Luria Library

In coordination with Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read, Luria Library is pleased to announce that Burn This Bookwill be available as the October eBook of the Month - free to all readers.

Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book explores the meaning of censorship, and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves. Contributors including Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, David Grossman, Nadine Gordimer and other literary heavyweights, discuss the importance of writing from various views, both political and social. They illustrate the need for freedom of speech and human rights, and they emphasize the target writers become in a tyranny.

With the new semester, new titles have arrived in the library and are ready for checkout. Here are a few highlights from our New Books Shelf:

See the complete list on LibraryThing, an offsite service providing a visual representation of our titles.

If you'd like to checkout any of the titles, please come by the library or search our catalog to check availability.

Santa Barbara is renowned for the wide variety of plants which can be grown here.

On display now in the library are just a few of our books on gardening, landscape design, and environmental horticulture. These beautiful books might inspire you to find out a bit more about our Environmental Horticulture program at SBCC. Check our catalog for more books on topics you might want to explore and enjoy on your own.

The library also discovered some free eBooks on some other "green" subject matter:

101 Ways To Living Greener
Beginners Guide To Organic Gardening
Beginners Guide To Worm Farming
Hypermiling: Make Your Car Go Further with Less Gas

"Check them out" today!