tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32553080023489430042024-03-13T05:50:36.538-05:00Moore MusingsA Library Blog from <a href="http://www.texascity-library.org">Moore Memorial Public Library</a> in Texas City, TexasVivihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07456759327379185517noreply@blogger.comBlogger811125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-63955682513466513062014-03-31T10:57:00.002-05:002014-03-31T10:57:47.263-05:00Redshirts by John Scalzi SF SCALZI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you know much about the original series of Star Trek, you know that being a crew member, who was not a member of the main cast, on an away team mission was a very dangerous thing. Usually, it meant that the crew member was not going to make it back to the ship alive. Most of these crew members were wearing "red shirts." Scalzi builds on this concept with the new crew members of Universal Union's flagship, The Intrepid. Ensign Andrew Dahl is excited to begin working in the Xenibiology lab, and he quickly makes friends with the other new ensigns assigned at the same time that he is: Finn, Hester, Hanson, and Duvall. On his first day, though, Dahl starts noticing some very odd things about the Intrepid, such as the miracle "box" that "almost" has all of the answers to really tough problems, the way that all of his fellow crew members seem to disappear when either Captain Abernathy or Chief Science Office Q'eeng enter an area, and finally, the alarmingly large number of crew members that have been lost on away team missions. While digging deeper into these mysterious happenings, Dahl comes across another crew member, Jenkins, who has been hiding from the rest of the crew for years and monitors everything on board. Jenkins has a wild theory that sounds utterly insane, but it might just be exactly what is going on. In order to save their lives, the Ensigns will have to pull together on a crazy mission to stop those forces pulling them to almost certain doom. There are also three "codas" at the end of the story, which wrap up the lose ends left in the story.<br />
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I worried, when I started listening to the book, that my level of nerdness (and Star Trek knowledge) might not be be enough to understand all of the little jokes and allusions that Scalzi makes in Redshirts. I soon realized that I am indeed nerdy enough to enjoy them. I really enjoyed all of the main characters in the story, and I found myself really invested in their finding a way to stop the all of the death going on around them. I also found myself laughing out loud many time during the course of the story. I also would not worry much, if you are not a huge Star Trek fan. The story is still an enjoyable one and very funny.<br />
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I will warn you, though, that there is strong language all throughout the book, but I found this story very clever and hysterical. I also think the reader, Wil Wheaton (who you may know as Wesley Crusher from Star Trek The Next Generation) does a great job of bringing the story (and all of the sarcasm and wit) to life. <br />
Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-32099085460507277082014-03-26T20:01:00.000-05:002014-03-26T20:01:29.683-05:002014 NAACP Awards for Literature<div align="center"><iframe src="//embed.gettyimages.com/embed/106312098?et=8l9V11W4iESYtekCsSZ9tQ&sig=q6PjA7DyHQ8jhRq4_ux5i-ICrln2LKJhRK2zrfv4rsk=" width="432" height="663" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br /><em>Author Kadir Nelson from the 2007 Image Awards.<br />Nelson won a 2014 Image Award for his book</em> Nelson Mandela.</div><br /><br />
The NAACP celebrated the achievements of people of color in the arts last month at its 45th Annual Image Awards last. With a focus on works that particularly promote social justice, the organization recognizes standouts in the realm of <a href="http://www.naacpimageawards.net/nominees/">films, TV, music and writing</a>.<br /><br />
Below are the Image Award <a href="http://www.naacpimageawards.net/nominees/literature/">literature winners</a> that we've got here at the library and the categories in which they won:<br /><br />
<strong>Nonfiction</strong><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKDzqRxjUmI/UzN3rMgSbSI/AAAAAAAABAw/IZOjtuXG9pU/s1600/envisioning_emancipation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKDzqRxjUmI/UzN3rMgSbSI/AAAAAAAABAw/IZOjtuXG9pU/s200/envisioning_emancipation.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1= 9781439909850"><em>Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery</em></a><br />
By Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer<br />
973.714 WILLIS<br clear="all" />
<strong>Debut Author</strong><br />
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By Sheri Booker<br />
B BOOKER<br clear="all" />
<strong>Biography/Autobiography</strong><br />
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By Jeanne Theoharis<br />
B PARKS<br clear="all" />
<strong>Instructional</strong><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rEpZnZBj3GE/UzN3sVE2X1I/AAAAAAAABBA/1mHek1cQEdI/s1600/vegucation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rEpZnZBj3GE/UzN3sVE2X1I/AAAAAAAABBA/1mHek1cQEdI/s200/vegucation.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1= 9781583334737"><em>The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life</em></a><br />
By Robin Quivers<br />
613.2622 QUIVERS<br clear="all" />
<strong>Children</strong><br />
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By Kadir Nelson<br />
J B MANDELA<br clear="all" />
<strong>Youth/Teens</strong><br />
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By Tanya Lee Stone<br />
J 940.5403 STONE (also on audiobook, J AD 940.5403 STONE)<br clear="all" />
Vivihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07456759327379185517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-90648129850305244362014-03-04T15:38:00.000-06:002014-03-04T15:38:55.226-06:00Flights of Passage: reflections of a World War II aviator by Samuel Hynes<br />
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This book, first published 26 years ago, successfully evokes
the picture of what it was like for a young man aged 19 to enter the service,
learn how to fly, and be shipped to the Pacific, to participate in the final
days of World War II. Hynes spent 2 years and 8 months away from his home,
going in as a scared teenager and exiting as a flier, a married man and one who
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Hynes became an academic and is now retired from Princeton,
where he was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature. (We have four of his books
on literary criticism, in addition to this memoir.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hynes wrote “Flights of Passage” forty years after the war, but pretty well succeeds with his aim to write it from the sensibility
of the 19 year old, not from the professor’s viewpoint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It might be because of this, but it is not a “deep”
story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can identify and root for the
young man who wants to succeed, not fail, and who also wants to fit in. When we
hear of deaths and tragedies, however, they are duly noted and passed over…sometimes
Hynes remarks on how the Japanese kamikaze attacks struck he and the others as
being alien to themselves – and how strange it was to inhabit islands where the
original inhabitants has all been transported elsewhere, so the Americans could
dig in and fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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What stays with you is the instincts of the young,
particularly the young men, and how they settle into whatever huts or barracks
are offered, take on the routine that is set out for them, and still manage to
keep their individuality, their pranks, their anger and their simple high
spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You realize that the age old
tradition of the comic song was alive and well in those days, and belting out
irreverent and (sometimes) obscene lyrics was a common pastime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Details like describing the songs, and how
they were sung, help to recreate that age, before TV, when simple kids really were
simple, and even the smart alecks not that much more sophisticated.</div>
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Another nice touch throughout the book is Hyne’s description
of flying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beautiful imagery captures
the lyricism of flight as well as the danger - from wind and clouds, from fog
and dark night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hynes explains the
technical aspects of flying enough to give the reader an approximate
understanding of maneuvers, without overwhelming us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see, from his description of the
training, why everyone can’t be a flier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not everyone can learn to fly in darkness, over land and sea, and roll a
plane upside down and come out of it, which Hynes said at first felt like sheer
suicide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This is a good memoir, not just for finding out what life
was like for fliers in the Pacific, but to glimpse the war from their viewpoint
- more as a necessary evil, something that got them in the air and gave them
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Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13769321097167756556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-35522425809170143972014-02-28T21:55:00.000-06:002014-02-28T21:55:28.785-06:00World War I: The Great War<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year marks the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of World War I. World War I officially began on July 28, 1914, after Austria-Hungary began its invasion of Serbia, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand the month before. Germany, Austria's ally, soon invaded neutral Belgium on the march to begin attacking France, causing Great Britain to declare war on Germany. Many countries had created military and political alliances with other countries throughout Europe, and now these countries were forced to side along those alliances. Great Britain fought with France, Belgium, and Russia, while Germany was aligned with Austria-Hungary. The United States tried to remain neutral throughout the war, but many factors, including a German submarine's sinking of the Lusitania and the Laconia, brought the United States into the war on April 6, 1917. No one could predict the devastation that the war would cause, as there had never been a war fought with machine guns, tanks, and mustard gas. It is estimated that the war cost $332 billion and over 16 million lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following list are 10 fiction books and series about World War I. Hopefully, these books can help you get a feel for what life was like for both those who fought in the war, those who worked to save their lives, and those who supported them back home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road)</b> by Pat Barker </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>FIC BARKER</b></span><br />
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Soldiers from World War I are suffering from what they called "shell-shock," what we now call "PTSD," or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They are brought to the Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment and treated by Dr. William Rivers. Dr. Rivers believes that he can help these soldiers, but he also wonders whether he should, as they will be sent back to the front to fight once he does. Barker looks at the effects of war, and its consequences on the minds of those who are fighting in it from the view of a man who worked with these soldiers and believed that his "regeneration" experiments would work.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Cartographer of No Man's Land </b> by P. S. Duffy </span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V-snvV9vg8k/UxECyLS9zhI/AAAAAAAADYE/h0vVGIpqG7k/s1600/Cartographer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V-snvV9vg8k/UxECyLS9zhI/AAAAAAAADYE/h0vVGIpqG7k/s1600/Cartographer.jpg" height="200" width="131" /></a>When Angus McGrath's brother-in-law, Ebbin, goes missing, Angus is determined to go and find out what <br />
happened to him. So he enlists in the army (they are from Nova Scotia), with the promise that he will receive a safe cartographer's job in London, and he decides he will look in to what happened to Ebbin the rest of the time. However, Angus finds himself on the front lines in France, instead. While Angus is at war, his son, Simon Peter, is trying to figure out what to think about the war and how it affects everyone around him.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A Farewell to Arms</b> by Ernest Hemingway </span><br />
