Thursday, December 10, 2009

THE GIFT OF DIVERSITY

This week, volunteers put together a new display in the case outside the Bullis Room., display celebrating diversity and suggesting that viewers resolve to read a variety of new topics and discover new authors in the coming new year. Some of our suggestions are:

Rupert, by the Grace of God
the Story of an Unrecorded plot set forth by Will Fortesque
Edited and revised by Dora Greenwell McChesney, published in 1899

Two Little Savages
Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
Written by Ernest Thompson Seton, published in 1917.

Thomas Hart Benton--American Statesman
Written by Theodore Roosevelt, published in 1886.

Hugh Wynne--Free Quaker
Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of His Excellency General Washington
Written by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D.L.L.D.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Written by Charles Dickens

Birds Every Child Should Know
Written by Hamilton Wright Mabie, published in 1917

Over the Teacups
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, published in 1891

Missionary Explorers Among the American Indians
Edited by M. G. Humphreys, published 1913

The Religions of the Ancient World
Written by George Rawlinson, M.A., published 1883

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