Lonely Books in American Literature

These books are "lonely" because they've never been checked out, despite strong reviews in Choice and ratings of "Highly Recommended" or "Essential." Take a look and see what you've been missing. Books appear in rough Library of Congress Classification order.

You can click on the call number to see the location and current status of a book.

Cosmopolitan vistas : American regionalism and literary value	PS25 .L88 2004
Roman fever : domesticity and nationalism in nineteenth-century American women's writing	PS147 .F67 2004
Women and authorship in revolutionary America	PS149 .V54 2005
Literary gestures : the aesthetic in Asian American writing edited by Rocio G. Davis and Sue-Im Lee.	PS153.A84 L58 2005
Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival	PS153.C27 G33 2006
Caribbean crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance	PS153.C27 T87 2005
Tongue ties : logo-eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic literature	PS153.H56 .P47 2003
Killing Spanish : literary essays on ambivalent U.S. Latino/a identity	PS153.H56 S36 2004
Native American literatures : an introduction	PS153.I52 L86 2004
The Cambridge companion to Jewish American literature	PS153.J4 C36 2003
Free within ourselves : the development of African American children's literature	PS153.N5 B526 2007
Cultural sites of critical insight : philosophy, aesthetics, and African American and Native American women's writings	PS153.N5 C85 2007
Ulysses in Black : Ralph Ellison, classicism, and African American literature	PS153.N5 R34 2006
The world next door : South Asian American literature and the idea of America	PS153.S68 S73 2004
The poetics of national and racial identity in nineteenth-century American literature	PS217.N38 K47 2003
Democratic discourses : the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature	PS217.S55 B46 2005
Vanishing moments : class and American literature	PS217.W66 S36 2006
Breaking the rule of cool : interviewing and reading women beat writers	PS228.B6 B74 2004
Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance	PS228.E84 E54 2004
Writing together, writing apart : collaboration in Western American literature	PS271 .K37 2002
The tangled roots of feminism, environmentalism, and Appalachian literature	PS286.A6 E54 2003
Melodies unheard : essays on the mysteries of poetry	PS305 .H43 2003
The modernist response to Chinese art : Pound, Moore, Stevens	PS310.A76 Q53 2003
A concise companion to twentieth-century American poetry	PS323.5 .C574 2005
Everyday and prophetic : the poetry of Lowell, Ammons, Merrill, and Rich	PS323.5 .H35 2003
The resistance to poetry	PS325 .L67 2004
American drama 1945-2000 : an introduction	PS352 .K73 2006
Inexpressible privacy : the interior life of antebellum American literature	PS368 .S43 2006
Freedom's empire : race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940	PS371 .D69 2008
The anxiety of obsolescence : the American novel in the age of television	PS371 .F58 2006
Managing literacy, mothering America : women's narratives on reading and writing in the nineteenth century	PS374.B67 R63 2004
At home in the city : urban domesticity in American literature and culture, 1850-1930	PS374.D57 K57 2005
Civil wars : American novelists and manners, 1880-1940	PS374.M33 G66 2003
Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions : gender, culture, and nation building	PS374.M53 R67 2004
Male sexuality under surveillance : the office in American literature	PS374.O34 T48 2003
Rumors of war and infernal machines : technomilitary agenda-setting in American and British speculative fiction	PS374.S35 G36 2005
The syntax of class : writing inequality in nineteenth-century America	PS374.S68 L36 2003
A companion to American fiction, 1865-1914	PS377 .C665 2005
Introduction to contemporary American fiction	PS379 .B54 2003
Hecho en Tejas : an anthology of Texas-Mexican literature	PS508.M4 H43 2006
The new anthology of American poetry	PS586 .N49 2003
Ebony rising : short fiction of the greater Harlem Renaissance era	PS647.A35 E24 2004
What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction	PS647.J4 A15 2005
Mark Twain : the complete interviews	PS1331 .A2 2006
Mark Twain and Orion Clemens : brothers, partners, strangers	PS1332 .F26 2003
The complete stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar	PS1556 .A4 2005
William Dean Howells : a writer's life	PS2033 .G66 2005
The complete letters of Henry James, 1855-1872	PS2123 .A4 2006
Longfellow redux	PS2281 .I76 2006
Melville : his world and work	PS2386 .D44 2005
Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine	PS2386 .M487 2006
Frank Norris : a life	PS2473 .M339 2006
Prodigal daughters : Susanna Rowson's early American women	PS2736.R3 Z86 2008
Elizabeth Stoddard : stories	PS2934.S3 A6 2003
Uncle Tom mania : slavery, minstrelsy, and transatlantic culture in the 1850s	PS2954.U6 M44 2005
A companion to Walt Whitman	PS3238 .C57 2006
Looking into Walt Whitman : American art, 1850-1920	PS3242.A66 B64 2006
Walt Whitman and the earth : a study in ecopoetics	PS3242.N2 K57 2004
Southern woman of letters : the correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson	PS3333 .A44 2002
Sherwood Anderson : a writer in America	PS3501.N4 Z773 2006
Faulkner the storyteller	PS3511.A86 Z8735 2005
The collected prose of Robert Frost	PS3511.R94 A6 2007
The poem that changed America : "Howl" fifty years later	PS3513.I74 H6356 2006
I celebrate myself : the somewhat private life of Allen Ginsberg	PS3513.I74 Z748 2006
Windblown world : the journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954	PS3521.E735 Z478 2004
The letters of Robert Lowell	PS3523.O89 Z48 2005
Mencken : the American iconoclast	PS3525.E43 Z79 2005
The poems of Marianne Moore	PS3525.O5616 A17 2003
The borderlands of culture : Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary	PS3531.A525 Z88 2006
Reader's guide to Wallace Stevens	PS3537.T4753 Z62295 2007
Where the wild grape grows : selected writings, 1930-1950 / Dorothy West	PS3545.E82794 A6 2005
Edmund Wilson : a life in literature	PS3545.I6245 Z594 2005
Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her	PS3545.I774 Z874 2005
Ralph Ellison : a biography	PS3555.L625 Z8725 2007
Understanding Charles Johnson	PS3560.O3735 Z86 2004
Conversations with Audre Lorde	PS3562.O75 Z464 2004
Philip Roth : new perspectives on an American author	PS3568.O855 Z835 2005
Philip Roth's rude truth : the art of immaturity	PS3568.O855 Z845 2006
Due considerations : essays and criticism	PS3571.P4 D84 2007
Rabbit (un)redeemed : the drama of belief in John Updike's fiction	PS3571.P4 Z54 2006

