Community Author

The library is pleased to announce that it has a signed copy of Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell's award-winning book The Company of Heaven

New Materials

This is a small sample of the new materials on display in the Periodicals Room in the library.

Baseball, The Tenth Inning (1992-2009). A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novack

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben Winters. Audio Book

Zagat Guide to Boston Restaurants 2010/2011

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart

Half a Life, a memoir by Darin Strauss. The author killed a classmate in a car accident, this book explores how that event impacts his life.

Dreams in a Time of War, a memoir by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. A story of growing up in Kenya.

Adam and Eve, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund. A thriller/romance by the author of Ahab's Wife.

Made for Goodness by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu. A book of hope by the Archbishop and his daughter.

Tons of New Books

Many new books have been made available for check out in the library this week.
Please check all of the display areas for new selections.

Some of the new non-fiction titles:
Diet for a Hot Planet: the climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it by Anna Lappe

You're the Umpire: 139 scenarios to test your baseball knowledge by Wayne Stewart

Superbug: the fatal menace of MRSA by Maryn McKenna

Why I am a Buddhist; no-nonsense Buddhism with red meat and whiskey by Stephen Asma

True Prep: its a whole new old world by Lisa Birnbach (the author of The Official Preppy Handbook)

Election News

Click here to see candidates' responses to the Massachusetts Library Association survey. Keep in mind that the Commonwealth funds public libraries and also provides several of the electronic resources we use here at Brooks School. Your vote counts on Tuesday!

Kindles available!

The Library has 2 Kindles that are currently ready to circulate (the third should be up and running soon). To see what has been loaded on them, please look them up in the library catalog available on the info page and on the Brooks School website. You can search "Kindle" and then select "details" and then "catalog record" to see what is on each one.

These Kindles will circulate and, like all library materials, borrowers will be responsible for replacement fee should they become damaged or misplaced. They will circulate for 3 weeks with no renewals and can be checked out only through a conversation with either Ms. Massoth or Mrs. McCarthy.

We welcome suggestions of titles to be added to the Kindles and welcome them in our email or here on the blog. We hope that there is a lot of interest and circulation of our exciting new acquisitions.

New Fiction

The following novels are on display in the periodicals room of the library.

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
An Expensive Education by Nick McDonell

Books for Dummies

The library has several new titles from the "For Dummies" series.

NASCAR for Dummies
Twitter for Dummies
Organic Gardening for Dummies
Canning and Preserving for Dummies
Macrobiotics for Dummies

We don't think that any of our patrons are dummies, but we do hope you come to the library to check out these new books!

Columbus/Parents Weekend

The library will have special hours this weekend:
Saturday 7.30am-noon
Sunday closed
Monday 5pm-10pm

Stop by on Friday or Saturday morning to come get a movie, novel or cookbook for the long weekend! The feature films are on the upper level, the childrens books and movies are on the lower level. You can reach our catalog on the info page, search "cookery" for a list of our cookbooks, or DVD for a list of movies.

Enjoy!

Nobel Prize for Literature 2010

Come to the library to enjoy the work of this year's Nobel prize winning author, Mario Vargas Llosa. Check the circulation desk for our display.

Here is a link to the story at NPR

New AV for Children

Available in the Children's Area on the Lower Level

DVD: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Audio: Winnie the Pooh by Milne
and Return to the Hundred Acre Wood by Benedictus

New Feature Films on DVD

The Hurt Locker
Julie and Julia
500 Days of Summer
Star Trek
Where the Wild Things Are
Michael Jackson's This is It
Angels and Demons
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
My Sister's Keeper
Crazy Heart

September New Books

On the Blue Shore of Silence: poems of the sea by Pablo Neruda(in English and Spanish)

You Don't Even Know Me: stories and poems about boys by Sharon G. Lake

Robotics edited by Kenneth Partridge.

Tinkers by Paul Harding (this book, by Georgetown MA author, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize)

The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup

These books are all on display in the periodicals room on the main floor of the library.

September New Books

The Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir is a biography of Anne Boleyn.

new novels:

Burning Bright by Ron Rash

Under the Dome by Stephen King

An Insignificant Family by Da Ngan

All of these new books are currently on display in the Periodicals Room.

