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Monday, February 4, 2008
AUDIOBOOK: Ten Things I Hate About Me
Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah. Bolinda Audiobooks, 2007. 6 hours 40 minutesReviewed by Linette Ivanovitch, Young Adult Librarian
Jaime (not her real name) has a problem. For three years she has kept her true self a deep, dark secret. To hide her identity, she has dyed her dark hair blond and wears blue contacts. Now, the most popular guy in town is flirting with her, but Jamie knows he would drop her in a heartbeat if he knew her secret. Even worse, Jamie's new lab partner is the weirdest guy in school. John, her new online pal, is the only person in the world who knows it all - typical Australian Jamie is really Jamilah Towfeek, a Lebanese-Muslim girl in a post-9/11 world. Jaime's carefully crafted facade is about to crumble, her overprotective father will only allow her to attend the Year 10 formal if she performs with her band of fellow Muslim students.
Just about any teen, or anyone who has every been a teenager, will find something to relate to in this fun novel. Narrator Rebecca Macauley's Australian accent is a pleasure to listen to as she gives life to Jamie's thoughts.
Labels: audiobook, identity, teenager
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
NEWSLETTER: MPL Health Newsletters
Missoula Public Library's 5 Health NewslettersBy Gail Hanowell, Reference Librarian and Serials Librarian
The Missoula Public Library has five health newsletters in the magazine collection. These are the Harvard Heart Letter, The Harvard Women's Health Watch, The Johns Hopkins Medical Letter: Health After 50, The Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter,and The University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter.
All of the newsletters are 8-page monthly publications that cover a wide-variety of timely health topics. High-quality information that is authoritative and scientifically tested is offered in brief articles that are well-researched and understandable to the layperson. Questions from readers are answered and sources, citations, and web sites are available. Among the hundreds of recent articles in these newsletters you will find articles of COPD, fibromyalgia, the safety of cholesterol-lowering statins, risks and benefits of hormone therapy, Vitamin D, the use of magnets for pain relief, dementia-related agitation, breast cancer screening, what "1 serving" of various foods should look like - hint: 1/2 cup of fresh fruit is equal to 1/2 of a baseball - and macular degeneration. These newsletters are "highly recommended for public libraries" as reviewed in Magazines for Libraries and are available for your use at your library.
Labels: Health, Newsletter
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
BOOK: Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Springer, 2003By Jim Semmelroth, System Administrator
A friend had moved here from New York City. After seeing a number of newspaper articles about bears in and around Missoula, he asked me if it was safe to drive into work in the morning with his window down. This is a man who, for several years, would regularly ride the New York Subway at 2:00 AM. When I suggested the question was ludicrous, he described how one navigates the possibly hostile early morning subway environment. He did it several years without incident. I was unconvinced about the subway and, I suspect, for a while anyway, he was acutely conscious about whether his window was up or down on his way into work.
This shows how assessing security can be difficult. It can be unintuitive and distorted by one's emotional response. Beyond Fear is a great resource for understanding better how to think about risk and security. If you would like to be able to make better security decisions about your family, your workplace, and your community, this is a great place to start.
Labels: book, computers, security
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