Our first event for the Marketplace of Ideas: Reading for Social Peace was jam-packed with great information about same-sex parents, the good and the bad. Well, mostly good. It seems that people are mostly very open to being inclusive with families that have same-sex parents. It's really just that people haven't had the conversations to open up about it.

Are you a fan of Jamie Oliver? As well as carrying his DVDs and books in our collection, we  now subscribe to his popular magazine simply entitled Jamie. In Jamie’s own words, “This magazine is all about passionate producers, insanely good ingredients and great recipes that can easily be cooked at home. It's a real breath of fresh air." 

A diverse range of new magazines  for 2013 include the following titles. Please check your local branch for which library these titles are housed at.  You may place a hold on any of the titles to pick up at the branch most convenient for you.

Australian Cupcakes and Inspirations

50 Something

Great Walks

Cruising Helmsman

Royalty Magazine

Eltham library have  an extensive array of popular magazine titles which include the following new titles for 2013:

Fine Art and Decorative Painting

Dressmaking with Stitches

Grand Designs Australia

Recipes +

Outdoor Design and Living

Australian Women's Fitness

Weight Watchers

Motor

Australian Sky and Telescope

Great Walks

Slam

Teen Vogue

Bedtime Story Time

Bedtime Story Time is held every Thursday at Mill Park Library from 6.30 -7.30pm.

Elizabeth delivers a creative, musical and crafty Story Time based around weekly changing Themes from -

Noises/Dancing/Music, Night time/Space/Owls to Transport/Walking and more.

Come along and enjoy an evening of story telling, guitar and songs, movement and dance in a warm friendly family environment.

Borsch, Vodka & Tears

Quite a few Cookery & Food ebooks are available to YPRL members through our Overdrive service- 282 in fact.

Click on the picture to be taken directly to the Trove website

Click on the picture to go to the official Once Upon A Time website (beware, there will be spoilers)

Thursday night has officially become my favourite night of the week. Why? Because the third season of Once Upon A Time has started and, as with the other 2 seasons, I’m hooked.

Ivanhoe Reading Coordinators Tina and Mary will introduce you the wonderful world of e-books - lightweight, backlit and instant large print!

Each week we will be talking about e-books, reviewing e-books and thinking about e-book-related issues.

Did you know…

YPRL has extended its downloadable collection by adding e-books from Bolinda, which previously only supplied audiobooks.

And…

Bring your little o