Showing posts with label ScotsRead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ScotsRead. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Recreational Reading Titles

New ScotsRead titles are available for your recreational reading pleasure!

This collection, found on the main floor of Hewes Library, contains best sellers and intriguing just-published titles spanning autobiography, non-fiction, mystery and fantasy - even cookbooks!  Check them out for two weeks and renew up to three times.

The newest ScotsReads include:

The Black Jersey, by Jorge Zepeda Patterson
The Bodies in the Library, by Marty Wingate
Definitely Hispanic, by LeJuan James
This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto, by Suketu Mehta
What Happened That Night, by Deanna Cameron
Deep State: Trump, The FBI,  and the Rule of Law, by James B. Stewart
Death and Other Happy Endings, by Melanie Cantor
Jet Girl, by Caroline Johnson
A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee, by Danny Fingeroth
Edison, by Edmund Morris
Blue Moon:  A Jack Reacher Novel, by Lee Child 
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers, by  Andy Greenberg
Let Justice Descend, by Lisa Black
Coached To Death, by Victoria Laurie



Monday, December 9, 2019

New Recreational Reading


New titles are now available in our Scots Read recreational reading collection.


These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library.  Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals - so feel free to take a few home over winter break!


New this month:



Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Sam Kean
Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on The Navajo Nation
Michael Powell
Joy of Cooking 2019 Edition: Fully Revised and Updated
Irma S. Rombauer…. et el
After the Flood: A Novel
Kassandra Montag
Dapper Dan Made in Harlem: A Memoir
Daniel R. Day
The Farm
Joanne Ramos
The Girl In the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America
Sen. Byron L. Dorgan
Mother Tongue
Julie Mayhew





Tuesday, November 19, 2019

New Recreational Reading!


New titles are now available in our ScotsRead recreational reading collection.  


These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals. Enjoy!

New this month:

  • The Testaments: The Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Let Love Have the Last Word by Common
  • Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan
  • Unsolved  James Patterson and David Ellis
  • Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb
  • Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age by Robert Stone and Alan Andres











Monday, September 9, 2019

New Titles @ ScotsRead

New titles are now available in our #ScotsRead recreational reading collection.  

These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals. Enjoy!

New this month:

Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani Difranco
White by Bret Easton Ellis
Time After Time: A Novel by Lisa Grunwald
Swipe Right for Murder by Derek Milman
A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming by Kerri Rawson
Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege by Mike Thomson
The Silhouette Girl by V.C. Andrews



Friday, August 16, 2019

Recreational Reading


New titles are now available in our #ScotsRead recreational reading collection.  


These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals. Enjoy!


New this month:


Turning Point: A Novel by Danielle Steel
The Road to Dawn by Jared A. Brock
The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart E. Eizenstat
Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks



Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Best Sellers!

New titles are now available in our #ScotsRead recreational reading collection.  

These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals. Enjoy!

New this month:
Impeachment: An American History, by Jeffrey A. Engle
Maid, by Stephanie Land
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh
Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom, by David Blight
Disappearing Earth: A Novel, by Julia Phillips


Monday, June 24, 2019

Recreational Reading

New titles are now available in our #ScotsRead recreational reading collection.



Absolutely Remarkable Thinking: A Novel, by Hank Green
Becoming Dr. Seuss, by Brian Jay Jones
Pandora Room, by Christopher Golden
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered, by Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark
Stony the Road, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
That Churchill Woman: A Novel, by Stephanie Barron
Transcription, by Kate Atkinson
Transformed, by Remi Adeleke
Upheaval, by Jared Diamond



Wednesday, May 15, 2019

New Recreational Reading

Our newest recreational reading titles, in the ScotsRead Collection, are ready for summer reading!


How are You Going to Save Yourself, by JM Holmes
American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, edited by Arjun Singh Sethi
Tom Clancy Oath of Office, by Marc Cameron
Fraternity:  An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming Men, by Alexandra Robbins
Sweet Home Café Cookbook, by Albert Lukas
The Moment of Lift, by Melinda Gates
Kindred, by Damian Duffy
No Exit, by Taylor Adams
Library Book, by Susan Orlean
The Storm King, by Brendan Duffy
Only Girl in the World: A Memoir, by Maude Julien


Thursday, April 11, 2019

New Recreational Reading

Check out the newest and freshest recreational reading in our ScotsRead collection, a rotating collection of current fiction (mysteries, romance, suspense, sci-fi) and non-fiction (biography, politics, humor, science history).  It is a browsing collection that you can't miss: on the main floor of Hewes Library as you walk towards Einstein's!

