Do your Spring Break plans include lying on a beach, couch, or [you fill in the blank] with a good book? Need some ideas for what to read? Fill out this short form and your WOU librarians will get back to you with a book or three you might like!
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his book, Wooden Bones, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2012. The nomination is in the Children’s Literature category. The awards are presented at a March 17th ceremony.In 2011, Scott won for The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, also published by Simon and Schuster. That award was in the Young Adult Literature category.
What better way to spend a stress-free winter break than curled up with a good book?! The Recreation Collection on the 1st floor of Hamersly has something for every type of reading preference – from sci fi to romance to poetry.
Want a suggestion? Fill out the form below (or here) and your WOU librarians will get back to you with a book you might like.
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The long Thanksgiving weekend is plenty of time to breeze through one of the new fiction books we’ve added to the Recreation Collection on the first floor of Hamersly. We have something for everyone: fast-moving thrillers, hair-raising horror, poetry about pups, romantic historical fiction, funny detective stories, dystopia science fiction, you name it.
Below is just a sampling of our new arrivals. Browse the collection to see all our recreational books, and check one out before you leave campus!
The Circle by Dave Eggers. Call Number: REC EGG
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Doctor Sleep (sequel to The Shining) by Stephen King. Call Number: REC KIN
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Dog Songs by Mary Oliver. Call Number: REC OLI
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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Call Number: REC ROW
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The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. Call Number: REC GIL
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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood. Call Number: REC ATW
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The Sound and the Furry by Spencer Quinn. Call Number: REC QUI
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The Program for Undergraduate Research (PURE) invites you to submit your work to WOU’s peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal: PURE Insights.
Students and recent graduates can submit original research and creative work including technical papers, research articles, expository articles, poems, short stories, photographs, videos, and other creative works from all academic disciplines. All submissions to the journal must have a faculty sponsor.
The submission deadline for the next issue is coming up quickly on December 31st!
The current issue of PURE Insights as well as complete guidelines and a link for submitting your work is available online at: http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/pure
The National Book Awards are coming up on Nov. 20, and you can now read excerpts from all of the finalists by downloading any of the four free ebook compilations! Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature.
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Need a study break? Can’t get enough of The Walking Dead? Want to escape into a fantastical world of witches and/or Shakespearean Star Wars characters? The library’s Recreation Collection has something new for you:
The Walking Dead, Books 1-3 (each compiling 12 issues of the comic series), by Robert Kirkman. Call Number: REC KIR
Witches of East End; Winds of Salem: A Witches of East End Novel (The Beauchamp Family #1 and #3), by Melissa de la Cruz. Call Number: REC DEL
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope, by Ian Doescher, inspired by the work of George Lucas and William Shakespeare. Call Number: REC DOE
Insurgent (Divergent #2), by Veronica Roth. Call Number: REC ROT
