Monthly Archives: August 2011

(Late) Summer Reading

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Editor note: I first received this article from Mary Jackson near the end of July, but I was unable to publish it to the blog until now. Apologies Mary! The content is still relevant, however, and we are very excited about providing a Bestsellers Bookshelf for our users. It’s a bit later now. But there’s still enough summer left to get some official summer reading done.

How was your summer? Many people will be asking that in a few short weeks. But summer is still here and for many of you that includes summer reading. Meredith Sommers announced in a May 25th blog post, that the library is now purchasing a small rotating collection of bestsellers. I have read four of these bestsellers and hope a brief review might encourage you to read them.

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand—From the author of Seabiscuit, an amazing, uplifting, spiritual, and true story of Louis Zamperini. In places his real life is so unbelievable that it reads like fiction. Hillenbrand, who has an interesting life story herself, writes a compelling tale with extensive research and interviews with many of the participants.

Bossypants by Tina Fey—Funny books are hard to write, but this book made me laugh out loud. Fey is a comedy writer first and foremost; it shows in her writing. The final 1/3 is the weakest part of the book, but the first 1/3 more than makes up for the weakness in the ending. I knew of her, but certainly do not consider myself a huge Tina Fey fan and I still enjoyed this book.

Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College by Andrew Ferguson—A funny and engaging account of a writer dad’s efforts at getting his reasonably smart, but overwhelmed, son into college. An excellent read for the Milligan community showing the admissions process from the other side. In describing his son’s experience, he touches on many current topics in higher education.

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain—A well written novelization of the real life first marriage of Ernest Hemingway to Hadley Richardson, written from her perspective. The story is interesting, but one I found sad and with very few sympathetic characters outside the protagonist. It might be interesting to read in conjunction with Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, which details the same period in his life.

Come by the library and check out these or any of the Milligan bestsellers. They are located on the first floor near the back stairwell.

Million Pennies Campaign Raises $106.72 in June-July 2011!

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Milligan College Library is proud to announce that you, our loyal library users, contributed $106.72 in cash and change to our Million Pennies Campaign in June-July 2011. We have now raised $3,256.28 since the start of the campaign in April 2010, which means we’re getting close to 1/3 of our goal!

The Library staff would like to extend a hearty thank you to our June-July donors: Bev Schmalzried, Don Schmalzried, and Brennan Tracy. Remember, if you’d like us to thank you by name, please write your name down on the slips of paper in the tray next to the donation box, and we’ll let everyone know about your generosity!

Dr. Bev Schmalzried is the winner of our monthly drawing. She will receive the paperback Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl. Congratulations, Dr. Schmalzried!

The next prize is the paperback The Shack by William P. Young. Donate to the campaign, write your name on a slip of paper, and place it in the box. On September 1st, we’ll draw a winner from the names in the box!

We still need your help in raising funds to help us reach our goal of a totally renovated library. Bring your loose change and help us get closer to $10,000. Remember, when we raise the money, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like. Every penny helps! If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog. And remember you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter as well. Thank you!

New Books and Media Received (July 2011)

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The following Books and DVDs (138 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during July 2011:

30 for 30. Vol. 02, films 16-30 [videorecording]. [United States] : ESPN Films ; Owensboro, KY : Distributed by Team Marketing, c2011.

Adolf von Harnack : liberal theology at its height / ed. Martin Rumscheidt. London : Collins ; San Francisco, CA : Harper & Row, 1989.

Agewise : fighting the new ageism in America / Margaret Morganroth Gullette. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2011.

All alone / by Claire Bishop ; illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. New York : Viking Press, 1953.

All my friends are going to be strangers / Larry McMurtry ; with a preface by the author. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2002,c1972.

Americans before Columbus. Illustrated with drawings and maps by C. B. Falls and with 32 p. of photos. New York, Viking Press c1961,c1951.

Annie’s ghosts : a journey into a family secret / Steve Luxenberg. New York : Hyperion, c2009.

Anywhere but here / by Mona Simpson. New York : Vintage Books, 1992, c1986.

Apologia pro vita sua / John Henry Newman ; edited by Ian Ker. New York : Penguin Books, 1994.

Archives : principles and practices / Laura A. Millar. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2010.

The art of the Pre-Raphaelites / Elizabeth Prettejohn. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2000.

Artistic circles : design & decoration in the aesthetic movement / Charlotte Gere. London : V&A Pub. ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2010.

