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State Library Titles

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:17:59 CDT

The following book club set titles at the State Library of Queensland are available through interlibrary loans from the Ipswich Library. Sets can be borrowed for a period of 6 weeks. Please email fabdul@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au to request for book club set loans.

Addition/ Toni Jordan
Affection / Ian Townsend
The alchemist / Paulo Coelho
Alias Grace / Margaret Attwood
Almost French : a new life in Paris / Sarah Turnbull
American journeys/ Don Watson
The Beach/ by Alex Garland
Bleachers / John Grisham
The book thief / Marcus Zusak
Boycott/ Lisa Forrest
Breakfast at Tiffany's/ Truman Capote
The bridge of San Luis Rey / Thornton Wilder
The brutal art/ Jesse Kellerman
Child 44/ Tom Rob Smith
The chimney's sweeper's boy/ Barbara Vine
Cold mountain / Charles Frazier
The consolation of philosophy/ Alain de Botton
Corner of your eye / Kate Lyons
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon
Daughter of fortune / Isabel Allende
The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown
Desert flower : the extraordinary journey of a desert nomad / Waris Dirie
Digging to America / Anne Tyler
Dirt music / Tim Winton
Disgrace / J.M. Coetzee
Double homicide / Jonathan & Faye Kellerman
East of Eden / John Steinbeck
Elliot Roosevelt snapshot / Elliot Roosevelt
The English patient / Michael Ondaatje
An equal music / Vikram Seth
Eucalyptus / Murray Bail
Five quarters of the orange / Joanne Harris
The floating island / Anna Ralph
A fortunate life / A.B. Facey
Girl with a pearl earring / Tracey Chevalier
The God of small things / Arundhati Roy
The great fire / Shirley Hazzard
The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Harmony Silk Factory / Tash Aw
The highest tide/ Jim Lynch
Hit / Tara Moss
The hospital by the river : a story of hope / Catherine Hamlin
The house of the spirits / Isabella Allende
The household guide to dying/ Debra Adelaide
Howards End / E.M. Forster
Ice station / Matthew Reilly
Idoru / William Gibson
If this is a man, and The Truce / Primo Levy
In cold blood / Truman Capote
The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai
Jack Higgins snapshot / Jack Higgins
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the stone country / Alex Miller
Just me/ Sheila Hancock
Kingdom of fear : loathsome secrets of a star-crossed child in the final days of the American century/ Hunter S. Thompson
The kingdom where nobody dies / Kimberley Starr
Kitchen privileges : a memoir / Mary Higgins Clark
The kite runner / Khaled Hossein
The language instinct : the new science of language and the mind / Steven Pinker
Life of Pi / Yann Martel
A long long way / Sebastian Barry
A long way down / Nick Hornby
Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The lovely Bones / Alice Sebold
Mao's last dancer / Li Cunxin
March / Geraldine Brooks
Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden
Mister Pip / Lloyd Thomas
Monkey grip/ Helen Garner
The Murray Whelan trilogy/ Shane Maloney
The namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri
Nice try / Shane Maloney
The night ferry / Michael Robotham
Norwegian wood/ Haruki Murakami
Notes from a small island / Bill Bryson
Of mice and men/ John Steinbeck
Old filth/ Jane Gardam
On the road / Jack Kerouac
One few over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey
Oracle night / Paul Auster
The other Boleyn girl / Phillippa Gregory
The other side of you / Salley Vickers
The pact : a love story / Jodi Picoult
Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Suskind
The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen
Purple hibiscus / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Rabbit, run!/ John Updike
Rachel's holiday / Marian Keyes
Ransom / Danielle Steel
The reader/ Bernhard Schlink
Remembering Babylon / David Malouf
Revolutionary Road/ Richard Yates
Robin Cook snapshot / Robin Cook
The rouseabout / Rachel Treasure
Salmon fishing in the Yemen / Paul Torday
The salt of broken tears / Michael Meehan
Schindler's ark / Thomas Keneally
Sea of poppies/ Amitay Ghosh
The secret history / Donna Tartts
The shipping News / Annie Proulx
The shiralee / D'Arcy Niland
A short history of tractors in Ukranian / Marina Lewycka
Skin and bone/ Kathryn Fox
South : the Endurance expedition/ Ernest Shackleton
A spy in the house of love / Anais Nin
The Sunday Philosophy Club / Alexander McCall Smith
Sunset in St Tropez / Danielle Steel
The tenderness of wolves / Stef Penney
Terry Pratchett snapshot / Terry Pratchett
Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe
Thompson gunner / Nick Earls
Those Faraday girls/ Monica McInerney
The time traveller's wife / Audrey Niffenegger
Time we have taken / Steven Carroll
To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee
To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf
Trip of a lifetime/ Liz Byrski
True history of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey
Twisted / Jonathan Kellerman
The unknown terrorist / Richard Flanagan
Unpolished gem/ Alice Pung
The upside of down / Thomas Homer-Dixon
Water for elephants / Sara Gruen
The well/ Elizabeth Jolley
The white tiger/ Aravind Adiga
The winter vault/ Anne Michaels
Women in love / D.H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte
A year in Provence/ Peter Mayle
The zookeeper's war/ Steven Conte

