https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=SVL(DIYNEW)&QRYTEXT=DIY%20Book%20Club%20Recently%20Added%20Kits&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=561317&CF=BIB Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now enter an unfamiliar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble? As Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court's eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferranese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, the new duchess's future hangs entirely in the balance. Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now enter an unfamiliar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble? As Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court's eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferranese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, the new duchess's future hangs entirely in the balance.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-<br />First Vintage Books edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022.<br />339 pages ; 21 cm.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011163458<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=561318&CF=BIB <span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Harper, Jane<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Sydney, NSW : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2023.<br />1 volume.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011163441<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=526142&CF=BIB A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory. But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking here-is it only the daughter? And what is the real reason behind this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey? At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world. Selected from more than 1,500 entries, Cold Enough for Snow won the Novel Prize, a new, biennial award offered by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), and Giramondo (Australia), for any novel written in English that explores and expands the possibilities of the form. A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory. But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking here-is it only the daughter? And what is the real reason behind this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey? At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world. Selected from more than 1,500 entries, Cold Enough for Snow won the Novel Prize, a new, biennial award offered by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), and Giramondo (Australia), for any novel written in English that explores and expands the possibilities of the form.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Au, Jessica<br />First New Directions edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />95 pages ; 21 cm.<br />New Directions paperbook ; 1522.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 011014064<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=526146&CF=BIB Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does sometimes wonder where her true roots lie. Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does sometimes wonder where her true roots lie.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Wang, Weike<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Melbourne, VIC : Text Publishing, 2022.<br />23 cm.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011163786<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=526350&CF=BIB A NYTBR Editors Choice This is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility. It is powerful and humane and deserves to find a wide, wandering readership. A NYTBR Editors Choice This is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility. It is powerful and humane and deserves to find a wide, wandering readership.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Aikins, Matthieu<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York, USA : HarperCollins, 2022.<br />325 p. 24 cm.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011014057<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=557031&CF=BIB On a sweltering Friday afternoon in Durton, best friends Ronnie and Esther leave school together. Esther never makes it home. Ronnie's going to find her, she has a plan. Lewis will help. Their friend can't be gone, Ronnie won't believe it. Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels can believe it. She has seen what people are capable of. She knows more than anyone how, in a moment of weakness, a person can be driven to do something they never thought possible. Lewis can believe it too. But he can't reveal what he saw that afternoon at the creek without exposing his own secret. Five days later, Esther's buried body is discovered. On a sweltering Friday afternoon in Durton, best friends Ronnie and Esther leave school together. Esther never makes it home. Ronnie's going to find her, she has a plan. Lewis will help. Their friend can't be gone, Ronnie won't believe it. Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels can believe it. She has seen what people are capable of. She knows more than anyone how, in a moment of weakness, a person can be driven to do something they never thought possible. Lewis can believe it too. But he can't reveal what he saw that afternoon at the creek without exposing his own secret. Five days later, Esther's buried body is discovered.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Scrivenor, Hayley<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022.<br />359 pages ; 25 cm.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 011014576<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=526115&CF=BIB Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Shriver, Lionel<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London, UK : HarperCollins, 2021.<br />352 p. 20 cm.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011163762<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=526117&CF=BIB Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. A masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. A masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Mbue, Imbolo<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Edinburgh, UK : Canongate, 2021.<br />21 cm.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011014378<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=526124&CF=BIB I heard voices talking last night. I've never heard my father talk to someone else. Not that I can remember. I was in bed, and I heard my father's voice first. He was talking to someone, and then I heard another man. The man got angry, I could tell, even though I couldn't hear exactly what he was saying. Then my father said, 'I'd kill you first.' I heard voices talking last night. I've never heard my father talk to someone else. Not that I can remember. I was in bed, and I heard my father's voice first. He was talking to someone, and then I heard another man. The man got angry, I could tell, even though I couldn't hear exactly what he was saying. Then my father said, 'I'd kill you first.'<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Brandi, Mark<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 011014088<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=526136&CF=BIB It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, who is father to five girls, faces into his busiest season. It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, who is father to five girls, faces into his busiest season.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Keegan, Claire<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London, UK : Faber & Faber, 2021.<br />128 p. 20 cm.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 08 Jun 2024 - 010788386<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=526119&CF=BIB All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II. All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Dufty, David<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2020.<br />312 p. 23 cm.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 010766490<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=526111&CF=BIB 'Only connect.' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts. 'Only connect.' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Forster, E. M.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London, UK : Penguin, 2012.<br />400 p. 20 cm.<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - DIY Book Club - 12 copies in set - Available - 011163779<br />