At the dark end of the street : Black women, rape, and resistance : a new history of the civil rights movement, from Rosa Parks to the rise of Black power / Danielle L. McGuire. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Atheist delusions : the Christian revolution and its fashionable enemies / David Bentley Hart. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Augustine of Hippo : a biography / Peter Brown. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

The battered child / edited by Mary Edna Helfer, Ruth S. Kempe, Richard D. Krugman. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

The beauty of the infinite : the aesthetics of Christian truth / David Bentley Hart. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c2003.

Belling the tiger. Pictures by Beni Montresor. New York, Harper [1961].

Benedict’s Rule : a translation and commentary / Terence G. Kardong. Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, c1996.

Better known as Johnny Appleseed / by Mabel Leigh Hunt ; decorations by James Daugherty. Philadelphia : Lippincott, c1950.

Birthdays of freedom : America’s heritage from the ancient world/ Genevieve Foster. New York : Scribner, [c1952].

Black fox of Lorne. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1956].

Black gold [videorecording] / Speak-it Films in association with Fulcrum Productions ; filmed, directed, and produced by Marc Francis & Nick Francis ; executive producer, Christopher Hird. [San Francisco?] : California Newsreel, c2007.

The book of Mormon : [the complete book and lyrics of the Broadway musical] / book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone. New York : Newmarket Press c2011.

A brief catechesis on nature and grace / Henri de Lubac ; translated by Richard Arnandez. San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c1984.

Burne-Jones : the life and works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) / by Christopher Wood. New York : Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1998.

The casualty gap : the causes and consequences of American wartime inequalities / Douglas L. Kriner, Francis X. Shen. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Catholicism : Christ and the common destiny of man / Henri de Lubac ; translated by Lancelot C. Sheppard and Elizabeth Englund. San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c1988.

Charles Fairfax Murray : the unknown Pre-Raphaelite / David B. Elliott. New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2000.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman : new texts, new contexts / edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S. Tuttle and Carol Farley Kessler. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011.

Christian liturgy : Catholic and evangelical / Frank C. Senn. Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c1997.

Christmas eve celebration : a dialogue / Friedrich Schleiermacher ; a revised translation with introduction and notes by Terrence N. Tice. Eugene, Or. : Cascade Books, c2010.

A companion to the Roman Empire / edited by David S. Potter. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Conflict in the classroom : positive staff support for troubled students / [edited by] Nicholas J. Long … [et al.]. Austin, Tex. : Pro-Ed., c2007.

Counseling 21st century students for optimal college and career readiness : a 9th-12th grade  curriculum / Corine Fitzpatrick and Kathleen Costantini. New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2011.

The creature from Jekyll Island : a second look at the Federal Reserve / by G. Edward Griffin. Westlake Village, Calif. : American Media, c2010.

Culturally proficient collaboration : use and misuse of school counselors / Diana L. Stephens, Randall B. Lindsey ; foreword by Trish Hatch. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, 2011.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the game that must be lost / Jerome McGann. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.

Dealers of lightning : Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age / Michael Hiltzik. New York : HarperCollins, 2000.

The defender; illustrated by Claire and George Louden, Jr. New York, Scribner [c1951].

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906-1945 : martyr, thinker, man of resistance / Ferdinand Schlingensiepen ; translated by Isabel Best. London ; New York : T&T Clark, c2010.

The Trinity / Karl Rahner ; translated by Joseph Donceel ; introduction, index, and glossary by Catherine Mowry LaCugna. New York : Crossroad Pub., 1997.

Edward Scissorhands [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox ; produced by Denise Di Novi, Tim Burton ; directed by Tim Burton ; screenplay by Caroline Thompson. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2000].

Effie : the passionate lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais / Suzanne Fagence Cooper. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2011.

Engaging the culture, changing the world : the Christian university in a post-Christian world / Philip W. Eaton. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2011.

The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture / Louis Dupri. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

Eschatology, death, and eternal life / Joseph Ratzinger ; translated by Michael Waldstein ; translation edited by Aidan Nichols. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2007].

An essay on the development of Christian doctrine / by John Henry Newman. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1989.

Facing age : women growing older in anti-aging culture / Laura Hurd Clarke. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

The fearsome inn. Translated by the author and Elizabeth Shub. Illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian. New York, Scribner [1967].

The fires of jubilee : Nat Turner’s fierce rebellion / Stephen B. Oates. New York : Harper & Row, 1990, c1975.

Following 9/11 : religion coverage in the New York times / Christopher Vecsey. Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2011.

