Worldcat Fiction Finder -- Splash
FictionFinder is a project of OCLC Research that provides access
to 2.8 million works of fiction found in the OCLC
WorldCat database.With FictionFinder, you can search for
books, eBooks, and audiobooks by titles, authors,
ISBNs, and other information such as literary awards
and book summaries.You can also browse the
FictionFinder database by genre, fictional
character, imaginary place or setting, and subject.
http://fictionfinder.oclc.org/
Source:
http://fictionfinder.oclc.org/
Overbooked: A Resource for Readers
Overbooked is a web site for ravenous & omnivorous readers.
Overbooked provides information about fiction and
readable nonfiction.Overbooked originals include annotated lists
of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which
received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles
lists and hot lists of hard cover US fiction releases.
https://overbooked.com/next-chapter/
Source:
http://www.overbooked.org/
The Reader's Robot – A Reader's Advisory Service
This site offers a plentiful assortment of fairly
current titles grouped by genre and subgenre. There
is also a searchable database. Unlike many reader's
advsiory pages, Reader's Robot includes a fairly
extensive list of nonfiction in addition to fiction.
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/rr.html
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Sachem Public Library: The Reader's Advisor
This site boasts a frequently updated collection of
genre lists to suggest books for nearly every taste.
http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us
/advisor/advisor.htm
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Careerbuilder.com
CareerBuilder.com offers a vast online and
print network to help job seekers connect with employers.
http://www.careerbuilder.com
Source:
http://www.careerbuilder.com
/share/AboutUs
CollegeRecruiter.com
Are you a college student looking for an internship or a recent college
graduate searching for an entry level job or other
career opportunity? CollegeRecruiter.com is your
on-line home for the latest job postings,
coolest career resources, the most helpful
employment information and educational
opportunities, and even free resume and career evaluations.
http://www.collegerecruiter.com/
Source:
http://www.collegerecruiter.com/
Job Search Entry Level and Internships
Offers links to a wide assortment of links to variety of job and
resume sites geared toward college students and recent
graduates. Sites vary in content and quality.
http://www.curlie.org/Business
/Employment/Job_Search/
Entry_Level_and_Internships/
Source: Eileen H. Kramer
Monster.com
Why wait to find your perfect job?
Why surrender one more Monday morning to
weak coffee and daydreams? Start searching
Monster's extensive job database now.
And propel yourself to a whole new work life.
http://www.monster.com
Source:
http://www.monster.com
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This display is dedicated to the class of 2008, and proves that yes, there is life after graduation. This display offers the finest in new, leisure reading on assorted subjects as well as books to help you take on and succeed in the exciting world of work. In addition, there are both job hunting and leisure reading web sites. Enjoy.
Ayto, John.
Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words that Shaped our Age.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Call #: PE1630 .A98 2006
Take a fascinating journey from plastic (1909) to podcasting (2004).
This vivid picture of the last 105 years is based on John Ayto's
critically acclaimed Twentieth Century Words, and was published in
hardback as Movers and Shakers: A chronology of words that
shaped our age. It offers a selection of the key words added to
the English language in the twentieth century
and the early years of the twenty-first, grouped by decade.
Source:
http://www.amazon.co.uk
/Century-Words-Oxford-
Paperback-Reference/dp
/0199213690
Bernard, Shane K.
Tabasco, an Illustrated History: The Story of the McIlhenny Family of Avery Island, 1868-2007.
Avery Island, LA:McIlhenny Co., 2007.
Call #: TP420 .B47 2007
In the summer of 2005, McIlhenny historian and
curator Bernard was working on the Tabasco Museum
in New Orleans, a project shelved by Hurricane
Katrina. This lavish, entrancing book resulted instead,
tracing the fabled condiment's history, the family, marketing and more.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
Tabasco-Illustrated-Shane-K-
Bernard/dp/0979780802
Blaize, Clement.
Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery.
New York: Thomas Duane Books, 2008.
