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Friends of the Library essay contest
Once again the Friends of the Library will sponsor an essay contest. There will be up to five prizes of $100 each.

The essay prompt is based on the College Book, Enrique's Journey (author Sonia Nazario).

On the back cover of the book, there is a quote from noted author Isabel Allende “ . . .If you are going to read only one nonfiction book this year, it has to be this one, because you know these young heroes. They live next door.” Do you consider Enrique a “hero”? Why or why not? Cite specific examples from the book to support your point of view.

To enter the contest, you must be registered as a SWC student for spring 2007. The essay must be at least one page but no longer than three pages typed and must be submitted electronically to essaycontest@swccd.edu before 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 22, 2007.

If you have questions, contact Diane Gustafson in the Library, 482-6433.

New Books: December 16, 2006

Call #	Title
2946	The shape shifter.
2947	Cross
2948	Capital crimes.
2949	Inés of my soul.
2950	The handmaid and the carpenter : a novel.
2951	A Christmas secret : a novel
2952	The shepherd, the angel, and Walter the Christmas miracle dog.
2953	Heaven Lake : a novel.
2954	The Raphael affair.
2955	Blue water.
2957	The people's act of love.
2958	Hundred-dollar baby.
2959	What came before he shot her.
2960	Empire.
2961	The secret life of Houdini : the making of America's first superhero.
2962	Pasiones romanas.
2963	Famous writers school : a novel.
2964	Death of a department chair : a novel.
2965	Moral disorder : stories.
2966	American bee : the National Spelling Bee and the culture of word nerds : the lives of five top spellers as they compete for glory and fame.
BF2050.C56 2005	Abducted : how people come to believe they were kidnapped by aliens.
BF637.N66.G84 2006	Nonverbal communication in close relationships.
BL240.3.C66 2006	The language of God : a scientist presents evidence for belief.
BL245.C34 2006	The many faces of God : science's 400-year quest for images of the divine.
BR118.D84 2006	The skeptical, passionate Christian : tools for living faithfully in an uncertain world.
BV4501.2.J43 2006	Buried alive : a discussion of overcoming the seven lifeless sins.
CB161.C355 2006	The extreme future : the top trends that will reshape the world for the next 5, 10, and 20 years.
DG209.G753 2002	Rome : a thousand years of power and glory.
DS79.76.R535 2006	Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq.
DT61.E3285 2002	Egypt in the time of the pharaohs.
E184.A1.M6 2006	Minorities : race and ethnicity in america.
E185.61.L64 1997	Negro in American life and thought.
E443.M38 2004	Divided mastery : slave hiring in the American South.
E445.A3.S4 1994	Slavery in Alabama.
E450.B8828 2003	From fugitive slave to free man : the autobiographies of William Wells Brown.
E901.1.O23.A3 2006	The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream.
E902. P47 2006	American theocracy : the peril and politics of radical religion, oil, and borrowed money in the 21st century.
F1216.5.C65 2006	Mexican days : journeys into the heart of Mexico.
F159.C55.S58 1994	Bloody dawn : the Christiana Riot and racial violence in the antebellum North.
GE199.I4.G84 2006	How much should a person consume? : environmentalism in India and the United States.
GV1136.8.E74 2006	The greatest fight of our generation : Louis vs. Schmeling.
GV1136.8.M94 2005	Ring of hate : Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling : the fight of the century.
GV1746.A44 2006	The complete idiot's guide to ballroom dancing. + DVD.
GV1785.D82.K35 2005	Kaiso! : writings by and about Katherine Dunham.
GV31.F88 2006	The Roman games : a sourcebook.
GV741.S8 2006	Made to be broken : the 50 greatest records and streaks in sports. + DVD
GV846.5.M248 2006	Hockey : a people's history.
GV863.A1.H58 2006	Shades of glory : the negro leagues and the story of African-American baseball.
GV884.G375.C63 2006	Getting open : the unknown story of Bill Garrett and the integration of college basketball.