Lonely Books in British Literature

The books in this list were all rated "Essential" or "Highly Recommended" in Choice, but none have ever been borrowed. Take a look through these titles and see what you've been missing.

You can click on the call number to find the location, publication information, and current status.

Black British literature : novels of transformation	PR120.M55 S74 2004
Something we have that they don't : British & American poetic relations since 1925	PR129.U5 S66 2004
Middle English literature : a historical sourcebook	PR255 .G65 2003
Politique : languages of statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare	PR275.P63 S77 2005
Reading families : women's literate practice in late medieval England	PR275.W6 K78 2002
Seventeenth-century mother's advice books	PR408.D49 U73 2006
Taste : a literary history	PR408.T37 G54 2005
Rhetorical affect in early modern writing : Renaissance passions reconsidered	PR428.E56 C63 2003
Humanism, machinery, and Renaissance literature	PR428.H8 W65 2004
Back to nature : the green and the real in the late Renaissance	PR428.N39 W39 2006
Borderlines : the shiftings of gender in British romanticism	PR468.R65 W65 2006
Germaine de Stael, George Sand, and the Victorian woman artist	PR468.W6 L49 2003
Blank verse : a guide to its history and use	PR509.B53 S53 2007
The modern elegiac temper	PR509.E4 V53 2006
Early responses to Renaissance drama	PR658.A88 W55 2006
Shakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality	PR658.H44 B33 2007
Novel beginnings : experiments in eighteenth-century English fiction	PR858.E982 S66 2006
Reading the modernist Bildungsroman	PR868.B52 C37 2006
National dreams : the remaking of fairy tales in nineteenth-century England	PR868.F27 S33 2003
How novels think : the limits of British individualism from 1719-1900	PR868.I615 A76 2006
A companion to the Victorian novel	PR871 .C643 2002
The Victorian novel	PR871 .V53 2002
Twentieth-century epic novels	PR888.E6 S74 2005
Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction	PR878.M36 S87 2005
Sapphic primitivism : productions of race, class, and sexuality in key works of modern fiction	PR888.L46 H33 2004
Cities of affluence and anger : a literary geography of modern Englishness	PR888.N3557 K35 2007
Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch	PR888.U7 F57 2007
Recording and reordering : essays on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century diary and journal	PR908 .R43 2006
Eighteenth-century letters and British culture	PR915 .B73 2006
Versions of blackness : key texts on slavery from the seventeenth century /	PR1127 .V47 2007
Yale companion to Chaucer /	PR1905 .Y35 2006
Chaucer's language /	PR1940 .H67 2007
Love & ethics in Gower's Confessio amantis /	PR1984.C63 N533 2005
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a new verse translation /	PR2065.G3 A328 2007
The Cambridge companion to John Donne	PR2248 .C33 2006
John Donne's poetry and early modern visual culture	PR2248 .H83 2005
Once more unto the speech, dear friends : monologues from Shakespeare's first folio with modern text versions for comparison	PR2768 .F74 2006
Shakespeare and the American popular stage	PR2880.A1 T43 2006
Why Shakespeare?	PR2900 .B38 2007
Shakespeare's Marlowe : the influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's artistry	PR2958.M3 L64 2007
Introduction to Shakespeare's poems	PR2984 .H95 2003
Why Shakespeare : an introduction to the playwright's art	PR2995 .P56 2005
Shakespeare the thinker	PR3000 .N88 2007
Shakespeare and republicanism	PR3017 .H28 2005
Humoring the body : emotions and the Shakespearean stage	PR3065 .P38 2004
A concise companion to Shakespeare and the text	PR3071 .C66 2007
'Think on my words' : exploring Shakespeare's language	PR3072 .C79 2008
Directing Shakespeare : a scholar onstage	PR3091 .H59 2004
Shakespeare and Chekhov in production and reception : theatrical events and their audiences	PR3091 .T85 2005
Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642	PR3095 .G86 2004
Women direct Shakespeare in America : productions from the 1990s	PR3105 .T395 2005
Political biography of Daniel Defoe	PR3406 .F87 2006
The Cambridge companion to Henry Fielding	PR3456 .C36 2007
Johnson's critical presence : image, history, judgment	PR3537.L5 S63 2004
Milton and the ends of time	PR3542.T5 M55 2003
Rethinking Milton studies : time present and time past	PR3587.3 .S53 2005
Milton the dramatist	PR3588 .B87 2007
Milton and the grounds of contention	PR3588 .M476 2003
Why Milton matters : a new preface to his writings	PR3588 .W58 2006
John Milton, radical politics, and biblical republicanism	PR3592.P64 L56 2006
Milton's peculiar grace : self-representation and authority	PR3592.S38 F35 2007
Sterne, the moderns, and the novel	PR3714.T73 K49 2002
The works of Thomas Traherne	PR3736.T7 A125 2005
Chronology of Jane Austen and her family	PR4036 .L42 2006
William Blake : a literary life	PR4146 .B34 2005
The Brontes and education	PR4169 .T469 2007
The Cambridge companion to Elizabeth Gaskell	PR4711 .C34 2007
Thomas Hardy : a biography revisited	PR4753 .M54 2004
Percy Bysshe Shelley : a biography : youth's unextinguished fire, 1792-1816	PR5432 .B54 2004
Robert Southey : entire man of letters	PR5466 .S67 2006
Robert Louis Stevenson : writer of boundaries	PR5496 .R64 2006
Late essays and articles / D. H. Lawrence	PR6023.A93 A6 2004
Stephen Spender : a literary life	PR6037.P47 Z87 2005
Virginia Woolf : feminism and the reader	PR6045.O72 Z6275 2006
Trespassing boundaries : Virginia Woolf's short fiction	PR6045.O72 Z8855 2004
A.S. Byatt and the heliotropic imagination	PR6052.Y2 Z62 2004
Seamus Heaney and the place of writing	PR6058.E2 Z795 2002
All this reading"" : the literary world of Barbara Pym	PR6066.Y58 Z538 2003
Irish literature : the nineteenth century	PR8835 .I7565 2006
Naipaul's strangers	PR9272.9.N32 Z57 2003
Another life : fully annotated / Derek Walcott	PR9272.9.W3 A8 2004
Women writing Africa : the southern region	PR9345 .W66 2003
The creative vision of Bessie Head	PR9369.3.H4 Z58 2003

