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New Items in the Library

Check out one of these new items available in the E.W. King Library:

Fiction

• A changed man : a novel / Francine Prose.
• A room called Remember : uncollected pieces / Frederick Buechner.
• Feathers / Jacqueline Woodson.
• Good faith / Jane Smiley.
• Henry’s freedom box / by Ellen Levine   illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
• Living to tell the tale / Gabriel Garci­a Marquez   translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
• Los gatos black on Halloween / Marisa Montes   illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
• November blues / Sharon M. Draper.
• Now and forever / Ray Bradbury.
• Peeling the onion / Gunter Grass   translated from German by Michael Henry Heim.
• Solo : my adventures in the air / Clyde Edgerton.
• The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel / Michael Chabon.
• The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures  / by Brian Selznick.
• The learned banqueters / Athenaeus   edited and translated by S. Douglas Olsen.
• The white darkness : a novel / by Geraldine McCaughrean.

Nonfiction

• American Gothic : a life of America’s most famous painting / Steven Biel.
• American musical theatre : a chronicle / Gerald Bordman.
• Augustus : the life of Rome’s first emperor / Anthony Everitt.
• Blue dreams : Korean Americans and the Los Angeles riots / Nancy Abelmann and John Lie.
• Bound for Canaan : the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America / Fergus M. Bordewich.
• Building a bridge to the 18th century : how the past can improve our future / by Neil Postman.
• Dictionary of the social sciences / edited by Craig Calhoun.
• Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
• First lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis’s Civil War / Joan E. Cashin.
• Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America / Juan Gonzalez.
• Massive resistance : southern opposition to the second reconstruction / edited by Clive Webb.
• My year in Iraq : the struggle to build a future of hope / L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell.
•  Negro president  : Jefferson and the slave power / Garry Wills.
• Shakespeare : the biography / Peter Ackroyd.
• Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom / Bell Hooks.
• The anatomy of hope : how people prevail in the face of illness / by Jerome Groopman.
• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream / Barack Obama.
• The judgment of Paris : the revolutionary decade that gave the world Impressionism / Ross King.
• The poet slave of Cuba : a biography of Juan Francisco Manzano  / Margarita Engle   art by Sean Qualls.
• Wikinomics : how mass collaboration changes everything / Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
• Young Hickory : the making of Andrew Jackson / Hendrik Booraem.

Spring Semester…already in progress.

It’s hard to believe it’s almost mid-term. I hope that you are having a good semester. Hang in there because soon, you’ll be finishing up your tests, papers, and projects to head for whatever alternate destination is available. Enjoy some time away whether it’s relaxing at home, taking a vacation, or doing mission work. Whatever choice you have made for Spring Break will be a welcome diversion from classes and assignments. Travel safely.

Consequently, during this busy week we’re here for you:

• There are two copiers available near the periodicals area, now.
• A television with a VCR/DVD player is now available for use with headphones near the periodicals area. You can check out the remotes and headphones at the circulation desk.
• AV Room 2 is now available for group study.
• You can print from your laptop in the library. Just ask for help if you don’t know how.
• There is wireless upstairs in the library.
• We regularly order new materials for the library. If there is something we don’t have that you think we should, please let us know.
• The E.W. King Library is open until midnight Sunday through Thursday nights, until 5:00 p.m. on Fridays, and 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Hours will be limited during Spring Break.