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Author Talk – Derek & Julia Parker

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EVER WONDERED WHAT THE SUN-SIGNS TELL YOU ABOUT LOVE AND LIFE?

Then come along to PARRAMATTA LIBRARY’S Author Talk on Wednesday 5th June  @ 1pm with Derek & Julia Parker.

The Parkers are recognised as the world’s most knowledgeable couple on all things astrology and have produced countless works on a range of topics from the arts, life, love and the messages of the universe. Their latest adventure is Poems of Love and Life – twelve unique anthologies of poems directly relating the to Sun-signs.

Come along to Parramatta Library and hear Derek & Julia talk.

Where: Parramatta Library – The Darug Room (top floor)

When: Wednesday 5th June 2013

Time: 1pm-2pm

Bookings Essential please call 9806 5159.

Wild – a review

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Title: Wild: a journey from lost to found

Author: Cheryl Strayed

Katherine’s Pick

Cheryl  Strayed has written a mediative  and insightful memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail which starts in California and ends in Washington State Oregon,   a journey of eleven hundred  miles, while  carrying a backpack that she nicknames the “Monster” because it is so heavy.   Like all good Journey stories, her inner journey is as important as her outer journey.  Continue reading →

The 2013 INDIE Book Awards Shortlist

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AND THE WINNERS ARE

The Book of the Year – The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

Best Fiction – Nine Days by Toni Jordan

Best Non-Fiction – QF32 by Richard de Crespigny

Best Debut Fiction – The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman

Best Children’s Book – Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan

The Shortlist for the 2013 Australian Independent Bookseller Awards has been announced. Parramatta City Library has copies for loan. If you need to find out availability just click the embedded links with titles or authors.

The shortlisted books for the Indie Awards 2013 are: Continue reading →

Your favourite author

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Booktopia is running a “your favourite Australia’s novelist’ voting and it has 75 great Australian authors on the list. Maybe you’d like to have a tick as well?

Well, if you want to have your vote counted, go to this to vote your favourite novelist.

The entire 75 authors are as following – just for your information 🙂 Continue reading →

Rankin and Greenwood

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Author: Ian Rankin       Title: Standing in another man’s grave

Author: Kerry Greenwood         Title: Unnatural habits: a Phryne Fisher mystery

Yan’s pick

This is the first time I have  read  an Ian Rankin book. I know he’s famous for his Rebus, the detective series. Rebus was also made into a TV series in UK.I am late coming  to Rankin’s books due to the fact there is a  very uncomfortable element to his work. For example, the bad people can’t always be dealt with  in a lawful way,  but Rebus has to take the risk to do certain things not according to the ‘book’ and that can get him into the trouble. In fact the justice is not always done by the book either. Continue reading →