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New in the Instuctional Materials Center (IMC) on the 3rd floor of the Library Wonderstruck By Brian Selznick Call Number : PZ7 .S4654 Won 2011  (IMC) Review from the New York Times Publisher's Description:   Playing with the form he created in his trailblazing debut novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret , Brian Selznick once again sails into uncharted territory and takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey. A boy named Ben longs for the father he has never known. A girl named Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room, and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing. Ben's story, set in 1977, is told entirely with words, while Rose's story, set fifty years earlier, is told entirely with pictures. The two stories weave back and forth before ultimately coming together. Rich, complex, aff...

As you may be aware, the Wilson databases are now available on EBSCOhost. These databases include: · Applied Science Full Text · Art Full Text · Biography Ref Bank Select · Biological & Ag Index Plus · Education Full Text · ERIC · General Science Full Text · Humanities Full Text · Library Lit & Inf Science · OmniFile Full Text Mega · Readers' Guide Full Text · Readers' Guide Retro · Social Sciences Full Text Now that the databases have been moved to the EBSCOhost platform, you can create a MyEBSCOhost account and recreate your saved searches there. If you have any questions or concerns about the switchover from WilsonWeb to EBSCOhost, please contact Terri Muraski at tmuraski@uwsp.edu

Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-fiction The Swerve:  How the World Became Modern By Stephen Greenblatt Call Number:  PA 6484 .G69 2011 Publisher's Description :  One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things , by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter...