Library Lovers News

Christmas 2015

Welcome to the last Library Lovers News for 2015. This is always an

exciting and busy time of year for us all, and we would like to take this

opportunity to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New

Year.

All library branches will be closing for the holidays at lunchtime on

December 24, 2015 and will reopen on January 4, 2016. The afterhours

chutes will be closed during this time, however no items will fall due. Our

online catalogue is available 24/7 and can be accessed at

spydus.southerndowns.qld.gov.au. You are able to log into the catalogue

by using the borrower number on your card, and your password, which is

the first four letters of your surname in capital letters. Once you have

logged into the catalogue you are able to renew your own items, provided

that no-one is waiting for them. Library items are able to be renewed

twice.

Summer Reading Club

The theme for this years Summer Reading

Club is Lost Worlds. Children and teenagers

of any age can join up from the December 1,

2015. SRC will run for the holidays, finishing

up on the January 31, 2016. As always there will be lots of fun activi-

ties to do in your library branch, as well as prizes to be won. The

more books your child reads, the more chances there are to win!

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little

food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their

basement.

-Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief

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Adams Empire

by Evan Green

Blood on Snow

by Jo Nesbo

Close Your Eyes

by Michael Robotham

Coolibah Creek

by Kelsey Neilson

Country

by Danielle Steel

Dexter is Dead

by Jeff Lindsay

Discovering Stella

by K.M. Golland

Finding Audrey

by Sophie Kinsella

Fools Quest

by Robin Hobb Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

Memory Man

by David Baldacci

New Books

Confessions of a Once

Fashionable Mum

by Georgia Madden

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas

trees are perfect! - Charles N. Barnard

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If you are looking for things to do over the Christmas break why not try a jigsaw? The

library has a variety of puzzles for both adults and children. The loan period for a jigsaw is

four weeks, with up to two renewals.

If you are worried about running out of

books over Christmas, you could try one

of our preloaded Kindles. These

eReaders are loaded with a variety of

eBooks in a range of genres and can be

borrowed on a four week loan. The

titles loaded onto the Kindles are by

popular authors in each genre category,

and this is an excellent way to read a

series without having to wait for the

next book.

Looking for ideas for your Christmas dinner? Why not try some of our Christmas cookery

books such as these.

Preloaded Kindles

Jigsaws

Christmas food

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The Tamil language is spoken by the Tamils or

Tamilans, in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu,

Union territory of Puducherry, and parts of

Sri Lanka. Tamil is just one of the many

Languages that you can learn online for free

through your local library.

To learn a language, go to the library cata-

logue, click on the link for Languages Online

and follow the prompts.

Just a few of our new DVDs

Elementary White Collar Inspector George

Gently

Eureka A Touch of Frost Person of Interest

Learn a new language online

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Reading Challenge

Logic PuzzleChristmas Progressive Dinner

Alice, Ben, Carol, David, and Elsa who are neighbours, decided to celebrate Christmas Eve

together, using the progressive dinner approach. They would eat one course of dinner at each

place and then move onto the next person's place.

The courses in their Christmas dinner include soup, salad, pasta, steak, and dessert. For dessert,

each one of them ate a different kind of dessert from the following choices: ice cream, cake, pie,

pudding, and trifle.

Soup was served in the home of the person who ate cake for dessert.

Salad was served in Carol's home.

Pasta was not served in Alice's home.

Steak was served in the home of the person who ate pie for dessert.

Dessert was served in David's home.

Ben chose cake for dessert.

Elsa chose pudding for dessert.

Salad was not served in the home of the person who ate ice cream.

Find out which dinner course was served in each person's home, and which dessert did each person

eat? Answer over the page.

Maybe you would like to try a reading challenge during 2016? How

many of these categories will you be able to tick off?

Read a memoir

Read a book published in your birth

year

Read a book with over 500 pages

Read a book with a colour in the title

Read a book of poetry

Read a book based on a true story

Read a book set in the future

Read a book with a one-word title

Read a book with purple on the cover

Read a book which has won an award

Re-read a book from your childhood

Read a book set somewhere you want

to visit

Read a book by an author with your

first name

Read a graphic novel or comic book

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Allora Library 4666 3742

Mobile Library 4661 0342

Stanthorpe Library 4681 2141

Southern Downs Regional Libraries

www.southerndowns.qld.gov.au

Alice Steak Pie

Ben Soup Cake

Carol Salad Trifle

David Dessert Icecream

Elsa Pasta Pudding

Logic PuzzleChristmas Progressive Dinner Solution

The staff of the

Southern Downs Library Service

would like to wish you all a very

Merry Christmas and a Happy

New Year.

All branches will be closed from December 24, 2015 to

January 4, 2016, however no items will fall due during this

time.

Our online catalogue is available 24/7 and can be found at

spydus.southerndowns.qld.gov.au