Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil – Book Review

By:  Wallace Stenger 
HD 9576 .S35 A77 2007
First U.S. Edition Copyright © 2007 by Selwa Press
Original Edition published by
Middle East Export Press,, Beirut, Lebanon, 1971
Reviewed by: Paul McMahon
First, this book is very readable and written by an author who has written a number of well received books.
How often do you find a book about American involvement [...]

Plutonium A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element – Book Review

By: Jeremy Bernstein
QD181.P9 B47 2007
Copyright © 2007 by Jeremy Bernstein.
Reviewed by: Paul McMahon
Bernstein has taught nuclear physics at the graduate level and does an excellent job of explaining complex concepts of chemistry and physics to the layman who is not familiar with them.
Before World War II there was no plutonium on earth. This is because [...]

Tunxis Library hours December & January

The library will be open until 5pm Thursday December 20th, and will be open from 8 am until 4 pm Friday Dec. 21st.  The library will be closed Dec.  22-25th.  The library will reopen Dec. 26-28th from 8 am until 4pm.  The library will be closed from Dec. 29th through January 13th for our move [...]

Doris Lessing’s speech “On Not Winning the Nobel Prize”

This speech by Nobel Prize winner in Literature for 2007, Doris Lessing, is profoundly moving. 

Twilight of the Books. What will life be like if people stop reading?

I was intrigued by this article in the New Yorker, Dec. 24, 2007 issue by Caleb Crain.  What are the implications for Colleges, Teachers, Libraries?

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Audio Review

I was delighted to find “A Thousand Splendid Suns” at Tunxis. I checked my local library and they didn’t have it. I am an avid audio book listener and was awestruck by Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner.”
“Splendid Suns” is another hit. The story centers around two contemporary Afghan women and their plight during war and [...]

Children’s Holiday Books

Hanukkah at Valley Forge
Grandma’s Latkes
The Night of Las Posadas
A Snowman named Just Bob
The Night Before Christmas

Some Holiday Films

Elf 
Charlie Brown Christmas 
Polar Express
It’s a Wonderful Life (VHS)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Frosty the Snowman
Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
White Christmas

New Audiobooks – December

The Good Guy by Dean Koontz
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech that Nobody Knows
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

New Nonfiction – December

The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao
The Physics of Basketball
Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning
Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America
The Kurds: A People in Search of their Homeland
Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey through Contemporary Bestsellers
Teaching with Joy: Educational Practices for [...]