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004.678 P

Pariser, Eli. The filter bubble : what the Internet is hiding from you. New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
In 2009, Google began customizing its search results. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most likely to click on. According to MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, this change is symptomatic of the most significant shift to take place on the Web in recent years--the rise of personalization. Though the phenomenon has gone largely undetected until now, personalized filters are sweeping the Web, creating individual universes of information for each of us. Data companies track your personal information to sell to advertisers, from your political leanings to the hiking boots you just browsed on Zappos. In a personalized world, we will increasingly be typed and fed only news that is pleasant, familiar, and confirms our beliefs--and because these filters are invisible, we won't know what is being hidden from us. Our past interests will determine what we are exposed to in the future, leaving less room for the unexpected encounters that spark creativity, innovation, and the democratic exchange of ideas.--From publisher description.

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Jacobs, Alan, 1958-. The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction. New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
The author argues that reading is alive and well in America. Millions of devoted readers support hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices.

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Foer, Joshua. Moonwalking with Einstein : the art and science of remembering everything. New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
The smartest man is hard to find -- The man who remembered too much -- The expert expert -- The most forgetful man in the world -- The memory palace -- How to memorize a poem -- The end of remembering -- The ok plateau -- The talented tenth -- The little rain man in all of us -- The US memory championships. Having achieved the seemingly unachievable-- becoming a U.S. Memory Champion-- Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory.

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Cain, Susan. Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking. 1st ed. New York : Crown, 2012.
The north and south of temperament -- The extrovert ideal. The rise of the "mighty likeable fellow" : how extroversion became the cultural ideal ; The myth of charismatic leadership : the culture of personality, a hundred years later ; When collaboration kills creativity : the rise of the new Groupthink and the power of working alone -- Your biology, your self? Is temperament destiny? : nature, nurture, and the Orchid Hypothesis ; Beyond temperament : the role of free will (and the secret of public speaking for introverts) ; "Franklin was a politician, but Eleanor spoke out of conscience" : why cool is overrated ; Why did Wall Street cash and Warren Buffett prosper? : how introverts and extroverts think (and process dopamine) differently -- Do all cultures have an extrovert ideal? Soft power : Asian-Americans and the extrovert ideal -- How to love, how to work. When should you act more extroverted than you really are? ; The communication gap : how to talk to members of the opposite type ; On cobblers and generals : how to cultivate quiet kids in a world that can't hear them -- Wonderland -- A note on the words Introvert and Extrovert. Demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations.

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Rosenblatt, Roger. Kayak morning : reflections on love, grief, and small boats. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2012.
"In [his earlier book] 'Making Toast', Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months after the death of his thirty-eight-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in 'Kayak Morning', he offers a personal meditation on grief itself. 'Everybody grieves,' he writes. From that terse, melancholy observation emerges a work of art that addresses the universal experience of loss. On a quiet Sunday morning, two and a half years after Amy's death, Roger heads out in his kayak. He observes, 'You can't always make your way in the world by moving up. Or down, for that matter. Boats move laterally on water, which levels everything. It is one of the two great levelers.' Part elegy, part quest, 'Kayak Morning' explores Roger's years as a journalist, the comforts of literature, and the value of solitude, poignantly reminding us that grief is not apart from life but encompasses it. In recalling to us what we have lost, grief by necessity resurrects what we have had."-- Provided by publisher.

