The legacy – a book review

Author: David Suzuki

Title: The legacy: an elder’s vision for our sustainable future

Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010

          Yan’s pick

If you’re confused by the fierce debate on climate change, or wondering what we should do about it, then, this book is truly for you. In fact, it’s for everyone. Continue reading

Change date for the 2nd Tue Evening Reading Group

Parramatta Library will be receiving an exciting makeover by redesigning shelving, display and seating areas on the ground floor. Therefore the library will be closed from Monday 7th to Thursday 10th Feb, reopen from Friday 11th Feb. The 2nd evening reading group will be changing the group meeting to the following Tuesday, 15th Feb.

The book this reading group is going to discuss is ‘My booky wook’ by Russell Brand.

Scare up a Good Book in January: online reading challenge at Parramatta (2)

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There are plenty of titles in non fiction for Scare up a Good Book in January: online reading challenge. For example, books on horror, true crime, myth, ghost stories, and spies, etc. Here is a list of non fiction titles for your information. Again, click the title/author, it will link you directly to Parramatta City Library online catalogue.

30 days of night (DVD)

The complete book of ghosts by Paul Roland

Encyclopedia horrifica by Joshua Gee

Ghost hunters by Yvette Fielding & Ciaran O’Keeffe

Haunted by John Pinkney

Hollywood haunted

Unsolved by John Pinkney

Abandoned by Geesche Jacobsen

The official CIA manual of trickery and deception by H. Keith Melton & Robert Wallace

The secret war with Iran by Ronen Bergman

Above the law by Ross Coulthart & Duncan McNab

Another twelve crimes that shocked the nation by Alan J. Whiticker

Crusty demons

The ultimate xtreme sports collection (DVD)

The world’s weirdest sports by Paul Connolly

As you do by Richard Hammond

Crossing the ditch by James Castrission

Blowing up Russia by Alexander Litvine

A century of spies by Jeffrey Richelson

Curveball by Bob Drogin

Enigma U-boats by Jak P. Mallmann Showell

Ghost plane by Stephen Grey

The hidden hand by Richard J. Aldrich

Legacy of ashes by Tim Weiner

MI6 by Keith Jeffery

Scare up a Good Book in January: online reading challenge at Parramatta (1)

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Happy 2011 ! 

Welcome back to our blog. Well, now we’ve officially started NSW state wide online reading challenge #readit2011.

Here we’ve developed couple of reading lists for this month’s reading theme – Scare up a Good Book in January and is dedicated to all those things that go bump in the night, but surely there are more titles in your library for your disposal. Continue reading