GV939.T78.A3 2006	Alone in the trenches : my life as a gay man in the NFL.
HC110.W4.W425 2006	Wealth accumulation & communities of color in the United States : current issues.
HC79.P6.D94 2006	World poverty.
HD6490.R32.U653 2006	Mobsters, unions, and feds : the Mafia and the American labor movement.
HD9576.S33.E53 2006	The energy within : a photo history of the people of Saudi Aramco.
HD9993.E452.C43 2005	Smartbomb : the quest for art, entertainment, and big bucks in the videogame revolution.
HF5382.5.U5.C373 2006	Careers and occupations : looking to the future.
HM1041.R37 2006	The culture code : an ingenious way to understand why people around the world buy and live as they do.
HN65.O74 2006	Culture warrior.
HN90.E4.R85 2005	Ruling America : a history of wealth and power in a democracy.
HQ1418.K46 2006	Learning to stand & speak : women, education, and public life in America's republic.
HQ536.B59 2006	Changing rhythms of American family life.
HQ799.7.K36 2006	Generation debt : why now is a terrible time to be young.
HQ800.2.T645 2006	New single woman.
HV6432.S28 2005	Homeland security : a complete guide to understanding, preventing, and surviving terrorism.
HV6545.H64 2006	Suicide : theory, practice, and investigation.
HV6626.2.S87 2006	Behind closed doors : violence in the American family.
HV8073.R325 2001	The forensic science of CSI.
HV875.55.C45 2006	Children and youth in adoption, orphanages, and foster care : a historical handbook and guide.
HV883.M4.H38 2006	One small boat : the story of a little girl, lost then found.
JC574.2.U6.C667 2006	Godless : the church of liberalism.
JC574.2.U6.S27 2005	The enemy within : saving America from the liberal assault on our schools, faith, and military.
JK1726.A428 2005	America beyond capitalism : reclaiming our wealth, our liberty, and our democracy.
JL1231.M415 2005	Mexican governance : from single-party rule to divided government.
JL1265.U38 2000	The Mexican Congress : old player, new power.
JL1281.C35 2007	Politics in Mexico : the democratic consolidation.
JV6465.G55 2006	Minutemen : the battle to secure America's borders.
JV6465.T36 2006	In mortal danger : the battle for America's border and security.
JV6475.D43 2006	To be an immigrant.
JV6483.H386 2006	Whatever it takes : illegal immigration, border security, and the war on terror.
KF4545.S5.F558 1997	Dred Scott v. Sandford : a brief history with documents.
KF5050.N37 2006	The constitution in exile : how the federal government has seized power by rewriting the supreme law of the land.
LB1027.5.E52 2000	Students helping students : a guide for peer educators on college campuses.
LB1031.5.G67 2005	Peer tutoring : a teacher's resource guide.
LB1031.5.O5 2005	On location : theory and practice in classroom-based writing tutoring.
LB1631.C4475 2005	Tutoring adolescent literacy learners : a guide for volunteers.
LB2341.K39 2006	Higher ground : ethics and leadership in the modern university.
LB3033.P44 2005	Recess : its role in education and development.
LC212.62.K69 2005	The shame of the nation : the restoration of apartheid schooling in America.
LC213.2.B75 2005	Bringing equity back : research for a new era in American educational policy.
LC4704.H364 2003	Handbook of learning disabilities.
LC4705.R46 2006	Strategy instruction for students with learning disabilities.
LC5800.G56 2005	Global perspectives on e-learning : rhetoric and reality.
ML3470.B68 2002	World music : a very short introduction.
ML3556.A34 2006	African American music : an introduction.
ML410.E44.A3 1976	Music is my mistress.
N6853.D8.B3413	Duchamp. [re-instated]
NK4340.R3.P57 2005	Handmade culture : raku potters, patrons, and tea practitioners in Japan.
PE1405.U6.C7 1989	Creative writing in America : theory and pedagogy.
