The Time of My Life - more than your usual Hollywood biography

Narrated in Swayze's voice, The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi is an easy read in which Swayze tells of his life, career and marriage with stirring honesty. Swayze reveals himself to be a passionate and driven man who had more talents than his movies revealed. From football to gymnastics to dancing, singing and acting Swayze always strove to be the best and this determination, along with his relationship with his wife, is what kept him going through serious physical injuries and battles with alcohol and depression. This determination is evident throughout the book as right up to the last page he is still passionately declaring that he will continue to fight for his life after his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. Sadly Swayze died shortly after completing the book. Reading the book I was glad that Swayze and Niemi took the time to write it before his death as it would have been a great shame if this amazing story was never written in Swayze's own voice, as it has accurately captured a real piece of him for all time.

You can read the book and check out the DVD North and South, the American civil war drama that shot Swayze to fame, at the library.

Kirsty.

Can't decide what to read next?

Maybe you're looking for a book on a particular subject or you can't decide what to read next and want some inspiration. Perhaps the kids have a assignment and have been told to read a "crime" book or perhaps you want to dig deeper and read some literary criticim. We have the tools to help!

Novelist

This great resource allows you to find suggestions for authors based on genre and includes reviews, feature articles and book discussion guides. You can access it (and some other great resources) from our website under literature.



Good Reading Magazine

The library subscribes to this great magazine. New books, old books, meet the author this magazine has it all. Best of all its available to library members online ! Access via the "What to read" tab on our website.

Need books for the kids?

Magpies is a fantastic website that allows you to search for books for kids and young people by subject. Access to this site is only from within the library. If you can't get to our libraries the Department of Education WA has a similar site called CMIS Evaluation it is searchable by topic and age, great for those school assignments or for finding books on sensitive topics at age appropriate levels.

Stacey

Masterchef

Are you like everyone else in the library and addicted to Masterchef? Or would you like to become a "Master Chef" at home? If so the June edition of the magazine is available at Narellan Library. It contains recipes for an amazing chocolate cake, scrumptious Maggie Beer pies and delectable Donna Hay pasta - yum! This will help solve the dilemma of "what's for dinner?"
Watch out for the July edition which features Curtis Stone's banana bread, George's carrot cake and Adriano Zumbo's macaron tower.

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

I finally got around to reading this very popular book, and while it wasn't exactly what I expected, it was very interesting and I suggest, an important book that I'd highly recommend you read. The first part of the book is Frankl's recount of his five year imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. In this section he not only describes what he endured, but considers how he and other prisoners survived their horrific experiences (both mentally and physically) by focusing on reasons they had to live. This leads into the second part of the book where Frankl discusses his theory of Logotherapy - basically that man's greatest need is to find meaning and purpose for his life, and through doing so he will find peace and happiness. Very interesting food for thought - without meaning in your life, what joy can you have? Frankl suggests it is up to us create our own meaning in our lives... and he aptly poses this thought: "For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best". Hopefully reading this book will inspire you too to do your best.

Kirsty

New titles by Bestselling Authors

Here we've created a list of new titles, just released or soon-to-be-released, by our most popular bestselling authors, keep coming back because we'll post updated lists regularly:

ARCHER, Jeffrey - And thereby hangs a tale
BALDACCI, DAVID - Deliver us from evil
BRENNAN, Alison - Carnal sin (July)
BROWN, Sandra - Tough customer (Sept)
COBEN, Harlan - Play dead (July)
CABOT, Meg - Insatiable (July)
DEAVER, Jeffery - The burning wire
EVANOVICH, Janet - Sizzling 16 (Aug)
FRANZEN, Jonathan - Freedom
GERRITSEN, Tess - Ice cold (July)
GRISHAM, John - Theodore Boone
HARRIS, Charlaine - Dead in the family
KAVA, Alex - Damaged (Aug)
KELLERMAN, Faye - Hangman (Aug)
KELLY, Cathy - Homecoming (Sept)
LA PLANTE, Linda - Blind fury
LUDLUM, Robert - The Bourne objective
McBRIDE, Stuart - Dark Blood
MCCARTHY, Cormac - Sunset Unlimited (July)
MCDERMID, Val - Trick of the dark (Sept)
PARK, Tony - The Delta (July)
PATTERSON, James - Private
PATTERSON, Richard North - In the name of honour
PICOULT, Jodi - House rules
SLAUGHTER, Karin - Broken (July)
STEEL, Danielle - Family ties (July)
TUROW, Scott - Innocent

Keep an eye out for them at the library or reserve yourself a copy today!