Southwest Branch Closing for Maintenance
Southwest Branch will be closed on Monday, March 25 and Tuesday, March 26 for replacement of the HVAC unit. The book drop will remain open and we plan to resume normal operating hours on Wednesday, March 27.
Presidential Preference Primary Election Early Voting at Select Library Locations
Ten OCLS Branch locations will host early voting for the 2024 Early Voting Primary Election from Monday, March 4 to Sunday, March 17 (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.): Alafaya, Chickasaw, Fairview Shores, Hiawassee, South Creek, Southeast, Southwest, Washington Park, West Oaks, and Winter Garden. Learn more about early voting at select library locations >
My Library
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245 14 The bookseller at the end of the world /|cRuth Shaw.
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505 0 1. Two wee bookshops -- 2. The start of books and business
-- 3. Know when to hold 'em -- 4. Naseby -- 5. 1963 -- 6.
Off to the Navy -- 7. Stewart Island and meeting Lance --
8. Working for the Archbishop -- 9. All aboard -- 10. My
brief career as a burglar -- 11. Tragedy returns -- 12.
Arriving in Rabaul -- 13. Please worry -- 14. Letters from
home -- 15. Slipping away -- 16. Do not go gentle -- 17.
The madhatter's mansion -- 18. Marriage, marijuana and the
menagerie -- 19. A kind of magic -- 20. Resist much, obey
little ... -- 21. Fighting for the opposition -- 22. Home
beckons -- 23. Arriving home -- 24. The adventures of
Lance -- 25. Finding my son -- 26. My blue-eyed boy -- 27.
The bookseller at the edge of the world -- 28. Home
Street.
520 Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who
visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books,
and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life
before bookshops. She sailed through the Pacific for years,
was held up by pirates, worked at Sydney's King's Cross
with drug addicts and prostitutes, campaigned on numerous
environmental issues, and worked the yacht Breaksea Girl
as an expedition/tourist boat with her husband, Lance. But
underlining all her wanderings and adventures are some
very deep losses and long-held pain. Balancing that out is
her beautiful love story with Lance, and her delightful
sense of humour. This memoir will make you weep and make
you laugh and make you want to read more books - and make
you want to visit Ruth and her two wee bookshops.
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