March 2007

SHELVING HELP NEEDED

The good news is the library is busier than ever! As a result, we need some help shelving books, particularly on week-days. If you have an hour or two to spare on a regular basis, please contact Jody Ford at jodykeeff@hvc.rr.com.

New Fiction

• House of Meetings - Martin Amis
• Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster
  
• Death of a Maid - M. C. Beaton
• The Alexandria Link - Steve Berry
  
• Puss 'n Cahoots: a Mrs. Murphy mystery - Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
• Breakpoint - Richard A. Clarke
• Paula Spencer - Roddy Doyle
• Dust: a Richard Jury Mystery - Martha Grimes
• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes - Sir Srthur Conan Doyle, edited by Leslie S. Klinger
• The Machiavelli Covenant - Allan Folsom
• The Traitor's Tale: a Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery - Margaret Frazer
  
• Shadow Dance - Julie Garwood
  
• Irish Linen - Andrew Greeley
• Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman
  
• Past Perfect - Susan Isaacs
• Web of Evil - J.A. Jance
  
• White Lies: an Arcane Society Novel - Jayne Ann Krentz
  
• Shoot the Moon - Billie Letts
• Free Fall - Fern Michaels
  
• Winterwood - Patrick McCabe
• In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar
• Find Me: a Mallory novel - Carol O'Connell
• The Perfect Fake - Barbara Parker
• High Profile - Robert B. Parker
• step on a Crack - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
• Sisters - Danielle Steel
• Exit A - Anthony Swofford
• Red River - Lalita Tademy
• The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Donald Thomas
• Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin
• Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida
• The Eagle: the Concluding Volume of The Camulod Chronicles - Jack Whyte
  

New Non-Fiction

• My Name is Iran: a Memoir - Davar Ardalen
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone - Rajiv chandrasekaran
  
• Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality - Pauline W. Chen
• Fodor's Montreal & Quebec City 2007
• Frommer's New Orleams 2007 a Full Post-Katrina Update
  
• Thank Rosendale: New Yoprk - The Empire State - Peter P. Genero
• The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City - Dore Gold
• The Best Life Diet - Bob Green
• My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes and Life Lessons - Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
• On the Wealth of Nations - P. J. O'Rourke
  
• The Supreme Court: the Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America - Jeffrey Rosen
• Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time - Rob Sheffield
• Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties - Robert Stone
• Thomas Hardy - Claire Tomalin
• About Alice - Calvin Trillin
  

New Audios

All CDs

• Plum Lovin' - Janet Evanovich
  
• Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
  
• Rumpole and the Reign of terror - Johm Mortimer
• Death of a Maid - M. C. Beaton
  
• House of Meetings - Martin Amis
  
• Sellevision - Augusten Burroughs
  

New DVD's

• Anne of Green Gables
• Babel
  
• The Departed
  
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Half Nelson
• Hollywoodland
  
• Infamous
  
• Malcolm X
  
• Marie Antoinette
  
• The Prestige
• Prime suspect 1
  
• Prime suspect 2
  
• Project Runway season 1
  
• Science of Sleep
• Shut Up & Sing
• Stranger than Fiction

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BOOKLISTS

Every month in this spot we feature reading suggestions. These include historic fiction, science fiction, mysteries, and more. Many of these titles can be found in the Mid Hudson Library System.

Books SO GOOD we Read them Twice!

This list contains both adult and young adult titles.

