Monthly Archives: October 2013

Hollywood Halloween

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No plans for Halloween this year? Why not check out a scary movie for a movie night? For the past four years, my husband Adam and I have had a tradition of watching a scary movie on Halloween. We always picked movies that neither of us had ever seen, which guarantees that both of us are surprised. We have watched some good ones over the years. There has not been one year yet where we have been disappointed by our scary movie choice. Here are the movies that we have watched over the years, maybe you will be inspired to start a scary movie tradition of your own.

The first year, while we were still dating, we watched Psycho (1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. Hitchcock movies are some of my favorites, and this was on that I had never seen. All that Adam and I knew about this movie was the “shower scene.” This movie definitely surprised us, and it is a great one for Halloween night. Even though it is 53 years old, it is still one of my favorite movies.

The next year we went classic scary movie with Halloween (1978). Surprisingly both of us had made it 20 years of our life without seeing this scary movie, and did we love it. Adam and I would both name one of our favorite movies ever. We were so scared. John Carpenter did an amazing job with creating suspense with his camera angles and memorable score. Whenever I hear the classic theme I immediately feel a chill and look over my shoulder. This would be a great movie to check out and watch with a group of friends this Halloween.

When deciding what to watch the next year, I decided to do some research on the scariest movie ever made and I was surprised to find The Exorcist (1973) listed number one on three of the lists that I found. Adam and I decided to watch this one. We also rented Raiders of the Lost Ark to watch after The Exorcist so that we would go to bed thinking of action scenes instead of exorcisms. Adam and I found The Exorcist to be a different kind of scary movie. It is not so much a scary movie where things jump out and scare you or has crazy twists. No, it’s more of a scary movie because it is just plain creepy and disturbing. It is not really a movie that I would say we enjoyed watching and probably will never want to watch again, but it was a good scary movie to continue our Halloween tradition.

Last year Adam and I decided to continue in the Halloween series and watch Halloween 2 (1981). While not as good as the John Carpenter original, this movie was still very scary. It continues the story from where the first movie leaves off. We enjoyed this one as well, but this is one case where the sequel did not quite live up to the original for us.

Adam and I still have not decided what to watch this year, we have a couple ideas, but sometimes it is hard to choose. I’d like to see what you think. Which movie should Adam and I watch this year to continue our Halloween scary movie tradition?

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Look for my review of this year’s scary movie after Halloween.

Milligan Library Call Numbers for the scary movies mentioned above:

Psycho  PN1995.9.H6 P8 1999
Halloween  PN1997.H348 2000
The Exorcist  PN1995.9 H6 E9 2010

For other ideas for scary movies to watch, check out the display in the Milligan Library. And remember another great thing about the Milligan Library: If they don’t have it, they can Interlibrary Loan it for you!

12 Angry Men, 1 Riveting Story

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Growing up, my parents used to pick “classic” movies for my sister and I to watch. Some of these classics were Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Rear Window and True Grit, to name a few. The Hitchcock and John Wayne movies I didn’t mind so much, but the other, boring, black and white ones, I did not care for. Most of the time when my parents chose a movie I would ask, “Is it in black and white?” And the answer usually determined whether or not I would like it. In my mind, in most cases, black and white meant boring. Now that I am older, and more appreciative, I realize how wrong I was.

This last week I watched an amazing black and white film, 12 Angry Men (1957). This movie, directed by Sidney Lumet, is one of my favorites that I have watched recently. It is only 96 minutes long and I was captivated throughout the film.

The scene—a jury room

The characters—the twelve jurors deliberating a case (some of the stars include: Henry Fonda, Lee Cobb, Jack Klugman, and John Fiedler, you might recognize him as the voice of Piglet).

The problem—eleven men are convinced that an eighteen year old boy from the slums is guilty of stabbing his father, and one has a reasonable doubt and thinks the boy innocent.

I found this story intriguing and dynamic. The acting and directing is superb. What I liked about this movie was that it starts when the jury leaves the courtroom to deliberate. Everything you learn about the case is from the juror’s arguments. You learn a lot about the characters through their arguments. I found myself pulled back and forth between guilty and not guilty.

I highly recommend this movie. It will not take a large chunk of your time, and the escape into this story is well worth it. Check it out tonight from the Milligan Library!

