Hutchins Library News Blog

Happy September everyone! This month's CD is a 1970's classic, Godspell. This musical is based on the Gospel according to Matthew. Be submerged into this 1970's fantasy, created by John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz, that follows Jesus and his disciples as they learn the parables of Mathew. 

Tracks: 

1. Prepare Ye The Way of the Lord                                                                         9. Turn Back, O Man

2. Save the People                                                                                                10. Alas For You

3. Day By Day                                                                                                        11. By My Side

4. Learn Your Lessons Well                                                                                  12. We Beseech Thee

5. Bless The Lord                                                                                                  13. On The Willows

6. All For The Best                                                                                                 14. Finale

 7. All Good Gifts                                                                                                   15. Day By Day (Reprise)

8. Light Of The World

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Godspell: a musical based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew by Stephen Schwartz

Call Number: CD-Music 782.14 S399g - CD Collection (2nd Floor)

Publication Date: 1974

Attend Ntozake Shange's ​Wild Beauty ​on

September 21st, 2017, 3:00pm

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium 

In Wild Beauty, playwright, performer, poet, and novelist Ntozake Shange explores the many contradictions that people of color confront in their daily lives emotionally, psychologically, and politically. Through music and language, Shange approaches her material with delicacy and brutal honesty. We are left with a textured mosaic of what it means and how it feels to be a 21st century colored person who speaks English. Co-sponsored with Theatre.

If you liked Ntozake Shange's presentation, check out her books that we have available for check out, on the display near the cafe!

 

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

Call Number: Call Number 821.914 S528f 2010 (3rd Floor)

Publication Date: 2010

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century.

 

Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange

Call Number: Call Number S5277s (Fiction - 3rd Floor between 822-823)

Publication Date: 2010

Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college, she is now living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston-"too much of the south in her"-who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world.

Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange

Call Number: Call Number S5277b (Fiction - 3rd Floor between 822-823)

Publication Date: 2010

Set in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Shange's story reveals the prismatic effect of racism on an American child and her family. Seamlessly woven into this masterful portrait of an extended family is the story of Betsey's adolescence, the rush of first romance, and the sobering responsibilities of approaching adulthood.

 

Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange; Ifa Bayeza

Call Number: Call Number S5277so 2010 (Fiction - 3rd Floor between 822-823)

Publication Date: 2010

Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playwright Ifa Bayeza achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this epic story of the Mayfield family. Opening dramatically at Sweet Tamarind, a rice and cotton plantation on an island off South Carolina's coast, we watch as recently emancipated Bette Mayfield says her goodbyes before fleeing for the mainland. With her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow, she heads to Charleston. There, they carve out lives for themselves as fortune-teller and seamstress. Dora will marry, the Mayfield line will grow, and we will follow them on an journey through the watershed events of America's troubled, vibrant history—from Reconstruction to both World Wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam and the modern day.

Attend the McLain Family Band's Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour on

September 14th, 2017, 6:15pm

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

Known internationally for its traditional music repertoire, The McLain Family Band enchants audiences with wide range of Bluegrass classics. This special public television and radio broadcast will be recorded by the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour. Co-Sponsored with the Office of the President. Stephenson Memorial Concert.

If you liked the performance, check out the book we have available on display near the cafe!

Pretty Good for a Girl by Murphy Hicks Henry

Call Number: Call Number 781.642 H523p 2013

Publication Date: 2013

The first book devoted entirely to women in bluegrass, Pretty Good for a Girl documents the lives of more than seventy women whose vibrant contributions to the development of bluegrass have been, for the most part, overlooked. Accessibly written and organized by decade, the book begins with Sally Ann Forrester, who played accordion and sang with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys from 1943 to 1946, and continues into the present with artists such as Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent, and the Dixie Chicks. Drawing from extensive interviews, well-known banjoist Murphy Hicks Henry gives voice to women performers and innovators throughout bluegrass's history, including such pioneers as Bessie Lee Mauldin, Wilma Lee Cooper, and Roni and Donna Stoneman; family bands including the Lewises, Whites, and McLains; and later pathbreaking performers such as the Buffalo Gals and other all-girl bands, Laurie Lewis, Lynn Morris, Missy Raines, and many others.

 

Also check out all of the Special Collection items we found about the McLain Family Band!

 

September's reference book of the month is Charles Wankel's 21st Century Management. The following description is from amazon.com: 

The Handbook of 21st Century Management provides authoritative insight into the key issues for students in college or corporate courses with a particular emphasis on the current structure of the topic in the literature, key threads of discussion and research on the topic, and emerging trends. This resource is useful in structuring exciting and meaningful papers and presentations and assists readers in deciding on management areas to take elective coursework in or to orient themselves towards for a career. Indeed, familiarity with many of the topics in this Handbook would be very useful in job interviews for positions in business.