Lonely Books in World History

These books in our World History collection are all rated "Highly Recommended" or "Essential" in Choice, but none has ever been checked out. If you didn't notice them on our New Books shelf when they came in, here's another chance.

You can click on the call number to find the location, publication information, and current status.

Digital history : a guide to gathering, preserving, and presenting the past on the Web	D16.117 .C64 2006
Handbook of oral history	D16.14 .H36 2006
Historical knowledge, historical error : a contemporary guide to practice	D16.9 .M299 2007
Palgrave advances in intellectual history	D210 .P72 2006
Europe, 1715-1919 : from enlightenment to world war	D299 .E47 2003
History derailed : Central and Eastern Europe in the long nineteenth century	D359 .D55 2003
Victory through coalition : Britain and France during the First World War	D544 .G75 2005
Coast Guard in World War I : an untold story	D589.U6 L37 2003
Wilsonian moment : self-determination and the international origins of anticolonial nationalism	D645 .M38 2007
Crises of memory and the Second World War	D743.42 .S85 2006
The war complex : World War II in our time	D744.6 .T67 2005
Friendly fire : the secret war between the allies	D748 .P53 2005
1945 : the war that never ended	D755.7 .D36 2005
Ivan's war : life and death in the Red Army, 1939-1945	D764 .M395 2007
Worshipping the myths of World War II : reflections on America's dedication to war	D769.1 .W66 2006
The years of extermination : Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945	D804.3 .F753 2007
The women's camp in Moringen : a memoir of imprisonment in Germany, 1936-1937	D805.5.M67 H47 2006
Second World War and Irish women : an oral history	D810.W7 M835 2007
Racing the enemy : Stalin, Truman, and the surrender of Japan	D813.J3 H37 2005
Europe's troubled peace, 1945-2000	D1051 .B83 2006
Breeding Bin Ladens : America, Islam, and the future of Europe	D1056.2.M87 S56 2006
Maritime history of Britain and Ireland, c. 400-2001	DA70 .F75 2003
Coronation : from the 8th to the 21st century	DA112 .S776 2006
Agincourt : Henry V and the battle that made England	DA256 .B37 2006
The subject of Elizabeth : authority, gender, and representation	DA355 .M66 2006
English Civil War : Papists, gentlewomen, soldiers, and witchfinders in the birth of modern Britain	DA415 .P87 2006
Writing against revolution : literary conservatism in Britain, 1790-1832	DA530 .G55 2007
Disraeli : the Victorian Dandy who became prime minister	DA564.B3 H5 2006
After the Victorians : the decline of Britain in the world	DA566 .W54 2005
Britain since 1945 : aspects of identity	DA566.4 .L39 2006
Ireland : a social, cultural and literary history, 1791-1891	DA950.1 .M87 2003
The transformation of Ireland	DA959 .F47 2005
The secret history of the IRA	DA959 .M65 2002
Easter 1916 : the Irish rebellion	DA962 .T685 2006
Ruairi O'Bradaigh : the life and politics of an Irish revolutionary	DA990.U452 O27 2006
Failed illusions : Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian revolt	DB957 .G36 2006
Integrating Islam : political and religious challenges in contemporary France	DC34.5.M87 L38 2006
Salons, history, and the creation of seventeenth-century France : mastering memory	DC121.7 .B43 2006
Ending the French Revolution : violence, justice, and repression from the terror to Napoleon	DC192 .B76 2006
France and the Nazi threat : the collapse of French diplomacy 1932-1939	DC396 .D8713 2004
Verdict on Vichy : power and prejudice in the Vichy France regime	DC397 .C87 2002
The unfree French : life under the occupation	DC397 .V56 2006
Bismarck's shadow : the cult of leadership and the transformation of the German right, 1898-1945	DD220 .F72 2005
Gustav Stresemann : Weimar's greatest statesman	DD231.S83 W75 2002
German pop culture : how "American" is it?	DD239 .G47 2004
Iron kingdom : the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947	DD389 .C53 2006
Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire	DF552 .H47 2008
The fall of Mussolini : Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War	DG572 .M645 2007
Ukraine : birth of a modern nation	DK508.772 .I45 2007
Concise history of Finland	DL1032 .K53 2006
Spanish Civil War	DP269 .D83 2007
Bulgaria	DR83 .C73 2007
Turkish-Israeli relationship : changing ties of Middle Eastern outsiders	DR479.I78 B46 2004
Turkey from empire to revolutionary republic : the emergence of the Turkish nation from 1789 to the present	DR559 .A39 2007
Scars of war, wounds of peace : the Israeli-Arab tragedy	DS119.7 .B3826 2007
Islam and democracy in Iran : Eshkevari and the quest for reform	DS318.825 .E74 2006
Nomadic empires : from Mongolia to the Danube	DS329.4 .C4813 2004
India after Gandhi : the history of the world's largest democracy	DS480.84 .G74 2007
Kashmir : roots of conflict, paths to peace	DS485.K23 B67 2003
The river of lost footsteps : a personal history of Burma	DS530 .T43 2007
Triumph forsaken : the Vietnam war, 1954-1965	DS557.7 .M77 2006
Art as politics : re-crafting identities, tourism, and power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia	DS632.T7 A33 2006
The modern history of Hong Kong	DS796.H757 T7734 2004
Untying the knot : making peace in the Taiwan Strait	DS799.63.C6 B87 2005
A concise history of Korea : from the neolithic period through the nineteenth century	DS907.18 .S4 2006
Party/politics : horizons in black political thought	DT16.5 .H36 2006
American Africans in Ghana : Black expatriates and the civil rights era	DT510.43.A37 G35 2006
The next liberation struggle : capitalism, socialism, and democracy in Southern Africa	DT1165 .S27 2005
Diamonds, gold, and war : the British, the Boers, and the making of South Africa	DT1894 .M47 2007
Australia : a new history of the great southern land	DU110 .W45 2006