• Things Fall Apart- Achebe
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Adams
• Watership Down- Adams
• Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys- Alcott
• Big Mike series- Allen
• House of the Spirits- Allende
• Campion stories- Allingham
• Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands- Amado
• The Flandry and Davy Falkayn series- Anderson
• Speak- Anderson
• A Year by the Sea- Anderson
• The Flowers in the Attic Series- Andrews
• Beowulf- Anon
• Gilgamesh- Anon
• Argonautica- Apollonius of Rhodes
• The Quantum Rose- Asaro
• The Handmaid's Tale- Atwood
• Pride and Prejudice- Austen
• Sense and Sensibility- Austen
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle- Avi
• Seven Days in May- Bailey and Knebel
• Miss Thousand One Spring Blossom- Ball
• Footloose- Banks
• The wizard of Oz- Baum
• Devil's Dictionary- Bierce
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret- Blume
• A Great and Terrible Beauty- Bray
• Wuthering Heights- Bronte
• Rubyfruit Jungle- Brown
• The Good Earth- Buck
• The Master and Margarita- Bulgakov
• Possession- Byatt
• Ender's Game- Card
• H.M. series- Carr
• Alice in Wonderland- Carroll
• The Swiss Family Robinson- Caruso
• A Stillness at Appomattox- Catton
• This Hallowed Ground- Catton
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay- Chabon
• Wonder Boys- Chabon
• The Chanur and Morgaine books-  Cherryh
• Girl with a Pearl Earring- Chevalier
• Stillwatch- Clark
• Tell No One- Coben
• Latimer cousins series- Coles
• Tommy Hambledon series- Coles
• Prince of Tides- Conroy
• The Chocolate War- Cormier
• Postmortem- Cornwell
• The Deptford Trilogy- Davies
• Murther and Walking Spirits- Davies
• Life is so good- Dawson
• A Horseman Riding By- Delderfield
• For My Daughters- Delinsky
• Sweet Liar- Devereaux
• A Christmas Carol- Dickins
• A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
• A Man Rides Through- Donaldson
• Mirror of Her Dreams- Donaldson
• Into the Wilderness - Donati
• A Northern Light- Donnelly
• The Brothers Karamozov- Dostoyevsky
• Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevsky
• Lymond Chronicles- Dunnett
• Knights Castle- Eager
• The Name of the Rose- Eco
• Gone-Away Lake duology- Enright
• The Melendy Trilogy- Enright
• Stephanie Plum Series- Evanovich
• Charlotte Bronte - Eyre
• Alex Cooper crime series- Fairstein
• Bridget Jones Diary- Fielding
• '007 novels- Fleming
• Pillars of the Earth- Follett
• Mrs. Mike- Freedman
• Outlander- Gabaldon
• Honor's Splendor- Garwood
• ABC mysteries- Grafton
• Ellen Foster- Gibbon
• Cold Comfort Farm- Gibbons
• Cheaper by the Dozen- Gilbreth
• Memoirs of a Geisha- Golden
• The Princess Bride- Goldman
• Wizard's First Rule- Goodkind
• The Bird in the Tree- Goudge
• Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Haddon
• Children of the Jedi- Hambly
• short story collections- Hammett
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles- Hardy
• Staggerford- Hassler
• Across the Nightingale Floor- Hearn
• Brilliance of the Moon- Hearn
• Grass for His Pillow- Hearn
• Siddhartha- Hesse
• Waldo and Magic, Inc.- Heinlein
• Catch-22- Heller
• Pentimento- Hellman
• Out of the Dust- Hesse
• Lonesome Traveller- Hill
• The Outsiders- Hinton
• Liveship Traders series- Hobb
• Iliad- Homer
• Odyssey- Homer
• The Prisoner of Zenda- Hope
• The Kite Runner- Hosseini
• The Cowboy and the Cossack- Huffaker
• The Berlin stories- Isherwood
• Three Men in a Boat- Jerome
• Dubliners- Joyce
• The Phantom Tollbooth- Juster
• The Far Pavilions- Kaye
• Trade Winds- Kaye
• Nancy Drew Mysteries- Keene
• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam- Khayyam
• Secret Life of Bees- Kidd
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice- King
• It-King
• Animal Dreams- Kingsolver
• Prodigal Summer- Kingsolver
• The Silver Kiss- Klause
• Last days of Summer- Kluger
• Watchers- Koontz
• Swordspoint- Kushner
• Death in Bloodhound Red- Lanier
• Karla trilogy- Le Carre
• Don't Bite the Sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine- Lee
• Silver Metal Lover- Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird- Lee
• Ella Enchanted- Levine
• Gifts from the Sea- Lindbergh
• The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea- Linklater
• Danvers Touch- Lowell
• The Bourne Identity- Ludlum
• Travis McGee books- MacDonald
• Sevenwaters Trilogy- Marillier
• Life of Pi- Martel
• The Wild Cards series- Martin
• One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez
• Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings- McCafferty
• The Ship Who Sang- McCaffrey
• The Thorn Birds- McCullough
• Atonement- McEwan
• Beauty- McKinley
• Outlaws of Sherwood- McKinley
• Lonesome Dove- McMurtry
• The Pushcart War- Merrill
• Centennial- Michener
• Paradise Lost- Milton
• Gone with the Wind- Mitchell
• Hawaii- Michner
• Anne of Green Gables- Montgomery
• Feeling Sorry for Celia- Moriarty
• A Wild Sheep Chase- Murakami
• Silverlock- Myers
• Lolita- Nabokov
• The Time Traveler's Wife- Neffeneger
• The Things They Carried- O'Brien
• Blaise books- O'Donnell
• God Save the Child- Parker
• Harris and Me- Paulsen
• Beginners' Luck- Pedersen
• Amelia Peabody series- Peters
• Second Glance- Picoult
• Alanna series- Pierce
• Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death- Pinkwater
• The Perilous Gard- Pope
• The Sherwood Ring- Pope
• Discworld series- Pratchett
• His Dark Materials trilogy- Pullman
• Fallen Angel books- Putney
• Robin Hood- Pyle
• All the Swallows & Amazons books- Ransome
• Where the Red Fern Grows- Rawls
• Term Paper - Rinaldi
• Eve Dallas series- Roberts
• Local Hero- Roberts
• Harry Potter Series- Rowling
• The Sparrow- Russell
• Lying Awake- Salzman
• Dante's Inferno- Sanders
• Summers at Castle Auburn- Shinn
• Barefoot Boy With Cheek- Shulman
• On the beach- Shute
• A Town Like Alice- Shute
• The Night Life of the Gods- Smith
• Topper- Smith
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Smith
• A Series of Unfortunate Events- Snicket
• The Notebook- Sparks
• Witch of Blackbird Pond- Speare
• Bittersweet- Spencer
• Ivy Tree- Stewart
• Madame, will you talk?- Stewart
• Merlin Trilogy- Stewart
• A Walk in Wolf Wood- Stewart
• Nero Wolfe books- Stout
• Rim of the Pit- Talbot
• Joy Luck Club- Tan
• Williamsburg Novels- Thane
• Rats Saw God- Thomas
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy- Tolkien
• Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
• Mary Poppins- Travers
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Twain
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant- Tyler
• Exodus- Uris
• Kingdom Tetrology- Voigt
• Candide- Voltaire
• Cat's Cradle- Vonnegut
• Egyptian- Waltari
• Cress Delahanty- West
• Charlotte's Web- White
• The Once and Future King- White
• Leaves of Grass- Whitman
• Hunter's Green- Whitney
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm- Wiggin
• The Picture of Dorian Gray- Wilde
• Little House series- Wilder
• Doomsday Book- Willis
• Marjorie Morningstar- Wouk
• The Long Afternoon- Zilinsky

Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list.

Art, Architecture and Gardens of the Medieval Period

Friday, March 30, 2007, 7:00pm
at the Marbletown Community Center

The Stone Ridge Library’s Medieval Book Club will host a slide lecture and presentation by Dr. Camille Serchuk, Professor of Art History at Southern Connecticut State University.

This program is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, please call 845 687-8726.

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Holmes & Co.

Mystery Lovers Group

Thursday, March 8 at 4pm
in the Reference room

We will discuss the following books and short story:

Eric Ambler- A Coffin for Dimitrios

Agatha Christie- The A. B. C. Murders

Arthur Conan Doyle- A Scandal in Bohemia

The books and a copy of the Doyle story are available at the circulation desk.

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Knitting Group

Saturdays, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
10am-noon at the Library

Our knitting group meets every Saturday in the Library's Reference room. We welcome newcomers at any level.

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Family Writing Workshops with Rosemary Deen

Saturdays, April 14, 21, 28 from 1-3pm in the Reference Room

These Saturday afternoon workshops will focus on the basic elements of writing, using family stories, and creating a story album. Participants will be encouraged to become the "Perfect Reader" for each other. Space is limited! Registration is available in person or by calling 687-8726 or online by clicking here.

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ON THE SHELVES

Poughkeepsie Journal 2.4.07
On the Shelves with Josh Cohen

New York, London continue to fuel novelists' imaginations

On the Shelves is a monthly column by a rotating list of mid-Hudson Valley library directors who comment on notable books coming to your local public library.

Two cities are traditional settings for the mystery novel: New York and London. Several new titles follow this pattern with neither city loosing its mystique.

London

The first event in Michael Cox's The Meaning of Night is narrator Edward Glyver murdering a man. This is done, not because he disliked his victim or was enraged, but simply as a trial run to see if he could kill a man in cold blood. Glyver gets a note suggesting someone saw him and this leads to his confession of why and whom he intends to murder. The story talks of his boyhood and schooling before we meet his nemesis, Phoebus Daunt, and his romantic interest, Isabella Gallini. But the novel has many secrets to reveal with twists and turns in the path. Cox immerses the story in a Victorian London fog that encompasses not only the city, but also Glyver's knowledge of people.

Patrick Neate's City of Tiny Lights moves to modern-day London, but is just as mysterious. Like a typical hardboiled detective novel, the action starts when private investigator Tommy Akhtar has a mysterious woman as his new client. The case seems simple enough: locate the woman's missing flatmate. It quickly becomes complicated when the last person she was seen with, a British member of parliament with connections to a mob guy and a terrorist, turns up dead. Being a minority, Ugandan-Indian, adds another level of complexity to this mystery allowing Neate to comment on the assimilation of immigrants deftly using humor in Akhtar's relationship with his father and his younger brother.