Call #: PS3603 .L463 E94
Tired of becoming involved in homicide investigations,
Florida pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway does not report stumbling
upon the corpse of a mansion gate-keeper, a resolve that is
complicated when someone reports her presence at the scene of the crime.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Boyd, Herb.
Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin.
New York: Atria Books, 2008.
Call #: PS3552.A45 Z7597 2008
A portrait of the iconic author offers insight into
Baldwin’s connection to the city of Harlem, from his
relationship with poet laureate Countee Cullen and
student writings at Frederick Douglass Junior High
to his diverse views on Harlem’s community life.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Cobb, Cathy.
Crime Scene Chemistry for the Armchair Sleuth.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007.
Call #: HV8073 .C584 2007
Chemists and science authors Cathy Cobb and
Monty L. Fetterolf have teamed up with Jack G. Goldsmith,
fellow chemist and reserve police officer, to create another
intriguing trek through the science of chemistry, this time
using the fascinating field of forensic chemistry as
their framework. All new hands-on demonstrations
and fictional minute mysteries illustrate chemical concepts as
the authors present the science--and the realities--of forensic
chemistry in a narrative style that makes this timely
topic accessible to the nonchemist.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Scene
-Chemistry-Armchair-Sleuth/dp/1591025052
Coelho, Paulo.
The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession.
New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Call #: PQ9698.13 .O3546
When his war correspondent wife goes missing
with a friend who may be a lover, a celebrity novelist
comes under suspicion until the friend reappears and
invites him to undertake a spiritual journey to Kazakhstan.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Compestine, Ying Chang.
The Revolution is not a Dinner Party: A Novel.
New York: Henry Holt, 2007.
Call #: PS3553 .O48386 R48
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling,
the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of
the communists’ Cultural Revolution, which empties stores
of food, homes of appliances deemed ""bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Gartrell, Nanette.
My Answer is No – If That's Okay with You: How Women Can Say No and (Still) Feel Good About It.
New York: Free Press, 2008.
Call #: HQ1206 .G37 20008
No is a very simple word -- two letters, one syllable. Yet many
women have a hard time saying it without feeling anxious or guilty.
In My Answer Is NO...If That's Okay with You,
award-winning psychiatrist and author
Dr. Nanette Gartrell takes a fresh look at why even the
most powerful, accomplished, and successful women find
it difficult to say no and offers a revolutionary approach
to setting limits without jeopardizing important relationships.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
My-Answer-Thats-Okay-You/
dp/1416546936
Hafvenstein, Joel.
Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier.
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2007.
Call #: DS371.4 .H32 2007
An aid volunteer documents his year working for
an American-funded program in Afghanistan, as
the group is caught between helping the poppy
farmers who are struggling to make a living
and fighting off the Taliban forces threatening to occupy the area.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Harrison, K. David.
When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Call #: P40.5 .L33 H37 2007
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison
'illustrates the individual face of language loss,
as well as its global scale. Languages are the
accretion of thousands of years of a peoples science and
art - from observations of ecological patterns
to creation myths. The author shows that the
disappearance of a language is a loss not only for
the community of speakers itself but also for
our common human knowledge of mathematics,
biology, geography, philosophy, agriculture,
and linguistics. In this century, we face a
massive erosion of the human knowledge base.
The global abandonment of indigenous languages will
bring a massive loss of accumulated knowledge
and culture - this book argues for the irreplaceable
nature of these unique knowledge systems and
the urgency of documenting them before they are lost forever.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Hopkins, Peter G. Editor.
The Kenana Handbook of Sudan.
New York: Kegan Paul, 2007.
Call# : DT154.6 .K46 2007
This major reference project and travel guide is an authoritative and
definitive work on Sudan, capturing all aspects of Africa's largest
country from its roots in ancient Nubia to its modern economy
and current development. Leading authorities write on their
areas of expertise accompanied by rich illustrations and graphics.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/Kenana-Handbook
-Sudan-Reference-Resource/dp/0710311605
Kazdin, Alan E and Carlo Rotella.
