DOVE Project Resource Handbook For Victims of Domestic Abuse
Elizabeth of York : a Tudor Queen and Her World
The New York Times Book Review – Roger Boylan Weir tells Elizabeth's story well…she is a meticulous scholar. The everyday minutiae of life are painstakingly described…Most important, Weir sincerely admires her subject, doing honor to an almost forgotten queen.
The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard /
"Be prepared to encounter a radically revised version of the life and death of Matthew Shepard . . . This riveting true crime narrative will appeal to readers of books such as Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song." — Library Journal (★ Starred Review)
The Bully Pulpit : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The New York Times Book Review – Bill Keller "There are but a handful of times in the history of our country," Goodwin writes in her introduction, "when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge." The years covered in this book are […]
The Men Who United the States
From Booklist *Starred Review* The ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788 provided a common legal and political framework to bind 13 supposedly sovereign states to a stronger federal government. But the U.S. was still more of a theoretical nation than an actual one. The War of 1812 and the Mexican War engendered surges of […]
One Summer : America, 1927
"A glorious look at one summer in America…Bryson offers delicious detail and breathtaking suspense about events whose outcomes are already known." —Booklist, Starred Review
The Handy Astronomy Answer Book
From School Library Journal Gr 6 Up–Do your patrons wonder what an astrolabe is or how an X-ray telescope works? In this colorful, wide-ranging volume, notable astrophysicist Charles Liu provides answers to these questions and more about many aspects of the fascinating world of astronomy. The material is subdivided into seven categories: “Astronomy Fundamentals,” “The […]
Elevating Platforms
Presented by Glenn and Jan Guyette in memory of Norman Heath.
From Scratch
An Appetite For Wonder : the Making of a Scientist
Library Journal: In the first volume of a projected two-volume memoir, evolutionary biologist and ethologist Dawkins (fellow, emeritus, New College, Univ. of Oxford; The God Delusion) looks back on his life from childhood through the publication of his first and most famous book, The Selfish Gene, in 1976. It's a mixture of lighthearted anecdote (when […]