New York

Paul Malmont's The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is a pulp novel about 1930s pulp novel writers. A Chinese tong leader is locked in a sixth-story room for his own protection, but despite locked doors and guards, he is found shot dead the next morning. Two famous rival pulp writers vie to come up with how this was done. Added to this is the death of writer HP Lovecraft, which leads to a mysterious island, a missing ship and a strange statue of Buddha.

In a reversal of Kafka's Metamorphosis, Tyler Knox has his Kockroach wake up one morning to find himself a human. After learning how his new body works, he goes out into the world of New York City circa 1950 and meets Mite who is a low-level hustler being chased by a mob boss. Kockroach, in his new body, has exceptional strength and when the boss tries to go after Mite, Kockroach easily overpowers him and begins to move up the mob hierarchy. Kockroach, with Mite as his brains, takes over the mob scene, but Kockroach never becomes completely human, offering cockroach insights into human behavior.

Sigmund Freud visited Manhattan in 1909. This visit is the background for Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder as on the day of Freud's arrival a woman's body is found inside her apartment and the evidence points to her wealthy well-connected landlord. When the body disappears and a second attempted murder is foiled, Dr. Stratham Younger, a protege of Freud, is asked to help the survivor remember what happened. While solving the mystery, many New York families and politics are brought up as well as the quarrels between Freud, Jung and other psychologists.

Josh Cohen is the executive director of the Mid-Hudson Library System, whichprovides a shared library automation system and resources to 66 public libraries in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Putnam and Ulster counties.

Can't decide on what to read? Visit
Mid Hudson for links to lists of titles that might attract your interest.

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An ATM for books

Coming soon: The most inclusive reader's catalog in the world, at your fingertips.

FORTUNE Small Buisiness - 12.14.06
By Emily Maltby

Buying a book could become as easy as buying a pack of gum. After several years in development, the Espresso - a $50,000 vending machine with a conceivably infinite library - is nearly consumer-ready and will debut in ten to 25 libraries and bookstores in 2007. The New York Public Library is scheduled to receive its machine in February. more

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Confessions of a library junkie

At home she has a list that details every book she's read since 1980.

The Christian Science Monitor - 2.8.07
By Iyna Bort Caruso

It's Saturday morning, and I'm standing under a thick, damp sky waiting for the doors to open. If only it was something as practical as, say, a Macy's shoe sale. But here I am, alone, waiting for the doors to open - to the library.

Librarius nerdus. I am a library nerd.

I'm at one library or another three or maybe four times a month. I always need a novel or biography on my nightstand. I'm always checking out a guidebook for travel planning. And I usually have a pet project I need to research.

It's a disjointed mix, a kind of Dewey Decimal System gone awry: "The Dogs of Babel," "Fodor's Argentina," and "How to Faux Paint Your House."

After years of shelf-trolling, I know my nearby Long Island libraries well: The Freeport, N.Y., library has a good selection of Prohibition-era history.

Mineola has a sun deck and fireplace. I can tell you that the folks who patronize my hometown library in Rockville Centre are a pretty erudite lot. Anytime a book's reviewed on NPR, it's gone faster than you can say "seven days only."

East Meadow is the holy temple of tomes. Area librarians aspire to East Meadow the way art curators aspire to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In the shopping bag of overdue books I'm carrying is a book of my own, which contains a fat list of book recommendations. It replaced a folder of torn-out book reviews that grew unwieldy over the years.

At home, I have another important list that details every book I've read since 1980. Only "To Kill a Mockingbird" is on it twice.

The list started out in ink and transitioned to a Royal manual typewriter, an IBM Selectric, and, ultimately, a Dell PC. If my house ever catches on fire, this document is coming with me.

From time to time, I read the list the way others might read a diary. David Sedaris's "Me Talk Pretty One Day" had me giggling so hard on the train once, tears rolled from my eyes and I laugh-snorted a commuter out of a nap.

On an airplane flight, I had to put down "The Hemingway Book Club of Kosov" every few pages. Different tears this time.

When it comes to fastidious record keeping, I've got company. The Internet is filled with websites dedicated to personal reading lists. Some are excruciatingly detailed spreadsheets with author, date, summary, and number of pages. Like they say, if only this effort could be harnessed for societal good.

The last time I was at the library, I hoisted a pile of books onto the checkout counter and pulled out my card. It was bent and misshapen. The lamination was peeling off and the bar code eroding.

I handed it to the librarian, not the least bit ashamed. After all, I am a library junkie among people who understand these things.

