The Help: Read It Before You See It

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The movie opens August 10. Several copies of the book are available in our library. Come check them out!

Book Recommendations: Humanities Texas

Summer reading recommendations from Humanities Texas

Thank you Barbara Rivas, Librarian at Ortiz MS for sending this to us.

Books Better Than Movies

Book Recommendations: Contemporary Titles

Contemporary Titles from Stacked Books.
Six of these eight are available in our library. Check out our catalog to find them.

Summer Reading Lists

English Department and AP Art Reading Lists

Book Recommendation: Blackthorn Winter

Blackthorn Winter by Kathryn Reiss
Hopefully, this one with "winter" in the title will cool you off.An idyllic seaside artists' colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past.

Several copies of this past Name That Book selection are available in our library.

Water for Elephants

The movie is released today! We have several copies of the book. It was one of our Name That Book titles.

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African-American History: Book Recommendation

NPR's New Discoveries in Black History host Michel Martin speaks with Rick Bowers, author of Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy of the Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement. Listen

How to Talk to Girls

This book wins the award for the most handled book in our Love, Love, Love Valentine's Day display. Excerps from the book: "Comb your hair and don't wear sweats. Control your hyperness (cut down on the sugar if you have to).
Don't act desperate."

African-American History: Book Recommendation

Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle