Popular Reading

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The CSS Popular Reading Collection contains approximately 1000 books for your reading pleasure. Books are located on the first floor of the Library and are shelved by the author's last name. Anthologies published yearly, such as Best American Short Stories, are shelved by the first three letters of the title (i.e BAS).

NEW BOOKS FOR OCTOBER

Fiction
Akpan, Uwem. Say You're One of Them.

Berry, Sebastian. The Secret Scripture.

Chaon, Dan. Await Your Reply.

Cleeves, Ann. Red Bones.

Dunnant, Sarah. Sacred Hearts.

Ellis, David. The Hidden Man.

Gregory, Phillippa. The White Queen.

Huneven, Michelle. Blame.

Johnson, Shelton. Gloryland.

Maitland, Karen. The Owl Killers.

McDonnell, Nick. An Expensive Education.

Moore, Lorrie. A Gate at the Stairs.

Nyguen, Bich Minh. Short Girls.

Ostland, Lori. The Bigness of the World: Stories by Linda Ostland.

Russo, Richard. That Old Cape Magic.

Silva, Daniel. The Defectors.

Non-fiction
Albom, Mitch. Have a Little Faith: A True Story.

Brand, Stewart. Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.

Finkel, David. The Good Soldiers.

Gonzalez-Crussi, F. Carrying the Heart: Exploring the World Within Us.

Gorn, Elliot J. Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year that Made America's Public Enemy Number One.

Grossman, Elizabeth. Chasing Molecules. Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry.

Kennedy, Edward M. True Compass: A Memoir.

Kling, Kevin. The Dog Says How.

Krakauer, Jon. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman.

Seward, Desmond. The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders.

Thompson, Teri, Vinton, Nathaniel, O'Keefe, Michael, and Christian Red. American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime.

WHAT ARE PEOPLE READING AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY?
Library Journal maintains a list, updated weekly, of the 15 most popular fiction and the 15 most popular non-fiction books checked out in America's public libraries. Scroll to the bottom of LJ's homepage to check out how your reading list compares to others!

Free Reader's Advisory
Books-in-Print offers FictionConnection, a free reader's advisory service to recommend books based on author, genre, etc. Just click on the link above and choose the category of book you are interested in reading.
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NEW BOOKS FOR OCTOBER

The Bigness of the World
What's in a name? When we think of Southern Gothic, we think of twisted people in twisted stories all in need of redemption, and of course, Flannery O'Connor. Who else would have a traveling Bible salesman seduce a woman just to steal her wooden leg? Loris Ostlund's debut collection of stories won the Flannery O'Connor Award. Publisher's Weekly describes these eleven stories in this way ... "A specific disenchantment inhabits these stories--the disenchantment of the uncompromising romantic confronted with the evaporative nature of love. Each piece is sublime." Let's hope they're Flannery-esque.

Check out The Bigness of the World at the CSS Library

Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
Obscene bonuses are back in the news again. But before we get too critical, we should remember that greed is a universal human condition, not something just dreamed up by the fat cats on Wall Street in the last few years. One fat cat who is no longer living large is Bernie Madoff, who ran a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. But long before there was Madoff there was ... Ponzi. Charles Ponzi was the lovable Italian immigrant in the 1920s who promised a 50% return on your money in 45 days if you invested in his international postage stamps. At the height of his scheme, he had people, rich and poor, lined up outside his door with bags and boxes of cash, begging him to take their money. And he did. But for a con man, he made one fatal mistake. He started to believe his own con. Mitchell Zuckoff has written a wonderful popular history of a man who took our money, and changed our language for all time.

Check out Ponzi's Scheme at the CSS Library

Use ScholastiCAT for the following -

To determine if a books is currently checked out:
---Access ScholastiCAT and search using "title begins with ... " for the book's by title.
---Click on the title of the book.
---Click on the "location/available" field.
---Look under "due date" on the left hand side. If the book is available, it will list "on shelf."

To place a hold on a Popular Reading book:
---Follow the same steps listed above.
---Now click on the "place hold" link and login using your PALS barcode number (it is listed on the back of your CSS ID) and your password (your last name).
---Follow directional prompts.

To view a list of all Popular Reading books:
Access ScholatiCAT and search using "subject begins with ..." for "popular reading".

Published reviews can be found in a number of different ways.

Books-in-Print
BIP provides the full-text of reviews from such souces as Library Journal, Booklist, Choice, & Publisher's Weekly. Locate your book by title, author, or ISBN. Citations accompanied by a star on the left-hand side will have reviews. Click on the citation, and from the full record choose the tab for "title reviews."
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Academic Search Premier
ASP has many more citations to a wider variety of reviews than BIP. However, it can be tricky to use. Login to ASP & go to "advanced search." In the drop-down box of the top left, type in the first three or four words of you book's title (omit the initial article). In the drop down box to its immediate left, click on the arrow and choose "PS Products & Reviews" for the type of search. Now click on "search.
If the full-text is not available with the citation, use our A to Z link to look for the text in other databases.
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