May, 2008 New Titles
EASY:
The Birthday Tree by Paul Fleischman
The First Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
READERS:
Prince Caspian: This is Narnia
Star Wars: Epic Battles
Star Wars: The Story of Darth Vader
JUVENILE FICTION:
A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End by Avi
Don’t Talk to Me About the War by David Adler
The Seer of Shadows by Avi
Test by William Sleator
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
JUVENILE NON-FICTION:
Epic Battles
Footwork: the Story of Fred and Adele
Astaire
Id-Ul-Fitr
Handel’s World
Hayden’s World
Joan of Arc
Michael Jordan
My Name is Gabito: the Life of Gabriel
García Márquez
Star Wars: the Story of Darth Vader
There Was a Man Who Loved a Rat
JUVENILE SERIES:
The Case of the Blazing Sky, Hank the Cowdog
Dark Day in the Deep Sea, Magic Tree House
A Horse Named Dragon, Boxcar Children
JUVENILE SPANISH:
Arco Iris de Poesía
Como Pez en el Agua
La Cucarachita Martina
Pablo
ADULT FICTION:
The Ancient by R. A. Salvatore
And Less Than Kind Mercedes Lackey
Betrayl by John Lescroart
The Bible of Clay by Julia Navarro
ADULT FICTION:
Black Widow by Randy White
Chances by Pamela Nowak
Charley’s Web by Joy Fielding
Christ the Lord by Anne Rice
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
The Dark Lantern by Gerri Brightwell
The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross
Dawn’s Light by Terri Blackstock
Dead Time by Stephen White
Death Dealer by Heather Graham
Deluge by Anne McCaffrey
The Devil’s Bones by Jefferson Bass
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
Goodbye, She Lied by Russ Hall
Guilty by Karen Robards
Hard Trail to Follow by Elmer Kelton
Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
Legends of the West by Brock Thoene
Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson
The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman
Notorious by Michele Martinez
Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong
Santa Fe Dead by Stuart Woods
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
Spider Star by Mike Brotherton
Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden by Rhys Bowen
The Third Circle by Amanda Quick
Web of Destiny by Al Lacy
The Whole Truth by David Baldacci
Wild Nights! By Joyce Carol Oates
Winter Study by Nevada Barr
Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark
ADULT NON-FICTION:
15 Minute Gentle Yoga (with DVD)
Amigurumi!: Super Happy Crochet Cute
The Best Dallas-Ft. Worth Sports Arguments
The Bin Ladens
Cake Decorating
Coaching Kids to Play Soccer
Confessions of a Political Hitman
ADULT NON-FICTION:
Death to All Sacred Cows
Dogs by Design
Eat This, Not That
Elle Glam Fitness Complete Cardio
Exploring the Unexplained
The Geography of Bliss
The Greatest Texas Sport Stories
Grieving: a Beginner’s Guide
The Hard Truth About Soft Skills
How Not to Look Old
The Last Lecture
The Latin American Kitchen
Let’s Dance!:Weddings and Parties (with DVD)
The Needs of the Dying
Protect Your Child From Bullying
The Small Business Start-Up Kit
Small Business for Dummies
sTori telling by Tori Spelling
The Translator: a Tribesman’s
Memoir of Dafur
Winning Government Contracts
Work From Home Handbook
Working for Yourself
ADULT DVD:
Amazing Grace
Amazing Planet Earth
American Gangster
Atonement
August Rush
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Beowulf
The Brave One
Eastern Promises
Enchanted
Facing the Giants
Heroes: season one
Into the Wild
Juno
The Kite Runner
Margot at the Wedding
Michael Clayton
The Namesake
No Country for Old Men
Once
“We the People”
Bookshelf:
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Smith Public Library was awarded a “We
the People” Bookshelf Grant. This was made possible
by the American Library Association and the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
The books selected are available at the Smith Public Library:
Kindergarten to Grade 3
Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Grades 4 to 6
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Great Migration: An American Story by Jacob Lawrence
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung by Laurence Yep
Grades 7 to 8
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Grades 9 to 12
Kindred by Octavio Butler
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
English as a Second
Language (ESL) Resources
Beginning Level English
| Easy English: Basic. |
ESL 421.54 EAS |
English for speakers of all languages.
|
CDs & Workbook |
| In English on Your Own. Volume 1. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 1. Lessons 1 & 2. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 104 new vocabulary
words. Topics include greetings.
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 2. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 1. Lessons 3 & 4. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 104 new vocabulary
words. Topics include greetings.
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 3. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 1. Lessons 5 & 6. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 104 new vocabulary
words. Topics include greetings.
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 4. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 2. Lessons 1 & 2. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 96 new vocabulary words.
Topics include time, numbers, colors, and personal identification.
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 5. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 2. Lessons 3 & 4. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 96 new vocabulary words.
Topics include time, numbers, colors, and personal identification
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 6. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 2. Lessons 5 & 6. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 96 new vocabulary words.
Topics include time, numbers, colors, and personal identification.
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 7. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 3. Lessons 1 & 2. |
VHS or DVD |
| This unit introduces 75 new vocabulary words.
Topics include weather, days of the week, and introductions. |
| |
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 8. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 3. Lessons 3 & 4. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 75 new vocabulary words.
Topics include weather, days of the week, and introductions.
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 9 |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 3. Lessons 5 & 6. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 75 new vocabulary words.
Topics include weather, days of the week, and introductions.