Celebrate Earth Day

In honor of Earth Day this year, why not check out some information from the library on the environment and global warming? Here are a few suggestions:

An Inconvenient Truth (DVD 528 or Main Stacks QC981.8 .G56 G67 2006)

Climate Change and Its Biological Consequences (Main Stacks QH545 .T4 G38 1993)

Censoring Science (New Books QC981.1 .G56 B69 2008)

Field Notes from a Catastrophe (Main Stacks QC981.8 .G56 K655 2006)

Global Warming (Main Stacks QC981.8 .G56 M38 2004)

Global Climate Change (Main Stacks 981.8 .C5 G644 2006)

Greenhouse Effect (Videocassette 809)

Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

The 2009 winners of the Pulitzer Prize were announced yesterday, and this was the first year that online news sources were eligible to compete in all 14 Journalism categories. Though the winners were all traditional print newspapers, Politico.com was a finalist in the Editorial Cartooning category.

What do you all think: as newspaper circulation decreases, will we see Pulitzer Prizes awarded to online news organizations in the near future? Or will the premium print newspapers continue to attract the most talent and take home the journalism prizes?

Lonely Books in American History

Continuing with the "Lonely Books" theme, I've compiled a list of books in American History that have been in our collection for a while but have never circulated.  All of these books were reviewed in Choice and rated "highly recommended" or "essential."

You can click on the call number to see a full descriptionn of each book, its location, and whether the book is currently on the shelf.

