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<em> These books look at the important historical figures, and
events, and ordinary people that made the world what it is today. It was
not inevitable that history would turn out the way it did.</em><br />
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<a href="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/spqr.png" rel="attachment wp-att-4073" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="spqr" class="wp-image-4073 size-full alignleft" height="220" src="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/spqr.png" width="144" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3275359" style="color: #3366ff;">S.P.Q.R. A History of Ancient Rome</a></span></strong></span><br />
<em>by Mary Beard</em><br />
Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident
and self-critical empire, S.P.Q.R. reintroduces us, though in a wholly
different way, to famous and familiar characters, Hannibal, Julius
Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others. Beard expands the
historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional
histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those
on the losing side of Rome’s glorious conquests. Like the best
detectives, Beard sifts fact from fiction, myth and propaganda from
historical record.<br />
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<a href="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ardennes-1944.png" rel="attachment wp-att-4065" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Ardennes 1944" class="alignright wp-image-4065 " height="190" src="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ardennes-1944.png" width="126" /></a><strong><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3277013" style="color: #3366ff;">Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge</a></span></span><br />
</strong><em>by Antony Beevor</em><br />
Prizewinning historian Antony Beevor takes an in depth look at the
Ardennes offensive, one of the greatest battles of World War II. Deeply
researched, this riveting new account examines a battle that would prove
to be the battle which finally broke the back of the Wehrmacht.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3212770" style="color: #3366ff;">The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789</a></span></span><br />
</strong><em>by Joseph J. Ellis</em><br />
The unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought
off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would
decide to subordinate themselves anew. Ellis has given us a gripping and
dramatic portrait of one of the most crucial and misconstrued periods
in American history.<br />
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<a href="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/whirlwind.png" rel="attachment wp-att-4075" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="whirlwind" class="alignright wp-image-4075 " height="207" src="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/whirlwind.png" width="135" /></a><strong><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3220078" style="color: #3366ff;">The Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It</a></span></span></strong><br />
<em>by John Ferling<br />
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Written in Ferling’s engaging and narrative-driven style that made books
like Independence and The Ascent of George Washington critical and
commercial successes, Whirlwind is a fast-paced and scrupulously told
one-volume history of this epochal time. Balancing social and political
concerns with a careful examination of the war itself, Ferling has
crafted the ideal book for armchair military history buffs, a book about
the causes of the American Revolution, the war that won it.<br />
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<a href="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Great-Divide.png" rel="attachment wp-att-4066" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Great Divide" class="wp-image-4066 size-full alignleft" height="212" src="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Great-Divide.png" width="140" /></a><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3223816" style="color: #3366ff;">The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson t hat Defined a Nation</a></span></span><br />
</strong><em>by Thomas Fleming</em><br />
Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming examines how the differing
temperaments and leadership styles of Washington and Jefferson shaped
two opposing views of the presidency–and the nation. The clash between
these two gifted men, both of whom cared deeply about the United States
of America, profoundly influenced the next two centuries of America’s
history and resonates in the present day.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3242461" style="color: #3366ff;">A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, a Search for the Truth</a></span></span><br />
</strong><em>by Rita Gabis</em><br />
Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and
Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a
child and knew one version of his past: prior to immigration he had
fought the Russians, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed
thousands of lives before Hitler’s army swept in. Five years ago, Gabis
discovered an unthinkable dimension to her family story: from 1941 to
1943, her grandfather had been the chief of security police under the
Gestapo in a Lithuanian town.<br />
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<a href="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Spain.png" rel="attachment wp-att-4072" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Spain" class="alignleft wp-image-4072 size-full" height="211" src="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Spain.png" width="139" /></a><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3217810" style="color: #3366ff;">Spain: The Center of the World, 1519-1682</a></span></span><br />
</strong><em>by Robert Goodwin</em><br />
The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries
of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of
transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world.
It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social
change, it was a time when Spain learned to rule the world. Spain is a
sweeping and revealing portrait of Spain at the height of its power and a
world at the dawn of the modern age.<br />
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<span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3173670" style="color: #3366ff;">Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women</a></span></span><br />
</strong><em>by Sarah Helm</em><br />
A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of
World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi concentration camp built for
women. While the core of this book is told from inside the camp, the
story also sheds new light on the evolution of the wider genocide, the
impotence of the world to respond, and Himmler’s final attempt to seek a
separate peace with the Allies using the women of Ravensbrück as a
bargaining chip. Chilling, inspiring, and deeply unsettling.<br />
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<a href="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Struggle-for-israel.png" rel="attachment wp-att-4074" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Struggle for israel" class="alignleft wp-image-4074 size-full" height="228" src="https://wellesleyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Struggle-for-israel.png" width="153" /></a><strong> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3210815" style="color: #3366ff;">Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947</a></span></span></strong><br />
<em>by Bruce Hoffman</em><br />
A landmark history, based on newly available documents, of the
battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of
Israel. The story of how Britain, in the twilight of empire,
struggled and ultimately failed to reconcile competing Arab and Jewish
demands and uprisings. This towering narrative, is essential to anyone
wishing to understand not just the origins of modern-day Israel, but
also the methodology of terrorism and the current situation in the
Middle East.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3217808" style="color: #3366ff;">Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South</a></span></span><br />
</strong><em>by Christopher Dickey</em><br />
Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one
unlikely Englishman. When Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston to take up
the post of British consul in 1853, he was young and full of ambition.
