Title	Call Number
The Atlas of Religion	REF G1046 E4 O2 2007
Encyclopedia of American Education (3rd ed.)	REF LB17 U54 2007
Flowering Plant Families of the World	REF QK495 A1 F58 2007
Guide to the Aria Repertoire	REF ML128 O4 C53 2007
Oxford Bible Atlas (4th ed.)	REF BS630 O96 2007
Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought (3rd ed.)	REF JA61 S37 2007

 

New Browsing Books

Title	Author	Call Number
The Book of Dahlia: A Novel	Albert, Elisa	A (shelved by last name)
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food	Lee, Jennifer 8	TX945.4 L44 2008
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment	Lewis, Anthony	KF4770 L49 2007

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New DVDs
(all DVDs shelved by title)

Title	Call Number	Summary
Alvin and the Chipmunks	DVD PN1997 A3254 2008	Struggling songwriter Dave Seville opens his home to a talented trio of chipmunks named Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. When they become overnight music sensations, a greedy record producer tries to exploit the ’boys.’ Now Dave must use a little human ingenuity and a lot of ’munk mischief to get his furry family back before it’s too late.
Atonement	DVD PN1997 A89 2008	In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony’s vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family’s housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony’s headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony - who has a crush on Robbie, is compelled to interfere. She goes so far as to accuse Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but, ultimately, he is arrested. Briony bears false witness and the course of three lives is changed forever. As Briony grow older, she continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.
Barton Fink	DVD PN1997 B342 2007	Fink is a New York playwright who reluctantly relocates to Hollywood to write screenplays. Ordered to write a low budget screenplay about wrestling, Fink manages to type one sentence and then...nothing. Although his chatty insurance salesman neighbor Charlie helps out by teaching Fink about wrestling, the clock ticks, the temperature rises, and Fink’s life spins more and more out of control.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	DVD PN1997 B392 2008	A stock broker, who is having financial troubles and in need of extra cash, and his younger brother conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. The only problem is that the owners of the jewelry store are their own parents. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
Blood Simple	DVD PN1997 B6195 2007	When Marty, the owner of a backwoods bar, hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend, he opens a door into the criminal world that he’ll never be able to shut.
I am Legend	DVD PN1997 I14 2008	Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville’s every move. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.
Jon Stewart on Humor and an Informed Public	DVD PN4867.2 B55 2007	In this program, veteran journalist Bill Moyers interviews Jon Stewart, the long-standing anchor of the award-winning Daily Show with Jon Stewart, about why so many viewers get their news and analysis from his fake news show. The Alberto Gonzales scandal is also discussed with Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, and a eulogy for David Halberstam is also given.
Juno	DVD PN1997 J86 2008	Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she’s pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can’t go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. The next step is to find prospective parents for the yet unborn child. In the Pennysaver ad section, Juno finds Mark and Vanessa Loring, a yuppie couple living in the suburbs. Juno likes the Lorings and of her own choosing, she enters into a closed adoption contract with the Lorings. During the second and third trimesters of Juno’s pregnancy, which she treats with care but detachment, her relationships with her family, with Paulie, and with the Lorings develop.
Kite Runner	DVD PN1997 L69 2008	In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It’s a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day’s victory, one boy’s fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban’s iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right.
Language	DVD P140 L2 2005	Examines language in a historical context and as a political tool. Describes the effect that the printing press and the Internet have had on the ascendancy of English as the universal language, and the resultant disappearance of many other languages.
Love in the Time of Cholera	DVD PN1997 L687 2008	Florentino is a poetry-writing telegraph operator who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love. While Florentino’s mother encourages the courtship, Fermina’s father absolutely forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. When Urbino proposes, Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino decides to wait. With the help of his uncle, he amasses wealth of his own. All the while, he drifts from woman to woman, never really finding what he is looking for in a woman. After five decades of waiting, he gets a second chance to win Fermina’s heart.
Miller's Crossing	DVD PN1997 M555 2007	Leo, a likeable Irish gangster boss, rules an Eastern city along with Tom, his trusted lieutenant and couselor. But just as their authority is challenged by an Italian underboss and his ruthless henchman, Leo and Tom fall for the same woman. Tom, caught in the jaws of a gangland power struggle, walks a deadly tightrope as he tries to control and manipulate its violent outcome.
The Return of Navajo Boy	DVD E99 N3 R47 2001	The resurfacing of a decades-old film reunites a man and his family and explores radioactivity problems on the Navajo reservation. The original film, Navaho boy: the Monument Valley story, produced by Robert J. Kennedy, chronicled the Cly and Begay families. The new film, Return of Navajo boy, juxtaposes the families’ lives now and then. The current film also explores the effects of uranium exposure from the mines on the Navajo Nation on the health of the Navajo people. It documents the return/reunion of John Wayne Cly, a Navaho boy, taken as a child by missionaries around 1960 from his Navajo family.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	DVD PN1997 S93 2008	Reinventing himself as Sweeney Todd, a man unjustly sent to prison returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin who sent the man to prison. Not only does he seek revenge for the cruel punishment he suffered in prison, but also for what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to his home town, he reopens his barber shop, where Mr. Todd becomes the Demon of Fleet Street. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney’s amorous accomplice who creates diabolical meat pies out of the remains of Mr. Todd’s victims.
There Will Be Blood	DVD PN1997 T472 2008	A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview’s equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement of Plainview’s poker-faced adoptive son. Plainview’s rivalry with Eli Sunday, the local preacher.
Transformers	DVD PN1997 T662 2007	On the planet Cybertron, a war was waged between the Autobots and the Decepticons for control of the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Allspark is smuggled off the planet, but Megatron goes in search of it. He tracks it to Earth and his desire for power sends him into the Arctic Ocean. The sheer cold forces him into a paralyzed state. His body is later recovered, and before going into a comatose state he uses the last of his energy to engrave a map, showing the location of the Allspark, into the Captain’s glasses. A century later, Spike buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it is an Autobot in disguise. He is to protect Spike, who bears the Captain’s glasses. Other Transformers have arrived In the desert of Qatar and the Decepticons attack a U.S. military base. Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves in the middle of a grand battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Meanwhile, within the depths of Hoover Dam, the cryogenically stored form of Megatron awakens.
Viva Baseball: How Latinos Shaped America's Pastime	DVD GV865 A1 R38 2006	Explores the fierce struggles and rich history of Latino players in Major League Baseball. A remarkable story of racism, culture clash and personal triumphs, told through rare archival footage and more than 100 hours or provocative interviews with such legends as Luis Tiant, Orestes ’Minnie’ Minoso, Orlando Cepeda, Vic Power, Tony Perez, Felipe Alou, Juan Marichal, Rod Carew, Fernando Valenzuela, Cookie Rojas, Keith Hernandez and more, plus current-dau superstars like David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez, Pedro Martines, Carlos Beltran and Miguel Tejada.

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