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A new year, a new set of Read Great Things categories. Are you ready to participate? What is the Read Great Things Challenge? The Read Great Things Challenge is a personal reading challenge sponsored by the Â鶹ӰÊÓ Library throughout 2019 that encourages folks to diversify and/or increase their reading goals by completing books that fit into at least 10 of the following 12 categories: A book that will help you with one of your personal goals A book by or about someone you admire A social

This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian, and is available for checkout at the Orange County Campus Library. Title: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World Author: Steve Brusatte Genre: Popular Science, General Dinosaur Awesomeness #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A popular science book; A book that takes place during or is about a historical event 50 years or more in the past [this historical event took place a few million years

This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian, and is available for checkout at the Orange County Campus Library. Title: Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery: A Novel in Two Acts Author: Mary Amato Genre: Fantasy [because ghosts talking and stuff]. Is there a "imagined conversations between ghosts in graveyards" fiction genre? Because this fits that one, too. #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book that contains a supernatural creature, occurrence, or event

Did you know that, since 1995, September 19 has been International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Wikipedia gives a brief history of this weird occasion, which originated between two friends playing a game of Racquetball. So, I know you're asking, "How do I learn to talk like a Pirate?" Good news! You've come to the right place. Your Â鶹ӰÊÓ library has just the tool for you: Mango Languages. Mango Languages provides lessons for people who want to learn any of dozens of languages. These range from

[caption id="attachment_4424" align="aligncenter" width="198"] Available at the OCC Library on the New Book shelf[/caption] This book was enthusiastically read by Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Revisionist Zombie Historical Fiction, Supernatural fiction [not sure if it's fantasy or science-fiction-- I'm waiting for the next books in the series to figure out how those zombies became zombies!] #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book with a supernatural creature [yup], A book

[caption id="attachment_4406" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Available at Main Campus Library: QL 31 .G58 J36 2017[/caption] This movie was watched by Julie Humphrey, Library Director. Title: Jane Director: Brett Morgen Genre: Documentary Why did you choose to watch this movie? I am a huge admirer of primatologist, Jane Goodall, and her animal conservation work. I had heard that this film featured never-before-seen archival footage of her years working in Tanzania in the early 1960’s. What did

In a repeating series highlighting current and recent reads around Â鶹ӰÊÓ, here’s Â鶹ӰÊÓ’s awesome faculty and staff’s current or recently finished summer reads: [gallery link="none" size="medium" ids="4339,4341,4342,4343,4344,4345,4346,4347,4348,4349,4350,4351,4352,4353,4354,4355,4356,4357,4358,4359,4360,4361,4362,4363,4364,4365,4366,4367,4368,4369,4370,4371,4372,4373,4374,4375,4376,4377,4378,4379,4380,4381" orderby="rand"] Need help finding a book in-library or requesting a book

[caption id="attachment_4232" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Available at the Main and Orange County Campus Libraries on the new books shelf[/caption] This book was read by Courtney Bippley, Reference Librarian at the Main Campus, and Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Fantasy, YA #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book with a supernatural creature [yup], occurrence [yup], or event [yup] Find out more about the Read Great Things Challenge here. Why did you choose to read this

[gallery type="square" link="none" columns="2" size="full" ids="4267,4268"] This series was read by Meredith Lewis, Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Graphic Novel/Comic Book #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A book that contains a supernatural creature [loads], occurrence [more than one], or event [very much yes] Find out more about the Read Great Things Challenge here. Why did you choose to read this book? I picked up Monstress Vol. 1 a year or so ago in an effort to check out some new

[caption id="attachment_4237" align="aligncenter" width="315"] Available at the Main Campus Library on the New Book Shelf (CT 3262 .I2 W47 2018)[/caption] Educated by Tara Westover was read by Susan Baker, a Reference Librarian at the Main Campus, and Meredith Lewis, the Orange County Campus Librarian. Genre: Memoir #ReadGreatThings2018 Category: A biography, autobiography, memoir, or a fictionalized account of a real person’s life AND A book you chose for the cover [seriously, look at those