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Black History Month

February is also Black History Month!  

Stop by the Media Center and check out our display of books.
We have some wonderful selections!

• Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Beals
• Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson 
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• Nobody Turn Me Around by Charles C. Euchner
• The Black Notebooks by Toi Derricotte
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir by Rosemary L. Bray
• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
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Also, check out this website for more information: http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/.

New Year, New Books!

Stop by to check out more of our new books!  We have over 350 new books, and there is something for everyone!

New Books!

We're so excited about all of our new books; based on our circulation, our students are too!

Here's the PowerPoint we've been running in the Media Center and on channel 75!  It's only about 20% of our new books so stop up to see the rest! You can also check out the Shelfari side bar--that has some of our latest books as well!

Black History Month

It's Black History Month!  

Stop by and check out some great titles including:

 

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In the Media Center, we have many books recommended by staff members. You'll find them on the first bookcase on the left-hand side. Mrs. McDonald recommends The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang because it: "Chronicles a Hmong family's refugee from Vietnam, through and on to St. Paul. It is beautifully written and the author lives locally."

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The New York Times had this to say about Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books: "[The book] is a visceral and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in that country and its fallout on the day-to-day lives of Ms. Nafisi and her students. It is a thoughtful account of the novels they studied together and the unexpected parallels they drew between those books and their own experiences as women living under the unforgiving rule of the mullahs. And it is, finally, an eloquent brief on the transformative powers of fiction — on the refuge from ideology that art can offer to those living under tyranny, and art's affirmative and subversive faith in the voice of the individual. — Michiku Kakutani

The following YouTube is a nice trailer for the book too!

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I'll be trying to feature a "Book of the Week" each week. Hopefully I'll keep it up! Each book will be one from our media center.

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston is a thriller, but readers should beware that it's a bit gruesome in parts!

Here's what Stephen King had to say about it:
"The first chapter of The Hot Zone is one of the most horrifying things I've read in my whole life--and then it gets worse. That's what I keep marveling over: it keeps getting worse. What a remarkable piece of work."