Take home a book over Thanksgiving break!

We have some wonderful new books in the McNaughton collection — just in time for you to check out and take home to read over the Thanksgiving break!

Breathless by Dean Koontz

Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

True Blue by David Baldacci

The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw

Jaclyn the Ripper by Karl Alexander

What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Twisted Tree by Kent Meyers

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog by Lisa Scottoline

But Not For Long by Michelle Wildgen

Peter & Max by Bill Willingham

A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris

Love and Summer by William Trevor

More McNaughtons

Today we received two new books for the Leisure Collection:

I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Under the Dome by Stephen King

Check them out today!

New leisure books

Hi everyone!

I’m going to make an effort to post the titles of new books that we add to the McNaughton leisure reading collection. Each month we order about 20 new books, and they usually arrive a few at a time. It’s always a fun time for us here in the library — after all, what could be more exciting than new books! 

Yesterday we received six new titles. They are:

Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (winner of the Booker Prize)
Matchless: A Christmas Story by Gregory Maguire
Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle
Family Album by Penelope Lively
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell

Enjoy!

–Amanda

Stitches: a Memoir

I don’t read graphic novels. I just don’t. However, I came across this book and the premise was so intriguing — and it got such good reviews — that I had to take a look. I am SO glad I did. This book is STUNNING.

It is the true story of a man’s lonely, confusing, bizarre childhood in Detroit. His father was a doctor and gave him hundreds of experimental x-ray treatments, presumably to help his son’s sinus infections. They ended up causing cancer. His mother was a bitter, harsh woman incapable of showing love and nurture to her sons. She struggled with mental illness and physical problems of her own.

In this book, a picture truly tells a thousand words. Small’s depictions of his family and childhood memories are absolutely haunting. His drawings capture so much raw emotion. Seeing the dreary, traumatic world of a stark, unloving home through the eyes of Small’s child was immensely powerful and moving.

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

–Amanda

 

Banned Books Week

This week, September 28 through October 3, is the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week.  Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. During this week, libraries around the United States feature books that have been the targets of attempted bans and encourage users to celebrate their freedom to read.

The 10 most challenged books of 2008 include And Tango Makes Three, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, the Gossip Girl series, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and The Kite Runner.  If you want to see more about frequently challenged books, visit the ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom. Celebrate your freedom to read this week!

Lend your voice to the Leisure Collection

Have you been looking for something fun to read when you aren’t doing homework?  Maybe you’ve checked out the leisure collection across from the library elevators and didn’t find anything that really grabbed your attention.  If you have something that you are interested in, or even a specific genre that you would like us to see (like graphic novels), please submit a request.  Click on the “Leisure Reading Collection” button on the library’s home page and then fill out the form, or simply click the link below:

http://www.augustana.edu/library/Services/leisure.html