Wedding Month, February 2011

You Are Cordially Invited:


February is Wedding Month





Whether you are looking for practical advice for your own wedding, interesting customs

and rites, or just a novel about weddings, these books are what you want.



Reference



Monger, George P. Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Ref GT2690.M65 2004



Explore customs, rituals, and religious rites from around the world.



Nonfiction



Bride's Wedding Planner. Ed. rev & updated. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989. BJ2051.B698 1989



Cherlin, Andrew J. The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today. New York: Vintage Books, 2009. HQ535.C416 2009



Claro, Daniella. How to Have the Wedding You Want (not the One Everybody Else Wants You to Have). New York: Berkley Books, 1995. HQ745.C56 1995



Folly, Michael P. Wedding Rites: A Complete Guide to Traditional Vows, Music, Ceremonies, Blessings, and Interfaith Services. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2008. BV835.F57 2008



Lalli, Cele Goldsmith. Modern Bride Wedding Celebrations: The Complete Wedding Planner for Today's Bride. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989. BJ2051.L35 1992



Lehman, Victor D. The Pastor's Guide to Weddings & Funerals. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2001. BV199.M3 L44 2001



McFarlane, Doreen M. Weddings with Today's Families in Mind: A Handbook for Pastors. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2007. BV199.M3 M34 2007



Muzzy, Ruth, and R. Kent Hughes. The Christian Wedding Planner. Wheaton, Ill: Tyndale House, 1991. BJ2051.M82 1991



Post, Elizabeth L. Emily Post's Complete Book of Wedding Etiquette. Rev. ed. New York: Harper Collins, 1991. BJ2051.P54 1991



Warner, Diane. How to Have a Big Wedding on a Small Budget: Cut Your Wedding Costs in Half--or More. 2nd ed. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, 1992. HQ745.W37 1992









Fiction



Bowen, Rhys. Royal Blood: A Royal Spyness Novel. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2010. Leisure Reading PR6052.O848 R679 2010



Fforde, Katie. Wedding Season: A Novel. New York: St. Martins, 2010. Leisure Reading PR6056.F54 W43



Garcia Lorca, Frederico. Blood Wedding. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books, 2009.

PQ6613.A7634 B613 2009



Karon, Jan. A Common Life: The Wedding Story. New York: Viking, 2001.

PS3561.A678 C6 2001



Children’s Literature – Curriculum Center



English, Karen. Nadia's Hands. N.p.: Boyd Mills Press, 1999.

Curr Center PZ7.E7232 Nad 19991



Nadia is a flower girl in a Pakistani wedding.



Henkes, Kevin. Lilly's Big Day. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2006.

Curr Center PZ7.H389 Lg2006



Lilly, the mouse, is a flower girl at her teacher’s wedding.



Keyes, Frances Parkinson. Once on Esplanade: A Cycle Between Two Creole Weddings. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1947. Curr Center PZ7.K523On

My life closed twice February 2011

My Life Closed Twice”: Sudden loss and Grief




The recent events in Tuscon, Arizona served as inspiration for this list.



Non Fiction



Hamman, Jaco J. When Steeples Cry: Leading Congregations Through Loss and Change. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2006. BV4905.3.H37 2005



Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve, and Philip B. Kunhardt. Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights That Followed.. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Oversize E457.5.K8



Lutz, Tom. Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. BF575.C88 L87 1999





Smith, Harold Ivan. Griefkeeping: Learning How Long Grief Lasts. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2004. BV4330.S676 2004



---. Grieving the Death of a Friend. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1996. BF575.G7 S59 1996



---. On Grieving the Death of a Father. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1994. BV4905.2.S59 1994



VanDuivendyk, Tim P. The Unwanted Gift of Grief: A Ministry Approach. New York: Haworth Press, 2006. BV4905.3.V38 2006



Wangerin, Walter. Mourning Into Dancing. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1992. BV4905.2.W36 1992



Weaver, Andrew J., and Howard Stone, Eds. Reflections on Grief and Spiritual Growth. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. BV4905.3.R44 2005



Young, Dennis. Mourning Journey: Spiritual Guidance for Facing Grief, Death, and Loss. Billerica, Mass: Discipleship Publications International, 2003. BV4905.3.Y68 2003





Fiction



Brisson, Pat. I Remember Miss Perry. New York: Dial Books, 2006.

Curr. Center PZ7.B78046 Mi2006

A young boy’s teacher is killed in an automobile accident



McDonald, Joyce. Swallowing Stones. New York: Laurel Leaf Books, 1999.

PZ7.M478418 S2 1999





Tatlock, Ann. A Place Called Morning. Minneapolis: Bethany Press, 1998.

