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New Books that can be checked out

Popular Fiction / Bestsellers
Confessions of a shopaholic / Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic takes Manhattan / Sophie Kinsella
The plague of doves / Louise Erdrich
Born to rock / Gordon Korman
The secret life of bees / Sue Monk Kidd
Light on snow: a novel / Anita Shreve
The practice of deceit / Elizabeth Benedict
Bridget Jones's diary / Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones: the edge of reason / Helen Fielding
Girls in pants: the third summer of the Sisterhood / Ann Brashares (audiobook also available)
Predator / Patricia Cornwell
Detour /James Siegel
Thunder on the mountain / David Poyer
Slow learner: early stories / Thomas Pynchon
Erotic trilogy of Sleeping Beauty / Anne Rice
War fever / J.G. Ballard
Cast of shadows / Kevin Guilfoile
Foe / J.M. Coetzee
The vampire tapestry / Suzy McKee Charnas
The river between us / Richard Peck
Homeless bird / Gloria Whelan
The white boy shuffle / Paul Beatty
The Da Vinci code / Dan Brown
Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden
Award Winners
Samurai shortstop / Alan Gratz
After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away / Joyce Carol Oates
Soul mountain / Xingjian Gao
Oprah’s Picks
The heart is a lonely hunter / Carson McCullers
Graphic Novels
The opera house murders
Basara
Usagi Yojimbo: grasscutter II, journey to Atsuta Shrine
Usagi Yojimbo: Duel at Kitanoji
Mai, the psychic girl
Literature
Even the stars look lonesome / Maya Angelou
Anything we love can be saved: a writer's activism / Alice Walker
Christmas dogs: a literary companion
Classic Fiction
The lurking fear: and other stories / H.P. Lovecraft
The best of H.P. Lovecraft: bloodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre
The phantom of the Opera
Brideshead revisited: the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder / Evelyn Waugh
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Religious Studies
Dianetics, the evolution of a science
Dianetics: the modern science of mental health
Scientology: a new slant on life
Scientology: the fundamentals of thought
Dianetics, the original thesis
Introduction to scientology ethics
Sports
The man who ran faster than everyone: the story of Tom Longboat
Military and War
An illustrated history of the Gestapo
People
Barack Obama
LeBron James
Yo-Yo Ma
Gonzo: the life of Hunter S. Thompson
Abraham Lincoln: the prairie years and the war years
Richard Nixon and his America
Fidel Castro
American daughter: discovering my mother / Elizabeth Kendall
Princess trilogy
The real rain man, Kim Peek
Science
Twentieth-century women scientists
ESRI Map Book
Business
Results: keep what's good, fix what's wrong, and unlock great performance
Disney: the Mouse betrayed: greed, corruption, and children at risk
Racial Issues
A practical guide to racism (satire)
Law, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Rights of the disabled
Dishonorable passions: sodomy laws in America, 1861-2003
Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Dinner with a cannibal: the complete history of mankind's oldest taboo
True enough: learning to live in a post-fact society
Ethnic conflict
Agriculture and Food
Food in history
The calorie counter
The last days of haute cuisine
Cultural Studies
African-American alphabet: a celebration of African-American and West Indian culture, custom, myth, and symbol
Italian days
To the manner born: a most proper guide to modern civility
Nature and Animals
The last polar bear: facing the truth of a warming world
Florida Studies
The New Deal in south Florida: design, policy, and community building, 1933-1940
A most disorderly court: scandal and reform in the Florida judiciary
Florida's fossils: guide to location, identification, and enjoyment
The sunshine economy: an economic history of Florida since the Civil War
American History and Economics
Originalism, federalism, and the American constitutional enterprise: a historical inquiry
The Fourth of July: and the founding of America
Choosing sides on the frontier in the American Revolution
Bad money: reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism
World History and Economics
Ireland since 1939
Common wealth: economics for a crowded planet
Troy and the Trojans
Psychology and Sociology
Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations
Shyness: a bold new approach
Arts, Music, and Film
Raphael
The art of small things
Second sight: printmaking in Chicago, 1935-1995
Essential history of art
Rock and Roll: an unruly history
Celluloid mavericks: a history of American independent filmmaking
How to make love like a porn star: a cautionary tale / Jenna Jameson

