New at Ventnor Library last week…..
Fiction
Daniel BLAKE White Death, thriller (pictured)
Hilary BOYD Thursday in the park – as autumn leaves fall love blossoms
James Lee BURKE, The Lost Get-Back Boogie – Frank Riordan is fighting against pollution…
James Lee BURKE, To the Bright and Shining Sun.
Tom CLANCY & Mark GREANEY, Threat Vector – the latest Jack Ryan thriller
Alex CONNOR, Memory of Bones – Blood will be spilled
Thomas ENGER Pierced – if you clear my name I’ll tell you who killed your son
Alan HUNTER Gently with the Painters – an Inspector George Gently case file
Alan HUNTER Gently where the Roads Go – an Inspector George Gently case file
Barbara KINGSOLVER, Flight Behaviour – Winner of the Orange Prize
Susan LEWIS Stolen Beginners – would you steal from someone you love?
Carole MATTHEWS, A Cottage by the Sea – A wonderful story of friendship and romance.
Maggie O’FARRELL, After you’d gone
Laini TAYLOR, Days of Blood and Starlight – Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them, and its snap split the world in two.
Guillermo Del TORRO & Chuck HOGAN, The Night Eternal – by the author of “Pan’s Labyrinth”.
Michael WHITE, The Kennedy Conspiracy – a fifty-year-old secret. An assassination that changed the world.
Non-fiction
Harriet ATKINSON, The Festival of Britain
Bill BRYSON, Neither here Nor there – “Hugely funny” travels through Europe
Victoria GLASS Boutique Wedding Cakes – bake and decorate cakes at home
Sean LERWILL, Haynes Triathlon Manual
Sean WILSON, The Great Northern Cookbook – From the TV programme.
David WILLS & Stephen SCHMIDT, Audrey, The 60s – A photographic biography of Audrey Hepburn.
Tim WU, The Master Switch – The rise and fall of information empires.
Opera DVDs
We now also now have a lovely collection of Opera DVDs.
Here is just a selection:
Berg – Lulu ((Stage director Christof Loy)
Britten – Peter Grimes ( Stage director Tim Albery)
Mozart La Clemenza Di Tito (Stage director Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann)
Mozart – Le Nozze Di Figaro (stage director Jonathan Miller)
Mozart – Don Giovanni
Puccini – La Boheme ( The Metropolitan Opera)
Puccini – Turandot (Stage director David Pountney)
Strauss – Salome (Stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff)
Wagner – Parsifal (Stage director Wolfgang Wagner)
Wagner – Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (Stage director David McVicar)
Wagner – Tristan Und Isolde (Stage director Alfred Kirchner)
Books on CD
MEDIEVAL MURDERERS- The First Murder, historical mystery
DVDs
DREDD– judgement is coming
LAWLESS – gangsters, brothers, heroes
Regular activities
Children’s Chess with Jane & Thomas – Saturdays 2-3pm
Rhymetime for babies, toddlers and whoever they bring – Friday at 11am
