Lots going on at Ventnor Library

Don’t forget TimeBank Day Saturday 22nd September – come and see what it is all about!

On Friday 28th September between 9.30-12.30 we have the BIG Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Nurses, hosted by the Friends of Ventnor Library.

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Unemployed? Looking for a job?

Checkout daily lists of job opportunities and our dedicated Friday morning free internet access

Get creative
Woolly-Minded Gardening Club and ongoing Exhibition – knitting and crochet with a difference! Come along on Wednesdays at 3pm.

Also ask for details of Random Scribblers – the writing group, the African Drumming Group and the Women’s Meditation Group who all meet in the Library after hours!

DVDs
Hunger Games – “..could you survive?..”
Mother and child – Annette Bening, Naomi Watts – three women and the unbreakable bond of mother & child
Tower Heist – Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy – “..very, very funny..”
The adventures of Tin Tin – the secret of the unicorn – “..superior animation..”
The Winnie the Pooh collection – Disney

Fiction
Cormac McCarthy No country for old men – the book of the film
Cormac McCarthy The Crossing – by the author of The Road
Mary STANLEY The Hijacking of Cassie Peters – Ireland & Europe in the 70’s & 80’s
Alan HUNTER Gently in the sun – an Inspector Gently mystery
Laini TAYLOR Daughter of smoke and bone – Northern Lights meets Pan’s Labyrinth
Tim WINTON In the winter dark – “..raw and vibrant language..”
Anita DIAMANT The Red Tent – “..in the Bible her fate is only hinted at..”
Kate WILLIAMS The Pleasures of Men – Spitalfields 1840
Chris CLEAVE Gold – author of The Other Hand
Barbara ERSKINE River of destiny – ancient secrets as old as time..
Juan GOMEZ-JURADO The traitor’s emblem – Munich 1919, Gibraltar 1940
Howard JACOBSON Zoo time – “..angry, elegiac and rude..”L025208
Ann GRANGER Beneath these stones – a Mitchell & Markby mystery
Gideon DEFOE The Pirates in an adventure with the Romantics
Karen MAITLAND The Falcon’s Fire and Ice – author of Company of Liars
Jonas JONASSON The Hundred Year Old Man who climbed out of the window and disappeared

Large print
Mikey WALSH Gypsy boy on the run
Edith WHARTON The House of Mirth
Freda LIGHTFOOT Reluctant Queen

Non fiction
Hannah SIMPSON Evil knits – 20 projects that go bump in the night!
James Quinn McDONAGH Knuckle – a brutal true story from the hidden world of Irish Travellers
Taylor DOWNING Spies in the sky – WW2 aerial intelligence
Nanny Pat Penny Sweets and Cobbled Streets – my east end childhood – from the star of the Only Way is Essex
Gillian BENNETT The 100 best British Ghost Stories
Shaun RYDER Twisting my melon – the autobiography
Tim WINTON Land’s Edge – a coastal memoir
Maajid NAWAZ Radical – my journey from Islamist extremist to a democratic awakening
John KINGSTON Searching for blue water – they sailed out of the Hamble insearch of adventure…
Peter ACKROYD Newton
Cath KIDSTON Stitch! – needlepoint and cross-stitch
Cath KIDSTON Patch! – patchwork
Major General John FROST A drop too many
Dr Rosemary LEONARD Doctor, Doctor – incredible true tales from a GP’s surgery

Young people
Margo LANAGAN The Brides of Rollrock Island – for older readers
Emily GRAVETT Matilda’s cat – picture book
Joanne PARTIS My cat just sleeps – picture book
Adam SUTHERLAND Being a Formula One racer
USBORNE Big Book of Bugs