New Patrons

Three staff members have gotten new library cards in the past 2 weeks; we are thrilled to have more patrons using our great collection. If you work for Brooks School and have never checked anything out before, please stop by on your lunch break or after work. You might find a movie, cookbook or novel that you would like to check out!

Recommended Reading

Looking for a good book?

Susan Haile recommends The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble

Ruth Weiner recommends The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
and The Secret History by Donna Tartt

These books are all available to be checked out of the Luce Library.

New Cooking Magazines

This year we have subscribed to Cook's Illustrated and Bon Appetit. These two new culinary magazines join long-time favorite Vegetarian Times in the Periodicals Room on the main floor of the library.

Please come and tell us what you think of our new magazines.

MVLC Presentation

Reminder: Next week on Wednesday, May 26th at 1pm Stevens Librarian Irja Finn will be joining us to present information about using the wonderful local public library this summer. We promise that you will be impressed by all that your public library has to offer you. Please join us in the Science Forum!

Book Suggestions

Librarians from area Independent Schools have put together a list of recommended books.

Please visit The Book Network below for vacation reading suggestions:

http://gbcla.edublogs.org/

Lost and Found

The Lost and Found in the entry lobby of the library is full of treasures.
Are you missing some clothes or books? Please come and check at the library; at the end of the year it all gets recycled.

Save the Date, MVLC presentation

On Wednesday May 26th from 1-2pm the library will be presenting information about how to use this region's wonderful public library system. The MVLC (Merrimack Valley Library Consortium) serves 35 Massachusetts communities and provides access to over 5 million items. We will demonstrate how to search the catalog, how to create and save a list of desired materials, how to request the materials, how to renew materials, and answer any questions you might have about using this amazing resource.

Here is a link to more information about the MVLC
http://www.mvlc.org/about.html

Luce Library closes for the summer, but your local public library is open year-round!
This presentation is for faculty, staff, students and any other community members.

New Fiction

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps; Peter Straub (editor)

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now; Peter Straub (editor)

Best Friends Forever, by Jennifer Weiner

Collected Stories, by Raymond Carver

Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving

The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks

The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

Noah’s Compass, by Anne Tyler

The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood

New Non-fiction

Almost Meatless: Recipes that are Better for Your Health and the Planet, by Joy Manning

Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It, by Susan Wels

Guide to the National Parks of the United States, 6th ed.

Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future, by Tim Flannery

Soccernomics; Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey – and even Iraq – Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport, by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty, by G.J. Meyer

World Volunteers: The World Guide to Humanitarianism and Development Volunteering; Fabio Ausenda and Erin McCloskey (editors), 4th ed.

Local Author Wins Pulitzer

Paul Harding, of Georgetown MA, won the Pulitzer Prize for best fiction for his novel, "Tinker"

When local author Paul Harding of Georgetown logged onto the Pulitzer Prize website this week to find out who had won this year’s prize for fiction, he was in for a surprise. Against great odds, his first novel, Tinkers, was the winner. The unpublished manuscript had sat in a drawer for three years before word of mouth finally got Tinkers into the hands of the tiny Bellevue Literary Press, which became the first small publisher to be associated with a Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in nearly 30 years.
Tinkers is the moving story of an old man facing the end of his life. “I worked on it for five to six years and actually tried to have it published, but couldn’t find an agent or a publisher,” Harding told the Associated Press. “From the moment I saw one copy in between two covers, it was all gravy from there.” The Pulitzer Prize citation calls Tinkers “a powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.”
The Luce Library is thrilled to share the news of this local author’s success; a copy of Tinkers is on order.

Blu-Ray

The library now has Blu-Ray discs available. They are shelved just as traditional VHS and DVD features (that means, documentaries will be in their Dewey location, and feature films will be in the browsing collection on the upper level) but the Blu-Ray are marked with a special sticker. Also, if you are looking for a Blu-Ray disc you can use "blu ray" as a search term in the library's online catalog. This will produce a search results list of Blu-Ray discs.

Currently we own

The National Parks; a film by Ken Burns

Persepolis

These are available on both DVD and Blu-Ray.
The more our Blu-Ray discs circulate, the more we will purchase!

Easter Holiday Hours

The Library will close on Saturday April 3 at noon and open on Monday April 5 at 2pm.

Have a Happy Easter.

