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I recently saw this article, "Celebrate Black History Month by reading these 16 sci-fi and fantasy authors who've shaped the genre," that offers a list of Black science fiction and fantasy authors. I decided to check the library catalog and see which authors and works we have so our readers can come on over and check them out. From the article's list of authors, we have the following items in our collections:

Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (LOA #338) by Octavia Butler; Gerry Canavan (Editor); Nisi Shawl (Editor)

Call Number: Fiction B984955oc 2020

ISBN: 9781598536751

Publication Date: 2021-01-19

The definitive edition of the complete works of the "grand dame" of American science fiction begins with this volume gathering two novels and her collected stories. An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists--"I wrote myself in," she would later recall--establishing herself as one of the pioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her achievement in creating new aspirations for the genre and for American literature.  This first volume in the Library of America edition of Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece,  Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays--including two never before collected, plus a newly researched chronology of Butler's life and career and helpful explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler's friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction.

 

Imaro by Charles Saunders

Call Number: Fiction S2562r 2006

ISBN: 9781597800365

Publication Date: 2006-02-01

Imaro is a rousing adventure... a tale of a young man's continuing struggle to gain acceptance amongst his people, and to break the cycle of alienation and violence that plagues his life. Imaro is heroic fantasy like it's never been done before. Based on Africa, and African traditions and legends, Charles Saunders has created Nyumbani (which means "home" in Swahili), an amalgam of the real, the semi-real, and the unreal. Imaro is the name of the larger-than-life warrior, an outcast, who travels across Nyumbani, searching for a home. Like his contemporaries, Karl Edward Wagner (Kane) and Michael Moorcock (Elric), Charles Saunders brings something new to the traditional heroic fantasy tale. A broad knowledge of, and passion for, the history and myths of Africa led to the creation of a heroic fantasy character the likes of which the world has never seen. Imaro is no Tarzan... no Conan... Imaro is a warrior out of African legend. Saunders' novel fuses the narrative style of fantasy fiction with a pre-colonial, alternate Africa. Inspired by and directly addresses the alienation of growing up an African American fan of Science Fiction and Fantasy, which to this day remains a very ethnically homogenous genre. It addresses this both structurally (via its unique setting) and thematically (via its alienated, tribeless hero-protagonist). The tribal tensions and histories presented in this fantasy novel reflect actual African tribal histories and tensions, and provide a unique perspective to current and recent conflicts in Africa, particularly the Rwandan genocide and the ongoing conflict in The Sudan.

 

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

Call Number: Fiction J49fi 2015 bk. 1

ISBN: 9780316229296

Publication Date: 2015-08-04

At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times) This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.

 

Hutchins Library does have the complete trilogy: The Obelisk Gate (book 2) and The Stone Sky (book 3).

 

After the Rain by Nnedi Okorafor; David Brame (Illustrator); John Jennings (Adapted by)

Call Number: Graphic Novels 741.5 J543a 2021

ISBN: 9781419743559

Publication Date: 2021-01-05

After the Rain is an adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's short story "On the Road." The adaptation begins in Nigeria during a violent and unexpected storm. A young Nigerian American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing there. When he touches her, his hand burns like fire and he disappears. Chioma knows that something is wrong, and that the boy has "marked" her in some way . . . Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to face her future. John Jennings and David Brame's collaboration uses bold art and colors to powerfully tell this tale of identity and destiny.

 

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Call Number: Young Adult A233ch 2018

ISBN: 9781250170972

Publication Date: 2018-03-06

 They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good. Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.  

 

Hutchins Library also has the other two books in the trilogy: Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Book 2) and Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Book 3)

 

Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson

Call Number: Fiction H7972sk 2018

ISBN: 9781504052764

Publication Date: 2018-07-03

 In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best, spinning tales like "Precious," in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste," a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In "The Glass Bottle Trick," the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband's superstitions--to horrifying consequences.   Hopkinson's unique pacing and vibrant dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed.  

 

The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe

Call Number: Fiction M743me 2022

ISBN: 9780063070875

Publication Date: 2022-04-19

New York Times bestseller! In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation--queerness, race, gender plurality, and love--become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape...and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms. Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborators have crafted a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts--as a means of self-conception--could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether you were human, AI, or other, your life and sentience were dictated by those who'd convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate. That was until Jane 57821 decided to remember and break free. Expanding from that mythos, these stories fully explore what it's like to live in such a totalitarian society . . . and what it takes to get out of it. Building off the tradition of speculative fiction writers such as Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang, Becky Chambers, and Nnedi Okorafor--and filled with powerful themes and Monáe's emblematic artistic vision--The Memory Librarian serves to readers tales that dissect the human trials of identity expression, technology, and love, reaching through to the worlds of memory and time, and the stakes and power that pulse there.

