The Library Scoop

Can you believe we're already halfway through the year? As your workload increases with assessments, reading might seem like just another school task. However, reading for pleasure is crucial for maintaining positive mental health. Take a break from your busy schedule and escape into a great book. Our library has brand new titles coming in every week. Check out some of the latest additions below!

Remember to click the book cover to learn more, reserve the book, or even read a sample!

Our manga section is undergoing a renovation - all manga will soon be shelved alphabetically by series name, so it's easier to find your favourites!

Blue Lock 1-4

Blue Period 1-3

Crossplay Love 1-3

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 1-2

Matthew D'Adamo is set to inherit the family estate but due to a fifteenth century inheritance clause that states 'the heir to the D'Adamo Family Trust must be the youngest, legal-aged, married male', he first he needs to find a wife or else the estate goes to the youngest 'married' D'Adamo male. Sarah Browne, a free-spirited event manager, agrees to an air-tight pre-nup and is looking forward to a break from the emotional toll of her endometriosis. The first time the two meet is on the flight to Florence. When they arrive they find another claimant has surfaced and now they must spend a year together restoring a rundown hotel. Whichever couple is most successful after 12 months wins the family estate.

Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn't add up. Nina's parents push the police for answers, and Simon's parents rush to protect him.

When writer and hiking enthusiast Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of a river that has so influenced his life, he hopes that by walking its banks he will better understand the power and impact of this immense waterway on the environment and communities who rely on it. Despite being extremely well-prepared, Cleary is at the mercy of the weather and one of the wettest autumn months on record. His ambitious journey, alone and with companions, threatens to be cut short by the subject of his walk - the swirling, unpredictable and magnificent Brisbane River. Over four eventful weeks and 344 kilometres - from its source to where it empties into the bay - we are witness to the river in all of its beauty and fury. Everything is Water considers our complex relationship with nature through flood, drought, time and place. It is an inspiring pilgrimage that invites us to connect with nature and also to navigate our own path.

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn’t pan out.
The program is a who’s who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal thriller writer, the literary writer, the psychological suspense writer.
But when one of us is murdered, the remaining authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime. Of course, we should also know how to commit one.
How can you find a killer when all the suspects know how to get away with murder?

Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. White lies - When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dark humour - But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. Deadly consequences… What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.

What makes a girl beastly? Is it having too much ambition? Being too loud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something -- anything -- too badly? Try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her -- the source of her deepest wishes dreams. When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, Arabella is cursed... trapping her, her ladies of the court and everyone she cares about in her castle. The only way to break it, she believes, is to find a boy who loves her for her true self: a cruel task for a girl who has been told she's impossible to love. When handsome thief Beau becomes trapped inside the castle, he finds himself drawn like a moth to a flame to the mysterious Arabella. If Beau and Arabella have any hope of breaking the curse, they must learn to trust their wounded hearts and realise that the cruellest prisons are the ones we build for ourselves.

One town. One night. Four people gone. Nora's best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to piece together the truth, she uncovers dark events in her high school's history and a string of coded messages Becca has left for her. These clues point to another missing girl thirty years previously and a sinister urban legend: a goddess figure, who played an eerie role in Nora and Becca's own childhood games . . . As Nora struggles to unravel the mystery, it's clear there are dark forces at work in her town - and they're willing to stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried deep.

For centuries, the Owens family has been cursed in matters of love. When beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the sound of the deathwatch beetle, she knows that it is a signal. She has finally discovered the secret to breaking the curse, but time is running out. She has only seven days to live. Unaware of the family's witchcraft lineage and all it entails, one of the young sisters of the new Owens generation has fallen in love. As the curse strikes once again, her love's fate hangs in the balance, spurring three generations of Owens to venture back to where it all began and use their gifts to break the spell that has marked all their lives. But doing so threatens to destroy everything the family has fought so hard to protect. How much will they give up for the greatest gift of all?