In an age when diplomats often were spies, Bunch’s job included sending
intelligence back to the British government in London. Yet as the United
States threatened to erupt into Civil War, Bunch found himself plunged
into a double life, settling into an amiable routine with his
slavery-loving neighbors on the one hand, while working furiously to
thwart their plans to achieve a new Confederacy.</div>
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</section>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-69292614247351244942015-12-23T15:50:00.002-05:002015-12-23T15:53:18.885-05:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: The Last Armada<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3434207" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Last Armada:</span> Queen Elizabeth, Juan Del Águila, and the 100-Day Invasion of England</b></a><br /><br /><i>by Des Ekin </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtCk2IGmpHp1KG-4I8PFhGDKQLguf-pZ7fnt0zeULG-Lk1Uj7wrMtoAFKTNraiPFYAjE-_3AatKB8UowcrFcodG9ORpq8-ZOkCE4IOeEhb9bP18NsyOTp-RiXXADOX6jD0RloWygSVg1Y/s1600/Last+Armada.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtCk2IGmpHp1KG-4I8PFhGDKQLguf-pZ7fnt0zeULG-Lk1Uj7wrMtoAFKTNraiPFYAjE-_3AatKB8UowcrFcodG9ORpq8-ZOkCE4IOeEhb9bP18NsyOTp-RiXXADOX6jD0RloWygSVg1Y/s320/Last+Armada.png" width="211" /></a>Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601. <br /><br />As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Águila has been sprung from a prison cell to command the last great Spanish armada. His mission: to seize a bridgehead in Queen Elizabeth's England and hold it. <br /><br />Facing him is Charles Blount, a brilliant English strategist whose career is also under a cloud. His affair with a married woman edged him into a treasonous conspiracy, and brought him to within a hair's breadth of the gallows. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Irish insurgent Hugh O'Neill knows that this is his final chance to drive the English out of Ireland. <br /><br />For each man, this is the last throw of the dice. Tomorrow they will be either heroes or failures. These colorful commanders come alive in this true story of courage and endurance, of bitterness and betrayal, and of drama and intrigue at the highest levels in the courts of England and Spain. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The story of the last great naval battle between England and Spain,
evoking a number of colorful and dangerous personalities who fought in
the climactic conclusion to these two countries’ great rivalry on the
sea.</span></span><br />
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Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-67665948205438445852015-12-21T13:55:00.001-05:002015-12-21T13:55:56.515-05:00YOUNG ADULT BOOK SPOTLIGHT: UNBOUND <a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3278516__Sunbound__P0%2C2__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Unbound</a> <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1gP6eR6XrcMTypUQW9RaCbiiAg3OR8WrVXYZRheh3F4Db6s_7ZWVO4sf-7lAcruNynjYaTYUY25ixZ1aYntawQJgZXZHYsjgBiTFDuUq8M72NpPklhqObTWqJlhGNw97QB2ChgDRGi2s/s1600/unbound.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1gP6eR6XrcMTypUQW9RaCbiiAg3OR8WrVXYZRheh3F4Db6s_7ZWVO4sf-7lAcruNynjYaTYUY25ixZ1aYntawQJgZXZHYsjgBiTFDuUq8M72NpPklhqObTWqJlhGNw97QB2ChgDRGi2s/s1600/unbound.jpg" /></a>By: Neal Shusterman<br />
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Find out what happens to Connor, Risa, and Lev now that they've finally
destroyed the Proactive Citizenry in this collection of short stories
set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology by
Neal Shusterman. Connor Lassiter's fight to bring down Proactive
Citizenry and find a suitable alternative to unwinding concluded in
UnDivided . Now Connor, Risa, and Lev are free to live in a peaceful
future--or are they? Neal Shusterman brings back his beloved Unwind
characters for his fans to see what's left for those who were destined
to be unwound.<br />
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Shared by: CaraWellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-48002413161309943202015-12-19T16:03:00.002-05:002015-12-29T12:35:05.746-05:00CAREER BOOK SPOTLIGHT: THE SOCIAL MEDIA JOB SEARCH WORKBOOK <a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3450754__Sthe%20social%20media%20job%20search%20workbook__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">The Social Media Job Search Workbook: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Finding Work in the Age of Social Media </a><br />
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By: Joshua Waldman, MBA<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-DRvSZmaFaPQOnvtjtGb7BgYPalo1fkJ06VxGTmlZhxG5r-IKlwJvLuCxQoVXWqRnp29JjEqGKZrZphLWjjNVR0vpIcJz5FkJH2nZ2nk21yw8J8q14x3hbYe0VvnyNItEK47m5VZIQM/s1600/Linkedin2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-DRvSZmaFaPQOnvtjtGb7BgYPalo1fkJ06VxGTmlZhxG5r-IKlwJvLuCxQoVXWqRnp29JjEqGKZrZphLWjjNVR0vpIcJz5FkJH2nZ2nk21yw8J8q14x3hbYe0VvnyNItEK47m5VZIQM/s200/Linkedin2.jpg" width="160" /></a>You've probably heard that social media can make or break your search
for a job. But exactly how do you conduct an effective social media job
search? Where do you turn for the best job search advice? What does it
take to find a job today?Joshua Waldman knows. He wrote the popular book
Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies. And now he has created
this workbook, The Social Media Job Search Workbook. What can this
workbook help you accomplish? - Get interviews faster- Attract
recruiters- Increase your chances of finding meaningful work in record
timeWhy a workbook? Because landing your dream job takes more than
knowledge--it takes action. This workbook's friendly format helps you
translate valuable knowledge into invaluable action based on your unique
skills, interests, and appeal to employers. Waldman takes the worry out
of the process as he guides you through the right steps in the right
order, from positioning to polishing to publishing. He shares his proven
process for crafting a job-attracting message that works for the online
audience you want to reach. Waldman's tips on using today's
tools--especially LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter--will give you the
confidence and clarity you need to fine-tune your own powerful social
media job search.
Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-66212885236290826572015-12-19T09:50:00.003-05:002015-12-19T09:50:40.757-05:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: EISENHOWER'S ARMIES<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3278273" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eisenhower's Armies:</span> The American-British Alliance During World War II</span></span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>by Niall Barr </i></b><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This
dynamic new history provides a fresh perspective on many of the
controversies and critical strategic decisions of World War II. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfbaPDUMeKCLRP7s7BixCK9kL78vqE0EEw18yz8-BWhLwLDK3N8SD1FoDHQf0mgDoq8X6MInnxst6aOFf1dul8R7-n8dacoHqUzYciIVwH8S0doSzjzdyixUs86FZ0ew7RE_BFLQG-aI/s1600/Ike%2527s+Armies.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfbaPDUMeKCLRP7s7BixCK9kL78vqE0EEw18yz8-BWhLwLDK3N8SD1FoDHQf0mgDoq8X6MInnxst6aOFf1dul8R7-n8dacoHqUzYciIVwH8S0doSzjzdyixUs86FZ0ew7RE_BFLQG-aI/s320/Ike%2527s+Armies.png" width="212" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Anglo-American relationship from 1941-1945 proved to be the most effective military alliance in history. Yet there were also constant tensions and disagreements that threatened to pull the alliance apart. This book highlights why the unprecedented level of cooperation between the very different American and British forces eventually led to victory but also emphasizes the tensions and controversies which inevitably arose. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Based on considerable archival research, this work considers the breadth and depth of the relationship from high-level strategic decisions, the rivalries and personalities of the commanders to the ordinary British and American soldiers who fought alongside one another. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The book also looks back and demonstrates how the legacy of previous experience shaped the decisions of the war. Eisenhower's Armies is the story of two very different armies learning to live, work, and fight together even in the face of serious strategic disagreements. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In highlighting the cooperation, tensions, and disagreements inherent in this military alliance, this work shows that Allied victory was far from pre-ordained and proves that the business of making this alliance work was vital for eventual success. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Eisenhower's Armies</i> is a very human story about the efforts of many individuals, famous or otherwise, who worked and argued together to defeat Hitler's Germany.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-24286923262105164622015-12-18T10:00:00.000-05:002015-12-19T15:48:01.129-05:00GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK SPOTLIGHT: WALKING WOUNDED<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3275716__Swalking%20wounded%20__P0%2C1__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Walking Wounded: Uncut Stories from Iraq</a><br />
Written by: Olivier Morel<br />
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<span dir="LTR" id="baseDirectionInsertComponent"><span class="additionalFields customSecondaryText">Translated by: Edward Gauvin</span></span> <br />
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<span dir="LTR" id="baseDirectionInsertComponent">For thousands of young
Americans, after the shock of 9/11, there was Ar Ramadi, Baghdad, Abu
Ghraib and then the war in Iraq. Then came the trauma. Olivier Morel
gave them a voice in his compelling documentary On the Bridge. Walking
Wounded is the story of Morel getting close to the young vets, their
troubled experience and their lives after the war. He and artist Mael
relate through these veterans the impossible return of those who aspire
to get back to a normal life.</span><br />
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<span dir="LTR" id="baseDirectionInsertComponent">A graphic novel illustrating the challenges and victories of Iraq War veterans. A new addition to our graphic novel section. On display on the second floor at the main library. </span><br />
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<span dir="LTR" id="baseDirectionInsertComponent">Shared by: Cara</span>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-18167059439432997112015-12-16T16:25:00.000-05:002015-12-16T16:31:05.620-05:00YA BOOK SPOTLIGHT: NEVER ALWAYS SOMETIMES<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3234547__Snever%20always%20sometimes__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Never Always Sometimes</a><br />
By: Adi Alsaid<br />
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<span dir="LTR" id="baseDirectionInsertComponent">Best friends Dave and Julia were determined to <span class="highlight customHighlight">never</span>
be cliche high school kids--the ones who sit at the same lunch table
every day, dissecting the drama from homeroom and plotting their
campaigns for prom king and queen. They even wrote their own <span class="highlight customHighlight">Never</span> List of everything they vowed they'd <span class="highlight customHighlight">never</span>, ever do in high school. Some of the rules have been easy to follow, like #5, <span class="highlight customHighlight">never</span> die your hair a color of the rainbow, or #7, <span class="highlight customHighlight">never</span> hook up with a teacher. But Dave has a secret: he's broken rule #8, <span class="highlight customHighlight">never</span> pine silently after someone for the entirety of high school. It's either that or break rule #10, <span class="highlight customHighlight">never</span>
date your best friend. Dave has loved Julia for as long as he can
remember. Julia is beautiful, wild and impetuous. So when she suggests
they do every <span class="highlight customHighlight">Never</span> on
the list, Dave is happy to play along. He even dyes his hair an
