Recent Acquisitions

Recent books added to the library collection include:

	Bagdasarian, Adam. - Forgotten fire -- The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915.
	Bauer, Joan. - Hope was here -- When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
	Beckett, Wendy. - Sister Wendy's 1000 masterpieces -- Presents annotated reproductions of one thousand great paintings selected by Sister Wendy Beckett, arranged alphabetically by artist, from Albers to Zurbaran; and includes a directory of museums and galleries, and an index.
	Beckett, Wendy. - The story of painting -- Presents an overview of painting over the course of eight hundred years, and examines approximately 450 paintings, with in-depth details for nearly two hundred works.
	Borzello, Frances. - A world of our own : women as artists since the Renaissance -- A history of women artists, focusing on the ways in which women have succeeded and prospered in the traditionally male field from 1500 through the 1990s.
	Chaikin, Andrew. - Space : A history of space exploration in photographs -- Evocative, dramatic and fascinating, Space is a brilliant collection of more than 300 images that pay tribute to the immense human endeavor, spirit and scientific brilliance that have made the past five decades so thrilling. The images -- some of them rare -- have been painstakingly researched from the American, Russian and other space programs, and the result is a book that is both a historical record of an astonishing era and a portfolio of some of the most stunning images ever photographed.
	Chevalier, Tracy. - Girl with a pearl earring -- The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist.
	Cumming, Robert. - Annotated art -- Provides insights into 45 works from the world's greatest artists, explaining their techniques and intentions, and clarifying the meaning of obscure subjects and symbolism.
	Davies, Hunter. - The Beatles -- A portrait of the Beatles from their school days to their success as rock musicians. Includes information on their recordings, memorabilia, and post-Beatles solo careers.
	Davis, Lee (Lee Allyn) - Natural disasters -- Provides a comprehensive world survey of natural calamities that have ravaged humans and sometimes altered the course of history, including information on avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, famines, droughts, floods, plagues, epidemics, cyclones, hurricanes, ice and snowstorms, typhoons, and volcanic eruptions.
	Eliot, Alexander. - The universal myths : heroes, gods, tricksters, and others -- Examines and compares the world's myths, compiled and arranged by theme, from stories of creation to tales of death and rebirth.
	Emerson, Ralph Waldo. - Collected poems and translations -- Collection of Emerson's published and unpublished poems, including his translations of poetry from other languages.
	Feynman, Richard Phillips - The pleasure of finding things out : the best short works of Richard P. Feynman -- A treasury of short writings by twentieth-century American physicist Richard Feynman, including interviews, speeches, lectures, and printed articles, in which he shares details of his private life, his work on the atomic bomb, and his conclusions on the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
	Feynman, Richard Phillips. - QED : the strange theory of light and matter -- Presents the theory of quantum electrodynamics for the general public.
	Feynman, Richard Phillips. - Six easy pieces : essentials of physics, explained by its most brilliant teacher -- Specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader this book presents six of the easiest chapters from the Nobel Prize winner's celebrated text Lectures in Physics. Addressing key topics in largely qualitative terms without formal mathematics, the six selections discuss atoms in motion, basic physics, the relation of physics to other sciences, conservation of energy, the theory of gravitation, and quantum behavior.
	Feynman, Richard Phillips. - "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character -- A collection of often humorous anecdotes about the 1965 Nobel Prize winner for physics.
	Glancey, Jonathan. - The story of architecture -- Text and plentiful illustrations present the history of architecture from the temples of ancient Egypt through the Deconstructivist designs of the late 1990s.
	Gogh, Vincent van. - Vincent Van Gogh -- Contains sixteen fold-out pages that open up to four times the individual page size, that show details of some of Vincent Van Gogh's most celebrated paintings; and includes brief text that discusses the artist's life and career.
	Graves, Robert. - The Greek myths. Volume one -- Retells the stories of Greek gods and heroes.
	Graves, Robert. - The Greek myths. Volume two -- Contains sixty-six Greek legends of gods and heroes.
	Jaffe, Hans Ludwig C. - Pablo Picasso -- Contains 40 colorplates, 65 reproductions and accompanying commentary on many of Picasso's works.
	Katz, Jon. - Geeks : how two lost boys rode the Internet out of Idaho -- Tells the true story of Jesse and Eric, nineteen-year-old roommates in the small town of Caldwell, Idaho who changed their lives and built a new future for themselves with the power of the Internet.
