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Flix 4 Free! – June 2012
July 2, 2012
Stacks Spotlight – June 2012
Here’s a look at the latest hot fiction and bestsellers recently added to Cowles’ collection. Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area
Twelve desperate miles: the epic WWII voyage of the SS Contessa / Tim Brady.
Her majesty: Queen Elizabeth II and her court / Robert Hardman.
Time to start thinking: America in the age of descent / Edward Luce.
A Titanic love story: Ida and Isidor Straus / June Hall McCash.
Unsinkable: the full story of the RMS Titanic / Daniel Allen Butler.
And the band played on– / Christopher Ward.
The Titanic: disaster of a century / Wyn Craig Wade ; introduction by Barbara Wade ; foreword by John Chatterton.
Starting and closing: perseverance, faith, and one more year / John Smoltz ; with Don Yaeger.
What money can’t buy: the moral limits of markets / Michael J. Sandel.
The impulse economy: understanding mobile shoppers and what makes them buy / Gary Schwartz.
Greed is good and other fables: office life in popular culture / Tony Osborne.
Networked: the new social operating system / Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman.
The moral molecule: the source of love and prosperity / Paul J. Zak.
The great inversion and the future of the American city / Alan Ehrenhalt.
Oklahoma City: what the investigation missed– and why it still matters / Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles.
Game over: Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the culture of silence / Bill Moushey and Bob Dvorchak.
Do not ask what good we do: inside the U.S. House of Representatives / Robert Draper.
Dropped names: famous men and women as I knew them / Frank Langella.
Yours in truth: a personal portrait of Ben Bradlee / Jeff Himmelman.
Rather outspoken: my life in the news / Dan Rather with Digby Diehl.
Wish you were here / Graham Swift.
The uninvited guests / Sadie Jones.
Home / Toni Morrison.
Stolen prey / John Sandford.
The grey album ; on the blackness of blackness / Kevin Young.
The newlyweds: a novel / Nell Freudenberger.
iDisorder: understanding our obsession on technology and overcoming our addiction / Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D.
Garbology: our dirty love affair with trash / Edward Humes.
Flix 4 Free! – May 2012
June 1, 2012
Here’s a look at some of the latest DVDs added to our collection during the past month. These movies, and many more, are located in the Electronic Resource Center (west side, main floor), and available for check-out with just your Drake ID!
Game of thrones. The complete first season
Nazis at the center of the Earth
People like us. The complete series
Rise of the planet of the apes
Supernatural. The complete 6th season
Stacks Spotlight – May 2012
Here’s a look at the latest hot fiction and bestsellers recently added to Cowles’ collection. Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area
Immortality: the quest to live forever and how it drives civilization / Stephen Cave.
World War II remembered / by residents of Kendal at Hanover ; Clinton C. Gardner, managing editor ; editors, Jane Atwood Barlow … [et al.].
Prague winter: a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright ; with Bill Woodward.
America the beautiful: rediscovering what made this nation great / Ben Carson, with Candy Carson.
After Camelot: a personal history of the Kennedy family 1968 to the present / J. Randy Taraborrelli.
Leak: why Mark Felt became Deep Throat / Max Holland.
Gilded lives, fatal voyage: the Titanic’s first-class passengers and their world / Hugh Brewster.
Farewell, Titanic: her final legacy / Charles Pellegrino.
Bill Veeck: baseball’s greatest maverick / Paul Dickson.
Insanely simple: the obsession that drives Apple’s success / Ken Segall.
Dreaming in French: the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis / Alice Kaplan.
Learning from the octopus: how secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and disease / Rafe Sagarin.
The presidents club: inside the world’s most exclusive fraternity / Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy.
We can all do better / Bill Bradley.
And furthermore / Judi Dench ; as told to John Miller.
The white woman on the green bicycle / Monique Roffey.
Charles Jessold, considered as a murderer / Wesley Stace.
Lots of candles, plenty of cake / Anna Quindlen.
If you follow me: a novel / Malena Watrous.
The personal history of Rachel Dupree: [a novel] / Ann Weisgarber.
The hockey stick and the climate wars: dispatches from the front lines / Michael E. Mann.
The story of Earth: the first 4.5 billion years, from stardust to living planet / Robert M. Hazen.
Drop dead healthy: one man’s humble quest for bodily perfection / A. J. Jacobs.
Stacks Spotlight – April 2012
May 2, 2012
Here’s a look at the latest hot fiction and bestsellers recently added to Cowles’ collection. Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area
Imagine: how creativity works / Jonah Lehrer.
Alger Hiss: why he chose treason / Christina Shelton ; an introduction by Richard Pipes.
Showdown: the inside story of how Obama fought back against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party / David Corn.
Empire of shadows: the epic story of Yellowstone / George Black.
Illegal procedure: a sports agent comes clean on the dirty business of college football / Josh Luchs and James Dale ; [foreward by George Dohrmann].
The big miss: my years coaching Tiger Woods / Hank Haney.
Escape from Camp 14: one man’s remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the west / Blaine Harden.
Covenant of liberty: the ideological origins of the Tea Party movement / by Michael Patrick Leahy.
Angelmaker / by Nick Harkaway.
Stay close / Harlan Coben.
The Hunger games trilogy / Suzanne Collins.
Fifty shades darker / E. L. James.
The watchman’s rattle: thinking our way out of extinction / Rebecca D. Costa ; with a foreword by E. O. Wilson.
How it began: a time-traveler’s guide to the universe / Chris Impey.
Flix 4 Free! – April 2012
May 1, 2012
Here’s a look at some of the latest DVDs added to our collection during the past month. These movies, and many more, are located in the Electronic Resource Center (west side, main floor), and available for check-out with just your Drake ID!
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