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Do you need more space at home? or thinking about renovating?

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MAKING THE BEST OF THE SPACE AT YOUR PLACE

Parramatta Library is holding a  Home Renovations and Alterations Talk

WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER 6.30PM – 7.30PM

SAM CRAWFORD is our guest speaker. Sam is one of 4 awarded architects in this years NSW Architecture Awards in the residential houses category. He will be discussing additions and alterations to your home and how to make the most of your home when the family continues to grow.

This is a FREE talk, to make a booking please call Parramatta City Library 9806 5159

In conjunction with our talk we are displaying an exhibition from

SYDNEY ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 2012 AWARD WINNERS

24 October – 4 November

An exhibition of all NSW Architecture Award Winning Projects as part of the Sydney Architecture Festival 2012. The awards recognise excellence in architecture in all categories of design from residental project to commerical buildings & urban projects.

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What are you reading? – A Reader’s Forum

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What have you been reading lately? On Thursday 11 October between 10:30 – 11:30am Parramatta City Library held a reading forum. From prize winning Australian novels to historical fictions set during the Great Wars, romances, true crime, biographies and adult non-fiction were shared. In addition, there was an online demonstration on how to discover more reading resources online via the library eresources webpage under the “reading” subject. Continue reading →

Sweet tooth – book review

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Author: Ian McEwan

Title: Sweet tooth

 Yan’s pick

 Young, innocent, gorgeous and recently graduated fromCambridge, Serena is recruited by MI5. But she finds herself in a low paid job and the income hardly enough even to purchase hardcopy books. She’s determined to stay on and tries to make it through dull tasks every day.

 That’s why she’s grateful and excited when one day she’s interviewed and given a spy task, codenamed ‘Sweet tooth’ by the guys from the top floor. The job is simple. The top bosses want her to see a new writer, TH Haley. MI5 wants to fund writers like Haley to write for their cause. It’s 1972 and the Cold War is on with the propaganda machine in full swing. Continue reading →

Ist Wednesday book group read Where men win glory by Jon Krakauer

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The group discussed how this was a very interesting book which focuses on the policies of the Bush Government, and how that government manipulated the incident of Pat Tillman’s death.

The history of Afghanistan over the last 100 years is very well researched and presented.

The subject of the biography, Pat Tillman, was a man of incredible integrity who was not pro-war but felt it was his patriotic duty to fight for his country. The cause of his death was due to an army bungle which was covered up by the administration.

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