Academy of Notre Dame Library
New Titles Added - September 2010
323.092 B
Gelfand, Dale Evva, 1944-. Coretta Scott King : civil rights
activist. New York : Chelsea House, c2007. Widow -- The
Scotts -- Miss Coretta -- Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King,
Jr. -- The winds of change -- For better or worse -Birmingham -- "What are you afraid of?" -- Black Madonna -The dream continued. Examines the life and achievements of
Coretta Scott King, discussing her childhood in rural
Alabama, education, marriage to preacher and civil rights
leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and her determination to
carry on his legacy after his assassination.
363.7 R
Rischard, Jean-Fran•cois. High noon : twenty global problems,
twenty years to solve them. New York : Basic Books, c2002.
Provides an overview of twenty of the most urgent and
important global problems of the twenty-first century and
offers a twenty-year plan which may solve them.
371.102 F
How to talk so kids can learn : at home and in school. New York
: Scribner, 2003, c1995. Describes communication strategies
parents and teachers can use to motivate children to become
self-directed, self-disciplined learners.
371.822 M
Mortenson, Greg. Three cups of tea : one man's mission to
promote peace--one school at a time. New York : Penguin
Books, 2007, c2006. Greg Mortenson recounts the experiences
he had while trying to help impoverished villages in
Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their
children.
373.18 F
Feinstein, Sheryl. Secrets of the teenage brain : research-based
strategies for reaching and teaching today's adolescents.
2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2009. Teen
brain : under construction -- Teen cognition and learning -The social brain -- Communication and the unfinished brain
-- Self-concept under attack -- The risk-taking brain -Reaching and teaching today's adolescents--tomorrow!.
Explains the biological and neurological changes that occur
during the teenage years and provides educators with
practical strategies for dealing with those changes and the
impact they can have on individual students and the
classroom environment.
473.21
Oxford Latin desk dictionary. Rev. ed. Oxford [U.K.] ; New York
: Oxford University Press, 2005. Provides the English and
Latin translations of more than 100,000 essential words and
phrases from both languages.
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Tsukiyama, Gail. Women of the silk. 1st ed. New York : St.
Martin's Press, 1991. Relates the story of two women who
struggle for economic independence in silk work in 1926 in a
small village in China.
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Everyman, and other miracle and morality plays. Dover ed. New
York : Dover Publications, c1995. Noah's flood -- The
second shepherds' play -- Everyman -- Hickscorner. Presents
the text of the medieval play "Everyman, " the story of a
man who must face final judgment on the strength of his good
deeds; and features three additional morality classics,
including "The Second Shepherd's Play, " "Noah's Flood," and
"Hickscorner.".
870.8
The classical Roman reader : new encounters with Ancient Rome.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998, c1997. An
anthology of writings from classical Rome, including
literary, artistic, social, religious, political,
scientific, and philosophical texts; organized within three
time periods ranging from 509 B.C. to A.D. 476.
910.4 G
Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-. Eat, pray, love : one woman's search
for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia. Movie
tie-in ed. New York : Penguin Books, 2010, c2006.
Elizabeth Gilbert recounts the experiences she had on her
year-long journey around the world, and shares how her trip
helped her deal with her divorce and the depression that
threatened to end her career and her happiness.
937.05 B
Batstone, William Wendell. Caesar's Civil War. Oxford ; New
York : Oxford University Press, 2006. Examines Julius
Caesar's written account of the civil war he waged against
Pompey between 49 and 45 BC, describing the work within its
literary and historical context, and discussing the literary
techniques used, Caesar's selection of material, and related
topics. Includes maps, a time line, and a glossary.
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The classical Greek reader. New York : Oxford University Press,
1998. Presents plays, poems, artwork, political and
historical documents, and medical and scientific writings of
ancient Greece, each preceded by an introduction identifying
the author and providing information about the text for
modern readers.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice. Bantam Classic
ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1981. In early
nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes
with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the
romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
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Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic
Press, 2010. Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger
Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in
danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the
unrest and races against time to protect those she cares
about and the people of District 12.
