Dubai Encounter by Olivia Pozzan
Escape the cold of Gill, Ma. Imagine yourself relaxing at a Jumeirah beach or being wisked up the tallest skyscraper in the world. This Lonely Planet guidebook is a fun diversion as we plod through a New England winter.
Kaitlin 10' and Dylan 11' read the first issue of the New Hermonite.
We have board games to use in the library or to borrow.
Pokemon Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee,
Backgammon, Jenga, and more.
Have a long trip ahead of you? The Library has all of the books listed below ready to download to your iPod or any mp3 player. Bring your ipod to the Library and get ready to read with your eyes closed.
The 39 Clues, Book One: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riorden
1984 by George Orwell
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection
The house of mirth by Edith Wharton
The boys of summer : the classic narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and what’s happened to everybody since by Roger Kahn.
The Audacity of hope : Thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Beowulf
The Big Bam : the life and times of Babe Ruth by Leigh Montville
Cry, The beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
A room with a view by E.M. Forster
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The reformed vampire support group by Catherine Jinks
Confederacy of Dunces by John KennedyToole
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Billy Collins Live :A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space, April 20, 2005
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Curse of the Blue Tattoo by L.A. Meyer
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Declaration by G. Malley
Don quixote by Miguel deCervantes Saavedra
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Charles and Emma : the Darwins’ leap of faith by Deborah Heiligman
How to build a house by Dana Reinhardt
Iliad and the odyssey by Homer
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Jessica’s guide to dating on the dark side by Beth Fantaskey
The killer’s cousin by Nancy Werlin
The Kite Runner by Hosseini Khaled
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Night by Elie Wiesel
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey
The physick book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
Prince of Fools by Philip Caveney
Private arrangements by Sherry Thomas
R.U.R. (Rossum’s universal robots) by
Karel apek
Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
Slaughterhouse-five, [or The children's crusade] by Kurt Vonnegut
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
The things they carried by Tim O’Brien
Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
Where men win glory : [the odyssey of Pat Tillman] by Jon Krakauer
Thanks to Margaret van Baaren for sending this article to us.
NEWSPAPERS and novels are moving briskly from paper to pixels, but textbooks have yet to find the perfect electronic home. They are readable on laptops and smartphones, but the displays can be eye-taxing. Even dedicated e-readers with their crisp printlike displays can’t handle textbook staples like color illustrations or the videos and Web-linked supplements publishers increasingly supply.
Now there is a new approach that may adapt well to textbook pages: two-screen e-book readers with a traditional e-paper display on one screen and a liquid-crystal display on the other to render graphics like science animations in color.
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta
So, do you like your library? I mean REALLY like your library, enough to write about what you use it for, and what you like about it? And, would you like to win money for your fabulous writing about your awesome library? If so, read on…
Submit your essays for a chance to win $350!
@ your libraryis seeking an original, creative essay for its first ever At My Library Creative Essay Contest. The winning essay will illustrate the participant’s experience at their local library and demonstrate the fundamental spirit and importance of American libraries. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $350 and a People’s Choice Award Winner will receive $100! The top ten finalists will have their essays published on the atyourlibrary.org Web site. To view submissions and cast your vote, visit: http://www.atyourlibrary.org/essay-submissions.
Read more about this essay contest by clicking here.
Plus, you’ll have a chance to win an ipod nano when you sign up for an email newsletter here.
At Your Library (otherwise know as “@ your library”) is an organization and a website for people who love libraries. If you are a fan of lifelong learning, and fond of libraries, check it out!
- Alison Ernst, Library Director
Sex and the Eighteenth Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America by Thomas A. Foster
This compelling study of 18th-century male gender mores and sexuality is filled with engrossing historical details, demonstrating that 18th-century American ideas about masculinity were complexly tied to religion, economics and the body. For example, a 1746 neswpaper article proposed a tax of single people, since they “promise no help to the future generation”; American colonist understood male effeminacy to be as much a sign of wasteful consumption as sexual deviance; and in 1742 Rev. John Cleveland referred to God as “his first husband.” Foster, assistant professor of history at DePaul University, has mined a variety of primary sources, including letters and diaries of colonial men, 18th-Century Boston newspapers and moral guidebooks such as Daniel Lewis’s 1725 The Sins of Youth, many of which have not been analyzed before. He uncovers intriguing and historically important examples that provoke rethinking of the history of gender in America, and he also makes some bold claims including debunking Michel Foucault’s famous dictum that before modernisn, sexuality was defined by actions not identities. This is vital reading for anyone seriously interested in American history or gender studies. Publisher Weeky, July 24, 2006
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I’m 130 years old
And today is the day
That the first students came to Northfield
And I became a school!
– November 3, 1879 – November 3, 2009 –
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So, you borrow a stack of music cds from the library. And you throw them on your laptop to listen to them…and heck, while you’re at it, you rip ‘em. [Translation: You copy the content on to your computer.]
Fair use or illegal?
News flash: It’s illegal. People do it, but it is definitely illegal.
For a conversation about the issues, see this recent Chicago Tribune article – click here.
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