Gale Virtual Reference Library - Career Exam Aids

 Studying for a new career?  The Gale Virtual Reference Library can help!

All of the books shown are available online through the GVRL and patrons with a Google account can take advantage of making use of their Google account to save articles and citations to Drive, print and email (with any email account), highlight, take notes and listen to audio.

To use the GVRL items, simply come to our Reference Desk and ask for the password, then go to http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mag_p_magn1263 and use the password to sign in.  It's that easy!

The career exam aids are all found under the Education section.

Large Print Memoirs For Your Enjoyment

      "This Cider Still Tastes Funny!: Further Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine" is a memoir by John Ford. The author spent twenty years as a game warden in Waldo County in central Maine after completing a four year stint in the Air Force. Upon his retirement in 1990, he was elected county sheriff and re-elected in 1994. He carved out a reputation as a man of the law, but he wasn't a by-the-book enforcer. His quick wit and gift as a storyteller afforded a good quip as he slipped the cuffs on a criminal, but he wasn't above accepting a lesson learned as sufficient penalty for breaking the law. The fact that he is also able to laugh at himself endears him to the readers of his newspaper column and the Northwoods Sporting Journal to which he regularly contributes material.  

   

     "We Were Brothers" is a memoir by Barry Moser. Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents, raised in the same small Tennessee town, and were both indoctrinated by their family's deep racism and anti-semitism. As the two grew older, however, their perspectives and paths diverged further and further apart. Their attitudes about race, politics, money, and even food became so different that they could no longer find any common ground. They could not talk to each other as they once had and, for many years, there was more strife than affection between the two. When Barry reached his late fifties and Tommy his early sixties, their simmering tensions reached a boiling point and their relationship shattered. From then on, the two would not speak to one another. Barry, recalls the raw, emotional reasons for their final reconciliation.  

    "Tough As They Come" is an autobiography by SSG Travis Mills with Marcus Brotherton. United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills was sure he would become another statistic when he was caught in an IED blast four days before his twenty-fifth birthday. Against all odds, however, Travis lived, but at a severe cost—he became one of only five soldiers from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to survive a quadruple amputation. He was suddenly forced to face the fact that he had no arms or legs and that his future would be drastically different than what he had always envisioned. He would never again be able to lead his squad, stroke his fingers against his wife's cheek, or pick up his baby girl. It took tremendous willpower and endurance, not to mention the unconditional love of his family and a huge helping of faith to get through the painful and anxious days of his rehabilitation. Travis made a remarkable recovery, however, and even without limbs, he still swims, dances with his wife, rides mountain bikes, and drives his daughter to school.

Graphic Novels are Now Available

Thanks to a grant from LSTA, we are adding a number of graphic novels to our library collection.  The first have already arrived with more due to arrive in the coming weeks.

The graphic novels cover a wide variety of topics from non-fiction to iconic comic book heroes.  Please note that several of these titles were intended for an adult audience, so parents, please be aware of what materials your children are checking out and read them yourselves if you are concerned about the content.

Here are three of the graphic novels currently available.  They can be found on the wooden shelving to the side of the Reference Desk.

How to Fake a Moon Landing by Darryl Cunningham

Is hydro-fracking safe? Is climate change real? Did the moon landing actually happen? How about evolution: fact or fiction? Award-winning author-illustrator Darryl Cunningham looks at these and other hot-button science topics and presents a fact-based, visual assessment of current thinking and research on eight different issues everybody’s arguing about. His lively storytelling approach incorporates comics, photographs, and diagrams to create substantive but easily accessible reportage. Cunningham’s distinctive illustrative style shows how information is manipulated by all sides; his easy-to-follow narratives allow readers to draw their own fact-based conclusions. A graphic milestone of investigative journalism!










A Game of Thrones, Volume 1 by George R. R. Martin

Acclaimed novelist Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson bring George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy masterwork A Game of Thrones to majestic new life in the pages of this full-color graphic novel. Comprised of the initial six issues of the graphic series, this is the first volume in what is sure to be one of the most coveted collaborations of the year.















War of the Green Lanterns : Aftermath by Tony Bedard

In the aftermath to "War of the Green Lanterns," The Green Lantern Corps must pull themselves together in order to resume policing the universe. But the Green Lanterns find that doing so is more difficult than they ever imagined.

