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Covers important works and movements in world literature. Has an archive of characters, literary topics, themes, movements and genre. A Penrith City Library card membership number is required to logon

Colonel rose pioneered the live cattle trade from the NT to Asia in the late 1950s. He also pioneered the establishment of a research institute near Alice Springs with programs ranging from water analysis to tick-dip analysis

In 1787 Lieutenant Thomas Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts destined for NSW. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover

In 1919 the Commonwealth Government put up £10,000 prize money for the first Australian air crew to fly from London to Port Darwin. 16 outstanding young aviators participated in this unique air race, flying 11,000 miles with very few landing strips

Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. Then a chance encounter gives him an idea. He will design a questionnaire - a sixteen-page, scientifically researched document - to find the perfect partner...

A digital magazine for primary school aged kids from years 3 to 6. Like it's big sister, Good Reading Young Adults Magazine, which is hugely popular with high school students, Good Reading For Kids encourages students to submit their creative works & then experience the thrill of being published.

Morgan arrived in New World in 1655. Over the next 3 decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in service of the English became legend. Morgan gathered sailors, soldiers, adventurers, runaway slaves, and sociopaths & turned them into the most feared army