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Auckland Libraries Staff Picks: Breakthrough: how one teen innovator is changing the world by Jack Andraka
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02 August, 2015. Breakthrough: how one teen innovator is changing the world by Jack Andraka. If you are like me and enjoy the successes of others, then this is the book for you! Jack Andraka faced many problems in his young life but nothing could compare to the pressures of high school bullying and a close family friend was dying of cancer. Instead of giving in to the homophobic bullying and the despair, he took another path. He turned to science. Breakthrough: how one teen innovator is changing the world.
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Auckland Libraries Staff Picks: The art of stillness: adventures in going nowhere by Pico Iyer
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14 August, 2015. The art of stillness: adventures in going nowhere by Pico Iyer. 8220;In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”. I enjoyed this small book with a big message simply because it makes you think about living life more mindfully. And what could be more important than that? Particularly e...
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Auckland Libraries Staff Picks: Common people by Alison Light
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05 August, 2015. Common people by Alison Light. How better to acknowledge Family History Month. Than to check out a family history book? Alison Light may be a professor of literature and culture, but she is also a family historian. Divided into four sections – one for each grandparent and their family – Common people. Is an exploration into her family’s past. A past that was mostly forgotten and not discussed. Inspired by this, check out Writing your family history: a New Zealand guide. And get a curated...
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Auckland Libraries Staff Picks: May 2015
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29 May, 2015. Nature anatomy : the curious parts and pieces of the natural world by Julia Rothman. Is an author, illustrator and designer who recently released Nature Anatomy - a book about the science behind a little bit of everything. Which I'm reading now) about the wonderful things happening all around us, if only we take care to look. If you like this one, you are sure to like many of her others. That we luckily have for you to borrow. Author: Julia Rothman with John Niekrasz. Where she mostly just ...
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Auckland Libraries Staff Picks: The intern's handbook by Shane Kuhn
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14 August, 2015. The intern's handbook by Shane Kuhn. At 25 John Lago is about to retire, but is recruited into the H.R. organisation after offing his drug-running foster parents. John infiltrates high-level companies as an intern and eliminates their executives. Interns are invisible - between making photocopies and getting coffee they gain the trust of their targets and, by doing the grunt work, they gain access, allowing them to pull off clean untraceable hits. Is plotted like a good B-movie. Go set a...
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Auckland Libraries Staff Picks: What if : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions by Randall Munroe
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05 August, 2015. What if : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions by Randall Munroe. This book delivers what I call 'firm science' - that is, physics and chemistry without all the tedious math and formulas. It is also true to label; the serious and the absurd together. Us humans are not so good at thinking about the vast and the fantastically tiny. What if. Title : What if : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions. Author : Randall Munroe. Has worked in libraries ...
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Auckland Libraries Staff Picks: Frances Ha directed by Noah Baumbach (DVD)
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04 August, 2015. Frances Ha directed by Noah Baumbach (DVD). The International Film Festival has closed in Auckland, but never fear! Now’s your chance to catch up on all those great films you missed in previous year’s festivals, many of which we hold at the library. One of my favourite films from the last couple of years was Frances Ha. A contemporary comedy directed by Noah Baumbach ( The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg. Frances’ story is one that a lot of us will relate to (I definitely did! Is a librar...
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Auckland Libraries Staff Picks: Longbourn by Jo Baker
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16 August, 2015. Longbourn by Jo Baker. This is a very different take on the Pride and prejudice. If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them.". There is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. Each person has their own past or aspirations, and Baker vividly evokes the. The Bennets seem pampered, oblivious, their dramas trivial. Reads widely and eclectically, but mo...
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Auckland Libraries Staff Picks: Ghastly business by Louise Levene
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03 August, 2015. Ghastly business by Louise Levene. Set in 1929, this glorious novel describes how our heroine, Dora, takes a position as a clerk in the pathology department in a London hospital headed by Alfred Kemble, where she immediately becomes immersed in the ghastly business of murder, schadenfreude and scandal. Reviewed by Monica F, Orewa Library. Monica F is happiest in gumboots and apron, attending to her animals, harvesting her crops and making stuff. Like all truly wholesome people, she h...
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