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Ernest Hemingway volunteered for the ambulance service for the Red Cross in Italy during World War I, and this book is one that he wrote that is semi-autobiographical. Like Hemingway, his character, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, volunteered to work in the ambulance service in Italy. It is in Henry's experiences that you can see the war not just from the fighting side, but from the side of the volunteers, as they faced similar situations to those men fighting in the war. There is also a love story between Henry and Catherine, a nurse.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The World War One Series (No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade, We Shall Not Sleep) </b>by Anne Perry</span><br />
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The series begins with the events that started World War I going in the background and three murders having to do with the British secret service at the forefront. Matthew Reavley is a member of the British secret service, and with his brother, Joseph, he tries to find out who killed their parents and one of Joseph's students. They also look into how these deaths intersect with the unrest leading up to the beginning of the war. As the series progresses, Matthew works behind the scenes in England, looking for the suspicious "Peacemaker," who seems to be undermining the support for the war, while Joseph works in the trenches as a chaplain (solving murders as he goes along). Their sister, Judith, is an ambulance driver, who assists Joseph in his crime solving (and even solves some of her own).<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Wings of Morning </b>by Murray Pura</span><br />
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Jude Whetstone and Lyyndaya Kurtz are both from converted Amish families, and they have developed feelings for one another. Jude's obsession with the new airplane gets in their way, when Lyyndaya's parents object to him flying (even though the Amish had not forbidden the use of the airplane at the time). When the <br />
United States enters the war in 1917, Jude is exempt from military service due to his religious convictions. However, he is manipulated into enlisting in the war to fly planes (to save the other Amish men imprisoned with him based on their convictions), and then he is shunned by the community for his enlistment. Lynndaya worries about him, as she is tending to patients sick with the Spanish Influenza, and she hopes that his shunning will end. This is a completely different look at the war, from the viewpoint of a group of people who completely oppose war.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6x5YlDHlEaw/Uqt_rArpxoI/AAAAAAAADQk/hyugF3l8Ljg/s1600/All+Quiet+on+the+Western+Front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">Paul </span><span style="line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">Baümer is just 19 years old when he and his fellow classmates enlist in the German army at the beginning of World War I, but no one expects the carnage and suffering that will take place in the trenches. As the war drags on, many of these young soldiers wonder whether they can survive the conflict, and if they do they, whether they will ever be the same again.</span> All Quiet on the Western Front is a look at the war from the "other" side (the German) of the conflict. Even though they were the opposing side in the war, many can see a similarity in the ways the German soldiers viewed the war and the devastation that came with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Innocents </b>by Caroline Seebohm</span><br />
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Identical twin sisters, Dorothea and Iris Crosby, grow up in a more priviledged lifestyle in New York City's Park Avenue. Both girls are very sheltered from the difficult things that are going on around them. That changes with the devastation of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the news of a war beginning in Europe. Dorothea and Iris decide to volunteer with the American Red Cross in France, and they soon arrive on the front lines to tend to the wounded. As the carnage goes on around them. they become even closer to each other, and they both wonder if they will ever be so "innocent" again.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War </b>by Jeff Shaara</span><br />
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Jeff Shaara writes about the United States' part in the conflict of World War I from the perspectives of acutal historical figures that fought in it. General John "Black Jack" Pershing leads the American forces in France, dealing with this new method of warfare in the trenches. Shaara also looks at the beginning of aircraft fighting in the war, between American pilot, Raoul Lufbery, and the famous "Red Baron," Manfred von Richtofen. He also looks at the Marines part in the war with the perspective of Private Roscoe Temple.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>My Enemy, My Love </b>by Robert Tyler Stevens</span><br />
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Before the war began and they became enemies, James William Fraser and Sophie von Korvacs fell in love. James was teaching art at a school for foreign children, while Sophie was from a titled family. An accident between a car and his carriage lead to their meeting. The death of the Archduke is a shock for the von Korvacs, but they do not understand the bigger consequences of his death. James worries what kind of life he can give Sophie. However, with the beginning of the war, James is now an enemy of Austria and goes off to fight for the Allies. Sophie, Baroness von Korvacs watches her world fall apart around her in Vienna, and she believes that she might never forgive James for what his country did to hers, even as she loves him still. <br />
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Following in her soldier father's footsteps, Bess Crawford volunteers to aid in the war effort as a nurse. As she faces the devastation going on around her, Bess stumbles upon other kinds of crimes that she helps solve, although most of the crimes happen (or happened) on British soil.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To learn more about World War I, look in the Non-Fiction under 940.3 for titles such as:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The First World War: A Concise Global History </b>by Jon Glover</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Great War: A Photographic Narrative </b> by Mark Holborn</span><br />
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Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-78581026681930537442014-02-25T14:16:00.001-06:002014-02-25T14:26:04.773-06:00Mr g by Alan Lightman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ilfzI_xrYls/UwzrNDERHSI/AAAAAAAAA_4/7DeJekRPkOo/s1600/mr+g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ilfzI_xrYls/UwzrNDERHSI/AAAAAAAAA_4/7DeJekRPkOo/s320/mr+g.jpg" /></a></div>Alan Lightman brings together his unique expertise as both a novelist and theoretical physicist in crafting a fable of the Creation in the thought-provoking <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/57/5?searchdata1=mr%20g%20creation&srchfield1=TI^TITLE^SERIES^Title%20Processing^title&searchoper1=AND&thesaurus1=SERIES&search_entries1=TI&search_type1=TITLE&special_proc1=Title%20Processing&library=ALL&match_on=KEYWORD&shadow=NO&sort_by=relevance&user_id=WEBSERVER"><em>Mr g</em></a> (FIC LIGHTMAN). The story makes for a fascinating look at what happens when right-brain and left-brain musings collide and coalesce.<br /><br />
Although the narrator of Lightman's story is never actually named, it's reasonable to guess he is the eponymous Mr g. And, given Mr g's abilities, it's a logical conclusion that Mr g is actually God. Mr g lives in the Void, where "Practically everything slept in an infinite torpor of potentiality," with his querulous Aunt Penelope and long-suffering Uncle Deva.<br /><br >
One day, Mr g wakes from a nap and decides to create the universe. He starts with the first necessary element: time.<br />
<blockquote><em>"I had to chosen to replace nothingness with something. Something is not nothing. Something could be anything. My imagination reeled. From now on, there would be a future, a present, and a past. A past of nothingness, and then a future of something."</em></blockquote>
From this point on, we're taken on a wonderful ride as Mr g contemplates, examines and assesses his next steps and their impact. He soon creates space, followed by (curiously) music, and then quantum physics.<br /><br />
It's at this point that he meets a traveling stranger whom he can't account for: Belhor and his grinning beasts, Baphomet the Larger and Baphomet the Smaller. They are anomalies outside of Mr g's sphere. As Mr g continues crafting the cosmos, he is continually visited by the mysterious Belhor, who challenges Mr g to think critically about the nature of his creation. Even as Mr g begins refining his worlds with rules meant to add order and logic and populating that space with matter, Belhor poses difficult questions of faith, free will, and relatively.<br /><br />
These existential exchanges are some of the best parts of the book. Mr g comes across as young, thoughtful and optimistic. His discussions with Belhor make him realize the enormity of his responsibility: He has set in motion a chain of events that eventually leads to the evolution of sentient organisms and human life. But what is the nature of life? Of consciousness?<br /><br />
Mr g must decide what role he will play in the lives his worlds have spawned — never suspecting that in the end, they will effect him just as much as he does them.<br /><br />
This is a story that melds together elements of religion, philosophy, math, science and ethics in an easily understood matter. God, in Lightman's tale, seems like a person just like you or me (except with infinite power) faced with the daunting prospect of creating something from nothing. But not just anything:<br /><br />
Life. Civilization. Meaning.
Vivihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07456759327379185517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-35180529230637069062014-02-18T09:46:00.001-06:002014-02-18T09:51:40.896-06:00The Flivver King by Upton Sinclair<div class="MsoNormal">
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Upton Sinclair is a name I remembered from college as the
author of “The Jungle”, a book written in 1906 that exposed the terrible
conditions of the Chicago meat packing industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He died in 1968 at the age of 90, and left a
legacy of over 90 books and some very incisive writing on our political and
economic history.</div>
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One such example is “The Flivver King”, a fictional
biography of Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company and an early leading
industrialist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fictional, because Upton
writes about Ford and also a fictional person who works for Ford from the
beginning of Ford’s career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a
device of parallel lives which Sinclair often uses in his writing, to provide a
contrast between the opportunities both men have and the choices that they
make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Sinclair gives a vivid picture of what life was like in
America at the end of the century, when different inventors were hard at work
inventing a “horseless carriage”, the early name for automobile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before Social Security, the working class of
people depended on the company that employed them – if they got sick or were
injured, it was up to the company to decide if they got help or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We see Henry Ford climbing up the ladder of success, by his
perseverance, his engineering ability, and his sharpness in knowing what the
public wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see Abner Shutt, his
employee, working hard in Ford’s factory and feeling proud that he has a job
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When hard times hit, as in the
Depression, Abner is laid off and along with thousands of others, tries to find
some other job, no matter what the paycheck.</div>
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Sinclair illustrates the invisible division between rich and
poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shutt has initiative, but while it
is rewarded early in his career, it doesn’t keep him from getting laid
off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sinclair shows us how Ford’s
accumulation of wealth gradually separates him from others, from having
bodyguards and professional spies, to being surrounded by people interested in
his money, not himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some critics
find Sinclair’s characters are not well rounded. Yet the reader can identify
with their wants and their needs, and that is really all the writer wants you