 

Note: Sheree Renee Thomas, mentioned in the article, contributes a story in The Memory Librarian.

 

Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia (Editor)

Call Number: Fiction M478bL 2021

ISBN: 9780593379936

Publication Date: 2021-08-03

Celebrate the joys of Black boyhood with stories from seventeen bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors-including Jason Reynolds, Jerry Craft, and Kwame Mbalia. Black boy joy is... Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit. Saving the universe in an epic intergalactic race. Finding your voice-and your rhymes-during tough times. Flying on your skateboard like nobody's watching. And more! From seventeen acclaimed Black male and non-binary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood. Contributors include- B. B. Alston, Dean Atta, P. Djeli Clark, Jay Coles, Jerry Craft, Lamar Giles, Don P. Hooper, George M. Johnson, Varian Johnson, Kwame Mbalia, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Julian Randall, Jason Reynolds, Justin Reynolds, DaVaun Sanders, and Julian Winters

 

Note: P. Djèlí Clark, mentioned in the article, contributes a story in Black Boy Joy.

 

The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk

Call Number: Young Adult P769mi 2021

ISBN: 9781645660293

Publication Date: 2021-12-07

From the bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Witchmark comes a sweeping, romantic new fantasy set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where women's magic is taken from them when they marry. A sorceress must balance her desire to become the first great female magician against her duty to her family. Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be locked into a marital collar that will cut off her powers to protect her unborn children. She dreams of becoming a full-fledged Magus and pursuing magic as her calling as men do, but her family has staked everything to equip her for Bargaining Season, when young men and women of means descend upon the city to negotiate the best marriages. The Clayborns are in severe debt, and only she can save them, by securing an advantageous match before their creditors come calling.  In a stroke of luck, Beatrice finds a grimoire that contains the key to becoming a Magus, but before she can purchase it, a rival sorceress swindles the book right out of her hands. Beatrice summons a spirit to help her get it back, but her new ally exacts a price: Beatrice's first kiss . . . with her adversary's brother, the handsome, compassionate, and fabulously wealthy Ianthe Lavan.  The more Beatrice is entangled with the Lavan siblings, the harder her decision becomes: If she casts the spell to become a Magus, she will devastate her family and lose the only man to ever see her for who she is; but if she marries--even for love--she will sacrifice her magic, her identity, and her dreams. But how can she choose just one, knowing she will forever regret the path not taken?

 

You can find these and other books via the library catalog. Need assistance? Stop by the Reference Desk or you can use the virtual chat feature on the library website.

Happy reading.

 

 

October is spooky time, and October 31st is Halloween. Here are 10 reading suggestions from our library if you want to read some horror and spooky tales. These books and more can be found in the General Stacks on the main floor. Want to find others? You can check the library catalog on the library website. Need assistance? Feel free to ask us.

The Colour Out of Space by D. Thin (Editor); Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Call Number: 823.087 C719

ISBN: 9781590170267

Publication Date: 2002-09-30

"The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." —H. P. Lovecraft This new collection features some of the greatest masters of extreme terror, among them Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, and includes such classic works as Arthur Machen's "The White People," Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows," and of course Lovecraft's own weird and hideous "The Colour Out of Space." Contents: Edgar Allan Poe, "MS. Found in a Bottle" Bram Stoker, "The Squaw" Ambrose Bierce, "Moxon's Master" Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing" Ambrose Bierce, "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" R. W. Chambers, "The Repairer of Reputations" M. P. Shiel, "The House of Sounds" Arthur Machen, "The White People" Algernon Blackwood, "The Willows" Henry James, "The Jolly Corner" Walter de la Mare, "Seaton's Aunt" H. P. Lovecraft, "The Colour Out of Space" A Note on the Selection by D. Thin

 

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Call Number: Fiction G141oc 2013

ISBN: 9780062255655

Publication Date: 2013-06-18

It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed-- within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.

 

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Call Number: Fiction R4952in 2014

ISBN: 9780345409645

Publication Date: 1997-03-18

The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author--the inspiration for the hit television series "A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth--the education of the vampire."--Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

 

The Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell (Editor)

Call Number: 823.087 D219

ISBN: 9780312930356

Publication Date: 1987-10-01

A comprehensive presentation of the evolution of the horror story, filled with significant and powerful works by the masters of the genre.

