New Books September 2013
AV 333.72 CUL | Culture of Conservation | Iowa State University Extension | |
AV 371.302 MEM | Memory Skills DVD | GPN | |
AV 373.238 TES | Test Taking video | Educational Video Network | |
FIC CAM | Grave Gourmet | Campion, Alexander | |
FIC EVA | Four To Score | Evanovich, Janet | |
FIC EVA | Hard Eight | Evanovich, Janet | |
FIC EVA | High Five | Evanovich, Janet | |
FIC EVA | Hot Six | Evanovich, Janet | |
FIC EVA | Seven Up | Evanovich, Janet | |
FIC GOL | Red Sky Blue Moon | Golden, Bruce | |
FIC HAR | Eventide | Haruf, Kent | |
FIC WAT | Vidalia in Paris | Watson, Sasha | |
025.50941 MAR | Evaluating the Impact of Your Library | Markless, Sharon | |
152.41 ILL | Why Love Hurts | Illouz, Eva | |
153.42 KAH | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Kahneman, Daniel | |
155.7 BOE | Moral Origins | Boehm, Christopher | |
155.7 STE | Evolved Apprentice | Sterelny, Kim | |
297.09 VAN | Puritan Islam | Vann, Barry | |
305.697 FIS | Are Muslims Distinctive? | Fish, M. | |
322.3 ROT | Power, Inc. | Rothkopf, David | |
324.25695 ROY | Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza | Roy, Sara | |
328.73 OXF | Oxford Handbook of the American Congress | Schickler, Eric | |
330.9 FRI | Engineering the Financial Crisis | Friedman, Jeffrey | |
331.25 SCH | Predictable Surprise | Schieber, Sylvester | |
333.792 FER | Nuclear Energy | Ferguson, Charles | |
339.4 EDE | So Rich, So Poor | Edelman, Peter | |
362.10973 HIL | U.S. Health Policy and Politics | Hillstrom, Kevin | |
365.975 DRU | Plague of Prisons | Drucker, Ernest | |
394.1 MIN | Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom | Mintz, Sidney | |
421.1 MER | Merriam Webster’s Guide to Punctuation and Style | Merriam Webster | |
423 MER | Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary | Merriam Webster | |
423.12 MER | Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Thesaurus | Merriam Webster | |
511.326 STE | In Pursuit of the Unknown | Stewart, Ian | |
530.09 SIM | Cultural History of Physics | Simonyi, Karoly | |
599.938 TAT | Masters of the Planet: the Search for Our Human Origins | Tattersall, Ian | |
610.73 CR | Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America: Summer Incidents and Accidents No. 6 | Krau, Stephen | |
612.8 DES | Brain | DeSalle, Rob | |
628.10977 COM | Water Quality Matters to Us All | Comito, Jacqueline | |
641.3 ALL | Primal Feast | Allport, Susan | |
709.45 NAG | Controversy of Renaissance Art | Nagel, Lexander | |
728.3 WRI | Passive Solar Architecure | Wright, David | |
728.92 PLO | David Plowden the American Barn | Plowden, David | |
729.29 SYM | Symphony: Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall | Gehry, Frank | |
730.9 CHE | Sculpture of the World | Cheney, Sheldon | |
730.92 ROW | Calder Sculpture | Rower, Alexander | |
730.924 DES | Auguste Rodin | Descharnes, Robert | |
731.832 FRA | Great American Carousel | Fraley, Tobin | |
736.4 FAU | Art of Whittling | Faurot, Walter | |
737.497309 FRA | Double Eagle | Frankel, Alison | |
738.1 DAV | Wheel Thrown Ceramics | Davis, Don | |
738.1 HAU | Complete Guide to Painting on Porcelain & Ceramic | Hauser, Priscilla | |
738.27 JAC | Haviland China 2 vols. | Jacobson, Gertrude | |
738.4 MCG | First Steps in Enameling | McGrath, Jinks | |
738.8 FER | Teapots Transformed | Ferrin, Leslie | |
739.2 ANC | Ancient Gold | Marazov, Ivan | |
739.27 YOU | Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques | Young, Anastasia | |
741.109 LEO | Cherished Objects | Leopold, Allison | |
741.2 MAR | Sketching School | Martin, Judy | |