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Sinclair paints the conflict between the labor advocates and
big business as pretty grim, and by all accounts it was. It’s worth reading
“The Flivver King”, just for a lesson in how to succeed in business (make it
your number one priority), as well as an account of what you should try to
avoid when you get to the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13769321097167756556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-14805594488518699252014-02-10T16:51:00.005-06:002014-02-10T16:52:57.952-06:00Top 25 Books That Changed History: According to a New York Public Librarian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Miriam Tuliao from the Library Services Center of the New York Public Library has compiled a list of 25 books that she believes have changed the course of history. Some of these books on the list are givens: 1984, King James Bible, On the Origin of the Species, Silent Spring..., but some of them were ones that I hadn't even thought of. Check some of these out, and tell me if you agree with her. As always, Happy Reading!</span><br />
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1. <b>1984 by George Orwell</b><br />
<b>FIC ORWELL</b><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aCsI3QjCugA/UvlTmA3d3-I/AAAAAAAADV8/E7FrAW3urT0/s1600/Aesops'+fables.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aCsI3QjCugA/UvlTmA3d3-I/AAAAAAAADV8/E7FrAW3urT0/s1600/Aesops'+fables.jpg" /></a><b><br /></b>2. <b>Aesop's Fables</b><br />
<b>J 398.2 WARD Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables</b><br />
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3. <b>The Analects of Confucius by Confucius</b><br />
<b>299.512 CONFUCIU The Wisdom of Confucius</b><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fA7qBKNHMXw/UvlUd03NxrI/AAAAAAAADWE/p_YcWeFxFcc/s1600/art+of+war.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fA7qBKNHMXw/UvlUd03NxrI/AAAAAAAADWE/p_YcWeFxFcc/s1600/art+of+war.jpg" /></a><b><br /></b>4. <b>The Art of War by Sun Tzu</b><br />
<b>355.02 SUNZI</b><br />
<b><br /></b>5. <b>King James Bible</b><br />
<b>220.5</b><br />
<b><br /></b>6. <b>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Alexander</b><br />
<b>Brown 970.5 BROWN</b><br />
<b><br /></b>7. <b>The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles</b><br />
<b>335.422 MARX</b><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N_LAPfyD4Tk/UvlUm9CR4pI/AAAAAAAADWM/X5y5jwfJ6XY/s1600/anne+frank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N_LAPfyD4Tk/UvlUm9CR4pI/AAAAAAAADWM/X5y5jwfJ6XY/s1600/anne+frank.jpg" /></a><b><br /></b>8. <b>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank</b><br />
<b>949.2 FRANK</b><br />
<b><br /></b>9. <b>A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson</b><br />
We don't have this specific book, but dictionaries are located in <b>423</b>.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZJO7QkM-Gm8/UvlVB2dqudI/AAAAAAAADWU/44Oc_N-rKzg/s1600/hiroshima.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZJO7QkM-Gm8/UvlVB2dqudI/AAAAAAAADWU/44Oc_N-rKzg/s1600/hiroshima.jpg" /></a>10. <b>The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan</b><br />
<b>305.420973 FRIEDAN</b><br />
<b><br /></b>11. <b>Hiroshima by John Hersey</b><br />
<b>940.5425 HERSEY</b><br />
<b><br /></b>12. <b>How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis</b><br />
<b>301.441 RIIS</b><br />
<b><br /></b>13. <b>I Ching: The Book of Change</b><br />
<b>299.51282 I I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change: The First Complete Translation with Concordance </b><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CIm5FwNXz0M/UvlVh8o4uXI/AAAAAAAADWc/ol9DODX-xaw/s1600/The+Jungle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CIm5FwNXz0M/UvlVh8o4uXI/AAAAAAAADWc/ol9DODX-xaw/s1600/The+Jungle.jpg" /></a><b><br /></b>14. <b>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs</b><br />
<b>B JACOBS</b><br />
<b><br /></b>15. <b>The Jungle by Upton Sinclair</b><br />
<b>FIC SINCLAIR</b><br />
<b><br /></b>16. <b>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass</b><br />
<b>B DOUGLASS</b><br />
<b><br /></b>17. <b>On Liberty: Bold-faced Thoughts on Free Will, Free Speech, and the Importance of Individuality by John Stuart Mill </b><br />
<b>192 MILL The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill: Ethical, Political, and Religious</b><br />
<b>323.34 MILL On Liberty and the Subjection of Women </b><br />
<b><br /></b>18. <b>Origin of the Species: By Means of Natural Selection of the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin </b><br />
<b>576.82 DARWIN (along with The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex) </b><br />
<b><br /></b>19. <b>The Qu'ran</b><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rCM0Re1R32g/UvlVsXQtPRI/AAAAAAAADWk/QnMYau3jLyk/s1600/republic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rCM0Re1R32g/UvlVsXQtPRI/AAAAAAAADWk/QnMYau3jLyk/s1600/republic.jpg" /></a><b>297.1227 </b><br />
<b><br /></b>20. <b>Republic by Plato</b><br />
<b>321.07 PLATO </b><br />
<b><br /></b>21. <b>The Rights of Man: For the Benefit of All Mankind by Thomas Paine</b><br />
<b>320.51 PAINE Collected Writings</b><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m4XUMAmJZr4/UvlWV5DWqII/AAAAAAAADWs/ICD3P7svv08/s1600/Silent+spring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m4XUMAmJZr4/UvlWV5DWqII/AAAAAAAADWs/ICD3P7svv08/s1600/Silent+spring.jpg" /></a><b><br /></b>22. <b>The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir</b><br />
<b>305.401 BEAUVOIR</b><br />
<b><br /></b>23. <b>Silent Spring by Rachel Carson</b><br />
<b>577 CARSON</b><br />
<b><br /></b>24. <b>The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu</b><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p71H8KcHP04/UvlWzPwC-gI/AAAAAAAADW0/iGCoBVsMJ6Q/s1600/Lao+te+ching.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p71H8KcHP04/UvlWzPwC-gI/AAAAAAAADW0/iGCoBVsMJ6Q/s1600/Lao+te+ching.jpg" /></a><b>299.51482 LAOZI Tao Te Ching: A New Translation & Commentary = Da de Jing</b><br />
<b><br /></b>25. <b>The Torah: The Five Books of Moses</b><br />
<b>222.1 </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b><b>Read the article <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/books-that-changed-history-2013-12?op=1" target="_blank">here</a>, or read more about Miriam Tuliao's choices on the library's blog<a href="http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/miriam-tuliao" target="_blank"> here</a>. </b></span>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-85361611456684213762014-01-15T12:56:00.004-06:002014-01-15T13:01:48.916-06:00Humorous Non-Fiction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We all know that Non-Fiction books are written to teach us things, but sometimes authors like to mix a little humor in with the knowledge they are sharing. You can find funny memoirs (one of which includes taxidermy), probably more information than you wanted about cadavers, ponderings on the everyday lives of grocery shoppers (and their lists), adventures on the African safari, funny letters and tweets of famous people, and even conversations overhead in barbershops all over America. Give these books and try and laugh while you learn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lisick had spent her life avoiding anything that promotes or claims to provide any "self-help," until one New Year's, when she decides that she needs to make some changes in her life. So she spends one year trying to "change" herself with the help of some of the self-help "experts." She not only reads the books, but she also attends seminars and classes. The book covers her journey and thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mary Roach</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although it may be a difficult subject for many people, Roach delves into the various ways that human bodies have been utilized after death throughout history. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the past 2000 years, bodies have been used to test theories, to figure out biological processes and surgical methods, and even to determine the decomposition process in different conditions for the solving of murders.</span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UHe9QjSHe5I/UtbYj4ZrhNI/AAAAAAAADUM/wBBR-Cixr48/s1600/barry_dave_barry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UHe9QjSHe5I/UtbYj4ZrhNI/AAAAAAAADUM/wBBR-Cixr48/s1600/barry_dave_barry.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dave Barry<br /><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200517595745" style="color: #0e0ea6; text-decoration: none;"><em>Dave Barry is Not Making This Up</em></a><br /><b>814.54 BARRY</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dave Barry is well known for his humor column in the Miami Herald that he wrote until 2005. This book is a collection of his humor columns and includes subjects on everything from exploding Pop-Tarts to the worst song lyrics, ever. There are also illustrations throughout the book by cartoonist Jeff MacNelly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">David Sedaris is an essayist and NPR commentator, who is well known for his sharing his often hysterical life experiences. In this work, Sedaris discusses his </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">move to Paris, his attempting to learn French, and his life in his new city. There are also other interesting and funny stories from his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charles Osgood is a broadcaster and humorist who has, in this work, collected often hysterical correspondence from politicians, such as Abraham Lincoln; authors, such as Mark Twain; and other celebrities, such as Groucho Marx and </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Julia Child. At a time when very few people still correspond with others by sending letters through the mail, this is a glimpse into the lives of these people, even though it is mostly a funny one, and the matters that they would share in a letter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Peter Allison grew up in Sydney, but in 1994, at the age of 19, he traveled to Africa and started giving safari tours. In this book, he shares some very funny stories from his time in Africa and from the tours that he has given.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lawson is known for her blog, The Bloggess (at thebloggess.com). In her memoirs she shares funny stories of her life that show her (and us) that even though we all have moments that we wish we could "pretend this never happened," they are the moments that often define who we are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can find more humorous Non-Fiction books <a href="http://www.texascity-library.org/adult/biblio/humor_nonfiction.php" target="_blank">here</a>, and there are paper copies of the bibliography next to the catalog computers.</span></div>
Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-47801659062942309682014-01-09T14:08:00.001-06:002014-01-09T14:10:51.726-06:00Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I read this book many years ago and took it up again in the
hope of finding a book still relevant to our time, although it was first
published in 1958. The author, deceased
just this past year at age 82, was Nigerian, and considered foremost in a
movement which introduced African literature to the world, showing the
coherence and complexity of tribal traditions and how they were often misinterpreted
and vilified by those seeking to colonize these tribes for religious or civil
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The chief character in the book, Okonkwo, is a man of good
standing in his village in Nigeria, a skilled wrestler, a hardworking farmer,
and a brave warrior. Achebe, through simple
narrative depicting Okonkwo and his family and fellow villagers, brings the
reader into familiarity with all the aspects of their existence. Their cooking, their farming, how Okonkwo’s
compound, with his own and his three wives’ houses, is run and managed on a daily
basis. Simple details like the dark
night, the silence of the forest around them, how one can hear the pounding of
the woman’s mortar who always cooks later rather than in the daytime – all of
these quietly inform us, so in a while it feels like we know this routine
ourselves. All the villagers are governed
by strictures handed down from their ancestors, which can change sometimes in
the form of demands made by their resident spirit, who lives in a nearby cave
and communicates through one of the female villagers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Achebe does not hold up this world as a paragon of virtue,
then to be sullied by the outside colonial forces. There is injustice, as in the stricture
commanding any twin babies to be cast into the forest on their birth, as an
affront against nature. But there is justice
as well. When Okonkwo’s rifle explodes
in a noisy celebration, inadvertently killing a young participant, he must
leave and take refuge in his mother’s village.