One girl. Two identities. Three friends.
One disappears. One forgets. One remembers.
There is truth in every tale . . . Find it! Beginning with the Brothers Grimm and following a young girl through Nazi Germany, this is a frighteningly creepy supernatural YA thriller that chills to the bone with imagined and real horrors.

Freedom is a pipe dream. At least, that’s what Olivia Cruikshank believes. Transported to Van Diemen’s Land for petty theft, she has lost all hope. Six years in and out of the Cascades Female Factory has taught her none can be trusted and that her future, like her innocence, are as a vapour in the breeze. Until Michael Reeve shows up - a prison guard unlike any other. What kind of turnkey shows compassion instead of cruelty, encouragement instead of scorn? He talks and acts like Olivia matters. Like her future matters. And he’s not about to give up, despite opposition from every angle. Opposition that hints of danger ahead. Can Olivia learn to trust before it’s too late? Will Mick’s kindness lead to love, or will it be his undoing?

The staff of St Margaret's Primary School are hanging by a thread. There's serious litigation pending, the school is due for registration, and a powerful parent named Janet Bellevue has a lot to say about everything. As teachers they're trying to remain professional, as people they're fast unravelling.
There's Tyson, first year out of uni and nervous as hell, Derek the Assistant Principal who's dropped the ball on administration, Bev from the office who's confronting a serious diagnosis, and Sally-Ann who's desperate for a child of her own.
Thank goodness for kids like Lionel Merrick. Lionel is the student who steals your heart and makes the whole teaching gig he's cheerful, likeable and helpful - and devoted to his little sister Lacey. But Lionel has a secret of his own. As his future slides from vulnerable to dangerous, will someone from St Margaret's realise before it's too late?
As secrets threaten to be exposed and working demands increase, each staff member begins to lose sight of the things that matter most.

When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight , an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun .This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger?

Michael made a name for himself on the hit show Love on the Spectrum. After his televised first dating experiences, will he complete his quest to find his queen?
Chloë was always good at maths, with feelings 'too big' to be contained. When she reconnects with her childhood boyfriend, it must be fate.
Noor has had a lot on her plate from a young age, especially at home. People-pleasing becomes her survival mode, but Noor can't keep her struggles inside forever.
Jess has spent a lifetime being put into different boxes. Through her strong will and creativity, can she break out and build a life that is truly her own?
Tim is a non-speaking autistic man who has been underestimated all his life. But through willpower, technology and a mother's love, he has a chance of finding a different kind of voice.
Through the intimate writing of critically acclaimed autistic author Kay Kerr, Love & Autism presents an uplifting celebration of neurodivergent love, the search for it and a deeper look into the lives of autistic Australians.

When Chanelle Moriah was diagnosed with autism at 21, life finally began to make sense. Hungry for information, Chanelle looked for a simple resource that could explain what autism is and how it can impact the different areas of an autistic person's life, but found that there was little written from the perspective of someone who is autistic. So Chanelle decided to create that missing resource.

Chanelle has created a simple resource that explains what ADHD is and how it can impact the different areas of someone's life. This is ADHD is a tool for both diagnosed and undiagnosed people with ADHD to explain or make sense of their experiences. It also offers non-ADHD people the chance to learn more about ADHD from someone who has it.

Navigating the world with an ADHD brain can be exhausting . The rollercoaster ride from clinical assessments through diagnosis to treatment can leave you feeling anxious and isolated, worried about failing or feeling different.

Easy to digest and full to the brim with practical life advice including budgeting plans for impulsive spending, advice on rejection sensitive dysphoria and ways to relax, this book provides everything you need to feel confident and supported through your ADHD diagnosis and beyond.

For an extra boost with your unit topics this term, click the following images to be taken to the relevant Research Guides.

Drop by the counter on Level 1 and help us complete our new Jane Austen jigsaw. How many of her works can you find hidden in these scenes?

Click on the button below to see what's coming up this Term. Signup sheets are located at Level 1 counter.

Ever wanted to write your own story, but don't know where to start?

Come to The Forum every Friday lunchtime this term for fun activities held by the library's own resident author, Mrs Pickering and kickstart your creativity.

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