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Here is where you can enter our Library Contest all week!  Each day between Monday, September 26 and Friday, September 30th, you are eligible to submit your answers to our Trivia questions here in the library and receive a prize.  The Grand Prize winner will be drawn from all correct entries.  The winner will be announced on Monday, October 3rd and will be awarded a beautiful Travel Blanket and a Gift Card to Hastings.

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New Books in the Library!

We have some wonderful new books here in the library!  Stop in and check them out.  We are also holding a Trivia contest here in the library.  The Contest will begin September 26th and run till September 30th!  Everyone that enters the Trivia contest will receive a card for 10 free printouts here in the Library.  That means that you could receive up to 5 cards of free printouts, What a deal!   Well, let's talk Books!

Feast Day of Fools

By James Lee Burke

Celebrated crime master and two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke returns with a gorgeously crafted, brutally resonant chronicle of violence along the Texas-Mexico border. Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town, meting out punishment and delivering justice in his small square of this magnificent but lawless land. When an alcoholic ex-boxer named Danny Boy Lorca begs to be locked up after witnessing a man tortured to death by a group of bandits, Hack and his deputy, Pam Tibbs, slowly extract the Indian man s gruesome tale. It becomes clear that the desert contains a multitude of criminals, including serial murderer Preacher Jack Collins (whom The New York Times Book Review called one of Burke s most inspired villains ). Holland s investigation leads him to Anton Ling, a mysterious Chinese woman whose steely demeanor and aristocratic beauty compel Hackberry to return to her home again and again as the investigation unfolds. James Lee Burke is at his engrossing and atmospheric best in this, his thirtieth novel, as Hackberry plumbs the depths of man s inhumanity to man--from killers-for-hire, to the U.S. government, to the misguided souls in search of a better life across the border.

All Indians do not live in Teepees (or Casinos)

By Catherine C. Robbins

Both a tribute to the unique experiences of individual Native Americans and a celebration of the values that draw American Indians together, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) explores contemporary Native life.

Based on personal experience and grounded in journalism, this story begins with the repatriation of ancestral remains to the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico. The 1999 return to Pecos of the skeletal remains of two thousand bodies excavated during an archaeological expedition nearly a century earlier was the largest repatriation in American history. In a united, purposeful, and energizing quest, the Pecos and Jemez Indians brought their ancestors home. This event, along with subsequent repatriations, has accelerated similar momentum across much of Native America.

In All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos), Catherine C. Robbins traces this restorative effect in areas such as economic development, urbanization, the arts, science, and health care. Through dozens of interviews, Robbins draws out the voices of Indian people, some well-known and many at the grassroots level, working quietly to advance their communities. These voices speak against the background of the narrative’s historical context. The result is a rich account of Native American life in contemporary America, revealing not a monolithic “Indian” experience of teepees or casinos, but rather a mosaic of diverse peoples existing on a continuum that marks both their distinctions and their shared realities.

What Lurks Beyond:  The Paranormal in your Backyard

By Jason Offutt

Ghosts, aliens, a time traveler, and a mind-reading dog could be fiction, but Jason Offutt investigates true tales of these and other paranormal events that happened within 100 miles of his home. Offutt introduces ordinary folks who have encountered unexplained phenomena in everyday places and presents engaging accounts of their experiences. Getting a glimpse of this hidden world around us may prompt us to look--really look--in our own backyard.

This book is recommended by our very own Librarians!

Getting Wasted:
Why College students drink too much and party so hard
By Thomas Vander Ven

Most American college campuses are home to a vibrant drinking scene where students frequently get wasted, train-wrecked, obliterated, hammered, destroyed, and decimated. The terms that university students most commonly use to describe severe alcohol intoxication share a common theme: destruction, and even after repeated embarrassing, physically unpleasant, and even violent drinking episodes, students continue to go out drinking together. In Getting Wasted, Thomas Vander Ven provides a unique answer to the perennial question of why college students drink.
Vander Ven argues that college students rely on “drunk support:” contrary to most accounts of alcohol abuse as being a solitary problem of one person drinking to excess, the college drinking scene is very much a social one where students support one another through nights of drinking games, rituals and rites of passage. Drawing on over 400 student accounts, 25 intensive interviews, and one hundred hours of field research, Vander Ven sheds light on the extremely social nature of college drinking. Giving voice to college drinkers as they speak in graphic and revealing terms about the complexity of the drinking scene, Vander Ven argues that college students continue to drink heavily, even after experiencing repeated bad experiences, because of the social support that they give to one another and due to the creative ways in which they reframe and recast violent, embarrassing, and regretful drunken behaviors. Provocatively, Getting Wasted shows that college itself, closed and seemingly secure, encourages these drinking patterns and is one more example of the dark side of campus life.