Because the killing was accidental, he can return after seven
years. And the missionaries, when they
make their appearance, are not pictured as wholly negative in their
influence. Okonkwo’s son, a convert,
seems to hear an answer in the images of the missionaries’ songs, of a light in
darkness, an answer to the suffering he has seen in his life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Achebe’s power is in depicting the strength of the tribal
traditions which have been sifted for so many generations, and yet showing
their vulnerability to the foreigners, those who come on “an iron horse” (what
they call a bicycle). Okonkwo disowns
his son when he converts to Christianity…he wanted his son to be like him, a
warrior. But a warrior’s days, like
Okonkwo’s, are numbered. The colonial administration,
first there to protect the missionaries, is soon to be reckoned with as an
established presence, one that will thwart tradition rather than try to
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We have this book as the first in a trilogy. To see it in our catalog, click<a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780307592705" target="_blank"> here</a>. For learning about Africa, even a part of Africa
that is fast disappearing, Achebe seems to be one of our best resources. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13769321097167756556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-27358695376508001472013-12-30T17:36:00.002-06:002013-12-30T17:37:32.770-06:00Some Great Literary Catchphrases<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tc1jL6VBaqU/UsHiJu-ZVAI/AAAAAAAADRo/5go9zgPYaE0/s1600/Christmas+Carol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tc1jL6VBaqU/UsHiJu-ZVAI/AAAAAAAADRo/5go9zgPYaE0/s320/Christmas+Carol.jpg" width="194" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Flavorwire published an article online last week called <a href="http://flavorwire.com/430857/the-greatest-literary-catchphrases/" target="_blank">The Greatest Literary Catchphrases</a> by Alison Nastasi. One of these phrases is even appropriate to this time of year, if you are lacking in holiday spirit. There are some phrases that are well known, but there were a few where I knew the saying but had no idea where the phrase came from. See how many you know, and check out the article by clicking on the title above. As always, happy reading!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You have probably been called this or heard someone being called this before. Though I don't think that F. Scott Fitzgerald intended for his phrase to be used sarcastically, as it so often is now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whether you know this phrase from its meaning in the book, or you just know it by the name of the reality television show, most everyone is aware of this issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This deep and meaningful (and fatalistic) phrase is used over 100 times in the novel. Things will happen in the way that they have happened and will continue to happen, as "so it goes." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I personally have not heard many people saying this out loud, unless it has been in reference to Dumbledore, but he does have a point. Even though most of us aren't dealing with Death Dealers or "He who must not be named," it is useful to always be aware of what goes on around you. <span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">7. <span style="color: #cc0000;">"All that glitters is not gold." </span>- from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare <b>822.33 SHAKESPE</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, this is just one of the many phrases of wisdom that come from the playwright and are constantly used, but it is a good one to think about. <span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, Aristophanes was speaking of women. I am sure that everyone has heard this phrase used in this context, at least once in their lives (whether they are referring to men, women, children, dogs...).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am sure that most everyone has been in a "Catch-22" at least once in their lives. It is a little bit worse than being "stuck between a rock and a hard place," as usually neither choice you make will turn out to be good (at all). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A very simple but deep phrase from the King of Hearts, followed by "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have heard this phrase many times, and I had no idea where it came from. Even though Conrad used this phrase during a most dramatic death scene, most people now seem to use the phrase more sarcastically, though. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another saying that I have heard over and over and did not know the reference to. How many times in dramatic romances have we heard about these ships. Where would all of those characters be without Longfellow?</span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The year is 2059, and 19-year-old Paige Mahoney lives in Scion London. In an alternate reality, Jack the Ripper was rumored to be Edward VII, who Scion believes brought the "curse" of clairvoyance to the world, through his misdeeds. In Scion England, it is illegal to use any kind of clairvoyance (accessing the <span style="line-height: 20px;">ӕther)</span>, even though there are many different kinds of "voyants" to be found (there is a chart at the beginning of the book), and it is considered treason for voyants to use their abilities for financial gain. Scion puts offending voyants in the Tower, and many are eventually executed (or so society believes). </span><br />
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Paige is a special kind of voyant, a "dreamwalker," whose spirit can leave her body and invade the minds' of others. Her ability forces her to work in the criminal underground of voyants, within the syndicate system (a surprisingly well organized system) for the mime-lord, Jaxon. She uses her ability as "s<span style="line-height: 115%;">urveillance</span>" on any activity in the <span style="line-height: 115%;">ӕther that is going on in Jax's section. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">On a trip home to visit her father, Paige's train is checked, and she is forced to use her ability in a way she never has before, which leaves a man dead. She is not caught immediately, but during the night at her father's apartment, men in red shirts (not the Scion's) burst into her father's apartment looking for her. She tries to get away, but they manage to catch her. When Paige wakes up, she finds that she was not taken to the Tower, as she thought she would be. Paige, along with thirty-nine other voyants and amaurotics (non-voyants), has been brought to Sheol I (the "lost" city of Oxford) by the Rephaim, an alien race from the Netherworld.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">The Rephaim are working with Scion, with the ultimate goal of ruling Earth. The Rephaim need voyants (the red-jackets), supplied by Scion, to help them protect humans from the Emim, another more bestial groups of aliens that, the Rephaim claim, wants to feed on humans. The group Paige is in is part of the Twentieth Bone Season, a period that only comes once every ten years and exists to add to the number of the red-jackets. There are two tests to become part of the red-jackets, though. The first is tied to the person's ability. The second is a fight with an Emim. Failure in either task leads to becoming a </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">performer, one that provides entertainment for the others and is looked down upon by all. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Each member of the group is assigned a keeper (one of the Rephaim), who train their voyants and take "care" of them. Paige is the only one taken in by the Warden, a really strong Rephaite who seems to have secret motives of his own. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">As Paige, named XX-59-40 by the Raphaim, learns more and more about her new situation and the Rephaim, the more she wonders if the situation is as clear as the Rephaim, especially one of their leaders, Nashira, would have her believe. She also knows that she needs to get out of Sheol I, for the sake of her life and the protection of her syndicate. One attempt at rebellion, twenty years ago, ended in failure, but failure is not an option for Paige. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The Bone Season was one of the titles that I had put in the Popular Reads for the Fall Season blog post, as it has been highly anticipated on many of the popular fall reading lists. I was intrigued by all of the genre-blending that Shannon seems to be using in the story. There are elements of a dystopia: Scion is not the salvation from clairvoyance that the amaurotics believe it is; science fiction: a future setting with advanced technology and social issues; fantasy: paranormal elements and two groups of aliens that did not come from the stars but another dimension, and there is also some romance and action mixed in there, too. With so much genre-blending, though, you really have to pay extra attention to the first few chapters. Shannon throws a lot of terminology and world building that will be important to the plot later on in the book. It was a story that very easily sucked me in, and even though there were a few issues that I had with some of the elements of the story, I look forward to reading the next book in the series. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I know we are in the "most wonderful time of the year," according to some, but everyone still needs a good cry every now and again. Here are some great stories to help you with all of your crying needs. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Just a warning, though, you may want to have a box of tissues close by while enjoying these stories.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>P. S., I Love You by Cecilia Ahern <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%201401300901">FIC AHERN</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Holly never believed that she could live without her husband, Gerry, having known him since high school and considering him the other half of herself. Then Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness, and Holly doesn't have a choice. They had both joked about his making a "list" for her of things to do if she lost him, but soon after his death, Holly finds out from her family that Gerry created the list, in the form of letters, in order to keep her occupied during the first year after his death and to help her move on. As everyone would imagine, it is a very hard process, but with the support of the letters and the craziness of her friends and family, Holly finds the strength to continue on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Note: Unlike the movie, the main characters are in Ireland (and are Irish). The movie is located under <b>DVD PS</b>.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200670034169">FIC EDWARDS</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">On a terrible winter's night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced, by a blizzard, to deliver his own twins. His son comes out just fine, but he discovers that his daughter is born with Down's Syndrome. Deciding that he needs to protect his wife from this development, the doctor decides to tell her that the baby died. He gives the little girl to his nurse, Caroline, to take to an institution. Caroline, however, falls in love with the little girl and decides to become her mother, leaving town to hide the secret. Neither the doctor or nurse know just how much their decisions will impact the lives of everyone around them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Note: This book was also made into a Lifetime Movie, located under <b>DVD MEMORY</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>The Fault in Our Stars by John Green <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780525478812">YP FIC GREEN</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Hazel knows that her lungs don't work right and that her thyroid cancer is terminal. Then she meets Augustus Waters during a Cancer Kid Support Group meeting. Augustus is in remission, but he is very taken with Hazel and completely determined to ignore her attempts to "save" him from her death. Can they both deal with a relationship that has an expiration date?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Note: This book is also in audio format under <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781455869749">YP AD FIC GREEN</a></b>, and we have it in e-book format.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200252006860">FIC HURSTON</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Janie Crawford has been told how to live her life by so many people and never gets to make choices for herself. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Returning home to Eatonville, Florida, after having run away from it two years earlier with a love affair, she tells her life's story to best friend, Pheoby. It is a look into the life of an independently minded woman having to make some hard choices (or have them made for her) during the 1930s and 40s, dealing with poverty, abuse, and even a hurricane. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Note: This book is also available in audio under <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780060776534">AD FIC HURSTON</a> </b>and in video under <b>DVD THEIR</b>.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUoVaQGwyy8/UqpNERymPRI/AAAAAAAADQE/LpekepHTBvs/s1600/Atonement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUoVaQGwyy8/UqpNERymPRI/AAAAAAAADQE/LpekepHTBvs/s200/Atonement.jpg" width="128" /></span></a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is summer of 1934, and an 13-year-old girl, Briony, witnesses a completely innocent act by her sister, Celcilia and a servant's son, Robbie. When a great act of violence is committed, Briony blows everything out of proportion, accussing Robbie of the crime, and in doing so, instigates a great wrong against two people who mean a lot to her. Unfortunately, her choices also lead to great suffering by these two, and her need for "atonement" from them both.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GelkdmSc6qk/UqtzYi9427I/AAAAAAAADQU/_lzaZXBoXEI/s1600/Last+Lecture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GelkdmSc6qk/UqtzYi9427I/AAAAAAAADQU/_lzaZXBoXEI/s1600/Last+Lecture.jpg" width="141" /></span></a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are many professors who give their "last lectures" to their classes, wanting to impart some final wisdom to their students before moving on, but for Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, learning that he had terminal cancer meant that it really would be his last lecture. So he wrote his last lecture on "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," intending to inspire his students, and many others, to live their lives to the fullest and make sure to help further the dreams of others. </span><br />
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</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--1hA1vwYPxY/UquDKDRbY_I/AAAAAAAADQw/o0FuBWLPbfk/s1600/Art+of+Racing+in+the+Rain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--1hA1vwYPxY/UquDKDRbY_I/AAAAAAAADQw/o0FuBWLPbfk/s1600/Art+of+Racing+in+the+Rain.jpg" width="132" /></span></a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Enzo knows that he is not like other dogs and does not seem to think in the same ways that they do. Hoping that he will be human in his next life, he decides to educate himself about humans by watching television and listening to his owner, race car driver, Denny Swift. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>The Color Purple by Alice Walker <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200151191549">FIC WALKER</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Celie pours out her feelings into a series of letters (to God and her sister) about the abuse (sexual, physical, and verbal) that she suffers at the hands of the men in her life (her father and her husband), her separation from the sister she tried so hard to protect, and many other hardships. These "letters" are the only ones that hear her thoughts and feelings, as she tries to show that she is a person and deserves to be heard. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">You can find more tearjerkers <a href="http://www.texascity-library.org/adult/biblio/tearjerkers.php">here</a> on the bibliography. There are some copies of the bibliography available to take with you next to the catalog computers. Happy reading!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-71604422153680602922013-12-04T10:11:00.000-06:002013-12-12T09:12:55.186-06:00"Not without my daughter" by Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Betty Mahmoody was married to an Iranian doctor who was
practicing medicine in the United States. They went to visit his family in
Tehran, Iran in 1984, just six years after the Shah of Iran had been overthrown
by revolution and Iran had become an Islamic theocracy, with an Islamic cleric
at its head who oversees the President and Parliament to ensure that the
government is operating in accordance with Islamic law. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Toward the end of their two week visit, Betty’s husband
Sayyed informed her they would be staying in Iran. The rest of the book chronicles Betty’s
resistance to this decision and her struggle to find a way to leave Iran with
her daughter, Mahtob, who was four years old at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">The book did well in this country but sold particularly well in
Europe, where cross-cultural marriages are more common, and where conflicts
regarding individual rights can surface.
Betty soon found out that under Islamic law, she was an Iranian citizen by
marrying an Iranian, and her husband had control over her and their child. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">The book is fairly long but realistic, as over the 18 months
before Betty and Mahtob’s escape, we see Betty trying different tactics and
succumbing at times to depression, despair and even apathy. Her husband keeps her a virtual prisoner,
beats her and for a time even keeps her from being with her daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">A film was made of the book, which was criticized for being
anti-Iranian. You do see the culture
from Betty’s eyes, and she finds some habits of Iranian housewives lacking in
hygiene, although it is not clear that this is widespread. She does find friends and helpers, both
Iranian and foreign. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Sayyed Mahmoody died in 2009, never seeing his daughter
again, who refused any contact with him.
