The Fall Literature Circles are coming–and all students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend. Choose a title from the list, read it, and join the relaxed, insightful discussions. All books are owned by the library, but copies are limited and going FAST. Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Destiny by Hill Harper Hill Harper, [...]
What happens when a literary author goes renegade and rewrites the vampire novel playbook? With The Passage, Justin Cronin leaves the literary arena behind (he won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the Stephen Crane Prize for his past novels) and leaps (bat like!) into the world of speculative fiction. But this is no teenage love [...]
Rethinking your plate? Eating local? Eating less—or cooking more? Food itself (organic, sustainable, local) is in the news. No longer are American fed by our own family’s farms; now our dinner is dished out by big agribusiness. Do factory farms make us sick? Does the American diet provide the nutrition we need? How do we [...]
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) have been bestsellers throughout Europe. The John Tyler Libraries have all three of the books in the collection. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the first in the series), disgraced [...]
Why can some people live with only minimal possessions, while others save everything they have ever touched…and eventually are buried by their possessions, by their trash, by their stuff? Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things is written by two scientists who treat have treated hundreds of people suffering from hoarding issues. In the [...]
Earth Day is Thursday, April 22. Founded in 1970, earth day is now celebrated globally in 175 countries. Why celebrate only one day? There are so many ways to have an earth day every day: Bring reusable bags when shopping, Switch incandescent bulbs to fluorescent Recycle paper, plastic, glass and electronics whenever possible Use the [...]
Need real medical information for personal or academic use? Try Salem Health online. The Salem Health has been described as an excellent “mix of accessibility and depth,” and is designed to be used for both student and general readers. Salem Health covers diseases, treatments, and anatomy, all in a straightforward style. Nursing students give Salem [...]
The world is spiraling out of control, changing at an alarming rate; the environment is failing, as are the social contracts that hold society together. And then, the apocalypse comes, a waterless flood that destroys most humans on planet earth. The Year of the Flood tells the story of this catastrophe, the before and after, [...]
80 Years of Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards is Robert Osborne’s latest update to a series of histories he began when the Academy celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1978. Osborne, a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter and long time host of the Turner Classic Movies network, is also the official historian of [...]
Subtitled “two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country search for a greener future,” Greasy Rider mixes the adventure of a cross country road trip with stories from the ecological side of America. Author Greg Melville converts his 1995 Mercedes diesel to run on used cooking oil. So enthralled with his “new” vehicle, he enlists [...]