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Please enjoy some of the new books and the services the Library is offering this month.
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What you can find this month!

NON-FICTION FICTION RESOURCE
BLOG POST DVDs SPOTLIGHT

NON-FICTION

Cook Korean!: a comic book with recipes

Ha, Robin

Rolling blackouts: dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq

Glidden, Sarah

Absolutely on music: conversations

Ozawa, Seiji

Culture

Eagleton, Terry

Atari to Zelda: Japan's videogames in global contexts

Consalvo, Mia

Freedom now!: forgotten photographs of the civil rights struggle

Berger, Martin A.

For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem

Shange, Ntozake

Black against empire: the history and politics of the Black Panther Party

Bloom, Joshua

A saga of the New South: race, law, and public debt in Virginia

Tarter, Brent

Tales of the Narts : ancient myths and legends of the Ossetians

Inside the investments of Warren Buffett: twenty cases

Lu, Yefei

Capitalism: Competition, conflict, crises

Shaikh, Anwar

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FICTION

Moonglow: a novel

Chabon, Michael

Swing time

Smith, Zadie

Night at the Fiestas: stories

Quade, Kirstin Valdez

Mischling: a novel

Konar, Affinity

IQ

Ide, Joe

The spy: a novel

Coelho, Paulo

The nix: a novel

Hill, Nathan

Superman: American alien

Landis, Max

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DVDs

The New World

Embrace of the serpent

Aferim!

Theeb

AUTHOR

Captain Fantastic

The Neon Demon

Swiss Army Man

Weiner

The Hateful Eight

Deadpool

Under the Sun

Akira Kurosawa's dreams

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Blog Post

Ask A Librarian: Call, Text, And Chat Your Question

Librarian, Matt Steele, discusses ways for students, faculty, and staff to Ask A Librarian a question> without even coming into the Library. Find out how!

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LIBRARY RESOURCE

Instruction Services | Book-A-Librarian

Do you have a research/information literacy component as part of your class or a class assignment?

The Library can help out with A Library Instruction Session! Classes can include ...

  • Developing Research Questions
  • Defining Search Strategies
  • Using Library Resources (such as databases)
  • Determining Credibility and Evaluating Sources

For more information on please see our Instruction Services page or talk to Reference and Instruction Services Librarian, Matt Steele.

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COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT

Hollywood and the Film Industry

American Epics and Hollywood

Benton, Thomas Hart

Hollywood said no!: orphaned film scripts, bastard scenes, and abandoned darlings from the creators of Mr. Show

Odenkirk, Bob

Chinese in Hollywood

Cho, Jenny

The archaeology of Hollywood: traces of the golden age

Bahn, Paul G.

The art of immersion: how the digital generation is remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the way we tell stories

Rose, Frank

A history of American movies: a film-by-film look at the art, craft, and business of cinema

Monaco, Paul

A short history of film

Dixon, Wheeler W.

Do the movies have a future?

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