He documented his side of the story with a book and with a video made
with Finnish journalists. He denied that
he had been abusive towards Betty and maintained that she had agreed to move to Iran, so that
he, as a doctor, could give medical help during the Iran-Iraqi war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Betty Mahmoody has received a lot of thanks from abused
women who found similarities in their situations to hers, although they were
not in a foreign country as she was. It’s
a book to make you think about marriage and people’s expectations of marriage,
regardless of what culture they live in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13769321097167756556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-76379793739522410772013-11-20T16:20:00.004-06:002013-11-21T14:02:49.951-06:0025 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time, According to the Internet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sVrhwoEQj7Y/UozsUiIJTSI/AAAAAAAADOU/ZkdFVjEEvmQ/s1600/SciFi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sVrhwoEQj7Y/UozsUiIJTSI/AAAAAAAADOU/ZkdFVjEEvmQ/s320/SciFi.jpg" width="214" /></a><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Business Insider just published an article on the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-sci-fi-books-of-all-time-2013-10" target="_blank">25 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time</a></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, and their information came from two Redditt lists (which is where the "according to the Internet" part comes in). There are several key books to the genre, that may come as no surprise, but I will let you make that decision. So take a look at the list, and see if you agree with those individuals who put in their votes. As always, Happy Reading!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following are summaries of the top ten books, but you can visit the article through the link above (or at the end of the list) to take a deeper look at the other fifteen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first book in the Riverworld Saga begins with everyone who has ever lived on Earth suddenly finding themselves in a new world by a river. All their food is provided, but there is no clue as to the purpose of their new existence. Sir Richard Burton is the first to find the waystation, and Burton and a band made up of Alice Liddle Hargreaves, a Neanderthal, a Holocaust survivor, and an alien decide to travel the river to find out who brought this whole thing about and what their intentions are. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(We have this work, along with the second book, The Claw of the Conciliator, under the title: Shadow & Claw)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The first book in the The Book of the New Sun series, this book follows Severian, who is an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers. Severian is soon exiled from the only home he has ever known, when he commits the ultimate sin of his guild by showing mercy to his victim. However, it seems that Severian has a bigger destiny than just that of a torturer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fraa Erasmas is a young "avout" living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, (a monastary-like place) which protects the scholars of mathematics, science, and philosophy inside it from the outside "saecular" world and its influences (and technology). During the rite of Apert, fraas and suurs leave the grounds of the concent, and the concent opens its doors to visiting "extras." Neither side is quite prepared, though, for the threat that is coming, and both sides will have to work together, if they want to stop it. Erasmas soon finds himself a key player in the chaos that is coming.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">4) <b style="color: red;">Revelation Space </b>by Alastair Reynolds</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The first book in the Revelation Space series, scientist, Dan Sylveste, knows that the Amarantin civilization was destroyed just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now, he needs to solve the "riddle" of the Amarantin, before it happens again, and he will need the help of the dangerous cyborg crew aboard the starship, Nostalgia for Infinity. There are forces at work that want to stop him, because there was a good reason for the destruction of the Amarantin. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">One of the books in Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness is considered, by many, to be a "groundbreaking" work of science fiction. Genly Ai, a human man, visits the alien winter world of Gethen as an emissary, where he hopes to discuss with the beings of the planet, the Gethians, their planet's being included in the growing intergalactic civilization. However, he must learn to understand the ways of the Gethens, however different they are, and have them understand his ways (and those of the civilization), in return.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">There are three laws of Robotics: 1) a robot may not cause harm to, or allow a human to come to harm 2) a robot must obey orders of humans (unless it violates the first law), 3) a robot must protect its existence (unless it violates the first or second law). I, Robot is a collection of stories that Asimov wrote about robots from the 1940s and 1950s.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Malachi Constant is the richest and most depraved man on Earth, who takes part in several interplanetary wars, traveling from Earth to Mars to Mercury and to Titan. Constant finds out that all of the incidents within his travels came at the hands of Winston Niles Rumfoord. Kurt Vonnegut was a big inspiriation for Douglas Adam's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I think you will see it too). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(we also have the movie under <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200790733226" target="_blank">DVD CONTACT</a></b>)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After years of scanning the galaxy for any signs of communication from other life forms, a team of scientists, including Eleanor Arroway (the person who discovered the first communication), belive they have found what they were looking for. However, this discovery brings up bigger, more dangerous questions of not just traveling out to meet these new lifeforms (using the plans for the "Machine" that they sent), but if they really should. Sagan also gives scientific explanations on how things work. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first book in the Mars Trilogy, Robinson looks at the colonization of Mars in the year 2026. A group of one hundred colonists is sent to begin terrforming the red planet. Each member of the group seems to have a different reason for traveling to Mars, and each person's personality also leads to conflict amongst the group. There also apear to be some in the group that would prefer that no changes be made to the planet at all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the first book in the Commonwealth Saga. It is the year 2380, and the Intersolar Commonwealth is made up of more than 600 worlds, stretching 400 lightyears in diameter. The worlds are connected through transport "wormholes" (tunnel like transportation). An astronomer, Dudley Bose, observes the vanishing of a star. Since it is too far out to reach by wormhole, the startship, Second Chance, is sent to find out what happened. Will they find more than they bargained for?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11) <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">The Mote in God's Eye </span>by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200671741926" target="_blank">SF NIVEN</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12) <b style="color: red;">A Canticle for Leibowitz </b>by Walter M. Miller, Jr. <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200553379267" target="_blank">SF MILLER</a> & <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781455120239" target="_blank">AD SF MILLER</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13) <b style="color: red;">Excession </b>by Iain M. Banks <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200553374605">SF BANKS</a></b> <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14) <b style="color: red;">Starship Troopers </b>by Robert A. Heinlein <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20399605223" target="_blank">SF HEINLEIN</a> </b>(we also have the movie under <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%201424864550" target="_blank">DVD STARSHIP</a>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15)<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? </span>by Philip K. Dick <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781598530094" target="_blank">SF DICK</a> (found within the book, Four Novels of the 1960s) & <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780739342756" target="_blank">AD SF DICK</a> </b>(we also have the movie under <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20ocm38148262" target="_blank">DVD BLADE</a> </b>for Blade Runner)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16) <b style="color: red;">Ringworld </b>by Larry Niven <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200030206561" target="_blank">SF NIVEN</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17) <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">2001: A Space Odyssey </span>by Arthur C. Clarke <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200451452739" target="_blank">SF CLARKE</a> </b>(we also have the movie under <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20AGP-2917" target="_blank">DVD 2001</a></b>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18) <b style="color: red;">The Forever War </b>by Joe Haldeman <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200060510862" target="_blank">SF HALDEMAN</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19) <b style="color: red;">Snow Crash </b>by Neal Stephenson <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/?ps=XL9QAUyVRK/0/141980026/9" target="_blank"> </a><b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20055308853X" target="_blank">SF STEPHENS</a> & <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781455883707" target="_blank">AD SF STEPHENS</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20) <b style="color: red;">Neuromancer </b>by William Gibson <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200441000681" target="_blank">SF GIBSON</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21) <b style="color: red;">Hyperion </b>by Dan Simmons (we have the first two books in the series under <b>Hyperion Cantos</b>) <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20a157912" target="_blank">SF SIMMONS</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">22) <b style="color: red;">Foundation </b>by Isaac Asimov <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%2091020482" target="_blank">SF ASIMOV</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">23) <b style="color: red;">Ender's Game </b>by Orson Scott Card <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200765342294" target="_blank">SF CARD</a> & <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%201593974744" target="_blank">AD SF CARD</a> & <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20ODN0000511646" target="_blank">e-book</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">24) <b style="color: red;">Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy </b>by Douglas Adams <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%201400052939" target="_blank">SF ADAMS</a> </b>(the whole series can be found in <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200517149257" target="_blank">The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide</a></b>) & <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200739322206" target="_blank">AD SF ADAMS</a> & </b>we also have the movie under <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20AHD-7737" target="_blank">DVD HITCHHIK</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">25) <b style="color: red;">Dune </b>by Frank Herbert <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200441014054" target="_blank">SF HERBERT</a> </b>(we also have the movie Dune under <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200783226063" target="_blank">DVD DUNE</a> </b>and The Children of Dune under <b><a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20MCV00529493" target="_blank">DVD CHILDREN</a></b>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once again, if you want to check out the article for yourself clink on this <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/best-sci-fi-books-of-all-time-2013-10" target="_blank">link</a>.</span><br />
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Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-81515967843266263282013-11-08T15:49:00.001-06:002013-11-11T13:39:05.311-06:00Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This book was first published in 1900. The print edition that the Moore Memorial
Public Library has is the same book that came out in 1900, with the addition of
background notes and criticism. “Sister Carrie”
was Dreiser’s first novel. The story takes
place in Chicago and New York, cities in which Dreiser had had experience
writing and reporting for different publications. Carrie, a young 18 year old from Columbus,
Ohio, comes to Chicago to live with her older married sister and to find work
in the huge bustling city that people were pouring into at the rate of 50,000
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dreiser knew these statistics from his work in journalism,
and his familiarity with the social economic classes at the time helped his
novel writing. But he is first and
foremost a great storyteller. While
critics at the time found his writing clumsy or ponderous, the reader is
conscious of nothing else but his or her interest in the character, and in anticipating
what will happen. Dreiser takes his
narrative slowly, and we thoroughly experience the drabness and restriction of
Carrie’s sister’s apartment that she shares with her husband. As part of the struggling lower class, in
1889, they can’t look much farther than getting their wages –her husband cleans
refrigerator cars in the stockyard – and paying their food and rent. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carrie got a glimpse of another kind of life when she met Drouet,
a salesman, on the train on her way to Chicago.
