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New Beatley Diversions Books, Including "Down River" and "Good Calories, Bad Calories"
Posted June 16, 2008
Beatley Library’s featured Diversions this week include The Archimedes Codex; Good Calories, Bad Calories; World Without End; The Christmas Pearl; Down River; One Big Self; The Terror Dream; and Last Night at the Lobster.
The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist by Reviel Netz and William Noel (QA31 .N479 2007)
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight, and Disease by Gary Taubes (RM237.73 .T38 2007)
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World Without End by Ken Follett (PR6056.O45 W67 2007)
Read Reviewer Comments and an Author Q&A
The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank (PS3556.R3338 C47 2008)
Down River by John Hart (PS3608.A78575 D68 2007)
Read Reviewer Comments and an Excerpt
One Big Self by C.D. Wright (PS3573.R497 O54 2007)
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi (E169.Z83 F35 2007)
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan (PS3565.N316 L37 2007)
These recently published works, selected for your reading pleasure, may be borrowed for 14 days.
The Diversions Collection is located on Level One of the Beatley Library, near the Circulation Desk.
To request a book that is currently checked-out, find it in the on-line catalog, then click the “REQUEST” button.
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