Library Reception

Spring Awakenings: Coming of Age Fiction Display

With Spring reminding us of renewal and growth, the library has a collection of coming of age fiction on display. 

According to Bloom's Literary Reference (which is available to Fontbonne students), coming of age fiction can be defined as, "stories that mark a child's passage from innocence to experience or knowledge, in which the child usually pays the price of pain or disillusionment". 

Included in our library Spring Awakenings display are the following titles: 

~Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos

~The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 

~Dreamland by Sarah Dessen 

~The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 

~Life of Pi by Yann Martel 

~Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

~The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

~The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman 

~My Antonia by Willa Cather 

~The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 

~The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

~A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 

~Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson 

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Happy St. Patrick's Day: Mini Display

 Hello ladies!


In celebration of St. Patrick's Day we have a mini display up in the library. Titles featured in the display include: 

Ireland (Cultures of the World Series) by Patricia Levy 
The Irish American Family Album by Dorothy Hoobler
Irish Wonders by David Rice McAnally Jr. 
A Journey Through Boston Irish History by Dennis P. Ryan 
A Treasury of Irish Folklore by Padaric Colum 


Here is a link to an eye opening quiz about the holiday. Just how much do you really know about St. Patrick's Day? 


Happy Reading, 
Miss Kenny

Women's History Month Nonfiction

Hello ladies. 

In honor of March being Women's History Month we are featuring a number of nonfiction titles about women and womens rights in the library. Titles in the display include: 

• Balancing the Equation: where are women and girls in science, engineering and technology? by Mary Thom
• The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women compiled by Rosalie Maggio
• The Beauty Myth: how images of beauty are used against women by Naomi Wolf
• Celtic Women: women in Celtic society and literature by Peter Berresford Ellis
• Don't Call Us Out of Name:the untold lives of women and girls in poor America by Lisa Dodson
• From Pocahontas to Power Suits: everything you need to know about women's history in America by Kay Mills
• Gutsy Girls: young women who dare by Tina Schwager and Michele Schuerger
• Leaving Deep Water: the lives of Asian American women at the crossraods of two cultures 
• Ophelia Speaks by Sarah Shandler 
• Price of Honor: Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic world by Jan Goodwin
• School Girls: young women, self-esteem and the confidence gap by Peggy Orenstien 
• See Jane Win: a smart girl's guide to success by Sylvia Rimm
• Veiled Courage: inside the Afghan women's resistance by Cheryl Benard
• Walking on Fire: Haitian women's stories of survival and resistance by Beverly Bell 
• What Every American Should Know About Women's History: 200 events that shaped our destiny by Christine Lunardini
• Where the Girls Are: growing up female with the mass media by Susan J. Douglas
• Women in the Material World by Faith D'Alusio
• Women of the 1960s by Stuart A. Kallen
• Women's Rights by Natasha Thomsen
• Yell-Oh Girls: emerging voices explore culture, identity and growing up Asian American 

Happy Reading, 

Miss Kenny

Feminist Fiction

Hello ladies.

In honor of Women's History Month we will be displaying a collection of feminist fiction in the Fontbonne Academy Library.  Titles being featured include:

• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver 
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
• A Doll's House by Henrik Isben 
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 
• The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan 
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Sula by Toni Morrison 
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Happy Reading, 

Miss Kenny 

International Fiction and Nonfiction Displays

Hello ladies!


View International Fiction and Nonfiction in a larger map

While Fontbonne prepares for the International Festival (January 30th @ 4 pm in the auditorium)  , the library will be featuring international fiction and nonfiction in the library. Feel free to stop by and browse or check one out to take home. The books featured span the globe (see map above) and include the following titles:

International Fiction 
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant 
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid 
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat 
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 
The Language of Threads by Gail Tsukiyama 
The Oxford  Book of Irish Short Stories edited by William Trevor
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama 
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 
Shabanu: daughter of the wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples 
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction edited by Carolyn Choa and David Su Li-qun

International Nonfiction
-Bahrain 
-Cuba 
-Dominican Republic 
-Egypt 
-France 
-Germany 
-Greece 
-Hungary 
-India 
-Iran 
-Iraq
-Ireland 

-Israel 
-Italy 
-Jamaica
-Japan 
-Jordan 
-Libya  
-Malaysia 
-Mexico 
-Myanmar
-Nepal 
-Nicaragua 
-Nigeria 
-Pakistan 
-Palestine 
-Philippines 
-Poland 
-Portugal 
-Puerto Rico 
-Qatar 
-Singapore 
-South Africa 
-Syria 
-Thailand 
-Tunisia 
-United Arab Emirates
-Yemen 



Happy Reading,
Miss Kenny

December's Featured Author: Sarah Dessen

Hello ladies!

