What’s on at Ventnor Library

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Congratulations to Mel and Tabitha for winning the World Book Day Bookmark competition!

Easter Fair and Little Green Fingers – Saturday 23rd
We are having an Easter Fair with craft stalls, cakes and Tombola as well as a giant Book Sale!

If you want to sell your crafts ring for details – tables are £5.

Also, if you are aged 4-12 come and plant up an Easter present from 2-4 in the Children’s Library – all activities are free but space is limited so you need to book! Phone 852039 for your place.

Other activities in the library
Children’s Chess with Jane & Thomas – Saturdays from 2-3pm

Rhymetime for babies, toddlers and whoever they bring – Friday at 11am

Woolly Minded Craft Club – Wednesdays 2-4pm – not just knitting!

Free internet access everyday and a dedicated Universal Jobsearch line on Friday mornings

Interested in sharing your thoughts on books? Join our Reading Group (once a month on a Wednesday evening) or start your own! Contact the Library for details

DVDS
The Master – Winner of Best Director at the 2012 Venice Film
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

Non-Fiction
David LOADES Henry VIII
John BEARDSWORTH 101 Top Tips for Black & White Digital Photography
Margaret BRIGGS Practical Household Uses of Bicarbonate of Soda – & Vinegar
Joanna HODGKIN Amateurs in Eden: The story of a Bohemian marriage
John MATUSIAK Henry V
Mary SOAMES A Daughter’s Tale: Memoir of Churchill’s youngest child
David LOADES The Boleyns: Rise & Fall of a Tudor Family
Alexandra HOROWITZ Inside of a Dog : What dogs see, smell and know.
Evelyn PRENTIS A Nurse in Action : My life as a nurse during the second world war
Linda PORTER Katherine the Queen : The remarkable life of Katherine Parr
Ian MORTIMER The Fears of Henry IV
Evelyn PRENTIS A Nurse in Time : My life as a trainee nurse in the 1930’s
Steve DUNO Last Dog on the Hill: The unforgettable story of a best friend and hero.
Franny MOYLE Constance, the Tragic & Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde
Greg KING Wallis: The uncommon life of the Duchess of Windsor
Timothy VENNING The Anglo-Saxon Kings
Duncan HAMILTON The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet: Great Victorian Thief
Tommy JONASON & Simon OLSSON Double Cross Agent Tate
Ben MACINTYRE Agent ZigZag
Barnaby ROGERSON The Last Crusaders: East, West & the Battle for the Centre
Christy CAMPBELL Target London : Under Attack from the V-weapon
Elizabeth NORTON Anne of Cleves
Mark MEHAFFEY Creative Workshop Watercolour & Acrylic
Michael ALEXANDER Confessions of a male nurse
Dot May DUNN Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram
Elizabeth BROWN Dowsing – the ultimate guide for the 21st Century
Mark HENDERSON The Geek Manifesto – why science matters

Fiction
Jack SHEFFIELD Educating Jack- Tears & laughter in a Village School
Ruth RENDELL Wolf to the Slaughter & Some Lie and some Die
Charlotte BRONTE & Karen ROSE Jane Eyrotica – X-rated Jane Eyre !
Rebecca SHAW A Village Deception & A Village in Jeopardy & The New Rector
Vanessa DIFFENBAUGH The language of flowers
David GILLHAM City of women – Berlin in WW2
June THOMSON Holmes and Watson & The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
Josephine TEY To love and be wise – a classic mystery
John R FULTZ Seven Kings – Books of the Shaper vol 2
DEL TORO, Guillermo The Fall – from the creator of Pan’s Labyrinth
P G WODEHOUSE Full Moon & Much Obliged Jeeves,
Mary STEWART The last enchantment & The Prince and the Pilgrim
Aminatta FORNA The memory of love – shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2011
Anna JACOBS The Trader’s Dream – winner Australian Romantic Book of the Year
Val WOOD Rich girl, poor girl
Andrew TAYLOR Bleeding Heart Squarre
Mark LAWRENCE King of thorns – “..on a par with George R R Martin..”
Jessica STIRLING A corner of the heart – from the East End to Mayfair
Donna DOUGLAS The Nightingale girls – on call in the 1930s
Celia FRIEDMAN Legacy of kings – the end of days draws near
Dorothy L SAYER Strong poison
C J SANSOM Dominion – from the author of Winter in Madrid
Ian C ESSELMONT Blood and Bone – the Malazan Empire

… and lots of new adult books on health and mental health issues, as well as new books for children from tots to young adults!