A New York Times bestseller.

Holiday Hours for the Library

With the Christmas Holiday fast approaching, we would like our patrons to be aware of our holiday hours and which days we will be closed.

Monday, December 19th through Thursday, December 22nd

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Friday, December 23rd through Monday, December 26th

CLOSED

Tuesday, December 27th through Friday, December 30th

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, December 31st through Monday, January 2nd, 2017

CLOSED

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 will resume normal hours:

9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mon. - Thurs.

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fri. & Sat.

We hope you have a wonderful holiday and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our patrons for a wonderful year! We are excited to go into 2017 with fresh ideas and new opportunities for our patrons.

Carol Burnett Looks Back

A recent addition to our New Adult Nonfiction, In Such Good Company, is a memoir by legendary comedienne, Carol Burnett.

To research for her book, she rewatched all 276 episodes of 'The Carol Burnett Show'.  The book covers the show from first concepts (the network was initial opposed to a female led variety show, considering that to be a male-only field and wanted her to star in a situation comedy instead) to pulling together her supporting cast, writers, stage crew and other behind-the-scenes people, such as costume designer Bob Mackie, whose curtain-gown that he created for Carol to wear as Starlett O'Hara is now part of the Smithsonian collection.

Other sections cover recurring characters/sketches such as 'As the Stomach Turns', 'Mrs. Wiggins', the Charwoman, and 'The Old Folks'.  She also covers the many movie parodies, her favorite guest stars and also pays tribute to the unscripted, embarrassing moments that happen when working in front of a live audience.

For anyone that remembers watching the show, this book is a wonderful look back at some of the best comedy moments made for television.

Joyce Carol Oates Thrills

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin’s doll when she dies from leukemia. As he gets older, he begins collecting “found dolls” from the surrounding neighborhoods. He stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family’s estate, but just what kind of dolls are these? In “Gun Accident,” a teenager is thrilled when her favorite teacher asks her to house-sit the old Colonial she lives in with her husband. When an intruder forces his way into the house, the fate of both their lives changes forever. “Equatorial” is set in the exotic Galapagos Islands where a wealthy American wife begins experiencing assaults on her knowledge of her charismatic husband. Just what are his plans for her? The last story is a biblio-mystery about the owner of a modest chain of bookstores who believes in some very unorthodox methods for business expansion. When his plan’s for the takeover of a rare bookstore in scenic New Hampshire devolves into a game of verbal to-and-fro, the consequences could be more than just business related. Joyce Carol Oates proves that she is the queen of chills and thrills with this collection.

Our Thanksgiving Holiday Hours

Our Thanksgiving Holiday hours of operation are :

Monday, November 21 - 9 AM to 7 PM
Tuesday, November 22 - 9 AM to 7 PM
Wednesday, November 23 - 9 AM to Noon
Thursday, November 24 - Sunday, November 27 - CLOSED
Monday, November 28 - Normal business hours, 9 AM to 7 PM

The staff of Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library wishes our friends and patrons a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

How About Some Chills & Thrills?

Disappearance at Devil's Rock is a novel by Paul Tremblay. Elizabeth Sanderson receives a call late one summer's night that changes everything. Her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished from the woods of a nearby state park and the searchers aren't finding any clues. Elizabeth and her eleven-year-old daughter, Kate are feeling helpless, alone and more than a little frustrated. The two friends that Tommy was hanging with, Josh and Luis, may not be telling the whole truth about the night they were at a landmark named Devil's Rock in Borderland State Park. Elizabeth also thinks that a wraith-like apparition of Tommy has appeared in her bedroom while Kate and other locals claim they have seen a shadowy figure peering through their windows in the dead of night. When random pages begin disappearing from Tommy's journal, Elizabeth learns that her son was obsessed with the supernatural. Tommy believed that the loss of his father to a drunk driving accident, a folktale involving a demon in the woods of Borderland, and the coming zombie "pocketclips" are all connected by one horrible incident. Is Tommy simply lost or did something more sinister happen that night at Devil's Rock?