741.24 MAR | Encyclopedia of Colored Pencil Techniques | Martin, Judy | |
741.5 GIA | Comics Crash Course | Giarrano, Vincent | |
741.5 HAR | Art of the Comic Book | Harvey, Robert | |
741.5 JON | Men of Tomorrow | Jones, Gerard | |
741.5 KAT | Julius Knipl | Katcher, Ben | |
741.5 RIC | Foundation Course Cartooning | Richardson, John | |
741.5973 NEW | New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons | Mankoff, Bob | |
745 WAL | Folk Art | Walton, Stewart | |
745.0973 LAU | Craft in America | Lauria, Jo | |
745.4095 WEL | Chinese Art | Welch, Patricia | |
745.5 HAL | Color Printer Idea Book | Hall, Kay | |
745.592 SIM | Making Furniture & Dollhouses | Simmons, Dennis | |
746.43 EPS | Nicky Epstein’s Knitting for Your Home | Epstein, Nicky | |
746.43 ISA | Classic Knits | Isager, Marianne | |
746.43 NOB | Style at Large | Noble, Carol | |
746.43 PHE | Simply Beautiful Sweaters for Men | Phelps, Linden | |
746.432 ALB | Knitter’s Stash | Albright, Barbara | |
746.432 FOR | For the Love of Knitting | Falick, Melanie | |
746.432 FRO | Jean Frost Jackets | Frost, Jean | |
746.432 HAM | 25 Gorgeous Sweaters | Ham, Catherine | |
746.432 KNI | Modular Knitting Made Easy | Knight-Bowman, Andra | |
746.432 MEL | Book 1: the Knit Stitch: the Knitting Experience | Melville, Sally | |
746.432 PRI | Kids’ Knits | Price, Lesley | |
781.1 HIG | Music Between Us | Higgins, Kathleen | |
791.4334 CAV | World History of Animation | Cavalier, Stephen | |
810.8032 GRE | Greenwich Village Reader | Sawyers, June | |
823.7 CHW | Jane Austen, Game Theorist | Chwe, Michael Suk-Young | |
914.04 WES | Western Europe | Lezard, Sian | |
914.1104 SCO | Scotland | Wilson, Neil | |
914.3712 PRA | Top 10 Prague | Dorling Kindersley | |
915.9304 THA | Thailand | LeBas, Tom | |
915.9804 IND | Indonesia | Ver Berkmoes, Ryan | |
917.304 UNI | United States on the Road | Dar, Alyse | |
917.5904 FRO | Frommer’s Florida | Bassman, Stephen | |
918.504633 FOD | Fodor’s Peru | Kealy, Kelly | |
918.504633 PER | Peru | Miranda, Carolina | |
918.6604 ECU | Ecuador & Galapagos | Lawrence, Rachel | |
919.84 BOL | Bolivia | Mutic, Anja | |
955 OXF | Oxford Handbook of Iranian History | Daryaee, Touraj | |
970.004 WIT | Infinity of Nations | Witgen, Michael |
Life of Pi Book Review
The Life of Pi is the story of Pi a boy while growing s up in India who develops an enduring love for God and animals. His father who owns a zoo is forced to close it and sell all the animals. Some of the animals are sold to other zoos in Canada and America. The remaining animals travel to a new home with the family to Canada. During a raging storm, at sea, the ship sinks and Pi, a boy of sixteen, is the only human survivor a long with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The rest of the story talks about Pi’s battles and thoughts while braving the challenges of a harsh, unforgiving environment and trying to convince Japanese officials his story is true. This is an adventurous, funny, and entertaining book. The Life of Pi was the winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Find this book at RiverShare Libraries: http://rivershare.polarislibrary.com/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=46.1033.0.0.1&type=Keyword&term=life%20of%20pi&by=TI&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=*&query=&page=0
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Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: Considered Science Fiction but has a religious theme:
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