DDD/journal: A vehicle for engaging students

Thursday, March 30, 2017

A vehicle for engaging students

In support of our library's after-school teen center activities, our principal brought in his cool 1/5 scale, gas-powered RC car for display. Turning heads already.

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William Cooper’s Town / Taylor
Lolly Willowes / Warner
The Greater Journey / McCullough
Crossing the Unknown Sea / Whyte
Selected Poems / Farrington
Nabokov / King, Queen, Knave
Before the Deluge / Friedrich
Life in the Iron Mills / Davis
The Hare with Amber Eyes / de Waal
Sicilian Stories / Verga
The Conquest of Constantinople / Villehardouin
The Mirror and the Light / Mantel
The Steward of Christendom / Barry
Lulu in Hollywood / Brooks
Given Sugar, Given Salt - Hirshfield
To be a Pilgrim / Cary
Herself Suprised / Cary
Turn Coat / Butcher
The Secret Scripture / Barry
The Horse’s Mouth / Cary
The Snows of Kilimanjaro / Hemingway
The Garden of Eden / Hemingway
Cat’s Cradle / Vonnegut
Reading the Forested Landscape / Wessels
What the Robin Knows / Young
JANUARY 2021
The Once and Future King / White
Under Milk Wood / Thomas
Days Without End / Barry
On Canaan’s Side / Barry
A Place of Greater Safety / Mantel
Public Opinion / Lippmann
The Warmth of Other Suns / Wilkerson
Annie Dunne / Barry
Bring Up the Bodies / Mantel
Collected Shorter Poems / Carruth
Diary of Raphael Soyer / Soyer
The Clarks of Cooperstown / Weber
Wolf Hall / Mantel
Eager / Goldfarb
The Beans of Egypt Maine / Chute
The Decameron / Boccacio
In Our Time / Hemingway
Much Depends on Dinner / Visser
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony / Calasso
A Long Long Way / Barry
Don Juan / Byron
I am the Messenger / Zusak
The Knowledge Gap / Wexler
New and Selected Poems / Kumin
Why I Wake Early / Oliver
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane / DiCamillo
Jamaica Inn / du Maurier
Cannery Row / Steinbeck
The Basque History of the World / Kurlansky
Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry / 2003
Mr. Fortune's Maggot / Warner
The Corner That Held Them / Warner
Salt / Kurlansky
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts / de Hamel
JANUARY 2020
The Inquisitor’s Tale / Gidwitz
Song of Achilles / Miller
The Gallery / Burns
Savage Kin / Bruchac
Thomas Jefferson Author of America / Hitchens
Last Witnesses / Alexievich
The Star Factory / Carson
Fishing for Amber / Carson
Domestic Work / Trethewey
Circe / Miller
The Importance of Being Earnest / Wilde
The Metamorphoses / Ovid
Churchill, a Life / Gilbert
Travels with Charley / Steinbeck
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Dillard
Selected Poems / Auden
World War I: A Complete History / Gilbert
Selected Poems / Piercy
Selected Poems 1950-2012 / Rich
Death of a Hero / Aldington
Avenue of Mysteries / Irving
I, Claudius / Graves
Priest Turned Therapist ... / Hoagland
Manhattan Beach / Egan
World War I and America / Berg, Ed.
The Best American Poetry 2018 / Gioia, Ed.
Wanderer / Hayden
Talking to my Daughter about the Economy / Varoufakis
The Comedians / Greene
Simmons / The Terror
JANUARY 2019
Brunelleschi's Dome / King
Death Comes for the Archbishop / Cather
Paris, the novel / Rutherfurd
Thirst / Oliver
Great Plains / Frazier
Catalyst / Anderson
The Selected Poems of Richard Wilbur
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry / Tyson
Luncheon of the Boating Party / Vreeland
The Face of Battle / Keegan
West / Davies
Herland / Gilman
The Rise of Silas Lapham / Howells
In Praise of Fertile Land / Mauro, Ed.