For the month of December I will be featuring Sarah Dessen and her novels both on my blog and in the library.  There is a display up in the library featuring available titles by Dessen. These titles include:

• Dreamland
• Lock and Key
• This Lullaby
• The Truth About Forever

While Dessen is being featured, I will be providing links Dessen related information on the Internet. Because Dessen has so many dedicated fans, there is a lot of interesting information out there!

Why not get started with this month of Dessen by visiting Sarah-land and browsing around?

Happy Reading,
Miss Kenny

Mini Shakespeare Display

Hello ladies.

In preparation for the Good Fountain Players' performance of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) we have put up a mini-display of Shakespeare related books.Many of the titles included relate to Elizabethan drama and the world of Shakespeare. Please feel free to stop by and browse these titles.

Don't forget to come see your classmates perform The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) this weekend. Showtimes are: 

Friday, November 19 at 7:00 pm

Saturday, November 20 at 7:00 pm

Sunday, November 21 at 2:00 pm

 

Happy Reading, 

Miss Kenny

What's New in the Library? : 8 November 2010 - 12 November 2010

Hello ladies.

A lot of new materials arrived in the library this week, including nonfiction titles and periodicals.  We also have a new Sports and Athletes display up in addition to our ongoing Fabulous Fontbonne Fiction display. Keep reading for more information about what's going on this week in the library.

New Books 

Chinua Achebe's Thing's Fall Apart: Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations 

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart; Igbo (African people) in literature; Nigeria - in literature

The Choctaw by John P. Bowes 

Choctaw Indians - history; Choctaw Indians

The Comanche by T. Jensen Lacey 

Comanche Indians - social life and customs; Comanche Indians - history  

Iran by Heather Lehr Wagner 

Iran

The Iroquois by Bruce E. Johansen 

Iroquois Indians

Sports in America: 1900-1919 by James Buckley Jr. & John Walters *

Sports - United States history - 20th century ; Sports history; Sports

Sports in America: 1920-1939 by James Buckley Jr. & John Walters *

Sports - United States history - 20th century ; Sports history; Sports

Sports in America: 1980-1989 by Michael Tietelbaum *

Sports - United States history - 20th century ; Sports history; Sports 

Sports in America: 1990-1999 by Bob Woods *

Sports - United States history - 20th century ; Sports history; Sports

Sports in America: 200-2009 by Jim Gigliotti & John Walters * 

Sports - United States history - 20th century ; Sports history; Sports

Toni Morrison's Beloved: Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations

Morrison, Toni, Beloved, Historical fiction - American 

Winning Basketball for Girls by Faye Young Miller * 

Basketball for girls; Basketball for women; Basketball

Winning Soccer for Girls by Deborah W. Crisfield *

Soccer for women; soccer; girls

Winning Softball for Girls by  Mark Gola  * 

Softball for women; softball

Winning Track and Field for Girls by Ed Housewright * 

Track and field for women; girls; track and field

Winning Volleyball for Girls by Deborah Crisfield & John Monteleone *

Volleyball for women; Volleyball

Women in Islam  by Diane Andrews Henningfield 

Muslim women; Women -religious aspects; Muslim women - conduct

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations

Hurston, Zora Neale; African American women in literature

** For titles marked with "*" at the end, you can find more information by clicking here.**

New Periodicals

Dance Teacher, November 2010

-Fall Costume Preview

-Maurice Bejart: Ballet's Rock Star Choreographer 

-Chan Hon Goh

-Stamina Building Exercises




Newsweek, November 15, 2010
-Red State Revival 
-Haiti
-Thriving Industries in the Recession  


New Display: Sports and Athletes

Our two new sports series, Winning for Girls and Sports in America, are now on display in the library. Stop by and browse them all or check one out to bring home.

Expanded Fiction Display

Hello ladies.

We have expanded our Fabulous Fontbonne Fiction display to include more great fiction titles. 

• Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
• Change of Heart by Jodi Piccoult
• Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
• Pop Princess by Rachel Cohn
• Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper
• Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
• Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg

Coming Soon  

New popular fiction titles by some of your favorite authors including Sarah Dessen, Laurie Halse Anderson and Suzanne Collins.  

Fabulous Fontbonne Fiction

           “Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more 

             important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” - Jean Rhys

 Hello ladies!

