New This Week: 25 October - 29 October

Hello ladies.

We have a number of new periodicals in the library this week. Stop by and check one out! Periodicals can be borrowed for one week at a time.

America: the national Catholic weekly October 25, 2010

-Eboo Patel on countering religious prejudice

-A Catholic Lobbyist


The Atlantic November 2010

-How the Web is Killing Truth 

-Brave Thinkers 2010

Dance Magazine November 2010 -Giving Thanks: remembering mentors
-Dancing Through Pain
-Lost and Found: teaching the art of character dance

National Catholic Reporter October 29, 2010
-Cultivating Unity: Rwandan sisters honored for courage, service, dedication to peace
-Urban Monk Works to See 'the Church We Dream of"

Newsweek October 25, 2010 

-10 Big Green Ideas, from Hamburgers to Lightbulbs
-25 Greenest Companies in the World

Newsweek November 1, 2010 

-Change is Coming...again
-The New Bin Laden
-Privacy is Dead: what you can learn about a person from an e-mail address 

Smithsonian November 2010 

-Bull Sessions: male elephants aren't the loners we thought 

-Little Bighorn: the Indian perspective

-Show Time: spotlight on the Apollo Theater

New This Week: 18 October - 22 October

Hello ladies.

We have a number of new additions to the library's collection this week. Please stop by and check one out.

Books

Cool Salsa: bilingual poems about growing up Latina in the United States edited by Lori M. Carlson 

Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life.(TitlePeek Summary)

Maya Civilization by Charles and Linda George 

Offers an introduction to the Maya civilization, explaining how archaeological finds have helped researchers learn more about the Mayan people, their culture, language, and way of life. (TitlePeek Summary) 

 

Medical Imaging by Harry Levine III

Examines the discovery and development of diagnostic imaging technologies, explaining how they work and exploring issues such as rising costs, ethical and legal concerns, and the controversy regarding the 2009 mammography guidelines.(TitlePeek Summary)

Periodicals

Dance Spirit, November 2010

-Lauren Froderman: So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Champ 

-Dishing with Glee's Dancemaker 

-Inside the Footloose audition 

InStyle November 2010

-Rachel McAdams

-Fall Fashion 

-Best Online Shopping

Teen Vogue, November 2010

-Lauren Conrad on her new reality show

-Cute looks for less 

-Fall Fashion

  

US Catholic November 2010

-Fair Trade 

-How to Care for the Dying

-Gifts that Matter

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


 

New In The Library This Week: 11 October - 15 October

Hello ladies!

We have a number of new periodicals in the library this week. Please stop by and check one out. You can borrow periodicals for one week at a time and renewing can be done easily by sending an email or a quick stop by the library.

Periodicals

America: the national Catholic weekly October 11, 2010

-Christians in the Middle East: dialogue, refugees and peace

-Problems Facing the Churches of the Middle East


Black Enterprise October 2010

-Marvelous Money Makeovers: how they did it and you can too

-Troubled Waters: the oil leak was stopped, but the taint remains for the Gulf's struggling black-owned businesses 

Dance Teacher October 2010

-Inspiring Confidence with Mandy Moore and Tyce Diorio
-Interview with Brian Friedman 
-Partnering Protocol

Natural Health November 2010

-Boosting Your Brain Power
-Like a Prayer: how a food writer got in touch with her spiritual side
-Mastering the Art of Gratitude 

Newsweek October 18, 2010
-The New Oil: should water be privatized?  

-An Offer They Wouldn't Refuse:  how one school district lured top principals to save its failing schools 

-The World's Their Oyster: young Chinese see only opportunity 

Principal Leadership October 2010

-Caught in the Middle: disciplining students with disabilities

-Supporting Students in Foster Care

-Data as a Social Justice Tool 

Displays  

We have a new display up in the library featuring books about genocide. The books included in this display relate to the upcoming lecture by a Sudanese survivor which is taking place on October 19th in the Fontbonne auditorium at 2:30pm.

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

New In The Library This Week: 4 October - 8 October, 2010

Hello ladies!

We have a number of new additions to the Fontbonne Library this week including new fiction, nonfiction and periodicals. Stop by and check one out!

Books 

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

"The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood." (TitlePeek Summary)

City of Thieves by David Beinoff

"Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad." (TitlePeek Summary) 

Daisy Miller by Henry James  

"Daisy Miller, an innocent yet bold American girl, runs afoul of the European code of conduct at the turn of the twentieth century." (TitlePeek Summary)
 

For One More Day  by Mitch Albom

"After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and daughter, and a suicide attempt, ex-baseball star Charley Benetto returns to his childhood home where he encounters the ghost of his mother, who tells him family secrets and guides him in making his life better." (TitlePeek Summary)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

"Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics." (TitlePeek Review) 

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 
Rated ****/5 stars by 23 Fontbonne students!  Here are some of their comments: 

"I loved this novel so much. Lily has an amazing and suspenseful journey throughout the entire book. It's hard to put the book down until the very end!!"

"the secret life of bees is an invigorating book about love, worlds trouble, and racism and its all from the point of view of a 13 year old girl!"

"I thought this book was beyond awesome!! I saw the movie and i loved how it stayed really close to the book!! Lets have a sequel!! :)"

Periodicals 

America: The National Catholic Weekly October 4, 2010

-Appalachia's Wounds: the injustice of mountaintop removal 
-Fall Books Review 
-Urban Renewal

Dance Magazine October 2010

-Boston Ballet's Next Chapter 
-Costumes: Glam & Goth 
-The Joffrey Ballet's Victoria Jaiani

Educational Leadership October 2010

-Cell Phones as Teaching Tools 
-Faces of Autism
-Interventions That Work 

Newsweek October 11, 2010

-Attack of the Droids: Google, Apple and the Battle for the Future of Computing 
-From Lockers to Lockup: Should we treat school bullies as criminals? 
-The Remaking of Martha Stewart

Rudolfo Anaya on Heritage, Inspiration and Bless Me Ultima

Hello ladies!

While we head into the second half of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15), I'd like to share another author interview with you.  I'm sure that many of you have read or heard of Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima (included in our Hispanic Heritage Month display). In this interview, Anaya talks about how his heritage influenced the writing of Bless Me Ultima and gives an explanation striking in similarity to the snippet below of Sandra Cisneros.






Happy Reading,
Miss Kenny

A quick followup:

Don't forget that it is still Banned Books Week!   Bless Me Ultima caused a great controversy when it was banned from Norwood, Colorado schools in 2005. The superintendent of schools confiscated two dozen copies of Anaya's novel and threw them into trash cans. Parents in the school district were then allowed to retrieve the books from the trash and destroy them. The superintendent later apologized for his actions and admitted that he had never even read Bless Me Ultima.