 

 

 

Nightmares in Dixie by Martin Greenberg (Editor); Frank D. McSherry (Editor); Charles G. Waugh (Editor); Byron Taylor (Illustrator)

Call Number: 823.008 N688

ISBN: 9780874830347

Publication Date: 1987-04-01

"There are thirteen nightmares here, one for each state of Dixie. Dark visions, these, by such authors as John D. MacDonald, the best-selling mystery writer; Jesse Stuart, one of the nation's best regional writers; Karl Edward Wagner, a psychiatrist whose knowledge of the abysses of the mind gives his tales a terror of solid conviction; and William Gilmore Simms, full-grown when Madison was President, one of whose works Poe himself called the best ghost story he'd ever read. These nightmares concern us all. For this is not merely a regional anthology. These stories are set not only in the South, but in the dark heart of man."--Page 4 of cover.

 

American Fantastic Tales Vol. 1 (LOA #196) by Peter Straub

Call Number: 823.087 A5117 2009

ISBN: 9781598530476

Publication Date: 2009-10-01

From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this pathbreaking two-volume anthology demonstrates, it is a tradition with many unexpected detours and hidden chambers, and one that continues to evolve, finding new forms and new themes as it explores the bad dreams that lurk around the edges--if not in the unacknowledged heart--of the everyday. Peter Straub, one of today's masters of horror and fantasy, offers an authoritative and diverse gathering of stories calculated to unsettle and delight. This first volume surveys a century and a half of American fantastic storytelling, revealing in its forty-four stories an array of recurring themes: trance states, sleepwalking, mesmerism, obsession, possession, madness, exotic curses, evil atmospheres. In the tales of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, the bright prospects of the New World face an uneasy reckoning with the forces of darkness. In the ghost-haunted Victorian and Edwardian eras, writers including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ambrose Bierce explore ever more refined varieties of spectral invasion and disintegrating selfhood. In the twentieth century, with the arrival of the era of the pulps, the fantastic took on more monstrous and horrific forms at the hands of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, and other classic contributors to Weird Tales. Here are works by acknowledged masters such as Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Conrad Aiken, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, along with surprising discoveries like Ralph Adams Cram's "The Dead Valley," Emma Francis Dawson's "An Itinerant House," and Julian Hawthorne's "Absolute Evil." American Fantastic Tales offers an unforgettable ride through strange and visionary realms. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

 

Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: the Best of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft

Call Number: Fiction L897b

ISBN: 9780345350800

Publication Date: 1987-05-12

"H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."--Stephen King "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."--H.P. Lovecraft This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions, including: The Call of Cthulu: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythos--a creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil to threaten all mankind. The Dunwich Horror: An evil man's desire to perform an unspeakable ritual leads him in search of the fabled text of The Necronomicon. The Colour Out of Space: A horror from the skies--far worse than any nuclear fallout--transforms a man into a monster. The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Rising from the depths of the sea, an unspeakable horror engulfs a quiet New England town. Plus twelve more terrifying tales!

 

Publish and Perish by James Hynes

Call Number: Fiction H997p

ISBN: 9780312156282

Publication Date: 1997-06-01

Three short novellas comprise a unique collection of academic satire, in which a couple struggles with their tenure-track commuter marriage, an anthropologist witnesses a bizarre druidic ritual, and a junior history professor must defend her ideology and her life.

 

 

Southern Blood by Lawrence Schimel (Editor); Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor)

Call Number: 823.087 S727

ISBN: 9781888952490

Publication Date: 1997-09-01

Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.

 

 

 

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Call Number: Fiction K866h 2005

ISBN: 9780316011778

Publication Date: 2005-06-14

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history. The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself-to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed-and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler's dark reign-and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages.Parsing obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions-and evading the unknown adversaries who will go to any lengths to conceal and protect Vlad's ancient powers-one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful-and utterly unforgettable.

 

 

 

 

Born on a day like today in 1920, Ray Douglas Bradbury is one of the greatest and most celebrated writers from the United States. He was a prolific writer in various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery. According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, "by the early years of the twenty-first century, Bradbury had published more than 500 works, but age did not impede his writing or threaten his impact on American popular culture" (see below for citation). 

Bradbury died in 2012 at the age of 91. In his lifetime he received many honors such as recognition from the National Book Foundation for "Distinguished Contributions to American Letters" to a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Other awards include the title of Grandmaster from the Science Fiction Writers of America and the National Medal of Arts. 

Here is a selection of Bradbury's works available at our library that you can check out with a college ID: 

Ray Bradbury: Novels and Story Cycles (LOA #347) by Ray Bradbury; Jonathan R. Eller (Editor)

Call Number: Fiction B798no 2021

ISBN: 9781598537000

Publication Date: 2021-09-07

Four classics of the imagination from one of America's most beloved authors--including the complete Martian Chronicles. A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. To explore the worlds of his books, his astonishing futures and haunting pasts, is to rediscover the wondrous possibilities of life. This Library of America edition gathers four of his greatest works in a single volume. Here is The Martian Chronicles in the complete form Bradbury came to prefer, its twenty-eight linked story-chapters offering visionary glimpses of our spacefaring future. In the dystopian thriller Fahrenheit 451, books and all they contain are forbidden. Dandelion Wine distills the enchanting essences of a childhood summer, while Something Wicked This Way Comes conjures the wild, centrifugal imaginings of youthful terror, in a fight to the death against supernatural foes. Biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers a newly researched chronology of Bradbury's life and career and detailed textual and explanatory notes. 

