New Books

Books that can be checked out
General Interest
Pedal power: the quiet rise of the bicycle in American public life
The improving state of the world: why we're living longer, healthier, more comfortable lives on a cleaner planet
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals
Culture and customs of the United States
Women’s Studies
Opting out? : Why women really quit careers and head home
Politics
One night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the dream of dignity
Nature and Animals
Nature and the environment in pre-Columbian American life
The powerful bond between people and pets: our boundless connections to companion animals
Heritage of care: the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
History and Economics
A farewell to alms: a brief economic history of the world
Blood and soil: a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Family life in 20th-century America
What makes a terrorist: economics and the roots of terrorism
Money: a history
Carpetbaggers, cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: exposing the invisible empire during reconstruction
Roanoke: the abandoned colony
Math
Unknown quantity: a real and imaginary history of algebra
Psychology and Sociology
Sperm counts: overcome by man's most precious fluid
Asylum: a mid-century madhouse and its lessons about our mentally ill today
Creative anger: putting that powerful emotion to good use
Beyond bad girls: [gender, violence and hype]
Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets
This is your brain on music: the science of a human obsession
Bipolar children: cutting-edge controversy, insights, and research
The architecture of madness: insane asylums in the United States
The transgender phenomenon
Child abuse and stress disorders
Not quite white: white trash and the boundaries of whiteness
There is no such thing as a natural disaster: race, class, and Hurricane Katrina
Arts and Literature
Racism in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Racism in Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings
Bloom’s guides: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Shakespeare on masculinity
Rococo
UNStudio
Hiroshige
Religious Studies
God in the classroom: religion and America's public schools
American religious democracy: coming to terms with the end of secular politics
Can God intervene? : How religion explains natural disasters
The destructive power of religion: violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Decoding early Christianity: truth and legend in the early church
Nuns: a history of convent life, 1450-1700
The Upanishads
The Dhammapada
Horse-and-buggy Mennonites: hoofbeats of humility in a postmodern world
Sports
Drugs and sports
Military and War
King, Kaiser, Tsar: three royal cousins who led the world to war
Betraying our troops: the destructive results of privatizing war
The coldest winter: America and the Korean War
Our savage neighbors: how Indian war transformed early America
Warhorse: cavalry in ancient warfare
Thermopylae: the battle that changed the world
American military technology: the life story of a technology
Power at sea
People
Amerigo: the man who gave his name to America
Anne Frank's tales from the secret annex: including her unfinished novel Cady's Life
Johnny Depp: a biography
The three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III
Judy Blume: a biography
Science
Contact with alien civilizations: our hopes and fears about encountering extraterrestrials
The future of the universe
Microcosmos: discovering the world through microscopic images from 20 X to over 20 million X magnification
The new cosmic onion: quarks and the nature of the universe
Philosophy
The shorter Leibniz texts: a collection of new translations
Health and Medicine
Understanding bioethics and the law: the promises and perils of the brave new world of biotechnology
The ghost map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world
A second opinion: rescuing America's health care: a plan for universal coverage serving patients over profit
Alternative medicine
Understanding the antioxidant controversy: scrutinizing the "fountain of youth"
Business
The essential guide to business etiquette
Linguistics and Education
Living languages: multilingualism across the lifespan
Popular Culture
The video game explosion: a history from PONG to Playstation and beyond
Online social networking
White weddings: romancing heterosexuality in popular culture
Blogging America: the new public sphere
Children and consumer culture in American society: a historical handbook and guide
When the girls came out to play: the birth of American sportswear
Crime and Criminal Justice
Forensic science: modern methods of solving crime
Guys and guns amok: domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombing to the Virginia Tech massacre
Women behind bars: the crisis of women in the U.S. prison system
Smuggling and trafficking in human beings: all roads lead to America
American furies: crime, punishment, and vengeance in the age of mass imprisonment
Public executions: the death penalty and the media
The book thief: the true crimes of Daniel Spiegelman
Neither angels nor demons: women, crime, and victimization
Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Zoos and animal welfare
Military draft
Religion and sexuality
Labor unions
Hunting
Reproductive technologies
Self-mutilation
Espionage and intelligence
Sex offenders and public policy
Working women
Violent video game effects on children and adolescents: theory, research, and public policy
Brewing justice: fair trade coffee, sustainability, and survival
Downloading music

Books that can be used in the library
The atlas of human migration
Firefly encyclopedia of the vivarium: keeping amphibians, reptiles, and insects, spiders and other invertebrates in terraria, aquaterraria, and aquaria

