August 2009 Library News

New Books:

Ref 809 K29m Steven G. Kellman, ed. Magill’s survey of world literature. Rev ed. 2009. 6 vols.

Helpful biographies of authors, with brief synopses of their major works.

133.427 A524e Gabriele Amorth. An exorcist tells his story. 1999.

The Church’s chief exorcist relates his vocation and some experiences.

231.7652 D353c Ilia Delio, OSF. Christ in evolution. 2008.

How Christ is the center and basis of universal evolution.

232.96 G147t Grzegorz Galazka. Testimony of the Cross. 2002.

Meditations & photographs from John Paul II’s Stations of 2000.

232.96 G449pc The Passion: photography from the movie The Passion of the Christ. 2004.

Stills that allow for meditation, along with text from the Gospel accounts.

234.163 F865s St Joseph Freinademetz, SVD. Most holy sacrifice of the New Covenant. 1980.

A translation by former SVD Stanley Plutz of St Joseph’s book on the Eucharist.

241.47 B463c Benedict XVI. Charity in truth. 2009.

An encyclical on love as the foundation for social justice.

261.83585 B463f Benedict XVI. Family. 2009.

Thoughts and comments, gathered from his many writings.

270.3 B736m Daniel E. Bornstein, ed. Medieval Christianity. 2009.

Essays on what Christianity meant to the laity during the Middle Ages. Very interesting.

274.206 M825l Geoffrey Moorhouse. The last Divine Office. 2009.

The confusion & terror of Henry VIII’s dissolution of monasteries, as seen in Durham.

277.3001 A325i Richard Alba, ed. Immigration & religion in America: comparative & historical perspectives. 2009. Scholarly essays arranged by ethnic groups.

282.0922 U85c Jerry Usher. Called by name: the inspiring stories of 12 men who became Catholic priests. 2008. Biographies of some important leaders in the Church.

302.23 T656n Teresa Tomeo. Noise: how our media-saturated culture dominates lives & dismantles families. 2007. How to carve out quiet space away from the incessant chatter.

304.873 D988i William Dvorak, ed. Immigration in the United States. 2009.

Essays from journals, newspapers, etc.

323.1196073 D816g W.E.B. DuBois. The gift of Black folk: the Negroes in the making of America. 2009.

In the new Knights of Columbus series on the contributions of immigrant groups.

340.112 B927l J. Budziszewksi. The line through the heart: Natural Law as fact, theory, & sign of contradiction. 2009. How the dictates of Natural Law are essential, & we ignore them to our peril.

363.73874 D751c David L. Downie. Climate change. 2009.

Guide to the history, people, issues, and resources for this significant topic.

378.071273 H371w John C. Haughey, SJ. Where is knowing going? The horizons of the knowing subject. 2009. What is the future of Catholic higher ed, and especially of its Catholic identity?

567.9 P243d Steve Parker. Dinosaurus: the complete guide to dinosaurs. 2003.

Really cool picture book with important information on all families of dinosaurs.

617.092 G284c Atul Gawande. Complications: a surgeon’s notes on an imperfect science. 2002.

Powerful essays on aspects of modern medicine, both good and bad.

796.3342 B991s Ted Buxton. Soccer skills for young players. 2000.

Nicely illustrated guide to basic strategies.

807.1 D166t David Damrosch, ed. Teaching world literature. 2009.

Essays on all sorts of aspects of the topic.

813.54 W855o Tobias Wolff. Our story begins: new & selected stories. 2008.

Short stories.

813.6 H829t Khaled Hosseini. A thousand splendid suns. 2007.

His second novel, also set in Afghanistan.

823.912 A437f Margery Allingham. Flowers for the judge. 1936.

Albert Campion tries to sort out a murder at a most respectable publishing house.

823.912 L673 S399c Sanford Schwartz. C.S. Lewis on the final frontier: science & the supernatural in the Space Trilogy. 2009. A very fine literary analysis of the three novels.

823.912 W722 L672e C.S. Lewis, ed. Essays presented to Charles Williams. 1947.

Contributions by friend such as the Lewis brothers, Tolkien, & Dorothy Sayers. Whew.

828.996692 A315s Uwen Akpan, SJ. Say you’re one of them. 2008.

Stories set amidst modern Africa’s many tremendous challenges and terrors.

843.914 W651md Elie Wiesel. A mad desire to dance: a novel. 2009.

A child of the Holocaust struggles to free himself of clinging demons.

894.51133 K41d Imre Kertész. Detective story. 2008.

A short novel by the Hungarian Nobel laureate.

940.1 G737w Anthony Grafton. Worlds made by words: scholarship & community in the modern West. 2009.

944.9208 M468y Peter Mayle. A year in Provence. 1989.

A New York couple buy a home and spend a year getting settled. Great fun. See the DVD below.

973.072 G335m Eugene D. Genovese. Miss Betsey: a memoir of marriage. 2009.

The great historian writes of his even greater wife, her conversion, and her death of M.S.

Compact Discs:

222.1106 H148g Scott Hahn. Genesis 1-22. 1997. Bible studies.

781.621962 K29l Lisa Kelly. Lisa. 2005. Celtic songs, new and traditional

781.629667 B387a Aaron Bebe Sukura. Acoustic Ghanaian highlife. 2002. Interesting variety of music.

784.1858 D248p The pilgrim. 1994. A suite of Celtic music.

785.7 D959s Antonin Dvorák. String quartets: Opp. [sic] 96 “American” & 106. 1995. From Iowa!

DVDs:

944.9208 M468y A year in Provence. 1993. John Thaw & Lindsay Duncan. 2 disks, 5 hours.