A Black congressman in the age of Jim Crow : South Carolina's George Washington Murray	E664.M96 M37 2006
A companion to 20th-century America	E178.6 .C65 2004
A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca	E125.N9 R47 2007
A magnificent catastrophe : the tumultuous election of 1800, America's first presidential campaign	E330 .L37 2007
A matter of justice : Eisenhower and the beginning of the Civil Rights revolution	E836 .N53 2007
African American life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900	E185.93.S7 M43 2006
Age of betrayal : the triumph of money in America, 1865-1900	E661 .B37 2008
Alexis de Tocqueville and American intellectuals : from his times to ours	E169.1 .M247 2006
Almost a miracle : the American victory in the War of Independence	E230 .F47 2007
Americanism : new perspectives on the history of an ideal	E169.1 .A52 2006
Andrew Jackson	E382 .W74 2005
Benjamin Franklin unmasked : on the unity of his moral, religious, and political thought	E302.6.F8 W545 2005
Bound for Canaan : the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America	E450 .B735 2005
But one race : the life of Robert Purvis	E449.P983 B33 2007
Crazy Horse : a Lakota life	E99.O3 C72163 2006
Dean Acheson : a life in the Cold War	E748.A15 B45 2006
Diehard rebels : the Confederate culture of invincibility	E607 .P48 2007
Documents of the Coronado expedition, 1539-1542 : "they were not familiar with His Majesty, nor did they wish to be his subjects"	E125.V3 D66 2005
Dreams of Africa in Alabama : the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America	E445.A3 D56 2007
FDR and the Spanish Civil War : neutrality and commitment in the struggle that divided America	E183.8.S7 T54 2007
Five days in Philadelphia	E811 .P47 2005
Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction	E668 .F655 2005
Freedom is a constant struggle : the Mississippi civil rights movement and its legacy	E185.93.M6 A85 2004
Freedom on my mind : the Columbia documentary history of the African American experience	E184.6 .F74 2003
Generation on fire : voices of protest from the 1960s : an oral history	E840.6 .K57 2007
Henry Adams and the making of America	E302.1 .A2538 2005
Historic Indian towns in Alabama, 1540-1838	E78.A28 W75 2003
How Bush rules : chronicles of a radical regime	E903.3 .B55 2006
Imperial America : reflections on the United States of amnesia	E839.5 .V535 2004
In the presence of mine enemies : war in the heart of America, 1859-1863	E468 .A98 2003
Inuit women : their powerful spirit in a century of change	E99.E7 B55 2007
Jews in American politics : essays	E184.36.P64 J49 2004
Jim Crow New York : a documentary history of race and citizenship, 1777-1877	E185.93.N56 J56 2003
Journals, 1952-2000 / Arthur M. Schlesigner, Jr.	E175.5.S38 A3 2007
Liberty tree : ordinary people and the American Revolution	E209 .Y68 2006
Lincoln the lawyer	E457.2 .D575 2007
Listening to our ancestors : the art of native life along the north pacific coast	E78.N78 L58 2005
Making the Irish American : history and heritage of the Irish in the United States	E184.I6 M23 2006
Martin R. Delany : a documentary reader	E185.97.D33 A3 2003
Mestizaje : critical uses of race in Chicano culture	E184.M5 P425 2006
Neither enemies nor friends : Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos	E29.A1 N45 2005
One vast winter count : the Native American West before Lewis and Clark	E78.W5 C35 2003
Peace came in the form of a woman : Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands	E78.T4 B37 2007
Plain folk's fight : the Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia	E559 .W48 2005
Private lives/public consequences : personality and politics in modern America	E743 .C425 2005
Puerto Ricans in the United States : a contemporary portrait	E184.P85 A23 2006
Race in the American South : from slavery to civil rights	E185.92 .B76 2007
Roots too : White ethnic revival in post-civil rights America	E184.A1 J23 2006
Running alone : presidential leadership--JFK to Bush II : why it has failed and how we can fix it	E176.1 .B9345 2006
Running on race : racial politics in presidential campaigns, 1960-2000	E839.5 .M39 2002
Scripting the Black masculine body : identity, discourse, and racial politics in popular media	E185.86 .J334 2006
Shades of difference : a history of ethnicity in America	E184.A1 R426 2007
Shooting star : the brief arc of Joe McCarthy	E748.M143 W53 2006
Spectres of 1919 : class and nation in the making of the new Negro	E185.6 .F65 2003
The age of Lincoln	E415.7 .B87 2007
The American ascendancy : how the United States gained and wielded global dominance	E183.7 .H855 2007
The Columbia guide to Irish American history	E184.I6 M43 2005
The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy	E183.8.I7 M428 2007
The king's three faces : the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776	E195 .M33 2006
The life of Benjamin Franklin	E302.6.F8 L424 2006
The lost promise of civil rights	E185.61 .G64 2007
The Missouri Compromise and its aftermath : slavery & the meaning of America	E373 .F67 2007
The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln	E302.1 .W55 2005
The rise of Hispanic political power	E184.S75 D376 2003
The rule of racialization : class, identity, governance	E184.A1 M3135 2003
The scratch of a pen : 1763 and the transformation of North America	E46 .C35 2006
The segregated origins of social security : African Americans and the welfare state	E185.8 .P66 2006
Troubling the waters : Black-Jewish relations in the American century	E184.36.A34 G44 2006
W.E.B. Du Bois, American prophet	E185.97.D73 B58 2007
We who are dark : the philosophical foundations of Black solidarity	E185.615 .S475 2005
What they think of us : international perceptions of the United States since 9/11	E902 .W475 2007
When trumpets call : Theodore Roosevelt after the White House	E757 .O77 2005
White money/Black power : the surprising history of African American studies and the crisis of race in higher education	E184.7 .R66 2005
Women at the front : hospital workers in Civil War America	E621 .S35 2004
Woodrow Wilson's right hand : the life of Colonel Edward M. House	E748.H77 H63 2006

