Thirteen reasons why your love decided to comit suicide. Thirteen reasons why you should know about it. One of the thirteen reasons is because of you. Hannah commited suicide two weeks earlier and all she left was

tapes in a shoebox. Clay found the shoebox and he decided to listen, wanting to finish what he started and why Hannah Baker decided to take her own life.

Thirteen Reasons Why is the debut novel of Jay…

Allen Lane stated that he “believed in the existence…of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.”…

The theme of this year’s statewide National Trust Heritage Festival is an opportunity to recognise the impact of individuals in shaping their community.

Mosman Library is offering free workshops to learn about documenting ‘everyman’s life.’…

• The imperfectionists by Tom Rachman F/RACH
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest HORROR/PRIE
• Blogging for bliss by Tara Frey 006.7 /FREY
• Emotional intelligence by Jane Wharam 152.4 /WHAR
• The liar in your life by Robert S.Feldman 177.3 /FELD
• The Virginia monologues by Virginia Ironside. 305.26 /IRON
• Belle de Jour’s guide to…

Anne Frank's story is one of the most well known Holocaust story. It follows the life of Anne Frank during World War Two, Anne was a jew along with her family, hiding in the Secret Annexe from the Nazis, so they wouldn't be caught. The diary has started 12th June 1942 till 1st August 1944.

I first started reading Anne Frank's Diary last year and finished it quite recently. I knew her fate because Anne Frank was well known and I heard of her before. I was quite interested in…

Alan Shapiro is being interviewed (play audio below) by Father Roderick Vonhögen recently at Amsterdam's Public Library.



Although the book was published in 2004 it is still a bestseller! (Due to us Trekkie Fans)

This podcast below however is intriguing…

I got into Harry Potter when I was in year one (so roughly when I was 6 going on 7) and I saw the first movie on the big screen. It made me fell in love with the whole fantasy things (I think the whole Harry Potter thing made me have a big imagination or so called 'horror' by my mum who thinks that my imagination should be smaller not bigger like it is now). I kept watching the films and still I really enjoy it but Í still haven't started reading the books. Until the Spring of 2005 where I…

To carry on from Wallerawang's St Patrick's Day Blog here is a link to the Irish Book Awards site for the 2009 winners in the fiction category. Some great reads especially the Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

http://www.irishbookawards.ie/AwardDetails.aspx

This week we’re kicking off a monthly series of talks on digital culture with an exploration of…

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

By William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,…

And the Acadamy Award Winner is !!!!

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

Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely…

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!

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.

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.

FICTION:

Jasper Fforde. Shades of grey. 1, The road to High Saffron. FANTASY /FFOR

Roberto Bolano. 2666. F/BOLA

Frances…

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…

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-librarians

( image thanks to UFO Clip Art )

Hello Everyone!

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

Here is a fantastic link looking at Sci Fi novels. Here is one of my re- tweets from…