 

Ray Bradbury: the Illustrated Man, the October Country and Other Stories (LOA #360) by Ray Bradbury; Jonathan R. Eller (Editor)

Call Number: Fiction B798iL 2022

ISBN: 9781598537284

Publication Date: 2022-10-04

In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. Here are two of Bradbury's most beloved collections, along with twenty-seven other stories, that together represent the best of Bradbury's stories of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.    The Illustrated Man--the more Earthbound science fiction companion to Bradbury's classic collection The Martian Chronicles--contains eighteen short stories bound together by the unifying metaphor of a strangely tattooed outcast. The stories explore both the dehumanizing possibilities of space-age technology--in "The Veldt" and "The Rocket Man"--and the pessimistic, dark side of humanity, as in "The Visitor."   The October Country collects nineteen short stories: macabre carnival tales, speculative horror, and strange fantasy. "Uncle Einar" and "Homecoming" concern the monstrous and immortal Elliott family. In "The Next in Line," a woman becomes convinced that she'll never leave the small, Mexican town she's traveled to on vacation. And in "Touched with Fire," two old men have learned to predict future murders. This edition restores the original artwork by Joe Mugnaini.     Rounding out the volume are twenty-seven other short stories from the first half of Bradbury's career selected by Bradbury scholar Joanthan R, Eller, including "Frost and Fire," in which humans on another planet live only eight days; "The Pedestrian," about the only man in the world who does not watch television, and "I Sing the Body Electric!," in which a family purchases a robotic grandmother. Also includes such hard to find stories as "R is for Rocket," "Asleep in Armageddon," and "The Lost City of Mars."  

 

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Francois Truffaut (film director)

Call Number: DVD 791.437 F158 2003

ISBN: 9780783255354

Publication Date: 2003

Quote source: 

Lovett-Graff, Bennett. "Bradbury, Ray (1920–2012)." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, edited by Thomas Riggs, 2nd ed., vol. 1, St. James Press, 2013, pp. 401-402. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2735800348/GVRL?u=berea&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=1f08b1df. Accessed 22 Aug. 2023. 

You can access this article and many others on a variety of topics through Gale Virtual Reference, our online collection of reference works. You can find Gale Virtual Reference on the library website under "Electronic Resources." Note that if you are trying to access our library's resources from outside the Berea College domain, you will be prompted to log in with your BC credentials. 

Story by Library Director Calvin Gross:

Please join us at Hutchins Library in welcoming freshman Christopher Stuchell, author of incantations in a reading of their work, along with a book signing. Copies of incantations will be on sale at the end of the reading for $15, including a personal signing by the author! The author is also open to any questions about themselves or their work, and pictures, posts about them, or any other form of publicity.

Refreshments will be provided in the form of cookies and coffee/tea.

The following is the book’s description on amazon.com:

incantations is a collection of poetry/story-writing that showcases the range of diversity in subjects, with elements of culture blending to give an altogether value of the author's search for meaning during adolescence, while tackling issues of sexuality, the nature of masculinity, and a childhood of poverty. Incantations embodies the magical element of the desire to write meaningful poetry for everyone to enjoy. To go forth, and make magic upon this world, even it is not what it seems; everything is here, everyone is here, for a reason. All peoples of this earth have been made of one blood. Inside these pages are pieces of a soul in the words that are directly a part of universal knowledge. Peoples' very consciousness, essence as persons, identities, etc. are held within these words, pages, poems, stories, and darling happiness. Everything else, is here to signify the attachment that the author has to Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsburg, and William Butler Yeats.

Christopher Stuchell is a freshman at Berea College, and is from Columbia, Kentucky. Elizabeth Rexroat is the cover designer. They can be contacted at www.chris-stuchell.com, @chris_stuchell on Instagram, @c_stuchell on Twitter, and on email at chris-stuchell@outlook.com

June's reference book of the month is Tom Dalzell's edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English. The following description is from amazon.com: 

From Professors Libby Jones & Alan Mills:

Students and faculty of TAD/ENG 266, Photography & Writing: Tools for Conservation invite you to share our images and words. There will be an opening reception for the exhibit on Thursday, June 9, 2015 from 4pm to 6 p.m. at Hutchins Library.  Students will make short presentations 5:10-5:30 p.m.   This event is Free & open to all.  The exhibit continues through June, and it can be viewed in the library's main floor during regular library hours.