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This book. This book, y'all. This book gave me a big hug. It cuddled me close and told me that everything is not going to be alright. But it also gave me hope that some things can be okay if we're willing to work hard to make it that way. It changed my life. Not in a hyperbolic way. In the way that it shifted my thinking so much that it will have an influence on my actions for the rest of my life. Title: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis Editors: Ayana
June is Pride Month! To learn more about the Stonewall Uprising and to check out some books by and about LGBTQIA+ people's history, lives, and experiences, click on through. Check out the PBS American Experience: Stonewall Uprising documentary to learn about the June 1969 Stonewall Uprising that launched a worldwide civil and gay rights movement and its long-lasting impacts. To view, log in off-campus by using your Durham Tech username and password--the same one you would use for Sakai or Self
[caption id="attachment_4232" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Available at the Main and Orange County Campus Libraries on the new books shelf[/caption] This book was read by Courtney Bippley, Reference Librarian at the Main Campus, and Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Fantasy, YA #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book with a supernatural creature [yup], occurrence [yup], or event [yup] Find out more about the Read Great Things Challenge here. Why did you choose to read this
The Dr. Charles Sanders President's Lecture Series at Durham Tech presents Mary Roach Sunday, April 13th 7:00 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Downtown Durham [caption id="attachment_495" align="alignleft" width="249" class=" "] Mary Roach, from http://www.maryroach.net/maryroach.html[/caption] Read more about the author and her fascinating books on her website. Members of our library staff have read and enjoyed her books immensely and look forward to seeing her. The subjects of her highly entertaining
This week we'll be showcasing some book reviews! Want to review something you've read or watched for the library blog? Let us know by filling out the Durham Tech Book or Media Review form. Being in your late 20s and not knowing what you want to do is hard, so of course when your friend from your brief foray into boarding school asks you to come take care of her step-children who catch fire when upset or scared, you say yes. Right? Sure. You weren't doing anything anyway. Title: Nothing to See
This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian, and is available for checkout at the Orange County Campus Library. Title: Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery: A Novel in Two Acts Author: Mary Amato Genre: Fantasy [because ghosts talking and stuff]. Is there a "imagined conversations between ghosts in graveyards" fiction genre? Because this fits that one, too. #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book that contains a supernatural creature, occurrence, or event
Need general information or some background or basics to get started on a research assignment? Know that you shouldn’t head to Wikipedia if you want to use it for a class assignment? Try Credo Reference! Credo does not contain scholarly journal articles, but it is packed with reference information pulled from hundreds of books that can be cited for assignments. You can filter search results to by source, type, or date. You can look for articles or images. If you find an article that you want to
Title: Persepolis Author: Marjane Satrapi Genres: memoir, history, graphic novel 2022 Read Great Things Categor(ies): A book about travel; An Artsy Book; A book about community Political protests in Iran have been in the headlines over the past two weeks, with numerous demonstrations in the country propelled by the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who died while in police custody. Today I'm highlighting an accessible and personal history of conflict within and surrounding Iran from the
It's still April, which means it's still Poetry Month. (Yay for that!) There's something powerful about hearing an author reading their own work, especially with poetry. Where do they stop and start? What words do they emphasize? It adds something extra (at least for that particular moment). If you like to listen, the Library of Congress has a comprehensive list of audio recordings of poets reading their own poems. They contain both external and internal audio resources, including the Library of
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