"Time for a new card," the librarian said flatly. I nodded, slightly disappointed that she didn't see the wear and tear as a token of devotion.

But I'm not yet quite ready to replace that much-used library card. Like an overstamped passport, it has taken me to some great places.

GREAT WEBSITES!

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M.C. Escher

The official site for M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist famous for intriguing tessellations and depictions of fantastic landscapes. "On this website you can find information about the use of M.C. Escher's work, a short biography, news, bibliography, links and some fun stuff like a Virtual Ride through some of his works." Features images of dozens of his works such as "Drawing Hands" and "Ascending and Descending." more

Kiplinger.com: Taxes

This compilation of articles addresses topics related to U.S. income taxes, such as tax filing, changes to tax laws, and tax breaks. Includes a withholding calculator and state tax profiles. From the website for Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. more

cRANKy

This search engine, fully launched in January 2007, bills itself as "the first age-relevant search engine," and is designed for those over 50. Only four results are displayed at a time, and users may rank sites (free registration required). From a company dedicated to creating media products aimed at the baby-boom generation born from 1946 through 1964. more

Electronic Orange Book: Approved Drug Products With Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations

Wondering if your prescription or over-the-counter drug has an approved generic counterpart? This U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) resources provides consumer information about federally approved generic equivalents of drugs. Searchable by active ingredient, proprietary name, applicant holder, application number, and patent. Includes an FAQ. From the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. more

Ochef

Questions and answers about food and cooking. Search, or brows by topic such as dairy and eggs, equipment, safety, sauces and dressing, and seafood. Includes material about the history of ingredients and holiday menu ideas. Also includes links to items for sale. "A daily publication of Food News Service, which syndicates food news and articles to newspapers, magazine publishers, and Internet sites." more

The Charles Dickens Museum Virtual Tour

A photographic tour of the 48 Doughty Street, London, home occupied by Charles Dickens from 1837 until 1839 and where he published and completed some of his most famous works including "The Pickwick Papers," "Oliver Twist," and "Nicholas Nickleby." The tour includes a floor plan and annotated images of four floors of rooms. more

Cornell Lab of Ornithology Macaulay Library Sound & Video Catalog

This site allows visitors to hear sound clips and view videos. Includes clips of thousands of sounds for approximately two-thirds "of the world's birds, and rapidly increasing holdings of insects, fish, frogs, and mammals." Searchable by common or scientific name, location, recording date, and other items. Some features require free software downloads. From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. more

GetHuman

This website features a list of consumer service telephone numbers and tips for how to get to speak to a person. The company lists also include a letter grade and are browsable by category, such as automotive, credit, finance, insurance, products, and travel. The site includes a description of how grades are assigned, a blog, and discussion forums. From a consumer advocate and other volunteers. more

First Spouse
24-Karat Coin Program

Details about the U.S. Mint program "honoring our Nation's First Spouses by issuing one-half ounce $10 gold coins featuring their images, in the order that they served as first spouse, beginning in 2007 with Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, (Thomas Jefferson's Liberty), and Dolley Madison." Provides images of the coins, biographies of the first spouses, and information about issue dates and coin features. From the United States Mint. more

Saving Time, Saving Energy: Daylight Saving Time, Its History and Why We Use It

Explains why we adjust our clocks one hour forward in the spring and back in the fall ("spring forward, fall back"). Also find the history of Daylight Saving Time and a schedule for its occurrences from 1990 to 2015. Includes trivia about time and links to related sites. From the California Energy Commission. more

Jewish Book Week

Website for this UK literary festival (late February/early March) promoting Jewish books and writing. In addition to details about current and past events, the site contains reviews of fiction, nonfiction, and children's books with Jewish themes. From the Jewish Book Council, a group "promot[ing] the reading of books on all aspects of Jewish thought and culture." more

The Man in Seat Sixty-One

This website caters to travelers looking for alternatives to flying. It provides details about traveling by train and ship, with an emphasis on destinations in the United Kingdom and Europe. Also includes sections on the Trans-Siberian railway and the Orient Express. A personal website run by "a career railwayman" from London. more

Ragtime

Presentation on ragtime, "a genre of musical composition for the piano, generally in duple meter and containing a highly syncopated treble lead over a rhythmically steady bass." Features digitized images of sheet music, audio and video clips, essays, artist biographies, interviews, and other material about this musical genre. From the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room. more

American President: An Online Reference Resource

Collection of material about U.S. presidents, including "essays about each President and their lives before, during, and after their presidential terms. It additionally provides information about the First Lady and cabinet officials of each administration." From the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. more

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