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Library Fashion Week: Edgar Allan Poe (SC Poe)

A More Visual Search Engine to Try

If you want to play around with a search engine that breaks topics down for you in a visual way, you might want to try instaGrok.

Trees: A Visual Guide

Beautifully illustrated and designed, this gorgeous reference book explores the world of trees from every perspective—from the world's great forests to the lifespan of a single leaf. Arresting color photographs of a wide variety of trees and close-ups of many of their remarkable features provide an enormous amount of information in a highly accessible format. The volume illustrates how trees grow and function, looks at their astounding diversity and adaptations, documents the key role they play in ecosystems, and explores the multitude of uses to which we put trees—from timber and pharmaceuticals to shade and shelter. A highly absorbing read cover to cover or dipped into at random, Trees: A Visual Guide delves into many specific topics: the details of flowers, bark, and roots; profiles of favorite trees; how animals and insects interact with trees; trees in urban landscapes; the role trees play in our changing climate; deforestation and reforestation; and much more. (from University of California Press)

Hush, Hush (FIC Fitzpatrick)

I'm hearing that Hush, Hush is a very exciting read but that Crescendo is a lot slower.

Crave (FIC Burns)

Katie Masters recommends this book, and its sequel Sacrifice.

The Benefits of Reading

This is a Book by Demetri Martin (818.607 MAR)

"We hope this explanation has been helpful in answering your questions and concerns, despite how ridiculous and uninformed those questions and concerns may be." (pg. 91 a response to letters of complaint regarding Cat-astrophe: A Calendar for People Who do Not Love Cats)

If you enjoy Demetri Martin's trademark ridiculous, yet clever, sometimes almost too clever humor, you will love this book. If you don't, you won't.

A few highlights for me were: 

"Dad," a description of what it is like to be raised by the guy who was raised by wolves (pg. 69)

"Megaphone" 

        Like a lot of people, I've always enjoyed commenting on stragers' outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people's hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better.

These Guys Can Iron!

         Extreme ironing is not a sport just because you are doing a sport while you iron.  Dictionary.com defined ironing as "the act or process of smoothing or pressing clothes with a heated iron."  There is no mention of this being a dangerous sport.  Ironing by any other name is still just pressing clothes.  Some of the things they do while ironing are sports, but that doesn't change the nature of ironing itself.  Pressing wrinkles is still housework, even if it is done on a glacier.  Therefore, I would classify extreme ironing as remote housework, the ultimate multi-tasking activity. 

       I feel strongly against ironing in remote locations.  Since extreme sports in the form of lawn bowling have knocked my teeth out in the past, I would fervently resist having to participate in extreme ironing.  Also, combining two unpleasant activities doesn't add up to fun free time. (By Tory Johnson)

the old man and the sea from Marcel Schindler on Vimeo.

Read it online.

Check it out from CGHS Library -- FIC Hemingway