Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Books to Film: The latest




Have you ever read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry?  This book first published in 1993 has become a classic.  It is now a movie starring Brenton Thwaites, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift, Jeff Bridges, etc. 

Story Plot:

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. 

"The Maze Runner" is also now playing at the movie theater.  Based on the book by James Dashner published in 2009. It movie stars Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelari, Will Poulter, etc.

Story Plot: 

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

"Gone Girl", a novel written by Gillian Flynn (2012) is also now a movie and is currently playing in theaters.  The movie stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike and Neil Patrick Harris.

Story Plot:

Excerpt from novel: 
Golden boy Nick Dunne, brings his wife, Amy, back to his hometown on the Mississippi River where she is miserable and on their fifth wedding anniversary she disappears, and soon Nick finds himself lying, being deceitful, and acting inappropriately but continues to claim his innocence with his twin sister at his side. 

Check out one of these titles from our library's collection. 



Thursday, June 12, 2014

Book Suggestions for Summer~ WMHS English/Literacy Departments

Looking for a book or two or three to read during the summer?  

Here is a list of recommendations from the Ward Melville High School English department.  Our school library has many of these titles in the collection.  You are welcome to borrow books during the summer.  Stop by the library's front desk and we will assist you.   Have a great summer!




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~       Suggested by
Classic Texts
Contemporary Texts

Dickens, Charles. -Bleak House

Fountain, Ben. -Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  
- The House of the Seven Gables
Wallace, Daniel.  -Big Fish
Hesse, Herman. Siddhartha

Smith, Betty.  A -Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Vonnegut, Kurt.  -Slaughterhouse Five
Momaday, N. Scott.   
-House Made of Dawn
Murakami, Haruki.   
-After Dark
Bulawayo, NoViolet. 
- We Need New Names 

Steinbeck, John.  -East of Eden
Moore, Wes.  -The Other Wes Moore 


 
Ellison, Ralph.   -Invisible Man

Tolstoy, Leo.  -Anna Karenina
Diffenbaugh, Vanessa.  
-The Language of Flowers
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. 
 -Crime and Punishment
Harbach, Chad. -The Art of Fielding
von Goethe, JW.   -Faust
Obreht, Tea. 
-The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine.  
- The Little Prince
Safran Foer, Jonathon.  -Everything is Illuminated.
Angelou, Maya. 
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Otto, Whitney. -How to Make an American Quilt
Morrison, Toni.  -The Bluest Eye
Carroll, Lewis.  -Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Naipaul, VS.  
- A House for Mr. Biswas
Matthiessien, Peter.  
- The Snow Leopard
Alcott, Louisa May. 
- Little Women
Brooks, Geraldine.  March
Gibran, Kahlil.
-The Prophet
Keegan, Marina. -The Opposite of Loneliness


Chaucer, Geoffrey.  -Canterbury Tales
Flynn, Gillian.  -Gone Girl

Woolf, Virginia.  -Mrs. Dalloway
Morrison, Toni.  -Home




Mr. McAuliffe


Mr. Cereola

Ms.Cisar-Buhler


Ms. Cowan's
top 3 picks




Ms. DiIorio




Mr. Eaton


Ms. Etheridge



Ms. Favre



Ms. Gandt 

Dr. Kelso




Ms. Kunkel


Ms. Murolo 

 
Mr. Oatis 


 Ms. Rochford


 Ms. Taliercio


 Mr. Swain


Ms. Thomas
























































































Thursday, May 29, 2014

Literary World Mourns ~ Poet Maya Angelou




The world mourns the loss of beloved poet, Maya Angelou who passed away on May 28, 2014.

More information about her life and works can be found at her official website  http://mayaangelou.com/

Some of her works can be found in our library's collection:
  • All God's children need traveling shoes > Shelf location: 921 ANG
  • The complete poems of Maya Angelou >Shelf location: 811 ANG
  • Conversations with Maya Angelou> Shelf location: 818 ANG PB
  • Even the stars look lonesome> Shelf location: 814 ANG
  • Gather together in my name > Shelf location: 921 ANG
  • The heart of a woman > Shelf location: 921 ANG
  • I know why the caged bird sings > Shelf location: 921 ANG
  • I shall not be moved > Shelf location: 811. 54 ANG
  • Letter to my daughter > Shelf location: 818 ANG
  • A song flung up to heaven > Shelf location: 921 ANG
  • Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now > Shelf location: 818 ANG



Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Sarah Beth Durst's new trilogy

Local author Sarah Beth Durst has just released a new novel titled Lost    It is part of an adult trilogy from Harlequin/Mira publishers. 

 Here is an blurb about the book:

  It's about a woman trapped in a town full of only lost things and lost people.

"One morning, Lauren gets into her car to drive to work, but instead of going left at the light, she drives straight... and drives and drives until she runs out of gas in a town called Lost.  Once there, she can't leave.  The only road out of town is engulfed by an impassable dust storm, and the only people who don't want to kill her are a mysterious wild man called the Finder and a knife-wielding six-year-old girl."- Sarah Beth Durst

For more information about THE LOST go to Sarah Beth Durst's website, it includes the first two chapters and a schedule of upcoming book events.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Literary World Mourns~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 



 
The literary world mourns the passing of Columbia author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He was the writer of numerous novels, short stories, novellas and non-fiction.  He also won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1982. 

His most notable works:
  • Love in the Time of Cholera
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude 
  • Autumn of the Patriarch
 You can locate some of his works by searching the Destiny Catalog at your library.


Thursday, February 27, 2014

February~ A good time to fall in love with a good book






February is a good time to celebrate your love of a good book. 

New in Fiction: 

  •  Divergent by Veronica Roth 
  • Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
  • Legend by Marie Lu
  • The 5th Wave by Rich Yancey
  • Thousand Words by Jennifer Brown

New in Non-Fiction:
  •  The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History by Robert W. Cohen
  • Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse by Janice Hudson

Friday, January 24, 2014


Read an ebook from our collection


Brrrrrrr!  The cold is keeping most of us inside these days.  Did you get a new e-Reader (Kindle, Nook) or tablet during the holidays?  Check out our growing e-book collection of fiction and non-fiction titles.  They are all FREE!
 
And we have an App for that!  Contact your school librarian if you would like instructions for downloading our e-book app (Follett Shelf Enlight).  Directions for downloading public library e-books are also available.  

You can also access our e-books through the Internet using the school's Destiny Library Services.

1. Go to Destiny Library Services located on the left side of the Three Village Home Page
2. Click on Ward Melville High School
3. Click on Ward Melville Library e-books
4. Browse the collection by author, subject, genre, etc. 
5. Access a selected item with your network log in and password.