Northwest news with a sustainable angle

Interested in the environment and sustainibilty issues in the northwest? Take a look at daily.sightline.org for a roundup of current news and events that looks for solutions as well as reporting on enviromental issues in the northwest. Sightline Daily is a project of Sightline Institute, the Northwest’s sustainability think tank.

Indeed (Job Website)

Although there are many job searching websites available, one of the easiest I have found to use is Indeed. This site searches thousands of company websites, job boards, newspapers and associations and makes searching these sources an absolute breeze. All you do is list the job title, keyword or company name and a location (if you want), and the site will list the jobs available with direct links to the original job posting giving you all the information you need in order to apply for the position. If you don't have a specific job title in mind, you can browse their listings of job categories or search listing by specific geographic locations. Also included in the site are salary charts and job trends. Check it out!

Tough Cookies

The next book display on the first floor of the Beaverton City Library will be "Tough Cookies" This display will feature the exploits of women detectives such as Stephanie Plum, Ann Pigeon, Jane Marple, Kate Scarpetta, Emma Lord, Daisy Dalrymple, Emily Pollifax, Kinsy Millhone, Phryne Fisher, Sookie Stackhouse, Arly Hanks, Rina Lazarus, Joanna Brady, Agatha Raisin and many others.
Can you name the Authors? An extensive, slightly annotated, reading list will be available.

Environmental Protection Agency

Did you know the EPA has a blog, Greenversations. Every Wednesday is Science Wednesday and the post deals with the science behind enviornmental protection.





Questions about the BP Oil Spill, the EPA has a website addressing their response to the oil spill,


EPA Response to BP Spill

Other Cultures...Other Points of View

Interested in other cultures? Here is a short list of Fiction titles that is sure to interest you.

Other Cultures, Other Points of View

New Biographies--here are just a few recently ordered.

The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe

by Jeffrey Meyers




The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon

by John Paul Rathbone







A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Liptons Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup


by Michael D'Antonio

Auto Repair Reference Center

Click on Auto Repair Reference Center with your Washington County library card number handy and get access to maintenance and repair information for more than 34,000 vehicles from 1945 to the present. Includes printable wiring diagrams, step-by-step photographs, official technical service bulletins and recalls, and much more. Check it out!

GLBTQ Authors

Marc Acito

Peter Ackroyd

Dorothy Allison Carol Anshaw

Reinaldo Arenas

John Ashbery (Poetry)

W.H. Auden (Poetry)

James Baldwin

Roland Barthes (Literary Theory)

Elizabeth Bishop (Poetry)

Lucy Ann Bledsoe

Jane Bowles
Paul Bowles

Rebecca Brown

Augusten Burroughs
William Burroughs

Truman Capote

Willa Cather

Michael Chabon

John Cheever

Alfred Chester

Colette

Dennis Cooper

Douglas Coupland

Michael Cunningham

Emma Donoghue

Mary Dorcey

Mark Doty (Poetry)

Fannie Flagg
E.M. Forster

Stephen Fry

Ellen Galford

Federico Garcia Lorca

Jean Genet

Allen Ginsberg (Poetry)
Jewelle Gomez

Ariel Gore

Radclyffe Hall


E. Lynn Harris

Andrew Holleran

Alan Hollinghurst

Helen Humphreys

Christopher Isherwood

Henry James

Judith Katz

D.H. Lawrence

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Gregory Maguire

Thomas Mann

Armistead Maupin

James Merrill (Poetry)

Anais Nin

Frank O’Hara (Poetry)

Chuck Palahniuk

Marcel Proust

James Purdy

John Rechy

Mary Renault
Christopher Rice

Adrienne Rich (Poetry)

Arthur Rimbaud

Vita Sackville-West
Oscar Wilde
Marquis de Sade

Sappho (Classics-Greek)

May Sarton

David Sedaris
Pierre Seel

Shyam Selvaduraij
Vikram Seth

Ali Smith

Susan Sontag
Tom Spanbauer

Jack Spicer (Poetry)

Gertrude Stein

Alice B Toklas
Violet Trefusis

Gore Vidal

Barbara Vine
Sarah Waters
Evelyn Waugh

Edmund White

Walt Whitman (Poetry)
Oscar Wilde
Jeanette Winterson

Virginia Woolf