Blu Rays are now available

Selected movies on Blu Ray are now available for check out at the library. Student government has funded the purchase of a number of movies and television shows they've selected in the Blu Ray format. You can find them on our new Blu Ray shelf near the DVD shelves. Not all of them are available yet, but we're working hard to get them out on the shelves so you can check them out. Remember, to watch a Blu Ray disc you need a Blu Ray compatible player. Unfortunately, these discs cannot be viewed on the library computers but there is a Blu Ray player available in the Student Center.

Come see our new carpet

We were closed last week for recarpeting but the library is open again and the computers are back and available for everyone to use.

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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