PE1408.B883 1993	The creative process.
PN1998.3.W45.C366 1995	Orson Welles. 2 vol.
PN6231.C25.S28 2006	The political zoo.
PN6727.B3757.Z46 2006	Fun home : a family tragicomic.
PQ2603.E378.E53 1956	Waiting for Godot : tragicomedy in 2 acts.
PR6065.C558.T78 1991	True believers.
PS3505.A87.M89457 2001	Readings on My Antonia.
PS3511.A86.A6 1993	Absalom, Absalom! : the corrected text.
PS3561.O85.S9 1994	Swimmer in the secret sea : novella.
PS3562.E8544.M68 2000	Motherless Brooklyn.
PT8895.S5 1994	The quintessence of Ibsenism.
PZ8.3.S4684.M252 2006	¿Mamá?
Q181.I624 2005	Improving urban science education : new roles for teachers, students, and researchers.
QA184.2.K37 2003	Linear algebra and geometry : a second course.
QA21.H45 2006	Great feuds in mathematics : ten of the liveliest disputes ever.
QA21.H68 2005	A history of mathematics : from Mesopotamia to modernity.
QA303.E24 1994	Advanced calculus : a differential forms approach.
QA433.J3613 2001	Vector analysis.
QA551.E58 2005	Coordinate geometry.
QA564.H3 1998	A vector space approach to geometry.
QA611.17.R45 2005	Geometry and topology.
QB460.7.G43 2006	Revolutionaries of the cosmos : the astro-physicists.
QB835.L48 2005	David Levy's guide to variable stars.
QC174.13.R67 2006	Quantum enigma : physics encounters consciousness.
QC32.W2 2007	The flying circus of physics.
QC7.5.N49 2006	The new physics for the twenty-first century.
QC861.3.T38 2005	Elementary climate physics.
QC981.8.G56.S64 2005	Global warming : personal solutions for a healthy planet.
QC981.R763 2005	Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took control of climate.
QD478.S53 2005	Solid state chemistry : an introduction.
QE721.2.E97.H35 1997	Mass extinctions and their aftermath.
QE861.6.E95.W37 2006	Out of thin air : dinosaurs, birds, and Earth's ancient atmosphere.
QH105.C2.B45 2006	California's frontier naturalists.
QH501.W48 2006	In the beat of a heart : life, energy, and the unity of nature.
QH506.S8246 2003	Calculations in molecular biology and biotechnology : a guide to mathematics in the laboratory.
QH641.P54 2005	Aglow in the dark : the revolutionary science of biofluorescence.
QH76.E54 2006	Endangered species : protecting biodiversty.
QK115.R88 2006	National Geographic field guide to the trees of North America.
QK45.2.G57 2006	Botany illustrated : introduction to plants, major groups, flowering plants families.
QK475.T83 2006	The tree : a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter.
QK98.5.A1.V36 2005	Food plants of the world : an illustrated guide.
QL638.S2.C622 2006	Salmon.
QL737.S63.R44 2006	The Florida manatee : biology and conservation.
QL751.C8825 2005	Headless males make great lovers : & other unusual natural histories.
QP376.R47285 2006	The naked brain : how the emerging neurosociety is changing how we live, work, and love.
QP751.W66 2006	How fat works.
R726.D42 2006	Death and dying : end-of-life controversies.
RA407.3.H42 2006	Health and wellness : illness among Americans.
RA790.6.S66 2005	One nation under therapy : how the helping culture is eroding self-reliance.
RM222.2.W295 2006	Weight in America : obesity, eating disorders, and other health risks.
RM236.M37 2001	Vegan : the new ethics of eating.
RM301.25.N5 2004	Drugs : from discovery to approval.
RM332.D989 2006	Artificial happiness : the dark side of the new happy class.
SB433.15.S74 2006	American green : the obsessive quest for the perfect lawn.
SF513.P4.J33 2006	Peacock.
