Library Lovers News

Christmas 2015
Welcome to the last Library Lovers News for 2015. This is always an
exciting and busy time of year for us all, and we would like to take this
opportunity to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year.
All library branches will be closing for the holidays at lunchtime on
December 24, 2015 and will reopen on January 4, 2016. The afterhours
chutes will be closed during this time, however no items will fall due. Our
online catalogue is available 24/7 and can be accessed at
spydus.southerndowns.qld.gov.au. You are able to log into the catalogue
by using the borrower number on your card, and your password, which is
the first four letters of your surname in capital letters. Once you have
logged into the catalogue you are able to renew your own items, provided
that no-one is waiting for them. Library items are able to be renewed
twice.

Summer Reading Club

The theme for this years Summer Reading
Club is Lost Worlds. Children and teenagers
of any age can join up from the December 1,
2015. SRC will run for the holidays, finishing
up on the January 31, 2016. As always there will be lots of fun activities to do in your library branch, as well as prizes to be won. The
more books your child reads, the more chances there are to win!

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little

food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their
basement.
-Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief

New Books

Adams Empire
by Evan Green

Blood on Snow
by Jo Nesbo

Coolibah Creek
by Kelsey Neilson

Country
by Danielle Steel

Finding Audrey
by Sophie Kinsella

Fools Quest
by Robin Hobb

Close Your Eyes

by Michael Robotham

Dexter is Dead
by Jeff Lindsay

Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee

Memory Man
by David Baldacci

Discovering Stella
by K.M. Golland

Confessions of a Once
Fashionable Mum
by Georgia Madden

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas

trees are perfect! - Charles N. Barnard

Jigsaws
If you are looking for things to do over the Christmas break why not try a jigsaw? The
library has a variety of puzzles for both adults and children. The loan period for a jigsaw is
four weeks, with up to two renewals.

Preloaded Kindles
If you are worried about running out of
books over Christmas, you could try one
of our preloaded Kindles. These
eReaders are loaded with a variety of
eBooks in a range of genres and can be
borrowed on a four week loan. The
titles loaded onto the Kindles are by
popular authors in each genre category,
and this is an excellent way to read a
series without having to wait for the
next book.

Christmas food
Looking for ideas for your Christmas dinner? Why not try some of our Christmas cookery
books such as these.

Just a few of our new DVDs

Elementary

Eureka

White Collar

A Touch of Frost

Learn a new language online

The Tamil language is spoken by the Tamils or
Tamilans, in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu,
Union territory of Puducherry, and parts of
Sri Lanka. Tamil is just one of the many
Languages that you can learn online for free
through your local library.
To learn a language, go to the library catalogue, click on the link for Languages Online
and follow the prompts.

Inspector George
Gently

Person of Interest

Reading Challenge
Maybe you would like to try a reading challenge during 2016? How
many of these categories will you be able to tick off?

Read a memoir

Read a book with a one-word title

Read a book published in your birth

year

Read a book with purple on the cover

Read a book which has won an award

Re-read a book from your childhood

Read a book set somewhere you want

to visit

Read a book by an author with your

first name

Read a graphic novel or comic book

Read a book with over 500 pages

Read a book with a colour in the title

Read a book of poetry

Read a book based on a true story

Read a book set in the future

Logic PuzzleChristmas Progressive Dinner

Alice, Ben, Carol, David, and Elsa who are neighbours, decided to celebrate Christmas Eve
together, using the progressive dinner approach. They would eat one course of dinner at each
place and then move onto the next person's place.
The courses in their Christmas dinner include soup, salad, pasta, steak, and dessert. For dessert,
each one of them ate a different kind of dessert from the following choices: ice cream, cake, pie,
pudding, and trifle.

Soup was served in the home of the person who ate cake for dessert.

Salad was served in Carol's home.

Pasta was not served in Alice's home.

Steak was served in the home of the person who ate pie for dessert.

Dessert was served in David's home.

Ben chose cake for dessert.

Elsa chose pudding for dessert.

Salad was not served in the home of the person who ate ice cream.

Find out which dinner course was served in each person's home, and which dessert did each person
eat? Answer over the page.

The staff of the

Southern Downs Library Service
would like to wish you all a very
Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year.
All branches will be closed from December 24, 2015 to
January 4, 2016, however no items will fall due during this
time.
Our online catalogue is available 24/7 and can be found at
spydus.southerndowns.qld.gov.au

Logic PuzzleChristmas Progressive Dinner Solution

Alice

Steak

Pie

Ben

Soup

Cake

Carol

Salad

Trifle

David

Dessert

Icecream

Elsa

Pasta

Pudding

Southern Downs Regional Libraries

Allora Library

4666 3742

Mobile Library

4661 0342

Stanthorpe Library

4681 2141

www.southerndowns.qld.gov.au