
Published: [Southbanl, VIC] : Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024
378 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - SCOU - Onloan - Due: 23 May 2024 - 010997061

You Are Here / Nicholls, David. [TP]

Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck - hiding alone in her London flat. Then Michael and Marnie are tossed together on the most epic of ten-day hikes. Could this be exactly what they've been looking for?
Author: Nicholls, David
Published: London, UK : Sceptre, 2024.
Average rating: (1 review)
20 reserves

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - 823.00 - On order
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - 823.00 - On order
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - 823.00 - On order
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - 823.00 - On order

Cuisinart Ice Cream Machine with Compressor 1.5L [Library of Things Kit]

Torn between gelato and ice cream? Having the Cuisinart Ice Cream Machine with Compressor on your counter lets you do either. Using its two specially designed paddles, you can make pistachio gelato or strawberry ice cream any time with the freshest ingredients. And when the timer goes off, the only thing left to do is to choose whether to enjoy your frozen treat with a cookie or wafer cone.
Average rating: (1 review)
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3 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Library of Things - Available - 009897228

Five days in November / Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin Hill.

The retired United States Secret Service agent who is remembered for his courageous actions in the presidential motorcade after JFK was shot shares his memories of the five days leading up to, and after, that tragic day in November 1963.
Author: Hill, Clint
Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Published: New York : Gallery Books, 2023.
Published: ©2013
xiii, 270 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 973.922 KEN - Available - 011003303

Prophet song / Paul Lynch.

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of Ireland. Things are falling apart. Ireland is in the grip of a government that is taking a turn towards tyranny. And as the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society assailed by unpredictable forces beyond her control and forced to do whatever it takes to keep her family together. Exhilarating, terrifying, propulsive and confrontational, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality and devastating insight, a novel that can be read as a parable of the present, the future and the past.
Author: Lynch, Paul, 1977-
Published: London : Oneworld Publications, 2023.
Published: ©2023
309 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
20 reserves

14 copies

Days of innocence and wonder / Lucy Treloar.

When someone is taken away, what is left behind? All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend and her tormented wondering about whether she could have stopped it. When Till, now twenty-three, senses danger approaching again, she flees her past and the hovering presence of her fearful parents. In Wirowie, a town on its knees, she stops and slowly begins creating a new life and home. But there is something menacing here too. Till must decide whether she can finally face down, even pursue, the darkness - or whether she'll flee once more and never stop running.
Author: Treloar, Lucy
Published: Sydney, New South Wales : Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2023.
Published: ©2023
321 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
4 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TREL - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 26 Apr 2024) - 010925071
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TREL - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 010920403
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TREL - Onloan - Due: 26 May 2024 - 010916208
Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TREL - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 010936473
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TREL - Onloan - Due: 06 May 2024 - 010936527

The in-between / Christos Tsiolkas.

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace, heart and wisdom. No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men meet on an internet date. Each has been scarred by a previous relationship; each has his own compelling reasons for giving up on the idea of finding love. But still they both turn up for the dinner, feel the spark and the possibility of something more. Feel the fear of failing again, of being hurt and humiliated and further annihilated by love. How can they take the risk of falling in love again. How can they not? A tender, affecting novel of love, of hope, of forgiveness by one of our most fearless and truthful interpreters of the human heart.
Author: Tsiolkas, Christos, 1965-
Published: Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
Published: ©2023
376 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
2 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TSIO - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 010942795
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TSIO - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 010942801
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TSIO - Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 - 010942825
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TSIO - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 010942849
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TSIO - Onloan - Due: 01 May 2024 - 010942818
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TSIO - Onloan - Due: 06 May 2024 - 010942832
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TSIO - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 20 Apr 2024) - 010980704
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TSIO - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 22 Apr 2024) - 010982203

Deep in the forest / Erina Reddan.

Fed up with being shunned by locals for a crime she didn't commit, Charli Trenthan plans to leave Stone Lake. But when she receives a cryptic message from a member of the Sanctuary, a conservative closed community on the edge of town, she is determined to track down its author. Crossing the forest, close to the Sanctuary, Charli makes a gruesome discovery and finds herself, once again, a key suspect in a criminal investigation. As she fights to prove her innocence and digs deeper into the Sanctuary, with danger mounting from all sides, she uncovers some shattering secrets. A gripping thriller with vivid and shimmering prose, and a shocking conclusion that will leave you spellbound, Deep in the Forest raises questions about who we trust and why.
Author: Reddan, Erina
Published: Neutral Bay, NSW : Pantera Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
295 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - REDD - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 010924456

So late in the day / Claire Keegan.