For the life of the world : sacraments and orthodoxy / Alexander Schmemann. Crestwood, N.Y. : St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1997.

The golden name day, by Jennie D. Lindquist; pictures by Garth Williams. [New York] Harper [1955].

Good people / David Lindsay-Abaire. New York : Theatre Communications Group ; [Minneapolis, Minn.] : Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2011.

Greek rhetoric under Christian emperors / George A. Kennedy. Eugene, Or. : Wipf & Stock, 2008.

Hands on the freedom plow : personal accounts by women in SNCC / edited by Faith S. Holsaert … [et at.]. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Part 1 [videorecording] / a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation ; a Heyday Films production ; directed by David Yates ; screenplay by Steve Kloves ; produced by David Heyman, David Barron, J.K. Rowling ; executive producer, Lionel Wigram. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2011.

Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite vision / Katharine Lochnan & Carol Jacobi, ed. Toronto : Art Galley of Toronto, 2008.

The Holy Grail and the Eucharist / Sergius Bulgakov ; translated and edited by Boris Jakim. Hudson, N.Y. : Lindisfarne Books, c1997.

I love a broad margin to my life / Maxine Hong Kingston. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.

An interrupted life : the diaries, 1941-1943 ; and, Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillesum ; translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans ; foreword by Eva Hoffman ; introduction and notes by Jan G. Gaarlandt. New York : Henry Holt, 1996.

Into the frame : the four loves of Ford Madox Brown / by Angela Thirlwell. London : Pimlico, 2011.

Jane Morris : the Pre-Raphaelite model of beauty / Debra N. Mancoff. San Francisco, Calif. : Pomegranate, c2000.

John Brett : Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter / Christiana Payne ; and Charles Brett. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2010.

Julian of Norwich : a contemplative biography / Amy Frykholm. Brewster, Mass. : Paraclete Press, c2010.

Julian of Norwich, theologian / Denys Turner. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.

Kierkegaard and theology / Murray Rae. London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2010.

Late antiquity : a very short introduction / Gillian Clark. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

The leisure seeker / Michael Zadoorian. New York : Harper, c2010.

Lives of Roman Christian women / translated and edited with an introduction and notes by Carolinne White. London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2010.

Lizzie Siddal : face of the Pre-Raphaelites / Lucinda Hawksley. New York : Walker & Co., 2006.

The lost father / Mona Simpson. New York : Vintage Books, 1993.

Love alone is credible : Hans Urs von Balthasar as interpreter of the Catholic tradition / edited by David L. Schindler. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008.

Magic maize / by Mary and Conrad Buff. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 1953.

Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones / by Georgiana Burne-Jones ; with a new introduction by John Christian. London : Lund Humphries, 1993.

Men, microscopes, and living things / illustrated by Anthony Ravielli. New York : Viking Press, 1967, c1955.

Men of Athens / Olivia Coolidge ; illustrated by Milton Johnson. Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 1962.

Metaphor & memory : essays / Cynthia Ozick. New York : Vintage Books, 1991.

Millais : a sketch / by M.H. Spielmann. Preceded by Thoughts on our art of today / by John Everett Millais ; with an introduction by Jason Rosenfeld. London : Pallas Athene, 2007.

Millais’s illustrations / a collection of drawings on wood by John Everett Millais, R.A. London : Pallas Athene, 2007.

Modern Christian thought / James C. Livingston. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2006.

The modern theologians : an introduction to Christian theology since 1918. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Mr. Justice Holmes; illustrated by Robert Todd. Chicago, Follett Pub. Co. [1956].

Mysterium Paschale = The mystery of Easter / Hans Urs von Balthasar ; translated with an introduction by Aidan Nichols. San Francisco : Ignatius Press, 2000.

Newman : a short introduction / Owen Chadwick. Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Nothing daunted : the unexpected education of two society girls in the West / Dorothy Wickenden. New York, NY : Scribner, 2011.

Old Ramon. Illustrated by Harold West. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1960.

Our Eddie. [New York] Pantheon Books [1969].

The Oxford history of historical writing / Daniel Woolf, general editor. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011-

Pachakutik and the rise and decline of the Ecuadorian indigenous movement / Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011.

Parallel lives : five Victorian marriages / Phyllis Rose ; drawings by David Schorr. New York : Vintage Books, 1984, c1983.

Philosophy of complex systems / ed. by Cliff Hooker and John Collier. Amsterdam ; Heidelberg [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2008.

