I shall not procrastinate...

... at least not this time!

The last few weeks have been busy and I neglected to post our library lists before we ended up returning various books and media. We just got back from our library trip a little while ago, so I'm going to post the list NOW .. *before* I start on supper and the other stuff that always creeps up and distracts me. :-D

Youngest seems determined to work her way through the Time-Life Enchanted World series. She just returned three of them, then took out three more. Dwarfs, Magical Beasts and Fabled Lands.

Eldest had been determined not to take out any books at all, because she still had 3 architecture books she hasn't even looked at since last week. Of course, things don't always work out as planned... ;-) She ended up taking out:

Fashion Accessories: The complete 20th century sourcebook with 2000 full-colour illustrations. After a title like that, what's left to say about it??

90 Years of Fashion. An illustrated book of clothing and accessories from 1900-1990

Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution. This book discusses the intellectual revolution of the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Higher Superstition: The academic left and its quarrels with science. In the book, the authors "...raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanist and social scientist on the "academic left." As literary theorists deconstruct scientific "texts" and feminists condem scientific "patriarchy," they argue, principles and practices that underlie 300 years of scientific achievement come under attack from scholars with little actual knowledge of science." I think I'm going to have to read this one, too.

English Costume from the Early Middle Ages Through the Sixteenth Century. Another one I'll have to go through myself - our home school group's Medieval Day is coming soon.

Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit on the Halls of Science. Dang. Another one I'm going to have to read, too! *L*

The next batch were my own finds. Now that we've finally found a propane tank for the BBQ I got for my husband for Christmas, I made a point of getting BBQ cook books. These include:

The Backyard Barbecue Cookbook
Barbecue Secrets: Unbeatable Recipes, Tips & Tricks from a Barbecue Champion
and Barbecues 101: Mare than 100 Recipes for Great Grilled, Smoked and Barbecued Food Plus All the Fixing for Perfect Outdoor Parties. Gotta love those long sub-titles! *L*
I also snagged Menus from An Orchard Table: Celebrating the Food and Wine of the Okanagan. I'll be honest, here. I grabbed that one because of the beautiful photo on the cover, as well as the great photography inside. I'm sure the recipes won't disappoint, though. :-D

I was going to grab the next Cadfael Omnibus, but the one on the shelf had 2 stories that were included in one of the omnibus' (omnibi?) we'd just returned, and only one we haven't read recently. So I picked a bunch of individual books, instead. The Summer of the Danes, The Confession of Brother Haluin, The Potter's Field, The Holy Thief and A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael. The good thing about picking all these up separately is that Eldest and I won't be fighting over the same omnibus any more. *L*

From the audio/visual section, I grabbed a couple of new cd's - well, new to the library, at least.

The Music of Namaste: Composed and performed by Tim McCauley
He'eia: Cyril Pahinui

On the dvd front, I grabbed a couple more from The Great Courses, each with 2 dvd's. I found part one of The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology. We hadn't finished watching the part 2 we'd borrowed before. We really don't have much time to watch them, but we liked it enough to make the effort to get the first set. These courses are simply university lectures - a prof at the front of the room (Professor John J. Renton of West Virginia University) talking, with a few graphic illustrations added in. Sounds boring, right? It wasn't! We all really enjoyed the lectures. So much so that my husband, who had been playing WoW with his headphones while we watched got too distracted to play and watched with us. *L* I'm hoping the other set we got, Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Now It: Part 1 of 2, is just as enjoyable. This one features Professor Steven L. Goldman of Lehigh University.

And finally, we got The Viking Age from a 6 title series called The Story of Civilization.