Girl undercover – Watch your back
By: Christine Harris
F HAR / Kids’ Corner
Cairo

Jesse Sharpe, child prodigy and spy, has a new assignment: a foreign agent is on the loose and C2 are desperate to find him. The trail leads to a campaign group called Peace First, but there’s nothing peaceful about life under cover. Not only does she have to dodge piranha pools on training days, but her partner still calls her “thumb sucker”. It’s time for Jesse to prove herself, but is she ready for the challenge?

Pottery Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Start Making Beautiful Ceramics
Jacqui Atkin
738.1 ATK
Lifestyle - Alexandria

This book is a basic introduction to pottery. It covers everything the beginner needs to know to start making beautiful ceramics. Step-by-step photographs and clear instructions guide you through the techniques for making, decorating, and firing pottery and twelve simple projects allow you to put your skills into practice. Chapters include an introduction to types of clay, basic modelling methods such as throwing, pinching, coiling and turning. Key techniques are taught for biscuit and glaze firing. Each progressive project develops a new skill, and then teaches you how to add texture and decorate your vessels using inlays, slips, graffito, feathering, burnishing and resist techniques.

Miss Austen Regrets
DVD MIS
Jennie Muskett, Matt Dunkley, David Hartley and Dermot Crehan
Cairo

It is a passionate and emotional story of Jane Austen’s romantic life, inspired by the great writer’s own novels, letters and diaries. As Jane Austen approaches her forties, her success as a writer is assured and her witty and sharply observed romantic novels are widely admired. To her niece, Fanny Knight– a young, pretty girl desperate to fall in love – Jane is a favourite aunt who offers the wisdom and knowledge to help her on her own search for a happy marriage. Jane recalls missed opportunities. Did she make the right choice for herself and her family? Could the great romantic expert have been mistaken? And, could her principles about love and marriage possibly have been ill-judged?

Flowers (Little Hands)
Rachael Matthews
580 MAT
Kids’ Corner - Alexandria

Little Hands uses all the senses to encourage children to explore the world around them. Leaves, flowers and seeds are some of the things they learn about touching, comparing, smelling and generally getting close to them.

* Questions allow children to explore the world around them.
* Bright, colourful photographs give children lots to talk about and see.
* Notes for parents and teachers offer more ideas to help children learn.

The Hindi - Bindi Club
By: Monica Pradhan
Fiction PRA
Cairo

Pradhan's first novel, which features six alternating narrators, speaks to the cultural and generational tensions between Indian immigrant mothers and their Westernised daughters. The age-old inter-generational struggle between mothers and daughters gets a curried twist in Pradhan's debut, in which the subcontinent meets the modern West. Pradhan's novel is alive with the sights, sounds, and smells (recipes included) of a vibrant Indian culture. Pradhan's book is breezy (there are enough recipes dotting the narrative to fill a cookbook), though it touches on not-so sunny issues—prejudice, breast cancer, infidelity

Second Honeymoon
Joanna Trollope
F TRO
Fiction - Alexandria

Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back. His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair. Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style.

How Can I Stop Climate Change?
By: Helen Burley
363.73874 Bur
Cairo- Lifestyle

How Can I Stop Climate Change? explains what climate change is and what you can do to stop it. Written by the experts at Friends of the Earth, it gives you the facts and figures, and offers practical advice and simple solutions. The book gives advice on what you personally can do to make a real difference and help stop climate change. From fitting low-energy light-bulbs, to flying less and recycling more, there are many things each of us can do.

Eragon
Edward Speleers
DVD - Alexandria

Based on the first novel in Christopher Paolini’s popular INHERITANCE trilogy, ERAGON is a fantastical adventure in a vein similar to that of the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. A classic story of a quest driven by destiny and set in a land where elves, magicians, and humans live side by side, the battle between good and evil, innocence and cynicism, is taken up once again. John Malkovitch camps it up as the evil King Galbatorix, a former guardian of peace who long ago went over to the dark side. He now rules over a land from which dragons have all but disappeared, until humble farm boy Eragon happens upon a mysterious blue object that turns out to be a dragon egg. Eragon befriends the charming dragon cub, Saphira, and becomes her rider, designating him as the principal warrior in the fight against evil. Jeremy Irons steals the show as the wise and mysterious old man who becomes Eragon’s mentor, guiding him through the tasks of saving a princess battling an evil sorcerer, and fending off hordes of the hideous Urgals.