Doug Frazier

University Librarian

Lonely Books in Education

When I looked over a list of books checked out last month, I noticed that over 150 were circulating for the first time, even though most had been in our collection for years. That got me thinking about the many unnoticed and neglected “gems” in our collection, and I decided to publicize what I call “Lonely Books” in various subjects, starting with Education.

Each of these books, published in the last several years, was rated “Highly Recommended” or “Essential” in Choice. All of them are in Lane Library, and none have ever been checked out. Look the list over and see what you may have been missing. They are waiting for you.

1. Best practices in writing instruction LB1576 .B487 2007
   
   
2. Classroom assessment & grading that work LB3051 .M4573 2006
   
   
3. John Dewey and our educational prospect : a critical engagement with Dewey's Democracy and education LB875.D5 J627 2006
   
   
4. Key ideas in educational research LB1028 .S338 2006
   
   
5. Listening : a framework for teaching across differences LB1027 .S36638 2003
   
   
6. Powerful classroom stories from accomplished teachers LB1025.3 .M334 2004
   
   
7. Psychology of academic cheating LB3609 .P79 2007
   
   
8. Teaching reading comprehension to students with learning difficulties LB1050.5 .K54 2007
   
   
9. Teaching word meanings LB1574.5 .S72 2006
   
   
10. The exceptional teacher : transforming traditional teaching through thoughtful practice LB1715 .A26 2003
    
    
11. The sandbox investment : the preschool movement and kids-first politics LB1140.23 .K57 2007
    
    
12. The technology fix : the promise and reality of computers in our schools LB1028.43 .P49 2004
    
    
13. To build a better teacher : the emergence of a competitive education industry LB1715 .H63 2003
    
    
14. Trivializing teacher education : the accreditation squeeze LB1811 .T75 2005
    
    
15. What's happening to public higher education? LB2328.62.U6 W43 2006
    
    
16. Boom for whom? : education, desegregation, and development in Charlotte LC214.523.C48 S63 2004
    
    
17. Childhood in the promised land : working-class movements and the colonies de vacances in France, 1880-1960 LC5771.F8 D69 2002
    
    
18. Family matters : how schools can cope with the crisis in childrearing LC225.3 .E83 2004
    
    
19. Grappling with the good : talking about religion and morality in public schools LC111 .K86 2006
    
    
20. How communities build stronger schools : stories, strategies, and promising practices for educating every child LC221 .D62 2002
    
    
21. Learning disabilities : from identification to intervention LC4704 .L386 2007
    
    
22. Paradoxes of desegregation : African American struggles for educational equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972 LC214.22.S6 B35 2006