He is a success at his work, and shows it in his dress and in his
ability to pay his way in theaters and hotels, and to dine in restaurants with handwritten
menus and red carpets. After she has tried to make her way alone, and gotten
bruised in the process, Carrie encounters Drouet again. He offers her a way into this big city, and
all that it offers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While “Sister Carrie” brought censure on itself by having as
its heroine a “fallen woman”, Dreiser saves Carrie from that censure by showing
us her modesty, her desire to be married, and her own self-reproach for her
actions. We can see hers and the other characters’
limitations. Dreiser lets us see their
dreams, and how little import in their lives those dreams actually had. This is his contribution as a “naturalist”
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can find the book <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20831721" target="_blank">here</a> in our catalog. </span></span></div>
Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13769321097167756556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-77994626870192786692013-11-08T08:52:00.000-06:002013-11-08T13:28:07.596-06:00“For Greater Glory”, a film directed by Dean Wright<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Wright was a visual effects supervisor and producer in major
films such as “The Lord of the Rings”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“For
Greater Glory” is the first movie he directed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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feel the emotions of the characters that he’s shooting, and to feel those
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Some critics have faulted “For Greater Glory” for being too
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stirring music nonstop, and prolonging sorrowful and upsetting scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The movie is about the peasant force in
Mexico that rose up in 1926 against the anti-clerical President Calles, whose
regime had been persecuting the Catholic faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The rebels were called “Cristeros”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The movie shows how the rebellion was ignited by the brutality exhibited
by the Federales, the government troops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wright highlights the historical figure Jose Sanchez del Rio, a young
boy who was martyred in the rebellion and was beatified by the Church in 2005.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see the rebellion through his eyes as he
witnesses his parish priest killed by soldiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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and in the film, we see some Catholics turning away and others standing
firm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The acting is good, and while I do agree that they should
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The exact historical picture is not delineated in the film. It
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the rebellion was very effective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see
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Catholic Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Viewers can decide for
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yymYrfT1Ans/UmmgZwelB2I/AAAAAAAADIo/IqgEC0G0MWQ/s1600/Picture3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Huffington Post recently posted an article called "7 Unconventional Reasons Why You Absolutely Should Be Reading Books," and I wanted to share a few of those reasons with you.</span></a></div>
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1.<b> "Reading Can Chill You Out"</b>- Apparently, research was conducted at the Mindlab International at the University of Sussex, which showed that it took only six minutes of reading for the participants to relax (their heart rates and muscle tension were measured). Reading even beat listening to music or taking a walk.</div>
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Getting caught up in the issues of the characters also gives you a way of taking yourself away from those stressful thoughts for a while. I know that is very true in my case. Books always help me de-stress (unless of course the characters are in mortal peril). </div>
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2. <b>"Reading Can Help Keep Your Mind Sharp" </b>- Research published in the journal, <i>Neurology</i>, showed that out of 294 participants that died around the average age of 89, those who engaged in "mentally stimulating activies," such as reading or puzzles, experienced a slower decline in their memories (32%).</div>
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I know that while reading I am always learning all kinds of new things, and reading one thing usually leads me to research the topics that are brought up in that story. </div>
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3. <b>"Reading May Help You Sleep Better" </b>- Sleep experts recommend a regular "de-stressing" routine before bed that will calm your mind. Reading is a great activity for this, if you don't get too caught up in the story and can't put your book down. </div>
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This is true for me, especially if I am reading my Nook in the dark. However, I am easily caught up in a story, and hours might pass before I am ready to set my Nook down, which is not good for my sleeping pattern. </div>
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Check out some of the other reasons, or click on the links to learn more about the studies that were discussed in the article at:</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/12/health-benefits-reading_n_4081258.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/12/health-benefits-reading_n_4081258.html</a></u></span></div>
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Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-54116142771902544692013-10-14T18:00:00.000-05:002013-10-15T10:23:54.209-05:00Fall Reading- Popular Reads for the Season<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">It's that time of year again, and hopefully it will start to feel like it outside, too. There are many great books being published this fall, and listed below are only a few of the most-talked-about books being published this season. Give them a try and let me know if they deserve all of the attention they are getting. As always, Happy Reading!!!</span><br />
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Having
wrapped her Women of the Otherworld Series, Armstrong’s latest, Omens, is the
first book in the Cainsville series. Olivia Taylor-Jones seems to have the
perfect life until it all comes crashing down when she finds out that she was
adopted, and that her biological parents are convicted serial killers, Todd and
Pamela Larsen. So Olivia heads to Cainsville, Illinois to escape all of the
media chaos and find out the truth about her parents and her past, with the help
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Pride and
Prejudice is a work that has had many sequels, remakes, and modernizations made
of it, but Jo Baker takes a different look at the story, from the points of
view of the servants of Longbourn. However, it is a more in depth look at early
nineteenth century life, even the unromantic parts like chamber pots and lice. You
will find the major players from the original story, but you will also see that
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of 1927 was a very eventful time in American history. Charles Lindbergh had
just made his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean, while Babe Ruth was
batting his way to the home run record. A murder case was tearing its way
through the tabloids, while the American South was washing away with the
flooding of the Mississippi Basin. Al Capone was terrorizing Chicago, while the
first “talking picture,” <i>The Jazz Singer</i>
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ending of World War II, the world was taking on a new shape. The year 1945
marks a huge turning point in the history of the world. Throughout Europe and
Asia, buildings and properties lay in ruin, there was an enormous loss of life,
and the governments of many of the countries were in disarray. Buruma looks at
the year 1945, and using the stories of different individuals dealing with
issues that came after the war was over, he helps readers see the effects of
the efforts that were made to bring back some measure of “normal” that the war
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returns to writing fiction after publishing her memoirs (Eat, Pray, Love and
Committed). Spanning almost two hundred years, this novel is about the fortunes
and ideologies of the Whittaker family. Henry Whittaker is born poor, but makes
a fortune in the South American quinine trade, using his knowledge of botany.
Henry’s daughter, Alma, is a botanist, continuing with her father’s fascination
with plants, but she also is very curious about the ways of the world and her
place in it. Gilbert has done a lot of research into botany and other
scientific issues of the time, and she takes us traveling around the world with
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The sequel
to The Shining, published in 1977, Doctor Sleep shows us the scars that his
year living in the Overlook Hotel have left on Danny, now Dan, Torrance. Dan
has been drifting for years and fighting with alcoholism, but he has finally
settled down in a small New Hampshire town, using what is left of his “shining”
abilities to help folks in the hospice pass on, earning him the nickname
“Doctor Sleep.” Then Dan “meets” Abra Stone, a girl with incredibly strong
“shining” abilities that put her in the crosshairs of The True Knot. The True
Knot is a group traveling around in their RVs, disguised as the elderly, who
suck “steam” (or essence) from children with psychic abilities (in order to
gain some immortality) and “steam” is best enjoyed while the child is being
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at the lives of two brothers, who even though they look very similar, are very
different in many ways. In 1960s India, Udayan Mitra is drawn to the Naxalite
movement (seeking justice for the poor), and he is willing to die for what he
believes in. His brother, Subhash, however, chooses a quiet life, conducting
scientific research in America. Whenever tragedy befalls Udayan in the lowland,
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groups that thought they had a good reason to dislike (or worse) Kennedy and
his ideologies, and this chaotic grumbling led many to warn the president
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In the year 2001, before the tragedy of 9/11,
Maxine Tarnow is the owner of a small fraud investigations business, chasing
down small-scale con artists. After losing her license, Maxine has taken the
opportunity to look for clues while using her own interesting code of ethics
(and her Beretta). Looking into the finances of a computer security firm,
Maxine finds that she may have gotten in over her head, into the “deep web”
where all of the secrets seem to be hiding. Now she faces drug runners, secret
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2059, many of the world’s major cities are now under the control of the Scion,
a security force. In the Scion’s world, being a “voyant” makes you a traitor and
earns you a stay in the “voyant” prison in the city of Oxford (called Sheol 1
and long missing from current maps). Paige Mahoney works in the “criminal
underworld” of London, using her “dreamwalker” (rare form of clairvoyance) abilities
to gather information. After she is arrested, Paige finds that an even worse
force than the Scion exists, the Rephaim, and they control the “voyants” that
enter their prison, making them into soldiers for their army. Assigned to
Warden, the Rephaite in charge of her care and training, Paige must learn
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<br />Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-60579948476719616052013-10-11T10:23:00.000-05:002013-10-11T10:23:17.658-05:00Looking for some laughs? This year's Thurber winner<div align="center">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredrte/821373023/" title="Laughing Michael by ~Ealasaid~, on Flickr"><img alt="Laughing Michael" height="375" src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1199/821373023_02a86c4492.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
<em>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredrte/">~Ealasaid~</a> available through a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">Creative Commons license</a></em></div>
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If you're ever looking for tales to tickle your funny bones, a good place to look is the <a href="http://thurberhouse.org/thurber-prize-for-american-humor.html">Thurber Prize</a>, an annual award for humor writing. The award has been around since 1997, and you can find its list of past winners and finalists on the <a href="http://thurberhouse.org/past-thurber-prize-winners.html">Thurber House website</a>.<br />
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The prize's namesake is 20th century humorist <a href="http://thurberhouse.org/james-thurber.html">James Thurber</a>, whose works spanned commentary, fiction, children's literature, "New York" magazine cartoons and short stories, including perhaps the story he's best known for, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." In our library you can find "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" in <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%20205298080"><em>The Greatest American Short Stories: Twenty classics of our heritage</em></a> (SSC GREATEST) as well as <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%200393035921"><em>Russell Baker's Book of American Humor</em></a> (818.02 RUSSELL). Ben Stiller is directing and starring in a movie version of the story, too, that's set to come out this Christmas.<br />
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Below are the finalists and winner of this year's Thurber Prize.<br />
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<strong>Winner</strong><br />
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By Dan Levin<br />
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By Shalom Auslander<br />
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By Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel<br />
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Vivihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07456759327379185517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-14897811904989468092013-10-11T09:03:00.000-05:002013-10-11T09:08:47.274-05:00Londoners by Craig Taylor<div align="center">
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<em>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fdiotalevi/">Filippo Diotalevi</a> available through a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">Creative Commons</a> license</em></div>
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In keeping with my U.K. kick started with <a href="http://moorebrarians.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-cuckoos-calling-by-robert-galbraith.html">Robert Galbraith's <em>The Cuckoo's Calling</em></a>, which features a careworn private eye in London, I mixed in the nonfiction book <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780062005854"><em>Londoners: The days and nights of London now—as told by those who love it, hate it, live it, left it, and long for it</em></a> (942.1086 TAYLOR).<br />
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Over the course of five years, author Craig Taylor — a Canadian who moved to London — collected stories from 200 people in or from his adopted city. Taylor gives us the best bits — and they <em>are</em> wonderful; each one a gem in its own right — in <em>Londoners</em>, a pastiche of anecdotes and reflections about what make this city of 8.5 million people one of the world's most revered. Take, for instance, the ruminations of Peter Rees, a planning officer for the City of London:
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<em>"You can't pull out a sheet of paper and say how London should work. London already does work. It works in a way none of us understand. It's so complex, so multilayered, so interrelated with places around the world and activities within itself. You have to look at how you can manage London, not plan it."</em></blockquote>
<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/McB-1m7aCjb4AnUty87z1AOfZ6S2i3BAp34Jekr9YEU?feat=embedwebsite" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img height="288" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-vULOCg-jB2U/UlbyXFYnBBI/AAAAAAAAA8E/C6NXN-zp-k8/s288/londoners.jpg" width="216" /></a>He presents a wonderfully well-rounded amalgam of views, including that of current and former Londoners, tourists, laborers, professionals and more. Most are labeled in the table of contents with what they do for a living; some are simply labeled "Londoner."<br />
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There's an entire section alone dedicated to London's famously tough housing market. Taylor fills that section with narratives from an estate agent, property owner, property seeker, squatter, and longtime residents. In another interview, Taylor proves his dedication by following around market trader in the wee hours of the morning as the trader sorts out meat and produce purchases for his clients.<br />
