FYI Friday: Oversize Books Overflow with Information

Everyone knows that the Library features great collections of both fiction and nonfiction books. But did you know that we have a separate section for the larger nonfiction books that won’t fit on our regular shelves?

Everyone knows that the Library features great collections of both fiction and nonfiction books. But did you know that we have a separate section for the larger nonfiction books that won’t fit on our regular shelves?

Much like regular nonfiction, the Oversize books collection covers the entire spectrum of nonfiction topics, from space, to cookbooks, to animals, to art and photography, and more. Anyone looking for books on their favorite nonfiction subjects should take a look at this lesser-known collection!IMG_0912

The Oversize books are located at the end of the nonfiction collection on both the Main Level (000s to 600s) and the Lower Level (700s to 900s).

To browse the Oversize books in the online catalog:

  1. Choose “Call Number” in the dropdown menu.
  2. Type “Oversize” into the search box.
  3.  Hit submit!

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A Sample of Oversize Titles:

The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Guillaume de Laubier
New York Fashion: The Evolution of American Style by Caroline Rennolds Milbank
Battle at Sea: 3,000 Years of Naval Warfare by R.G. Grant
Solar Living Source Book by John Schaeffer
The Hamptons: Food, Family, and History by Ricky Lauren
Ultimate Guide: Home Repair and Improvement by Creative Homeowner Press
Decks Complete: Expert Advice from Start to Finish by Scott Grice
The Complete Works of Michelangelo foreward by Mario Salmi
Suffolk County, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1867 – 1951 by Frederick S. Lightfoot
The Smithsonian: 150 Years of Adventure, Discovery, and Wonder by James Conaway

Featured Display: Haunted America

Get hyped for Halloween with some spooky, scary, and spine-chilling tales of haunted places around America! Our “Haunted America” display features books with true stories of ghosts and haunted houses, including several on Long Island hauntings.

Get hyped for Halloween with some spooky, scary, and spine-chilling tales of haunted places around America! Our “Haunted America” display features books with true stories of ghosts and haunted houses, including several on Long Island hauntings.

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Titles on display:

Long Island’s Most Haunted: A Ghost Hunter’s Guide by Joseph Flammer and Diane Hill

Spooky Creepy Long Island by Scott Lefebvre

Ghosts of Long Island: Stories of the Paranormal by Kerriann Flanagan Brosky

Ghosts of Long Island II: More Stories of the Paranormal by Kerriann Flanagan Brosky

Weird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets by Chris Gethard

Guide to the World’s Supernatural Places by Sarah Bartlett

Historic Haunted America by Michael Norman and Beth Scott

Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof by Roger Clarke

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum

Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side by James Van Praagh

Featured Display: Exploring Mars

Did you love the new movie The Martian, or the book by Andy Weir it’s based on? Then come check out our display of books and movies, both fiction and nonfiction, on the exploration of Mars!

Did you love the new movie The Martian, or the book by Andy Weir that it’s based on? Then come check out our display of books and movies, both fiction and nonfiction, on the exploration of Mars!

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Titles on display:

Mars Life by Ben Bova

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission by Marc Kaufman

Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet by Rod Pyle

Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration by Buzz Aldrin

Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, From Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity by Roger Wiens

The Last Days on Mars (dvd)

The Martian Chronicles (dvd)

The Universe Season One (dvd)

The Universe Season Five (dvd)

2015 National Book Awards Longlist

The National Book Foundation announced the longlist of nominees for the 2015 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. The National Book Award finalists will be announced on October 14 and the winners will be announced on November 18.

The National Book Foundation announced the longlist of nominees for the 2015 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. The National Book Award finalists will be announced on October 14 and the winners will be announced on November 18.

FICTION

A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

Refund by Karen E. Bender

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (eBook)

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (CD book)

Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson

Honeydew by Edith Pearlman

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (eBook)

Mislaid by Nell Zink

NONFICTION

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (eBook)

Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes

Hold Still by Sally Mann

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Paradise of the Pacific by Susanna Moore

Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael Paterniti

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power

Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith (eBook)

Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael White

FYI Friday: Introducing the Three Harbors Garden Club Collection

Did you know? The Cold Spring Harbor Library has created a new section for the books donated by the Three Harbors Garden Club.

Three Harbors Garden ClubDid you know? The Cold Spring Harbor Library has created a new section for the books donated by the Three Harbors Garden Club, a local group of gardeners who carry out multiple community projects, including the generous maintenance of the gardens here at the Library.

