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All rights reserved. https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=464362&CF=BIB An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa.Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R.R. Martin! In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways; yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. A woman who has survived the annihilation of her village and a terrible rape by an enemy general wanders into the desert, hoping to die. Instead, she gives birth to an angry baby girl with hair and skin the colour of sand. Gripped by the certainty that her daughter is different - special - she names her Onyesonwu, which means ̀Who fears death?' in an ancient language.It doesn't take long for Onye to understand that she is physically and socially marked by the circumstances of her conception. She is Ewu - a child of rape who is expected to live a life of violence, a half-breed rejected by her community. But Onye is not the average Ewu. Even as a child, she manifests the beginnings of a remarkable and unique magic. As she grows, so do her abilities, and during an inadvertent visit to the spirit realm, she learns something terrifying: someone powerful is trying to kill her.Desperate to elude her would-be murderer and to understand her own nature, she embarks on a journey in which she grapples with nature, tradition, history, true love, and the spiritual mysteries of her culture, and ultimately learns why she was given the name she bears: Who Fears Death. An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa.Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R.R. Martin! In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways; yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. A woman who has survived the annihilation of her village and a terrible rape by an enemy general wanders into the desert, hoping to die. Instead, she gives birth to an angry baby girl with hair and skin the colour of sand. Gripped by the certainty that her daughter is different - special - she names her Onyesonwu, which means ̀Who fears death?' in an ancient language.It doesn't take long for Onye to understand that she is physically and socially marked by the circumstances of her conception. She is Ewu - a child of rape who is expected to live a life of violence, a half-breed rejected by her community. But Onye is not the average Ewu. Even as a child, she manifests the beginnings of a remarkable and unique magic. As she grows, so do her abilities, and during an inadvertent visit to the spirit realm, she learns something terrifying: someone powerful is trying to kill her.Desperate to elude her would-be murderer and to understand her own nature, she embarks on a journey in which she grapples with nature, tradition, history, true love, and the spiritual mysteries of her culture, and ultimately learns why she was given the name she bears: Who Fears Death.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Okorafor, Nnedi<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Harper Voyager, 2018.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2018.<br />386 pages ; 25 cm.<br /><br />Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F OKO - Available - 31111072150954<br />Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F OKO - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available - 31111072156209<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=369229&CF=BIB 'I'd stare at my opponent from across that cage and think, What the f**k are you gonna do to me? Nothing's gonna break me, you don't know where I've been.' From fighting to survive as a kid to doing combat in the world's most brutal arena, this is the remarkable story of one of the first Australian fighters to make it to the UFC. Following a childhood from hell, Soa 'The Hulk' Palelei was left homeless and headed straight for trouble. Until mixed martial arts put him on the right path in life. After making his professional fighting debut in 2002, Palelei went on to dominate on the Australian circuit. Five years later, he was signed on to compete in the revered Ultimate Fighting Championship. But the dream didn't last. He lost disastrously in 2007 and was dropped. All his supporters disappeared when he needed them most. He came back to Australia, faded into obscurity and blew out to 160 kilos. It took him four years of hustle and grind to get back to the top. Multiple championships followed as well as a three-year winning streak that saw him back competing - and claiming victory - on the world stage. Palelei's raw and powerful story is, at its heart, one about turning obstacles into opportunities and following your dreams - destroying the odds in the hope for a better life. 'I'd stare at my opponent from across that cage and think, What the f**k are you gonna do to me? Nothing's gonna break me, you don't know where I've been.' From fighting to survive as a kid to doing combat in the world's most brutal arena, this is the remarkable story of one of the first Australian fighters to make it to the UFC. Following a childhood from hell, Soa 'The Hulk' Palelei was left homeless and headed straight for trouble. Until mixed martial arts put him on the right path in life. After making his professional fighting debut in 2002, Palelei went on to dominate on the Australian circuit. Five years later, he was signed on to compete in the revered Ultimate Fighting Championship. But the dream didn't last. He lost disastrously in 2007 and was dropped. All his supporters disappeared when he needed them most. He came back to Australia, faded into obscurity and blew out to 160 kilos. It took him four years of hustle and grind to get back to the top. Multiple championships followed as well as a three-year winning streak that saw him back competing - and claiming victory - on the world stage. Palelei's raw and powerful story is, at its heart, one about turning obstacles into opportunities and following your dreams - destroying the odds in the hope for a better life.