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Check out the newest editions to our Graphic Novel collection! 

You can find them on the far right shelf in the Graphic Novel section!  

Fruits Basket: Volume 7

The Water Dragon's Bride: Volume 7

Kill Them All

Devil's Line: Volumes 1 & 2

The Ancient Magus' Bride: Volume 9

Bloom Into You: Volume 5

Horimiya: Volume 2

Takane & Hana: Volume 5

Want to find out about these books? Here are the call numbers and links to the description in the catalog!

Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 7 by Natsuki Takaya

Call Number: 741.565 T136f (Main Floor Circulation Area)

Yuki-alongside his mother, who already has his life after high school all mapped out-confronts his future at a parent-teacher conference. To make matters worse, when Yuki recalls buried memories, he becomes speechless! Meanwhile, Tohru pays a visit to the Sohma compound in order to confirm if Kureno Sohma is really the same man with whom her best friend, Uo-chan, is in love! Love isn't in the air for Isuzu and Hatsuharu, however, as the two have broken up. Desperately in search of something, Isuzu visits Shigure's house as if driven there, but collapses upon arrival. A shocked Tohru happens to be on the scene, but all she can do is comfort Isuzu in her pain. But Isuzu seems to know all about Tohru fighting the Sohma curse on her own...!?

The Water Dragon's Bride, Vol. 7 by Rei Toma

Call Number: 741.597 T655w (Main Floor Circulation Area)

A modern-day girl gets whisked away to a strange land where she is sacrificed to a water dragon god! In the blink of an eye, a modern-day girl named Asahi is whisked away from her warm and happy home and stranded in a strange and mysterious world where she meets a water dragon god! Asahi returns to the present day, and though her reunion with her family is joyful, she misses Subaru and the water dragon god in the other world. When Asahi comes to a decision about what to do, the water dragon god's heart is greatly shaken!

 

Kill Them All by Kyle Starks (Artist); Luigi Anderson (Artist)

Call Number: 741.597 S7945k (Main Floor Circulation Area)

The new gonzo graphic novel love letter to 90s action movies by Eisner-nominated cartoonist Kyle Starks (SEXCASTLE, RICK AND MORTY). A betrayed murderess wants revenge. A hard drinking former cop wants his job back. For either to get what they want, they're going to have to fight their way through fifteen flights of criminals, assassins, drug lords, murderers, yup, even accountants, and... KILL. THEM. ALL.

 

 

Devils' Line by Ryoh Hanada

Call Number: 741.595 H233d (Main Floor Circulation Area)

Unbeknownst to the general public, vampires are rampant in Tokyo. To control and contain them, the government has developed a program to track and treat rogue vamps who decide to prey on the public. But what happens when vampire and man come together in harmony and love? Will the public accept this, or will they try to tear such partnerships apart?

 

 

 

The Ancient Magus' Bride Vol. 9 by Kore Yamazaki

Call Number: 741.5 Y199a (Main Floor Circulation Area)

A Deal with the Devil Elias hoped to break the deadly draconic curse that weighs upon Chise - but his methods have created a rift between them. Now Chise prepares to make a gamble of her own: What could she possibly hope to gain from a bargain with Cartaphilus? It is a time of curses cast and forks in the road. Will the paths of master and apprentice soon diverge...?

 

 

 

Bloom into You, Vol. 5 by Nakatani Nio

Call Number: 306.766 N736b (Main Floor Circulation Area)

GOING OUT! They might be on vacation, but the play is still on everyone's minds. Touko is already starting to worry about what will happen after it's over, and Yuu wants to change the script's ending. Stressing about the play isn't the only thing they're doing, though. It's summer break, after all-so Yuu invites Touko out to the aquarium!

 

 

Horimyla by Hero; Daisuke Hagiwara

Call Number: 741.595 H559h (Main Floor Circulation Area)

The sweet, "aww"-inspiring tale of school life continues!! By all appearances, Kyouko Hori and Izumi Miyamura are worlds apart. Bright and capable, Hori is always surrounded by classmates, the center of attention. For Miyamura, a quirky loner, getting through class unnoticed counts as a good day. But ever since these two started sharing secrets, they've found themselves drawn into each other's orbit little by little and the distance between them shrinking bit by bit...