New Books

Inside the minds of healthcare serial killers: why they kill
Sacco and Vanzetti: the men, the murders, and the judgment of mankind
Pop-porn: pornography in American culture
Children at play: an American history
Family life in 19th-century America
The strange case of the Broad Street pump: John Snow and the mystery of cholera
Scientists confront intelligent design and creationism
Best of the brain from Scientific American
Bloom’s modern critical views: Langston Hughes
Bloom’s modern critical views: Sylvia Plath

Summer Library Hours

The library summer hours will be:

Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Friday Closed

New Books

Non-Fiction Circulating Books
General Interest
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / S. D. Levitt and S. J. Dubner
The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference / Malcolm Gladwell
Women’s Studies
Women of the suffrage movement
Women of the Civil War
Politics
The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream / Barack Obama
Nature and Animals
Cesar's way: the natural, everyday guide to understanding and correcting common dog problems / Cesar Millan
Marley & me:life and love with the world's worst dog
History
Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war
Math
All the math you'll ever need: a self-teaching guide
Geometry for dummies
Geometry demystified
Precalculus demystified
College algebra demystified
Algebra demystified
Psychology and Sociology
The wisdom of crowds
Arts and Literature
How to write a great research paper
The Freedom Writers diary: how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them
Yale daily news guide to writing college papers
Schaum's quick guide to writing great research papers
Grammatically correct: the writer's essential guide to punctuation, spelling, style, usage, and grammar
Religious Studies
The seat of the soul / Gary Zukav
Sports
The blind side: evolution of a game / Michael Lewis
Military and War
Flyboys: A true story of courage
Ghost soldiers: the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission / Hampton Sides
Flags of our fathers: heroes of Iwo Jima
People
Einstein: his life and universe
A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier
Bob Marley: a biography
The measure of a man: a spiritual autobiography /Sidney Poitier
Running with scissors: a memoir / Augusten Burroughs

Popular Fiction / Bestsellers
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows / J.K. Rowling
The memory keeper's daughter / Kim Edwards
Havoc /Jack Du Brul
Ella Minnow Pea: a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable / Mark Dunn
Dream when you're feeling blue :a novel / Elizabeth Berg
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West / Gregory Maguire
Heart-shaped box / Joe Hill
The husband / Dean Koontz
The time traveler's wife / Audrey Niffenegger
The sisterhood of the traveling pants / Ann Brashares (Books 1-4)
S is for silence / Sue Grafton
Rage: an Alex Delaware novel / Jonathan Kellerman
Twisted: an Alex Delaware novel / Jonathan Kellerman
This lullaby: a novel / Sarah Dessen
Dreamland / Sarah Dessen
While I was gone / Sue Miller
The world made straight: a novel / Ron Rash
The whistling season / Ivan Doig
Predator / Patricia Cornwell
Anansi boys / Neil Gaiman
Here on Earth / Alice Hoffman
Drowning Ruth / Christina Schwarz
Deadly decisions / Kathy Reichs
The lost fleet: fearless / Jack Campbell
Lost fleet: dauntless / Jack Campbell
The hard way: a Jack Reacher novel / Lee Child
A walk to remember / Nicholas Sparks
The winner / David Baldacci
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 / Stephen E. Ambrose
Treason / Orson Scott Card
Little house in the big woods / Laura Ingalls Wilder (Complete series available)
Elsewhere / Gabrielle Zevin
A great and terrible beauty / Libba Bray
Breathing underwater / Alex Flinn
Award Winners
I am the messenger / Markus Zusak (Audiobook also available)
Sold / Patricia McCormick
Black juice / Margo Lanagan
The first part last / Angela Johnson
An abundance of Katherines / John Green (Audiobook also available)
Looking for Alaska: a novel / John Green (Audiobook also available)
Inexcusable / Chris Lynch
Monster / Walter Dean Myers
A wizard of Earthsea / Ursula K. Le Guin
The farthest shore / Ursula K. Le Guin
Oprah’s Picks
Ellen Foster / Kaye Gibbons
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day-- / Pearl Cleage
Gap Creek: a novel / Robert Morgan
We were the Mulvaneys / Joyce Carol Oates
Midwives / Chris Bohjalian
The deep end of the ocean / Jacquelyn Mitchard
Graphic Novels
Fullmetal alchemist- volume 3 / Hiromu Arakawa
Ultimate X-Men-volume 6 / Brian K. Vaughan
Ultimate Spider-Man- volumes 7 & 8 / Brian Michael Bendis

Reference
The geoscience handbook: AGI data sheets, 4th edition
Marriage on trial: a handbook with cases, laws, and documents
Dictionary of geological terms

