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December Newsletter

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Please enjoy some of the new books and the services the Library is offering this month.
For a listing of all of the Library's Newsletters check out our Archives!

What you can find this month!

NON-FICTION FICTION RESOURCE
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NON-FICTION

Citizen: an American lyric

Rankine, Claudia

Uncle Sam's Policeman: the pursuit of fugitives across borders

Unterman, Katherine

I would die 4 u: why Prince became an icon

Touré

What are you laughing at?: a comprehensive guide to the comedic event

O'Shannon, Dan

The Qurʼan

Four testaments : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

The narrow road to the Deep North: and other travel sketches

Matsuo, Bashō

Blackacre

Youn, Monica

The influencing machine: Brooke Gladstone on the media

Gladstone, Brooke

The ten-cent plague: the great comic-book scare and how it changed America

Hajdu, David

The scientist's guide to writing

Heard, Stephen B.

The collected essays of Ralph Ellison

Ellison, Ralph

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FICTION

The mothers: a novel

Bennett, Brit

The motion of puppets

Donohue, Keith

Apartment in Athens

Wescott, Glenway

Black Panther: A nation under our feet

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

The Wonder: a novel

Donoghue, Emma

Shadow and act

Ellison, Ralph

Tokyo Ghost: The atomic garden

Remender, Rick

Bright, precious days

McInerney, Jay

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Ebooks

Moonglow

Chabon, Michael

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

Rowling, J.K.

Born to Run

Springsteen, Bruce

Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)

Chiang, Ted

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation

Sebba, Anne

A Life in Parts

Cranston, Bryan

Small Great Things

Picoult, Jodi

Time Travel

Gleick, James

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LIBRARY RESOURCE

CloudLibrary: Popular Fiction and Non-Fiction Ebooks

Use CloudLibrary to browse and check out the library's collection of popular fiction and non-fiction ebooks. You can then read any of these titles on your computer or supported mobile device. For more information on using CloudLibrary check out this instruction guide.

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Don’t Let Fake News Ruin Your Day

Critical analysis of news — of any information — has always been important. But now, it may be even more important. Check out some tips from Librarian, Carolyn Ciesla, on how to be information literate in a time of disinformation.

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COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT

Ancient History and Archaeology

The history of the ancient world: from the earliest accounts to the fall of Rome

Bauer, Susan Wise

Women's history and ancient history

A history of ancient Israel and Judah

Miller, James Maxwell

Man makes himself

Childe, V. Gordon

SPQR: a history of ancient Rome

Beard, Mary

Delphi: a history of the center of the ancient world

Scott, Michael

Lives in ruins : archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble

Meet me in Atlantis : my obsessive quest to find the sunken city

Adams, Mark

The great Paleolithic war: how science forged an understanding of America's ice age past

Meltzer, David J.

The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains

Laqueur, Thomas Walter

Bog bodies uncovered: solving Europe's ancient mystery

Aldhouse-Green, Miranda J.

The goddess and the bull

Balter, Michael

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