Recommended for Business Administration Majors.

Unique of this book: It includes topics of  the effect of globalization and the ongoing growth of technology in aspects of management.

21st Century Management by Charles Wankel (Editor)

Call Number: 658 T971 2008

Publication Date: 2007

This month's Manga of the month is Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba.

"Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal...or his life?

Light tests the boundaries of the Death Note's powers as L and the police begin to close in. Luckily Light's father is the head of the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves vital information about the case lying around the house. With access to his father's files, Light can keep one step ahead of the authorities. But who is the strange man following him, and how can Light guard against enemies whose names he doesn't know?" - description from publisher

Check it out today!

Death Note Box Set (Vol.s 1-13) by Tsugumi Ohba; Takeshi Obata (Illustrator)

Call Number: 741.595 O121d - Graphic Novels (Main Floor Circulation Area)

Publication Date: 2008

Attend Richard Wiener's Love and Hatred in Troubled Times on

September 7, 2017, 3:00pm

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

In his presentation, Richard Wiener shares childhood experiences dominated by the incitement of hatred and violence in Nazi Germany that led to disastrous consequences for the entire world. As a "fortunate" survivor of the Holocaust, Wiener was able, decades later, to achieve reconciliation with his former oppressors, and he continues to share with others the lessons of his past.

If you were inspired by Richard Wiener's presentation, check out his book Survivor's Odyssey that we have available for check out, on the display near Circulation!

Survivor's Odyssey by Richard Wiener

Call Number: Call Number 940.531 W423s 2013

Publication Date: 2013

"As I sit by my window, gazing out over the autumnal park, the turning leaves straining in the gusting west wind, and a suggestion of morning sun stippling a clump of trees in the near distance, my thoughts return to the view from my childhood room on Lutherstrasse, a bourgeois, cobblestone-paved street in Wittenberg lined with neatly spaced lindens. How tranquil it all seemed then. Like other early childhoods contemplated late in life, mine seems idyllic in retrospect. A cozy home, devoted parents, playmates and relatives nearby. Who could have predicted then that Wittenberg, this ancient town, the cradle of the Protestant Reformation, would soon, like the rest of Germany, be swept up in the fanaticism and hysteria of National Socialism? When did I first realize that I was not just another German child, that I was merely tolerated, later reviled, and finally cast out? How strange it seems now that it took so long for me to comprehend that what was happening to me and my fellow Jews was extraordinary."

This month's display is dedicated to the annual celebration of the freedom to read:

Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982 according to the American Library Association. The celebration seeks to engage various communities and inspire participation in Banned Books Week through education, advocacy, and the creation of programming about the problem of book censorship.

Check out some of the most contested and challenged books over the past few years:

Holy Bible

Call Number: 220.52 B582m

Publication Date: 1962

 

 

 

 

 

Habibi by Craig Thompson

Call Number: 741.597 T469h 2011

Publication Date: 2011

From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets ("A triumph for the genre."--Library Journal), a highly anticipated new graphic novel.  Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depth--and frailty--of their connection. At once contemporary and timeless, Habibi gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling.

 

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Call Number: G796L 2005 c. 2

Publication Date: 2005

The award-winning, genre-defining debut from #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars,Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and New York Times bestseller. Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge falls impossibly in love. When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally. 

 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie; Ellen Forney (Illustrator)

Call Number: A384ab 2009

Publication Date: 2009

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and four-color interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

 

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Call Number: H8293k 2003

Publication Date: 2003

The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers the world over. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons--their love, their sacrifices, their lies. Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic of contemporary literature, touching millions of readers, and launching the career of one of America's most treasured writers.

 

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Call Number: M8822be

Publication Date: 1987

It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Sethe lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved. Sethe works at "beating back the past," but it is alive in all of them. It keeps Denver fearful of straying from the house. It fuels the sadness that has settled into Baby Suggs' "desolated center where the self that was no self made its home." And to Sethe, the past makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in memories that both haunt and soothe her...in the arrival of Paul D ("There was something blessed in his manner. Women saw him and wanted to weep"), one of her fellow slaves on the farm where she had once been kept...in the vivid and painfully cathartic stories she and Paul D tell each other of their years in captivity, of their glimpses of freedom...and, most powerfully, in the apparition of Beloved, whose eyes are expressionless at their deepest point, whose doomed childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who, as daughter, sister and seductress, has now come from the "place over there" to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining full possession of her present--and to throw off the long, dark legacy of her past--is at the center of this profoundly affecting and startling novel. 

 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Call Number: 616.027 L141zs 2010

Publication Date: 2010

Now a major motion picture from HBO; starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons--as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta's small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia--a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo--to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. Henrietta's family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family--past and present--is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.