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Delve into our Collections and discover your next read with curated lists and suggestions from Hamilton City Libraries staff.
Librarian's Choice: Seven Sisters Series
Thursday 30 December | Readers Advisory, 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 | Readers Advisory,
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 | Readers Advisory,
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, Readers Advisory,
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 | Readers Advisory, 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.
Librarian's Choice: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Friday 19 June | Librarians Choice, Readers Advisory,
Selected by Eve from Central Library, this novel is a compilation from Heather Morris’s interviews with the real-life Holocaust survivor Ludwig Sokolov.