Reading for Fun!

Reading for enjoyment is a great way to improve your vocabulary as well as tone up your mind. Recently we’ve ordered some new books and they are beginning to arrive. We’re expanding our fiction and graphic novel collections, but we’re also adding some new non-fiction as well. Here is just a sample of some of our new offerings.

New Graphic Novel!

New Fiction!

New Non-fiction!

New Memoir!

New Books

We've got new books! Look out for these titles, and many more, coming to an LRC near you sometime this summer:

As we get them cataloged and shelved, we'll post some highlights here.

New Books!

China in the 21st century : what everyone needs to know / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom.
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
2010.
DS779.4 .W37 2010
available at one location, West Campus Circulation

Haunting of America : from the Salem witch trials to Harry Houdini /
William J. Birnes and Joel Martin ; foreword by George Noory.
Birnes, William J.
2009.
BF1028.5.U5 B57 2009
available at one location, West Campus Circulation

Dancing people : powwow culture on the southern Plains / Clyde Ellis.
Ellis, Clyde, 1958-
c2003.
E98.P86 E55 2003
available at one location, West Campus Circulation


Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger's / John Elder Robison.
Robison, John Elder.
c2008.
RC553.A88 R635 2008
available at one location, West Campus Circulation








Occult America : the secret history of how mysticism shaped our nation / Mitch Horowitz.
Horowitz, Mitch.
c2009.
BF1434.U6 H67 2009
available at one location, West Campus Circulation

New Books

Over the past few weeks, we've gotten some great new books at Metro! Some of them are:

Fiction:
Dead Until Dark (and three other Sookie Stockhouse books)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Nightlight: A Parody

Non-fiction:
The Blind Side
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Long Way Gone

Graphic Novels:
DMZ: On the Ground
Maus
Pride of Baghdad

Check them out on the new books shelf (at the end of the magazines display area near the info desk).

Graphic Novels @ the LRC. Part II: Superheroes

The Death of Superman

Includes:

• Superman: The Man of Steel #17-19
• Superman #73-75
• The Adventures of Superman #496-497
• Action Comics #683-684
• Justice League American #69

The Uncanny X-Men

Includes:

• God Spare the Child
• Dazzler
• Run for Your Life
• And Hellfire is Their Name
• Wolverine: Alone
• Too Late, the Heroes
• Dark Phoenix
• Child of Light and Darkness
• The Fate of the Phoenix

Watchmen

"It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder super-heroes and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians? On the run from the law, Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world and their lives, but what they uncover will shock them to their very core and change the face of the planet! Following two generations of masked superheroes from the close of World War II to the icy shadow of the Cold War comes this groundbreaking comic story — the story of The Watchmen." - DC Comics

X-Men image by Greg Land.Watchmen and Death of Superman images from covers.

Graphic Novels @ the LRC. Part I: Real Life?

Recently, the LRC has been trying to improve our collection of graphic novels. We just got a bunch in, and they'll be ready for checkout soon. Here are a few that deal with the challenges that we face in our day-to-day lives:

American Splendor: Ordinary Life is Pretty Complex Stuff, by Harvey Pekar

"American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A comic book writer and V.A. hospital file clerk, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dresiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them - he is himself."


Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli

"Who is Asterios Polyp? Architect, professor, author, husband - but that was all in the past. Now, as he marks half a century, he's become a shadow of his former self. But it's a stormy night, and a lightening bolt is about to set him on a fateful journey."





Black Hole, by Charles Burns

"The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease manifests itself in any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) - but once you've got it, that's it. There's no turning back."



The notes about each one are taken from the covers of the items. In the coming weeks, I'll post a little on some of the other graphic novels we've gotten:

• DMZ: On the Ground
• The Death of Superman
• Maus I
• Maus II
• Pride of Baghdad
• The Uncanny X-Men
• Watchmen