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Taylor keeps his narration to a minimum, letting his interviewees' words shine through in the same vein as <a href="http://www.studsterkel.org/">Studs Terkel</a>'s oral histories. Indeed, such is Taylor's skill at drawing out his subjects' thoughts that the memories they share are laced with color, humor and insight. Through their eyes, we explore issues of race, class, wealth and geography. We see the spectrum of emotions that London elicits: nostalgia, resentment, yearning, exhaustion.<br />
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Viewed as a whole, the reader begins to get a sense that living in London is a particular challenge and to overcome that challenge means simply <em>to be living in London</em>. The city is a cauldron of roiling energy coupled with ancient history, a place that offers rough edges and shiny corners that both repulse and beckon. Opines interviewee Michael Linington, a man leaving London:
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<em>The funny thing about London is how everything feels like it's trying to push you out. So all these people are trying to get in, but the city itself and the infrastructures that have been created and the social issues, everything is trying to push you straight back out. Everyone's trying to fight to get into the middle, but then there's something in the middle that's just trying to force everyone out and it's saying, you've got to earn your place.</em></blockquote>
This book will ring true with anyone who's dared brave London long enough to live there for any length of time. It's also perfect for armchair travelers who wish to see the grit, the workaday and the fascinatingly prosaic behind the veil of London's sheen and reputation.Vivihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07456759327379185517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-86308753408222962452013-10-08T11:56:00.003-05:002013-10-08T11:57:10.074-05:00Wars of the Roses Fiction and Non-Fiction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With all of the interest in the HBO series A Game of Thrones (based on the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin), and the Tudors and Borgias series on Showtime, other networks are also creating their own shows of political intrigue and royal rowdiness. The cable network, Starz, recently released a series, The White Queen, based on The Cousin's War series by Philippa Gregory, and the show was first aired in August and will be released in ten episodes.<br />
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The Cousin's War series covers the turbulent time in Great Britain's history called <span style="color: red;"><b>The Wars of the Roses</b></span>, beginning with the rule of Richard II in 1377 and lasting until the death of Richard III in 1485 (ending the reign of the Plantagenet line). King Edward III bestowed upon two of his children the dukedoms of Lancaster and York. John of Gaunt became the Duke of Lancaster, and his symbol was the red rose. Edmund of York became the Duke of York, and his symbol was the white rose (which is why the conflict is called The Wars of the Roses) . What followed Edward III's death in 1377 was over a hundred years of backstabbing (some quite literally), assassinations, forced abdications, political maneuverings, revolts, battles, and lots of bickering over which king, and therefore which "rose," would rule England.<br />
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Philppa Gregory looks at this time of conflict through the eyes of three women that were important to the period: Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, and Anne Neville. Elizabeth Woodville became the wife of King Edward IV in 1464, and she was the mother of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, the two little boys that were murdered in the Tower of London for Richard III's access to the throne. Margaret Beaufort was the mother of Henry VII (the beginning of the Tudor line) and a member of the Lancaster family. Anne Neville was the daughter of "The Kingmaker," Richard Neville, and the wife of Richard III.<br />
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The order of Philippa Gregory's series:<br />
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<u><b>The Cousin's War Series</b></u> (found under <b>FIC GREGORY</b>)<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D7pLTmoUJQU/UlQ2vADYz2I/AAAAAAAADEg/VDpwurZowP4/s1600/Kingmaker's+Daughter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D7pLTmoUJQU/UlQ2vADYz2I/AAAAAAAADEg/VDpwurZowP4/s1600/Kingmaker's+Daughter.jpg" /></a>The White Queen<br />
The Red Queen (also in audio)<br />
The Lady of the Rivers (also in large print and audio)<br />
The Kingmaker's Daughter (also in audio)<br />
The White Princess (also in audio)<br />
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If you are interested in reading more about The Wars of the Roses, here are some other fiction and non-fiction books that we have on the subject:<br />
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<b>FIC HARRODEA</b><br />
The Founding by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles<br />
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<b>FIC HIGGENBO</b><br />
The Stolen Crown: It Was a Secret Marriage...One That Forever Changed the Fate of England by Susan Higgenbotham <br />
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<b>FIC OBRIEN</b><br />
The Virgin Widow by Anne O'Brien<br />
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<b>FIC SMITH</b><br />
Queen By Right by Anne Easter Smith<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RXpI-oKyCw0/UlQ4E6IlTiI/AAAAAAAADFA/bqJ-KGH0RAQ/s1600/Black+Arrow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RXpI-oKyCw0/UlQ4E6IlTiI/AAAAAAAADFA/bqJ-KGH0RAQ/s1600/Black+Arrow.jpg" /></a><b>FIC STEVENS</b><br />
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (also in audio)<br />
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<b>FIC WORTH</b><br />
The King's Daughter by Sandra Worth<br />
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<b>Non-Fiction:</b><br />
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<b>942.04 WARS</b><br />
The Wars of the Roses by Elizabeth M. Hallam<br />
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<b>942.04 WEIR</b><br />
The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir<br />
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<b>942.040922 GREGORY</b><br />
The Women of The Cousin's War: The Duchess, the Queen, and The King's Mother by Philppa Gregory<br />
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<b>942.0409252 GRISTWOO</b><br />
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood<br />
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<br />Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-80409824087131250642013-10-07T10:01:00.000-05:002013-10-07T10:01:29.777-05:00The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pH75jtJVYImojv97pKP61AOfZ6S2i3BAp34Jekr9YEU?feat=embedwebsite" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Lj18WHL0F8/Uk70fNeIKJI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/Dsp5ilI1Mt0/s400/cuckoos_calling.jpg" width="257" /></a>By now, you most likely know that <a href="http://www.robert-galbraith.com/">Robert Galbraith</a>, author of the mystery <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1= cuckoos+calling"><i>The Cuckoo's Calling</i></a> (FIC GALBRAIT, also on <a href="http://mmpl.lib.overdrive.com/1F64BE71-2320-47AB-8A94-928FDCB13230/10/50/en/ContentDetails.htm?id={708821D2-4FBA-4496-9640-01BCE4824011}">ebook</a>), is actually <a href="http://www.jkrowling.com/">J.K. Rowling</a>, mega-selling author and creator of the Harry Potter world.<br />
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As an unabashed Hogwarts fan, I knew I immediately had to give <i>The Cuckoo's Calling</i> a try. Having read her first foray into adult fiction, <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1= casual+vacancy"><i>The Casual Vacancy</i></a>, I admire Rowling for tackling such vastly different types of stories from her Harry Potter saga. While I did not enjoy <i>The Casual Vacancy</i> — it was peopled by characters too petty and unpleasant to care about any of them — Rowling certainly fashioned a story that shared very little with her previous works except perhaps her language.<br /><br />
In <em>The Cuckoo's Calling</em>, even the language has changed; you'd never know it was written by Rowling if not for her having been outed as its author. What it does feature, however, is Rowling's flair for complex, meticulous plotting. In Harry Potter she had the luxury of drawing her grand plan out over the course of seven books, in <em>The Cuckoo's Calling</em>, she nimbly compresses that into a single, tautly-told tale.<br /><br />
Several months have passed since the paparazzi-plagued model Lula Landry turned up dead in the snow, having apparently fallen from the balcony of her third-story London flat. That's when the brilliantly named but imminently broke private investigator Cormoran Strike finds himself sitting across from Lula's brother, who wants him to look into her death. The brother believes that Lula's death, though ruled a suicide, was actually murder. He hires Strike to determine the truth.<br /><br />Strike, a former military policeman, is aided in his inquiry by the stalwart Robin, a temp secretary assigned to his office for the time being. The two greatest pleasures of this story are watching Strike sussing out fact from fiction and the burgeoning friendship between the gumshoe and his secretary, who rapidly rises to the role of trusty sidekick.<br /><br />
Throughout the investigation, Strike grapples with a host of personal issues, including his dwindling bank account, a recent break-up with his long-time girlfriend and the difficulties of maneuvering London wearing a prosthetic leg. Even with all those distractions, he impresses with his determined focus and his clever way of reading between the lines of witness statements.<br /><br />
Admittedly, I found the revealed culprit to be somewhat predictable but it was nevertheless fascinating to watch Rowling's stellar plotting skills. She plants a subtle path of breadcrumbs that we can see in bits and pieces. But we truly need Strike's help to see them all and make sense of them. Understanding the many gears of the grand scheme keeps you reading to the end, but it's the characters of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott who will have you looking forward to Rowling's next installment.Vivihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07456759327379185517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-25076979836159481912013-10-03T16:57:00.001-05:002013-10-03T17:36:44.543-05:00Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anne Moody tells her life from when she was small to age 24,
growing up in rural Mississippi. The book was published in 1968, when she was
28.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Online, you can only see a few
pictures of her, because since then she has kept herself out of
the limelight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her story made an
enormous impact on the country at the time, particularly among educated whites
who were ignorant of what sort of life blacks were living at that time –
whether in the Northern cities or in Mississippi where Anne grew up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smart, determined to be educated and to make
something of herself, Anne lived in a world where “her kind” was ostracized
from opportunity and kept so by the threat of violence and reprisal against
anyone trying to change their world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Anne early on saw the dilemma her race was chained to, and
she did try to walk the line - to survive but to keep her soul intact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> While w</span>orking for white women, some tried to break
her spirit, while others gave her the nurturing she needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had to make hard decisions about where to
go and who to live with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She attended
college only to realize there were no jobs waiting for her – unless she wanted
to be a teacher and support the “separate but equal” establishment that helped ensure
blacks’ secondary status.</div>
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In the end, there was the Movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anne joined the NCAAP in Jackson,
Mississippi, where she was going to college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She writes stirringly of the hard work and dedication shown by many like
herself, and by people who had come down to the South to try and register
blacks to vote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they were living
with fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being followed by cars out on
country dirt roads at night, men busting into their houses looking for them,
groups of KKK’s burning houses - houses with children inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anne breaks up her time with the Movement by
going and living with relatives in New Orleans, where she waitresses and tries
to forget the oppression that exists in Southern rural areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Ironically enough, it was when she started writing her story
that Anne felt the impossibility of reversing people’s views and ever eradicating racism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she heard Martin
Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech in Washington, she didn’t share his
exultation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, over 40 years later,
blacks and whites do work and attend school together, but inequalities
persist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many young blacks don’t learn
how to handle expectations of a generic workplace – they are tuned into their
inner culture, not getting fitted to balance the demands of the outside world
with their own need for affirmation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Almost all teens have a time of breaking away and
experimenting with what they want, what they think is important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But some young people have an easier way back
- back to school, to college, to jobs that can get you somewhere.</div>
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Why is her book still important?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because she makes it real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t hide her feelings - whether it’s
about her absent father, having white teachers for the first time in college, meeting
gay people in the workplace, or her mother being hostile to her because Anne is
trying to fight this thing, this life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I’m glad we have the book in our library, and I recommend it to
everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish she would tell the rest
of her story. You can access the catalog record <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780440314882" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13769321097167756556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3255308002348943004.post-55055555054392834942013-09-26T17:43:00.000-05:002013-09-26T17:43:00.232-05:00Histories of the Everyday <div align="center" class="MsoBodyText3" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are objects, beverages, spices, and gadgets that we use on a daily basis, but have you ever stopped to wonder just how these things came to be or how they got to you for your everyday use? The following are fascinating non-fiction works on the histories, influences, transformations, and other fun facts, about these objects. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There is a bibliography of all of these books next to the catalog computers, and it will soon be online under the "Book Lists for Adults" section under "Book & More" on the library's website. Happy Reading!!! <span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </span></b></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y6hANu8LceA/UkS0m2gcVFI/AAAAAAAADBs/cm4gHN9Fj0Y/s1600/Cellphone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y6hANu8LceA/UkS0m2gcVFI/AAAAAAAADBs/cm4gHN9Fj0Y/s1600/Cellphone.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Paul Levinson / 303.4833 LEVINSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cellphone: The Story of the World’s
Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Not only does Levinson cover how the
cellphone came about, but he also covers the history of mobile things, such as
a cameras, radios, or books, and how having all these things come in one device
has transformed our everyday lives (from issues like transportation to
romance). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Elizabeth Royte / 363.7285</b> <b>ROYTE<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gfQQrTbm3wU/UkS0rexswRI/AAAAAAAADB0/4MPTcUZfY7w/s1600/Garbage+Land.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gfQQrTbm3wU/UkS0rexswRI/AAAAAAAADB0/4MPTcUZfY7w/s1600/Garbage+Land.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of
Trash<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Royte discusses what happens with our
trash from the time we throw it into the can. There are also discussions on
different groups who recycle or work with disposed of items and how the way we
dispose of our trash impacts how we live. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ml_r-ymQuBw/UkS0wBVaRKI/AAAAAAAADB8/QUhPTSq0THM/s1600/Dirt+on+Clean.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ml_r-ymQuBw/UkS0wBVaRKI/AAAAAAAADB8/QUhPTSq0THM/s1600/Dirt+on+Clean.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Katherine Ashenburg / 391.64 ASHENBUR<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Throughout history, the concept of
being clean (or personal hygiene) can be very different to different groups of
people. Romans believed you needed to soak for two hours, while French aristocrats
in the 17th century thought it meant just changing your shirt every day.