We have a new display up in the library made up of  great fiction. The books included provide great ways to get lost in a book and forget reality for awhile and range in topic from time travel to high school basketball. The titles included in our display are:

Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos 

Topics: Illegal Immigrants, 9/11, High School, Bangladeshi Americans

City of Thieves by David Benioff 

Topics: Reminiscing in Old Age, Saint Petersburg Siege, 1940's Russia, Families

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Topics: Autism, Mystery, Savants

Dreamland by Sarah Dessen 

Topics: Dating Violence, Runaways, Sisters

The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank 
Topics: Social Customs, Searching for Love, Life Choices, Contemporary Woman

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Topics: Boarding School, 19th century England, Coming of Age

The Hoopster by Alan Lawerence Sitomer 

Topics: Basketball, High School, Racial Tension

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Topics: Teen Mothers, Life Changes, Poverty

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards 

Topics: Adoption, Down Syndrome, Separated Twins

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 

Topics: Nannies, Wealthy Lifestyles, College Students, Social Climbing

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See 

Topics: Female Friendship, Chinese Women, Footbinding, Reminiscing in old age 

Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty 
Topics: Kidnapping, White Slavery, 17th Century 

This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen 

Topics: Teenage Girls, Mothers and Daughters, Musicians, Reluctant Love


The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 
Topics: Time Travel, Fantasy Fiction, Art Students


More information on all of these titles can be found in the  Fontbonne Library Catalog or you can stop by the library and browse the display.


Happy Reading, 
Miss Kenny


 

Genocide

In order to help you prepare for the upcoming lecture from a Sudanese survivor of genocide, we have put together a display of books relating to genocide in the Fontbonne library.

Our display includes:

• Darfur: a short history of a long war by Julie Flint and Axel de Waal 
• Darfur: the ambiguous genocide by Gerard Prunier 
• Darfur Diaries: stories of survival by Jen Marlowe 
• Encyclopedia of Genocide edited by Israel Charny
• Holocausts in Other Lands by Stuart Kallen
• A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah 
• Machete Season: the killers in Rwanda speak by Jean Hatzfield
• They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky by Alephonsion, Benson and Benjamin Deng
• The Rwanda Genocide by Christina Fisanick 
• Walking on Fire: Haitian women's stories of survival and resistance by Beverly Bell 
• We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: stories from Rwanda by Phillip Gourevitch 

Please stop by the library to browse our display or check one of these books out!
 

Happy Reading,
Miss Kenny

Banned Books Week

Hello ladies!

Welcome to Banned Books Week. This celebration of the freedom to read and the First Amendment runs from September 25 - October 2, 2010 (the last week of September every annually). Intellectual freedom, or the freedom to express ideas and access information and ideas regardless of if they are considered unpopular, lays the foundation for Banned Books Week.

Books that have been challenged or banned are featured during Banned Books Week. These books have been challenged for a wide variety of reasons ranging from portrayal of families to use of profanity. You may be surprised to read how many challenged or banned books you have already read on the American Library Association's list of  Banned or Challenged Classics.

If you are interested in learning more about Banned Books Week visit the American Library Association's Banned Books Week Site or Banned-Books.com.

In celebration of this week we have put a display of banned books in the library.  This display includes a mixture of classics you have read in class and popular fiction. All of these books have been included on the American Library Association's  lists of the most frequently banned and challenged books for the past three years.

Our display titles include:  

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver   
• Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kinsolver
• Beloved by Toni Morrison  
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison  
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier 
• The Giver by Lois Lowry 
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling 
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold   
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult  
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving   
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
• The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
• Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west by Gregory Maguire

Enjoy Banned Books Week!

Happy (free) Reading,
Miss Kenny

Hispanic Heritage Month

Hello ladies!

September 15 - October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month

Curious about this celebration? Here are some quick facts:

• Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the culture and traditions of those who trace their roots to Mexico, Spain and the Spanish speaking countries of Central America, South America and the Caribbean
• Hispanic Heritage Month has been celebrated since 1988
• September 15 marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month because it is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American Countries including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua

To honor this celebration we have put up a display in the library which includes:

• Fiction by Hispanic Authors
• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• La Casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
• The Floating Borderlands: twenty-five years of U.S. Hispanic Literature edited by Lauro Flores
• Herencia: the anthology of Hispanic literature in the United States edited by Nicolas Kanellos
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Yo! by Julia Alvarez
• Poetry by Hispanic Writers
• Antonio Machado: Selected Poems translated by Alan S. Trueblood
• Cool Salsa: bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States edited by Lori M. Carlson
• Daughters of the Fifth Sun: a collection of Latina fiction and poetry edited by Bryce Milligan
• Paper Dance: 55 Latino poets edited by Victor Hernandez Cruz
• Red Hot Salsa: bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States edited by Lori M. Carlson
• Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda edited by Ben Belitt
• Books about Hispanic Artists and Authors
• Contemporary American Success Stories: famous people of Hispanic heritage by Barbara J. Marvis
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Susan Muaddi Darraj
• Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment by Alfonso E. Perez and Eleanor A. Sayre
• Jose Marti by Jon Sterngrass
• Salvador Dali, 1904 - 1989

Please stop by and check out one of these great books!



Happy Reading,
Miss Kenny