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Israel, Jonathan I. (Jonathan Irvine), 1946-. Democratic enlightenment : philosophy, revolution, and human rights 1750-1790. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Pt. 1: The radical challenge. Nature and providence: earthquakes and the human condition -- The Encyclopédie suppressed (1752-1760) -- Rousseau against the Philosophes -- Voltaire, enlightenment, and the European courts -- Anti-philosophes -- Central Europe: Aufklärung divided -- Pt. 2: Rationalizing the Ancien Régime. Hume, scepticism, and moderation -- Scottish enlightenment and man's 'progress' -- Enlightened despotism -- Aufklärung and the fracturing of German protestant culture -- Catholic enlightenment: the papacy's retreat -- Society and the rise of the Italian revolutionary enlightenment -- Spain and the challenge of reform -- Pt. 3: Europe and the remaking of the world. The Histoire philosophique, or colonialism overturned -- The American revolution -- Europe and the Amerindians -- Philosophy and revolt in Ibero-America (1765-1792) -- Commercial despotism: Dutch colonialism in Asia -- China, Japan, and the West -- India and the two enlightenments -- Russia's Greeks, Poles, and Serfs -- Pt. 4: Spinoza controversies in the later enlightenment. Rousseau, Spinoza, and the 'general will' -- Radical breakthrough -- Pantheismusstreit (1780-1787) -- Kant and the radical challenge -- Goethe, Schiller, and the new 'Dutch Revolt' against Spain -- Pt. 5: Revolution. 1788-1789: the 'general revolution' begins -- The diffusion -- 'Philosophy' as a maker of revolutions -- Aufklärung and the secret societies (1776-1792) -- Small-state revolutions in the 1780s -- The Dutch democratic revolution of the 1780s -- The French revolution: from 'philosophy' to basic human rights (1788-1790) -- Epilogue: 1789 as an intellectual revolution.

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Dalrymple, William. Nine lives : in search of the sacred in modern India. 1st Vintage Departures ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2011, c2009.
The nun's tale -- The dancer of Kannur -- The daughters of Yellamma -- The singer of epics -- The red fairy -- The monk's tale -- The maker of idols -- The lady twilight -- The song of the blind minstrel. A study of the ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change.

305.8924 G

Goldstein, Phyllis. A convenient hatred : the history of antisemitism. Brookline, MA : Facing History & Ourselves, c2012.
A Convenient Hatred chronicles a very particular hatred through powerful stories that allow readers to see themselves in the tarnished mirror of history. It raises important questions about the consequences of our assumptions and beliefs and the ways we, as individuals and as members of a society, make distinctions between "us" and "them," right and wrong, good and evil. These questions are both universal and particular.

306.487 M

McGonigal, Jane. Reality is broken : why games make us better and how they can change the world. New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal shows how we can harness the power of computer games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness, since her research suggests that gamers are expert problem solvers and collaborators because they regularly cooperate with other players to overcome daunting virtual challenges.

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Lewis, Michael (Michael M.). Boomerang : travels in the new Third World. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.
“In this book the author offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands, and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew and burst, not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as Iceland, Germany, and Greece. Mixing humor with prescient insight, he depicts a precarious situation that demands attention. The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piñata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. This investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, D.C., we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations. - Publisher.

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Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of everything : (and why we should worry). Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
In this book, the author examines the ways we have used and embraced Google, and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. He exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much touted Google Book Search. He assesses Google's global impact, particularly in China, and explains the insidious effect of Googlization on the way we think. Finally, he proposes the construction of an Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world and keep one brilliant and powerful company from falling into the "evil" it pledged to avoid.

520.92 S

Sobel, Dava. A more perfect heaven : how Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Walker, 2011.
Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.

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Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-. Here on earth : a natural history of the planet. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press :, c2010.
section 1: Mother Nature or monster earth? Evolution's motive force ; Of genes, mnemes and destruction ; Evolution's legacy ; A fresh look at earth ; The commonwealth of virtue -- section 2: A turbulent youth. Man the disrupter ; New worlds ; Biophilia -- section 3: Ever since agriculture. Superorganisms ; Superorganismic glue ; Ascent of the ultimate superorganism -- section 4: Toxic climax? War against nature ; Gaia-killers ; The eleventh hour? ; Undoing the work of ages -- section 5: Our present state. The stars of heaven ; Discounting the future ; Greed and the market ; Of war and inequality ; A new tool kit ; Governance ; Restoring the life-force -- section 6: An intelligent earth? What lies on the other side?. An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species.

599.5072 B

Burnett, D. Graham. The sounding of the whale : science & cetaceans in the twentieth century. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Into the belly of the beast -- "The prince of whales" -- A cetaceous parliament -- Trials of force -- Shots across the bow.