Indian Summer / Howells
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Joyce
Breath, Eyes, Memory / Danticat
American Lion / Meacham
The Marrow Thieves / Dimaline
E. E. Cummings revisited / Kennedy
George Washington / Johnson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil / Berendt
Barracoon / Hurston
Victorian America, 1876-1915 / Schlereth
Broken Harbor / French
The Source, How Rivers Made America / Doyle
The Odyssey / Homer, trans. Wilson
Nana / Zola
The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840 / Larkin
Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers / Heiligman
The Masterpiece / Zola
Happy Life / Budbill
Elmira; Death Camp of the North / Horigan
The Uncertaintey of Everyday Life, 1915-1945 / Green
The Art of Fiction / Gardner
Native Guard / Tretheway
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus / Bowling
Brother to Dragons / Warren
In the Woods / French
A room of one's own / Woolf
The Hate U Give / Thomas
Very far away from anywhere else / LeGuin
Tarawa, story of a battle / Sherrod
Dispatches from the Pacific / Boomhower
The Shell Collector / Doerr
The Pigeon Tunnel / Le Carre
JANUARY 2018
Birdsong / Faulks
Undefeated / Sheinkin
The Noise of Time / Barnes
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian / Alexie
A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
Strange Meeting / Hill
The Sense of an Ending / Barnes
The Unwomanly Face of War / Alexievich
Hoover, an Extraordinary Life / Whyte
RAD Women Worldwide / Schatz
A Legacy of Spies / le Carre
The Secret Life of Trees / Wohlleben
Anatomy of a Murder / Traver
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 / Baruma, Mod. Lib.
Prehistory / Renfrew, Mod. Lib.
A People's History of the United States / Zinn
The War Lords of Washington / Catton
The Moviegoer / Percy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / LeCarre
North Country / Mosher
Foucault's Pendulum / Eco
A Farewell to Arms / Hemingway
Waiting for Teddy Williams / Mosher
Nickel Mountain / Gardner
True North / Harrison
The Likeness / French
The Woman Lit by Fireflies / Harrison
A History of Pictures / Hockney
The Great Leader / Harrison
House of Earth / Guthrie
The Courage of Turtles / Hoagland
Northern Borders / Mosher
Mother Night / Vonnegut
Hard Times / Dickens
The True Flag / Kinzer
The Forgotten Man / Shlaes
War Music / Logue
The Glass Universe / Sobel
The Trespasser / French
JANUARY 2017
The Underground Railroad / Whitehead
Salt to the Sea / Sepetys
Non-violence / Kurlansky
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company / Hall
Venus on the Half-Shell / [Trout]
Alan's War / Guibert
Tartuffe / Moliere
The Cherry Orchard / Chekhov
Girl in the Blue Coat / Hesse
How We Got to Now / Johnson
The Rain in Portugal / Collins
Leaving Orbit / Dean
Between the World and Me - Coates
Another Brooklyn / Woodson
Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories / Tolstoy
The Balkans / Mazower
The Odyssey / Cross / Packer
Reporting WWII, Vol.2 / Lib. Of America
Secondhand Time / Alexievich
Peoples and Empires / Pagden
The Red Pencil / Pinkney
Salvage the Bones / Ward
Poets of World War II / Shapiro, ed.