12 Angry Men  Call Number:  PN1997.T84 2001

Weekend Movie Recommendation: Memento

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MomentoIf you are looking for a movie to watch this fall break weekend, I would recommend Memento (2000). I checked out this movie having no idea what to expect and found myself gripped by the story and shocked at the ending.

Memento follows Leonard (Guy Pearce) on a personal vendetta to find his wife’s murderer and kill him. There is only one problem. Leonard has a short term memory disorder–he has none. Leonard copes by having a system that he follows with discipline. But how can he be sure the system is not being used against him?

Memento, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, is told in an unusual narrative fashion. It is intriguing and the story will grab hold of you and not let go until the end. I highly recommend this movie, but I will say that you will need to strap on your thinking caps while you watch this movie. It requires your full attention, otherwise you might miss something. With this movie, you do not want to miss a minute of it.

Check it out tonight at the Milligan Library using this Call Number:  PN1997.M65 2002

New Books and Media Received (September 2013)

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The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (211 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during September 2013:

27 short plays / Christopher Durang. [Lyme, NH] : Smith and Kraus, 1995.

50 keys to the Bible / Marc Sevin. New York : Paulist Press, c2013.

56 up / produced by Claire Lewis, Michael Apted ; directed by Michael Apted ; executive producer, Alexander Gardiner. [London, England] : ITV Studios Ltd ; New York, New York : First Run Features, [2012].

100 principles of game design / Wendy Despain, editor ; Keyvan Acosta … [et al.]. Berkeley, Calif. : New Riders, c2013.

4000 miles and After the revolution : two plays / Amy Herzog. New York : Theatre Communications Group, [2013].

The African Christian diaspora : new currents and emerging trends in world Christianity / Afe Adogame. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

The African memory of Mark : reassessing early church tradition / Thomas C. Oden. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2011.

Amanush [videorecording] = Amānusha / produced & directed by Shakti Samanta ; music, Shyamal Mitra. New Delhi : Super Cassettes Industries, 2007.

American water [sound recording] / Silver Jews. Chicago : Drag City, [1998].

The anatomy lesson / Philip Roth. New York : Vintage International, 1996.

Angry conversations with God : a snarky but authentic spiritual memoir / Susan E. Isaacs. New York : Faith Words, 2011.

Anne of Green Gables [videorecording] : the sequel / a Kevin Sullivan production ; executive producers, Trudy Grant and Kevin Sullivan ; produced, written and directed by Kevin Sullivan. [Toronto, Ont.] : Sullivan Entertainment, [2002].

Appalachia / Charles Wright. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, c1998.

Aristotle : his life and school / Carlo Natali ; edited by D.S. Hutchinson. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013].

Ausgewanderten. English. New York : New Directions, 1997, c1996.

Austerlitz / W.G. Sebald ; translated by Anthea Bell ; introduction by James Wood. New York : Modern Library, 2011.

The battle of Bretton Woods : John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the making of a new world order / Benn Steil. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013.

Beautiful souls : the courage and conscience of ordinary people in extraordinary times / Eyal Press. New York : Picador USA , 2013.

Behavior solutions for the inclusive classroom / Beth Aune, Beth Burt & Peter Gennaro. Arlington, Tex. : Future Horizons, c2010.

A bend in the river / V.S. Naipaul. New York : Vintage books, 1989.

The big bang theory. The complete sixth season [videorecording] / creator, Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2013].

The Blackwell companion to Christian spirituality / edited by Arthur Holder. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, c2011.

Blindness / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. San Diego, CA : Harcourt, Inc., 1999., c1997.

Blindness and insight : essays in the rhetoric of contemporary criticism / Paul de Man ; introduction by Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1983.

A bolt from the blue and other essays / Mary McCarthy ; edited and with an introduction by A.O. Scott. New York : New York Review Books, 2002.

Bread & wine : a love letter to life around the table, with recipes / Shauna Niequist. Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2013].

Brighten the corners [sound recording] / Pavement. New York : Matador Records, p1997, p1999, p2008.

Broadway : the American musical / Laurence Maslon ; based on the documentary film by Michael Kantor ; [foreword by Julie Andrews]. Milwaukee, WI : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2010.

Building stories / Chris Ware. New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.

C. S. Lewis : a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet / Alister McGrath. Carol Stream, Ill. : Tyndale House Publishers, c2013.

The Cambridge companion to Paul Tillich / edited by Russell Re Manning. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Cancer ward / Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.