Philosophy of statistics / ed. by Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and Malcolm Forster. Amsterdam ; Heidelberg [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2008.

The postmistress / Sarah Blake. New York : Berkley Books, 2011, c2010.

Pre-Raphaelite drawing / Colin Cruise. New York : Thames & Hudson, c2011.

Pre-Raphaelite papers / edited by Leslie Parris. London : Tate Gallery, c1984.

Pre-Raphaelite women artists / Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 1999.

The Pre-Raphaelites. London : Tate Gallery : Penguin Books, c1984.

Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, by W. Holman Hunt … With 40 photogravure plates, and other illustrations … New York, Macmillan Co.; London, Macmillan & Co., 1905-06.

Rascal : a memoir of a better era / by Sterling North ; illustrated by John Schoenherr. New York : Dutton, c1963.

A regular guy : a novel / by Mona Simpson. New York : Knopf, 1996.

Right by her roots : Americana women and their songs / Jewly Hight. Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2011.

The Romantic imperative : the concept of early German Romanticism / Frederick C. Beiser. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2006.

Romanticism : a very short introduction / Michael Ferber. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Rudolf Bultmann : interpreting faith for the modern era / Roger A. Johnson, editor. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 1991.

Schleiermacher / Terrence N. Tice. Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, c2006.

The scientific revolution : a very short introduction / Lawrence M. Principe. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

The shackled continent : power, corruption, and African lives / Robert Guest. Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books, 2010, c2004.

Still Alice : a novel / Lisa Genova. New York : Pocket Books, 2009.

The story of Appleby Capple / written and illustrated by Anne Parrish. New York : Harper, 1950.

Systematic theology / Robert W. Jenson. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997-1999 (2001 [printing]).

Theo-drama : theological dramatic theory / Hans Urs von Balthasar ; translated by Graham Harrison. San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c1988-c1998.

Thirteen reasons why / a novel by Jay Asher. New York : Razorbill, 2007.

Tom Paine, freedom’s apostle. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. New York, Crowell [c1957].

Tree of freedom / by Rebecca Caudill ; illustrated by Dorothy Bayley Morse. New York : Viking Press, 1956, c1949.

Twentieth-century Catholic theologians : from neoscholasticism to nuptial mysticism / Fergus Kerr. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Unsafe at any speed : the designed-in dangers of the American automobile / Ralph Nader. New York : Grossman, c1965.

Verus Israel : a study of the relations between Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire, AD 135-425 / Marcel Simon ; translated from the French by H. McKeating. London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell & Co., 1996.

Vietnam 1946 : how the war began / Stein Tnnesson ; with a foreword by Philippe Devillers. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

The Vintage book of American women writers / edited and with an introduction by Elaine Showalter. New York : Vintage Books, 2011.

War horse / Michael Morpurgo. New York : Scholastic, 2010, c2007.

The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America’s great migration / Isabel Wilkerson. New York, NY : Random House, c2010.

We met Morris : interviews with William Morris, 1885-96 / edited by Tony Pinkney. [Reading, England] : Spire Books in association with the William Morris Society, [2005].

What we should have known : two discussions / Ilya Bernstein … [et. al] ; moderated by Keith Gessen ; transcribed by Andrew Jacobs. New York : n+1 Research, c2007.

Will you please be quiet, please / Raymond Carver. London : Vintage Classic, 2009.

William Holman Hunt : painter, painting, paint / Carol Jacobi. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006.

The witch doctor’s wife / Tamar Myers. New York : Avon, 2009.

Women in the biblical world : a survey of old and new testament perspectives. Lanham : University Pr Of America, 2011.

Working in the virtual stacks : the new library and information science / Laura Townsend Kane. Chicago : American Library Association, 2011.

The Writer’s market. Cincinnati, Writer’s Digest.

The following Books (5 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during July 2011:

Breaking up with God : a love story / Sarah Sentilles. New York : HarperOne, c2011.

Kindred spirits / Sarah Strohmeyer. New York : Dutton, c2011.

One summer / David Baldacci. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2011.

Sisterhood everlasting : a novel / Ann Brashares. New York : Random House, 2011.

Through my eyes / Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2011.

The following Books (2 items) were received into the Library collection as Gift Donations during July 2011:

Eleanor Roosevelt / Blanche Wiesen Cook. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, c1992-

Young Mr. Lincoln [videorecording] / 20th Century Fox ; Twentieth Century Fox presents Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of ; a Cosmopolitan production ; directed by John Ford ; original screen play by Lamar Trotti. [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2006].