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Brian Kavanagh eBook week.

Books for Haiti.
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Added by Brian Kavanagh on March 8, 2010 at 10:12am — No Comments

Wallerawang Library Oscar, Oscar !! The Academy Awards 82nd Presentation

And the Acadamy Award Winner is !!!!

Great Fiction & True Stories, transformed into Hollywood Magic!!!

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Added by Wallerawang Library on March 7, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Thursday Mens reading group Honore de Balzac, "The Wild Ass's Skin" Book Club Book for March 2010

Here is a link to a brief review from the NYU School of Medicine Literature, Arts and Medicine Database http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?

Enjoy!

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Added by Thursday Mens reading group on March 5, 2010 at 11:23am — No Comments

Bern There's still a use for encyclopedias


Come along to Mosman Library on Thursday 18 March, 6pm-8pm, for Everything you wanted to know about Wikipedia but were too afraid to ask.

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Added by Bern on March 2, 2010 at 9:17pm — 1 Comment

Mosman Library New additions to the collection: staff recommendations for March 2010

Each month we upload a list of new additions to the collection at Mosman Library. The PDF is available from our Library catalogue web page. Here are the books staff recommend.

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Added by Mosman Library on February 23, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Mosman Library Favourite Australian Novels

Last year Australian Book Review asked its readers for their Favourite Australian Novel (any era, any genre). 290 novels were nominated and the results were unveiled this month.

  1. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
  2. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony - Henry Handel Richardson
  3. Voss - Patrick White
  4. Breat
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Added by Mosman Library on February 19, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Kate 10 songs about libraries and librarians!

For lovers of the greystockinged life- a list of songs to help you get your fix when the library doors are closed.

http://flavorwire.com/64968/mixtape-10-best-songs-about-libraries-and-libr

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Added by Kate on February 19, 2010 at 1:48pm — No Comments

Wallerawang Library Out of Print Sci Fi Novels

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Hello Everyone!

I love anything to do with Science Fiction - books, movies, TV series!

Here is a fantastic lin

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Added by Wallerawang Library on February 16, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Brian Kavanagh HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY (FROM 1900)

To all my readers - and those yet to be - Belinda, Hazel & Mark join me in wishing you all a Happy Valentine's Day. Enjoy the video and we hope you have better luck!
http://tinyurl.com/yglyywh

Cheers,
Brian Continue

Added by Brian Kavanagh on February 12, 2010 at 5:04pm — No Comments

Bern A Tortilla is Like Life

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Bern "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."

Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts - Life Magazine Continue

Added by Bern on January 27, 2010 at 10:26pm — No Comments

Mosman Library It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen

What's your favourite opening sentence to a book? The editors of American Book Review have chosen their 100 Best First Lines from Novels. You can also skip straight to the last page and read their… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on January 21, 2010 at 12:29pm — No Comments

Brian Kavanagh Mystery location.

This link is to Richmond, Surrey which is the location for the Belinda Lawrence mystery, BLOODY HAM. A wonderful location - for a murder! http://www.visitlondon.com/maps/podcasts/richmond-kingston-video-podcast/ Cheers, Brian Bloody Ham. Read 50% free! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7965 Continue

Added by Brian Kavanagh on January 21, 2010 at 10:16am — No Comments

Jane B In Conversation with Sarah Waters at the Seymour Centre 26 February 6.30pm

If you've enjoyed reading Sarah Waters books: Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, Affinity and her latest The Little Stranger you might be interested in hearing her talking candidly about her books at the Seymour Centre in February. For more information http://mardigras.org.au/mardi-gras-2010/events-calendar/in-conversation-with-sarah-waters/index.cfm Continue

Added by Jane B on January 21, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Bern Zorba’s Guide to Free Ebooks

Kindle the eBook 2.0 If you're curious about eBooks - what's available? how to find them? - check out Zorba’s Guide to Free Ebooks. Reading eBooks is more difficult. The… Continue

Added by Bern on January 20, 2010 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

Thursday Mens reading group Thursday Mens Book Club reading/discussion group..the story so far....

Just a reminder that the reading group will be meeting every 4th Thursday of the month in 2010. Jan 28th : “The Corrections” by Franzen, J ; and /or “The Mud Brick House” by James Glover Feb 25th: “The Curious incident of the Dog in the Nightime.” by Mark Haddon and/or “Stories of Manhood” by Steve Biddulph Mar 25th: “Luck and leather” a Parisian Romance. (Also under the title of "The wild Ass's Skin" ) Honre de Balzac April 22nd: “Tolkien and the Great War”. and/or "Birdsong" by Sebastian F… Continue

Added by Thursday Mens reading group on January 19, 2010 at 3:50pm — No Comments

Bern When authors attack

Entertaining post by Allison Flood on the Guardian's book blog. Alain de Botton responded to a poor review of his new book Pleasures and Sorrows of Work with a very angry comment o… Continue

Added by Bern on January 4, 2010 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Brian Kavanagh NEWS: ebooks for Kindle, Barnes&Noble Nook, Sony.

My books, Capable of Murder, The Embroidered Corpse and Bloody Ham are published now at Smashwords as ebooks for Kindle, Barnes&Noble Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo and on mobile phones and iPods PCs, laptops, palm-helds. NEWS: ebooks for Kindle, Barnes&Noble Nook, Sony. Books are available for immediate sampling and sale in multiple ebook formats, readable on virtually any ebook reading device. I hope you'll take time to check it out at Smashwords, where you can sample the first 50% of the boo… Continue

Added by Brian Kavanagh on January 3, 2010 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Mosman Library Mosman's most borrowed books of 2009

Over at Parra Reads, Parramatta City Libraries have listed their most borrowed adult fiction and non-fiction for 2009. Here's our list of most borrowed books for the year:… Continue

Added by Mosman Library on December 21, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Read, Review & Win Read, Review and Win in January!

The 'Read, Review and Win' Program for adults is back again this summer and encourages adult readers to review the books they have read. January is the time for those long hot days relaxing with a good book, so why not share your latest read, and at the same time, go into the draw to win a weekly prize. Reviews are posted on Mosman Readers and in the… Continue

Added by Read, Review & Win on December 16, 2009 at 12:49pm — No Comments

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  I was recommended this book by a member of the bookclub I attend. Stephen Leather is a popular British thriller writer and he has written another fast paced thriller which is more horror than pure suspense/thriller. This book features former cop…
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And the Acadamy Award Winner is !!!! Great Fiction & True Stories, transformed into Hollywood Magic!!! Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones” was fantastic! Portraying evil without the graphic descriptive violence that was in Alice Sebold's haunti…
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Bern commented on Mosman Library's event 'Everything you wanted to know about Wikipedia but were too afraid to ask'
watch this video first! Steven Walling - Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEkF5o6KPNI
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Here is a link to a brief review from the NYU School of Medicine Literature, Arts and Medicine Database http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation? Enjoy!
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