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed. From one of the finest writers working today, Keegan's new story asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women. Is it possible to love without sharing?
Author: Keegan, Claire
Published: London : Faber & Faber Ltd, 2023.
Published: ©2023
47 pages ; 17 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
14 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KEEG - Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 - 010943280
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KEEG - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 010943297
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KEEG - In-transit from Beaumaris Library to Sandringham Library (Set: 26 Apr 2024) - 010943273
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KEEG - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 22 Apr 2024) - 010943310
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KEEG - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 010943303

The scope of permissibility / Zeynab Gamieldien.

How do you balance desire, ambition and expectations? Feeling alienated from wider society, Sara, Abida and Naeem gravitate towards their university's Muslim Students' Association. Within its austere confines, Sara watches Naeem. Over time, the pair commence a furtive relationship outside of the gaze of their families and peers. But Naeem is especially burdened by the widening gap between his public façade and their clandestine forays. As the MSA elections approach, Abida seeks to win the presidency at all costs, threatening her longstanding friendship with Sara and risking her reputation. What will the repercussions be for all three if Sara and Naeem transgressions are exposed?
Author: Gamieldien, Zeynab
Published: Gadigal Country ; Ultimo, NSW : Ultimo Press, 2023.
Published: ©2023
314 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - GAMI - Available - 010699385

Hard fire / J.B. Turner.

Jon Reznick is not a man to cross. A brutally effective black-ops veteran, Reznick has a history of taking the law into his own hands. So when a group of masked men murders his closest friend, he swears to exact vengeance. The now-deceased Bill Eastland had been Reznick's last living tie to his father, leaving him devastated... and furious. Whether or not the FBI approves, he swears to hunt down whoever issued the hit on his friend. With the help of hacker Trevelle Williams, Reznick tracks the masked murderers from Maine to Texas to New York, quickly becoming embroiled in the shadowy world of the Aryan Brotherhood and the Mafia. As Reznick's own body count begins to climb, clues lead him to one of the most dangerous crime families in New York, headed by the infamous Paul Moretti. But FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein has just learned a crucial secret that could derail Reznick's quest for revenge, Moretti is a high-level FBI informant. Reznick faces a stark choice: take on the FBI and risk severing ties with Martha, or inflict his own form of rigorous justice no matter the possible fallout. How far will he go, and how many government agencies will he undermine, to get retribution for his best friend's death? He might just have to create his own set of rules.
Author: Turner, J. B.
Published: Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2022]
Published: ©2022
327 pages ; 20 cm
Jon Reznick thriller ; 10.
Average rating: (1 review)

Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - TURN - Available - 010938668

The Italian girl / Anita Abriel.

Rome, 1943: Marina Tozzi adores her father Vittorio and working together in his art gallery is her only escape from the reality of the Nazi occupation. Not only has Marina inherited her father's passion for art but she is earning a reputation as an expert in own right. However, Vittorio is keeping a deadly secret from his daughter. He has been hiding a Jewish artist in their basement and one day Marina returns home to find her father has been brutally murdered by a German officer. Devastated, Marina flees to Florence to seek help from a man who owes Vittorio his life. Renowned American art expert Bernard Berenson offers Marina sanctuary in his villa outside Florence and a job cataloguing his vast art library. Marina is grateful but has vowed to find a way to avenge her father. When handsome young artist Carlos proposes that Marina use her expertise to help the partisan cause against the Nazis, she has at last found her purpose. In one daring and ingenious act, Marina risks her life to save a priceless painting from falling into Nazi hands and proves her worth to the partisans. But falling in love with Carlos was not part of her plan. When Carlos suddenly disappears, Marina's dreams about building a life with him after the war turn to ash. She will have to travel halfway around the world to unravel the past - and find her future.
Author: Abriel, Anita
Published: Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2022.
Published: ©2022
315 pages ; 24 cm.
Average rating: (1 review)

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ABRI - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 010612995
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ABRI - Available - 010466017

100% unofficial. Among us playbook / Matt Yeo ; designed by Grant Kempster.

There's a parasitic shapeshifter on the loose and it's your job to work out who it is. Discover everything you need to survive in the smash-hit multiplayer detective game with the Among Us Playbook . Learn how to keep your space stations afloat by completing tasks, explore detailed maps of the locations you'll be trapped in, and master tips and tricks to decipher the identity of the imposter. Or maybe you need them to fool the crew instead. Whether you're a seasoned investigator or a sus noob, there's something in this Playbook for any fan of Among Us.
Author: Yeo, Matt, 1970-
Published: London : Egmont UK Limited, 2021.
Published: ©2021
63 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm.
100% unofficial
Average rating: (1 review)

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Junior Non-Fiction Leisure - J 794 YEO - Available - 010491811

The immortality key : the secret history of the religion with no name / Brian C. Muraresku ; foreword by Graham Hancock.