unfortunate shade of green. It starts as a joke, but then a funny thing
happens: Dave and Julia discover that by skipping the clichés, they've
actually been missing out on high school. And maybe even on love. </span><br />
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<span dir="LTR" id="baseDirectionInsertComponent">Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZiFd1B4pY" target="_blank">book trailer</a>! </span><br />
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<span dir="LTR" id="baseDirectionInsertComponent">Shared by: Cara</span>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-41070790967280089282015-12-15T16:52:00.000-05:002015-12-16T16:31:15.636-05:00YA BOOK SPOTLIGHT: THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA LAVENDER<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3144073__SThe%20Strange%20and%20Beautiful%20Sorrows%20of%20Ava%20Lavender__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender</a><br />
By: Leslye Walton <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz78pvZdBqAYxjZ6peR7zMY_m8Nt7Czy9H4EBHVzmDZkKTHDbG_eF01Ya1hSTufHnIzg-dGSKbdxqSCOhlBnmKL4K8KIP08bFSNLYj1iUz9exi8dKxMcbMEmSaP_e5qguU0dhJLB_61Fg/s1600/AvaLavender.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz78pvZdBqAYxjZ6peR7zMY_m8Nt7Czy9H4EBHVzmDZkKTHDbG_eF01Ya1hSTufHnIzg-dGSKbdxqSCOhlBnmKL4K8KIP08bFSNLYj1iUz9exi8dKxMcbMEmSaP_e5qguU0dhJLB_61Fg/s320/AvaLavender.jpg" width="212" /></a>Named a 2015 <a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/morris-award" target="_blank">Morris Award</a> finalist by YALSA, which "honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens
and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature."<br />
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Born with bird wings, Ava Lavender is well aware that love has long made fools of her family. When pious Nathanial Sorrows mistakes her bird wings for angel wings, 16-year-old Ava faces the man's growing obsession, which comes to a head with the rain and feathers that fly through the air during a nighttime summer solstice celebration.<br />
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"Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga." <br />
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Watch the <a href="http://honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature." target="_blank">book trailer</a>!<br />
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Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-46758235930695869822015-12-10T12:45:00.001-05:002015-12-10T12:45:39.649-05:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: THE INTIMATE BOND<br />
<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3221401" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Intimate Bond:</span> How Animals Shaped Human History</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Brian </span>Fagan</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorANXcKOUysWk6iYbaIL49RkljLvsvCJn4EbB48dZKYkwgpmI6XoAnTE3ACeBI9wMPdH6ItlFdewFW2s10ggWsEjYuy293iLLSVJAR1BdpJKjskyOpaDlAycl_LfjNMdqwkSji48Ysmk/s1600/Intimate+Bond+Fagan.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorANXcKOUysWk6iYbaIL49RkljLvsvCJn4EbB48dZKYkwgpmI6XoAnTE3ACeBI9wMPdH6ItlFdewFW2s10ggWsEjYuy293iLLSVJAR1BdpJKjskyOpaDlAycl_LfjNMdqwkSji48Ysmk/s320/Intimate+Bond+Fagan.png" width="210" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">New York Times bestselling author Brian Fagan shows how the powerful bond between Homo sapiens and other species has determined the course of civilizations and even shaped human character. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share with our fellow fauna. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Brian Fagan unfolds this fascinating story from the first wolf who wandered into our prehistoric ancestors' camp and found companionship, to empires built on the backs of horses, donkeys, and camels, to the industrial age when some animals became commodities, often brutally exploited, and others became pets, nurtured and pampered, sometimes to absurd extremes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Through an in-depth analysis of six truly trans-formative human-animal relationships, Fagan shows how our habits and our very way of life were considerably and irreversibly altered by our intimate bond with animals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With characteristic care and penetrating insight, Fagan reveals the profound influence that animals have exercised on human history and how, in fact, they often drove it.</span><br />
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Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-86729187598211794472015-12-03T14:47:00.000-05:002015-12-04T10:08:11.058-05:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: TEN BILLION TOMORROWS<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3275574" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ten Billion Tomorrows:</b></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><b>How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future</b></span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><br /><i>by Brian Clegg </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8GUnsOzO4lBfbw-bmcxLv1olJM69F0oItIixdx4fxtuv0ufjChGnSODDmsu587ZZa7ydKWE6XMvNhGXNPPI0j0wFR0Bdx2t-lXaqps9huADxjqu6t1Fv3GQIlbw63WMWdAezeBZXDA4/s1600/Ten+Billion+Tomorrows.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8GUnsOzO4lBfbw-bmcxLv1olJM69F0oItIixdx4fxtuv0ufjChGnSODDmsu587ZZa7ydKWE6XMvNhGXNPPI0j0wFR0Bdx2t-lXaqps9huADxjqu6t1Fv3GQIlbw63WMWdAezeBZXDA4/s320/Ten+Billion+Tomorrows.png" width="224" /></a>Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8GUnsOzO4lBfbw-bmcxLv1olJM69F0oItIixdx4fxtuv0ufjChGnSODDmsu587ZZa7ydKWE6XMvNhGXNPPI0j0wFR0Bdx2t-lXaqps9huADxjqu6t1Fv3GQIlbw63WMWdAezeBZXDA4/s1600/Ten+Billion+Tomorrows.