Newly Added Books

Popular Fiction / Bestsellers
Twilight / Stephenie Meyer
New Moon / Stephenie Meyer
The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende
Duma Key / Stephen King
Planet of the apes / Pierre Boulle
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas / Hunter S. Thompson
Technology and Industry
The cell phone: an anthropology of communication
The unnatural history of the sea
Politics
All the presidents' spokesmen: spinning the news, White House press secretaries from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
Florida Studies
A brief guide to Florida's monuments and memorials
A journey into Florida railroad history
Psychology and Sociology
X saves the world: how Generation X got the shaft but can still keep everything from sucking
Arts
Signs of life: bio art and beyond
Art history: the basics
Literature
The Cambridge companion to Toni Morrison
Literary theory: the basics
Classic Fiction
A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry
The Grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck
Frankenstein / Mary Shelley
I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
Light in August / William Faulkner
Award Winners
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie
Alfred and Emily / Doris Lessing
The Cleft / Doris Lessing
The golden notebook: a novel / Doris Lessing
No country for old men / Cormac McCarthy
Religious Studies
The little book of atheist spirituality
Sports
The physics of NASCAR: how to make steel + gas + rubber = speed
Military and War
U.S. military service
People
Sacagawea
Nancy Pelosi
Princess Diana
Tecumseh
Ho Chi Minh
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder
Young Stalin
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the passion for invention
The sum of our days: a memoir / Isabel Allende
The Lost Boy / Dave Pelzer
Emily Dickinson
Science
The science of Leonardo: inside the mind of the great genius of the Renaissance
Archaeology: the basics
Philosophy
Sticks and stones: the philosophy of insults
Health and Medicine
The Hot Zone
Honey: a handbook for home, health, & happiness
Nursing
Anatomy & physiology made incredibly easy!
Business
The Internet and American business
Linguistics and Education
When languages die: the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge
The First Word: the search for the origins of language
The elements of style
The man who made lists: love, death, madness, and the creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Semiotics: the basics
Racial Issues
The silencing of Ruby McCollum: race, class, and gender in the South
Law, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Loving through bars: children with parents in prison
DNA evidence and forensic science
Dirty dealing: the untold truth about global money laundering, international crime and terrorism
We the students: Supreme Court cases for and about students
The Supreme Court: the personalities and rivalries that defined America
The Salem witch trials: a reference guide
Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Let them in: the case for open borders
Euthanasia
Useless arithmetic: why environmental scientists can't predict the future
Global warning: the last chance for change
Disaster response
Agriculture and Food
Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world

Student Art Exhibit in the Library

November 5th—December 1st

Meet the Artists
Thursday, November 20th from 11:30—12:30
Light lunch provided by SGA

DVDs NOW AVAILABLE courtesy of HCC Plant City campus PTK

Movies
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Once were warriors
A mighty heart
The nativity story
The devil came on horseback
Amelie

Documentaries
Sicko (Michael Moore)
Not for Ourselves Alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (Ken Burns)
Thomas Jefferson (Ken Burns)
Race to the moon: the daring adventure of Apollo 8
Hoover Dam
Fighting for freedom: Revolution & Civil War
The medicated child
Two days in October
Unforgivable blackness: the rise and fall of Jack Johnson (Ken Burns)
Mark Twain (Ken Burns)
Horatio's drive: America’s first road trip (Ken Burns)
Surviving the Dust Bowl
My country, my country
Death in Gaza
Slavery and the making of America
The voyage of La Amistad: a quest for freedom
Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery (Ken Burns)
The Civil War (Ken Burns)
Jean Sibelius: the early years; maturity & silence
Frank Lloyd Wright
White light, black rain: the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

TV
The universe: explore the edges of the unknown (History Channel)
Roots
South Park Seasons 6-10

New Books Available Now

Books that can be checked out

General Interest
In defense of food: an eater's manifesto
Faking it: how to seem like a better person without actually improving yourself
Work, life, and family imbalance: how to level the playing field
Money for nothing: one man's journey through the dark side of lottery millions

Test Preparation
The Best test preparation for the CLAST, College Level Academic Skills Test

Technology and Industry
24/7: how cell phones and the Internet change the way we live, work, and play
The thief at the end of the world: rubber, power, and the seeds of empire
The Second Life Herald: the virtual tabloid that witnessed the dawn of the metaverse
Nanotechnology 101

Women’s Studies
Inuit women: their powerful spirit in a century of change

Politics
Brothers: the hidden history of the Kennedy years
Gaming the vote: why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it)
The climate change challenge and the failure of democracy
Divided America: the ferocious power struggle in American politics
Presidential elections: strategies and structures of American politics
The media effect: how the news influences politics and government
Hillary Clinton

Nature and Animals
Crocodile: evolution’s greatest survivor
Bears: a brief history
Platypus
American chestnut: the life, death, and rebirth of a perfect tree

Florida Studies
Florida’s seashells
Everglades: an ecosystem facing choices and challenges
Florida’s hurricane history
Florida’s rivers

American History and Economics
On the road to freedom: a guided tour of the civil rights trail
Freedom: America’s competitive advantage in the global market
American Indians and the law
The logic of life: the rational economics of an irrational world
This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War
Blue skies, black wings: African American pioneers of aviation
Are we Rome? : The fall of an empire and the fate of America

World History
The Mycenaeans
Constantinople: capital of Byzantium
Marie-Therese, child of terror: the fate of Marie Antoinette's daughter
India after Gandhi: the history of the world's largest democracy
The history of Kuwait
Lenin's private war: the voyage of the philosophy steamer and the exile of the intelligentsia