Capitalism, socialism, and democracy / Joseph A. Schumpeter ; [with a new introduction by Thomas K. McCraw]. New York : Harper Perennial Modern Thought, 2008.

The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger. New York : Back Bay Books, 2001.

A Century old :  A journalist relives one hundred years through the memories of her grandmother. Mooresville, North Carolina :  Little Hoot Publishing.

The Christian century and the rise of the Protestant mainline / Elesha J. Coffman. New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Christian worship : its theology and practice / Franklin M. Segler and Randall Bradley. Nashville, Tenn. : B & H Pub. Group, c2006.

The chronicles of Narnia. Prince Caspian [videorecording] / Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media present a Mark Johnson/Silverbell Films production, an Andrew Adamson film ; produced by Mark Johnson, Andrew Adamson, Philip Steuer ; screenplay by Andrew Adamson & Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely ; directed by Andrew Adamson. [United States] : Walt Disney Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2008].

Chronicles of Narnia. The voyage of the dawn treader [videorecording] / Fox 2000 Pictures and Walden Media present ; directed by Michael Apted ; screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni ; produced by Mark Johnson, Andrew Adamson, Philip Steuer. Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2011].

CivilWarLand in bad decline : stories and a novella / George Saunders. New York : Riverhead Books, 1997.

The colored museum / George C. Wolfe. New York : Grove Press, 1988.

Colossians and Philemon / Murray J. Harris. Nashville, Tenn. : B & H Academic, 2010.

The company she keeps. Orlando : Harcourt, [2003], c1970.

The complete Peanuts / Charles M. Schulz. Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, c2004-

Conducting technique etudes : laban-based etudes for class or individual practice : a practicalcompanion the The Conductor’s Gesture and Evoking Sound / James Jordan. Chicago : Gia Publications, 2013.

Constantine the Emperor / David Potter. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Copywriting : successful writing for design, advertising, and marketing / Mark Shaw. London : Laurence King, 2012.

The counterlife / Philip Roth. New York : Vintage International, 1996.

The death of King Arthur : a new verse translation / Simon Armitage. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2012.

The decision point : six cases in U.S. foreign policy decision making / David Patrick Houghton. New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Deep ecology for the twenty-first century / edited by George Sessions. Boston : Shambhala ; [New York, N.Y.] : Distributed in the United States by Random House, c1995.

Defending childhood : keeping the promise of early education / Beverly Falk, editor ; Linda Darling-Hammond, foreword. New York : Teachers College Press, c2012.

Detroit : a play / by Lisa D’Amour. New York : Faber and Faber, 2011.

Developing a strategy for missions : a biblical, historical, and cultural introduction / John Mark Terry and J. D. Payne. Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, 2013.

The Devil wears nada : Satan exposed / Tripp York. Eugene, Or. : Cascade Books, c2011.

Devotions on the Greek New Testament : 52 reflections to inspire & instruct / J. Scott Duvall & Verlyn D. Verbrugge, editors. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2012.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5. Washington, D.C. : American Psychiatric Association, c2013.

Disgraced : a play / Ayad Akhtar. New York : Back Bay Books, 2013.

Documenting Intimate matters : primary sources for a history of sexuality in America / edited by Thomas A. Foster. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Early childhood literacy : the National Early Literacy Panel and beyond / edited by Timothy Shanahan and Christopher J. Lonigan. Baltimore, Md. : Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., c2013.

Eating animals / Jonathan Safran Foer. New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2010.

Eating the plates : a pilgrim book of food and manners / by Lucille Recht Penner ; with illustrations selected by the author. New York : Macmillan ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.

eGods : faith versus fantasy in computer gaming / William Sims Bainbridge. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Electronic and computer music / Peter Manning. New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

The elegance of the hedgehog / Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson. New York : Europa Editions, 2008 ; (2009 printing).

Encountering Jesus in the scriptures / edited by Daniel J. Harrington and Christopher R. Matthews. New York : Paulist Press, c2012.

Enemies, a love story / Isaac Bashevis Singer. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1988], c1972.

The English patient : a novel / by Michael Ondaatje. New York : Vintage Books, 1993.

Essential guide to reading biomedical papers : recognising and interpreting best practice / editor, Phil Langton. Chichester, West Sussex [England] ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Fight club [videorecording] / Fox 2000 Pictures and Regency Enterprises present a Linson Films production ; screenplay by Jim Uhls ; produced by Art Linson, Cean Chaffin, Ross Grayson Bell ; directed by David Fincher. Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2003].

