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Category: Grad School

We’re Here to Help Your Book Club! Check Out Our Book Club Kits

Posted on March 30, 2018

Book clubs are a fun, exciting way to combine friends, food, and the written word. While the actual book club day is fun, sometimes finding your next read is a little more difficult. We want to help you find your next great read with the help of our Book Club Kits. These kits contain copies…

2672 Review: March (Book Three)

Posted on October 29, 2017

   Title: March (Book Three) Author: John Lewis (with Andew Aydin) Illustrator: Nate Powell Publication Info: Top Shelf Productions (2016)     Summary: March (Book Three) picks up right where the first two left off, telling the story of Senator and civil-rights activist John Lewis. The first two books deal a great deal with Lewis’…

S672 Book Review: Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio

Posted on October 29, 2017

Title: Out on the Wire Subtitle: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of the Radio Author: Jessica Abel Publication Info: Broadway Books, a Division of Random House (2015)   Summary: To say I loved this book would be a grand understatement. I picked it from a list, just because I was trying to get…

S672 Book Review: Big Top Burning

Posted on October 22, 2017

Title: Big Top Burning Subtitle: The True Story of a Arsonist, a Missing Girl, and the Greatest Show on Earth Author: Laura A Woollett Publication Info: Chicago Review Press, Inc. 2015 Suggested Age Range: Grades 5 and up   Summary: Big Top Burning is the true story of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus…

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S672 Book Review: Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts

Posted on October 22, 2017

Title: Quiet Power: The Secret Strength of Introverts Author: Susan Cain (with Gregory Mone and Erica Moroz) Illustrator: Grant Snider Publication Info: Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Young Readers Group (2016) Suggested Age Range: Grades 5 and up Summary: Susan Cain’s remarkable best-seller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Won’t Stop Talking, changed…

S672 Book Review: The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus

Posted on October 8, 2017October 8, 2017

Title: The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus Author: Jen Bryant Illustrator: Melissa Sweet Publication Info: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (2014) Suggested Age Range: Grades 2-5   Summary: As a person who loves words and has actually asked for a thesaurus for my birthday, I found this book both silly fun and totally informative. The…

S672 Book Review: The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded

Posted on September 25, 2017

Title: The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded Author: Jim Ottaviani Illustrator: Leland Purvis Publication Info: Harry N. Abrams (2016) Suggested Age Range: Grades 9 and up   Summary: The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded is a graphic novel about the life of Alan Turing, the mathematician genius who helped stop World War II by helping break…

MUVE Gaming and Community Engagement

Posted on November 2, 2016

Note: As part of one of my classes for grad school, I have to post a series of posts on predetermined topics. This is one of those posts. First of all, I don’t live under a rock. I have heard of MUVE games before, but have never engaged in them. Second Life started just about…

Book Review: Crooked Kingdom

Posted on October 28, 2016

Dang it, Leigh Bardugo and your crazy Grisha world. First of all, you need to know that I adore these books, just as I loved the original Grisha trilogy. Bardugo’s world is high fantasy, high adventure and totally believable. When I first read that there would be a Duology based on the Grisha world but…

Social Media Wars

Posted on October 28, 2016October 28, 2016

Note: as part of one of my classes for Grad School, I have to post a series of posts to a blog. This is one of those. Social Networks. I love them. I hate them. Especially this time of year; especially around elections and big events and hard times. Everyone has an opinion and everyone…

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