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Delve into our Collections and discover your next read with curated lists and suggestions from Hamilton City Libraries staff.
Librarians Choice: Bring Back our Girls
Friday 7 January | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice,
An astoundingly powerful account of the dramatic rescue of the group of Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped by fundamentalists in 2014.
Friday Film Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon
Friday 31 December | Adult Fiction,
David from Hillcrest Library reviews films each Friday. This week, he reviews The Peanut Butter Falcon, directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz.
Librarian's Choice: Seven Sisters Series
Thursday 30 December | Adult Fiction, Librarians Choice,
Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series follows a group of sisters as they each explore past connections and identity.
Friday Film Review: Parasite
Friday 24 December | Adult Fiction,
David from Hillcrest Library reviews films each Friday. This week, he reviews Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho
Friday Film Review: Emma
Friday 17 December | Adult Fiction,
David from Hillcrest Library reviews films each Friday. This week, he reviews Emma, directed by Autumn de Wilde.
Librarian's Choice: Navigating the Stars
Friday 22 October | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice, NZ Titles,
This beautifully rendered, oral history retelling, weaves together the history of New Zealand, as known in Maaori traditional narratives.
Librarian's Choice: Peter May's Lewis Trilogy
Friday 27 August | Librarians Choice, Adult Fiction,
Detective Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate a murder on the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of northwest Scotland.
Librarian's Choice: Untamed
Friday 2 July | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice,
Untamed is mostly a memoir, partly an autobiography, and a little bit of a conversation between author and reader.
Librarian's Choice: Organize Your Way
Friday 19 March | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice,
Organize Your Way examines different ways of organizing based on your personality type.
Librarian's Choice: The Art of the Pulps
Thursday 11 February | Adult Non-Fiction, Librarians Choice,
The editors of The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History have compiled an impressive and comprehensive collection of American pulp-magazine covers from the earliest examples of the 1890s to the late-1940s.
Librarian's Choice: Convenience Store Woman
Thursday 19 November | Adult Fiction, Librarians Choice,
Convenience Store Woman, written by Sayaka Murata, is a humourous, quirky novel. It follows 36-year-old Japanese woman Keiko Furukura as she navigates her life and her feeling of never truly fitting in.
Librarian's Choice: The Hobbit
Monday 7 September | Librarians Choice, Children,
Tolkien’s well-known fiction story is often assumed to be metaphorical in many areas and aspects, however the fantasy tale of Hobbits, rings of power and quests determining the fate of Middle Earth leads the reader into one of the most fascinating adventures told in the last century.