Fighting words : religion, violence, and the interpretation of sacred texts / edited by John Renard. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

Filled with the Spirit / John R. Levison. Cambridge, U.K. ; Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009.

Finding the lost images of God : uncover the ancient culture, discover hidden meanings / Timothy S. Laniak. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2012.

Fire in the ashes : twenty-five years among the poorest children in America / Jonathan Kozol. New York : Crown Publishers, c2013..

Flight behavior : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver. New York : Harper Perennial, 2013, c2012.

Forgotten songs : reclaiming the Psalms for Christian worship / C. Richard Wells & Ray Van Neste, editors. Nashville, Tenn. : B&H Academic, 2012.

Four views on the role of works at the Final Judgment / Robert N. Wilkin, Thomas R. Schreiner, James D.G. Dunn, Michael P. Barber. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, [2013].

The gay science / Friedrich Nietzsche ; translated by Thomas Common ; poetry rendered by Paul V. Cohn and Maude D. Petre. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2006.

From pentecost to Patmos : an introduction to Acts through Revelation / Craig L. Blomberg. Nashville, Tenn. : B & H Academic, 2006.

From recipients to donors : emerging powers and the changing development landscape / Emma Mawdsley. London ; New York : Zed Books, 2012.

From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565 : the transformation of ancient Rome / A.D. Lee. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2013.

From up on Poppy Hill [videorecording] / Studio Ghibli ; Nippon Television Network ; Dentsu ; Hakuhodo Dymp ; Walt Disney Japan ; Mitsubishi ; Toho ; Kennedy/Marshall ; director, Goro Miyazaki ; producers, Geoffrey Wexler, Toshio Suzuki ; screenwriter, Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa. [United States] : GKids, [2013].

The fusion marketing bible : fuse traditional media, social media, and digital media to maximize marketing / Lon Safko. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2013.

The German Democratic Republic / Peter Grieder. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Getting your head around the brain / Amanda Ellison. Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

A gift of love : sermons from Strength to love and other preachings / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; foreword by Coretta Scott King ; new foreword by Raphael G. Warnock. Boston : Beacon Press, c2012.

The girls of slender means / Muriel Spark. New York : New Directions Pub., 1998.

Global health and international relations / Colin McInnes and Kelley Lee. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2012.

The globalization of supermax prisons / edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross ; foreword by Loïc Wacquant. New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, c2013.

The God who provides : biblical images of divine nourishment / L. Juliana M. Claassens. Nashville : Abingdon Press, 2004.

Governing the world : the history of an idea, 1815 to the present / Mark Mazower. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2013.

Gravity’s rainbow / Thomas Pynchon. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2006.

The Great Commission to worship : biblical principles for worship-based evangelism / David Wheeler and Vernon M. Whaley. Nashville, Tenn. : B & H Academic, c2011.

The group / Mary McCarthy. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991, c1982.

Gruesome playground injuries ; Animals out of paper ; Bengal tiger at the Baghdad Zoo : three plays / Rajiv Joseph. Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2010.

Here be dragons : exploring fantasy maps and settings / Stefan Ekman. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, c2013.

The hobbit [videorecording] : an unexpected journey / Warner Bros. Pictures ; New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures present ; a Wingnut Films production ; directed by Peter Jackson ; screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo Del Toro ; produced by Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2013].

The Hollywood family film : a history, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter / Noel Brown. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.

Holy war in the Bible : Christian morality and an Old Testament problem / edited by Heath Thomas, Jeremy Evans and Paul Copan. Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2013].

Homilies on the first Epistle of John = (Tractatus in epistolam Joannis ad Parthos) / [Saint Augustine] ; introductions, translation and notes by Boniface Ramsey ; editors, Daniel E. Doyle and Thomas Martin. Hyde Park, N.Y. : New City Press, 2008.

How children succeed : grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character / Paul Tough. Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

How Shakespeare changed everything / Stephen Marche. Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2012, c2011.

I thought it was just me (but it isn’t) : telling the truth about perfectionism, inadequacy, and power / Brené Brown. New York : Gotham Books, 2008, c2007.

In defense of the Bible : a comprehensive apologetic for the authority of scripture / edited by Stephen B. Cowan and Terry L. Wilder. Nashville, TN : Broadman & Holman Publishing Group, c2013.