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the profession and have shaped our futures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Science fiction doesn't set out to predict what will happen, it's far more about how human beings react to "What if'..." but, it is fascinating to see how science fiction and reality sometimes converge, and also sometimes take extraordinarily different paths. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8GUnsOzO4lBfbw-bmcxLv1olJM69F0oItIixdx4fxtuv0ufjChGnSODDmsu587ZZa7ydKWE6XMvNhGXNPPI0j0wFR0Bdx2t-lXaqps9huADxjqu6t1Fv3GQIlbw63WMWdAezeBZXDA4/s1600/Ten+Billion+Tomorrows.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ten Billion Tomorrows sorts through many familiar SF devices and looks at contemporary scientific research to determine their feasibility. Although some scientific concepts like quantum tunneling are complicated the book is very accessible to the general reader.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mixing remarkable science with the imagination of our greatest science fiction writers, Ten Billion Tomorrows will delight science fiction lovers and popular science devotees alike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://youtu.be/K54LN9q1jSs?t=1s" target="_blank">See Also Michio Kaku Video on the Physics of the Future</a>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-13837236292858428492015-11-23T09:50:00.001-05:002015-11-23T09:51:05.305-05:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: Searching for the Oldest Stars<b><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3434311" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Searching for the Oldest Stars:</span> Ancient Relics from the Early Universe</span></span></a></b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg14IxSauP97iPVjDEudYK5wGowrbTDWTz7DAWewE7fWSuoIE1B7r_TsXNAXkciAteQTVllxDh9fM_eNHolOT1jO0EAnN063cFD9hHy1_WtxpyKt3hVjJdc4LamXrA2SDdZDy7Ap8aUFxE/s1600/Searching+for+the+Oldest+Stars.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><i>by Anna Frebel </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span>Astronomers study the oldest observable stars in the universe in much the same </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg14IxSauP97iPVjDEudYK5wGowrbTDWTz7DAWewE7fWSuoIE1B7r_TsXNAXkciAteQTVllxDh9fM_eNHolOT1jO0EAnN063cFD9hHy1_WtxpyKt3hVjJdc4LamXrA2SDdZDy7Ap8aUFxE/s1600/Searching+for+the+Oldest+Stars.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>way that archaeologists study ancient artifacts on Earth. Here, Anna Frebel, who is credited with discovering several of the oldest and most primitive stars using the world's largest telescopes, takes readers into the far-flung depths of space and time to provide a gripping firsthand account of the cutting-edge science of stellar archaeology. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Weaving the latest findings in astronomy with her own compelling insights as one of the world's leading researchers in the field, Frebel explains how sections of the night sky are "excavated" in the hunt for these extremely rare relic stars, some of which have been shining for more than 13 billion years. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This astonishing quest to find the oldest stars is revealing tantalizing new details about the earliest times in the universe. Frebel vividly describes how the very first stars formed soon after the big bang and then exploded as supernovae, leaving behind chemical fingerprints that were incorporated into the ancient stars we can still observe today. She shows how these fingerprints provide clues to the cosmic origin of the elements, early star and galaxy formation, and the assembly process of the Milky Way. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Along the way, Frebel recounts her own stories of discovery, offering an insider's perspective on this exciting frontier of science. Packed with great diagrams this book sheds vital new light on the origins and evolution of the cosmos while providing a unique look into scientific discovery and life as an astronomer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/0jzzzczftlY?t=9s" target="_blank">Anna Frebel about the oldest star yet discovered. (Youtube)</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-35720275637435353482015-11-12T13:52:00.000-05:002015-11-12T13:54:33.029-05:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: SPQR<a href="http://b3275359/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">S. P. Q. R. :</span> A History of Ancient Rome</span></span></b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In S.P.Q.R., world renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">S.P.Q.R. (the abbreviation of "The Senate and People of Rome") examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism and revolution, and how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Illustrating how a classical democracy yielded to a self-confident and self-critical empire, S.P.Q.R. reintroduces us, though in a wholly different way, to famous and familiar characters,<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, and Nero, among others,<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>while expanding the historical aperture to include those overlooked in traditional histories: the women, the slaves and ex-slaves, conspirators, and those on the losing side of Rome's glorious conquests. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Like the best detectives, Beard sifts fact from fiction, myth and propaganda from historical record, refusing either simple admiration or blanket condemnation. Far from being frozen in marble, Roman history, she shows, is constantly being revised and rewritten as our knowledge expands. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Indeed, our perceptions of ancient Rome have changed dramatically over the last fifty years, and S.P.Q.R., with its nuanced attention to class inequality, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, promises to reshape our view of Roman history. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/sLnHhqMH4xc?t=5s" target="_blank">Mary Beard on S.P.Q.R.</a></span></span>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-18626696187288225322015-11-09T16:02:00.001-05:002015-11-09T16:02:56.760-05:00What's new in Fiction and Mystery for November?Wondering what's coming out in Fiction and Mystery for November? Here are a few titles:<br />
