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On Display: Library Staff Picks

By Lisa Curtin

How do you find your next book to read or movie to watch?  You probably get suggestions from friends and family, or some of you may belong to social communities such as Goodreads. Perhaps you have been enticed to try something from Amazon's "recommended for you" list or Netflix's "because you watched..." category.  Well, now's your chance to get recommendations from the Bentley Library staff!

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Read at Your Own Risk!

By Amy Galante

“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.” – Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower Each year, libraries and bookstores around the country celebrate our freedom to read during Banned Books Week. Since the first Banned Books Week in 1982, the American Library Association reports that over 11,000 books have been challenged or banned in the United States.

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On Display: Summer Reading

By Lisa Curtin

Summertime and the reading is easy...

Click to view the books and audiobooks on the Summer Reading display.

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On Display: Celebrate National Great Outdoors Month

By Kristen Richards

Exciting journeys await you between the covers of the books in this month’s display. Experience the wilderness of Mt. McKinley with Christopher Johnson McCandless, as told by Jon Krakauer in the book Into the Wild.

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On Display: Instant Expert

By Macee Damon
Instant Expert name tag, roundedPerhaps you're at a gathering of people of the sort that requires a name tag, and you need to make some small talk. Possibly you need to get up to speed quickly on a topic that you don't know much about, or maybe you just enjoy learning about new things. ...

On Display: Young Adult Literature

By Amy Galante

This month’s display is a collection of bildungsromans. That's the original term for the young adult novel. Classically, young adult literature features a coming-of-age tale such as Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables or Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Nowadays, the term young adult has morphed to become known as reading-age group. Folks often use “young adult” to mean fiction for teens. Sometimes, when adults read a young adult book, such as Harry Potter, they may face ridicule from their friends, colleagues, family, and even strangers!

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On Display: Best Books of 2014

By Lisa Curtin

Happy New Year and welcome to the library's 6th annual best books display! This year we have consulted eighteen* best books lists to bring you the Best Books of 2014.

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On Display: What's Cooking?

By Macee Damon

whatscooking Photo courtesy of Flickr user General Mills

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On Display: Lives in Film

By Nicholas Albaugh
Lives in Film image "Is the cinema more important than life?"--Francois Truffaut Have you always been curious what Alfred Hitchcock was really like? Has the life of Oprah Winfrey or Katherine Hepburn always interested you? Cinephiles rejoice! ...

New & Notable Nonfiction is On Display

By Lisa Curtin
Some of the most important and interesting nonfiction published within the past year is now on display at the library. These books have been pulled from the stacks by our reference librarians to showcase titles that may have escaped your notice when they were originally added to the shelves. ...
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