The Girls come marching Home
By Kirsten Holmstedt


In her award-winning "Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq," Holmstedt describes how female soldiers are fighting on the front lines in Iraq. Now the author tells the stories of America's fighting women as they come home from the war.

Facebook Marketing:  An hour a day
By Chris Treadway and Mari Smith

Develop, implement, and measure a successful Facebook marketing campaign The social networking site Facebook boasts more than 300 million users worldwide. Its ability to target users who have provided real data about themselves and their interests makes Facebook the ideal platform for marketers, and marketers everywhere recognize the importance of Facebook and are eager to successfully tap Facebook's potential. This book shows you how. Quickly get up to speed on today's Facebook conventions and demographics, and then gain an understanding of the various strategic and implementation issues you must consider from start to finish. Guides you through crafting a successful presence on Facebook and takes you through each step for developing an overall marketing strategy Explains each step for setting realistic goals, defining metrics, developing reports, and acquiring corporate buy-in Shows how to execute your strategy while incorporating all of Facebook's relevant features Addresses Facebook's pay-per-click platform, Facebook Connect, and more Packed with tips and tactics not documented anywhere else, the book serves as the ultimate step-by-step guide to developing a winning Facebook marketing campaign.

Son of Stone
By Stuart Woods

A new addition to the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series. After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. But Arrington has other plans for Stone...including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago"-- Provided by publisher.



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Please Step Up Contestant #1!

That's Right!  We are having a contest here in the Library for Banned Books Week! 

Rules of the Game:

1.  Stop in at the Library!

2.  Locate the Circulation Desk

3.  Read the question of the week

4.  Circle your answer from the Multiple Choice options

5.  Fill in your name and contact information on the back of the sheet.

6.  Submit your answer

And you will be rewarded!

Finally, we will be taking all of the submitted entries with the correct answers and hold a drawing for a Nifty Travel Blanket and a generous Gift Card.

The Contest will run from September 26th - September 30th
Giving you FIVE chances to enter! 

Good Luck!

 

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New Fall Books!

We have some new books here in the library! 

I hope that everyone is enjoying our Library Blog.  I know that I have been including some informational tips about your use here in the library, and I hope that everyone is enjoying these as well.  Feel free to leave comments at the end of each Blog Post and let us know what you think or what you would like to see.  Thanks and Enjoy!

On with our new books......

Kick the Clutter

By Ellen Phillips

Is your stuff pushing you out of your home?

Find hundreds of proven (and painless) tips for clearing out your clutter room-by-room and top to bottom in Kick the Clutter. For each room, you'll learn how to identify key objects you really love or need, how to separate yourself from stuff you never liked but feel you "have" to keep, and how to let go of those sentimental keepsakes that have outworn their welcome but become a habit. And you'll learn how to reorganize what's left.

Once you've cleared all that clutter, you still need to kick it out of your home. You'll find out what to do with all that stuff (and even make some money!)--from how an eBay store works to how to get the most from consignment shops, yard sales, used bookstores, flea markets, and antiques auctions, to how to donate items for tax deductions, to creative ways to get people to haul your junk for free. The key to clutter freedom is to clear out the excess without losing what you love in the process.

Look inside for these helpful features:

-"Love It or Lose It" gives you the inside scoop on what works and what doesn't.

-Kick the Clutter's unique before-and-after workbook feature helps you set your own clutter-kicking priorities.

-"5-Minute Fixes" for every room show you what an amazing difference 5 minutes can make.

-"The Pros Know" offers you clutter-kicking solutions from the top clutter experts in the country.

-"Five Simple Steps to Kick Your Clutter" presents a five-step program that will help you end clutter creep once and for all.

-The "Top 10 Clutter Traps" allows you to spot incoming clutter and kick it out before it can get a foothold.

-And much, much more!

 The photo for this book can be found at:  http://www.amazon.com/

A History of the World since 9/11

By Dominic Stretfeild

A critical assessment of the war on terror offers insight into such topics as the decision to invade Iraq, the high number of civilian casualties, and the United States' associations with questionable allies.

