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Great summer eReading!


Summer is all about reading, but you don't need to put down your new electronic gadgets, use them to access some of the best reads electronically!

Top ten eBooks in our collection

Why not delve into our eBook collection this summer.
Now it's even easier with the new app for iPhone and Android!

The girl with the dragon tattooo
Millennium Trilogy Book 1

Stieg Larsson

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found.

Crime

 

The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest
Millennium Trilogy Book 3

Stieg Larsson
 

In the third volume in the explosive trilogy, Lisbeth Salander confronts political corruption from her hospital bed while a killer lurks next door.

Crime 

Eat, pray, love 

Elizabeth Gilbert 

One woman's search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Travel

Alfresco Loving

Miranda Forbes A collection of 5 erotic stories

Erotic Fiction

 
Away with the fairies
Phryne Fisher Series Book 11
 Kerry Greenwood Exciting, gorgeous, adventurous and brave. That's Phryne Fisher.

Fiction

Public secrets

Nora Roberts 

Emma. lives in a star-studded world of wealth and privilege. But  she is about to discover that fame is no protection when someone wants you dead....

Crime
The Happiness project Gretchen Rubin

Or why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closers, fight right, read Aristotle and generally

have more fun

Non Fiction
The complete idiot's guide to decluttering Regina Leeds
Do you own your stuff-or does it own you? Non Fiction
31 Songs  Nick Hornby

I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved ...

 Non Fiction
Blink  Malcolm Gladwell

In Blink, Gladwell revolutionizes the way we understand the world within.

Non Fiction

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New summer eAudiobooks

Bolinda have released 75 new titles, in time for your summer reading pleasure.  Here's a few great reads to download to your audio player... 

The slap
Borrow...
Christos Tsiolkas
Read by Alex Dimitriades
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.
In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all.
Literary Fiction

The Buddha, Geoff and Me
Borrow...

Edward Canfor-Dumas
Read by Nicholas Bell
Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and smokes and talks his kind of language. Inspirational Fiction

Fragile
Borrow...

Lisa Unger
Read by Nancy Linari
Despite their mostly happy marriage, when their son Ricky's girlfriend vanishes, Maggie and Jones find themselves at odds. Crime
Ivory
Borrow...
Tony Park
Read by Mark Davis
Alex Tremain is a pirate in trouble. The two women in his life - one of them his financial adviser, the other his diesel mechanic - have left him. Thriller
Glenn McGrath
Line and Strength
Borrow...
Daniel Lane and Glenn McGrath
Read by Shane McNamara
Glenn McGrath is one of the most highly regarded fast - medium pace bowlers in cricketing history, and was a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket from the mid-1990s to 2007. Non Fiction
The Lost Life
Borrow... 
Steven Carroll
Read by Deidre Rubenstein
England‚ September, 1934. Two young lovers‚ Catherine and Daniel‚ witness the poet T.S. ('Tom') Eliot and his close friend Emily bury a mysterious tin in the earth.  What happens when the muse steps out of the shadows?
How to Break Your Own Heart
Borrow... 
Maggie Alderson
Read by Catherine Milte
Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy - a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most - a baby. Romance
The Truth About These Strange Times
Borrow... 
Adam Foulds
Read by Colin Moody
Saul Dawson-Smith can memorise the sequence of a shuffled deck of cards in under a minute; he can recite pi to a thousand decimal places and he remembers every conversation he's ever had. Contemporary Fiction
Kokoda
Borrow...
Paul Ham
Read by Peter Byrne
In a unique and balanced portrayal, renowned journalist Paul Ham recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the events on the hellish Papuan jungle trail where thousands fought and died during World War II. Non Fiction
Scission
Borrow... 
Tim Winton
Read by Samuel Johnson
Tim Winton's first collection of stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking. These spare, jagged stories, in which people struggle with change and disintegration, are vintage Winton. Short Stories

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