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Dessen, Sarah. Someone like you. New York : Viking, 1998.
Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of
her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that
Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious
relationship.
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Howe, Katherine. The physick book of Deliverance Dane : a novel.
1st pbk. ed. New York : Voice/Hyperion, c2009. Harvard
graduate student Connie Goodwin, having agreed to handle the
sale of her grandmother's abandoned home near Salem,
Massachusetts, comes across an ancient key while going
through the house which holds a piece of parchment with the
name Deliverance Dane written on it, and in her efforts to
discover more about the mysterious Deliverance, Connie soon
finds herself having visions of the Salem witch trials and
wondering about the extent of her family's connection to
history.
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Knowles, John, 1926-2001. A separate peace. Bantam ed. New
York : Bantam, 1975. Gene Forrester looks back fifteen
years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend
were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school.
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Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees. New York : Penguin
Books, 2003, c2002. Fourteen-year-old Lily and her
companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared
for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee
their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police
officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina
at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and
August.
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Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004. Inherit the wind. Bantam ed. New
York : Bantam, 1960, c1955. A play loosely based on the
events which took place in Dayton, Tennessee during the
Scopes Trial in July of 1925. Called the trial of the
century, the main focus is on the two lawyers, Bryan and
Darrow.
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein, or, The
modern Prometheus. Philadelphia, Pa. : Courage Books,
c1990.
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Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. Linger. 1st ed. New York :
Scholastic Press, 2010. Grace and Sam struggle to keep
their relationship together, while Grace lies to her parents
and keeps a secret from them and Sam copes with his werewolf
past.
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Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. Lament : the faerie queen's
deception. 1st ed. Woodbury, Minn. : Flux, c2008. On the
day of an important music competition, talented but
painfully introverted and nervous Deirdre Monaghan is helped
to perform by the compelling and enigmatic Luke Dillon and
finds herself inexorably drawn into the mysteries and
dangers of the faerie world.
Ref. 507.8
Experiment central : understanding scientific principles through
projects. 2nd ed. Detroit : U-X-L, c2010. Provides
instructions for thirty-three science experiments and
projects for students, arranged alphabetically by scientific
concept from acid rain to chlorophyll; each with an
explanatory overview, a list of materials, suggestions for
designing an experiment, and troubleshooting tips.
Ref. 507.8
Experiment central : understanding scientific principles through
projects. 2nd ed. Detroit : U-X-L, c2010. Provides
instructions for thirty-two science experiments and projects
for students, arranged alphabetically by scientific concept
from color to ethnobotany; each with an explanatory
overview, a list of materials, suggestions for designing an
experiment, and troubleshooting tips.
Ref. 507.8
Experiment central : understanding scientific principles through
projects. 2nd ed. Detroit : U-X-L, c2010. Provides
instructions for thirty-seven science experiments and
projects for students, arranged alphabetically by scientific
concept from fish to insects; each with an explanatory
overview, a list of materials, suggestions for designing an
experiment, and troubleshooting tips.
Ref. 507.8
Experiment central : understanding scientific principles through
projects. 2nd ed. Detroit : U-X-L, c2010. Provides
instructions for forty-one science experiments and projects
for students, arranged alphabetically by scientific concept
from life cycles to photosynthesis; each with an explanatory
overview, a list of materials, suggestions for designing an
experiment, and troubleshooting tips.
Ref. 507.8
Experiment central : understanding scientific principles through
projects. 2nd ed. Detroit : U-X-L, c2010. Provides
instructions for thirty-seven science experiments and
projects for students, arranged alphabetically by scientific
concept from plant anatomy to sound; each with an
explanatory overview, a list of materials, suggestions for
designing an experiment, and troubleshooting tips.
Ref. 507.8
Experiment central : understanding scientific principles through
projects. 2nd ed. Detroit : U-X-L, c2010. Provides
instructions for thirty-two science experiments and projects
for students, arranged alphabetically by scientific concept
from space observation to wood; each with an explanatory
overview, a list of materials, suggestions for designing an
experiment, and troubleshooting tips.