Category: books
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New books!
Check out some of these new books! Here’s a list of our most recent acquisitions. The box : how the shipping container made the world smallerand the world economy bigger Buy, buy baby : how consumer culture manipulatesparents and harms young minds Canyonlands : wonders of nature on the Colorado Plateau And then, you act…
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E-read any good books lately?
Think you can’t carry an entire library of classic novels, cookbooks, magazines, horror stories and pulp fiction around with you? Think again! Impress your friends and family with your feats of strength (or at least your technical prowess and reading taste) by downloading ebooks to your PDA, iPod or eReader (or even your cell phone)…
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New Library resource
Come and take a look at one of our newest reference titles, Short Stories for Students. You’ll find numerous short stories covered with concise synopses of the story’s plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, a discussion of the story’s cultural and historical significance and excerpted criticism. You’ll also be pointed to media adaptations…
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Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ Turns 50
From today’s New York Times: “Viking is releasing a 50th-anniversary edition on Thursday (the original came out Sept. 5, 1957), and is also publishing, for the first time in book form, the original version that Kerouac typed on a 120-foot-long scroll and a new analysis by John Leland, a reporter at The New York Times,…
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New books (August 2007)
View a full list of this month’s latest arrivals. Here are a few selected titles (click the images to be taken to the full catalog record): Embroidering identities : a century of Palestinian clothing Gothic fantasy : the films of Tim Burton Bodies in code : interfaces with new media Advertising sin and sickness :…
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Spice up your summer at the Library!
Have you been wishing you knew how to cook more than just hot water for tea and ramen noodles? Getting bored with cafeteria and fast food or your usual rotation of recipes? Then check out some cookbooks from the Library this summer! Go to the catalog and search by Subject for Cookery or just try…
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New books (July 2007)
View a full list of this month’s latest arrivals. Here are a few selected titles:
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Read any good books lately?
Take a break from those summer courses or get going on that promise to read more this summer (before it’s too late!). Not sure what to read? Try our new Fiction Connection database. You can plug in a title or an author that you like and be pointed to other works that you might enjoy.…
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New Books, Music & Movies (June 2007)
View a list of the newest arrivals. books music movies
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New Books, Music & Movies (May 2007)
View a list of the newest arrivals: books music movies