T173.8.C62 2006	The change function : why some technologies take off and others crash and burn.
T173.8.F63 2006	The gecko's foot : bio-inspiration : engineering new materials from nature.
T174.7.E39 2006	The nanotech pioneers : where are they taking us?
T385.F54457 2006	AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007 bible. + CD-ROM
TA1215.L47 2006	The box : how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger.
TD883.145.C2.C37 2006	Introduction to air in California.
TK5105.8885.A26.B4535 2006	Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 with C#.
TL798.8.U5.E82 2006	Space exploration : triumphs and tragedies.
TR146.W27 2002	Photography.
TR267.W22 2005	Creative vision : digital & traditional methods for inspiring innovative photography.
TS752.R44 2005	Gemmology.
TX357.S527 2006	The way we eat : why our food choices matter.
U408.5.F157 2006	ASVAB 2007 : the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.
UH399.5.M67 2006	Mind wars : brain research and national defense.
Z682.4.S89.K38 2006	Managing student employees in college libraries.

New Books: December 1, 2006

Call #	Title
2933	I, Nadia, wife of a terrorist.
2935	The thirteenth tale : a novel.
2936	Thirteen moons : a novel.
2937	Skeleton Coast.
2938	Lisey's story : a novel.
2939	The collectors.
2940	The Bancroft strategy.
2941	Morrigan's Cross: Circle Trilogy; bk. 1
2942	Dance of the gods : Circle Trilogy; bk. 2
2943	Valley of silence : Circle Trilogy; bk. 3
2944	The five people you meet in heaven.
2945	Dear John.
B789.D4.K84 2002	What dying people want : practical wisdom for the end of life.
B831.2.N67 1990	What's wrong with postmodernism : critical theory and the ends of philosophy.
BF1779.F4.B76 1997	Practical feng shui.
BF441.N63 2006	Critical lessons : what our schools should teach.
BF575.F2.B68 2006	Fear : a cultural history.
BF637.N66.P43 2006	The definitive book of body language.
BP182.G4 2005	The far enemy : why Jihad went global.
BS659.R68 2006	Evolution and Christian faith : reflections of an evolutionary biologist.
BX1752.W55 2002	Why I am a Catholic.
BX4705.D25.B86 1989	Father Damien : the man and his era.
CT788.M254.A3 2006	Stuart : a life backwards.
D570.33 369th.S58 2005	Lost battalions : the Great War and the crisis of American nationality.
D767.99.M27.B76 2005	Hell is upon us : D-Day in the Pacific, June-August 1944.
DB2241.H38.A513 1990	Disturbing the peace : a conversation with Karel Hvížďala
DG70.P7.B93 2006	Pompeii : the living city.
DS113.7.J36 2005	The Palestinian national movement : politics of contention, 1967-2005.
E183.8.M6.M84 2005	Gringolandia : Mexican identity and perceptions of the United States.
E185.86.G77 1976	The Black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925.
E185.9.C87 1981	The free Black in urban America, 1800-1850 : the shadow of the dream.
E457.5.S993 2006	Manhunt : the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer.
F1221.N3.P37 2006	The origins of Mexican Catholicism : Nahua rituals and Christian sacraments in sixteenth-century Mexico.
F1419.A1.B49 2005	Beyond black and red : African-native relations in colonial Latin America.
F869.L89.N4 1995	Fire this time : the Watts Uprising and the 1960s.
GF503.D4 2005	Why geography matters : three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism.
GN345.6.K33 1997	Breaking the ice : a guide to understanding people from other cultures.
GN346.C72 1992	Field projects in anthropology : a student handbook.
GN378.P47 2002	Culture sketches : case studies in anthropology.
GV1589.F73 1996	Dance imagery for technique and performance.
GV1746.M36 2006	Glamour addiction : inside the American ballroom dance industry.
GV1751.S49 2005	Modern ballroom dancing.
GV1782.5.M56 1997	Choreography : a basic approach using improvisation.