Last revised : 30 Sep 2009

Book Sets Guidelines

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:39:09 CDT

For Registered Book Club Coordinators

1. Register

Register your Book Club with the Library by filling in the BookHub Registration Form (available on request from the Reference Desk). This form requires the signature of all members of the Book Club.
Once approved, you will be issued with a Book Club membership card.

2. Borrowing & Returning

Ensure that each member of the Book Club is an Ipswich Library member.
Borrow Book Sets using the Book Club membership card.
Borrow and return the Book Sets as a complete set (not individual copies).
Return the Book Sets by the due date. Borrowing period is 6 weeks. Late or lost books are subject to the same penalties as regular loans.
No Book Set may be borrowed until the one currently on loan is completely returned, and all outstanding fines settled.

3. Requests

Request Book Sets 4 weeks ahead.
Request for Book Sets using the Book Sets Request Form.
The Library cannot guarantee the availability of Book Sets.

BookClub Sets

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:34:42 CDT

State Library of Queensland

As one of Queensland's public libraries, the Ipswich Library has access to Book Club sets which are available for loan from the State Library of Queensland. Currently there are about 129 titles available at the State Library. The sets are available for a short term loan of 6 weeks. Please email infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au for this service. There are limits to loans availability due to popularity.

Ipswich Library Sets

The Ipswich Library has 7 book club sets, comprising 10 copies of each title. The sets are available for loan to registered BookHub book clubs for 6 to 8 weeks.
Click here for more information.

Book Sets Guidelines
Book Sets are only available for loan to BookHub members. To register for membership, please email : infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au. Click here for more information on Book Sets Guidelines.

Other suggestions
If your club is having difficulty getting hold of book sets, you might want to consider other options, such as :
1. Reading different books of :

Same Author - books by the same author eg. Tim Winton, Margaret Atwood
Same Genre - books from the same genre eg. Fantasy
Same Theme - books on the same subject/theme eg. Biography

2. Hire Book Sets
Some book clubs use a fee-based service to hire books. This can provide a wide choice of titles, with guarantee for delivery at the right time. Most services also offer discussion notes. An example of such a service is the CAE Book Groups.

3. Buy Your Own
Visit a local bookstore to buy your own copy. Some book suppliers offer discounts to customers buying multiple copies or purchasing titles in a book promotion such as The Big Book Club.

Home

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:14:34 CDT

Welcome to BookHub - Ipswich, AUSTRALIA.
The Ipswich Library's wiki offers support for readers and book clubs in Ipswich. Joining a book club expands your reading horizons, and meeting other people with similar interests and discussing books are great ways to get back into the reading habit.
At Ipswich Library we want to encourage adults to start reading again. So whether you're already a book club member, thinking of joining one, or thinking of starting one up yourself, BookHub is here to support you with the following services :

To access these services, please register your book club here at BookHub. To register, please email infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au call 3810 6772.

Ipswich Library and Information Service

45 Roderick Street
Ipswich 4305
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New Books & Beans Book Club starting at Springfield Lakes

Looking for members. Open to adults 35 years and under.

Discuss all genres of books, biographies & authors.

Hoping to meet Saturday mornings at a local coffee shop at Springfield Lakes.

For more information visit the Blog at: http://booksandbeansbookclub.wordpress.com

or Email booksandbeansbookclub@gmail.com

Our Book Clubs

IpswichLibrary — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:06:50 CDT

Register your Book Club!
When you register your book club with BookHub, we can help you :

inform you of book events happening in and around Ipswich

create your own book club wiki (see here for Demo)

train your members to use the wiki

feature your book club here to enlist new members

Register your book club by email at infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au .