630.973 C

Cottrell, Annette, 1967-. The urban farm handbook : city-slicker resources for growing, raising, sourcing, trading, and preparing what you eat. 1st ed. Seattle, Wash. : Skipstone, 2011.
How it all began -- Deciding not to leave the city -- WINTER. It all begins with grain -- The chicken and the egg -- Dairy dilemma -- SPRING. Growing your own -- It's all in the dirt -- Going to the source -- Seeding your garden -- Growing strategies to maximize space -- Garden pests and beneficial insects -- SUMMER. Eating seasonally -- Winter gardening: it starts in summer! -- Preserving the harvest -- Building food community -- FALL. Going whole hog -- Raising small animals for meat -- Beverages and syrups -- Soaps and other sundries -- Annette's original grocery list -- Annette's revised grocery list -- Annette's calendar -- One front yard and one pantry at a time -- A question answered -- Plant lists for the Pacific Northwest -- Resources -- Index.

796.42 B

Bingham, John, 1948-. An accidental athlete : a funny thing happened on the way to middle age. Boulder, Colo. : Velo Press, c2011.
"John Bingham is a beloved evangelist of running. Known by fans as "The Penguin" for his gentle humor and back-of-the-pack speed, Bingham's memoir An Accidental Athlete explores with wit and poignancy his evolution from a bespectacled fat kid in the 1950s to unlikely hero of the modern running movement. Bingham remembers unfulfilled childhood dreams of athletic glory seen through Coke-bottle glasses, his unhealthy sedentary years as he chased a career, and his epiphany at age 43, when he stirred from the couch, found his mojo, became a runner, and rediscovered himself. An Accidental Athlete is a warm, engagingly written, feel-good book for the everday athlete who is sure to recognize him or herself somewhere in these pages"--.

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101 great American poems. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Pub., c1998.
A collection of 101 popular American poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

811.4 D

Emily Dickinson. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.

811.52 F

Robert Frost. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.

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Gwendolyn Brooks. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.

812.54 D

Dorfman, Ariel. Death and the maiden. New York : Penguin Books, 1994, c1991.
Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man--the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before.--From publisher description.

813.4 T

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : an authoritative text, contexts and sources, criticism. 3rd ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c1999.

813.54 M

Toni Morrison. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.

813.54 P

The bell jar, by Sylvia Plath. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2012.

818.54 B

James Baldwin. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.

921 Buckley

Bogus, Carl T. Buckley : William F. Buckley Jr. and the rise of American conservatism. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Introduction -- The making of the man who remade conservatism -- Choosing the path -- Civil rights -- "The loonies" -- The Cold War -- Liberalism falters -- Vietnam -- Conclusion.

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Massie, Robert K., 1929-. Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2011.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into Empress of Russia by sheer determination. Possessing a brilliant mind and an insatiable curiosity as a young woman, she devoured the works of Enlightenment philosophers and, when she reached the throne, attempted to use their principles to guide her rule of the vast and backward Russian empire. She knew or corresponded with the preeminent historical figures of her time: Voltaire, Diderot, Frederick the Great, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie Antoinette, and, surprisingly, the American naval hero, John Paul Jones. Reaching the throne fired by Enlightenment philosophy and determined to become the embodiment of the "benevolent despot" idealized by Montesquieu, she found herself always contending with the deeply ingrained realities of Russian life, including serfdom. She persevered, and for thirty-four years the government, foreign policy, cultural development, and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the tidal wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution that swept across Europe. Her reputation depended entirely on the perspective of the speaker. She was praised by Voltaire as the equal of the greatest of classical philosophers; she was condemned by her enemies, mostly foreign, as "the Messalina of the north." Catherine's family, friends, ministers, generals, lovers, and enemies -- all are here, vividly described. These included her ambitious, perpetually scheming mother; her weak, bullying husband, Peter (who left her lying untouched beside him for nine years after their marriage); her unhappy son and heir, Paul; her beloved grandchildren; and her "favorites" -- the parade of young men from whom she sought companionship and the recapture of youth as well as sex. Here, too, is the giant figure of Gregory Potemkin, her most significant lover and possible husband, with whom she shared a passionate correspondence of love and separation, followed by seventeen years of unparalleled mutual achievement. The story is superbly told. All the special qualities that Robert K. Massie brought to Nicholas and Alexandra and Peter the Great are present here: historical accuracy, depth of understanding, felicity of style, mastery of detail, ability to shatter myth, and a rare genius for finding and expressing the human drama in extraordinary lives. History offers few stories richer in drama than that of Catherine the Great. In this book, this eternally fascinating woman is returned to life. - Publisher.