PS3570.A85 P58 1998





Valentine, Jenny. Broken Soup. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

Curr Center PZ7.V25213 Br 2009





Yolen, Jane. Grandad Bill's Song. New York: Philomel Books, 1994.

Curr Center PZ8.3.Y76 G4 1994

Women's History Month March 2011

Reference




Benowitz, June Melby. Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion. Ref BL2525.B45 1998

This work is one of many reference works featuring short biographies of women in history.



Non Fiction



Conway, J. Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women, 1992. PS647.W6 W75 1992



Flinders, Carol. Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics. 1993. BV5095.A1 F57 1993



Goodall, Jane. 40 Years at Gombe, 1999. QL31.G58 L56 1999



Grammer, E. Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in the 19th Century America, 2003. BV3780.G73 2003



Johnson, Greg. Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates. 1998. PS3565.A8 Z685 1998



Margolis, J, and A. Fisher. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, 2002. QA76.25 .M35 2002



Stanley, A. Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology, 1995. T36.S73 1995



Wigle, Shari Lynn. Pride of America, We're with You: The Letters of Grace Anderson, U.S.Army Nurse Corps, World War I. 2007. D639.W7 W5 2007



Wilson, Dorothy. Lone Woman: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the First Woman Doctor. R154.B623 W5



Winship, M. The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson, 2005. BX7148.M4 W55 2005




Fiction



Berry, Wendell. Hannah Coulter, 2004. PS3552.E75 H36 2004



Bloom, Amy. Away: A Novel, 1998. PS3552.L6378 A95 H68 1998



Cunningham, Michael. The Hours. PS3553.U484



Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries, 1994. PR9199.3.S514 S76 1994

I finished another book

Everyone in the book challenge is aware that this is the final week.  I have managed to read 3 books that fit the challenge criteria, although they weren't the only ones I read.  My final book is a First Year summer read Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom.  It would be a quick read if it weren't dealing with some very tough issues.  But the author handles them with sensitivity and compassion.  The book purports to be about two men, but it's really about three.  Even though it's short, Have a Little Faith, abounds with those themes which we have all wrestled with at one time or another and which keep popping back in our lives in different shapes and sizes even when we think we're through with them.  The themes include, acceptance, forgiveness, faith, death, dying, poverty, God.  In otherwords, this book will not be dated in 10 years, unlike other popular nonfiction. If you liked the author's earlier works, this book fits snugly into that pattern.   At our library, you can find this book at BM 729.F3 A496 2009.  Read it fast or slow, but read it.

Another book to the challenge

Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal and the Shaping of America

Books in the reading challenge

We have one week to go in the B. Thomas Golisano Library Summer Reading Challenge.  What a mouthful!  Here are the books people have been reading in no particular order.  I hope to have people write their experiences with the reading challenge at the end as we didn't require any input from those participating

The Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon and the 1960 Election
Vanishing Point
Finding the  Cure
After OZ
Echo Park
The Abolition of Man
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 2 people
Hound of the Baskervilles
Confederacy of Dunces
To Kill a Mockingbird - 2 people
Rabbit Run
Rabbit Redux
Gilead
Night - 2 people
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Noah's Compass
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
The Castle
The Man Who Was Thursday
Have  a Little Faith
Breathing Lessons
Imperfect Birds
Jane Eyre
The Little Prince
America: Back on Track
Animal Farm
The Help
Liar
Night and Day
Valkyrie
The Secret
Laced
The Whole Truth
Highest Duty
Travels with My Aunt
Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller
Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson
Essays of E.B. White
Witness
The Aloha Quilt
Stained Glass
The Essential Niebuhr
Picking Cotton
The Shack - 2 people
Life of Pi
A Clockwork Orange
Interpreter of Maladies
Knitting
Sacred Stacks
Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace
The Echo Maker
The Secret Life of Josephine
Rochester History
Much Ado about Nothing

I am Impressed!.  The links will be added later.

Golisano and 100 best nonfiction books of the century

These are the books the library holds from the 100 best nonfiction books of the century.  The call number is at the end of the title. Because this is a group of suggested books for a contest, I am withholding the link to keep to the rules.  The links will be posted at the end of the contest.