Non-Fiction Circulating Books
General Interest
Chasing the American dream: new perspectives on affordable homeownership
Are there any good jobs left? : career management in the age of the disposable worker
Joy of cooking
Cultural Studies
American food writing: an anthology with classic recipes
Gay life and culture: a world history
The river of lost footsteps: histories of Burma
African Americans and whites: changing relationships on college campuses
Political Issues
Labor relations
Communism
Aging nation: the economics and politics of growing older in America
Gun show nation: gun culture and American democracy
Food safety: a reference handbook
Medicine and Health
Truth, lies, and public health: how we are affected when science and politics collide
Bedlam among the bedpans: humor in nursing
Nature and Animals
One kingdom: our lives with animals: the human-animal bond in myth, history, science, and story
The deep: extraordinary creatures of the abyss
Boas and pythons of the world
Oceans: a visual guide
Nature and the environment in nineteenth-century American life
Nature and the environment in twentieth-century American life
History
Blue water patriots: the American Revolution afloat
The Trojan War: a new history
Ghost empire: how the French almost conquered North America
In the wake of slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the reconstruction of Southern law
Early Cold War spies: the espionage trials that shaped American politics
The battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Grander in her daughters: Florida’s women during the Civil War
America's constitution: a biography
Native America, discovered and conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny
Science and Technology
High definition: an A to Z guide to personal technology
Richter's scale: measure of an earthquake, measure of a man
Too far from home: a story of life and death in space
The chemical element: a historical perspective
The history and use of our earth's chemical elements: a reference guide
The cloudspotter's guide: the science, history, and culture of clouds
100 greatest science discoveries of all time
Psychology and Sociology
Mental illness
Size matters: how height affects the health, happiness, and success of boys--and the men they become
In search of happiness: understanding an endangered state of mind
Men: evolutionary and life history
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias
Understanding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Arts and Literature
Harlem speaks: a living history of the Harlem Renaissance
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
Homer's The Odyssey
Richard Wright's Native son
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Guernica: the biography of a twentieth-century icon
Environmental Issues
Southern United States: an environmental history
Energy autonomy: the economic, social and technological case for renewable energy
Religious Studies
The Branch Davidians of Waco: the history and beliefs of an apocalyptic sect
Magic, mystery, and science: the occult in Western civilization
Popular Culture
The anime encyclopedia: a guide to Japanese animation since 1917
Sunshine in the dark: Florida in the movies
Military and War
Thunder over the horizon: from V-2 rockets to ballistic missiles
Zlata's diary: a child's life in Sarajevo
Following the flag: marriage and the modern military

New Books -- April 8, 2008

New books available at the Plant City Campus Library.

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Culture and customs of Zambia, by Scott D. Taylor
Culture and customs of Iran, by Elton L. Daniel and Ali Akbar Mahdi
Culture and customs of the Central African Republic, by Jacqueline Woodfork
Culture and customs of Uganda, by Kefa M. Otiso
Culture and customs of Liberia, by Ayodeji Olukoju
Culture and customs of Ireland, by Margaret Scanlan
Culture and customs of the Baltic states, by Kevin O’Connor
Culture and customs of France, by W. Scott Haine
Culture and customs of Indonesia, by Jill Forshee
Adult health concerns sourcebook, edited by Sandra J. Judd
Eye care sourcebook, edited by Amy L. Sutton
The philosophers of the ancient world: an A to Z guide, by Trevor Curnow
NightWatch : a practical guide to viewing the universe, by Terence Dickinson
The Greenwood encyclopedia of love, courtship, & sexuality through history, edited by James W. Howell
WWW HR Giger com

New Books @ the Library

Check out these new books -- all available at your Plant City Campus Library!

Straight into darkness, Faye Kellerman
Dragon, by Clive Cussler
Chanda’s secrets, by Allan Stratton
Cell : a novel, by Stephen King
Fullmetal alchemist. 1, story and art by Hiromu Arakawa
Fullmetal alchemist. 2, story and art by Hiromu Arakawa
Pay it down : from debt to wealth on $10 a day, by Jean Chatzky
Icy sparks, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Blindsighted, by Karin Slaughter
The coldest winter ever : a novel, by Sister Souljah
The cold moon, by Jeffery Deaver
Cross bones, by Kathy Reichs
American born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
Nineteen minutes : a novel, by Jodi Picoult
The complete ghost stories of M.R. James.
The Oxford new German dictionary : German-English English-German, Deutsch-Englisch Englisch-Deutsch
Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
The college guide to essay writing, by Jill Rossiter
George Washington and Benedict Arnold : a tale of two patriots, by Dave R. Palmer