Miss Peregrine's Home for..,/ Riggs
The Emperor of Any Place / Wynne-Jones
Reporting WWII, Vol. 1 / Lib. of America
Lee Miller / Burke
Dangerous Games / MacMilan
The Art of Asking / Palmer
The Invention of Nature / Wulf
The Penelopiad / Atwood
Gargantua / Rabelais
Tales from Ovid / Hughes
Thunder & Lightning / Redniss
Penguin Book of Russian Poetry / Chandler
Radioactivity / Redniss
Black Wings has my Angel / Chaze
In the heat of the night / Ball
Germany: Memories of a Nation / MacGregor
The Hunters / Salter
JANUARY 2016
Symphony for the City of the Dead / Anderson
The Iliad / Cross | Packer
The Divided Ground / Tyler
Behind the Beautiful Forevers / Boo
The Sympathizer / Nguyen
A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
The Impossible Knife of Memory / Anderson
The Museum of Innocence / Pamuk
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing / Anderson
The Education of Robert Nifkin / Pinkwater
An idea whose time has come / Purdum
Two Years Before the Mast / Dana
The Pox Party / Anderson
Law in America / Friedman
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / Clarke
The Enlightenment / Spencer
Communism / Pipes
The curious incident ... / Haddon
H is for Hawk / Macdonald
Alexander Hamilton / Chernow
Jitterbug Perfume / Robbins
Turn Coat / Butcher
The Forever War / Filkins
The 42nd Parallel / Dos Passos
Casino Royale / Fleming
Bring Up the Bodies / Mantel
The Moon Before Morning / Merwin
A Summons to Memphis / Taylor
JANUARY 2015
Treasure Island / Stevenson
Birdy / Wharton
Stuff Matters / Miodownik
Sugar Changed the World / Aronson
A Midnight Clear / Wharton
All the Light We Cannot See / Doerr
The Boys in the Boat / Brown
Charlie Chaplin / Ackroyd
The Zone of Interest / Amis
Great Expectations / Dickens
Neverhome / Hunt
The Metaphysical Club / Menand
The Tiger's Wife / Obreht
The Civil War: The Fourth Year / Lib. of America
The Civil War: The Third Year / Lib. of America
Abraham Lincoln and the Union / Yale U.P.
The Anti-Slavery Campaign / Yale U.P.
Baseball / Vecsey, Modern Lib.
The Catcher in the Rye / Salinger
Locomotion / Woodson
The Real Revolution / Aronson
Jamrach's Menagerie / Birch
John Wayne / Eyman
The Invention of Wings / Kidd
Sweet Will / Levine
The Second Mrs. Giaconda / Konigsburg
Proven Guilty / Butcher
1914 / Echenoz
The Bedside Book of Beasts / Gibson
One Summer / Bryson
JANUARY 2014
Quiet / Cain
Doctor Zhivago / Pasternak
American Gods / Gaiman
One Hundred Years of Solitude / Garcia
Why We Run / Heinrich
The Worst Hard Time / Egan
The Round House / Erdrich
Ceremony / Silko
The Gallery / Burns
Feast of Crows / Martin
The DaVinci Code / Brown
The Watch that Ends the Night / Wolff
Storm Front / Butcher
The Catholic Church / Kung, Modern Lib.
The Book of Jonas / Dau
Dangerous Games / MacMilan, Modern Lib.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk / Fountain
Trinity / Fetter-Vorm
The Tipping Point / Gladwell
Summer Night / Butcher
Cary Grant / Eliot
The Company / Micklethwait, Modern Lib.
The Age of Napolean / Horne
I Await the Devil's Coming / MacLane
All the King's Men / Warren
The Yellow Birds / Powers
The Tiger's Wife (2) / Obreht
Freedom's Forge / Herman
The Civil War: The Second Year / Lib. of America
Catherine the Great / Massie
Rural Hours / Cooper
Masterpieces in Detali, V. 1 / Hagen
Wolf Hall / Mantel
The Hammer and the Anvil / Zimmerman
Storm from the East / Viorst, Modern Lib.
A Giacometti Portrait / Lord
The Once and Future King / White
JANUARY 2013
California / Starr, Modern Lib.
A Storm of Swords / Martin
The American Revolution / Wood, Modern Lib.
The City / Kotkin, Modern Lib.
Les Misérables / Hugo
The Night Circus / Morgenstern
Midnight Rising / Horwitz
The Great Gatsby / Fitzgerald
Diary of Samuel Pepys / Modern Lib. Ed.
Clash of Kings / Martin
Mother Courage / Brecht
A Game of Thrones / Martin
A Village Life / Glück
The Group of Seven / Silcox
The Lost World / Doyle
Mother Night / Vonnegut
Dead Beat / Butcher
The Sea-Wolf / London
The Watch / Roy-Bhattacharya
The Souls of Black Folk / Du Bois
Selected Poems, 1946-1985 / Merrill
The Selected Levis / Levis
Woods Runner / Paulsen
The Tiger's Wife / Obreht
The better angels of our nature / Pinker
The Summer of the Bear / Pollen
The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry / Dove
The building of Manhattan / Mackay
The Renaissance / Johnson, Modern Lib.
