Tag: collections

October 8, 2010

October is … (Fill in the Blank) … Month!

October has many more things going for it than Halloween.  Did you know that October is: Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month Domestic Violence Awareness Month Gay and Lesbian History…

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July 19, 2010

Summer Reading for Kids

Do you have kids at home this summer looking for something to do?  How about taking home a book to read to them?   Reading books with your kids can be…

Categories books/Browsing Collection/Cannell/Fun

April 28, 2010

Streetwise Spanish & French @ Your Library

Cannell Reference PC 4971 .G55 2001 These reference books contain thousands of colloquial expressions (organized by practical categories) to help you understand and speak like a native speaker. Cannell Reference…

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April 17, 2009

New “Green” Books

Check out these titles on the New Books shelves: Early spring: an ecologist and her children wake to a warming world. Seidel, Amy. QC981.8.G56 S45 2009 Eco barons : the…

Categories books/Environment

February 7, 2009

“The World According to Monsanto” – New DVD

“Monsanto Company is the world’s leader in agricultural chemicals, seed and genetically modified crops, as well as being one of the most controversial companies in industrial history. “This film uses…

Categories DVDs/Environment/Health/Science

November 22, 2008

Get Animated! – “Animation Show of Shows” on DVD

“Since 1998, The Animation Show of Shows has selected the best in animated short films from the world’s most renowned animation festivals and presented them at the major animation studios…

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October 24, 2008

Talkin’ About Nonverbal Communication

Fine-tune your nonverbal intelligence, with What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People. “Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal…

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October 16, 2008

Fun look at physics

If you are anything like me, the mere mention of physics makes your brain hurt. That theory is too deep for me. Or so I thought until I looked at…

Categories Book Reviews/Science

May 23, 2008

Love Children’s Books?

We do! And we’ve ordered a bunch of new ones for the Renaissance Kids collection! Some of the library favorites are: Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen Flotsam by David Weisner…

Categories Book Reviews/books

May 8, 2008

A plethora of great new books

We’re getting lots of new books in these days thanks to additional monies from Instruction this year. A couple that caught my eye this week: Restless Skies, the Ultimate Weather…

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