A Reader Lives A Thousand Lives
Come to the library and take a journey.
September is National Library Card Sign-up Month
If you are one of our many students or staff members here at Clark you already have a library account with Cannell Library, just use your student ID card or employee badge with barcode as your library card. Forgot your ID/badge? Just give us your ctcLink ID number to be able to check out materials from the library. Your limit is 25 items at a time! If you are not affiliated with Clark College but you live within Clark County you qualify for a community borrower card upon completion of a patron registration form with proof of address. With a library card you have access to DVD’s, CD’s, magazines, phone chargers, laptop chargers, and of course BOOKS! Here is a list of some of our favorites as well as some newer titles here in the library:
Newly Added Books:
The Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris
PR6058.A68828 M66 2024 (Second Floor, Leisure Reading)
Deep in the heart of London, a photographer walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a beautiful woman sipping champagne in St. Pancras station; a cloud of moths, disturbed, taking flight across the sky. But with each photo, he captures something unseen by the eye, and as each negative develops–revealing a person he hadn’t met, a danger he hadn’t noticed, and a world he hadn’t seen–he is drawn further into a hidden war. One which he has been drawn into many times before . . . and every time, had his memories of the truth, and of the woman he loves, stolen from him. As Tom pieces fragments of the truth together, he realizes he must weave through the war and fight his own both for the woman he loves, and for himself.
The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman
PR6119.T668 S53 2024 (Second Floor, Leisure Reading)
Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can’t speak the language, belief in myth and magic is rife, and the villagers treat him with bewildering suspicion. When Henry discovers his predecessor died under mysterious circumstances, he is determined to find answers. Linette Tresilian has always suspected something is not quite right in the village, but it is only through Henry’s investigations that the truth about those closest to her will come to light…a truth that will bind hers and Henry’s destinies together in ways neither thought possible.
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
PS3563.A3535 W5 2024 (Second Floor, Leisure Reading)
A fable for adults on the subject of destiny and free will by a writer of children’s books. It tells the story of Elphaba before she became the Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. The novel traces her career as nun, nurse, pro-democracy activist and animal rights defender.
Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray
PS3607.R38885 D44 2017 (Second Floor, Leisure Reading)
Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
Recommendations:
Yes, these books are located right here in the library on campus. Yes, we’ve really read these. There’s a little something for everyone.
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
PS3562 .A255 A89 1987 (Second Floor, Leisure Reading)
Follows the adventures of Talia as she trains to become a Herald of Valdemar in the first book in the classic epic fantasy Arrows trilogy.
Recommended by Amanda Brown, Access Services
Hot Dog by Doug Salati
Salati, Hot (First Floor, Renaissance Kids Collection)
This hot dog has had enough of summer in the city! Enough of sizzling sidewalks, enough of wailing sirens, enough of people’s feet right in his face. When he plops down in the middle of a crosswalk, his owner endeavors to get him the breath of fresh air he needs. She hails a taxi, hops a train, and ferries out to the beach. Here, a pup can run! With fluid art and lyrical text that have the soothing effect of waves on sand, the author shows us how to find calm, and how to carry it back with us so we can appreciate the small joys in a day–Publisher’s description.
2023 Caldecott Medal winner
Recommended by Calley Odum-Dalenberg, Access Services
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
RC351 .S195 1985 (Second Floor, General)
“This book tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien… If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do.” -Abridged Library Catalog Summary
Recommended by Lucas Gubala, Technical Services
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
PS3503 .R167 M37 2006 (Second Floor, General)
The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the civilization they left behind. -Abridged Library Catalog Summary
Recommended by Lucy Mackintosh, Access Services
Be With Me by Maya Banks *mature content warning*
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
The above three titles were recommended by Jessie Donehey, Access Services
Chocolat (First Floor, DVDs)
This movie is 24 years old now, but I always enjoy it. The soundtrack in this film is so beautiful and sticks with you long after the credits roll. It’s a sweet story about outsiders being accepted for who and what they are. Be sure to keep your movie snacks nearby as the mouthwatering chocolate scenes will have you dying for a sweet treat. Recommended by Shay Walter, Access Services
Not only does Cannell Library have hidden gems in our local collection but students and Clark College employees have access to much more through Inter Library Loan and Summit.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons (Available through Summit.)