921 DeGeneres

DeGeneres, Ellen. Seriously--I'm kidding. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2011.
The stand-up comedian, television host, best-selling author and actress candidly discusses her personal life, her professional career and describes what it was like to become a judge on American Idol.

921 Hemingway

Hendrickson, Paul, 1944-. Hemingway's boat : everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
An illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will change the way he is perceived and understood. Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from his pinnacle until his suicide--Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar. We follow him from Key West to Paris, to New York, Africa, Cuba, and finally Idaho, as he wrestles with his angels and demons. Whenever he could, he returned to his beloved fishing cruiser, to exult in the sea, to fish, to drink, to entertain friends and seduce women, to be with his children. But as he began to succumb to fame, we see that Pilar was also where he cursed his critics, saw marriages and friendships dissolve, and tried, in vain, to escape his increasingly diminished capacities. Generally thought of as a great writer and an unappealing human being, Hemingway emerges here in a far more benevolent light. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway's sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression, and alcoholism, and despite his anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity.--From publisher description.

921 Lamarr

Rhodes, Richard, 1937-. Hedy's folly : the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2011.
Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems.

921 McCloskey

McCloskey, Jane. Robert McCloskey : a private life in words and pictures. Kittery Point, Me. : Seapoint Books ;, c2011.
McCloskey wrote and painted what he knew: from his Midwestern childhood to island life in Maine. His younger daughter, Jane, chronicles the loving, difficult, but productive family relationships in a way that will add depth and meaning to his wonderful books.

960 K

Khapoya, Vincent B., 1944-. The African experience : an introduction. 3rd ed. New York : Longman, c2010.
Africa : the continent and its people -- African traditional institutions -- Political development in historic Africa -- Colonialism and the African experience -- African nationalism and the struggle for freedom -- African independence : the first thirty years -- The African struggle for democracy and free markets -- Africa in world affairs.

960.3 D

Davidson, Basil, 1914-2010. Modern Africa : a social and political history. 3rd ed. London ; : Longman, 1994.

960.3 U

Understanding contemporary Africa. 4th ed. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.

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Jeal, Tim. Explorers of the Nile : the triumph and tragedy of a great Victorian adventure. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.
"Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet's most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted the challenge. Showing extreme courage and resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant, Samuel Baker, Florence von Sass, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and reputations in the fierce competition. Award-winning author Tim Jeal deploys fascinating new research to provide a vivid tableau of the unmapped 'Dark Continent,' its jungle deprivations, and the courage--as well as malicious tactics--of the explorers. On multiple forays launched into east and central Africa, the travelers passed through almost impenetrable terrain and suffered the ravages of flesh-eating ulcers, paralysis, malaria, deep spear wounds, and even death. They discovered Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria and became the first white people to encounter the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro. Jeal weaves the story with authentic new detail and examines the tragic unintended legacy of the Nile search that still casts a long shadow over the people of Uganda and Sudan."--Publisher's website.

972.94 D

Dubois, Laurent, 1971-. Haiti : the aftershocks of history. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., c2012.
Independence -- The Citadel -- Stalemate -- The sacrifice -- Looking north -- Occupation -- Second independence -- An immaterial being. This work is an account that finds in Haiti's traumatic history the sources of its devastating present. Even before last year's earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption. Maligned and misunderstood, the nation has long been blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as the author, a historian, demonstrates, Haiti's troubles owe more to a legacy of international punishment for the original sin of staging the only successful slave revolt in the world. He vividly depicts the isolation and impoverishment that followed the 1804 rebellion: the crushing indemnities imposed by the former French rulers, which initiated a cycle of debt; the multiple interventions by the U.S. armed forces, including a twenty-year occupation; and the internal divisions and political chaos that are the inevitable consequences of centuries of subversion. At the same time, he also explores Haiti's overlooked successes, as its revolution created a resilient culture insistent on autonomy and equality. This is a book, that reveals what lies behind the familiar moniker of "the poorest nation in the western hemisphere" and illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.