 

 

Takane and Hana, Vol. 5 by Yuki Shiwasu

Call Number: 741.597 S558t (Main Floor Circulation Area)

A strong-willed high school girl and a hot, young scion of a business empire can't help wanting to outwit each other every chance they get... But could these opposites be conning themselves out of the perfect match?! After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But when these two utter opposites pair up, get ready for some sparks to fly! Hana's usual family Christmas celebration gets canceled, so she feels a bit sad about the prospect of spending Christmas Eve alone. Takane decides to ask Hana out to dinner for that night, but then a beautiful medical school student named Rino shows up declaring her love for Takane! Does this mean Hana has a love rival?!

 

Hutchins Library is hosting an exhibit of Lakota artifacts and cultural objects in the library's main floor during the month of April 2019. The exhibit is presented in conjunction with the college convocation "History and Culture of the Lakota" featuring speaker Vance Blacksmith on April 4, 2019. Exhibit can be viewed during regular library hours. It is free and open to the public.

Statement for Lakota Cultural Exhibit

Hide painting, from Lakota Cultural Exhibit

This month's showcase is on a graphic novel titled Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan.

"Colorful and captivating, the artwork expertly captures the strange qualities of this memorable outing. Strong language makes this more appropriate for mature readers. An awesome selection for older teens and adults looking for an exciting sci-fi tale with unexpected twists..."        -from the publisher

Check it out!

Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan

Call Number: 741.597 V364pa 2016 (Main Floor Circulation Area)

In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood. 

Arbor Day is a nationally celebrated observance that encourages tree planting It officially takes place in the United States on the last Friday in April, although each state may have its own Arbor Day based on the planting season. Globally, many other countries have created their own Arbor Day based on the U.S. model. The day began in 1872 when journalist J. Sterling Morton, the editor of Nebraska’s first newspaper, proclaimed the holiday in Nebraska. It has been widely cited that one million trees were planted on the first Arbor Day, in part due to prizes offered to individuals and counties for planting the most trees.

Work Cited:

Arbor Day. (2007). In P. Robbins (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Environment and Society (Vol. 1, pp. 64-65). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Retrieved from http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX2660700050/GVRL?u=berea&sid=GVRL&xid=33de6bf7

See some of our book titles below for more information on Arbor day:

The Greening of the South by Thomas D. Clark

Call Number: 333.7509 C595g 2004 - Hutchins Library - Circulating (3rd Floor)

Publication Date: 2004-03-12

In the early 1920s, in many a sawmill town across the South, the last quitting-time whistle signaled the cutting of the last log of a company's timber holdings and the end of an era in southern lumbering. It marked the end as well of the great primeval forest that covered most of the South when Europeans first invaded it. Much of the first forest, despite the labors of pioneer loggers, remained intact after the Civil War. But after the restrictions of the Southern Homestead Act were removed in 1876, lumbermen and speculators rushed in to acquire millions of acres of virgin woodland for minimal outlays. The frantic harvest of the South's first forest began; it was not to end until thousands of square miles lay denuded and desolate, their fragile soils -- like those of the abandoned cotton lands -- exposed to rapid destruction by the elements. With the end of the sawmill era and the collapse of the southern farm economy, the emigration routes from the South to the industrial cities of the North and Midwest were thronged with people forced from the land. Yet in the first quarter of this century, even as the destruction of forest and land continued, a day of renewal was dawning. The rise of the conservation movement, the beginnings of the national forests, the development of scientific forestry and establishment of forest schools, the advance of chemical research into the use of wood pulp -- all converged even as the 1930s brought to the South the sweeping reclamation programs of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority; in their wake came a new generation of wood-using industries concerned not so much with the immediate exploitation of timber as with the maintenance of a renewable resource. In The Greening of the South, this dramatic story is told by one of the participants in the renewal of the forest. Thomas D. Clark, author of many books about southern history, is also an active timber producer on lands in both Kentucky and South Carolina

