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This new book by J.R.R. Tolkien, the first in three decades, is available in the Luria Library collection. If you are interested in some of the new titles in the library, check out a great web 2.0 technology called LibraryThing. Browse recently added titles by their cover and see what other readers think of the book. The titles in LibraryThing are not all the new titles but it will give you an idea of what is available.
The theme of war has been pervasive in human creative endeavors, whether the emphasis is on valor, glory, horror, loss, military success or defeat. This theme is being explored through literature for Professor Celeste Barber's English 111 course and works her students will study, as well as books of painting, photography, history, journalism, fiction and poetry, are on display in the library now.
According to the American Library Association, "summer reading programs began in the 1890s" and are "geared for reading for the fun of it." With the semester rapidly coming to a close, many of us will head off for vacation or home or just to the beach. The National Resource Center has a list of colleges with summer reading programs. In fact, last year an article in the New York Times highlighted summer reading for first year college students.
I've got a bunch of books on my reading shelf, so I hope to get through a few. Top of the list is My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro and Queen's Shadow Queen of the Orcs. What book do you recommend to read this summer? Use the comment link below to share your ideas.
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The titles we own vary from traditional non-fiction such as Everything You Know About God is Wrong to classic literature such as Romeo and Juliet. We also have some current fiction such as The Children of Hurin.
Whatever your interest, we should have at least one title in our audio collection that would be of interest. Come by the library and browse the collection located near the Short Stories on the main floor of the library.The audio books check out just like any other book.
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.
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!
