April 2011 VOL

Books
Newsletter
April Events: Monday, April 4th: Writers in the Library
present Bobby C. Rogers. 7pm Hodges
Friday, April 1st: Center for the Study of Library Auditorium.
War & Society pre-
sents "Grunts and the Rogers was the winner
Realities of Urban of the 2009 Agnes
Combat: Aachen, Lynch Starrett Poetry
Germany 1944 and
Prize, one of America’ s
Fallujah, Iraq 2004”
by Dr. John C.
most distinguished
McManus, Dept. of awards for a first book
History, Missouri of poetry for his collec-
University of Science tion Paper Anniversary.
and Technology. An
award-winning pro-
fessor, author, and military historian, Wednesday, April 6th: College of Nursing
McManus is a leading expert on the his- presents Health Beat. University Center
tory of modern American soldiers in 8:30 - 2:00pm.
combat and has written numerous books
on the subject. Health Fair for UT students, staff, faculty,
and retirees. Health promotion demonstra-
tions and resources. Confidential health
screenings including cholesterol*, blood
Saturday, April 2nd: CCYAL The Cen- pressure, bone density, HIV, and more
ter for Children's and Young Adult Lit- (*small fee for cholesterol screen; others
erature is hosting it’s first Conference are free).
on Children's Literature. The confer-
ence will feature a showing of Library For more information on any of these
of the Early Mind, the new documen- events, please go to our facebook page
tary about children's literature, followed and the UT Events Calendar
by a panel discussion with co-producer
Steven Winthrow, author Jack Gantos, Books will be available for purchase at all of
and author and gallery owner Richard the above mentioned events as well as in the
Michelson. 8:30 - 3:30pm Hardin Val- UT Bookstore.
ley Academy
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Campus Best-Sellers
Top Sellers for March:
Based on a real and infamous institution, the sixth book in the
"New York Times"-bestselling Body Farm series, co-written by
Dr. Bill Bass, the founder of the Body Farm, takes place at a
boys' reform school in Florida.
Guided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the school's
young "students," Brockton's team finds a cluster of shallow
graves, all of them containing the bones of boys who suffered
violent deaths. The graves confirm one of the diary's grim
claims: that one wrong move could land a boy in the Bone Yard.
But as the investigation expands, it encounters opposition from
the local sheriff, who's less than delighted to find forensic ex-
perts from the state capital and the Body Farm digging up dirt in
his county.
In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin,
Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople
than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver se-
crets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter
into her pocket, reads it, and doesn't deliver it.
Meanwhile, Frankie Bard broadcasts from overseas with
Edward R. Murrow. Her dispatches beg listeners to pay
heed as the Nazis bomb London nightly. Most of the
townspeople of Franklin think the war can't touch them.
But both Iris and Frankie know better...
Watch the book trailer!

Hunger Games will soon be on our books to movies list.

Look for it early next year!
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and
younger sister in the remains of what used be the United
States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and
were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district
agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual
televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain,
rules, and level of audience participation may change but
one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is
chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.
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Books To Read
An elegantly crafted, utterly en-
chanting debut novel set in a mysti-
cal, exotic world, in which a gifted
young girl charms a sultan and
changes the course of an empire's
history.

The Oracle of Stamboul is a marvel-

ously evocative, magical historical
novel that will transport readers to Indie Next
another time and place—romantic, List
exotic, yet remarkably similar to our
own.
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who
thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-
husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to
extort money from her, threatening both her and
her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation
quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends
up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the
commotion, Yasuko’s next door neighbor, middle-
aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami,
offers his help, disposing not only of the body but
plotting the cover-up step-by-step.

Book Trailer pick of the Month!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbeDMMwL1cc
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NEWS
The 2011 Life of the Mind title has been selected!
The freshman book is The Immortal Life of Henri-
etta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. For those of you new
to the program, the Life of the Mind
book is your first assignment at UT.
You’ll be participating in discussion
groups and have a chance to meet
the author! A customized version for
UT students will be available for
purchase during summer orienta-
tion.