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John F. Kennedy Assassination 50th Anniversary
John F. Kennedy, the 36th president of the United States was assassinated in Dallas, Texas 50 years ago this year. It was an unforgettable day for most Americans who grew up in the 1960s, leaving a lasting impression on many of them. "Where were you when you heard about President Kennedy's assassination?" would become a recurring question of the time.New Books on the History Shelf
Another America: the story of Liberia and the former slaves who ruled it by James Ciment
The bully pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the golden age of journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Camelot's court: inside the Kennedy White House by Robert Dallek
The discovery of Middle Earth: mapping the lost world of the Celts by Graham Robb
Eastern Europe!: everything you need to know about the history (and more!) of a region that shaped our world and still does by Tomek Jankowski
Empress Dowager Cixi: the concubine who launched modern China by Jung Chang
New Books on the Biography Shelf
Dr. J: the autobiography by Julius Erving, with Karl Taro Greenfeld
From exile to Washington: a memoir of leadership in the twentieth century by W. Michael Blumenthal
The heart of everything that is: the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Johnny Cash: the life by Robert Hilburn
Nicholson: a biography by Marc Eliot
What's so funny?: my hilarious life by Tim Conway ; with Jane Scovell
New Documentaries on the Shelf
Manhunt— Boston bombers [videodisc] by a NOVA production ; produced and directed by Miles O'Brien
The search for Robert Johnson [videodisc]: the real story of the greatest folk blues guitar player that ever lived by produced and directed by Chris Hunt.
Treasures of New York [videodisc] by WLIW21 in association with WNET
Nureyev [videodisc]: a portrait by producer and director, Patricia Foy
Richard III [videodisc]: martyr or monster? by produced by Coda Publishing ; written and directed by Bob Carruthers
The waiting room [videodisc] by Docurama ; directed by Peter Nicks
Look What's In Large Print: November 2013
Agent 146 [Large print]: the true story of a Nazi spy in America by Erich Gimpel ; foreword by Charles Whiting
Rules of betrayal [Large print]: a novel by Christopher Reich
The wolf at the door [Large print] by Jack Higgins
Pirate alley [large print]: a novel by Stephen Coonts
Deliver us from evil [Large print] by David Baldacci
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New Adult Genre
The books in the New Adult Genre are designed to interest twenty-somethings. The main character will often be leaving home for the first time, going to college, or starting on their first steady job. While mostly written by twenty-somethings for twenty-somethings, these books do have crossover appeal for romance readers--even those who have left their twenties behind them.
Finding it by Cora Carmack
If you stay by Cole, Courtney
Rule: a Marked Men novel by Jay Crownover
Foreplay by The Ivy Chronicles Book 1 Sophie Jordan
Beautiful disaster: a novel by Jamie McGuire
One Week Girlfriend: a novel by Monica Murphy
Murder Will Out: November 2013
The sanctity of hate: a medieval mystery by Priscilla Royal
Lucky stiff by Annelise Ryan
The Russian donation by Christoph Spielberg ; translated by Gerald Chapple
Wedding cake killer: a fresh-baked mystery by Livia J. Washburn
The llama of death: a Gunn Zoo mystery by Betty Webb
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New Books on the History Shelf
Amsterdam: a history of the world's most liberal city by Russell Shorto
The assassination of the archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the romance that changed the world by Greg King and Sue Woolmans
The cave and the light: Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization by Arthur Herman
Duel with the devil: the true story of how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr teamed up to take on America's first sensational murder mystery by Paul Collins
The family: three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century by David Laskin
If Kennedy lived: the first and second terms of President John F. Kennedy: an alternate history by Jeff Greenfield
New Books on the Biography Shelf
Daughter of empire: my life as a Mountbatten by Lady Pamela Hicks
Jim Henson: the biography by Brian Jay Jones
Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin
My story by Elizabeth Smart with Chris Stewart
Native American Heritage Month
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush declared the month of November as "National American Indian Heritage Month", which has come to be commonly referred to as Native American Heritage Month. By either name it is a time of "recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S." The Library's collection is a great place to look for materials about Native Americans and their place in our country's history.
500 nations: an illustrated history of North American Indians by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. ; based on a documentary filmscript by Jack Leustig, Roberta Grossman, Lee Miller, and William Morgan with contributions by John M.D. Pohl
The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas
Daily life of Native Americans from post-Columbian through nineteenth-century America by Alice Nash and Christoph Strobel