Poverty Awareness Month - January

January is Poverty Awareness Month. Take time out of your schedule to learn more about our country's less fortunate citizens and think of the many ways that you can help. Some of the books on the library book display are: Working at the Margins: moving off welfare in America; The Working Poor: invisible in America; Inner-City Poverty; American Dream: three women, ten kids, and a nation's drive to end welfare; and Hot, Flat and Crowded.

Book Display

Our current book display features titles such as Gone with the Wind, Angels and Demons, and The Fountainhead. Can you figure out the connection between these titles?

Sports Books on Display

The current library book display is all sports! Books on golf, football, basketball, canoeing, pool, weight training and other sports related subjects are available. Stop by and see if we have your favorite highlighted.

Recommended Reading Book Display

The President, Vice-Presidents, Deans, and TCTC instrotor and staff award winners have contributed to the new book display in the library. The books will be available for check out after Sept 7. If you are intersted in a book, let us know and we will put it on hold for you.

The Display includes:
•Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger
•Leadership by Rudy W. Giuliana
•Analyzing Controversy by Gary K. Clabaugh and Edward G. Rozycki
•Language in Thought and Action by S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa
•The New Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir
•Forgetting Ourselves On Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition, Brian J. Mahan
•The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam
•Good to Great: why some companies make the leap --and others don't by James C. Collins
•The Speed of Trust: The One thing that Changes Everything by Stephen M.R. Covey
•Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
•The Way of the Shepherd: 7 Ancient Secrets to Managing Productive People by Kevin Leman and William Pentak
•The Precious Present by Spencer Johnson M.D.
•The Road Less Travelled: The New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M.Scott Peck
•Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
•Black Wind by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
•Treasure of Khan byClive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
•PeopleSmart: Powerful Techniques for Turning Every Encounter into a Mutual Win by Tony Alessandra and Michael J O'connoer with Janice VanDyke
•The New Art of Managing People: Person-to-Person skills, Guidelines, and Techniques Every Manager Needs to Guide, Direct, and Motivate the Team by Phil Hunsaker and Tony Alessandra
•Fish! Sticks by Dr. Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, and Harry Paul
•Through Ebony Eyes: What Teachers Need to Know But Are Afraid to Ask About African American Students by Gail L. Thompson.
•Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat who touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
•Judgements Under Stress by Kenneth R. Hammond
•Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
•The Treasured Works of Charles Stanley: Winning the War Within, How to Handle Adversity, and The Gift of Forgiveness.
•Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
•The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins.
•Love is the best medicine for Dental Patients and the Dental team by Donald M. Dible
•Mathematics and Democracy: The Case for Quantitative Literacy by Lynn Arthur Steen, Executive Editor

New Books!

The Library is displaying some of the recent new books: The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, The Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover, Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah, Lasagna Gardening by Patricia Lanza, Pilates for Dummies, Age is Just a Number by Dara Torres, Imagining India: The idea of a renewed nation by Nandan Nilekani.

Celebrate the Military

Celebrate Military History Month with a book from the Library. Our display highlights books including "The Heart of a Man: A naval pilot's Vietnam Diary", "Nam: The Vietnam war in the words of the men and women who fought there", "Thura's Diary: My life in wartime Iraq", and "Flags of our Fathers".

Poetry

Like poetry? Then celebrate by checking out the Library book display for April.

Celebrate Black History with a book

The Library display is highlighting books such as “The Black Panthers Speak”, African American Women of the Old West”, “Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race, and the New American Century, and “Hard Driving: The American Odyssey of NASCAR’S First Black Driver (The Wendell Scott Story)”. Please see our book display and the South Carolina Collection.