A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine throughout Western history, and the answer to a 2,000 year old mystery that could shake the Church to its foundations. The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity-exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. In the tradition of unsolved historical mysteries like David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon and Douglas Preston's The Lost City of the Monkey God, Brian C. Muraresku's 10-year investigation takes the reader through Greece, Germany, Spain, France and Italy, offering unprecedented access to the hidden archives of the Louvre and the Vatican along the way.
Author: Muraresku, Brian
First international edition.
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
Published: ©2020
xx, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs - 204.2 MUR - Available - 010929222

The light after the war [Paperback] / Anita Abriel.

In 1946 two young Hungarian refugees arrive in Naples determined to start a new life after losing everyone they loved before the war. Vera Frankel and her best friend, Edith Ban, are haunted by their terrifying escape from a train headed for Auschwitz after their mothers threw them from the carriage, promising they would follow. But instead the girls found themselves alone in a frozen, alien land. They managed to find refuge and barter for their lives by working on an isolated farm in Austria until the end of the war. Armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work and new hope at the United States Embassy and, despite her best intentions, falls in love the handsome and enigmatic Captain Anton Wight. But as Vera and Edith grapple with the aftermath of the war, so too does Anton, and when he suddenly disappears, Vera is forced to drastically change course. Their quest to overcome their terrible losses and rebuild their lives takes Vera and Edith from Naples to Ellis Island to Venezuela and finally Sydney as they begin to build careers, reunite with old friends - and find love.
Author: Abriel, Anita
Published: Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2020.
Published: ©2020
340 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ABRI - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 010120582
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ABRI - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 010181651

Tangled up in Texas / Delores Fossen.

Between running his family ranch and dealing with far too many needy relatives, Shaw Jameson doesn't have time for more trouble. But when his first love, former-child-star-turned-businesswoman Sunny Dalton, returns to Lone Star Ridge, Shaw senses things are about to get a whole lot more interesting. Shaw isn't prepared for the memories that come flooding back now...or the reignited spark between them that turns into a raging inferno. Still, this gorgeous cowboy will do everything he can not to get burned a second time. Because Sunny never promised this visit was permanent and Shaw has no intention of giving up the land he loves. Letting Sunny go again is certain to leave a Texas-sized mark on his soul-and a permanent wall around his heart. Unless he can prove their small town holds the promise of the future they both always imagined.
Author: Fossen, Delores
Published: Sydney, NSW : Mira, 2020.
Published: ©2020
318 pages ; 24 cm.
Lone Star Ridge ; 1
Average rating: (1 review)

Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - FOSS - Available - 010110118

Wolfe Island [Paperback] / Lucy Treloar.

"Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the company of her wolfdog, Girl - unconcerned by the world outside, or perhaps avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following her granddaughter, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will fight to save her as fiercely as her name suggests... A richly imagined and mythic parable of home and kin that cements Lucy Treloar's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists."--Back cover.
Author: Treloar, Lucy
Published: Sydney, NSW : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2019.
Published: ©2019
389 pages ; 24 cm.
Average rating: (1 review)

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TREL - Available - 009856393
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TREL - Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 - 009856416
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - TREL - Available - 010117292

A dangerous game / Heather Graham.

Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do--he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it. But the Finnegans have a knack for getting into trouble, and Kieran won't sit idle when a lead surfaces through her family's pub. Investigating on her own, she uncovers a dangerous group that plays fast and loose with human lives and will stop at nothing to keep their secrets--and they plan to silence Kieran before she can expose their deadly enterprise.
Author: Graham, Heather
Published: Toronto, Ontario : MIRA Books, [2018]
Published: ©2018
329 pages ; 24 cm.
New York confidential ; 3
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Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - GRAH - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 009560825

The cat who went into the closet [eAudioBook] / Lilian Jackson Braun.

When Qwill rents Euphonia's Gage's mansion in Moose County, he and Koko soon discover closet after closet jammed with several generations of junk. Meanwhile, the mansion's former occupant is enjoying a new life in warm, sunny Florida. Or is she? Word soon comes that Euphonia is dead, an apparent suicide. Why would someone so happy and full of life kill herself? And what is the connection between the Gage family and potato farmer Gil Inchpot, who is found buried in the snow with a bullet in his head? Can Qwill and the cats uncover a family secret before the winter yields another dead body?
Author: Braun, Lilian Jackson
Unabridged.
Published: [United States] : Phoenix Books, Inc., 2006.
Published: Made available through hoopla
1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 39 min.)) : digital.
Cat Who.... Spoken word ; bk. 15
Cat Who ... (Audio)
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