Comprised mainly of books on gardening and plants, the THGC Collection features selections like the 10-volume New York Botanical Garden Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horticulture, as well as a large and varied number of gardening guides published by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

On the main floor in the Reference Room, the THGC Collection has been given its own section located after the “600’s” of the regular nonfiction collection. In the online catalog, books in this section are indicated with the letters “THGC” in front of their call number. Patrons can browse the titles online through our catalog. To do so, type THGC into the search box, choose “Call Number” in the left dropdown box, and click Submit!

All patrons are welcome to browse and check out titles from this great collection.

Explore New York! Authors V-Z

Vlahos, Len. The Scar Boys. 2014.
Harry Jones was horribly disfigured in a childhood accident and despite years of therapy, he has never been able to move beyond his scarred appearance until he plays with The Scar Boys, a punk rock band.
2015 William C. Morris Award finalist

Waid, Mark, and Paul Azaceta. Potter’s Field. 2011.
A mysterious man sets out on a mission to name the unnamed dead in New York City’s Potter’s Field cemetery.

Weeks, Sarah. As Simple As It Seems. 2010.
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend she meets in her small Catskill town, who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.

Weil, Cynthia. I’m Glad I Did. 2015.
It’s 1963 in New York City and sixteen-year-old JJ Green defies her parents by getting a summer job at the Brill Building, the musical epicenter for rock and roll. While writing music and trying to get one of her songs recorded, JJ must content with a murder and a romance.

Wilson, Daniel H. Robopocalypse: a novel. 2011.
Two decades into the future, humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
2012 Alex Award

Wiseman, Eva. The World Outside. 2014.
Chanie Altman, an Orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, is expected to live by many rules, but she dreams of becoming an opera singer (a forbidden profession). When a tragedy disrupts the life she has always known, she has to make a choice.

Wood, Brian and Riccardo Burchielli. DMZ. 2006.
DMZ presents the adventures of aspiring photojournalist Matty Roth. Roth lands his dream job following a veteran war correspondent who is covering the second American civil war, and the two journey into Manhattan, the heart of the DMZ.

Wood, Brian and Ryan Kelly. Local. 2008.
Local is a collection of twelve interconnected short stories, each featuring Megan McKeenan, a young woman who sets out from Portland, Oregon, with a rucksack and a bad case of wanderlust. This graphic novel is set in twelve real life cities, including New York.

Wood, Brian, Ryan Kelly, and Jared K. Fletcher. The New York Four. 2008.
Just starting her freshman year at NYU, Riley is about to find out what an adventure – and a mystery – living in New York City can be. The ultimate insider’s guide to NYC is seen through the eyes of Brooklyn-born Riley.

Woodson, Jacqueline. After Tupac & D Foster. 2010.
In 1996 Queens, two girls become friends through the music of Tupac Shakur; the music continues to touch their lives as they deal with their families and their futures.
2009 Newbery Honor

Wright, Bil. Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy. 2011.
Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy’s cosmetics counter, his sister’s abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
2012 Stonewall Book Award

Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. 1992.
A deathbed promise to her grandmother takes Rebecca on a journey to discover the truth behind the woman’s claim that she is Briar Rose. A chilling variation on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale set in multiple locations, including Oswego, New York, which once served as a haven for Holocaust survivors.

Ziegelman, Jane. 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement. 2010.
Writing about food, Ziegelman relates the stories of five immigrant families who lived at 97 Orchard between 1863 and 1935. The book includes 40 recipes. 97 Orchard currently houses the Tenement Museum in New York City.

Explore New York! Authors T

Taylor, Kim. Bowery Girl. 2006.
Two orphaned teenage girls in New York’s tenements in 1883 realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.

Thoms, Annie. With Their Eyes: September 11th: The View From a High School at Ground Zero. 2011.
In response to September 11, the students of New York City’s Stuyvesant High School, which is located just blocks from Ground Zero, staged a powerful theatrical event. Inspired by Anna Deavere Smith’s interview-based monologue performances, the students talked with peers, faculty, and others in their community about personal responses to the tragedy. Based on the transcripts of those conversations, the students created the monologues that are collected here with photographs of the performers, as well as excellent introductions by Smith and Thoms, the teacher who initiated the project.

Torrey, E. Fuller. Ride with the Loomis Gang. 1997.
An adaptation of the author’s Frontier Justice: Rise and Fall of the Loomis Gang. It chronicles the exploits of the legendary Loomis Gang, a group of more than 200 men who terrorized central New York State during the mid-1800s.

Trigiani, Adriana. The Shoemaker’s Wife. 2012.
Enza and Ciro meet at the turn of the 20th century as teens in the Italian Alps. Through unfortunate circumstances, both are forced to immigrate to America, and they find each other again in New York City. A wonderful depiction of the immigrant experience and of New York City during the early 20th century.

 

Explore New York! Authors S

Sabar, Ariel. Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York. 2011.
Nine real-life stories about couples who met in some of New York City’s iconic locations. Postscripts at the end of the book relate how the relationships turned out.