Interested in starting a new book club?
Waiting List
We have 3 names on a waiting list at present (11 June 09). If you're interested in joining a club please register with us now. We will assist a club to start if we have 5 interested people.

Registered Book Clubs

Bibliophiles in the Library
This book club meets in the library every second Thursday of the month in Study Room 2 from 6:00 to 8:00pm. They comprise 10 members, and are not accepting any more members at present.

Between the Lines This book club meets once per month on the second Wednesday of the month from 6:00pm - 7:30pm in Study Room 2, Ipswich Library. The group has 10 members and is not accepting any more members at this time.

Plaza LitLovers Book Club
Formed in May 08, the Redbank Plaza Library's book club meets every first Tuesday from 6:00 to 7:30pm. The club is not accepting any more members at this time. However you may still register your interest at the circulation desk at Redbank Plaza Branch Library or phone 3288 5411.

GNI Book Club
This book club meets outside the library every month. It is not currently accepting new members.

New Books & Beans Book Club starting at Springfield Lakes

Looking for members. Open to all adults of any age.

Discuss all genres of books, biographies & authors.

'Hoping to meet Saturday mornings at a local coffee shop at Springfield Lakes

For more information visit the Blog at: http://booksandbeansbookclub.wordpress.com

or Email booksandbeansbookclub@gmail.com

625.19 Group
This book club is looking for people interested in discussing books on model trains. Please contact Mr Edward Ward at 34247678 for information.

Ghostwalk

IpswichLibrary — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:24:33 CDT

Author Rebecca Stott

Synopsis:
A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton’s involvement with alchemy–the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century–remains unfinished. When her son, Cameron, asks his former lover, Lydia Brooke, to ghostwrite the missing final chapters of his mother’s book, Lydia agrees and moves into Elizabeth’s house–a studio in an orchard where the light moves restlessly across the walls. Soon Lydia discovers that the shadow of violence that has fallen across present-day Cambridge, which escalates to a series of murders, may have its origins in the troubling evidence that Elizabeth’s research has unearthed. As Lydia becomes ensnared in a dangerous conspiracy that reawakens ghosts of the past, the seventeenth century slowly seeps into the twenty-first, with the city of Cambridge the bridge between them.

Spoiler Warning: These questions may reveal important details about the Uncommon Reader. Please finish the book before reading on.

Discussion questions at :
Reading Group Guides

Discussion Notes

IpswichLibrary — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:17:55 CDT

To help our book clubs have a more effective discussion, this page links to information relating to the following book club set titles available at Ipswich Library. Included are a synopsis of the story, discussion questions, information about the author, and other details pertaining to the book.

Ipswich Library Titles

IpswichLibrary — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:16:54 CDT

The Ipswich Library has the following book club sets that are available for loan to registered BookHub book clubs. Each set comprises 10 copies, and are available for loan for 6 to 8 weeks.
The titles below link to discussion notes.

Uncommon Reader

IpswichLibrary — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:54:18 CDT

Author Alan Bennett

Synopsis:

The Queen curiously comes upon the local mobile library while looking for her corgis and decides to borrow a book. This book is a light comic novella by the author of The History Boys, on of England's favourite authors.

Spoiler Warning: These questions may reveal important details about the Uncommon Reader. Please finish the book before reading on.

Discussion questions at :

Litlovers
Macmillan
Reading Group Choices
Reading Group Guides

Start Your Own Book Club

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:33:05 CDT

Are you considering forming your own book club? Get a couple of interested friends together, register with us here at BookHub, and we might get you a few more members!

For help on how to start your own book club, email us at infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au and we'll give you a helping hand. The following websites are useful for tips on how to start your own book club and lead a book discussion. Good Luck!

Starting a Book Club

Discussing Books

Suggestion to Purchase

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:58:56 CDT

Do you know a recent title you cannot find in the Ipswich Library catalogue? If you think the Ipswich Library should have this title, write to us and let us know.

Please email us at infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au with the following details :

Title
Author
Publisher & Publication Year
Source (eg. from The Australian of 5th Feb 2007)
Your Name & Contact Details

Although we cannot guarantee fulfilling every suggestion, we will certainly give every one our attention. We welcome your valuable suggestions.

Meeting Place

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:58:09 CDT

Individual readers
If you want to just read for your own enjoyment you may wish to go online and use some websites to post your comments about your book. Here are some useful links :

The library's catalogue also allows you to write reviews online.