In Europa. English. London : Vintage Books 2008.

Intellectual memoirs : New York, 1936-1938 / Mary McCarthy ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick ; notes by Carol Brightman. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1993.

Interpreting gospel narratives : scenes, people, and theology / Timothy Wiarda. Nashville, Tenn. : B & H Pub., 2010.

Introduction to cancer biology / Robin Hesketh. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

An introduction to medieval theology / Rik van Nieuwenhove. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Isaiah / David W. Baker ; John H. Walton, general editor. Grand Rapids, MI : Zondervan, 2013.

James : exegetical guide to the Greek New Testament / Chris A. Vlachos ; foreword by Douglas J. Moo ; Murray J. Harris, Andreas J. Köstenberger, general editors. Nashville, Tenn. : B & H Academic, 2013.

Jesus and the Jewish festivals / Gary M. Burge. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2012.

Jesus is the Christ : the Messianic testimony of the Gospels / Michael F. Bird. Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2012.

Job / John H Walton with Kelly Vizcaino. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, [2012].

Job 38-42 / David J.A. Clines. Dallas, Texas : Word Books, 2011.

The king / Steven James. New York : Signet, c2013.

The King Jesus Gospel : the original good news revisited / Scot McKnight. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2011.

The last night of Ballyhoo / Alfred Uhry. New York : Theatre Communications Group, c1997.

Let the great world spin : a novel / Colum McCann. New York : Random House, 2010, c2009.

The life of a leaf / Steven Vogel. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Lifeskills [videorecording] : how to build a class family in an ITI classroom / Susan Kovalik & Associates. Kent, WA : Susan Kovalik & Associates : distributed by Books for Educators, c2006.

The lives of ordinary people in ancient Israel : where archaeology and the Bible intersect / William G. Dever. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.

The longest war : the enduring conflict between America and al-Qaeda / Peter L. Bergen. New York : Free Press, c2011.

Lost in the cosmos : the last self-help book / Walker Percy. New York : Picador USA, [2000].

Love in the time of revolution : transatlantic literary radicalism and historical change, 1793-1818 / Andrew Cayton. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2013].

Maestro Mouse and the mystery of the missing baton / by Peter W. Barnes and Cheryl Shaw Barnes. Washington, DC : Little Patriot Press ; New York : Distributed to the trade by Perseus Distribution, c2013.

The making of American liberal theology  / Gary Dorrien. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2001-c2006.

Man from Nebraska : a play / Tracy Letts. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2006.

The man without qualities / Robert Musil ; translated from the German by Sophie Wilkins ; editorial consultant, Burton Pike. New York : Vintage Books, 1996, c1995.

The man without qualities / Robert Musil ; translated from the German by Sophie Wilkins ; editorial consultant, Burton Pike. New York : Vintage Books, 1996, c1995.

A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations : Chicago Style for students and researchers / Kate L. Turabian ; revised by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, and the University of Chicago Press editorial staff. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013].

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung.. English. Dubuque, Iowa : Synergy International of The Americas, 2006.

Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Mary McCarthy. New York : Harcourt, Brace, c1985.

The message of women : creation, grace and gender / Derek Tidball, Dianne Tidball. Downers Grove, IL : Inter-Varsity Press, 2012.

Minds, brains, souls, and gods : a conversation on faith, psychology, and neuroscience / Malcolm Jeeves. Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, [2013].

Les misérables [videorecording] / a Universal Pictures presentation, in association with Relativity Media ; a Working Title Films/Cameron MacKintosh production ; a film by Tom Hooper ; screenplay by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer ; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron MacKintosh ; directed by Tom Hooper. Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2013.

Moving forward : six steps to forgiving yourself and breaking free from the past / Everett L. Worthington, Jr. Colorado Springs, Colorado : WaterBrook Press, 2013.

Muqaddar ka Sikandar [videorecording] = Mukaddara kā Sikandara = Muqaddar kā Sikandar / Prakash Mehra Productions presents ; screenplay, Vijay Kaul ; produced and directed by Prakash Mehra. London : Eros International ; Mumbai : Marketed and distributed in India by Eros Multimedia, [2000].

Music career advising : a guide for students, parents, and teachers / Eric Branscome. Lanham : Published in partnership with the National Association for Music Education, Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013.

Never underestimate god’s child. [S.l.] : West Bow Pr, 2013.

