City Chicks

The Beaverton City Council recently passed an ordinance allowing residents to have chickens in their backyards. The Library has a growing collection of titles on raising chickens in an urban setting. Selecting specific breeds, feeding, caring for and housing information can be found in the titles that we own. The majority of these can be found in 636.6 in the non-fiction section of the collection on the second floor.

Discovery of ancient Biblical texts

The Sisters of Sinai: how two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels

By Janet Martin Soskice


Found in the library at call number 225.0922 SOS

This is the remarkable account of two Scottish sisters (Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson) who discovered a biblical text, called a palimpsest, that contained some of the most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. The author, Soskice, does a good job of setting up the background about the identical twin sisters amazing ability to learn foreign (and ancient) languages as they travelled in the middle east during a time when archaeology and science were turning some old and hallowed beliefs about the Bible upside-down. This is a fun and interesting read, as well as an important contribution to history about the role played by Agnes and Margaret in the amazing discovery of this palimpsest.

RV Comparisons

JR Consumer Resources is a consumer group that publishes unbiased RV ratings and reviews on over 64 different RV manufacturers in North America. The information provided is based on independent research and interviews. Included in the books are motorhomes, travel trailers and fifth wheels. We have the 2006-2008 RV Comparison Guide and the 2008-2010 RV Comparison Guide. Both of these titles are located in the Reference Collection on the Consumer Information Index Table.

Non Fiction that Reads Like Fiction

If you primarily read Fiction there is a whole world of unexplored books for you in the library. There are many books in Non Fiction section that read like Fiction are fascinating page turners.





Interested? Check out this list to get you started.





Non Fiction that Reads like Fiction

Hardback Books / Qualitiy Reprints

There's something important about the lasting quality of a hardback book to libraries. I'm fascinated by how many decent quality hardback reproductions of out of print books have popped onto the market.

We like way it holds up if tossed in a bag or pack, and stands up well on a shelf. It's cover is able to be covered with a slip cover and cleaned off if it gets dirt on it. But you may have noticed that new books bookstores often sell paperbacks of classics rather than the more expensive hardbacks. A copy of Moby Dick must be strong enough to circulate many times and hold up in all kinds of weather, and paperbacks usually spell trouble in that realm.

Hundreds of thousands of classics are in the public domain and can be read on screens, bought widely in paperback, but if you want a new hardback title like that, note that several publishers are doing a good job reissuing good looking hardbacks.

These are imprints of printing publishers that are that are bringing back out of print or public domain

*** (hint on how to make the following links work, flip the search by index to Publisher once you click thru on them, and then limit them by book on the left limiter)
Nabu Press

Bibliolife

Wildside

Wilder

1st World Library
These can be paperbacks and hardbacks
Kessenger

These companies redo the book rather than reprint it, and they are very high quality

Modern Library

Everyman's Library

Library of America

Unconventional Wisdom

Do you like to think outside the box? If so, here is a list of titles compiled by librarians across the country on "Unconventional Wisdom"

Unconventional Wisdom booklist

Access Science

Did you know...

McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology is available online?

Current science news and video clips are just a few clicks away and available 24/7 through your WCCLS library card.

Go to www.wccls.org/online_resources scroll to the Science & Technology link in the left hand column. Next click on AccessScience.

Don't let questions about the Periodic Table or Geological Time Scale keep you up at night.