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<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3233520" target="_blank"><b>Tricky Twenty-Two</b></a> by <b>Janet Evanovich</b><br />
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back!<br />
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<b><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3239641" target="_blank">The Crossing</a></b> by <b>Michael Connelly</b><br />
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Harry Bosch is retired, but he is still on the case. His defense attorney half-brother now needs his help.<br />
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<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3242235" target="_blank"><b>The Japanese Lover</b></a> by <b>Isabel Allende</b><br />
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Alma Belasco is in a nursing home but her affair with a Japanese gardener continues over the years. <br />
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<br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-48245266381306942322015-11-05T11:22:00.002-05:002015-11-05T11:27:18.976-05:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: ARDENNES 1944<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3277013" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ardennes 1944</span>: The Battle of the Bulge</span></span></a><br />
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<i>by Antony Beevor</i><br />
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The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of <i>D-Day</i> and <i>Stalingrad</i> reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account.<br />
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On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp and forcing the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the east.<br />
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The harsh winter conditions and the savagery of the battle became comparable to the Eastern Front. In fact the Ardennes became the Western Front's counterpart to Stalingrad. There was terrible ferocity on both sides, driven by desperation and revenge, in which the normal rules of combat were breached.<br />
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In this deeply researched work, with striking insights into the major players on both sides, Antony Beevor gives us the definitive account of the Ardennes offensive, which was to become the battle which finally broke the back of the Wehrmacht.<br />
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<br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-15898533728946638272015-10-29T11:22:00.003-04:002015-10-29T11:22:56.865-04:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: Science of the Magical<b><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3410388" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Science of the Magical:</span> From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers</span></span></a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can migrations of birds foretell our future? Do phases of the moon hold sway over our lives? Are there sacred springs that cure the ill? What is the best way to brew a love potion? How do we create mutant humans who regenerate like Wolverine? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Matt Kaplan plumbs the rich, lively, and surprising history of the magical objects, places, and rituals that infuse ancient and contemporary myth. Ranging across cultures and time periods, </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kaplan </span></span>points out that there is often much more to these enduring magical narratives than mere fantasy. <br /><br />Informative and entertaining, Science of the Magical explores our world through the compelling scope of natural and human history and cutting-edge science.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5V9O8RjKYsYWGRFuIuCh91OM6IFI_QF7fVlpQllHF6ZZmwOWaJfcDFBsNVEzt3Z-dF6IFo30czjlRHENXib2yO1kX9EUHrkR6psrPmcfW4Cumxpmh5eLUxjlnex4oFnPDRH8cbAZR0A8/s1600/Secret+of+Our+Success.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5V9O8RjKYsYWGRFuIuCh91OM6IFI_QF7fVlpQllHF6ZZmwOWaJfcDFBsNVEzt3Z-dF6IFo30czjlRHENXib2yO1kX9EUHrkR6psrPmcfW4Cumxpmh5eLUxjlnex4oFnPDRH8cbAZR0A8/s320/Secret+of+Our+Success.png" width="214" /></a>Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains, on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuro-scientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology.</span></span><br />
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Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-16631746607399886692015-10-16T14:32:00.000-04:002015-10-16T14:32:24.045-04:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: The Witches: Salem 1692<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3242732" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Witches: Salem 1692</span></b></span></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_ymLbp0zE4gG_aELhNqxQL4sLQdu72acTRJcOkZfwP3fFhgqa_xc9JA-hH_K9yWeM547mg4F2rES-D5o5Bs7-pUENiY4NfXbofb9iy9pORYiFbHHww85QEmG0JRP3RMYjbPCbzNH2Xo/s1600/Witches+Salem.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_ymLbp0zE4gG_aELhNqxQL4sLQdu72acTRJcOkZfwP3fFhgqa_xc9JA-hH_K9yWeM547mg4F2rES-D5o5Bs7-pUENiY4NfXbofb9iy9pORYiFbHHww85QEmG0JRP3RMYjbPCbzNH2Xo/s320/Witches+Salem.png" width="211" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <br />The Pulitzer Prize winning author of <i>Cleopatra</i>, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, <i>The Witches </i>is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story. The first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians. A fascinating narrative of one of the most infamous trials in American history.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?85109-2/book-discussion-witches" target="_blank"> Stacy Schiff Interview</a> </span></span>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-65698446646158783872015-10-16T10:56:00.000-04:002015-10-16T10:56:05.848-04:00What's New in Mystery and Fiction for OctoberWondering what's coming out in mystery and fiction for October? Here are a few titles:<br />
