Quiet Library Question
From the Mann Booker Prize Short List
- Jamrach's Menagerie
Call Number: FIC BIRISBN: 038553440XA seafaring coming of age tale spun by young Jaffi, first adrift in the world of nineteenth century London, later shipwrecked and adrift in the Pacific. Full of outsized characters as perceived by our hero's wide eyes and innocent heart. - Pigeon English
Call Number: FIC KELISBN: 0547500602What do you do when you see the police can't seem to solve a murder in your neighbor-hood? If you're Harri Opoku, 11 yr. old recent emigrant from Ghana, you take your cue from CSI and begin your own investigation. Along the way, Harri's high spirits and pigeon English make for 'brutal fun.' - The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
Call Number: FIC BARISBN: 0307957128Publication Year: 2011Now in retirement, Tony is drawn, surprised, from a quiet present into an adolescent friendship of years before. The path of memory ends in open-ended tragedy as Tony confronts his earlier vindictive anger and its consequences.
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Upper School Tech Info: Did You Know?
- you may listen to non-Internet music (no Pandora) in the library, in study halls and hallways, but only wearing headphones;
- you may use (but not talk on) smart phones and tablets anywhere but in class, except when a teacher gives you permission to use one in class;
- you may talk on the phone in the stairwells, lobbies, and Bailey Circle but nowhere else;
- you may play offline games before 8:00 am and after 3:00 pm, but not during school hours;
- you may never watch online videos, including youtubes, that are not required by an assignment while using any school network, including FSSguest!
BBC News
Just for the Fun of It
Several government and environmental sites are offering impressive ringtones which you can download for free. (Click on the wolf portrait for an example.)
- From the Marine Mammal Center, the haunting sounds of seals and whales. (Literally haunting - the Elephant Seal sounds like it's straight out of a Halloween funhouse.)
- From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a collection including seasonally appropriate bat calls and wolf howls.
- From the Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources, everything from an angry bear to an elk bugle.
- The most famous audio clips from NASA, including "Houston, we have a problem."
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