Psychology and Sociology
The disposable male: sex, love and money: your world through Darwin's eyes
Making multiracials: state, family, and market in the redrawing of the color line
The loss of sadness: how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder
Why immigrants come to America: braceros, indocumentados, and the migra
Beauty bias: discrimination and social power
Lifting the weight: understanding depression in men, its causes and solutions
American babies: their life and times in the 20th century

Arts
Egypt art
Roman art
Latinos in the arts
Asian cinema: a field guide
The judgment of Paris: the revolutionary decade that gave the world impressionism
Calatrava
Mies Van Der Rohe
Lucian Freud

Literature
Everything I needed to know about being a girl I learned from Judy Blume
Beowulf: a new translation
Why Shakespeare?
Sexy thrills: undressing the erotic thriller
The country of the blind and other selected stories / H.G. Wells
The nutcracker and the mouse king / E.T.A. Hoffmann and The tale of the nutcracker / Alexandre Dumas
The portable Jack Kerouac
Road novels 1957-1960 / Jack Kerouac
The Penguin book of modern African poetry
The secret agent: a simple tale / Joseph Conrad
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
The rainbow / D.H. Lawrence
Anne of Green Gables / L. M. Montgomery
"So has a daisy vanished”: Emily Dickinson and tuberculosis
Toni Morrison's The bluest eye
Latino writers and journalists
A blue hand: the Beats in India

Religious Studies
Religion and American politics: from the colonial period to the present
Prescribing faith: medicine, media, and religion in American culture
Religion and film: an introduction
Fundamentalism
The parapsychology revolution: a concise anthology of paranormal and psychical research
Monkey trials and gorilla sermons: evolution and Christianity from Darwin to intelligent design
The Jesus legend: a case for the historical reliability of the synoptic Jesus tradition
Science and Asian spiritual traditions
Alien worlds: social and religious dimensions of extraterrestrial contact
Head and heart: American Christianities
Amish grace: how forgiveness transcended tragedy

Sports
Latino athletes
The ball is round: a global history of football
Iceman: my fighting life / Chuck Liddell
Alex Rodriguez
Jesse Owens

Military and War
Ask & tell: gay and lesbian veterans speak out

Science
Latinos in science, math, and professions
Star maps: a history, artistry, and cartography
Hubble: the mirror on the universe
Earth from space: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Endless universe: beyond the Big Bang

Health and Medicine
Opium
Barbiturates
Peyote and mescaline
Methamphetamine
Medical abbreviations: 28,000 conveniences at the expense of communication and safety
Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present
Inside the body: fantastic images from beneath the skin
Vaccinated: one man's quest to defeat the world's deadliest diseases
From snake oil to medicine: pioneering public health
Natural treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome
Fact and fiction of healthy vision: eye care for adults and children
Breathing space: how allergies shape our lives and landscapes

Nursing
Math for nurses
Critical care nursing made incredibly easy
Wound care made incredibly visual!
Nursing care planning made incredibly easy
NCLEX-RN review made incredibly easy!

Business
The essential guide to business etiquette
The small business owner's manual: everything you need to know to start up and run your business
Women in business: the changing face of leadership
Survival tactics: the top 11 behaviors of successful entrepreneurs
An easy out: corporate America's addiction to outsourcing
Her turn: why it's time for women to lead in America
What men don't tell women about business: opening up the heavily guarded alpha male playbook Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything

Linguistics and Education
The history of special education: a struggle for equality in American public schools
Governance and the public good
The academic bill of rights debate: a handbook

Popular Culture
The Notorious B.I.G.
Frankenstein: a cultural history
Slash
May contain graphic material: comic books, graphic novels, and film
Dark victory: the life of Bette Davis

Crime and Criminal Justice
The Innocence Commission: preventing wrongful convictions and restoring the criminal justice system
Blood on the table: the greatest cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Terrorism and global security
Who cares for our children? : The child care crisis in the other America
Silenced! : Academic freedom, scientific inquiry, and the First Amendment under siege in America

Agriculture and Food
Beans: a history

Popular Fiction / Bestsellers
The Black Tattoo
One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey

Graphic Novels
Pride of Baghdad

Books that can be used in the library
Dictionary of Business Terms
The pronunciation of placenames: a worldwide dictionary

New Books

The Native American world beyond Apalachee: west Florida and the Chattahoochee Valley
The five-minute linguist: bite-sized essays on language and languages
Magill's medical guide
Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Neoclassicism and romanticism: architecture, sculpture, painting, drawings, 1750-1848
The welfare state nobody knows: debunking myths about U.S. social policy
Wine: from Neolithic times to the 21st century
Butterbox babies: baby sales, baby deaths: new revelations 15 years later
Metropolis: the American city in popular culture
Energy use worldwide: a reference handbook
Spirit, science, and health: how the spiritual mind fuels physical wellness
Road dogs and loners: family relationships among homeless men
A guide to historic Tampa
Kitchen literacy: how we lost knowledge of where food comes from and why we need to get it back
David
A history of smuggling in Florida: rumrunners and cocaine cowboys
Unions in crisis? : the future of organized labor in America
Black Elk speaks (audiobook)