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

The Thomas Tredway library will be open for the following hours during Thanksgiving Week:

Monday & Tuesday, Nov. 23rd & 24th: Open 7:30 am – Midnight (Regular Hours)

Wednesday, November 25th: Open 7:30 am – 5 pm (Brew closes at 4 pm)

Thursday – Saturday, Nov. 26th – 28th: Library is closed for the Thanksgiving holiday

Sunday, Nov. 29th: Open 6 pm – Midnight (Brew open 5 – 10 pm)

Regular hours resume on Monday, Nov. 30th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Silent Influences: Photographs by Hunt Harris, Fourth floor coffee shop in the Thomas Tredway Library

Monday, November 23, 4 p.m., Tredway Library

Hunt Harris will speak about his digital photographs and the infrared results. 

Moline native Hunt Harris acknowledges that family and career responsibilities took precedent over his childhood passion for photography, but decades later, with the advent of digital cameras and an empty nest, his interest in photography was rekindled. Especially intrigued to capture the essence of a scene, he has found that the image captured with a lens does not fully express what he visualized, so he enhances his shots on the computer with Photoshop. This exhibition includes some of his early use of a digital camera specifically converted to take black and white infrared pictures.  He notes, “After conversion this camera ‘sees’ a longer wavelength spectrum of light turning green leaves to white.  The result is a stunning contrast between architecture, water, blue sky and foliage not recorded by conventional digital or film cameras.” With a master’s degree in business from Stanford University, he is president and owner of Isabel Bloom L.L.C., and has headed many volunteer programs in the Quad Cities. The exhibition title is derived from a quotation from Dr. Conrad Bergendoff: “Who can estimate the silent influence a beautiful campus can make on the hundreds of young people who daily walk over it? This, too, is part of an education.”

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!

We seem to be eating everything orange this month. I brought this dish to the library potluck this week. Give it a try.

Squash-Cheese Casserole
(from Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook, 1977)

 2 medium-large butternut or acorn squash
1 heaping cup chopped onion
2-3 cloves crushed (I chopped it) garlic
1 heaping cup mixed green and red peppers, chopped
3 T. butter or olive oil for sauté (I used oil)
2 beaten eggs
1 tsp. salt
Black and red pepper to taste (I used black only)
1 cup buttermilk or yogurt (each one is  good)
½ crumbled feta cheese

 Cut the squash down the middle, lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds, and place it face-down on an oiled tray. Bake it at 375 about 35 minutes, or until soft. Cool until handle-able; scoop out and mash.

Sauté the onion and garlic, lightly-salted, in butter or oil. When the onion is translucent add the chopped peppers. Sauté until peppers are just under-done.

Beat eggs with buttermilk or yogurt. Crumble in the feat cheese. Combine everything and mix well. Add salt, black and red pepper or hot sauce to taste.

Spread into buttered casserole or baking pan. Top with sunflower seeds or nuts if desired. Bake at 375 covered, 25 minutes, uncovered, 10 minutes. Bon appétit!

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

They aren’t the kind of masks that you’d normally associate with Halloween, but they are bright, colorful, and worth seeing! Children from Longfellow Elementary, a school neighboring the Augustana campus, created the beautiful assortment of African masks now on display on second floor of the library.

And while you’re here, be sure to check out the ominous candy box and friendly ghost located near Circulation!

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

The library will be open extended hours during 10th and Finals week. Happy studying!
End of Term Hours

 Wythe and Quinn Anderson (sons of Special Collections Librarian Jamie Nelson) ransacked the campus on Saturday in their viking gear.  Jamie knit their viking hats especially for Homecoming, and they both happen to have blue and gold shirts.