 

Planting Nature by Shaul E. Cohen

Call Number: E-Book (Berea College only)

Publication Date: 2004-01-01

Trees hold a powerful place in American constructions of what is good in nature and the environment. As we attempt to cope with environmental crises, trees are increasingly enlisted with great fervor as agents of our stewardship over nature. In this innovative and impassioned book, Shaul E. Cohen exposes the way that environmental stewardship is undermined through the manipulation of trees and the people who plant them by a partnership of big business, the government, and tree-planting groups. He reveals how positive associations and symbols that have been invested in trees are exploited by an interlocking network of government agencies, private timber companies, and nongovernmental organizations to subvert the power of people who think that they are building a better world. Planting Nature details the history of tree planting in the United States and the rise of popular sentiment around trees, including the development of the Arbor Day holiday and tree-planting groups such as the National Arbor Day Foundation and American Forests. Drawing from internal papers, government publications, advertisements, and archival documents, Cohen illustrates how organizations promote tree planting as a way of shifting attention away from the causes of environmental problems to their symptoms, masking business-as-usual agendas. Ultimately, Planting Nature challenges the relationships between a "green" public, the organizations that promote their causes, and the "powers that be," providing a cautionary tale of cooperation and deception that cuts across the political spectrum.

 

Transforming the Appalachian Countryside by Ronald L. Lewis

Call Number: 338.975 L675t - Hutchins Library - Circulating (3rd Floor)

Publication Date: 1998-06-29

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.

 

Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes by Andrew Peter Vayda

Call Number: 304.2 V392e 2009 - Hutchins Library - Circulating (3rd Floor)

Publication Date: 2009-04-01

In this collection of recent essays, Andrew P. Vayda argues for a pragmatic approach to explanation and explanation-oriented research in social and environmental sciences. He supports his arguments with causal analyses of both human actions, such as cutting down trees and fighting over resources, and environmental changes, such as forest fires; and he voices his opposition to methodological and ethnographic holism and the notion that explanation can be achieved by deploying theories rather than by obtaining evidence of the causal histories of concrete actions and events. Vayda is critical of much recent scholarship_in such areas as political ecology, local knowledge studies, discourse studies, and evolutionary human behavioral ecology_for its indifference to questions of evidence and methodology and its failure to give proper consideration to multiple and alternative possible causes of whatever is being explained. He also discusses the use and misuse of evidence and generalizations, the payoffs and pitfalls of moving from one level of analysis to another, the dos and don'ts in interdisciplinary research, the uses of statistics, and the importance of being clear about objects of explanation. This original and challenging work makes sense of the future of ecological anthropology and will be of interest to researchers in the social and environmental sciences in general.

Amazonian Rain Forests by C. F. Jordan (Editor)

Call Number: 634.909 A489 - Hutchins Library - Circulating (3rd Floor)

Publication Date: 1988-11-09

DEVELOPMENT AND DISTURBANCE IN AMAZON FORESTS Contrasting Impressions 6 2 The rain forests of the Amazon Basin cover approximately 5.8 x 10 km (Salati and Vose 1984). Flying over even just part of this basin, one gazes hour after hour upon this seemingly infinite blanket of green. The impression of immen­ sity is similar when viewed from the Amazon River itself, or from its tributar­ ies. From a hammock on the shaded deck of a riverboat, the immensity of the forest presents an incredible monotony as one view of the shoreline blends unnoticeably into another. From both perspectives, the overwhelming reaction to the sea of trees that stretches from horizon to horizon is a sense of the vastness of the rain forest. In September 1985, I got a different impression of the rain forest. Several students and I journeyed in a self-propelled car along the single-track railroad that stretches almost 1000 km from the Carajas iron ore mine in the rain forest of Para State, Brazil, all the way to Sao Luis on the coast (Fig. 1.1).