GV706.5.S597 2005	The sport star : modern sport and the culture economy of sporting celebrity.
GV706.G8613 2006	In praise of athletic beauty.
HD6095.T49 2006	From marriage to the market : the transformation of women's lives and work.
HD9681.A2.B73 2006	Solar revolution : the economic transformation of the global energy industry.
HD9999.B442.F75 2006	Building biotechnology : starting, managing, and understanding biotechnology companies.
HM1106.G66 2006	Social intelligence : the new science of human relationships.
HM753.B47 2005	Us and them : understanding your tribal mind.
HN90.S6.M49 2006	The trouble with diversity : how we learned to love identity and ignore inequality.
HQ536.H48 2006	Single by chance, mothers by choice : how women are choosing parenthood without marriage and creating the new American family.
HT384.U5.F55 2006	This land : the battle over sprawl and the future of America.
HV4708.A833 2005	Children and animals : exploring the roots of kindness and cruelty.
HV5824.W6.S865 2004	Substance abuse treatment and care for women : case studies and lessons learned.
HV6250.4.W65.I574 2006	"Intimate" violence against women : when spouses, partners, or lovers attack.
HV6710.S38 2006	Roll the bones : the history of gambling.
K52.S63.R63 1975	Dictionary of legal terms : Spanish-English and English-Spanish.
KF9223.R62 2006	Law without justice : why criminal law doesn't give people what they deserve.
LB1057.J46 2006	Enriching the brain : how to maximize every learner's potential.
LB1181.2.M34 2005	Teaching literacy in kindergarten.
LB2328.N4 v.135	Academic pathways to and from the community college.
LB2342.C315 2006	Paying for college without going broke.
LB2342.V43 2004	Going broke by degree : why college costs too much.
LC2683.3.C76 2006	Mexican roots, American schools : helping Mexican immigrant children succeed.
LD2151.M63 1963	The founding of Harvard College.
ML3187.B69 2000	The golden age of gospel.
ML3531.P75 2006	Hip hop culture.
MT935.P529 2004	Directing the choral music program.
NK2076.A1.S242 2004	Indian interiors.
PC2271.K378 1989	501 French verbs fully conjugated in all the tenses in a new easy to learn format.
PN175.C57 1999	Classical rhetoric for the modern student.
PN1993.5.U6.K465 2005	American independent cinema.
PN4162.K285 2006	The human voice : how this extraordinary instrument reveals essential clues about who we are.
PQ2671.U47.I3413 1998	Identity.
PQ7087.E5.L38 1993	Latin American writers : thirty stories.
PQ7297.F793.A7613 2000	The years with Laura Díaz.
PQ7797.B635.F42 1962	Ficciones.
PR2831.A2.M26 2005	Romeo and Juliet. + CD
PR4416.P3 1973	The party fight and funeral.
PR4416.W5 1973	Wildgoose Lodge and other stories.
PR471.D6 1987	The ordinary universe : soundings in modern literature.
PR5042.O562.B65 1969	The brook Kerith; a Syrian story.
PR5907.U5 1983	A Reader's guide to William Butler Yeats.
PR6021.I24.I5 1992	In a harbour green.
PR6029.C33.A6 1957	Three plays : Juno and the paycock, the shadow of a gunman, the plough and the stars.
PR6029.F3.B5 1969	Bird alone.
PR6063.A24287.F35 1992	The fallen & other stories.
PR9080.Q39 2000	Postcolonialism : theory, practice, or process?
PS3505.A87.M8944 2002	Understanding O pioneers! and My Antonia : a studient casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents.
PS3558.I45.S23 2003	Sacred clowns.
PS3573.O642.B58 2002	Blood Orchid.
PS3573.O642.L15 2000	L.A. dead.
PS374.W6.C48 2006	Chick lit : the new woman's fiction.
PS508.M4.M49 2006	Mexico in mind : an anthology.
PZ7.J28278.L352 2006	La línea.
