New Leisure Books

New Leisure Books for December 2010

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (graphic novel) by Alison Bechdel
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson mcCullers
The Confession by John Grisham
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
At Home by Bill Bryson
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and the Palins and the Race of Lifetime by John Heilemann
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite (graphic novel) by Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella by Stephanie Meyer
Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Life (graphic novel) by Bryan Lee O'Malley
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race edited by Jon Stewart
Worth Dying For by Lee Child
Reconcilation, Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto
Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent

Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices

Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices: "Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and search through the largest ebooks collection in the world with more than three million titles including hundreds of thousands for sale. Find the latest bestsellers like James Patterson’s Cross Fire and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, dig into popular reads like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken and catch up on the classics like Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and Gulliver’s Travels.



We designed Google eBooks to be open. Many devices are compatible with Google eBooks—everything from laptops to netbooks to tablets to smartphones to e-readers. With the new Google eBooks Web Reader, you can buy, store and read Google eBooks in the cloud. That means you can access your ebooks like you would messages in Gmail or photos in Picasa—using a free, password-protected Google account with unlimited ebooks storage.

In addition to a full-featured web reader, free apps for Android and Apple devices will make it possible to shop and read on the go. For many books you can select which font, font size, day/night reading mode and line spacing suits you—and pick up on the page where you left off when switching devices.

You can discover and buy new ebooks from the Google eBookstore or get them from one of our independent bookseller partners: Powell’s, Alibris and participating members of the American Booksellers Association. You can choose where to buy your ebooks like you choose where to buy your print books, and keep them all on the same bookshelf regardless of where you got them.

When Google Books first launched in 2004, we set out to make the information stored in the world’s books accessible and useful online. Since then, we’ve digitized more than 15 million books from more than 35,000 publishers, more than 40 libraries, and more than 100 countries in more than 400 languages. This deep repository of knowledge and culture will continue to be searchable through Google Books search in the research section alongside the ebookstore.


Launching Google eBooks is an initial step toward giving you greater access to the vast variety of information and entertainment found in books. Our journey has just begun. We welcome your feedback as we read on to the next chapter.

Update 8:11 AM: Some of you may be having trouble watching the YouTube video. We're working on the problem and will update here again when it's fixed.

Posted by Abraham Murray, Product Manager, Google Books

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Christmas Comes to the Library

With the help of access services and IT, Christmas has come to the library. Our tree is decorated in anticipation of the holiday and good cheer.

Everyone had a merry time adding to the tree decorations and bringing some festive moments to all.

Tweet the Library

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The Reference Desk on Your Smart Phone

Many of the Library's electronic tools are coming out with smart phone (i.e. iPhone, Android, Blackberry) friendly pages. The latest one is our Ask the Library service.

Ask the Library is knowledge base of questions and answers about the Library, research and the campus in general. If your question is not in the knowledge base then you can submit it and a librarian will answer it and add it to the knowledge base for the next person that has the same question. You can also ask questions via text message (415) 689-9990 using the service.

From the web browser on your phone go to: http://libanswers.dominican.edu and then bookmark it.