Call Number: F C374k 2008	Graceling, by Kristin Cashore In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. This book is the first in the Seven Kingdoms Trilogy.
Call Number: F C374k 2009	Fire, by Kristin Cashore In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world. This book is the second in the Seven Kingdoms Trilogy.
Call Number: F C655s 2008	The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place. This book is the first in The Hunger Games Trilogy.
Call Number: F C655s 2009	Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion. This book is the second in The Hunger Games Trilogy.
Call Number: F W496s 2009	Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic, by Suzanne Weyn In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla’s inventions will either doom or save them all.
Call Number: F W478s 2009	Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld; illustrated by Keith Thompson In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
Call Number: F L635e 2008	The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: A Novel, by E. Lockhart Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.
Call Number: F K875m 2010	Sherlock Holmes: The American Years, edited by Michael Kurland This collection of ten original stories brings light to one of the least examined periods in the life of the great detective–his time in the former colonies, the United States, when he is a young man not yet set upon his course in life and in his famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street.
Call Number: F R676m 2009	The Bride’s Farewell, by Meg Rosoff In 1850s rural England Pell runs away from home on horseback on her wedding day, heading to Salisbury Fair to seek work, and is surprised by the strength of her feelings for those she left behind.
Call Number: 070.49 G853e 2009	The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders, by Emmanuel Guibert In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter’s arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders.
Call Number: 940.53 A354d 2007	The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, by Diane Ackerman The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw–and the city’s zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen “guests” hid inside the Zabinskis’ villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. (This book was the May selection of the NCHS Faculty Book Club.)

The Zookeeper’s Wife can be found on the NCHS Faculty Book Club shelf at the front of the library. All other books listed can be found on the New Additions shelf at the front of the library.

Deacon Dan Mackowiak at (716) 283-8771 ext. 236 or dmackowiak {at} niagaracatholic.org today!

Wednesday, February 24

UN Virtual Tour and Quiz:

1. Click HERE to go to the United Nations Virtual Tour.

2. Click through all 13 parts of the tour and read about each part of the UN:

• United Nations Headquarters
• General Assembly
• Economic and Social Council
• Trusteeship Council
• Security Council (The image on this page requires a plug-in we cannot download for security reasons, so just read the text.)
• Flags
• Chagall Stained Glass
• Norman Rockwell Mosaic
• Dag Hammarskjöld Library
• Chinese Ivory Carving
• Japanese Peace Bell
• Foucault Pendulum
• Swords Into Plowshares

3. Take the UN Tour Quiz HERE.

Please turn off the monitors and thin clients (the little boxes to the left of each monitor) after you are done. Please push your chairs in before you leave.

Thank you,

Ms. Chase, Librarian

Let’s wish the MasterMinds luck as they head into their last two bouts of the season before playoffs! The final pre-playoff matches take place February 24 and March 24.

Congrats!

From a National Public Radio article, “Salinger’s published works include Nine Stories, a short-story collection, and Franny and Zooey, a novella about one of his favorite fictive subjects, the sensitive Glass family. His last published work was a short story that took up almost the whole New Yorker magazine in 1965 — though rumors have Salinger stashing reams of unpublished fiction in a vault.” 

Here are the NCHS Library’s books by and about Salinger. You can click on the covers to see our library catalog record for each book. (Please refresh the page if it does not display correctly.):

Call Number: F S255j 1951	The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
Call Number: F S255j 1953	Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger “DeDaumier-Smith’s Blue Period,” “Teddy,” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” are among the nine works in a collection of Salinger’s perceptive and realistic short stories. (The library has two copies of this title available to check out.)
Call Number: F S255j 1961	Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger Meet Franny and her younger brother, Zooey, in two Salinger stories. (The library has two copies of this title available to check out.)
Call Number: F S255j 1963	Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters: and Seymour, an Introduction, by J.D. Salinger  Buddy Glass introduces his older brother and describes the events of Seymour’s wedding day.
Call Number: 813.54 S255jYf 1963	J.D. Salinger, by Warren French This book includes biographical information about J.D. Salinger as well as critical interpretations of his work.
Call Number: 813.54 S255jYl 1963	Studies in J.D. Salinger: Reviews, Essays, and Critiques of The Catcher in the Rye, and Other Fiction, edited by Marvin Laser and Norman Fruman This book is a collection of articles written by various literary critics about aspects of J.D. Salinger’s work. Includes “A Checklist of J.D. Salinger’s Work” and “Suggested Topics for Writing” in the appendices at the back of the book.

*Book descriptions for the first 4 titles above are taken from WorldCat records.

Call Number: F M677t 2009	A Mercy, by Toni Morrison In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love–first from an older servant woman at her master’s new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith, in a novel set in late seventeenth-century America. (This book was a selection of the NCHS Faculty Book Club.)
Call Number: F W763d 2009	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel, by David Wroblewski A tale reminiscent of “Hamlet” that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father’s death. (This book was a selection of the NCHS Faculty Book Club.)
Call Number: F B766g 2008	People of the Book: A Novel, by Geraldine Brooks A fictionalized account of the turbulent history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript which has survived into the twentieth century thanks to people of various faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Hanna Heath, a manuscript conservator hired to restore the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, finds and pursues clues to crucial moments in the book’s history. (This book was a selection of the NCHS Faculty Book Club.)
Call Number: F H467s 2006	Murder at Five Finger Light: A Jessie Arnold Mystery, by Sue Henry Invited to a housewarming party at her friends’ recently acquired old lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage, Jessie Arnold spends the weekend helping to restore the old building, until a guest ends up dead.
Call Number: F H467s 2005	The Serpents Trail: A Maxie and Stretch Mystery, by Sue Henry The first of a new series starring Maxie McNabb, a retiree whose adventures across the country in her motor home are destined for murderous roadblocks. As she sets out from Alaska to the Lower 48, Maxie must first figure out who burgled her friend’s Colorado home.
Call Number: F G653a 2005	Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel, by Arthur Golden A fisherman’s daughter in 1930s Japan rises to become a famous geisha. After training, Sayuri is sold to the highest bidder; then the school finds her a general for a patron. When he dies, she is reunited with the only man she loved. (This book was a selection of the NCHS Faculty Book Club.)

*All book descriptions are taken from WorldCat records.

Illustration by Adam Zyglis

From January 7′s NeXt, the teen section of The Buffalo News published each Thursday, check out “Chill Out: It’s Time for a New Year, Time for Teens to Get Organized and Learn Some Strategies for Balancing a Hectic Schedule.”

Written by Alissa Roy, a freshman at Springville-Griffith Institute, “Chill Out” highlights the need for organization and time management for today’s busy high school students. Roy profiles several productive area high school students, presenting their methods for managing academics, extracurricular activities, and good old-fashioned fun.

I’ve posted the print article in the library window for hallway reading, or find it online at the NeXt website: http://www.buffalonews.com/lifearts/next/story/914956.html

What are some of your tips for managing your time and activities?