Monday, October 30, 2006

New Books

355.520973 G111u – Gabel, Christopher/The US Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941

940.5373 B627b – Martin and Blumenson/U.S. Army in World War II

951.9042 H428t 2005 – Hermes, Walter/U.S. Army in the Korean War

Friday, October 27, 2006

Lease Books Received 10/20 and 10/27

F ALB - Albom, Mitch / For one more day
F BUR - Burke, James Lee / Pegasus descending
F COE - Coel, Margaret / The drowning man
F EVA - Evans, Richard Paul / Finding Noel
F HAR - Harris, Robert / Imperium
F LEC - LeCarre, John / The mission song
F MAC - Macomber, Debbie / Christmas letters
F MCC - McCarthy, Cormac / The road
F MCD - McDermott, Alice / After this
F SET - Setterfield, Diane / The thirteenth tale
F SPA - Sparks, Nicholas / Dear John
F TRI - Trigiani, Adriana / Home to Big Stone Gap
F WAL - Walters, Minette / The devil's feather
F WOO - Woods, Stuart / Short straw
813.6 V - VanLiere, Donna / The angels of Morgan Hill

Thursday, October 19, 2006

New Books

Reference Titles

R 427.973 Sp31m – McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
R 975.003 N420 v.2 – The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Geography

General Collection

004.68 G4871 – Linksys Networks The Official Guide 3rd ed.

302.2 Z55e – Zerubavel, Eviatar/The Elephant in the Room
305.8 Al52r – Alland, Alexander Jr./Race in Mind
306.362 P846a – Postma, Johannes/The Atlantic Slave Trade
364.66092 B623j – Junkin, Tim/Bloodsworth

658.022 D295m – Davis, Martin/Managing a Small Business Made Easy
658.812 G829c – Greenberg, Paul/CRM at the Speed of Light

780 St34f – Steinberg and Rothe/For the Love of Music
791.43684 R796p – Rowlands, Mark/The Philosopher at the End of the Universe

810.932 K145r – Karem, Jeff/The Romance of Authenticity
813.51 T662r – Towner and Carothers/Reading Faulkner
813.54 El59ra – Morel, Lucas/Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope
813.54 P412ha – Harwell, David/Walker Parcy Remebered
823.912 T578ty – Tyler, J.E.A./The Complete Tolkien Companion

940.5421 T593w – Tomblem/With Utmost Spirit
942.014 F495k – Finke and Shichtman/King Arthur and the Myth of History
944.033 So54a – Somerset, Anne/The Affair of the Poisons
956.014 As17f – Asbridge, Thomas/The First Crusade
956.704431 Sh12n – Shadid, Anthony/Night Draws Near
956.94053 G669e – Gershom and Gorenberg/The Accidental Empire
959.704434 R183p – Rasimus, Ed/Palace Cobra
973.331 D461t – Desjardin, Thomas/Through a Howling Wilderness
973.925 M585g – Mieczkowski, Yanek/Gerald Ford and the Challeges of the 1970s

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Recently Received Lease Books

Into the Storm / Suzanne Brockmann
Ricochet / Sandra Brown
Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly / Robert Dalby
Happiness Sold Separately / Lolly Winston
Dead Wrong / J. A. Jance
Fool Me Once / Fern Michaels
Night Gardener / George Pelecanos
Mayflower : a Story of Courage / Nathaniel Philbrick
Rise and Shine / Anna Quindlen
Break No Bones / Kathy Reichs
Lovers Knot / Emelie Richards
Angels Fall / Nora Roberts
Messenger / Daniel Silva
Caroline's Jounral / Katherine Stone
Immediate Family / Eileen Goudge

New Books

306.0973 B380f – Beaty, Bart/Frederick Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture
306.4613 W427 – Brownwell, Puhl, Schwartz, Rudd/Weightbias
324.2730975 So88 – Clark and Prysby/Southern Political Party Activists
347.732634 G838b – Greenhouse, Linda/Becoming Justice Blackmun
363.4609747 P926a – Press, Eyal/Absolute Convictions
363.73874 L990h – Lynas, Mark/Hightide
364.1523 B966m – Buss, David/The Murderer Next Door

780.0306 M973 – Jackson and Pelkey/Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines
791.450232 P635w – Pike, Sydney/We Changed the World

808 J795r – Jost, Walter/Rhetorical Investigations
810.8036 El26 – Dallmeyer editor/Elemental South
811.509 B145f – Baer, William/Fourteen on Form
813.409357 K683a – Klimasmith, Betsy/At Home in the City
813.51 F274u – Urgo and Abadie/Faulkner and the Ecology of the South

917.40068 F918e – Frotsch and Johannsen/Ecotourism in Appalachia
940.5472 H171o – Hamann, Jack/On American Soil
942.055 L510s – Lee, Christopher/1603
976.8946 B210m – Ball, Bonnie/The Melungeons

Press Release from Readex

As a participant in the Readex ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) program, your institution enjoys a variety of unique benefits, including access to the latest books, newspapers and other printed items added to Readex's Web-based Archive of Americana® collections.

This month, more than 120 recently identified books, pamphlets and broadsides - not available at the time previous microform editions were published - have been added to the authoritative digital edition of Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800. By the end of 2006, a total of approximately 200 such imprints will have been added.

Highlights of recent additions include:

Duport, Pierre Landrin. No. 1 of a new sett of cotilions with figures called after the American Navy composed by Mr. P. Landrin Duport professor of dancing from Paris and original composer of cadriels. New York, 1800? Series number 50171.

Paine, Thomas. The death of General Wolf. A song. United States, between 1775 and 1810. Series number 49291.

The comprehensiveness of Readex's digital editions is well known, yet Readex continually seeks to identify, locate and digitize appropriate books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, maps and other materials to supplement the Archive of Americana collections.