Leaving the Atocha Station / Lerner
JANUARY 2012
The Second World War / Keegan
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Haddon
Dune / Herbert
The Civil War: The First Year / Lib. of America
Hemingway's Boat / Hendrickson
In Patagonia / Chatwin
Flowers for Algernon / Keyes
A Moveable Feast / Hemingway
The San Francisco Earthquake / Thomas
The Glory of their Times / Ritter
The Little Drummer Girl / le Carre
Johnny Got His Gun / Trumbo
The Tailor of Panama / le Carre
The Blindness of the Heart / Franck
Cleopatra / Schiff
John Adams / McCullough
Forge / Anderson
A Canticle for Leibowitz / Miller
Heart of a Samurai / Preus
True grit / Portis
Camille / Dumas (fils)
JANUARY 2011
Our kind of traitor / le Carre
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry
Warriors in the crossfire / Flood
The Aeneid / Virgil (Fagles)
Three rivers rising / Richards
Riot / Myers
The Dreamer / Ryan
Shop class as soulcraft / Crawford
Half broke horses / Walls
Ada / Nabokov
The Black Minutes / Solares
The Magician's Accomplice / Genelin
The Boys' Crusade / Fussell
Matterhorn / Marlantes
Guns, Germs, and Steel / Diamond
A Rumor of War / Caputo
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet / Mitchell
Silk Parachute / McPhee
Cannery Row / Steinbeck
Landscape Turned Red, the Battle of Antietam / Sears
Tortilla Flat / Steinbeck
A Life of Picasso, 3 vols./Richardson
The Agony and the Ecstasy / Stone
Having Our Say / Delany
Crime and Punishment / Dostoyevsky
Night / Wiesel
The Lives of a Cell / Thomas
The Longest Day / Ryan
Justine / Durrell
The Real War / Schell
The Shadow of Sirius / Merwin
JANUARY 2010
When You Reach Me / Stead
Chains / Anderson
The Known World / Jones
Chasing Lincoln's Killer / Swanson
Miss Leavitt's Stars / Johnson
Proust was a Neuroscientist / Lehrer
Black Swan Green / Mitchell
The River Between Us / Peck
The Guns of Navarone / MacLean
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Le Carre
Shema, Collected Poems of Primo Levi
Angels and Ages / Gopnik
The Metropolis / Sinclair
Goodbye to all that / Graves
The Oregon Trail / Parkman
Where Eagles Dare / MacLean
Cloud Atlas / Mitchell
Justice at Nuremberg / Conot
People of the Book / Brooks
The Teacher's Funeral / Peck
Twelve Angry Men / Rose
I am the Messenger / Zusak
The Remains of the Day / Ishiguro
The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Haley
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Joyce
Around the World in Eighty Days / Verne
The Street of Crocodiles / Schulz
Don Quixote / Cervantes
New Found Land / Wolf
The Devil in the White City / Larson
Team of Rivals / Goodwin
The Gift / Hyde
Don Juan / Byron
Anthem / Rand
The Friendly Persuasion / West
JANUARY 2009
Things Fall Apart / Achebe
The Long-Legged House / Berry
Heart of Darkness / Conrad
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments / Johnson
The Constant Gardener / LeCarré
Thebes at War / Mahfouz
Rhadopis of Nubia / Mahfouz
Khufu's Wisdom / Mahfouz
H.M.S. Ulysses / MacLean
A Most Wanted Man / LeCarré
Looking for a Ship / McPhee
Women in Love / Lawrence
The 39 Steps / Buchan
The Stranger / Camus
This Republic of Suffering / Faust
The Sorrow of War / Ninh
Madame Bovary / Flaubert
The Executioner's Song / Mailer
The Plot Against America / Roth
Persepolis / Satrapi
A Confederacy of Dunces / Toole

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