973.0496 G

Gates, Henry Louis. Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.. "Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single "Black Experience." Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination"--.

973.922 O

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994. Jacqueline Kennedy : historic conversations on life with John F. Kennedy, interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1964. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2011.
Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President as well as the recollections of those closest to him throughout his extraordinary political career. For the rest of her life, the famously private Jacqueline Kennedy steadfastly refused to discuss her memories of those years, but beginning that March, she fulfilled her obligation to future generations of Americans by sitting down with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and recording an astonishingly detailed and unvarnished account of her experiences and impressions as the wife and confidante of John F. Kennedy. The tapes of those sessions were then sealed and later deposited in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum upon its completion, in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy's wishes.

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Kennedy, Randall, 1954-. The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon, 2011.
Randall Kennedy--former clerk to late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Harvard professor of law, and author of the New York Times bestseller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Kennedy--gives us shrewd and keen essays on the complex relationship between "the first black president" and his African-American constituency. The Persistence of the Colorline tackles hot-button issues: the nature of racial opposition to Obama; whether Obama has any special responsibility to African-Americans; the increasing irrelevance of traditional racial politics and the consequences thereof; electoral politics and cultural chauvinism; black patriotism and its antithesis (essentialism and rebellion); differences between Obama's presentation of himself to blacks and whites and the challenges posed by the dream of a post-racial society; the far from simple symbolism of Obama as leader of the Joshua generation in a country that has elected only three black senators and two black governors. As the National Law Journal puts it: "Randall Kennedy is doing the smartest work in the area of race." Here, in The Persistence of the Color Line, Kennedy--eschewing the critical excesses of both the left and the right--offers a gimlet eyed view of Obama's triumphs and travails, his strengths and weaknesses, as they pertain to the troubled history of race in America"--.

976.403 R

Remember the Alamo. [United States] : PBS Home Video ;, [2004].
Special features: Widescreen format -- Interview with the filmmaker -- Language: English surround stereo ; Spanish -- Subtitles: English. Narrated by Hector Elizondo. "In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although under Mexican rule, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they saw as restrictive Mexican policies. Mexican officials, concerned with illegal trading and immigration in Texas, were prepared to fight hard to keep the province under their control. Caught in the middle were the area's 4,000 Mexican Texans or Tejanos who were forced to choose a side. The conflict pitted brother against brother and devastated the community. This film shows the Tejano gamble for a more prosperous future in an independent Texas proved tragic.".

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Herb and Dorothy. [New York, N.Y.] : Arthouse Films :, c2009.
Herbert Vogel, Dorothy Vogel. Tells the story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.

DVD 791.43 D

The dirty dozen. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video :, [2005].
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes. Twelve tough criminals will be offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Based on E.M. Nathanson's book.

DVD 791.43 G

The great escape. Santa Monica, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios ;, c2007.
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Plesance, James Coburn. A World War II melodrama about the escape of British and American flyers from a maximum-security German prison camp.

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Kelly's heroes. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2010.
Carroll O'Connor, Gavin MacLeod, Harry Dean Stanton, Telly Savalas, Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland. A hard-nosed officer during WWII discovers that behind German lines is a bank filled with gold. Now all he has to do to strike it rich is figure out how to get it without getting killed.

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The little mermaid. Platinum ed.; 2-disc special ed. Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Co. :, 2006.
Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend Flounder, and her reluctant chaperon Sebastian at her side, Ariel must win the prince's love and save her father's kingdom.

DVD 791.43 M

Moneyball. [United States] : Columbia Pictures Industries, 2011.
Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright. The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

DVD 791.43 S

Saving Private Ryan. DreamWorks Pictures, c1998.
Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore. Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers, the story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion, then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Capt. John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have beeh killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer--and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.

DVD 791.43 S

The Shawshank redemption. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007].
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston, James Whitmore. "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.

DVD 791.43 Y

You've got mail. Deluxe ed., remastered ed. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2008].
Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton, Dave Chappelle, Steve Zahn, Dabney Coleman, Greg Kinnear. Superstore book chain magnate and cozy children's bookshop owner are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware they are combative business rivals.

