Library Reception

Think Green Display

In honor of the beauty of nature which we are reminded of each Spring season, the library has a Think Green collection on display.

This display includes titles on Green Careers, Conservation and Environmentalism and Plant Life.

Please feel free to stop by the library to browse through the display!

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

150 Women who Shake The World

Hello ladies.

Newsweek  magazine has compiled a list of 150 Women Who Shake the World.  You can explore this list of extraordinary women further here. We also have a copy of this issue of Newsweek in the library if you would like to browse through it or check it out to take home.


The list includes women whose names we are all familiar with, like Diane von Furstenburg, Hilary Clinton, Madeline Albright, and Michele Obama as well as a number of notable women you have probably never heard mentioned but who have done great things. For example: 

ChouChou Namegabe (Congo)
Self-taught Congolese radio journalist who raises awareness of women's issues for hundreds of thousands of women and children.








Sussan Tahmasebi (Iran)
 Iranian women's and civil rights activist and co-founder of the One Million Signatures Campaign.



Pilju Kim Joo (North Korea)

North Korean agricultural expert who brings the gift of food to one of the world's hungriest regions.

Happy Reading,
Miss Kenny

International Women's Day Video

Hello ladies.

As we celebrate Women's History Month, I will be sharing some videos, facts and other items I come across. Here is a video put together in celebration International Women's Day (March 8, 2011) that highlights some of the everyday things we do that would not be possible without working women. Enjoy!



Happy Viewing,
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 

Author Guide: Amy Tan

Clickable Links
Amy Tan: Writing from Personal Experience
A Conversation with Amy Tan on The Joy Luck Club
Academy of Achievement: Amy Tan
Amy Tan's Official Site
NY Times Amy Tan Feature Page
EB Online
Bloom's Literary Reference

Author Guide: Betty Smith

Clickable Links

NJIT’s Betty Smith Page 

Bloom's Literary Reference  (see either Miss Kenny or Mrs.Lathrop for a username and password)

The Metamorphosis

Hello ladies.

I'm sure that many of you have either heard of or read Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.  Whether you enjoyed this title or not, sometimes it can be interesting to see the story in a different format or from another point of view.

For those of you who are fans of graphic novels (or Kafka) we have a graphic novel adaptation of The Metamorphosis here in the library, created by Peter Kuper. To get a preview of this title, you can watch a video of the first chapter here.

Review
"Kuper translates this story masterfully with his scratchboard illustrations. The text is more spare, but the visuals are so strongly rendered that little of the original is changed or omitted. Though the story remains set in Kafka's time, Kuper has added some present-day touches, such as fast-food restaurants, that do not detract from the tale. He has used the medium creatively, employing unusual perspectives and panel shapes, and text that even crawls on the walls and ceilings, as Gregor does. The roach has an insect body but human facial expressions. Once he is pelted with the apple, readers can watch his rapid decline, as his body becomes more wizened and his face more gaunt. This is a faithful rendition rather than an illustrated abridgment." 

-School Library Journal 

Feel free to stop by and browse through The Metamorphosis or check it out to take home.

Happy Reading,
Miss Kenny

What's New In The Library: 19 January - 21 January, 2011

Hello ladies.

I hope you all had a successful exam week. Here’s a look at what we’ve added to the library’s collection this week:

Books 

American Appetities by Joyce Carol Oates

• Family Life – Fiction
• Family – New York State – Fiction

The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter: two plays by Harold Pinter

• American Drama

City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende

• Adventure and Adventurers – Fiction
• Supernatural – Fiction
• Indians of South America – Amazon River Valley – Fiction

Dancing after Hours: stories by Andre Dubus

• Life – Fiction
• Short Stories

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

• Children of Divorced Parents – Fiction
• Parent and Child – Fiction 

A Fanatic Heart: selected stories of Edna O’Brien by Edna O’Brien

• Ireland – Fiction
• Short Stories

Lantern Slides: stories by Edna O’Brien

• Ireland – Fiction
• Short Stories
• Women – Fiction

Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler

• Brothers and Sisters – Fiction
• Family – Fiction
• Grief – Fiction

Silences by Tillie Olsen

• Authorship – addresses, essays, lectures
• Women Authors – addresses, essays, lectures

One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty

• Authors, American – 20^th century
• Mississippi – social life and customs
• Welty, Eudora 1909

Periodicals 

Black Enterprise: December 2010

Tweeting for Dollars: lessons from MTV Twitter jockey Gabi Gregg

Be Next: young leaders charge up for the energy sector

Natural Health: February 2011

Never Get Sick: 10 secrets of super healthy people

The New Comfort Foods: less fat, just as delicious

Beat the #1 Disease That Kills Women

Get Emotional! : why avoiding your feelings can wreck your health

Yoga Cures: targeted poses

Newsweek:  January 24, 2011

American Assassins Throughout History: what makes these time bombs explode
What the Arizona Shooter Shares with James Earl Ray
Richard Holbrooke’s Tragic Last Days
Can We Be Friends with China?
U.S. Catholic: February 2011
Special Issue on Catholic Education
Why Aren't Hispanic Kids in Catholic Schools?
Let’s Get a Big Bang out of Science

What's New In The Library :10 January 2011 - 14 January 2011

Hello ladies.

Here's a look at what's new in the library this week:

Books

Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago 

Puerto Rican Women; Brooklyn, NY; Childhood and Youth

The Archaeology of Greece: an introduction by William Biers

Greece; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiques

Art in the Hellenistic Age by J.J. Pollitt

Art; Hellenistic

Early Christian and Byzantine Art by John Lowden  

Art; Early Christian; Christian Symbolism; Byzantine Art

Heaven on Earth: art and the church in Byzantium edited by Linda Safran 

Orthodox Eastern Church; Art; Byzantine

Snyder's Medieval Art by Henry Luttikhuizen and Dorothy Verkerk

Art, Medieval; History

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 

Poor families; Girls-Fiction; Domestic Fiction; Brooklyn, NY

Periodicals 

The Atlantic: January/February, 2011

Dance Teacher: January, 2011

InStyle: February, 2011

National Catholic Reporter: January 7, 2011

Newsweek: December 27 & January 3, 2011

What's New In The Library :3 January 2011 - 7 January 2011

Hello ladies.

Here's a look at what's new in the library this week:

Displays
International Fiction
International Nonfiction
(See more information on these displays by clicking here)


Periodicals
America: the national Catholic weekly, December 20-27, 2010
America: the national Catholic weekly, January 3, 10 & 17, 2010 
Dance Magazine, January 2011
Dance Spirit Magazine, January 2011
The National Catholic Reporter, December 24, 2010 
Newsweek, January 10 & 17, 2011
Principal Leadership, December 2010 
Smithsonian, January 2011
Teen Vogue, February 2011


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