My Best Friend's Exorcism is a novel by Grady Hendrix. It's 1988 in Charleston, South Carolina and Abby and Gretchen are high school sophomores. They have been best friends since the fourth grade, but after an evening of skinny-dipping goes horribly wrong, Abby has her doubts about the strength of their friendship. Gretchen begins acting strangely—she's moody, irritable, and just not herself. There is also the fact that bizarre incidents keep happening when Gretchen is around. Abby decides she has better get to the bottom of these strange events, but the conclusion she comes to terrifies her beyond belief. She is left asking herself one important question: Is her friendship with Gretchen strong enough to beat the devil?

Zero K is a novel by Don DeLillo. Ross Lockhart is a billionaire in his sixties married to a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. His son, Jeffrey, has joined them at a remote and secret compound where death is controlled and the body is preserved until biomedical advances and new technologies can restore them. Jeffrey finds the mission of this compound indefensible. He firmly believes that experiencing the here and now is the most important part of living life. Ross, however, feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. Artis sums up the conflict between father and son when she muses, "We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?"

New Large Type Books by Popular Authors

We have added more new titles to our Large Type collection.

Robin Carr - The Life She Wants
In the aftermath of her financier husband’s suicide, Emma Shay Compton’s dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients’ life savings to fund a lavish life in New York City and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband’s crimes. She is left with nothing. 

Only one friend stands by her, a friend she’s known since high school, who encourages her to come home to Sonoma County. But starting over isn’t easy, and Sonoma is full of unhappy memories, too. And people she’d rather not face, especially Riley Kerrigan. 

Riley and Emma were like sisters—until Riley betrayed Emma, ending their friendship. Emma left town, planning to never look back. Now, trying to stand on her own two feet, Emma can’t escape her husband’s reputation and is forced to turn to the last person she thought she’d ever ask for help—her former best friend. It’s an uneasy reunion as both women face the mistakes they’ve made over the years. Only if they find a way to forgive each other—and themselves—can each of them find the life she wants.

W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV - Broken Trust (Badge of Honor series)
Having investigated his share of gruesome murders, Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think nothing can shock him – until the case of a young socialite’s death lands on his desk. The Camilla Rose Morgan he’d known as a teenager was beautiful and brilliant – how was it possible she’d jumped to her death from her own balcony? Her brother tells Payne she’d tragically been battling a lifetime of mental demons, and there is plenty of evidence of it, but still…something just doesn’t sit right. The more Payne digs, the more complications he discovers. Reputations are on the line here, and lives – and if Payne doesn’t tread carefully, one of them may be his own.






Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard - Killing the Rising Sun

Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant return and is plotting a full-scale invasion of Japan.

Across the globe in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. In Washington, DC, FDR dies in office and Harry Truman ascends to the presidency, only to face the most important political decision in history: whether to use that weapon. And in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito, who is considered a deity by his subjects, refuses to surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Told in the same page-turning style of Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing Patton, and Killing Reagan, this epic saga details the final moments of World War II like never before.

It's That Time of Year Again!

     Thanksgiving is just around the corner and, as always, we have plenty of cookbooks to help you with your holiday dishes.
     We also have the most recent holiday magazines to help you with new recipes for your holiday entertaining. While the newest issues cannot be checked out of the library, you can access our array of e-magazines through Zinio magazines on our website. Just type https://www.rbdigital.com/warrenms/service/zinio in your computer's web browser. You can also download the app for your iPad, iPhone, Android, and Kindle Fire device and take your E-zines wherever you go!

     The November issues of Country Living, Cooking Light, Food Network Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Rachael Ray Every Day, and Southern Living are chocked full of delicious takes on classic recipes. Why not try the Pumpkin Cheesecake on the cover of Country Living? Tired of pumpkin flavored everything? Then, Southern Living has a German Chocolate Pecan Pie. Yum! Cooking Light has a whole spread called "Thanksgiving Cook Book" that contains updated and healthier versions of classic dishes. How about some Whole-grain Spelt and Cornmeal Biscuits or Triple Mushroom Stuffing? (I'm getting hungry just writing this!)   From appetizers to dessert--and everything in between--you can find it in these magazines or in one of the hundreds of cookbooks we have here at the library. Bon Appetit!