New Library Books

Title "Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer? Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12
Author Bruce A. Lesh
Publisher Stenhouse Publishers
Call Number E175.8.L48 2011
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Title Gaming  the World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
Author Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann
Publisher Princeton University
Call Number GV706.36.M3525 2010
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Title Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume
Author Robert Bell
Publisher National Gallery of Australia
Call Number GV1786.B3 B45 2010
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Title Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People fall for Fads
Author Joel Best
Publisher University of California Press
Call Number HM826.B47 2006
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Title Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming and Why it Matters
Author Scott Rosenberg
Publisher Three Rivers Press
Call Number HM851.R674 2009
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Title Children of the Great Depression - 25th Anniversary Edition
Author Glen H. Elder
Publisher Perseus POD
Call Number HN 80,O18 E43 1998
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New Library Books

Title  In Praise of Copying
Author Marcus Boon
Publisher University of Harvard Press
Call No. BD225.B66 2010
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Title Click: The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage With People, Work, and Everything We Do
Author Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
Publisher Crown Business
Call No. BF511.B693 2010
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Title All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion
Author Lisa Appignanesi
Publisher Norton
Call No. BF575.L8 A67 2011
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Title The Economics of Integrity
Author Anna Bernasek
Publisher Harper Collins
Call No. BJ1500.T78 B47 2010
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Title Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience
Author Richard Landes
Publisher Oxford
Call No. BL503.2.L36 2011
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E is for Escape...Fiction, that is.

Looking for quick reads.  Books that you will still be reading at 3:00 a.m. because you couldn't put it down?
Perhaps not, but here are a few you might consider. Here are books from the curriculum center and leisure reading to try.  It's not too late to join in the A-Z challenge.

Curriculum Center Books in the new book display

Title: The Son of Neptune
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Disney/Hyperion
Call No.: PZ7.R4829 Son2011
Synopsis  Book two of the Heroes of Olympus Series.

Title: Curveball: The year I lost my Grip
Author: Jordan Sonnenblick
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Call No.: PZ7.S6984 Sho 2012
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Title: Laini Taylor
Author: Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Publisher:Little/Brown
Call No.: PZ7.T214826 Dau 2011
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Title: Blink & Caution
Author: Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Call No.: PZ7.W993 Bl 2011
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Leisure Reading New Books

Title: Lord Edgware Dies
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Thorndike
Call No.: PR6005.H66 L67 2012
Synopsis - Large Print

Title: The Litigators
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday
Call No.: PS3557.R5355 L58 2011d
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Title: Tote Bags and Toe Tags
Author: Dorothy Howell
Publisher: Kensington Books
Call No.:PS3608.O9525 T68 2012
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Title: Sing You Home
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Atria Books
Call No.: PS3566.I372 S56 2011
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B is for Biographies

Take a break.  Join the A-Z Book Challenge.  Try one of the many biographies we have currently on display in the New Library Book section.  Here are just a few.

Title  George F. Kennan: An American Libe
Author John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher Penguin Press
Call Number E748.K3j4 G34 2011
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Title The Obamas
Author Jodi Kantor
Publisher Little, Brown
Call Number E908.K36 2012
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Title The Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune
Author James Mellon
Publisher Yale
Call Number HC102.5.M377 2011
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Title  Idea Man  A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
Author Paul Allen
Publisher Penguin
Call Number HC102.5.A49 A3
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Title Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince
Author Mark A. Vieira
Publisher University of California Press
Call Number PN1998.3.T467 V547 2010
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Title The Keats Brothers: The life of John and George
Author Denise Gigante
Publisher Harvard
Call Number PR4836.G47 2011
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