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Palelei, Soa<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Melbourne, Victoria] Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>℗♭2016<br />263 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - B/ PAL - Biographies & Memoirs - Available - L1030205356X<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=346043&CF=BIB Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin. Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Rowling, J. K.<br />[Illustrated edition].<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London Bloomsbury, 2015.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>...Ứ́1997.<br />245 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.<br />Harry Potter ; 1.<br /><br />Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Junior Fiction - JF ROW - Onloan - Due: 24 Apr 2024 - L10302089246<br />Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - On Order - On order (Set: 10 Apr 2024)<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=250499&CF=BIB What if your future was the past? 1945, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It's a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them and to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743, where the first person she meets is a British army officer - her husband's six-times great-grandfather. Unfortunately, Black Jack Randall is not the man his descendant is, and while trying to escape him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Scottish outlaws, and finds herself a Sassenach - an outlander - in danger from both Jacobites and Redcoats. Marooned amid danger, passion and violence, her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. What if your future was the past? 1945, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It's a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them and to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743, where the first person she meets is a British army officer - her husband's six-times great-grandfather. Unfortunately, Black Jack Randall is not the man his descendant is, and while trying to escape him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Scottish outlaws, and finds herself a Sassenach - an outlander - in danger from both Jacobites and Redcoats. Marooned amid danger, passion and violence, her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Gabaldon, Diana<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Arrow Books, 2015.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©1991.<br />864 pages ; 20 cm.<br />Outlander ; 1.<br /><br />Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F GAB - Historical Fiction - Available - L10302362287<br />Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F GAB - Historical Fiction - Available - L10302513129<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=243982&CF=BIB A collection of tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives. A collection of tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf, [2014]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2014.<br />xxv, 892 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.<br />Everyman’s library ; 361.<br /><br />Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 398.20953 ARA - Available - 31111057682880<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=313353&CF=BIB A rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the mythical town of Macondo through the lives of seven generations of the doomed Buendia family. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendias, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude interweaves the political, personal, and spiritual, bringing a new consciousness to storytelling; this radiant work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race. A rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the mythical town of Macondo through the lives of seven generations of the doomed Buendia family. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendias, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude interweaves the political, personal, and spiritual, bringing a new consciousness to storytelling; this radiant work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York, NY : Harper, 2014.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©1970.<br />417 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F GAR - General Fiction - Available - 31111055057192<br />Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F GAR - General Fiction - Onloan - Due: 26 Apr 2024 - L10301933434<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=210688&CF=BIB Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, this is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever. When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more. But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view. Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, this is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever. When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more. But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>James, E. L.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Arrow, 2012.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2011.<br />514 pages ; 20 cm.<br />Fifty shades trilogy ; 1.<br /><br />Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F JAM - Available - 31111077665097<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=252042&CF=BIB FANTASY. Amanda Devereaux has a crazy family. Her mother and older siblings are witches and psychics, and her twin sister is a vampire hunter. All Amanda wants is a quiet, normal life. Only when she finds herself the target of an attack meant for her twin, she wakes to find herself handcuffed to a sexy, blond stranger. He is Kyrian of Thrace. And while Amanda's first thought is that this might be another of her sister's attempts at extreme match-making, it soon becomes clear that Kyrian is not boyfriend material. For Kyrian is a Dark Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul for one moment of vengeance upon his enemies. Kyrian spends his eternal days hunting the vampires and daimons that prey upon mankind. He is currently on the hunt for a very old and deadly daimon named