Looking for a Good Book?

This Thanksgiving take a little time to unwind with a good book. The Edith Hamilton Library has lots of new titles.   Stop by and check one out before taking off today!

Fiction

SC My YA My True Love Gave to Me : Twelve Holiday Stories.  If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Stephanie Perkins, Laini Tayler and Kiersten White), edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins.  Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone.  So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy.  You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love. (from the cover)

Ch FIC Dai Dai, Sijie. Ba er zha ke yu xiao cai feng. Traditional Chinese Edition (Not in English). 

FIC Ford Ford, Richard, 1944-. Let Me be Frank With You. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is 
suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend. Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, 
interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.

FIC Gibson Gibson, William, 1948-. The Peripheral. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do-a job Flynne didn't know he had.What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder.

FIC Mod Modiano, Patrick, 1945-. Suspended Sentences : three novellas. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.

FIC Robi Robinson, Marilynne. Lila.Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.

FIC Ryan YA Ryan, Carrie. The Forest of Hands and Teeth. York : Delacorte Press, c2009. Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive 

FIC Ryan YA Ryan, Carrie. The Dark and Hollow Places. 1st Ember ed. New York : 

FIC Ryan YA Ryan, Carrie. The Dead-Tossed Waves.  New York : flesh-eating people who were once dead. Ember, 2012, c2011. Alone and listening to the moaning of the Dark City dying around her, Annah wants to find her way back home, to her sister and family and their village in the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Ember, 2011, c2010. Gabry lives a quiet life in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, hemmed in by the dead who hunger for the living, but her mother Mary's secrets, a cult of religious zealots who worship the dead, and a stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry threaten to destroy her world.

FIC Sch YA Schrefer, Eliot, 1978-. Threatened. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2014. Luc is an orphan, living in debt slavery in Gabon, until he meets a Professor who claims to be studying chimpanzees, and they head off into the jungle--but when the Professor disappears, Luc has to fend for himself and join forces with the chimps to save their forest.

FIC Sti YA Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981- . Blue Lily, Lily Blue. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.

FIC Toi Tóibín, Colm, 1955-. Nora Webster : a Novel. "Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it.

Non-fiction

128 W Wilson, Edward O. The Meaning of Human Existence. 1st ed. New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., a Division of W.W. Norton & Co., [2014]. 

299.5 M Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. The way of Chuang Tzu. Rev.  New York : New Directions Books, 2010. 

303.45 P Peikoff, Leonard. The DIM Hypothesis : Why the Lights of the West are going out. New York : New American Library, c2012. 

306.76 A c.2 Andrews, Arin. Some Assembly Required : The Not-So-Secret Life of a transgender Teen. "Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of  undergoing gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning teen memoir"--. 

370.112 L Leitch, Thomas M. Wikipedia U : knowledge, authority, and education in the digital age. 

384.38 D Dwyer, Jim, 1957-. More Awesome Than Money : Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook.

620.001 G Goldberg, David E. Whole New Engineer : the Coming Revolution in Engineering Education. [S.l.] : Threejoy Associates, 2014. 

808 P Pinker, Steven, 1954- author. The Sense of Style : the Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st century.

811.6 McL McLane, Maureen N., author. This Blue. First edition. guide to writing in the 21st century..

DVDs

DVD 305.896  The Two Nations of Black America. [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS


DVD 320.473  The Three Branches of Government : How they Function. Las Vegas, NV :

DVD 342.73  American Government. Classroom ed.  Cerebellum Worldwide Media, 2011.Narrator, Alex Davis. Take a close look at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the United States government and how they function and work together. Corp., [2004], c2001.

DVD 428.5 E English Grammar. Classroom ed. [Falls Church, Va.] : Cerebellum Standard Deviants. The Standard Deviants look at sentence.

DVD 791.43  Beasts of the Southern Wild. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox fragments, Home Entertainment, c2012.

DVD 791.43  Freedom Writers. Widescreen. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2007].

DVD 791.45 Mid The Middle. Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment :, [2010].

DVD 791.45 Mod Modern Family. Widescreen. Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2010.

 Author Christina Baker Kline visits Bryn Mawr. 

Christina Baker Kline with Mr. Waters, Sophie, and Sophia

On October 22nd author Christina Baker Kline visited Bryn Mawr. Ms. Kline is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, Orphan Train. She first met with Mr. Waters' Creative Writing class where she discussed the writing process and took questions from the students. Sophie and Sophia then escorted her back to the library where they had a great informal chat and private book signing.   Both girls are big fans of Ms. Kline. 

Ms. Kline then delivered  a fascinating  assembly on the history of Orphan Trains in America. She shared that her husband's grandfather was a "train rider", and that it was while researching his family that she became interested in this unique event in American history.