New Library Books

Title Liberal Arts at the Brink
Author Victor E. Ferrall, Jr.
Publisher Harvard University Press
Call number  LC1011.F47 2011
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Title  The Last Dropout: Stop the epidemic!
Author  Bill Milliken
Publisher  Hay House
Call number  LC221.M553 2007
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Title  Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics
Author  William Theodore deBary
Publisher Columbia
Call number  PL493.F56 2011
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Title  Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Protrait in Black & White
Author Emily Bernard
Publisher Yale
Call number PS3543.A653 Z59 2012
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Title Ordinary Geniuses: Max Delbruck, George Gamow & the Origins of Genomics and Big Bang Cosmology
Author Gino Segre
Publisher Viking
Call number  QH31.D434 S44 2011
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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
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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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New Books at the Golisano Library

Title Brandwashed:  Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
Author Martin Lindstrom
Publisher Crown
Call No. HF5415.32.L557 2011
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Title Nobody's Burden: Lessons From the Great Depression on the Struggle for Old-Age Security
Author Ruth E. Ray & Toni Calasanti, Eds.
Publisher Lexington Books
Call No. HV1461.N63 2011
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Title Servant Leadership for Higher Education: Principles and Practices
Author Daniel Wheeler
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No.LB2341.W464 2012
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Title  The Great Builders
Author Kenneth Powell, Ed.
Publisher Thames & Hudson
Call No. NA40.G74 2011
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Title How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks about Being Sick in America
Author Otis Webb Brawley with Paul Goldbert
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Call No. RA395.A3 B72 2012
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Title Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism
Author Arthur Fleischmann with Carly Fleischmann
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Call No. RJ506.A9 F587 2012
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New Library Books to Fit the A-Z Challenge # 1

Looking for a book to read?  Don't want fiction?  Try these  which fit the letters A-D
It's not to late to start!

Title:  Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy
Author: Saul Austerlitz
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Call No. : PN1995.9.C55 A97 2010

These are easy to read chapters about various comedians incuding Harold Lloyd, Jean Author, and Albert Brooks. You don't have to read in page order to enjoy this work.

Title:  Beethoven in America
Author: Michael Broyles
Publisher Indiana University Press
Call No.: ML410.B4 B869 2011

The book examines the ways Beethoven and his music have influenced American culture.

Title:  Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes
Author: Roger E. Backhouse & Bradkley W. Bateman
Publisher:  Harvard University
Call No.: HB103.K47 B25 2011

At less than 200 pages, this work focuses on a narrow but important part of Keyne's life.

Title:  Disposable People: New Slavery in the Golbal Economy
Author:  Kevin Bales
Publisher California
Call No.  HT867.B35 2004

This revised edition looks at the growth of slavery in Thailand, Brazil, Pakistan, and India and offers suggestions to end the practise.