displays

This month’s display is a collection of bildungsromans. That's the original term for the young adult novel. Classically, young adult literature features a coming-of-age tale such as Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables or Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Nowadays, the term young adult has morphed to become known as reading-age group. Folks often use “young adult” to mean fiction for teens. Sometimes, when adults read a young adult book, such as Harry Potter, they may face ridicule from their friends, colleagues, family, and even strangers!

Happy New Year and welcome to the library's 6th annual best books display! This year we have consulted eighteen* best books lists to bring you the Best Books of 2014.

Photo courtesy of Flickr user General Mills

"Is the cinema more important than life?"--Francois Truffaut Have you always been curious what Alfred Hitchcock was really like? Has the life of Oprah Winfrey or Katherine Hepburn always interested you? Cinephiles rejoice! The Bentley Library's latest display features biographies, autobiographies, and collections of interviews of filmmakers, actors, and actresses and DVDs of the films they made or starred in.

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.” --Anatole France      The library’s new display features our animal friends like Marley the dog, Alex the parrot, and Babe the pig. The collection of nonfiction, fiction, and film focuses on the special relationship between humans and animals, exploring how animals affect us and how they can “awaken” our souls.

In September 1956, Modern Mechanix magazine ran an article titled "Your Telephone of Tomorrow." In a summary of the article, it was predicted that people would eventually have "a tiny, touchtone, color videophone" (pictured at right).

Your Phone of Tomorrow
Modern Mechanix, September 1956

Plus: Movies and TV Shows They’ve Inspired! This display is brought to you by Craig Lordan '93. When we were kids, my older brother and future Bentley graduate spent many hours reading comic books and drawing his own comic book characters. It was the dark ages, and we lived in the suburbs, so Craig got his comic books through mail order. At some point, I started saving my allowance to buy my own comic books. Initially, all I wanted was Disney comic books, but I finally graduated to George Perez’s Wonder Woman.

Inventions & Innovators is a collection of books highlighting innovation as a means of business transformation. Highlighted in this collection are some of the inventions, inventors and innovative companies that have altered the way we live and the way business is done.

 “Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!”

- Walt Disney

Happy new year and welcome to the Bentley Library's 5th annual best books display! This year we have consulted fifteen* best books lists to bring you the Best Books of 2013.