Santiago, Esmeralda. When I Was Puerto Rican. 2006.
The author recalls the hardships and joys of her life with humor and poignancy, from her childhood in Puerto Rico to her move to a very different life in Brooklyn, and, finally, to her admission to the High School of Performing Arts.

Sedgwick, Marcus. She Is Not Invisible. 2014.
A blind London teenager and her younger brother travel to New York to find their missing father, using clues from his notebook.

Serle, Rebecca. The Edge of Falling. 2014.
Caggie’s life of privilege in Manhattan seems perfect, but she blames herself from her younger sister’s death and doesn’t want to be known as a hero when she saves a classmate from suicide. A new friend, though, causes her to reexamine her past.

Sheldon, Dyan. Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America. 2005.
While spending the summer in Brooklyn with her mother’s former schoolmate, Sophie, a sheltered English teenager, makes new and unlikely friends and finds a new side to her formerly “dull and passive” personality.

Shorto, Russell. Island at the Center of the World. 2005.
This fascinating and very readable history of Manhattan draws on 17th-century Dutch records that were recently translated by scholar Charles Gehring.

Silver, Charlotte. The Summer Invitation. 2014.
When Franny and Valentine are asked to spend a summer with their aunt Theodora in New York City, they unearth secrets about Aunt Theo’s romantic past and have a few romantic adventures of their own.

Slouka, Mark. Brewster. 2013.
Teenagers Jon and Ray dream of escaping from their dysfunctional and even dangerous parents in their rural New York town in this novel set in 1969. Themes of friendship and violence reflect the tensions of the Vietnam War.
2014 Alex Award
2013 School Library Journal Best Books Adult Books for Teens

Smith, Jennifer E. The Geography of You and Me. 2014.
Lucy Patterson and Owen Buckley meet on a stuck elevator during a New York City blackout. As their lives diverge, Lucy and Owen stay in touch and try to find a way to reunite.

Spollen, Anne. Light Beneath Ferns. 2010.
Upon moving to her mother’s upstate New York home after her gambler father leaves, ninth-grader Elizah just wants to be left alone. She then meets Nathaniel in the cemetery where her mother is caretaker and feels instantly drawn to him.

Staub, Wendy Corsi. Lily Dale: Awakening. 2007.
When seventeen-year-old Calla’s mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities.

Swerling, Beverly. City of Dreams: a novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan. 2002.
In 1661, a brother and sister stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven perilous weeks at sea to seek a new life in the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, these gifted healers become deadly enemies as betrayal and murder enter their lives. Their descendents – dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and more – will shape the future of medicine and the growing city.

 

Explore New York! Authors R

Racculia, Kate. Bellweather Rhapsody. 2014.
A high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from the most infamous room in the Bellweather Hotel in a town in New York State.
2015 Alex Award Winner

Raphael, Marie. Streets of Gold: a novel. 2001.
After fleeing Poland and conscription in the Russian czar’s army, Stefan and his sister Marisia begin a new life in America on the Lower East Side of New York City at the turn of the century.

Revai, Cheri. Haunted Northern New York: True, Chilling Tales of Ghosts in the North Country. 2002.
This work presents a collection of ghostly stories and strange phenomena of Upstate New York, including haunted cemeteries, Ruby’s castle in Watertown, and many more.

Reynolds, Jason. When I Was the Greatest. 2014.
Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
2015 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Winner

Rosoff, Meg. Picture Me Gone. 2013.
Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, looking for clues to the whereabouts of her father’s best friend, who has gone missing.

Rostan, Andrew, Kate Kasenow, and Dave Valeza. An Elegy for Amelia Johnson. 2010.
In her thirty years on earth, Amelia Johnson has touched many lives with her compassion, intelligence, and spirit. Now, at the end of a year-long battle with cancer, she asks her two closest friends to take her final messages to the people around New York State who have touched her life the most.

Rifka Brunt, Carol. Tell the Wolves I’m Home. 2012.
This book takes place in 1987 New York, following fourteen-year-old June Elbus and her uncle, the renowned painted Finn Weiss. June can only be herself in Finn’s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies of a mysterious illness, June’s world is turned upside down.
2013 Alex Award

Rudetsky, Seth. Seth’s Broadway Diary, Volume 1. 2014.
Seth Rudetsky has worked as the music director and/or pianist for some of Broadway’s biggest stars. He spent years as a pianist on Broadway playing such shows as Les Miz, The Producers, and Ragtime, and currently divides his time between being the afternoon deejay on the SiriusXM Broadway challen/host of “Seth Speaks” and touring North America doing his show Deconstructing Broadway.