November Staff Picks

Tim’s Pick
The Dead Sea Scriptures
With Introduction and Notes by Theodor H. Gaster

BM 487 A3 1964
You don’t have to be religious to find the Dead Sea Scriptures interesting. The Bible is one of the most controversial literatures ever written that has transformed mankind. This book will help you to understand the Bible a little bit more clearly and give you insights that you may not have realized before. Enjoy!!

November Staff Picks

Cory’s pick
The Body Project
By Joan Brumberg
HQ 798 B724 1998

“The Body is a proxy for the self.” – Joan Jacobs Brumberg

With every generation, body image issues in girls emerge at younger and younger ages. This book examines that trend using diaries from girls in the 19th century, when beauty was only small piece of one’s existence, not the defining factor. Brumberg shows how society’s influence has shifted gears; in embracing individualism over conformity, Western culture created a vacuum where one’s external appearance is a much bigger factor in how we value ourselves and one another. Think of how much creative energy has been wasted on primping that could have gone toward meaningful pursuits!

November Staff Picks

Kristy’s Pick
CENSORED 2009: the top 25 censored stories
edited by Peter Phillips and Andrew Roth with Project Censored
Criteria for project censored news stories nominations:
1. A censored news story is one which contains information that the general United States population has a right and need to know, but to which it has had limited access.
There are five other criteria to nominate a story for this series. Read the book and find out more!

November Staff Picks

Ben Huver
Staffs pick
The Giving Tree
By. Shel Silverstein

PZ 7 S588 GI 1964
In the Giving tree a boy has a tree for a friend and the tree gave the boy everything like shade and apples. Well after a while the boy grows older and he needs different things and the tree loved the boy so much until the tree had nothing more to give and the boy had nothing for the tree. This great short story show you how the fact that someone can love you so much until there burnt out and can give no more. If we were all like this we would be better off.

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Ashley’s November Pick
Nineteen Minutes
By Jodi Picoult

PS 3566 .I372 N56 2007
This book is one of my favorites that I’ve read multiple times. It’s a really compelling, awesomely told story that will make it difficult to put down. The story takes place in the small New Hampshire town of Sterling, a complacent, quaint community until it is shattered by a heinous tragedy. The characters are evolved brilliantly in this story, and the plot is very thought-provoking. I highly recommend this book!

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Jan’s November Pick

When I Was Puerto Rican

Esmeralda Santiago

F 128.9 .P85 S27 1993
Esmeralda Santiago leads you through her childhood growing up in a large family in Macu’n, Puerto Rico. Her memories remind us that some things we do as children are universal, while other hardships are almost beyond our American imagination.
Enjoyable reading and thought-provoking at the same time. Get to know her!

November Staff Picks

Staff Pick By: Hannah Hall

LANDER SPORT CLIMBS

Steve Bechtel

WYOMING GV 199.42 .W82 L363 2007

This book is great for anyone looking to climb around Lander; 175 pages of climbing merriment. Tons of pictures, tons of routes, pretty accurate ratings. Has climbs for Sinks, Wild Iris, Fossil Hill, Baldwin Creek and Suicide Point - Must have for any local climbers -

November Staff Picks

Kreig’s Pick
The Slave Next Door
By: Kevin Bales

HQ 314 .B35 2009
The Slave Next Door brings a very compelling argument against Human Trafficking, or Modern Slavery in America. Not only does it offer many examples of the actual act of slavery but it also provides ways to spot a trafficking victim. Kevin Bales provides insight into one of the biggest problems plaguing American and international society, the ignoring of slavery in communities. He also shows examples of people who have helped slaves escape their masters and convict them of both federal and state crimes. Anyone who believes that slavery is truly abolished and no longer exists within the United States should read The Slave Next Door for a very very big eye opener.

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Juli’s Pick
Book Lust by Nancy Pearl

Z 1035.9 .P38 2003

Western Memoirs? Magical Realism? Road Novels? Ecofiction? Great Dogs in Fiction?
Spies and Spymasters?
These are just a small few of the reading recommendation categories you can choose from in this book of book suggestions! Nancy Pearl provides quick lists of potential reading material based on your “mood, moment, and reason”!

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Candy’s Pick for November
PBS Home Video – Fractals Hunting the Hidden Dimension

DVD QA 614.86 .F73 2009
What does broccoli, a tree, a river delta, and your veins have in common? Fractals! Watch this DVD, and it all will become clear, well most of it anyway. It explains Benoit Mandelbrot’s theory behind fractals. A fractal is a repeated pattern (called iteration, if you speak math) and can become something else on its own. It tells how a Pixar animator was inspired to create the very first computer animated scene in The Wrath of Khan (remember the Genesis planet?) when computers were not as powerful as they are today. Finally, math has a real application!