The new rules of marketing & PR : how to use social media, online video, mobile applications, blogs, news releases, and viral marketing to reach buyers directly / David Meerman Scott. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2013].

The new social story book / by Carol Gray. Arlington, Tex. : Future Horizons, c2010.

A New Woman reader : fiction, articles, and drama of the 1890s / edited by Carolyn Christensen Nelson. Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY : Broadview Press, c2001.

Next to normal / music, Tom Kitt ; book and lyrics, Brian Yorkey. New York : Theatre Communications Group ; [Minneapolis, Minn.] : Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2010.

Not Hollywood : independent film at the twilight of the American dream / Sherry B. Ortner. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.

Numbers to Ruth / Tremper Longman III & David E. Garland, general editors. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 2012.

One Bible, many versions : are all translations created equal? / Dave Brunn. Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, [2013].

Operation Shylock : a confession / Philip Roth. New York : Vintage Books, 1994.

Painting churches / by Tina Howe. London ; New York : S. French, c1984.

The parables of Jesus / David Wenham. Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 1989.

The Paraguay reader : history, culture, politics / Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson, eds. Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013.

Pastoralia : stories / by George Saunders. New York : Riverhead Books, 2001.

The Patrick Melrose novels : Never mind, Bad news, Some hope, and Mother’s milk / Edward St. Aubyn. New York : Picador, 2012.

Paul the Apostle : his life and legacy in their Roman context / J. Albert Harrill. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

People’s history of the u.s. military : ordinary soldiers reflect on their experience of war,… [S.l.] : New Press, 2013.

Peoples of the Roman world / Mary T. Boatwright. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Philosophy in the boudoir, or, The immoral mentors / Marquis de Sade ; translated from the French by Joachim Neugroschel ; introduction by Francine du Plessix Gray. New York : Penguin Books, 2006.

A picture book of Anne Frank / David A. Adler ; illustrated by Karen Ritz. New York : Holiday House, c1993.

Pleasure in ancient Greek philosophy / David Wolfsdorf. Cambridge, [England] : Cambridge University Press, c2013.

The Prague orgy / Philip Roth. New York : Vintage Books, 1996.

Race in Cuba : essays on the Revolution and racial inequality / by Esteban Morales Domínguez ; edited and translated under the direction of Gary Prevost and August Nimtz. New York : Monthly Review Press, [2013].

Psalms / John W. Hilber ;  John H. Walton, general editor. Grand Rapids, MI : Zondervan, 2013.

Radical moves : Caribbean migrants and the politics of race in the jazz age / Lara Putnam. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2013.

Recovering international relations : the promise of sustainable critique / Daniel J. Levine. New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Red letter revolution : what if Jesus really meant what he said? / Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2012.

Regulating the poor : the functions of public welfare / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. New York : Vintage Books, 1993.

Reinventing professionalism : journalism and news in global perspective / Silvio Waisbord. Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2013.

Resonance : beyond the words / Unni Wikan. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2012].

The rings of saturn / W.G. Sebald ; translated by Michael Hulse. New York : New Directions, 1999.

The role of women in the church / Charles Ryrie. Nashville, Tenn. : B & H Academic, c2011.

The savage Freud and other essays on possible and retrievable selves / Ashis Nandy. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.

See me naked : stories of sexual exile in American Christianity / Amy Frykholm. Boston : Beacon Press, c2011.

Seeking Palestine : new Palestinian writing on exile and home / edited by Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh. Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2013.

Sex, gender, and Christianity / edited by Priscilla Pope-Levison and John R. Levison. Eugene, Or. : Cascade Books, c2012.

Shakespeare and the making of theatre / edited by Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Bridget Escolme. Basingstoke, U. K. ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

A short history of the Spanish Civil War / Julián Casanova. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

A short introduction to climate change / Tony Eggleton. Cambridge ; Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Slanted and enchanted [sound recording] / Pavement. New York, NY : Matador Records, p1992.

Spike Lee’s America / David Sterritt. Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2013.

St John of the Cross : his life and poetry / Gerald Brenan ; with a translation of his poetry by Lynda Nicholson. London : Cambridge University Press, 1975.

Stella Adler on America’s master playwrights : Eugene O’Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee / edited and with commentary by Barry Paris. New York : Vintage Books, 2013.

Story-shaped worship : following patterns from the Bible and history / Robbie F. Castleman. Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, [2013].