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<b><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3239675" target="_blank">Woman Who Walked in Sunshine: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency</a> </b>by <b>Alexander McCall Smith</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3237584" target="_blank">All the Stars in the Heavens</a></b> by <b>Adriana Trigiani</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3241580" target="_blank">City on Fire</a> </b>by<b> Garth Risk Hallberg</b>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-36600962518144177152015-10-09T11:24:00.002-04:002015-10-09T11:24:18.071-04:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: HISTORY'S PEOPLE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3276241" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">History's People: <span style="font-size: small;">Personalities and the Past</span></span></a></b><br /><i> </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>by </i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Margaret </span></span>MacMillan </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-xGrIgEtD3aovSYGWu8BVj4LnL8kMVLjxFRvjX09K3MTwz7wItzSFiJiLThbiODxINUJN0RwpVKTrPqj5eAFLv8CW-26XwltzJbV5JbmC_YIGjCAl9otH5My4MLGiowymTV9CvBXZZU/s1600/History%2527s+People.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-xGrIgEtD3aovSYGWu8BVj4LnL8kMVLjxFRvjX09K3MTwz7wItzSFiJiLThbiODxINUJN0RwpVKTrPqj5eAFLv8CW-26XwltzJbV5JbmC_YIGjCAl9otH5My4MLGiowymTV9CvBXZZU/s320/History%2527s+People.png" width="209" /></a></span></span>In History's People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-xGrIgEtD3aovSYGWu8BVj4LnL8kMVLjxFRvjX09K3MTwz7wItzSFiJiLThbiODxINUJN0RwpVKTrPqj5eAFLv8CW-26XwltzJbV5JbmC_YIGjCAl9otH5My4MLGiowymTV9CvBXZZU/s1600/History%2527s+People.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>author of <i>Paris 1919</i>, gives her own personal selection of figures of the past. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She selects the women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the bringing of a unified United States into the Second World War. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She also notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own societies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own societies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Finally, there are the observers, such as Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b> </b></span><br /><i>by Joby Warrick </i><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDdTejD5vQKYxSxCYOZaGRV3SeyQujKZZ-U8bPvLdJT6vgN0Jw3C319Emk1RcRBGNJ5dOHJ5lYp6RT7c_zi0Wi_fq1QcHCs5D0YXP1u9RU_7LwEgXksugBRJGwOLQxOi-vBcdLGgkyRY/s1600/Black+Flags.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDdTejD5vQKYxSxCYOZaGRV3SeyQujKZZ-U8bPvLdJT6vgN0Jw3C319Emk1RcRBGNJ5dOHJ5lYp6RT7c_zi0Wi_fq1QcHCs5D0YXP1u9RU_7LwEgXksugBRJGwOLQxOi-vBcdLGgkyRY/s400/Black+Flags.png" width="263" /></a>In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and soon the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. Joby Warrick shows how the zeal of this one man and the strategic mistakes of Presidents Bush and Obama led to the banner of ISIS being raised over huge swaths of Syria and Iraq. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zarqawi began by directing terror attacks from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the American invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head of a vast insurgency. By falsely identifying him as the link between Saddam and bin Laden, U.S. officials inadvertently spurred like-minded radicals to rally to his cause. Their wave of brutal beheadings and suicide bombings persisted until American and Jordanian intelligence discovered clues that led to a lethal airstrike on Zarqawi's hideout in 2006. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His movement, however, endured. First calling themselves al-Qaeda in Iraq, then Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, his followers sought refuge in unstable, ungoverned pockets on the Iraq-Syria border. When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, and as the U.S. largely stood by, ISIS seized its chance to pursue Zarqawi's dream of an ultra-conservative Islamic caliphate. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today's most dangerous extremist threat. </span></span><br />
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<br /><br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-20130839313398330112015-09-24T15:25:00.004-04:002015-09-24T15:25:59.525-04:00Book Spotlight: Operation Long Jump<a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3422000" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Operation Long Jump:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History</span></span></b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler. The three heads of the Allied forces, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin, were planning to meet in Tehran in October, 1943. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Under Hitler's personal direction, the Nazis launched "Operation Long Jump," an intricate plan to track the Allied leaders in Tehran and assassinate all three men at the same time. "I suppose it would make a pretty good haul if they could get all three of us," Roosevelt later said. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Historian Bill Yenne retells the incredible, globe-spanning story of the most ambitious assassination plot ever thwarted in Operation Long Jump.