The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With no Pills, no Therapy, no Contest of Wills.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Call #: HQ773 .K39 2008
The director of the acclaimed Yale Parenting Center and
Child Conduct Clinic distills his thirty years of work with
children into a step-by-step method for parents --
with a bound-in DVD featuring effective tips
for common problems.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/Kazdin
-Method-Parenting-Defiant-Child/
dp/0618773673
Koeppel, Dan
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World.
New York: Hudson Street Press, 2008.
Call #: SB379 B2 K66 2008
From its early beginnings in Southeast Asia, to the
machinations of the United Fruit Company
in Costa Rica and Central America,
the banana’s history and its fate
as a victim of fungus are explored.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Lee, Li-Young.
Behind My Eyes.
New York: Norton & Company, 2008.
Call #: PS3562 .E3548 B45
In this fourth collection by the popular Lee
(Book of My Nights), timely immigration issues drive
such poems as Self-Help for Fellow Refugees,
but Lee swiftly folds them into broader inquiries
about inheritance, memory and loss: you'll
remember your life, he advises,
as a book of candles,/
each page read by the light of its own burning.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
Behind-My-Eyes-Poems-audio/
dp/0393065421
Luskin, Fred.
Forgive for Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship.
NewYork: HarperOne, 2007.
Call #: BF637 .F67 L875 2007
This groundbreaking book from the frontiers of psychology
offers startling new research about the one missing factor that
is vital to relationships—forgiveness. A national
bestselling author and leading expert on forgiveness,
Dr. Fred Luskin shows that no matter how much
two people may love each other, their relationship
will not succeed unless they practice
forgiveness—an approach that most relationship
experts continue to ignore.
Source:
http://books.google.com
Trautman, James.
Pan American Clippers: The Golden Age of Flying Boats.
Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 2007.
Call #: HE9803 .P36 T73
Pan Am Clippers permanently changed the world's concept of
time and space by dramatically reducing travel time and
opening up international air travel to the general public.
This fascinating, informative and richly illustrated book
brings back another time and way of life.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/Pan-
American-Clippers-Golden-Flying/
dp/1550464760
Weis, Rene.
Shakespeare Unbound: Decoding a Hidden Life.
New York: Henry Holt, 2007.
Call #: PR2909 W45 2007
Shakespeare's subjective 'I' is everywhere in
his work, writes Weis, a professor of English
at University College London, who pores over every
line for evidence it may offer about the
Bard's life. Weis frequently uses words like
perhaps, might have and possibly,
and he offers some eyebrow-raising deductions from the texts.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
Shakespeare-Unbound-Decoding-
Hidden-Life/dp/0805075011
Zimberoof, Tom.
Art of the Chopper.
New York: Bullfinch Press, 2005.
Call #: TL439.5 .U6 Z563
An overview of some of the world’s most unusual and innovative
motorcycles profiles twenty of today’s leading motorcycle
designers and builders and their unique creations, and
offers an in-depth analysis of each
builder’s design philosophies and style.
Source:
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Bolles, Richard N.
What Color is Your Parachute?
Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2006.
Call #: HF5382.7 .B64 2006
Recent reviews have called it "the jobhunter's Bible," "the Cadillac of job-search books,"
"the most complete career guide around," and "the gold standard of career guides."
Source:
http://www.jobhuntersbible.
com/articles/wciyp.php
Carter, Jessica Faye.
Double Outsiders: How Women of Color Can Succeed in Corporate America.
Indianapolis, IN: JIST Publishers, 2007.
Call #: HD6057.5 .U5 C37 2007
This insightful book empowers African American, Latina, Asian,
South Asian, Middle Eastern, Native American, and multiracial
women to clarify the challenges they face and debunk
myths and fallacies about them in corporate environments.