Adams, Henry.       Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres DC20.A2 1936
Arendt, Hannah.      The Origins of Totalitarianism JC481.A6 1966
Banfield, Edward.  The Unheavenly City HT123.B26 1970
Behe, Michael J.     Darwin's Black Box QH325.B365 1996
Berlin, Isaiah.        The Hedgehog and the Fox  PB3415.H5 B4 1970
Blake, Robert.        Disraeli  DA564.B3 B6 1967
Bloom, Allan.        The Closing of the American Mind E169.1.B653 1987
Buckley Jr., William F.  God and Man at Yale LD6309.B8
Burnham, James.    The Machiavellians  JA83.B8
Camus Albert           The Myth of Sisyphus and other Essays PQ2605.A3134 M93
Carson, Rachel.        Silent Spring SB959.C3
Chambers, Whittaker. Witness E743.C47
Chesterton, G.K.       The Everlasting Man BL48.C5 1955
Chesterton, G. K.       Orthodoxy BR121.C5
Churchill, Winston     The Second World War - 6 volumes.  D743.C484
Clark, Kenneth         Civilisation  CB68.C55 1970
Cohn, Norman.         The Pursuit of the Millennium  BR270.C6 1970b
Collingwood, R. G.  The Idea of History D13.C6
Edel, Leon.            Henry James PS2123.E35
Eliot, T. S.             Selected Essays PN511.E443
Einstein, Albert.     Relativity QC6.E5 1931a
Feynman, Richard     Lectures on Physics QC23.F47
Foot, Shelby        The Civil War E468.F7
Frank, Anne.        The Diary of a Young Girl DS135.N6F73313 1995
Friedman, Milton  Capitalism and Freedom HB501.F7
Freud, Sigmund.  The Interpretation of Dreams BF1078.F72 1999
Freud, Sigmund.    Three Case Histories BF173.F675
Genovese, Eugene D.     Roll, Jordan Roll E443.G46
Gilder, George        Wealth and Poverty HB501.G46
Heidder, Martin.       Being and Time B3279.H48 S43 1962
Hofstadter, Richard.  The Age of Reform E743.H63
Huizinga, Johann.        The Waning of the Middle Ages DC33.2.H83 1954
Jacobs, Jane.          The Death and Life of Great American Cities NA9108.J3
Jacobs, Jane.          The Economy of Cities HT321.J32
Jarrell, Randall.       Poetry and the age PN1271.J31 1972
Johnson, Paul          Modern Times D421.J64 1985
Keynes, John Maynard.  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money HB171.K45
Kirk, Russell     The Conservative Mind B809.K57
Kuhn, Thomas S.  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Q175.K95 1970
Lewis, C. S.        The Abolition of Man LB41.L665 1947
Lewis, C.S.        Mere Christianity BR123.L484 2001
Lippmann, Walter     The Good Society JC251.L5 1943
McPherson, James M.     Battle Cry of Freedom E470.M25
Manchester, William      The Last Lion 2 vols DA566.9.C5 M26 1983
Merton, Thomas          The Seven Story Mountain BX4705.M542 Ae
Myrdal, Gunnar.       An American Dilemma 2 vol. E185.615.A6718 1996
Nabokov, Vladimir     Speak, Memory PG3476.N3 Z476 1999
Ortega y Gasset, Jose  Revolt of the Masses CB103.O72 1957
Orwell, George         Collected Essays PR6029.R8 A61968
Orwell, George         Homage to Catalonia DP269.9.Oy 1980
Pannenberg, Wolfhart.    Systematic Theology 3 vol. BT75.2.P2613 1991
Parrington, Vernon Louis.    Main Currents in Amereican Thought PS88.P32
Pelikan, Jaroslav.        The Christian Tradition BT21.2.P42
Pipes, Richard           The Russian Revolution DK265.P474 1990
Popper, Karl.           The Open Society and its enemies B63 P61963
Rougement, Denis de    Love in the Western World HQ21.R86 1956
Schumpeter, Joseph A.  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democrach  HX86.S33 1950
Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr. The Gulag Archipelago HV9713.S6413
Sowell, Thomas.          Ethnic America E184.A1 S688
Starr, Kennety W.        The Starr Report E885.S72 1998
Trilling, Lionel            The Liberal Imagination PS3539.R56 L5 1953
Von Hayek, F. A.        The Constitution of Liberty JC585.H29
Von Hayek, F. A.        The Road to Serfdom HD82.H38 1944a
Watson, James D.      The Double Helix QD341.A2 W315
Weaver, Richard M.    Ideas have Consequences CB19.W4
West, Rebecca.          Black Lamb and Grey Falcon  DR366.W4
White, E. B.             Essays PS3545.H5187 A16 1977
Wilson, Edmund.       To the Finland Station HX36.W5 1953
Wilson, Edward O.      Sociobiology QL775.W54
Wittgenstein, Ludwig.    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus BC135.W59
Zweig, Stefan.                Balzac PQ2179.Z9