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Saturday, August 25, 2012

A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review | Books | The Guardian

A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review | Books | The Guardian

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Library Anywhere

Library Anywhere is a version of our online catalogue for mobile devices - iPhones, Android, and others.
More details are available in the Library Anywhere guide

http://library.ryde.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/OPAC/LIBANYWHERE
or
http://www.libanywhere.com/m/729

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BUYING BOOKS - where is the cheapest price?

http://www.booko.com.au/

Welcome to Booko!

Booko is a site with a very simple goal - to find the cheapest place to buy books & DVDs in Australia. This site started out as a personal itch and has slowly grown into a very handy site, slowly adding more shops for comparison and more features to make it easier to use. You can read more about Booko at the Blogo.

What does it do?

Booko is not an online shop. It goes out to the Internet and looks up book & DVD prices for you and figures out the shipping costs. For the international sites like the Amazons (.com and .co.uk), the prices are converted into Aussie dollars.

NOTE: look for book sources with free postage

Places to Buy Books-----
Consistently cheaper books: these places offer books which seem to me to be consistently cheaper than most other places--
NOTE: small print - quite often cheaper books have small print and cheap paper so beware if this is an issue for you.

Book Depository UK http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ - free postage delivered to your door within two weeks.
Big W book department - well worth checking regularly.

INDEX- Click on the subject

100 greatest non-fiction books (1) Africa - Wole So­yinka (1) African writing (1) Ali Smith (2) American Short Stories (1) Andrea Levy (1) App Books (1) arab books (1) Art books (1) Atlas of Living Australia (1) Australian (1) Australian book (1) Australian Orange Prize (1) award winner (6) Best books of 2010 (1) Best books year X (1) Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2012 (1) best kids book list (1) Bible (1) Bill Bryson (1) Book awards (20) book blog (1) Book club (1) book clubs (2) Book festival (6) book illustrations (1) book reviews (3) Booker shortlists (1) Books and Authors website (1) books of the year 2010 (2) books to read list (1) Caine Prize (1) Caldecott Medal (1) Child Migrant's Trust (1) Children's book awards (1) children’s choice awards (1) Children's fiction prize (1) childrens book illustrators (1) childrens books (11) childrens teens books (1) chinese books (1) Chinese writer in prison (1) Choice Magazine (1) Christmas Picture books (1) Commonwealkth Writers Prize (1) Commonwealth Writers Prize (1) Complete Review (1) Costa book awards (1) David Mitchell (2) Dubosarsky Ursula Word Spy (1) Dylan Thomas Prize (1) ebooks online (1) Empty Cradles (1) Field of Mars Reserve and Wildlife Refuge (1) flood qld (1) Foal's Bread Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction (1) FOGL (1) Graphic novel (2) Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2012 (1) Guardian first book award (1) Guardian Hay Festival (1) Handwriting (1) Herta Muller (1) History (1) Human Right Awards (1) Human Rights (1) human rights education (1) IBBY (1) IMPAC (5) IMPAC 2010 Shortlist (1) IMPAC Prize Winner 2010 (1) IMPAC Winner (1) indigenous literacy project (3) Information flood (1) Injustice to animals (1) internet library (1) Iraq war (1) Irish (1) J.K. Rowling (1) Kate Greenway medal (1) Kids books (1) Kids Christmas Books (1) Kids-Book-Review (1) Kim Scott (1) Leonard Cohen (1) libraries (1) Libraries Without Borders (1) library (1) Library Database (1) Literary Award Winners (1) Literary magazines (1) London Review of Books (1) lost masterpieces (1) love stories (1) Man Gone Down (2) Maxine McKew (1) Melbourne Prize for Literature (1) Membership Form (1) Miles Franklin 2011 (1) Miles Franklin Literary Award (1) Montaine (1) mothers day 2010 (1) National Book Award winner (1) National Book Awards (1) Newbery Medal (1) Newsletter (1) Nobel Prize (3) Non-fiction - Samuel Johnson Prize (1) NSW Premiers Literary Awards (2) NSW Premiers' Literary Awards (1) orange fiction prize (1) Oranges and sunshine (1) p (1) Patrick White Award (1) Peter Carey (1) picture books (1) Poet Katherine Gallagher (1) poetry (2) Poetry - Australian (1) Proposal FOGL (1) Puffin Books (2) Pulitzer Prize (2) Reader Organisation (1) reading guides (1) reading lists (1) Red House Children's Book Award (1) reenager books (1) review website (1) Rhubarb (1) Roald Dahl Funny Prize (1) Royal Society science book prize 2012 (1) RSS (1) Sebastian Barry (1) short stories (2) Short story award (1) slavery (1) south africa (1) stories for songs (1) suggest a purchase (1) Sydney Writers Festival (1) teen books (1) teen graphic novels (1) That Deadman Dance (1) Top ten books (1) travel books (1) Winnie the Pooh app (1) Womens prize for fiction 2013 (1) Writers Festival (2) YiYun Li (1) Young Australian's Best Book Awards (1)

RESOURCES and LINKS

  • Australian Poetry Library
  • BOOKTRUST-EXCELLENT SITE
  • Education Virtual Library
  • Free Encyclopaedia: Wikipedia
  • Friends of Gladesville Library
  • Friends of Libraries Australia
  • Gladesville Library
  • Literary Awards Australia and the World
  • NSW State Library
  • Ryde Hunters Hill Library

Great Book Sources and reviews

  • http://www.bookspot.com/reviews/
  • http://www.lrb.co.uk/lrbrss.xml
  • http://www.literaryawards.com.au/index.html
  • http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/
  • http://www.complete-review.com/new/previews.htm
  • http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/index.htm
  • http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/index.php

Free eBooks Audiobooks eMagazines

RYDE LIBRARY --
TO READ FREE EBOOKS AUDIOBOOKS EMAGAZINES
http://library.ryde.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/OPAC/EBOOKS
http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/Library/Online+Library/eMagazines

ebooks from University of Adelaide Library
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/
excellent source of downloadable books.



http://www.freefictionbooks.org/

FreeFictionBooks.org is a collection of free fiction books that can be read online. Books are split into pages for easier reading and bookmarking. We are adding new books daily.

We invite you to link to us, so as many people as possible can enjoy this wonderful free resource.

More free ebooks---

http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

large no of ebooks



BOOK REVIEWS: The Guardian Newspaper

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Secondhand Book Sources plus

http://www.bookshops.com.au/book_subjects.php


http://www.ebay.com.au/


http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm --so many free ebooks to download and read on your pc or phone or mp3 player PLUS - audio books as well - EXCELLENT SOURCE

Internet Digital Library - excellent resource

http://www.archive.org/

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission: "universal access to all knowledge." It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and books.

the Complete Review

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Powell's Books: Review-A-Day

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WHO IS JLSAC??

  • http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/Council/Committees+/Advisory+Committees/Ryde+Hunters+Hill+Joint+Library+Service
  • JLSAC is the Joint Library Service Advisory Committee - a committee with representatives from both councils whose task it is to advise both councils on issues concerning Gladesville Library. FOGL was instrumental in the establishment of JLSAC . FOGL makes submissions to and monitors JLSAC. JLSAC holds meetings three times each year which are open to the public.
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