Thursday, January 20, 2011

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 – 20th 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

Friday, January 14, 2011

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
InStyleFebruary, 2011
National Catholic Reporter: January 7, 2011
Newsweek: December 27 & January 3, 2011

Friday, January 7, 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

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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