Desiderius who has deemed it sport to handcuff Kyrian to a human while he hunts him. FANTASY. Amanda Devereaux has a crazy family. Her mother and older siblings are witches and psychics, and her twin sister is a vampire hunter. All Amanda wants is a quiet, normal life. Only when she finds herself the target of an attack meant for her twin, she wakes to find herself handcuffed to a sexy, blond stranger. He is Kyrian of Thrace. And while Amanda's first thought is that this might be another of her sister's attempts at extreme match-making, it soon becomes clear that Kyrian is not boyfriend material. For Kyrian is a Dark Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul for one moment of vengeance upon his enemies. Kyrian spends his eternal days hunting the vampires and daimons that prey upon mankind. He is currently on the hunt for a very old and deadly daimon named Desiderius who has deemed it sport to handcuff Kyrian to a human while he hunts him.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kenyon, Sherrilyn, 1965-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Piatkus, 2011, c2002.<br />356 p. ; 20 cm.<br />Dark-hunter ; bk. 1.<br /><br />Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F KEN - Romance / Paranormal Romance - Available - L10301884212<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=167798&CF=BIB Mystery. The first in a stunning new series, The Cousins War, is set amid the tumult and intrigue of The War of the Roses. Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings this family drama to colourful life through its women, beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes in the Tower whose fate remains unknown to this day. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores the most famous unsolved mystery, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills. Mystery. The first in a stunning new series, The Cousins War, is set amid the tumult and intrigue of The War of the Roses. Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings this family drama to colourful life through its women, beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes in the Tower whose fate remains unknown to this day. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores the most famous unsolved mystery, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Gregory, Philippa<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Simon & Schuster, 2009.<br />417 p. : geneal. table ; 24 cm.<br />Cousins' war ; 1.<br /><br />Coolbellup Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F GRE - Historical Fiction - Available - L10302475960<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2049347&CF=BIB As Napoleon's tenacious infantry rampages across Europe, the war does not rage on land and water alone. Squadrons of aviators swarm the skies. Raining fire and acid upon their enemies, these aviators ride dragons. Captain Laurence is a satisfied man with a respectable commission aboard the ship Reliant. Months before the battle of Trafalgar, on patrol in the Atlantic, The Reliant takes a small French frigate, storm-damaged and possessing a fierce crew. On board Laurence finds a dragon egg. Having spent months on a slow journey from Asia, the egg hatches. A sinewy new-born emerges from the fragmented shell, ignores his harness-bearer, approaches Laurence and changes his life. But even more astonishing than the young dragonet, named Temeraire by Lawrence, is the revelation that the egg was meant for the Emperor Napoleon himself. As Napoleon's tenacious infantry rampages across Europe, the war does not rage on land and water alone. Squadrons of aviators swarm the skies. Raining fire and acid upon their enemies, these aviators ride dragons. Captain Laurence is a satisfied man with a respectable commission aboard the ship Reliant. Months before the battle of Trafalgar, on patrol in the Atlantic, The Reliant takes a small French frigate, storm-damaged and possessing a fierce crew. On board Laurence finds a dragon egg. Having spent months on a slow journey from Asia, the egg hatches. A sinewy new-born emerges from the fragmented shell, ignores his harness-bearer, approaches Laurence and changes his life. But even more astonishing than the young dragonet, named Temeraire by Lawrence, is the revelation that the egg was meant for the Emperor Napoleon himself.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Novik, Naomi<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : HarperCollins, c2006 [i.e. 2005].<br />330 pages ; 24 cm.<br />Temeraire ; 3<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Coolbellup Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F NOV - Science Fiction & Fantasy - On order (Set: 12 Mar 2024)<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=521387&CF=BIB Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to a great fortress. There he learns of a hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and determines not only to escape, but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of his enemies. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to a great fortress. There he learns of a hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and determines not only to escape, but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of his enemies.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Penguin Classics, 2003.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2003.<br />xxviii, 1276 pages ; 21 cm.<br /><br />Spearwood Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F DUM - Available - 31111077684502<br /> https://cockburnlibrary.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=215845&CF=BIB Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story. Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Watterson, Bill<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Kansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [1988]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©1988.<br />254 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm.<br />Calvin and Hobbes<br /><br />Success Library - (Cockburn Libraries) - Graphic Novels - Adult - F WAT - Available - 31111081362111<br />