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January Newsletter

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Please enjoy some of the new books and the services the Library is offering this month.

What you can find this month!

NON-FICTION FICTION RESOURCE: I-SHARE
BLOG POST DVDs SPOTLIGHT: TRUE CRIME

DVDs

Last days in Vietnam

Red army

Amy

Mad Max: Fury road

Ex machina

Dope

What we do in the shadows

Citizenfour

The jinx: the life and deaths of Robert Durst

NON-FICTION

Modern romance

Ansari, Aziz

Why I am a Salafi

Knight, Michael Muhammad

Thing explainer: complicated stuff in simple words

Munroe, Randall

Pacific: silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers

Winchester, Simon

Between the world and me

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Cosmonauts : birth of the space age

Millard, Doug

FICTION

The bazaar of bad dreams: stories

King, Stephen

Fortune smiles: stories

Johnson, Adam

Killing and dying: six stories

Tomine, Adrian

Mislaid: a novel

Zink, Nell

The mark and the void

Murray, Paul

The Sandman: overture

Gaiman, Neil

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LIBRARY RESOURCE

Order books with I-Share

If you caught Dean Howard's talk during Convocation, she discussed ordering materials from other libraries using I-Share. All you need to do is find the item you are looking for using the I-Share Catalog and then fill out the Library's Request a Book form. Any one of the 38 million items listed will take (1) business day to be delievered after it leaves the Library.

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BLOG POST

What’s Your Name, Man?

Hamilton the musical is the hottest ticket on Broadway in New York City! Based on the biography by author, Ron Chernow, "Hamilton" will come to Chicago in September of 2016. Read our blog post here, stop by the Prairie State College Library, check out a copy, and then read up on the most interesting Founder of the United States of America.

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COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT

True Crime

The wrong Carlos : anatomy of a wrongful execution

Liebman, James S.

Nameless indignities: unraveling the mystery of one of Illinois's most infamous crimes

Elmore, Susan

Innocent until interrogated: the true story of the Buddhist temple massacre and the Tucson four

Stuart, Gary L.

Honor killing: Race, rape, and Clarence Darrow's spectacular last case

Stannard, David E.

In cold blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences

Capote, Truman

Missoula: rape and the justice system in a college town

Krakauer, Jon

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