Book Clubs
Getting together with others to discuss your reading can be fun! When deciding on your meeting venue you will need to consider factors such as the :

Size of the group - is there enough space to cater for all?
Location - convenient for the members?
Catering - share or buy coffee or snack?
Social side - go out, stay or have a particular ambience?

Some book clubs choose to meet in a local coffee shop or cafe and enjoy coffee & eats while discussing their book. Some recruit solely from friends or co-workers and are happy to rotate meetings at each other's private homes. Others prefer to meet at the park, a meeting room or in the library. If your book club needs a place to meet, the Ipswich Library has study room facilities at :

Ipswich Library
Redbank Plains Branch Library

Due to the popularity of study rooms, bookings are essential. To ensure vacancy when you need it please book in advance by calling 3810 6768 or email infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au .

Training Available

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:57:29 CDT

Ipswich Library provides the following training sessions for interested readers or groups :

How to search the library webpage, catalogue & databases
How to set up and maintain a wiki for your book club
How to set up a book club
How to use online tools for book club or reading purposes

How to search the library catalogue and databases
The Ipswich Library's website has lots to offer readers, book club and non-book club members alike. Knowing what's available on the library's website and how to go about it will allow you to take advantage of resources provided by the library.
Book into a free Your Library Online training session now.

How to set up a wiki for your existing book club

A wiki for your book club will allow your members to extend your activities beyond your usual meetings. With a wiki, you would be able to communicate with each other online - you can view your schedules online, record your discussion topics, write reviews, and read each other's views of the book of the month. Click here for an example of a Book Club Wiki. If you like this idea, book into a free Info Coach session now.

How to set up book clubs

If you have been wanting to join a book club but not had much success, why not set up your own? We will help you with tips and advice for setting up your own book club. Book your free Info Coach session now to get some help.

How to use online tools for book club or reading purposes
Discover LibraryThing, My List, NextReads, NoveList, Digital Library and Wikis in our Embrace the Book awareness session just for book clubs. Book your free session at Book an Info Coach . Just tick the box for help for "book clubs" .

Email infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au to register your interest in any of these areas.

Club Finder

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:56:16 CDT

If you are an individual looking for a bookclub in Ipswich to join, watch this page to see which bookclubs are looking for new members.

If your bookclub is looking for more members, register with us at infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au and we'll let new members find you on this page.

Book clubs looking for members (example) :

Name	Contact	Members	Need
Booklovers	3810nnnn	8	2 more
Bookworms	5667nnnn	3	5 more

Member Support

IpswichLibrary — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:55:38 CDT

These are some of the services we offer to support our registered book clubs :

Email infoserv@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au register.

News & Events

mistyC — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:25:11 CST

A Library Blog
Check out this blog from Random House which is very useful for bookclubs : http://rhlibrary.wordpress.com/

Author Events

Try the Read Write Reviews

The Ipswich Library online catalogue now has a new feature which allows users to add book reviews and a star rating to books, DVDs, etc in our collection. To add a review, members have to register themselves for the first time. With active participation from library members, the catalogue promises to be a very useful resource for library users. As avid readers, we encourage you to use this new feature and submit your reviews. Welcome to the world of collective database building - and make your view count!

Water for Elephants

IpswichLibrary — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:08:30 CST

Water for Elephants

Author Sara Gruen

Synopsis:
A must read story about a 90 year old man remembering his days with a circus during the Great Depression.

Spoiler Warning: These questions may reveal important details about Water for Elephants. Finish the book before reading on.