	Konigsburg, E. L. - Silent to the bone -- When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
	Le Guin, Ursula K. - The farthest shore -- A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea.
	Le Guin, Ursula K. - Tales from Earthsea -- Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history and magic of the place.
	Le Guin, Ursula K. - The tombs of Atuan -- Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure.
	Le Guin, Ursula K. - A wizard of Earthsea -- A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the master wizard.
	Leeming, David Adams. - The world of myth -- An anthology of myths ranging from ancient Egypt and Greece to the Polynesian Islands and modern science.
	Lorenz, Konrad. - On aggression -- Presents findings on the mechanism of aggression and the means by which animals control destructive drives in the interest of the species.
	Marx, Karl. - The Communist manifesto -- Presents an annotated edition of the 1848 treatise on the economic, political, and social conditions of the working class, which served as the platform of the Communist League; and includes a historical and philosophical introduction, and a chronology of events surrounding the document's publication.
	Mercatante, Anthony S. - The Facts on File encyclopedia of world mythology and legend -- Includes 3,000 entries for myths, fables, and legends supplemented by art, music, and literature references.
	Mitchell, Margaret. - Gone with the wind -- After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her Georgia plantation home.
	Newson, Lesley. - Devastation! : the world's worst natural disasters -- A photographic exploration of the destructive power of nature, providing accounts of volcanic eruptions, fires, earthquakes, floods, storms, and plagues; and discussing the response of the scientific community to natural disasters.
	Paulsen, Gary. - The beet fields : memories of a sixteenth summer -- A boy runs away from home and his drunken parents and spends his sixteenth summer learning about life as a migrant laborer and carnival worker.
	Pirsig, Robert M. - Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance -- During a motorcycle trip with his son, the author reveals his past life and muses on philosophical topics.
	Poe, Edgar Allan. - The collected tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe -- Collection of Edgar Allan Poe's writings that includes his most well known works as well as less familiar stories, poems, and essays.
	Poe, Edgar Allan. - Poetry and tales -- Preface (Tamerlane and other poems-1827)--Letter to Mr.--(Poems-1831)-Preface (The Raven and other poems-1845) --O Tempora! O, Mores!--To Margaret--To Octavia--(etc.)
	Poe, Edgar Allan. - The tales of Edgar Allan Poe -- An illustrated collection of stories by the well-known horror author, including "The Gold Bug," "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."
	Reed, Langford. - The writer's rhyming dictionary -- Contains more than 25,000 rhymes for the most common sounds in the English language.
	Ryan, Pam Munoz. - Esperanza rising -- Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
	Schapiro, Meyer. - Vincent Van Gogh -- Contains 40 color plates, each with an informative commentary about both the painter and his art, plus 27 black and white reproductions.
	Spiegelman, Art. - Maus : a survivor's tale -- Memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.
	Spinelli, Jerry. - Stargirl -- Stargirl, a teen who animates quiet Mica High with her colorful personality, suddenly finds herself shunned for her refusal to conform.
	Steinberg, Jacques. - The gatekeepers : inside the admissions process of a premier college -- The author provides an account of his experiences, beginning in the fall of 1999, observing the process by which applicants are selected to attend Wesleyan University, one of America's top schools.
	Szatmary, David P. - Rockin' in time : a social history of rock-and-roll -- Examines rock-and-roll music in the context of American, and, to some extent, British history over the course of fifty years from around 1950 to 1999, and discusses how the music reflected and influenced social change.
	Talevski, Nick. - The unofficial encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- Provides career biographies of 150 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including artists, producers, executives, and deejays; and features information about the selection process, a review of the annual induction ceremony, and discussion of the history of the museum.
	Tolkien, J. R. R. - The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of The lord of the rings -- Frodo the hobbit and a band of warriors from the different kingdoms set out to destroy the Ring of Power before the evil Sauron grasps control.
	Tolkien, J. R. R. - The lord of the rings -- J. R. R. Tolkien's classic novel in which the hobbit Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring undertake a great quest--to journey across Middle-earth and cast the One Ring, filled with the power of the Dark Lord Sauron, into the Cracks of Doom.
	Tolkien, J. R. R. - The return of the king : being the third part of The lord of the rings -- As the Shadow of Mordor grows, the companions find their way through danger and mystery as they defeat the Dark Lord and celebrate Aragorn's ascent to become King of the West. Includes appendices containing genealogical and historical information that form the background of the story.
