Walla Walla Valley Academy Library

Audiobooks

2010-04-30T11:14:00.001-07:00

We have a collection of 10 new books on CD for you to listen to. Ask the librarian where they are located.

Libraryman

2010-04-30T11:12:00.000-07:00

Sony Readers!

2010-04-30T11:08:00.000-07:00

The library now has two Sony Reader e-book devices. These are the titles already loaded on:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
The Cat Who Went Underground
Lilian Jackson Braun
The Curse of the Pharoahs
Elizabeth Peters
Devil on My Heels
Joyce McDonald
Emma
Jane Austen
Halo: The Fall of Reach
Eric S. Nylund
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Stormbreaker
Anthony Horowitz
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson

You can request that a book you want to read be loaded on the Reader. The librarian will evaluate your request for appropriateness and price.

New Books--Last week of April

2010-04-30T10:40:00.000-07:00

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Read by Your Librarian
Stitches
David Small
Really great nonfiction graphic novel about a boy who loses his voice.
Read by Your Librarian
The Whale: In Search of Giants of the Sea
Philip Hoare
Wonderful and fascinating book about whaling in New England.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
1776
David McCullough
Native Son
Richard Wright
Read by Your Librarian
Anything But Typical
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Funny page-turner about a young man with Aspberger's. It will make you see the world differently.

Proquest Database Coming Soon

2009-11-18T12:02:00.000-08:00

We will have Proquest ELibrary for student use both on and off campus by next week. ELibrary is a periodical database that features full-text searching in 2,500 magazines, newspapers, and books. Students wanting to use ELibrary while at school can just come to the library. If you are a student and need to use the database from home, contact Mr. Coffeen.

New Books--3rd week of November

2009-11-18T11:56:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the new books at the library:

Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press by Diana Childress
The Arab Conquests of the Middle East by Brendan January
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Spellbound: The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets of English Spelling by James Essinger
Chase by Jessie Haas
The War on Hunger by Ron Fridell
Investigating Climate Change by Rebecca L. Johnson

New Books--Last Week of October

2009-10-29T09:31:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the new books that are available to be checked out.

King of the Pygmies by Jonathan Scott Fuqua
The Story of Yiddish by Neal Karlen
Discovery at Rosetta by Jonathan Downs
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 2 by M.T. Anderson
Dear Author: Letters of Hope by Various
Time of the Witches by Anna Myers

New Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

2009-10-28T12:05:00.000-07:00

Our library has a new OPAC. What this means for you is that you can search our catalog of books whenever you want, from wherever you have access to the internet! Here is a link to the catalog, and if you need any searching tips, just stop by the library in the morning.