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Author Event - John Urquhart - Meet Japan
Join former local John Urquhart as he shares the history and personal stories behind his book Meet Japan. Read more.
Author Event - Helen Croser - Homespun Poems from My Heart
Join local poet Helen Croser as she shares the stories and techniques behind her poems in her book Homespun Poems from my Heart. Read more.
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Art Exhibition - Outside the Lines
A wonderful new exhibition presented by KYEEMA in partnership with Glenelg Libraries. Read more.
The Read List 2018-19
The Summer Holidays are here, so it's time for The Read List! Read more...
Summer Reading Club
Kids it’s nearly summer and that means that The Summer Reading Club (SRC) is back! The theme for SRC 2018 is ‘Curious Creatures.’Read more...
Library2Go on the Road
Glenelg Libraries is on the move, providing an outreach mobile service to support the shire’s regional communities.
The Library2Go vehicle visits Dartmoor, Merino and Digby... Read More...
Book a Librarian and Online Form Help Sessions
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Online Tech Learning Guides
Go Digi, Be Connected and Tech Boomers have a fantastic range of online guides for all of your tech learning needs Read more...
Beamafilm
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1000 Books Before School
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Register for 1000 Books Before School at Glenelg Libraries... Read More...
Dementia Resource Library
Sensory and reminiscing support kits for families and carers. Available now from your local Glenelg Libraries branch. Read more.
Author Event - In Conversation with Maryrose Cuskelly - Wedderburn
Join True Crime author Maryrose Cuskelly as she comes to the Portland Library this summer. Read more.
Author Event - Rosalie Ham - The Year of the Farmer
Join renowned Australian author Rosalie Ham as she returns to visit Glenelg Libraries this summer. Read more.

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Everything Under By Daisy Johnson The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel's name for the thing she feared most. And now that she's searching for her mother, she'll have to face it. In this electrifying reinterpretation of a classical myth, Oedipus, this book explores questions of fate and free will, gender fluidity, and fractured family relationships.

Books that Saved my Life by Michael McGirr Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life’s most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego. Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all manner of ways. Some are recent, such as Harry Potter; some ancient, such as Homer and Lao Tzu. There are memoirs (Nelson Mandela), poetry (Les Murray) and many of the world’s great novels, from George Eliot’s Middlemarch to Toni Morrison’s Beloved. This book uses them to muse upon life in all its glorious complexity. Our guide, in entertaining short accounts of personal encounters with these works, is Michael McGirr: schoolteacher and father, reviewer of hundreds of books and lifelong lover of literature. His humour and insight shine through in essays that connect the texts he has selected with each other, and connect us to them. This is the ideal companion for a keen reader—and it may just inspire someone you know to become one, too. Never prescriptive, and often very funny, Books that Saved My Life is an invitation to reflect on the extraordinary gift of reading.

Summer on the Little Cornish Isles by Phillipa Ashley One summer can change everything... Poppy has always loved Cornwall -- So when her boyfriend Dan suggests they leave their office jobs and take over the Starfish Studio on the Isles of Scilly, Poppy doesn't need asking twice. But things don't go to plan when Dan dumps her, weeks before they're due to move. Determined not to give up, Poppy accepts the help of local photographer Jake. But Jake is distracted by a loss from his past. Can they turn the crumbling gallery into a success in time for tourist season? And will a summer on the little Cornish Isles mend just the studio -- or Poppy's heart too?

We Can See You by Simon Kernick You have it all. Success, a beautiful home, a happy family. Until, in a heartbeat, it's gone. We've kidnapped your daughter, and we know everything about you. Including the dark secrets from your past you thought were forgotten. We tell you not to contact the police – and that we’ll know if you do. Because we can see you. And now you know this is no ordinary abduction. It’s worse. Within hours you’re on the run, with only one thought in your head: That you will stop at nothing to get your daughter back. Even murder...

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Latest Happenings

Author Event - John Urquhart - Meet Japan

Author Event - Helen Croser - Homespun Poems from My Heart

E-Newsletter

Art Exhibition - Outside the Lines

The Read List 2018-19

Summer Reading Club

Library2Go on the Road

Book a Librarian and Online Form Help Sessions

Online Tech Learning Guides

Beamafilm

1000 Books Before School

Dementia Resource Library

Author Event - In Conversation with Maryrose Cuskelly - Wedderburn

Author Event - Rosalie Ham - The Year of the Farmer

Staff and Reader Picks

Search The Catalogue

Databases & Online Research

Library Newsletter

Digital Library