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Featuring this week are some authors and titles from the November edition of the magazine Good Reading. The magazine includes reviews of recent titles as well as author profiles. The November issue has a feature on Australian author Judy Nunn and her recent book Maralinga. Clare Kennedy talks to people involved in bringing the beloved memoir, Mao’s Last Dancer, to the screen. Penrith library also provides access to the magazine online. Search for Good Reading in the Online Resources Search, select Weblink@Home for access outside the library, and enter your patron number and date of birth password.
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Mao's last dancer / by Li Cunxin
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Summary
This is the true story of Li Cunxin, whose peasant life in Chairman Mao's communist China changed dramatically when, at the age of eleven, he was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural advisers to become a student at the Beijing Dance Academy.
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The lovers / by John Connolly
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Summary
In John Connolly's thriller, Charlie Parker is haunted by a man and a woman who appear to have only one purpose: to end to Parker's existence...
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Day after night / by Anita Diamant
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Summary
Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa. Four young women find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience....
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Maralinga / by Judy Nunn
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Summary
A British airbase in the remote wilderness of the South Australian desert, an atomic weapons testing ground, an army of raw youth led by powerful, ambitious men – a cocktail for disaster. Such is Maralinga in the spring of 1956...
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The Borgia ring / by Michael White
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Summary
When builders dig up an ancient skeleton in London, they have no idea of the poisonous legacy they have just unleashed. Hours later the skeleton has vanished and one man is dead. For DCI Jack Pendragon it's a first case he could have done without....
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The cellist of Sarajevo / by Steven Galloway
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Summary
Though the setting is the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, this gripping novel transcends time and place. It is a universal story, and a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amid the most unimaginable horrors.....
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