DVD 791.45 G

Glee : the complete first season. Widescreen ed. [United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2010.
Lea Michele, Jessalyn Gilsig, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch. A talented group of high school misfits transforms into a performing sensation with the help of a dedicated teacher. Through laughter, tears, irreverent humor and unforgettable music, they learn to follow their hearts and chase their dreams. Contains all the episodes of season one and bonus features.

DVD 791.45 G

Glee. Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2011.
Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Matthew Morrison, Mark Salling, Jenna Ushkowitz. "Despite their loss at the Regionals, the kids in New Directions are more motivated than ever. And whether it's Will doing a sexy tango with a substitute teacher, Sue joining the glee club, or everyone catching Bieber fever, the excitement at William McKinley High School is keeping everyone on their toes."--Container.

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King Tut : secrets revealed. [New York] : International Masters Publishers, c2008.
In 1922 archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun. Learn about the treasures within the tomb of the pharaoh, from objects of beauty to practical items that were provided for the king's journey to the underworld. Includes preview DVD highlighting episodes available in the Ancient Civilization series.

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Collins, Suzanne, author. Catching fire. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

eBk Con

Condie, Allyson Braithwaite. Crossed. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, c2011.
Seventeen-year-old Cassia sacrifices everything and heads to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, where she is confronted with shocking revelations about Society and the promise of rebellion.

eBk Gale

Ancient Greece and Rome : an encyclopedia for students. New York : Scribner, 1998.
v. 1. Achaea-Delphi -- v. 2. Demeter-Law, Roman -- v. 3. Leonidas-Roman numerals -- v. 4. Rome-Zeus. Presents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.

eBk Gale

Cambridge world history of food. [S.l.] : Thomson Gale, 2006.
v. 1. Determining what our ancestors ate ; Staple foods: domesticated plants and animals ; The nutrients ; Diet and chronic disease -- v. 2. Food and drink around the world ; History, nutrition, and health ; Contemporary food-related policy issues ; A historical dictionary of the world's plant foods.

eBk Gale

Knight, Judson. Ancient civilizations reference library. Detroit, Mich. : UXL, c2000.
Almanac -- Biographies -- Cumulative index. Ancient civilizations of Iraq, Egypt, India, China, Central America and other regions are the focus of this remarkable contribution to student reference.

eBk Gale

Ancient Europe 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000 : encyclopedia of the barbarian world. New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2004.

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Bray, Libba. Beauty queens. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2011.
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

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Coelho, Paulo. Aleph. 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Aleph marks a return to the author's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he will again meet Hilal, the woman he loved 500 years before, an encounter that will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, through past and present, in search of himself. Aleph is an encounter with our fears and our sins; a search for love and forgiveness, and the courage to confront the inevitable challenges of life.

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Gabaldon, Diana. The Scottish prisoner : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2011.
Lord John Grey--soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade--fights for his crown, his honor, and his own secrets. Set in the heart of the eighteenth century during the Seven Years' War.

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Gottlieb, Eli, 1956-. The face thief : a novel. 1st ed. New York, NY : William Morrow, c2012.
Officer Dan France investigates who pushed the beautiful Margot down the stairs and discovers a number of people with motives, including a potential lover and a defrauded newlywed.

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Green, John, 1977-. The fault in our stars. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, 2012.
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

FIC Gri YA

Griffin, Paul, 1966-. Stay with me. New York : Dial Books, c2011.
Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Céce, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Céce away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.

FIC Han YA

Handler, Daniel. Why we broke up. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2012.
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

FIC Jam

James, P. D. Death comes to Pemberley. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth's sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy's sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball. But now, Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband Wickham has been murdered.

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King, Stephen, 1947-. Desperation. New York : Viking, 1996.
Read by Kathy Bates. An evil force invades a mining town in Nevada. It takes control of the body of a highway patrolman and proceeds to kill people. The evil force meets its match in the person of David Carver, 11, who is guided by God himself. By the author of The Regulators.

FIC Kin

King, Stephen, 1947-. Rose Madder. New York : Viking, 1995.
After suffering a miscarriage brought on by a beating, an abused wife leaves her husband, using his ATM card to buy a bus ticket out of town. The novel describes her struggle to begin a new life, then her husband, a sadistic police officer, comes looking for her. After fourteen years of beatings and abuse, Rose runs away from her husband. Unfortunately, he is a detective, and he has ways of finding her.

