*Corrado Library at Central Catholic High School*: New Materials in the Collection

 

As I said, it's Women's History Month, so we revisit the madness that was non-universal suffrage and look at those that worked to put an end to it in Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists.

 

Kwame Alexander (The Crossover, etc) offers up wisdom and life lessons  (with a lot of great illustrations in The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in this Game Called Life.   It's also spring training season for baseball, so we've added Michael Shaara's For Love of the Game.

 

Wisdom (with visuals) can also be obtained in  not one, but four, visual adaptations of The Bible: two are picture books (A Child's First Bible and The Complete Illustrated Children's Bible) and two are hefty Comics adaptations (The Picture Bible and The Action Bible (including Judges 3:12-29,  my favorite "Action" Bible Story)).  

 

If you're looking for something to help you understand the current political and social climate of the world (or the madness of it), we've added Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here (New Yorker review) and  Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, or if you're worried about a fast-paced world that is increasingly becoming a digital simulation of life, try the graphic novel Decelerate Blue.

 

If I could pick one book from this list for everyone to read (for general reduction of research and fake news madness), it would be Information Now: A Graphic Guide to Student Research, which is basically the comic book that could put me out of a job. Seriously, every English III student should read this before writing their Thesis.  Also from the same press is a Comic Book/Collegiate Textbook called Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing that would be tremendously beneficial to anyone who has to research and write (or communciate).

 

Two succinct looks at current maddening social issues: Teen Incarceration: From Cell Bars to Ankle Bracelets,  and, the locally relevant "Reefer Madness" Legalizing Marijuana: Promises and Pitfalls.

 

Deaf culture and graffiti art intersect in the novel You're Welcome, Universe.  And in other new fiction, fans of The Night Circus may enjoy Caraval, featuring a magical theatrical performance/game, and Ann Patchet's Commonwealth.

 

Additionally, a generous alumnus of the class of '45 donated his collection of fancy leatherbound books from the Franklin Library and Easton presses: Over 100 books from the World's Best-Loved Books series, and several classics of political theory.  They're on a shelf in the reference section for you to look at and read.  See the attached picture, and complete title list below.

 

All this plus a comics biography of Alan Turing (The Imitation Game), horror in an Iowa video store (with a madness inducing cover: Universal Harvester)), illegal aliens (of the space variety, Exo)  and robotic warfare (Wired for War by P.W. Singer)