• Beyond humanitarianism : what you need to know about Africa and why it matters
• Crimes of war : what the public should know
• Darfur diaries
• The devil came on horseback
• Encyclopedia of politics and religion
• God grew tired of us
• A journey to Darfur
• On our watch
• Cheadle, Don – Not on our watch : the mission to end genocide in Darfur and beyond
• Daly, M. W – Darfur’s sorrow : a history of destruction and genocide
• Dau, John Bul – God grew tired of us
• De Waal, Alexander – Famine that kills : Darfur, Sudan
• Flint, Julie – Darfur : a short history of a long war
• Iyob, Ruth – Sudan : the elusive quest for peace
• Johnson, Douglas Hamilton – The root causes of Sudan’s civil wars
• Kiernan, Ben – Blood and soil : a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur
• Prunier, Gérard – Darfur : the ambiguous genocide (rev ed, 2007)
• Prunier, Gérard – Africa’s world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe
• Prunier, Gérard – Darfur : the ambiguous genocide (2005)
• Spilsbury, Louise – Moving people : migration and settlement
• Steidle, Brian – The devil came on horseback : bearing witness to the genocide in Darfur

“But right in the middle of the steaming and the making and the smelling and the baking Mickey poked through and said: ‘I’m not the milk and milk’s not me! I’m Mickey!’”


“After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people.”

“When weekends come, we do all sorts of things together. We go to ball games, visit the zoo, go to the beach, work in the yard, go shopping, and in the evenings we sing at the piano.”

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how may parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

“I couldn’t stop myself from peeking occasionally through the screen of my hair at the strange boy next to me. During the whole class, he never relaxed his stiff position on the edge of his chair, sitting as far from me as possible.”

“Harry, though still rather small and skinny for his age, had grown a few inches over the last year. His jet-black hair, however, was just as it always had been — stubbornly untidy, whatever he did to it. The eyes behind his glasses were bright green, and on his forehead, clearly visible through his hair, was a thin scar, shaped like a bolt of lightning.”

Learn more about Banned Books Week and the fight against censorhip:
Banned Books Week
American Book Sellers Foundation For Free Expression
Kids’ Right to Read Project
National Coalition Against Censorship
American Library Association

Campus Constitution Day Events at the Sak 1:00pm

Some selected materials on the U.S. Constitution

• Lane, Eric – The genius of America : how the Constitution saved our country– and why it can again
• Maddex, Robert L. – The U.S. Constitution A to Z
• Meacham, Jon – American gospel : God, the founding fathers, and the making of a nation
• Mohawk, John – Exiled in the land of the free : democracy, the Indian nations, and the U.S. Constitution
• Price Hossell, Karen – The Bill of Rights

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Watch your email for your invitation to participate.

Congratulations to all of our Merrimack authors.

Witness history in the making.

All are invited to view a televised broadcast of the events of Inauguration Day 2009 in the Library Lobby or in the Library Auditorium, located on the basement level of McQuade.

President-Elect Barack Obama will take the oath of office at 12:00 noon and then give his inaugural address as the 44th President of the United States.

For more information please see the Presidential Inaugural Committee Website.

Also, please take a look at our Inauguration 2009 book display located in the Reference Room on the first floor.

1. Learn about our newest history collection, Early American Newspapers, at 9:30
2. Enter the Reference Universe at 12:30
   1. System check
   2. WebEx Meeting
3. Get a sneak preview of EBSCOHost 2.0at 2:00

All sessions will be held in the Alden Classroom on the 3rd floor of the library.