	Tolkien, J. R. R. - The two towers : being the second part of The lord of the rings -- Frodo and his companions have been beset by danger during the quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord. Gandalf has been lost in the Mines of Moria and now they journey down the great River Anduin toward the Cracks of Doom.
	Whelan, Gloria. - Homeless bird -- When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
	White, Ruth. - Memories of summer -- In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summer begins descending into mental illness.
	Yannella, Donald. - Ralph Waldo Emerson -- An introduction, criticism and interpretation of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems.
	2002 ESPN Information Please sports almanac -- A sports reference, identifying the top twenty personalities and moments in sports for 2001, featuring reviews of the 2001 college and professional seasons in a variety of sports, and including essays and analyses from ESPN reporters, a guide to the Olympics, statistics, awards listings, and other information.
	Ancient writers. Greece and Rome -- Contains forty-seven essays that provide information about the lives and significant achievements of Greek and Roman writers born before A.D. 337, each with a selected bibliography; and includes a chronology of events, and an alphabetical index.
	Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean : Greece and Rome -- A collection of ninety-seven essays that provide information about the ancient Mediterranean civilizations of Greece and Rome.
	The cutting edge : an encyclopedia of advanced technologies -- Contains over one hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about some of the advanced technologies and techniques available in the modern world, and includes bibliographies and cross references.
	Encyclopedia of folklore and literature -- Contains entries for authors, titles, national literatures, themes, and motifs in literature and folklore.
	The Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust -- Presents alphabetized articles on more than 6,500 Jewish communities of the early twentieth century that were destroyed by the Holocaust, describing their development and their society, and providing maps and photos.
	The encyclopedia of science and technology -- Contains approximately one thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about topics in science, technology, and medicine, and includes cross-references, photographs, charts, diagrams, drawings, and sidebars and reports.
	Encyclopedia of the Palestinians -- Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about modern Palestinian history and society.
	The eyes on the prize : civil rights reader : documents, speeches, and firsthand accounts from the Black freedom struggle, 1954-1990 -- Chronicles the struggle for civil rights in the United States from 1954 to 1990, through copies of key documents, reprints of speeches, newspaper articles, and interviews with people who had an impact on the movement.
	Folklore : an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music, and art -- Contains over two hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the major types of folklore and the methods used to study them, covering topics such as anecdote, gossip, midwifery, and verbal art; and includes cross-references, and selected bibliographies.
	Harlem renaissance : art of black America -- One hundred-fifty works by African-American artists in Harlem during the 1920s from the exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
	History in dispute. Volume 1, the Cold War : first series -- Contains forty groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to the Cold War, followed by two opposing opinions.
	History in dispute. Volume 2, American social and political movements, 1945-2000 : pursuit of liberty -- Contains over thirty groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to American social and political movements between 1945 and 2000, followed by two opposing opinions. Arranged alphabetically by topic.
	History in dispute. Volume 3, American social and political movements, 1900-1945 : pursuit of progress -- Contains over thirty groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to the historical events and trends of the first five decades of twentieth-century America, followed by two opposing opinions.
	History in dispute. Volume 4, World War II -- Contains over thirty groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to the historical events of World War II in the years between 1939 and 1943, followed by two opposing opinions. Arranged alphabetically by topic.
	History in dispute. Volume 5, World War II -- Contains over thirty groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to the historical events of World War II in the years between 1943 and 1945, followed by two opposing opinions. Arranged alphabetically by topic.
	History in dispute. Volume 6, the Cold War : second series -- Presents pro and con views on thirty-eight issues related to the Cold War, arranged alphabetically; also includes a Cold War chronology from 1939 to 1991.
	History in dispute. Volume 7, Water and the environment since 1945 : global perspectives -- Presents pro-con essays about more than thirty alphabetically arranged topics related to water and the environment around the world since 1945.
	The illustrated encyclopedia of the universe -- An overview of the universe that presents a history of astronomy, the laws of physics, a chronicle of theories about the universe, a survey of the universe's contents, an examination of the solar system, a history of space exploration, a selection of observation charts, and a reference section.
	McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology -- Contains over seven thousand alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about topics in the field of science and technology, and features cross-references, bibliographies, and illustrations. Includes analytical and topical indexes, as well as a selection of study guides.
	Merriam-Webster's rhyming dictionary -- A dictionary for poets, editors, and others, with approximately 55,000 words arranged alphabetically by their rhyming sound with pronunciations and cross references.
	Myths and legends of the world -- A four-volume work that presents alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced entries on the mythology of cultures around the world, including entries on specific myths and legends and their themes, overviews of larger subjects, informational sidebars, maps and charts, and color photos and illustrations.
