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Booker Prize 2010
British author, ﻿Howard Jacobson has won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction with “The Finkler Question,” a dark comedy about a man convinced that tragic love is his destiny. It is the first overtly comic novel to win the prize in its 42-year history. The Finkler Question is available on the library's Kindles if you would like to read this very funny book. The shortlisted books include:- The Finkler question - Howard Jacobsen Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey - a comic romp based loosely on the travels of French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville Room - Emma Donohue - the story of a 19-year-old college student abducted and held captive for years in a secure chamber, like Elisabeth Fritzl of Austria, written from the poit-of view of the five year old child she bears whilst in the //Room// In a strange room - Damon Galgot - the tale of a young man who takes three journeys -- through Greece, India and Africa -- that end in disaster The long song - Andrea Levy - about a slave girl born on a Jamaican sugar plantation in the 19th century C - Tom McCarthy - a novel of signals, signs and codes centering on a young Englishman obsessed with radio in the early 20th century.

**Book Trailers**
Book trailers are a fantastic way of introducing books to readers. Leviathan by Scot Westerfeld [|**Leviathan**]

Airheads by Meg Cabot [] [] Ranger's Apprentice []

CBCA Book of the Year Shortlist
Check out these books:-


 * Book of the Year - Older Readers Short List 2010 ||
 * Author || Title || Publisher ||
 * CHRISTOPHER, Lucy || //**Stolen**// || Chicken House ||
 * CLARKE, Judith || **//The Winds of Heaven//** || Allen & Unwin ||
 * LARBALESTIER, Justine || **//Liar//** || Allen & Unwin ||
 * METZENTHEN, David || **//Jarvis 24//** || Penguin Group Australia ||
 * MILLARD, Glenda || //**A Small Free Kiss in the Dark**// || Allen & Unwin ||
 * TANGEY, Penny || **//Loving Richard Feynman//** || University of Queensland Press ||
 * These books are for mature readers ||

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Book responses:
There are lots of different ways you can respond to a book......


 * Google Lit Trips []


 * Book Trailers []
 * Museum Box - This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. []
 * 60Second Recap - for quick recaps of many popular and classic novels and plays. Very American - but a different take on a review []
 * Book Glutton - books are conversations. A way to read books online and converse with friends who can read the same book. A number of titles are free, others need to be paid for. Groups can be set up and managed by you []
 * [] connects you to the work of more than 200,000 authors, illustrators, publishers and other creators
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 * [] connects you to the work of more than 200,000 authors, illustrators, publishers and other creators
 * To invite new members, click on **Manage Wiki** and **Invite People**.
 * To change your wiki's colors or theme, click on **Manage Wiki** and **Look and Feel**.
 * To set who can view and edit your wiki, click on **Manage Wiki** and **Permissions**.
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Read Alert - a Blog about youth literature from the SLV
For the first time ever the Prime Minister is awarding a Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Fiction. The shortlist for young adults books has been announced - //* The museum of Mary Child// by Cassandra Golds //* Jarvis 24// by David Metzenthen //* Beatle meets Destiny// by Gabrielle Williams
 * //Stolen// by Lucy Christopher
 * //The winds of heaven// by Judith Clarke
 * //Confessions of a liar, thief, and failed sex god// by Bill Condon
 * //Swerve// by Phillip Gwynne

The judges comments and other shortlisted books can be seen on []

Melbourne Writers' Festival
Melbourne Writers Festival is the city's premier literary festival featuring over 300 writers from around the world. Literary banquets, debates, readings, performances, film screenings and workshops are just some of the events you'll enjoy at this year's festival. In Melbourne from 27 August to 5 September 2010.

Check their website for details about some of the exciting visiting authors including Cory Doctorow, Peter Temple, Brett Easton Ellis, Geoffrey Blainey, Barry Dickens, Susan Maushart, Jostein Gaarder, Sonya Hartnett, Alex Miller and many many more. Check ou the program on [].

Web 2.0 Apps to Love
There are so many amazing applications available which make using the web and communicating with students and colleagues so much easier. Check out some of these:-

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National Year of Reading 2012
Australian libraries and library associations have got together to turn 2012 into the National Year of Reading, linking together all the great things that are already happening around books, reading and literacy, and giving them an extra boost, with inspirational programs and events taking place across the country. More information about events to watch out for in 2012 will be posted soon.....