Doug Frazier
University Librarian

Brand New Bestsellers

A new stack of Bestsellers has arrived at Lane Library! Stop in and check out one of these great reads:

• Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell
• It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather B. Armstrong
• Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment by Steve Harvey
• Dear Husband, by Joyce Carol Oates
• Lowboy: a Novel by John Wray
• When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror by Carol Leifer
• Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies
• Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
• Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin
• Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Inside the Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson & Jesus are Battling to Dominate the Middle East and Transform the World by Joel C. Rosenberg
• The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
• Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
• The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education by Craig M. Mullaney
• Execution Dock by Anne Perry
• Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible by David Plotz
  

AASU's Francophone Film Fest starts Thursday

AASU's first Francophone Film Festival will be held in the Fine Arts Auditorium evenings of April 16-18. Five recent films in French, with English subtitles, will be screened. All shows are free and open to the public. The schedule is:

Thursday, April 16
7 p.m. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (2007). Reception will follow.

Friday, April 17
6 p.m. Her Name is Sabine by Sandrine Bonnaire (2008)
8:30 p.m. Grand Voyage by Ismael Ferroukhi (2004)

Saturday April 18
6 p.m. Blame it on Fidel by Julie Gavras (2006)
8:30 p.m. The Chorus by Christophe Barratier (2005)

The film title links above refer to a review from Sight & Sound. These and other film reviews are available full text, online from Lane Library's subscription database called Omnifile, find it under Additional Databases on the Library's website (From off-campus login to the proxy server is required for access.)

The festival is the result of collaboration among the AASU French Club, the College of Liberal Arts, the Early Childhood Education Department, the Department of Languages, Literature & Philosophy and the Office of International Education.

"In presenting this film festival we are offering our students and the Savannah community not only an opportunity to view some award-winning films for free, but also we are providing a forum where people can learn about the cultures of the Francophone world and share with others of similar interests," said Dorothee Mertz-Weigel, AASU assistant professor of French and language lab director.

The festival is part of the Tournées Festival organized by the French American Cultural Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing French-American relations through arts, education and cultural exchange projects.

For more information, contact Dorothee Mertz-Weigel at Dorothee.Mertz-Weigel@armstrong.edu or at 912.344.2804.

AIDS Memorial Quilt Exhibit at Live Oak

The AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on exhibit at the Bull Street Branch of Live Oak Public Libraries from April 16th through April 19th, 2009.

Established in 1987, The NAMES Project Foundation is the international organization that is the custodian of The AIDS Memorial Quilt. The AIDS Memorial Quilt began with a single panel created in San Francisco in 1987. Today, The Quilt is composed of more than 47,000 individual 3 x 6 foot panels, each one commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS. These panels come from every state in the nation, every corner of the globe and they have been sewn by hundreds of thousands of friends, lovers and family members into this epic memorial, the largest piece of ongoing community art in the world.

Exhibition Dates at the Bull Street Library:
The Quilt may be viewed April 16-19 during regular Library hours.

An opening reception will be held from 6-8 pm on April 16th. Todd Mauldin of Stand Out Youth, along with Youth from this organization, will speak.

A closing reception will be held from 2-4 pm on April 19th. Speaking at the closing reception will be journalist Tina A. Brown, author of Crooked Road Straight.

Union Mission’s JC Lewis Health Center is hosting sections of the internationally celebrated AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Funding is provided by the City of Savannah.

Photo of AIDS Memorial Quilt on Ellipse, Washington D.C., taken in 2004 by dbKing on Flickr (CC)

ProCon.org

Do you have an assignment that requires you to examine a topic from different points of view? Do you need facts to back up your argument in a paper? Then check out the free resource ProCon.org. The pros and cons of different issues are examined based on multiple factors and viewpoints, and all content is non-partisan and balanced. A variety of issues - including religion, politics, science, law, and health - are covered, and facts and quotations from experts in the field are included. A link at the bottom of their page even instructs how to cite ProCon.org in your paper. The mission of ProCon.org is, "Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, non-partisan primarily pro-con format".