Ashenburg also discusses how these methods related to things like plagues,
spirituality, and even historical events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-unaiu28SL-s/UkS02ZQ-5ZI/AAAAAAAADCE/4CAY6f751IQ/s1600/History+of+the+World+in+6+Glasses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-unaiu28SL-s/UkS02ZQ-5ZI/AAAAAAAADCE/4CAY6f751IQ/s1600/History+of+the+World+in+6+Glasses.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tom Standage / 394.12 STANDAGE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A History of the World in 6 Glasses<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Standage notes that six beverages
have “helped shape human history,” by doing more than just quenching the
thirsts of people everywhere. He discusses history with respect to: beer, wine,
spirits, coffee, tea, and cola, and the ways that these beverages have
influenced cultures, impacted foreign policy, or simply stimulated intellectual
dialogue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RhliZpejVfQ/UkS06grWFZI/AAAAAAAADCM/cT4TZuex5tI/s1600/Edible+History+of+Humanity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RhliZpejVfQ/UkS06grWFZI/AAAAAAAADCM/cT4TZuex5tI/s1600/Edible+History+of+Humanity.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tom
Standage / 394.1209 STANDAGE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">An
Edible History of Humanity</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Standage
discusses hunger, and the ways that food has impacted the development of
societies, social status, population, industrialization, and even war.</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_xC_70mk-ug/UkS0-rR_5MI/AAAAAAAADCU/jj0fMR3z3vk/s1600/Professor+and+the+Madman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_xC_70mk-ug/UkS0-rR_5MI/AAAAAAAADCU/jj0fMR3z3vk/s1600/Professor+and+the+Madman.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Simon
Winchester / 423 WINCHEST<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of
the Oxford English Dictionary</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
piecing together of the Oxford English Dictionary took seventy years and
thousands of people submitting entries to complete. One of the contributors had
a very complex history. Dr. William Chester Minor, a surgeon in Connecticut and
in the Civil War, sent thousands of entries to add to the work. However, he
never took up Professor and Editor James Murray’s offer to visit him at Oxford,
only corresponding with him through letters. Curious as to the reason why,
Murray decided to visit the doctor. He found out that Dr. Minor was a patient
in the Broadmoor Asylum. Winchester unfolds their history together.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vSAg9O5kpo4/UkS1DH4ZtwI/AAAAAAAADCc/UN_NhOFko-8/s1600/Zero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vSAg9O5kpo4/UkS1DH4ZtwI/AAAAAAAADCc/UN_NhOFko-8/s1600/Zero.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Charles
Seife / 513 SEIFE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Zero:
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seife
looks into the history and meanings of the number zero. Invented by the
Babylonians, the number zero has been both worshipped and banned. Seife also
looks into the research of others to figure out the true meaning of a number
that signifies nothing.</span></div>
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Ewing Duncan / 529.3 DUNCAN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Calendar:
Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Since
the beginning of “time” as a concept, humans have tried again and again to
perfect a calendar system. Duncan looks at the different systems and cultures
that have helped create the current calendar system that we use. There is also
a “Calendar Index” that allows you to compare the major calendar systems. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oWecVnmNVJw/UkS2xaIo3gI/AAAAAAAADCw/HQEcs0sI4E8/s1600/Color.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oWecVnmNVJw/UkS2xaIo3gI/AAAAAAAADCw/HQEcs0sI4E8/s1600/Color.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Victoria
Finlay / 535.6 FINLAY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Color:
A Natural History of the Palette</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Finlay
traces the history of colors: where they were originally created, how they
defined certain aspects of culture, and how certain colors (especially those
important to history) were made. Each chapter is organized by color.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ck6KdB31HSw/UkS211R5lQI/AAAAAAAADC4/Y86mW96baA8/s1600/Electric+Universe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ck6KdB31HSw/UkS211R5lQI/AAAAAAAADC4/Y86mW96baA8/s1600/Electric+Universe.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">David
Bodanis / 537 BODANIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Electric
Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Electricity
has always been around us, in one form or another, but it was not until the
late 1700s that scientists really started to understand what it was and how to
use it. Bodanis writes about the different individuals who worked within the
“electric universe,” their contributions, and even their colorful pasts and
personalities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Freese,
discusses the formation of coal, its historical significance and uses, the
harmful effects that come from its use, and her suggestions on other fuel
sources or methods that do not cause as much damage as coal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7u5-3ya15EA/UkS3FgR8DmI/AAAAAAAADDI/S0miDpbf1zc/s1600/Salt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7u5-3ya15EA/UkS3FgR8DmI/AAAAAAAADDI/S0miDpbf1zc/s1600/Salt.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mark
Kurlansky / 553.63 KURLANSK<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Salt:
A World History</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Since
salt is so plentiful and used so much in our daily life, it is hard to believe
that it could be a powerful enough substance to have affected history and
influenced cultures. Kurlansky writes about salt’s surprising influence over
things like trade routes, wars, and even the kinds of food eaten throughout
history and now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dls0pR8Qhvg/UkS3JKHzTYI/AAAAAAAADDQ/4khI9VQughw/s1600/Really+Useful.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dls0pR8Qhvg/UkS3JKHzTYI/AAAAAAAADDQ/4khI9VQughw/s1600/Really+Useful.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Joel
Levy / 609 LEVY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Really
Useful: The Origins of Everyday Things</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There
are objects that are used every day, such as Post-It Notes or the refrigerator,
but have you ever wondered what the stories of these “useful” objects are? Levy
looks at the history of these objects, how they came to be household items, and
how they impact our everyday lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y3srYrjMAfA/UkS3MRXyYCI/AAAAAAAADDY/4v6NY8XkAdo/s1600/Aspirin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y3srYrjMAfA/UkS3MRXyYCI/AAAAAAAADDY/4v6NY8XkAdo/s1600/Aspirin.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Diarmuid
Jeffreys / 615.783 JEFFREYS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Aspirin:
The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s
a difficult concept to grasp that a little pill that millions of people take on
an everyday basis could have made such a huge impact on the world with its
creation. Jeffreys tells us the history of this “wonder” drug, which traces its
roots back to Ancient Egypt, and all of the benefits that have been discovered
that come from taking one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MJnjPt_eQYA/UkS3SdLSihI/AAAAAAAADDg/HQDMSxO_Xk8/s1600/True+History+of+Chocolate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MJnjPt_eQYA/UkS3SdLSihI/AAAAAAAADDg/HQDMSxO_Xk8/s1600/True+History+of+Chocolate.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sophie
D. Coe / 641.3374 COE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
True History of Chocolate</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Almost
everyone enjoys a good piece of chocolate every now and again, but did you ever
wonder where that piece of chocolate came from or how it got to you? Coe helps
us answer these questions with the history of chocolate, how it has influenced
whole cultures, and even how it’s made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u7Sm2Hg-jVI/UkS3Ws8hsgI/AAAAAAAADDo/AY7PMfG6d9Y/s1600/Pickled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u7Sm2Hg-jVI/UkS3Ws8hsgI/AAAAAAAADDo/AY7PMfG6d9Y/s1600/Pickled.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sue
Shephard / 641.4 SHEPHARD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pickled,
Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the
World</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Food
preservation is not something that we tend to think a lot about, but without
it, explorers could not have gone exploring and selections would be a lot more
limited when it comes to meal times. Shephard writes about the major
developments in food preservation, who came up with them, and the many issues
they faced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AgoSmcNiHT4/UkS3bGFUVQI/AAAAAAAADDw/uHnM4_Znkew/s1600/At+Home.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AgoSmcNiHT4/UkS3bGFUVQI/AAAAAAAADDw/uHnM4_Znkew/s1600/At+Home.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bill
Bryson / 643.1 BRYSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At
Home: A Short History of Private Life </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">While
living in a Victorian parsonage in England, Bill Bryson started contemplating
the idea of what the private lives of the families were like that lived in his
home before his own family moved in. So Bryson gives readers a tour of his
home, moving from room to room, discussing the history of the rooms, what
happened within them, and what the objects in them mean. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zYLlPFbVIjk/UkS3fRcXDKI/AAAAAAAADD4/oCbbw4wtFPo/s1600/Consider+the+Fork.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zYLlPFbVIjk/UkS3fRcXDKI/AAAAAAAADD4/oCbbw4wtFPo/s1600/Consider+the+Fork.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bee
Wilson / 643.3 WILSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Consider
the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Where
would we be without our forks or knives, or what would we do if we didn’t have
a spatula to cook with or a pot to boil water in? Wilson discusses the history
of cooking technology and how technological innovations (and cultural customs)
have changed the way we eat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DzUQupTzrVM/UkS3kPo180I/AAAAAAAADEA/ASDe1rfqqN4/s1600/History+of+the+World+in+100+Objects.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DzUQupTzrVM/UkS3kPo180I/AAAAAAAADEA/ASDe1rfqqN4/s1600/History+of+the+World+in+100+Objects.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Neil
MacGregor / 930.1 MACGREGO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A
History of the World in 100 Objects</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Neil
MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, writes about the history of the
world with regards to 100 items. These are items that humans have created
through innovation (from an Olduvai handaxe to the solar-powered lamp), He also
discusses what these items say about the people who created them, and how they
have impacted the everyday lives of people.
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This next to the last book of the Temeraire series is truly dazzling. While
the idea of having Will Laurence, captain of the dragon Temeraire, get hit on
the head and forget the last eight years of his life seems a bit fanciful at
first, in its execution Novik masterfully replays for us and Will all that has
happened to him since he became an aviator and how his life changed so
dramatically, from being a British sea captain to an aviator in his Majesty’s
Aerial Corps. In Novik’s alternate telling of the Napoleonic Wars, dragons,
which are capable of speech and reasoning, are harnessed to be the countries’
aerial forces.<br />
<br />
Laurence has always been tremendously sympathetic as someone who, when
thrust into an unexpected situation, grasps (almost always) the essential
dignity and character of whoever he is faced with - be they a dragon, a female
fighting as a soldier, even his archenemy Napoleon Bonaparte. And if he is
mistaken in his assessment, he is always quick to acknowledge his error.<br />
<br />
Novik realistically portrays Will suffering from amnesia, without any
insight into dragons or how countries make use of them, and also without his
hard won experience of how governments may abuse power, taking any means at
their disposal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he learns more and
more about his life, we, the readers, are taken again over the terrain of these
conditions which changed him. We already know him (and Temeraire), yet this
helps us to know him better. Novik has used Will as our sounding board, for how
he knows Temeraire and all of the others, and this plot device serves her well.<br />
<br />
The scenes of this book are many - feudal Japan, a China challenged to take
her place in the global economy of trade, and a Russia which boasts European
culture yet oppresses its workers, human and dragon alike. The pace is swift,
as we are accustomed to with Novik, with abrupt changes of fortune. Yet some
developments continue steadily onward, such as Laurence’s realization of his
present life, his attachment to Temeraire, and Napoleon’s march into Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
To see the book in our catalog, click <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780345522894" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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