New on display:

Singing frogs! (not Kermit)... Blood-sucking flies!... Wild flowers!

The warmer weather is celebrated with the chorus of spring peepers, the appearance of spring flowers and the assault of dreaded black flies. Two of the new displays picture the life cycle of spring peepers and black flies, along with a display of frog and insect books.

The Hobblebush, with its large white clusters of flowers, can be seen along roadsides, in cool moist woods, and along streams. Have you seen Jack-in-the-Pulpits, Trillium, Coltsfoot? Do you know the difference between Solomon’s Seal and False Solomon’s Seal? Not sure? Check out the field guides on display.

Music, the art of sound, is the feature display this month. It’s a “blast from the past,” with books about the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones, to name-drop a few. View the cover art of album covers from old LPs. See a real LP, an antique format in an iPod world.

Proctor Book Group Spring Term Read
Llewellyn, Richard. How Green Was My Valley. Come to the Library for a copy.
Review:
Shapiro Fiction for Youth. 3d ed.
"Life in South Wales, where everyone depended on the coal mines for a livelihood, was not easy, but it had its happy moments. From the perspective of 50 years later, Huw Morgan remembers with much affection his family, friends, and neighbors in the valley. His father was something of a tyrant, while his mother was shrewd and impulsive. The love Huw shared with his many brothers and sisters was a sustaining force. One of his earliest memories is of the marriage of his eldest brother to Bronwen, beautiful, tender girl who was to prove to Huw that women's strength, though gentle, is equal to that of men."

New Books Update 5.27.08
Andelman, David A. A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today.

Bernardot, Dan. Advanced Sports Nutrition.

Bevy, Lawrence J., ed. Al-Qaeda: An Organization to be Reckoned With.

De Witte, Ludo. The Assassination of Lumumba.

Dunham, Mikel. Buddha's Warriors: The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet.

Esherick, Joseph W., Paul G. Pickowicz, and Andrew G. Walder. The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History.

Kau, Michael Ying-Mao, and Susan H. Marsh, eds. China in the Era of Deng Xiaoping: A Decade of Reform.

Lawrence, Quil. Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East.

Lynch, Marc. Voices of the New Arab Republic: Iraq, Al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today.

MacFarquhar, Roderick. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966.

Nestle, Marion. What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating.

Roth, Geneen. Breaking Free from Emotional Eating.

Sautman, Barry, and June Teufel Dreyer, eds. Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region.

Terrill, Ross. Madame Mao: The White-Boned Demon.

Westal, Odd Arne, ed. Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1945-1963.