It analyzes the critical success factors of professional
women of color, provides resources, and offers
potential insight into one of the fastest-growing employee
demographics. This book also helps companies learn
essential strategies for recruitment and retention of women of color.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
Double-Outsiders-Succeed-
Corporate-America/dp/1593573863
Coplin, William D.
10 Things Employers Want you to Learn in College: The Know-how You Need to Succeed.
Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2003.
Call #: LC1037.5 .C68 2003
A college diploma can open many doors, but it’s
just an expensive piece of paper if you don’t have
what employers seek. Long-time professor and
student adviser Bill Coplin surveyed the nation’s
top companies and identified the essential
skills recent grads need to survive and succeed in the job market.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
Things-Employers-Want-Learn-College/
dp/1580085245
Criscito, Pat.
How to Write Better Resumes and Cover Leters.
Happauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series Inc., 2008.
Call #: HF5383 .C742 2008
The stodgy, old-fashioned typewritten résumé is a thing of the past—and Barron’s has a brand-new
résumé manual designed to propel today’s job seekers toward success! The emphasis is
on organizing one’s job qualifications and career experience to make the
best possible presentation, but this how-to book focuses on
a far broader range of job-seeking techniques than simply writing a good résumé.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
Write-Better-Resumes-Cover-
Letters/dp/0764124943
Everett, Melissa.
Making a Living while Making a Difference: Conscious Careers for an Era of Interdependence.
Gabriola, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2007.
Call #: HF5381 .E853 2007
This completely revised second edition of Making a Living While
Making a Difference updates the rapidly expanding career
opportunities in socially responsible and green business,
industry, commerce, and non-profits. Professional
career counselor Melissa Everett guides the reader through
a 10-step program for career development that
stresses personal fulfillment, integrity, and contribution.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
Making-Living-While-Difference/
dp/0865714002
Goldberg, Jan.
Great Jobs for Music Majors.
Chicago: VGM Career Books, 2005.
Call #: ML3795 .G74 2005
Great Jobs For . . . Each book in this series helps
students discover new employment possibilities,
assess strengths and interests, and develop a path
for advancement and success in a chosen field.
Ideal for those exploring which major to take in college.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
Great-Jobs-Music-Majors-
Goldberg/dp/0844247456
Johnson, Kelly Love.
Skirt! Rules for the Workplace: An Irreverent Guide to Advancing your Career.
Guilford, CT: Skirt! Books, 2008.
Call #: HD6045.3 .J64 2008
Humorous, practical, tell-it-like-it-is advice for women in the workplace.
Only seven of the Fortune 500 companies have a woman as CEO or President, \
and nearly 20 percent of them don’t have any women at all in upper management.
Kelly Love Johnson lays out practical advice for career women who
are starting out or who wonder why they’re not moving ahead.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
skirt-Rules-Workplace-Irreverent-
Advancing/dp/1599212234
Resumes for Nursing Careers.
New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 2007.
Call #: RT86.7 .R45 2007
You've worked hard for your nursing degree;
now it's time to take that education and put it to work.
Get an edge on the other job applicants with
Resumes for Nursing Careers.
Source:
https://www.amazon.com/Resumes-Nursing-Careers-McGraw-Hill-Education/dp/0071476202/
Swinger, Joe.
Leave Your Nose Ring at Home: Get the Job You Want by Creating a Powerful First Impression.
Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press, 2006.
Call #: HF5382.7 S95 2006
Leave Your Nose Ring at Home is based on 20 years of bizarre, unusual,
and absolutely crazy interviews that the author has
encountered with young people. Think Paris
Hilton getting an extreme makeover from Miss Modest.
Written in a witty, irreverent style, the book will
prepare you for the service industry interview by giving you
the straight answers on what it takes to score that first job.
If you are striking out and not being hired, this
book will have you on the payroll in no time.
Source:
http://www.amazon.com/
Leave-Your-Nose-Ring
-Home/dp/
1564148750
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