Audio Books for Younger Listeners

Both of these books are recommended for ages 12+

The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade
(secret agent in Victorian London)

Curse of the Blue Tattoo by L.A.Meyer
(1803 in Boston, a schoolgirl roams the city looking for adventure)

These books will be shelved with the rest of the audio collection on the upper level of the library.

Audio Books

Books on CD now available on the Upper Floor in the fiction area.

Death of a Witch by M.C. Beaton
Scotland's most laconic and low-tech policeman investigates the death of a woman with seemingly unearthly powers.

Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Stephanie finds herself in over her head with a caper involving thrice stolen money, a racehorse, a care chase and a bad case of hives.

The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris
the sequel to Chocolat.


Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
6 of Sedaris's amusing Christmas stories.

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
from the author of Sex and the City.

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
8 stories exploring the secrets and complexities lying at the heart of family life and relationships.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition.

Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
Simultaneous love letters and hate mail make Connie Rosolli suspicious that her secret admirer and stalker are the same person.

Testimony by Anita Shreve
a sex scandal at a New England boarding school

New Electronic Resource

A to Z World Culture is a new addition to our collection of electronic resources. It is a wonderful place to get information about countries you plan to visit, or that you saw win medals in the recent Olympic games! Please visit the library's webpage to explore this and other subscription databases.

international books

Fiction:
Censoring: an Iranian love story – Shahriyar Mandanipour
Wonderful Word –Javier Calvo

Non-fiction:
The Gecko’s Foot : bio-inspiration: engineering new materials from nature – Peter Forbes
Green Volunteers: the world guide to voluntary work in nature conservation – edited by Fabio Ausendal
Day of the Dead in the USA: the migration and transformation of a cultural phenomenon – Regina Marchi
Naming Infinity: a true story of religious mysticism and mathematical creativity – Loren Graham & Jean Michael Kantor

Spanish Language Materials

We have a new Spanish book Babymouse: rock star that has been added to the browsing collection of paperbacks on the upper level of the library.

If you are interested in seeing what else the library has in Spanish go to the library catalog (you can find this at library.brooksschool.org) and select"power search." If you choose Spanish from the Language drop down menu and then clicking on "search" you will see a listing of over 400 items. You can further refine your list by selecting an option (like DVD or book) from the "Type" drop-down list.

Valentine's Day

Now is a good time to come to the library to prepare for Valentine's Day.
We have restaurant guides, cookbooks, books of poetry and romantic movies.
A small display of holiday themed materials is on the circulation desk.

Sustainability books and more

SCIENCE & SUSTAINABILITY:

Food Inc. DVD – Magnolia Pictures
Climate Change – Adrienne Wilmoth
Deep Economy: the wealth of communities and the durable future – Bill McKibben
Ecological Intelligence: how knowing the hidden impact of what we buy can change everything – Daniel Coleman
Blessed Unrest: how the largest social movement in history is restoring grace, justice, and beauty to the world – Paul Hawken
Cooking Green: reducing your carbon footprint in the kitchen – Kate Heyhoe
Climate Change: a reference handbook – David Downie

OTHER TITLES OF INTEREST:
The Deadly Dinner Party & Other Medical Detective Stories – Jonathan Edlow
Lost in the Meritocracy: the undereducation of an overachiever – Walter Kirn
Columbine – David Cullen
New Global Student – Maya Frost
A Constitution of Many Minds: why the founding document doesn’t mean what it meant before – Cass Sunstein
Tears of the Lotus: accounts of Tibetan Resistance to the Chinese invasion 1950-1962 – Roger McCarthy
Girls’ Guide to Rocking: how to start a band, book gigis, and get rolling to rock stardom – Jessica Hopper

New Social Sciences Books

The G.I.Bill; A new deal for veterans by Altschuler and Blumin. Oxford UP:2009

How the Beatles destroyed Rock 'n' Roll; An alternative history of American popular music by Wald. Oxford UP: 2009

Deep Economy; the wealth of communities and the durable future by McKibben. Holt: 2008

Orthodox Jews in America by Gurock. Indiana UP: 2009

Calvin by Gordon. Yale UP: 2009

Display

Please stop by the library to see the display of the works of JD Salinger, 1919-2010.

Luce Library Has a Blog!

Please check here to find information about new library materials.