There are many accounts of the First World War. Ahead of the 96th remembrance of Anzac Day, we select some that spoke to us: http://blogs.mosman.nsw.gov.au/library/article/196/great-war-stories

When wood is made into paper, lignin breaks down into a polymer similar to vanilla...

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Mosman Library offers eBooks from the EBL collection. Here’s how you can borrow an eBook and read it on…

Joining Mosman Readers just got a lot easier. "One-click easy."

Previously, signing up required you to enter an email address, choose a password and fill in some basic information.

Now - by joining Mosman Readers using your Facebook, Google or Yahoo! account - all that can be done with just a couple of clicks.

And you'll have one less password to remember!

Join up - we'd love to know what you're reading, and what you recommend.

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New additions to the collection - August 2010 (PDF 324KB)

Here are our staff picks

Winter is a great time for curling up 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.

On offer are Mosman Library bags, vouchers to spend at a local bookshop, and some great surprises.

Reviews posted between July 1 and August 31 are eligible for weekly prizes!

Write a short review here on Mosman Readers, or pick up a review card from the front…

A selection of the National Library's out-of-print publications are now available as PDF for free download & reading.

Titles on offer include:

• Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas
• Gold Fever! Life…

Constance Kent, the murderess. [Mark Joseph Allan ca. 1866] Pictures Collection, State Library of Victoria

Next month, Noeline Kyle will talk about Constance Emilie Kent and The Road Murder at Mosman…

Here are some great winter reads to warm you up these winter nights. They're all newly added books in the Mosman Library collection.…

Are books essential for culture and learning? Plato questioned the assumption.

Phaedrus contains an imaginary conversation between two Egyptian deities, Thamus, the chief god, and Theuth, a god of inventions. In the book, Theuth invents writing and…

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Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838.

Portrait of Bungaree, a native of New South Wales, with Fort Macquarie, Sydney Harbour, in background [picture]

[ca. 1826] 1 painting : oil on canvas ; 68.5 x 50.5…

One Book, One Twitter (#1b1t) is an effort to get everyone on Twitter to read the same book this summer. Usually such “Big Read” programs are organized around geography. Seattle started the trend for collective reading in 1998 when zillions of Seattlites all read Russell Banks’ book, Sweet Hereafter. Chicago…

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…

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…