	Novels for students. Volume 6 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels -- Contains entries that provide information about fifteen novels, each with an introduction to the novel and its author; a plot summary; descriptions of characters; analysis of themes; an explanation of literary techniques and movements; a historical context essay; a look at media adaptations; and reading suggestions.
	Novels for students. Volume 7 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels -- Contains entries that provide information about fifteen novels, each with an introduction to the novel and its author; a plot summary; descriptions of characters; analysis of themes; an explanation of literary techniques and movements; a historical context essay; a look at media adaptations; and reading suggestions.
	Novels for students. Volume 8 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels -- Contains entries that provide information about fifteen novels, each with an introduction to the novel and its author; a plot summary; descriptions of characters; analysis of themes; an explanation of literary techniques and movements; a historical context essay; a look at media adaptations; and reading suggestions.
	Novels for students. Volume 9 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels -- Contains entries that provide information about fifteen novels, each with an introduction to the novel and its author; a plot summary; descriptions of characters; analysis of themes; an explanation of literary techniques and movements; a historical context essay; a look at media adaptations; and reading suggestions.
	Novels for students. Volume 10 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels -- Contains entries that provide information about twelve novels, each with an author biography, plot summary, character analyses, discussion of themes and style, a historical context essay, a critical overview, a selection of criticism, and suggestions for further reading.
	Novels for students. Volume 11 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels -- A companion to fifteen classic and contemporary novels that provides an author biography, plot summary, character sketches, discussion of themes and style, historical context, a critical overview, and selections of criticism for each; also includes sidebars on media adaptations, comparisons between authors' cultural settings and modern Western culture, and further-reading lists.
	Novels for students. Volume 12 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels -- Profiles fifteen commonly studied novels by such authors as Henry James, Buchi Emecheta, Virginia Woolf, and John Updike, providing plot summaries, biographical and historical context, examples of criticism, and discussion of characters, themes, and style.
	Novels for students. Volume 13 : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels -- Profiles fifteen commonly studied novels by such authors as William Faulkner, Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, and L. Frank Baum, providing plot summaries, biographical and historical context, examples of criticism, and discussion of characters, themes, and style.
	The Penguin rhyming dictionary -- Rhyming words are arranged in groups based on phonetic principles. Includes an alphabetical index.
	Rock & roll at 50 -- Photographs and text celebrate fifty years of rock and roll history, profiling top artists and songs and discussing how rock and roll has changed over time.
	Rock and roll is here to stay : an anthology -- A collection of writings that address society's fascination with rock and roll music throughout history.
	Roget's international thesaurus -- An indexed word finder that contains more than 330,000 cross-referenced words and phrases in more than one thousand categories.
	The Rolling stone encyclopedia of rock & roll -- A comprehensive encyclopedia of rock music, featuring biographical and discographical information on nearly two thousand artists, and including historical photographs.
	The Rolling stone illustrated history of rock & roll : the definitive history of the most important artists and their music -- The definitive history of the most important artists and their music.
	Van Gogh face to face : the portraits -- Reproduces more than two hundred Van Gogh portraits in color, and discusses the major aspects and periods of his life, including his Dutch roots, the early years, Paris, Arles, and St.-Remy and Auvers.
	The world almanac and book of facts, 2002 -- Presents thousands of facts and statistics about a wide variety of subjects, such as economy and business, science, sports, and noted personalities, and includes the year in review, discussion of the terrorist attack on America in September 2001, and a color section of world maps and flags.
	World atlas of the oceans -- Offers a comprehensive overview of the findings of modern oceanography and includes more than two hundred maps and charts which help describe the landscape of the ocean floor.

Recent video acquisitions include:

	1929-1941: the Great Depression -- This film explores the causes of the Great Depression of 1929, its effect upon Americans from all walks of life, and the forces which eventually resolved the problems associated with it.
	Dear America: letters home from Vietnam -- After screening NBC News war footage, the filmmaker coupled letters from soldiers in Vietnam and images of the War, with potent results.
	The wave -- A high school history teacher conducts an experiment involving his students in order to demonstrate how the Nazi party was able to take over Germany in the 1930's. Based on the experience of a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1967.
	West Side story -- In the world of the 1950s New York City street gangs, an Anglo boy and a Puerto Rican girl fall in love. Their story echoes Shakespeare's tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet," when the feud between rival gangs drives them to suicide.

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