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 10. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 4. Lessons 1 & 2. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 105 new vocabulary
words. Topics include months, seasons, feelings, and directions.
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 11. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 4. Lessons 3 & 4. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 105 new vocabulary
words. Topics include months, seasons, feelings, and directions.
|
| In English on Your Own. Volume 12. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 4. Lessons 5 & 6. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 105 new
vocabulary words. Topics include months, seasons, feelings,
and directions.
|
| In English: Volume 1 Workbook. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Units 1 to 4. Lessons 1 to 6. |
Workbook |
Workbook accompanies the DVD or VHS set
of the same title.
|
Intermediate Level English
|
|
| In English. Volume 13. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 5. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 196 new vocabulary
words. Topics include money, family, directions (N, S,
E, and W), weekly routines, polite expressions, ordering
in a restaurant, and daily activities.
|
| In English. Volume 14. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 6. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 160 new vocabulary
words. Topics include addresses, telephone numbers, hotel,
cardinal and ordinal numbers, housing, and personal likes
and dislikes
|
| In English: Volume 2 Workbook. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Units 5 to 6. |
Workbook |
| Workbook accompanies the DVD or VHS set
of the same title. |
| |
|
| In English. Volume 15. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 7. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 194 new vocabulary
words. Topics include food, prices, shopping, holidays,
and directions.
|
| In English. Volume 16. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 8. |
VHS or DVD |
| This unit introduces 134 new vocabulary
words. Topics include social language apologizing, disagreeing,
information/asking for clarification, and marital status. |
| |
|
| In English: Volume 3 Workbook |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Units 7 to 8. |
Workbook |
Workbook accompanies the DVD or VHS set
of the same title.
|
| In English. Volume 17. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 9. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 131 new vocabulary
words. Topics include picnics, cultural differences, American
women’s and men’s roles, problem-solving,
advice, describing recent activities, and personal choices.
|
| In English. Volume 18. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 10. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit includes 175 new vocabulary words.
Topics include shopping for services, smoking and health,
and expressing feelings.
|
| In English: Volume 4 Workbook. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Units 9 to 10. |
Workbook |
Workbook accompanies the DVD or VHS set
of the same title.
|
| In English. Volume 19. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 11. |
VHS or DVD |
| This unit introduces 184 new vocabulary
words. Topics include renting an apartment, movies, buying
a used car, and outdoor activities/sports. |
| |
|
| In English. Volume 20. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Unit 12. |
VHS or DVD |
This unit introduces 163 new vocabulary
words. Topics include outdoor activities, telephone skills,
reporting what other have said or asked, and appreciating
nature.
|
| In English: Volume 5 Workbook. |
ESL 428.24 BOU |
| Units 11 to 12. |
Workbook |
Workbook accompanies the DVD or VHS set
of the same title.
|
Life Skills
|
|
| Conversation Pieces |
ESL 428.34 CON |
| Intermediate level |
DVD |
| Nine topical scenes contain everyday words
related to common situations. |
| |
|
| Easy English. |
ESL 428.3 EAS |
| Meeting and Greeting. |
VHS
|
| Easy English. |
ESL 428.3 EAS |
| Understanding Basic Conversation. |
VHS
|
| Easy English. |
ESL 428.3 EAS |
| Using Numbers and Money. |
VHS
|
| English for New Americans. |
ESL 428.24 ENG |
| Everyday Life. |
DVD, CD, & Workbook |
Topics include introductions, the time and
date, asking for directions, shopping for food, finding
an apartment, opening a bank account, and using the telephone.
|
| English for New Americans. |
ESL 428.24 ENG |
| Health, Home, and Community. |
DVD, CD, & Workbook |
Topics include going to the doctor, going
to the pharmacy, cleaning the home, alternative medicine,
reporting a crime, getting things fixed, and social services.
|
| English for New Americans. |
ESL 428.24 ENG |
| Work and School. |
DVD, CD, & Workbook |
Topics include finding a job, enrolling
a child in school, a job interview, adult education, first
day on the job, getting a driver’s license and buying
a car, and becoming a citizen.
|
| English for the Real World |
ESL 428.34 ENG |
| Beginner-Intermediate level. |
CDs & Workbook |
| Pronunciation |
|
| |
|
| American English Pronunciation Program |
ESL 428.3 RAI |
| |
Cassettes & Reference Guide
|
| Easy Pronunciation. |
ESL 421.54 EAS |
| All levels |
CDs & Workbook |
Helps with pronunciation to sound more natural
and speak English with confidence.
|
| Pronounce it Perfectly in English |
ESL 428.1 YAT |
| |
CDs & Workbook |
For anyone who wants to improve their pronunciation
in American English.
|
Grammar
|
|
| ESL English as a Second Language. |
ESL 428.2 ESL |
| Program 1. Pronouns. |
VHS |
Basic principles for understanding the use
of English pronouns.
|
| ESL English as s Second Language. |
ESL 428.2 ESL |
| Program 2. Adjectives. |
VHS |
Basic principles for understanding the use
of English adjectives.
|
| ESL English as a Second Language. |
ESL 428.2 ESL |
| Program 3. Present Tense and Possessives. |
VHS |
Basic principles for understanding the present
verb tense and possessives.
|
| ESL English as a Second Language. |
ESL 428.2 ESL |
| Program 4. Prepositions. |
VHS |
| Basic principles for understanding the use
of prepositions, words used to describe relationships
between nouns and other parts of the sentence. |
| |
|
|