Strengths based leadership : great leaders, teams, and why people follow / Tom Rath, Barry Conchie. New York : Gallup Press, c2008.

Teresa of Avila / Rowan Williams. London : New York : Continuum, 2003.

Their fair share : taxing the rich in the age of FDR / Joseph J. Thorndike. Washington, D.C. : The Urban Institute Press, [2013].

Thom Pain (based on nothing) : published with other monologues for theatre / Will Eno. New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2005.

Thrill of the chaste : the allure of Amish romance novels / Valerie Weaver-Zercher. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

True story. [S.l.] : Barbour Pub Inc, 2013.

Undercover reporting : the truth about deception / Brooke Kroeger ; foreword by Pete Hamill. Evanston, Ill. : Medill School of Journalism/Northwestern University Press, 2012.

Understanding biblical theology : a comparison of theory and practice / Edward W. Klink III and Darian R. Lockett. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 2012.

Understanding Christian mission : participation in suffering and glory / Scott W. Sunquist. Grand Rapids, Michican : Baker Pub. Group, 2013.

The United States and China : a history from the eighteenth century to the present / Dong Wang. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013.

The virtues of poetry / James Longenbach. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2013.

Volcker : the triumph of persistence / William L. Silber. New York ; London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Water on sand : environmental histories of the Middle East and North Africa / edited by Alan Mikhail. New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

We are Anonymous : inside the hacker world of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the global cyber insurgency / Parmy Olson. New York : Back Bay Books, 2013.

West Side story [videorecording (DVD)] / Mirisch Pictures presents a Robert Wise production in association with Seven Arts Productions, Inc. ; screenplay writer, Ernest Lehman ; directors, Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins. [United States] : MGM Home Entertainment, [2003], c1961.

When kingdoms clash : the Christian and ideologies / Calvin E. Shenk. Scottdale, Pa. : Herald Press, c1988.

When the pastor is your husband : the joy and pain of ministry wives / by Donna Bordelon Alder. Kansas City, Mo. : Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, c2011.

The whisperers [videorecording] / United Artists Pictures Inc. ; Seven Pines Productions ; Bryan Forbes’ production ; produced by Michael S. Laughlin & Ronald Shedlo ; written for the screen & directed by Bryan Forbes ; distributed by Lopert Pictures Corporation. [United States] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios ; Distributed by CreateSpace, c2010.

Women leading women : the biblical model for the church  / Jaye Martin & Terri Stovall. Nashville : B&H Academic, c2008.

The Word as true myth : interpreting modern theology / Gary Dorrien. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 1997.

Wowee zowee [sound recording] / Pavement. N[ew] Y[ork] C[ity] : Matador, p1995.

Wuthering heights [videorecording] / Film4 and the UK Film Council present in association with Goldcrest Film Production LLP and Screen Yorkshire and HanWay Films, an Ecosse Films production ; screenplay by Andrea Arnold, Olivia Hetreed; screen story by Olivia Hetreed ; produced by Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader ; directed by Andrea Arnold. [United States] : Oscilloscope Laboratories, [2013].

Yesterday [videorecording] / HBO Films presents in association with Anant Singh ; a Distant Horizon/Videovision Entertainment production in association with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, M-Net, Exciting Films and National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa ; a Darrell James Roodt film ; producers, Anant Singh, Helena Spring ; written and directed by Darrell James Roodt. New York : Home Box Office, [2006].

Youth policy in a changing world : from theory to practice / Marina Hahn-Bleibtreu, Marc Molgat, (eds.). Opladen : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2012.

Zondervan illustrated Bible backgrounds commentary : Genesis / John H. Walton, [general editor]. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 2013.

Zuckerman unbound / Philip Roth. New York : Vintage International, 1995.

The following Books (5 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during September 2013:

Falling into the fire : a psychiatrist’s encounters with the mind in crisis / Christine Montross. New York : Penguin Press, 2013.

Fangirl / Rainbow Rowell. New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013.

Keepers : two home cooks share their tried-and-true weeknight recipes and the secrets to happiness in the kitchen / Kathy Brennan and Caroline Campion ; photographs by Christopher Testani. New York, NY : Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, [2013].

The sports gene : inside the science of extraordinary athletic performance / David Epstein. New York, New York : Current, [2013].

There is no app for happiness : how to avoid a near-life experience / Max Strom. New York : Skyhorse Publishing, 2013.