Water for Elephants moves between a story about a circus and a story about an old man in a nursing home. How do the chapters about the older Jacob enrich the story about Jacob’s adventure with the circus? How would the novel be different if Gruen had only written about the younger Jacob, keeping the story linear and never describing Jacob’s life as an old man?
Did the chapters about the nursing home change how you think about older people? In what ways are the doctors and nurses condescending? How is Rosemary different? How do you treat older people?
In chapter two, the twenty-three year old Jacob starts his story by telling us he is a virgin. From the cooch tent to the erections the older Jacob gets when being bathed, sexuality is woven into the whole story. Why do you think Gruen added these details? What role does sexuality play in Water for Elephants?
When you first read the Prologue, who did you think murdered the man? Were you surprised by who the actual murderer was?
The book begins with a quote from Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss: “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant…An elephant’s faithful—one hundred percent!” What is the role of faithfulness and loyalty in Water for Elephants? How do different characters define loyalty? (Jacob, Walter, Uncle Al).
Why does Jacob get so mad about Mr. McGuinity lying about carrying water for elephants? Do you see and similarities of temperament between the young Jacob and the old Jacob?
In what ways is Water for Elephants a survival story? A love story? An adventure?
Water for Elephants has a happy ending for Jacob, but not for many other characters. Discuss Walter and Camel’s fates. How does tragedy fit into the story?
There is an “us and them” mentality in the circus between performers and workers. How does Jacob bridge these two classes of people? Why does each group hate another group? Does the circus merely mirror society in an exaggerated way?
Are you satisfied with the end?
In the Author’s Note, Gruen writes that many of the details in the story are factual or come from circus workers’ anecdotes. These true stories include the hippo pickled in formaldehyde, the deceased fat lady being paraded through town and an elephant who repeatedly pulled out her stake and stole lemonade. Gruen did extensive research before writing Water for Elephants. Was her story believable?
Rate Water for Elephants on a scale of 1 to 5.

Water for Elephants Resources for Book Clubs Water for Elephants Book Review Sara Gruen Interview Book Club Tips

Available Titles

IpswichLibrary — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:46:38 CST

These are State Library Bookset titles which are available via interlibrary loan. This list is updated monthly to help BookHub members with their choice of titles.

Da Vinci Code/ Dan Brown
Desert fllower : the extraordinary journey of a desert nomad/ Waris Dirie
Disgrace/ J. M. Coetzee
East of Eden/ John Steinback
Elliot Roosevelt snapshot/ Elliot Roosevelt
An equal music/ Vikram Seth
The floating island/ Anna Ralph
The God of small things/ Arundhati Roy
The great fire/ Shirley Hazzard
Howard’s End/ E.M. Forster
Idoru/ William Gibson
In cold blood/ Truman Capote
Jack Higgins snapshot/ Jack Higgins
Jane Eyre/ Charlotte Bronte
Kingdom of fear : loathsome secrets of a star-crossed child in the final days of the American century/ Hunter S. Thompson
Kitchen privileges : a memoir / Mary Higgins Clark
The language instinct : the new science of language and the mind/ Steven Pinker
The lovely bones/ Alice Sebold
March/ Geraldine Brooks
Of mice and men/ John Steinbeck
Perfume : the story of a murderer/ Patrick Suskind
The picture of Dorian Gray/ Oscar Wilde
Pride and prejudice/ Jane Austen
Purple hibiscus/ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Robin Cook Snapshot/ Robin Cook
The rouseabout/ Rachel Treasure
Schindler’s Ark/ Thomas Keneally
South : the Endurance expedition/ Ernest Shackleton
A spy in the house of love/ Anais Nin
Sunset in St Tropez/ Danielle Steel
To kill a mockingbird/ Harper Lee
Women in love/ D. H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights/ Emily Bronte

Last updated : 6 Feb 2009

Bleachers

IpswichLibrary — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:14:14 CST

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New Fiction Titles

IpswichLibrary — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:25:06 CDT

October
This list is based on the NextReads newsletter. Subscribe to your favourite list and receive book reviews, a view of the first chapter, and links to the Library's Catalogue.

Mystery
Mine all mine/ Adam Davies
The highly effective detective goes to the dogs/ Richard Yancey

Historical Fiction
Midwife of the blue ridge/ Christine Blevine
The various flavors of coffee/ by Anthony Capella
The Heretic’s daughter/ by Kathleen Kent

Fantasy
An autumn war/ Daniel Abraham
Ill met in the arena/ Dave Duncan
The lions of Al Rassan/ Guy Gavriel Kay
Jitterbug Perfume/ Tom Robbins

Fiction A-Z
Eva moves the furniture/ Margot Livesey
Goldengrove/ Francine Prose

Horror
Vampires of Hollywood/ Adrienne Barbeau
Ghost story/ Peter Straub

Romance
The secret to seduction/ Julie Anne Long
Seduction of a proper gentleman/ Victoria Alexander
Eternal pleasure/ Nina Bangs
The Wedding Challenge/ by Candace Camp
Delicious/ by Thomas Sherry

Science Fiction
Into the storm/ by Taylor Anderson
Zoe’s Tale/ by John Scalzi

Thrillers and Suspense
Takeover/ Lisa Black

(Last updated : 17th October 2008)