PZ8.3.R67257.C55 2006	Cookies : bite-size life lessons.
Q130.M46 2005	Men, women, and the birthing of modern science.
Q175.32.R45.D43 2006	The intelligibility of nature : how science makes sense of the world.
Q1765.35.S55 2006	Challenging nature : the clash of science and spirituality at the new frontiers of life.
Q177.F45 2006	The psychology of science and the origins of the scientific mind.
QA241.A84 2006	Fearless symmetry : exposing the hidden patterns of numbers.
QA295.B718 2006	Real infinite series.
QA76.73.J38.P47 2006	Ajax hacks.
QA76.73.J39.M35 2006	Head rush Ajax.
QA76.76.I59.R82 2005	iLife '05. + DVD-ROM.
QA76.9.D3.F439 2006	FileMaker 8 @work : projects and techniques to get the job done.
QB981.V526 2006	Many worlds in one : the search for the other universes.
QC174.17.G46.R63 2006	Shadows of reality : the fourth dimension in relativity, cubism, and modern thought.
QC6.S6535.2006	The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next.
QC794.6.S85.W65 2006	Not even wrong : the failure of string theory and the search for unity in physical law.
QD33.B48 2006	Hazardous materials chemistry.
QD43.B35 2005	Elegant solutions : ten beautiful experiments in chemistry.
QE86.G73.G73 2003	Grand Canyon Geology.
QE89.H37 2004	California geology.
QE90.S5.H54 2006	Geology of the Sierra Nevada.
QH193.G3.K75 2006	Galápagos : a natural history.
QH303.W55 2006	The creation : an appeal to save life on earth.
QH442.2.W544 2006	After Dolly : the uses and misuses of human cloning.
QL696.P2367.S29 2003	Crow.
QL737.C2.L34 2005	Large carnivores and the conservation of biodiversity.
QL737.C23.G74 2006	Tiger.
QL737.C27.B54 2005	Bear.
QL737.C4.R66 2006	Whale.
QL737.M3.N68 2005	Walker's marsupials of the world.
QP37.H385 2006	The human body : uncovering science.
QP38.M33 2006	Human body : a visual guide.
QR41.2.S33 2006	Microbe.
R859.7.I58.C85 2006	Health information on the internet : a study of providers, quality, and users.
RA401.D44.S53 2006	The body hunters.
RA410.M34 2006	Money driven medicine : the real reason health care costs so much.
RD129.5.H43 2006	Last best gifts : altruism and the market for human blood and organs.
RG518.U5.W34 2006	Born in the USA : how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first.
RG950.E77 2006	Nurse-midwifery : the birth of a new American profession.
SF336.W475.D73 2006	Black maestro : the epic life of an American legend.
TA455.C55.S73 2005	Clay : the history and evolution of humankind's relationship with Earth's most primal element.
TK5105.875.I57.O39 2005	The information revolution : the not-for-dummies guide to the history, technology, and use of the World Wide Web.
TK5105.8885.A26.M586 2006	Sams teach yourself ASP.NET 2.0 in 24 hours. + CD-ROM.
TK5105.8885.M38.B27 2006	Macromedia Studio 8. + CD-ROM.
TK7816.G75 1997	Basic electronics.
TK7868.D5.K55 1999	Digital electronics : a practical approach. + CD.
TR310.J36 2005	Digital intermediates for film and video.
TR650.T54 1970	The great themes.
TR681.C5.T55 1971	Photographing children.
TR790.T55 1974	Travel photography.
TR820.5.T55 1972	Documentary photography.
TR897.7.K861 2006	Mastering Maya 7. + CD-ROM
TR897.7.W377 2006	Introduction to 3D graphics & animation using Maya. + CD-ROM.
TS753.Z64 2006	The heartless stone : a journey through the world of diamonds, deceit, and desire.
TT507.J68 2005	Fashion design.
U51.H37 2005	Warriors : portraits from the battlefield.