Killing the Blues

By Michael Brandman

Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season when a string of car thefts disturbs what is usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Pressure from the town politicians only increases when another crime wave puts residents on edge. Jesse confronts a personal dilemma as well: a burgeoning relationship with a young PR executive, whose plans to turn Paradise into a summertime concert destination may have her running afoul of the law.

When a mysterious figure from Jesse's past arrives in town, memories of his last troubled days as a cop in L.A. threaten his ability to keep order in Paradise-especially when it appears that the stranger is out for revenge.

The Burning Soul

By John Connolly

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl.

Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop.

But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay, and the missing girl's family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, and Randall Haight himself.

Because Randall Haight is telling lies . . .

Prey

By Linda Howard

In this captivating novel of romantic suspense, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard brings us deep into the wild, where a smart and sexy outdoor guide and her ruggedly handsome competitor must join forces to survive-and avoid becoming what they never expected to be:   PREY   Thirty-two-year-old Angie Powell has always spoken her mind, but in the presence of Dare Callahan she nurses a simmering rage. After all, why give Dare the satisfaction of knowing he can push her buttons and push her to the edge? Three years ago, Dare returned home to rural western Montana and opened a hunting business to rival Angie s. Complicating matters is the fact that Dare has asked Angie out (not once but twice) and has given her a gift of butterflies in the process. Angie has no patience for butterflies. They only lead to foolish decisions. And now the infuriatingly handsome Iraq war vet has siphoned away Angie s livelihood, forcing her to close up shop.  Before Angie is to leave town, she organizes one last trip into the wilderness with a client and his guest, who wants to bag a black bear. But the adrenaline-fueled adventure turns deadly when Angie witnesses a cold-blooded murder and finds herself on the wrong side of a loaded gun. Before the killer can tie up this attractive loose end, a bear comes crashing through the woods-changing the dark game completely. Luckily, Dare is camping nearby and hears the shots. Forced together for their very survival, Angie and Dare must confront hard feelings, a blinding storm, and a growing attraction-while being stalked by a desperate killer and a ferocious five-hundred-pound beast. And neither will stop until they reach their prey.

The Bad Always Die Twice

By Cheryl Crane

Despite her unconventional upbringing as the daughter of a superstar actress, Nicki Harper has managed to carve out a somewhat normal life as a real estate agent. But things change when movie legend Rex March is found murdered in the bed of Nicki's best friend. Not wanting to trust the poice, Nicki sets out to solve the crime on her own. There are plenty of people who wanted Rex dead, and Nicki has to find out who that is before she meets her own final curtain call.

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Credo! What is it good for? I'll tell you!

Here in this Blog, I am going to teach you how to use the Credo Database here at NECC College.  Credo has many things to offer.  We will be covering the basics,such as the "Find a Topic Page" and the "Gadgets".  These tools will help you find a topic for your research, get information, and even help you solve Crossword Puzzles.  So here we go!


First of all go to the NECC homepage which is here:

http://www.northeast.edu/

Next, you will scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Library Resources in the First column on the bottom of the page.  You will be on our Library Resources page as displayed below. 

Your next step, is to click on Databases in the right column.

This will then take you to our Databases Resources page or feel free to click here. 

http://www.northeast.edu/Library-Resources/Databases.aspx

Reminder:  When you are off campus and attempting to use our databases, you will be asked to enter your College I.D. Number.

Here you will click on CREDO Reference in the Left hand column.  You are now at the CREDO database! 

In the PURPLE BAR at the top of the page choose FIND TOPIC PAGES.

Here you are given two options.  Search by Category or A-Z. 

In both of these options you are given many different targets of interest.  You can also type your topic into the search for bar and go from there.


After you have found your topic or subtopics and have choosen a topic, you will see at the bottom of the page that there are direct links to articles, ebooks, magazines, and newspapers with information containing your topic. 

I hope that this will assist you in finding useful infomration on your research papers!

Let's continue!

If you scroll to the top of the page where you see the PURPLE BAR, click on Gadgets.

You will now see a screen that looks like this.

If you are researching a person, need a definition, would like pictures, want to know the pronunciation of a word for speech, Quotes, conversion, or even need to find answers to your crossword puzzles.  This is the place for you.

This is a very cool tool, and we hope you enjoy this.

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