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Here are the TOP FIFTEEN BOOKS checked out during the Fall 2008 semester.

1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon


2. The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher – Harry Wong


3. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal – Mark Fainaru-Wada


4. Don’t Eat This Book – Morgan Spurlock


5. Illegal Drugs: A Complete Guide to Their History, Chemistry, Use & Abuse – Paul Gahlinger


6. Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic – John de Graaf


7. The Watchman – Alan Moore


8. Three Men of Boston – John Galvin


9. The Life & Death of Planet Earth - Peter Ward


10. Color Harmony Logos – Christopher Simmons 


11. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand


12. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty – A. N. Roquelaure


13. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult


14. Abduction - Robin Cook


15. How Hilda Hushed Her Hiccups – Tini Sisters 

Enter the Library’s Banned Book Week contest and test your knowledge about controversial books. Enter the contest by filling out this entry form and dropping it off at the Library’s Circulation Desk before Noon on Friday October 3rd.  

Interested in the most challenged books in 2007? The children’s book And Tango Makes Three was number one. Click here for a complete list from the ALA…

Here are the TOP TEN DVDs requested from January to March of 2008.

1. Back to the Future



2. Saw III


3. Lost


4. The Pursuit of Happyness


5. Planet Earth


6. Rent


7. Dexter


8. The Wire


9. Letters from Iwo Jima


10. Flushed Away

Here are the TOP TEN MOVIES checked out during the Fall 2007 semester:

1. The Pursuit of Happyness
   


2. The DaVinci Code
   


3. Nip/Tuck: The Complete First Season
   


4. Roots
   


5. Donnie Darko
   


6. Knocked Up
   


7. Rent
   


8. Pan’s Labyrinth
   


9. Gangs of New York
   


10. Night at the Museum
    

Here are the the TOP FIFTEEN BOOKS checked out during the Fall 2007 semester.

1. 75 E-Learning Activities – Ryan Watkins
   


2. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
   


3. Baking & Pastry: Mastering the Art & Craft – CIA
   


4. Moodle:E-Learning Resources
   


5. One False Move – Harlan Coben
   


6. Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
   


7. Color Harmony Logos
   


8. Forever Odd – Dean Koontz
   


9. The Life & Death of Planet Earth
    


10. The Ape in the Corner Office
    


11. Coming on Home Soon – Jacqueline Woodson
    


12. Another Roadside Attraction – Tim Robbins
    


13. The Adventure of Louey and Frank – Carolyn White
    


14. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science – Atul Gawanda
    


15. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

Here are the the TOP TWENTY BOOKS checked out during the first half of the Fall 2007 semester.

1. The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery, by Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay Richards�
   


2. Rodin, by Albert Elsen


3. Teaching Reading in Today’s Elementary Schools, by Paul Burns


4. Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, by Spencer Johnsonr


5. The Work of Jean Debuffett, by Peter Selz


6. American Women Sculptors, by Charlotte Rubinstein


7. The Burning Season, by Andrew Revkin


8. Changing: Essays in Art Criticism, by Lucy Lippard


9. The Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews, by Scott Cunningham


10. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, by Atul Gawande


11. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling


12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling


13. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling


14. Incarnate, by Ramsey Campbell


15. The Tree of Red Stars, by Tessa Bridel


16. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner


17. Bag of Bones, by Stephen King


18. Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later), by Elizabeth Howard


19. A Bad Case of Stripes, by David Shannon

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1. The Pursuit of Happyness

1. The Da Vinci Code


2. The Aviator


3. The Notebook


4. Pan’s Labyrinth


5. Rescue Me (series)


6. 300


7. Lost (series)


8. Blood Diamond


9. Forrest Gump

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Stop by and enter the Library’s Whodunnit contest. Solve the mystery and maybe you will win yourself some Halloween candy and some haunted books! the drawing is October 31st.  

Here are the the TOP TWENTY BOOKS checked out during the Spring 2007 semester.

1. The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time, by Jason Socrates Bardi


2. The First Days of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher, by Harry Wong


3. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman


4. Warriors of Disinformation, by Alvin Snyder


5. The Causes of Rape, by Martin Lalumiere


6. Defining Rape, by Linda Borque


7. Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists and Other Sex Offenders, by Anna salter


8. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson


9. The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Bianco


10. The Cider House Rules, by John Irving


11. Land of the Living, by Nikki French


12. Chimp and Zee, by Catherine Anholt


13. I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato, by Lauren Child


14. Swimmy, by Leo Lionni


15. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak


16. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald


17. Resistance, by Barry Lopez


18. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire


19. All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, by Nell Bernstein


20. The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama

Interested in what other Keystone folks are watching? Here are the the TOP TEN MOVIES checked out during the Fall 2006 semester.

1. Lost


2. Rent


3. Deadwood


4. Memoirs of a Geisha


5. Donnie Darko


6. Nip/Tuck


7. Inside Man


8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


9. Band of Brothers


10. Sixteen Blocks