Just a reminder, if you'd like to participate in the new reading program--the
Abraham Lincoln Reading Awards--there is no need to sign up. Simply visit the LRC
webpage for the Abe Lincoln Awards, read at least 4 of the 20 approved books, and review them by submitting a short comment on the LRC website.
The list of approved books, where you'll submit your reviews, and more information can be found
here.
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YouTube Pick of the Week
Wake me up, before you go go
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Magazines
This week's magazines are available on the coffee table in the LRC.
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Books
Through the Woods (2014) by Emily Carroll
Location: GRA Carroll
**Abe Lincoln Award**
'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.'
Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss. These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll.
Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there. --Goodreads
Already revered for her work online, award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll's stunning visual style and impeccable pacing is on grand display in this entrancing anthology, her print debut. --
Amazon.com
102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (2006) by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn
Call Number:
974.71044 D89
At 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers-reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it-until now.
Of the millions of words written about this wrenching day, most were told from the outside looking in. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have taken the opposite-and far more revealing-approach. Reported from the perspectives of those inside the towers, 102 Minutes captures the little-known stories of ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. Beyond this stirring panorama stands investigative reporting of the first rank. An astounding number of people actually survived the plane impacts but were unable to escape, and the authors raise hard questions about building safety and tragic flaws in New York's emergency preparedness.
Dwyer and Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews with rescuers, thousands of pages of oral histories, and countless phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women-the nearly 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished-as they made 102 minutes count as never before.
102 Minutes is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
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Goodreads
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
(2014) by
Marie Kondo
Call Number: 648 K66
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo's clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list).
With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house "spark joy" (and which don't), this international best seller featuring Tokyo's newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home - and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.
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Goodreads
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Tech Corner
Feedly (website, app)
Are you a blog-reader? Want to start? Well, you have literally millions of options. Feedly is a website where you can create a free login and keep track of all your blogs, news websites, etc.. Simply search for and select which blogs you follow, and Feedly will create a "feed" of all your blogs and their most recent posts, so you can see all your latests blog posts in the same place.
Visit Feedly and sign-up by clicking
here...
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