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-9324520493347853032015-09-17T11:40:00.002-04:002015-09-17T11:40:34.810-04:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: GENGHIS KHAN<b><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3243657" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy</span></span></span></a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw5-QT5MgmtO8TzsFUzKYDC6HtM2-tSqEmcT98v6xHmbfBVpz_MwhI2IfdVbPhJNftw7xrZ1ZKr6HMQXSQPx5H3JkW7VRnq-3i2o4VTfy_HnIr8Mq_M7OSFk11Dzyk-jlkQBgXApDT548/s1600/Genghis+Kahn.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw5-QT5MgmtO8TzsFUzKYDC6HtM2-tSqEmcT98v6xHmbfBVpz_MwhI2IfdVbPhJNftw7xrZ1ZKr6HMQXSQPx5H3JkW7VRnq-3i2o4VTfy_HnIr8Mq_M7OSFk11Dzyk-jlkQBgXApDT548/s320/Genghis+Kahn.png" width="211" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span>Mongol leader Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ever known. His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power and subdue most of the known world, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon? Credited by some with paving the way for the Renaissance, condemned by others for being the most heinous murderer in history, who was Genghis Khan? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">His actual name was Temujin, and the story of his success is that of the Mongol people: a loose collection of fractious tribes who tended livestock, considered bathing taboo, and possessed an unparalleled genius for horseback warfare. United under Genghis, a strategist of astonishing cunning and versatility, they could dominate any sedentary society they chose. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols. The most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have lived.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Frank McLynn has written an informative general account of Genghis Khan and his times. An ambitious task given the lack of reliable sources however, McLynn pulls it of with an intriguing look into Mongol society.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-38904203539387946392015-09-16T14:05:00.001-04:002015-09-16T14:07:28.551-04:00MOVIE SPOTLIGHT - Love Is StrangeWhen George (Alfred Molina) loses his job teaching music at a Roman Catholic school because of his sexuality, his husband Ben (John Lithgow) and he can no longer afford their mortgage, must sell their co-op, and move in with family. Director Ira Sachs' unsentimental and graceful portrayal of family dynamics, well meaning but somewhat clueless relatives and George and Ben, the "old married couple", is one of intimacy, tragedy and resilience.<br />
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<br />Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-73803009793611129192015-09-14T09:26:00.003-04:002015-09-14T09:27:14.617-04:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: FALL OF THE OTTOMANS<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3218260" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East</span></b></a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">by </span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eugene </span></span>Rogan</i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even the Middle East could escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2H_gXeUX9MUEbHi2KeGn3e8_oicbShOlMaJJQB0oZGeMLfcsaqrb3WkiF4xWSYbWa7rakJI3CgFsxt3HN3MsfGjbLTa4W6vgasy89clFTFRrJ0M8c3PiHjXMAS9KInLGQyEHA69DLIDs/s1600/Fall+of+the+Ottomans.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2H_gXeUX9MUEbHi2KeGn3e8_oicbShOlMaJJQB0oZGeMLfcsaqrb3WkiF4xWSYbWa7rakJI3CgFsxt3HN3MsfGjbLTa4W6vgasy89clFTFRrJ0M8c3PiHjXMAS9KInLGQyEHA69DLIDs/s320/Fall+of+the+Ottomans.png" width="207" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Great War spelled the end of the Ottomans, unleashing powerful forces that</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bolstered by German money, arms, and military advisers, the Ottomans took on the Russian, British, and French forces, and tried to provoke Jihad against the Allies in their Muslim colonies. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The great cities of Baghdad, Jerusalem, and, finally, Damascus fell to invading armies before the Ottomans agreed to an armistice in 1918. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands between the victorious powers, and laid the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span>Wellesley Referencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14358595996077590862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921396252980863301.post-48504151635716537622015-09-03T15:20:00.004-04:002015-09-03T15:22:45.193-04:00BOOK SPOTLIGHT: DRAGON HEART<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3270854" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Dragon Heart</span></a><br /><br /><i>by Cecelia Holland</i><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Where the Cape of the Winds juts into the endless sea, there is Castle Ocean, and therein dwells the royal family that has ruled it from time immemorial. But there is an Empire growing in the east, and its forces have reached the castle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As Jeon and Tirza return by sea, their ship is attacked by a shocking and powerful dragon, red as blood and big as the ship. Thrown into the water, Tirza clings to the dragon, and after an underwater journey, finds herself alone with the creature in an inland sea pool. Surprisingly, she is able to talk to the beast, and understand it. </span><br />
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during the middle ages, including her first book, the Firedrake about William the conqueror. Holland incorporates her knowledge of medieval times and uses it in her world building. Her abbots, princesses, and knights act as their medieval counterparts might have.</span> </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">epic violence, intense battle, deep love </span></div>
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