The lastest titles to hit the shelves:


Never Tell, by Lisa Gardner
In the Shadow of  Statues, by Mitch Landrieu
A Ladder to the Sky, by John Boyne
How it Happened, by Michael Koryta
Down the River Unto the Sea, by Walter Mosley
Winter of the Witch, by Katherine Arden
The Unquiet Grave, by Sharyn McCrumb

 

Friday, March 15, 2019

Diversity in Recreational Reading

New ScotsRead recreational reading collection titles are filling our stacks! SciFi, current biography, non-fiction, contemporary fiction, and page-turning thrillers are included in this collection. 

Visit these page-turners on the main floor of Hewes Library and check out a title for 2 weeks (with 3 renewals).  New titles include:


13 Days in Ferguson, by Captain Ronald Johnson

49th Mystic, by Ted Dekker

An Anonymous Girl, by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

Beach House Reunion, by Mary Alice Monroe

Black is the body, by Emily Bernard

The Boy, by Tami Hoag

Elizas: A Novel, by Sara Shepard

The End of the End of the Earth, by Johathan Franzen

Last Jedi, by Jason Fry

Merchants of Truth, by Jill Abramson

Pandemic, by Robin Cook

Parental Discretion is Advised, by Gerrick D. Kennedy

Perfect is Boring, by Tyra Banks

Plotters: A Novel, by Un-Su Kim

Speak, by Laurie Anderson

Thanks A Thousand, by A. J. Jacobs

When Women Ruled the World, by Kara Cooney



Thursday, January 31, 2019

Recreational Reading!

Peruse the following NEW Scots Read on the main floor of Hewes Library!

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Circe by Madeline Miller
Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates 
Look For Me by Lisa Gardner
Someone Like Me by M.R. Carey
Target - Alex Cross by James Patterson
Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Friday, January 4, 2019

New Recreational Reading

Peruse the following NEW Scots Read on the main floor of Hewes Library!

Becoming by Michelle Obama

There There:  A Novel by Tommy Orange

Green: A Novel by Sam Graham-Felson

Elevation: A Novel  by Stephen King

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child

Great Believers: A Novel  by Rebecca Makkai

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches From the Border by Francisci Cantu

Shell Game by Sara Paretsky

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and The Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy

Mary B: The Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice by Katherine Chen

Dragon's Code by Gigi McCaffrey

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

ScotsReads Rolling In

New ScotsRead recreational reading titles were added to the collection recently. Check them out now...or save them for the end of the term. The ScotsRead collection can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library, and circulation for two weeks (with three renewal).

New Titles:


  • Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Next American City, by Mick Cornett
  • American Prison: A Reporters Undercover Journey  into the Business of Punishment, by Shane Bauer
  • Katerina: A Novel, by James Frey
  • A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult
  • Fruit of the Drunken Tree, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
  • Timeless : A Drizzt Novel, by R. A. Salvatore



Thursday, October 18, 2018

New Recreational Reading

The recreational reading collection, ScotsRead, has several new title choices this month! Browse the entire collection on the main floor of Hewes Library!

Stars Now Unclaimed (Drew Williams)
Star Wars: Thrawn Alliances (Timothy Zahn)
Leverage in Death (J.D.Robb)
How to Change your Mind (Michael Pollan)
Line of Sight (Tom Clancy)
Agatha Christie The Mystery of Three Quarters (Sophie Hannah)
Promise (Minrose Gwin)
Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy (Anna Clark)
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
100 Days of Real Food on a Budget (Lisa Leake)



Sunday, September 23, 2018

New Recreational Reading

New recreational reading titles have been added to our Scots Reads collection located on the main floor of Hewes Library. Titles check out for two weeks, and can be renewed three times. Check them out!


Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
Dead Girl Running by Christina Dodd
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and our unfinished conversation about race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
Not That Bad: Dispatches from rape culture by Roxane Gay , ed.
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Barracoon: The Story of the last "black" cargo by Zorqa Neale Hurston
Then She was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
Promise and the Dream: The untold story of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy by David Margolick
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change by Leonard Mlodinow
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
Beautiful Days by Joyce Carol Oates
3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar revolution by Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Red Alert by James Patterson
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
Twisted Prey by John Sandford
You Think it, I'll Say it by Curtis Sittenfeld
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss
Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World's Happiest People by Meik Wiking
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

Monday, June 18, 2018

New ScotsReads

Summer reading just got more exciting with these newly acquired recreational reading titles!

The ScotsRead Collection can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library, and check out for two weeks, with up to three renewals.

Sandman, by Lars Kepler
Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, by Barbara K. Lipska
Blessed Life, by Kim Fields 
Rocket Men, by Robert Kurson
Woman in the Window, by A. J. Finn
Promise Me Dad, by Joe Biden
How to Stop Time, by Matt Haig
Need to Know, by Karen Cleveland

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Recreational Reading Updates

These contemporary titles were added to the ScotsRead Collection found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Check out for 2 weeks with 3 renewals!



Alive in Shape and Color, Lawrence Block, ed.
Brave, by Rose McGowan
Come Sundown, by Nora Roberts
Cooking at Home with Bridget & Julia, by Bridget Lancaster
Enchantress of Numbers, by Jennifer Chiaverini
False Witness, by Andrew Grant
Hand & Jim, by Scott Eyman
Homey Don’t Play That, by David Peisner
How to Get Shit Done, by Erin Falconer
How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars, by Billy Gallagher
In the Mist of Winter, by Isabel Allende
Jefferson's Daughters, by Catherine Kerrison
Last Black Unicorn, by Tiffany Haddish
Midnight Line, by Lee Child
Monk of Mokha, by Dave Eggers
Origin: A Novel, by Dan Brown
Shape of Water, by Daniel Kraus

Friday, March 16, 2018

New Recreational Reading


       
The following recreational reading titles were added to the Scots Read Collection, located on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials may be checked out for 2 weeks at a time, and renewed up to three times.

Enjoy!


At the Southern Table with Paula Deen by Paula Deen
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Midnight Confessions by Stephen Colbert
Dear World by Bana Alabed
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
What Unites Us by Dan Rather & Elliot Kirschner
God, A Human History by Reza Aslan
It's All Relative by A. J. Jacobs
Electric Dreams by Philip K. Dicks
Sleep No More by P.D. James
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Growing Up Fisher by Joely Fisher
Code Girls by Liza Mundy
Dinner with DiMaggio by Rock and John Positano

  

Monday, November 27, 2017

New Recreational Reading

New in the Hewes Library ScotsReads Collection (main floor)


At the Southern Table with Paula Deen
Paula Deen
Lincoln in the Bardo: A novel
George Saunders
Here and Gone: A Novel
Haylen Beck
Fatal: A Novel
John Lescroart
Midnight Confessions
Stephen Colbert
Dear World: A Syrian girl’s story of war…
Bana Al Abed
Ali: A life
Jonathan Eig
You Will Pay
Lisa Jackson
Camino Island
John Grisham
Jamie Oliver's Christmas Cookbook
Jamie Oliver
New Boy
Tracy Chevalier
Golden House
Salman Rushdie
The Map That Leads to you: A Novel
J. P. Monninger



Wednesday, October 25, 2017

New Recreational Reading!

These titles were recently added to the Hewes Library ScotsRead collection. Materials may be checked out for two weeks, and renewed up to three times. Enjoy!

Own It: The power of women at work  - Sallie Krawcheck
Red-Haired Woman - Orhan Pamuk
Science in the Soul - Richard Dawkins
Obsidian Chamber - Douglas Preston
To Siri with Love: A mother, her autistic son, and the kindness of machines -Judith Newman
Massacre of Mankind: a sequel to the war of the worlds -Stephen Baxter
Ballerina Body - Misty Copeland
No Middle Name: The complete collected Jack Reacher short stories - Lee Child
Against all Odds - Danielle Steel
The Duchess - Danielle Steel
The Windfall - Diksha Basu
Caroline: Little House, Revisited - Sarah Miller
Look Behind You - Iris Johansen
MatchUp - Lee Child
The Moosewood Resturant Table - Moosewood Collective
What Happened - Hillary Rodham Clinton
Murder Games - James Patterson
Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years - David Litt
Unbelieveable: My Front Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History - Katy Tur