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Lupton, Rosamund. Sister : a novel. 1st U.S. pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Paperbacks, c2011.

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Makkai, Rebecca. The borrower : [a novel]. New York : Viking, 2011.
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a knapsack of provisions and an escape plan. Desperate to save him from Pastor Bob and the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian. The odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets, an inconvenient boyfriend, and upsetting family history thrown in their path. But is it just Ian who is running away? Who is the man who seems to be on their tail? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?.

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Millet, Lydia, 1968-. Ghost lights : a novel. 1st ed. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2011.
Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.--the protagonist of Lydia Millet's novel How the Dead Dream--who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain.

FIC Orn

Orner, Peter. Love and shame and love : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011.
The interactions of four generations of the Popper family reveal the ways in which love, memory, and connections can make individuals whole or completely unravel them.

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Scattergood, Augusta. Glory be. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2012.
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.

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Snicket, Lemony. The bad beginning. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.
Read by Tim Curry. From the Publisher: After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. Imagine tales so terrible that as many as fifty million innocents have been ruined by them-tales so indelibly horrid that the New York Times bestseller list has been unable to rid itself of them for seven years. Now imagine if this scourge suddenly became available in a shameful new edition so sensational, so irresistible, so riddled with lurid new pictures that even a common urchin would wish for it. Who among us would be safe?.

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Snicket, Lemony. The slippery slope. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2003.
Performed by Tim Curry ; original music by The Gothic Archies. In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place.".

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Snicket, Lemony. The wide window. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.

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Snicket, Lemony. The miserable mill. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.
Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Beaudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.

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Snicket, Lemony. The austere academy. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2000.
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.

FIC Sni Bk.6

Snicket, Lemony. The ersatz elevator. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2001.
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.

FIC Sni Bk.7

Snicket, Lemony. The vile village. New York : HarperCollins, 2001.
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.

FIC Sni Bk.8

Snicket, Lemony. The hostile hospital. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001.
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.

FIC Sni Bk.9

Snicket, Lemony. The carnivorous carnival. New York : HarperCollins, c2003.
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.

FIC Umr

Umrigar, Thrity N. The weight of heaven : a novel. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York : Harper Perennial, 2010, c2009.
Having lost their beloved only child to a sudden illness, Frank and Ellie Benton hope to rebuild their lives by accepting a job offer in India but find their new home compromised by Frank's efforts to heal his grief through a friendship with a young boy.

FIC Wex

Wexler, Natalie. The mother daughter show. McLean, VA : Fuze Publishing, 2012.

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Wunder, Wendy. The probability of miracles. New York : Razorbill, c2011.
Having spent several years in and out of hospitals for a life-threatening illness, pragmatic sixteen-year-old Cam is relocated by her miracle-seeking mother to a town in Maine known for its mystical healing qualities.

FIC Zev

Zevin, Gabrielle. The hole we're in : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Black Cat ;, c2010.
Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family of five living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, father Roger and mother Georgia make a series of choices that will have catastrophic consequences for their three children.

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Zusak, Markus. The book thief. 1st Knopf trade pbk. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Includes readers' guide.

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Flint, Eric. 1632. Paperback ed. Riverdale, NY : Baen ;, 2001, c2000.
A mysterious accident in time causes twenty-first-century American democracy to collide head-on with the Thirty Years War in seventeenth-century Germany as Mike Stearn and a group of armed miners take on a gang of strangely attired invaders who are threatening peaceful Grantville, West Virginia. Original. Freedom and Justice-American Style 1632. And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religious war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. Then, everything changed. When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.

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Weber, David, 1952-. 1633. Paperback ed. Riverdale, NY : Baen ;, 2003.

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McGraw-Hill yearbook of science & technology 2012. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2012.

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Miller & Levine. Biology.

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Isaac's storm. Burlington, VT : A & E Home Video ;, c2004.
 September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history. Includes detailed stories of heartbreaking loss, selfless heroism and the tragic folly of one man's faith in science.