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Find Legal Answers Website
Got a problem with your neighbour? need help resolving a dispute?
You now have access to a wealth of legal information dedicated to everyday legal issues affecting you.
The website connects you with everything you need to know about the law in plain English – from neighbourhood conflicts and fence disputes to divorce and wills and estate.
This site is also a fantastic HSC resource for students in year 11 and 12 and their teachers. The site includes all syllabus topic areas with links to key legislation, court cases, media reports and key websites as well as a current news watch blog.
Find Legal Answers is a free library based and online service for everyone in NSW and is managed by LIAC at the State Library of NSW.
Roald Dahl’s Birthday!
Celebrate Roald Dahl’s 96th birthday (if he was still alive) by reliving your favourite childhood memories with some of his wondeful tales all available at your library. Or choose to introduce someone close to you to the wonder Roald Dahl
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- Matilda
- The Twits
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fan of fifty Shades … ?
Why not try these other novels similar to the Fifty Shades series all available today at your library!
- Bared to you by Sylvia Day (Book one in the Crossfire series)
Bared to You by Sylvia Day is the first in the Crossfire trilogy featuring Gideon and Eva, two wounded souls who come together in an explosion of lust and passion as intoxicating as it is devastating – the perfect read for fans of bestselling erotic romance Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James.
Our journey began in fire . . .
Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness – beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white hot. I was drawn to him as I’d never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily . . .
Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other’s most private wounds . . . and desires.
The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn’t tear us apart…
- Beautiful disaster by Jamie McGuire
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate percentage of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance between her and the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand.
Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.
- Haven of obedience by Marina Anderson
Twenty-something Londoner Natalie Bowen is envied by many, but her personal life is a disaster. Men can’t cope with her career success and Natalie thinks she’ll never find real happiness. When she hears about an exclusive weekend retreat called the Haven, a place that specializes in introducing visitors to pleasures they could never have imagined, she is shocked at the idea—yet unable to resist finding out more. Natalie decides it’s time to put her fears behind her. Once at the Haven, she meets the enigmatic and disciplined Simon, a man who is used to getting what he wants. Natalie may very well have met her match.
- The secret lives of Emma: beginnings by Natasha Walker
Thirty-something Emma Benson is a free spirit. For her a good life means a life of sensuality. So it’s a surprise to everyone when she marries David, a successful businessman, and settles down in the suburbs. One year on, and she’s trying so hard to be loyal to her man. Not easy to do when you’re passionate and uninhibited.
But then, while sunbathing in her garden, her neighbour’s eighteen-year-old son appears. And Emma has found her new project. She will be his perfect teacher
- In too deep by Portia Da Costa
Librarian Gwendolyne Price starts finding indecent proposals and sexy stories in her suggestion box. Shocked that they seem to be tailored specifically to her own deepest sexual fantasies, she begins a tantalizing relationship with a man she’s never met. Soon enough, erotic letters and toe-curlingly sensual emails don’t suffice; she has to meet her mysterious correspondent in the flesh.
- Corralled by Lorelei James (Blacktop Cowboys)
First in a new series about some hard-riding rodeo cowboys…and the women who can rein them in.
Sports therapist Lainie Capshaw has been rehabilitating injured cowboys long enough to know that a charming western drawl combined with a fine physical form doesn’t mean you fall for the man.
So no one is more surprised than Lainie when she finds herself involved with not one, but two different men: Hank Lawson, a bullfighter, and Kyle Gilchrist, a bull rider. Lainie feels guilty about her two-timing, but it doesn’t keep her from doubling her fun-that is until Hank catches her with Kyle.
She’s shocked that Hank isn’t mad. But she’s more shocked to learn Hank and Kyle are hometown buddies. But when the men offer to share her-in every way-she knows that she’s going to have to choose the one man who can give her the ride of her life…
- Colters’ woman by Maya Banks (Colters’ legacy)
Adam, Ethan and Ryan aren’t looking for women. They’re looking for a woman. One woman to share their lives and their beds. They don’t want a casual romp in the hay, they want the woman who will complete them and they’re losing hope of finding her. That is until Adam finds Holly lying in the snow just yards from their cabin. He knows she’s different the minute he holds her in his arms. But before Adam gets his hopes up, he knows he has to gauge his brothers reactions. Soon its evident that she’s the one. There are a few problems, however, like convincing her she belongs with them and keeping her safe from the man who wants her dead.
Check out these great paranormal authors!
Your local library has a great selection of paranormal titles ready to be borrowed (and they’re not all about vampires!). Some authors include:
- Patricia Briggs
- Jayne Castle
- Laurell K. Hamilton
- Stacia Kane
- Susan Krinard
- Richelle Mead
- Karen Marie Moning
- J.R. Ward
Come into your local library today to view a selection of these great authors and many more!
Unravelling by Elizabeth Norris – Book Review
Two days before the start of her junior year, seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed—as in blinding light, scenes of her life flashing before her, and then nothing. Except the next thing she knows, she’s opening her eyes to find Ben Michaels, a loner from her high school whom Janelle has never talked to, leaning over her. And even though it isn’t possible, Janelle knows—with every fiber of her being—that Ben has somehow brought her back to life.
But her reincarnation, and Ben’s possible role in it, is only the first of the puzzles that Janelle must solve. While snooping in her FBI-agent father’s files for clues about her accident, she uncovers a clock that seems to be counting down to something—but to what? And when someone close to Janelle is killed, she can no longer deny what’s right in front of her: Everything that’s happened—the accident, the murder, the countdown clock, Ben’s sudden appearance in her life—points to the end of life as she knows it. And as the clock ticks down, she realizes that if she wants to put a stop to the end of the world, she’s going to need to uncover Ben’s secrets—and keep from falling in love with him in the process.
This was an excellent book that has a different plot to majority of young adult books available today. While there was the supernatural element it wasn’t the complete focus of the story, it instead focused more on the developing romance, the family relationships and the investigation. The ending of the story will leave you wanting more and luckily there is! The sequel to this title “Unbreakable” is scheduled for release in April 2013 – so only 9 months away! I loved this book and would recommend this to anyone searching for something a little bit different from Young adult novels!
Kate
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