Stacks & Stories

Bruce C. Clarke Library, Fort Leonard Wood

Volume 2

March 2015

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Womens History

Womens History Quiz

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ICE Comments
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The 2015 theme for National Womens History Month is Weaving the Stories of Womens Lives. According to their official website (www.nwhp.org), this years theme is
special because it:
Presents the opportunity to weave womens stories individually and collectively
into the essential fabric of our nations history. The telling of these stories is imperative because the accounts of the lives of
individual women are critically important
because they reveal exceptionally strong
role models who share a more expansive
vision of what a woman can do. The stories
of womens lives, and the choices they
made, encourage girls and young women to
think larger and bolder, and give boys and
men a fuller understanding of the female
experience. Knowing womens achievements challenges stereotypes and upends
social assumptions about who women are

and what women can

accomplish today.

Photo Source www.nwhp.org

March: National Womens History Month

National Womens History Month is the result
of the National Womens History Projects
efforts to write women back into history. The organization is also celebrating
its 30th anniversary in 2015 with many
special events and celebrations to ensure
that awareness is raised in America regarding the significant contributions women have made in shaping our nation.
The Clarke Library will be displaying and
highlighting materials that embody and
illustrate the amazing achievements of
women in all facets of life. We encourage
everyone to come by the library and help
us celebrate National Womens History
Month.
JWW

Test Your Womens History I.Q.

Identify fifteen women by their achievements.

Quiz source www.nwhp.com

1. Which mother led a 125mile march of child workers all the way from the mills of Pennsylvania to
President Theodore Roosevelts vacation home on Long Island?
2. One of the most important Union spies and scouts during the Civil War was a Black woman who
had escaped from slavery. Can you name her?
3. Before the 1960s, farm workers in the U.S. were not paid even the minimum wage, and had no
influential representatives to fight for their rights. What part did Dolores Huerta play in changing
this situation?

Novel Ideas

Jodi Picoult

4. The line of beauty products she created for AfricanAmerican people made her the first Black
woman millionaire in the United States. Who was she, and when did she do this?

Mango Languages

5. She came to the U.S. when she was a teenager to study science and stayed to become the worlds
foremost female experimental physicist. Her most famous experiment disproved what had been
thought to be a fundamental scientific law. Who is this outstanding AsianAmerican scientist?

March Calendar

Seuss Scramble

Media Highlights

6. She took her job as First Lady seriously, traveling the country and the world to gather information about the problems and concerns of workers, children, minorities, and the poor. She wrote a
daily newspaper column and made frequent radio broadcasts. Who was this active wife of a president?
7. When the Mexican Revolution of 1910 reached the Texas border, she and her friends organized La

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Continued from page 1 Quiz

Quiz source www.nwhp.com

Cruz Blanca, The White Cross, to take care of the wounded. They nursed people from both sides of the fighting. She was also known as
a journalist and community activist. Who was she and where did she live?
8. Who was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands, deposed when American business and military interests wanted to annex Hawaii to the U.S.?
9. She opened Hull House in a rundown Chicago neighborhood, a community center to improve conditions for poor immigrants. The
program of Englishlanguage classes, childcare, health education and recreational opportunities soon inspired hundreds of other settlement houses throughout the country. Her name?
10. Daughter and granddaughter of Paiute Indian chiefs from Nevada, she lobbied Congress, wrote extensively, and traveled across
country during the late 1800s lecturing on the hardships brought upon Native Americans by the U.S. Government. Her name?
11. Her 1939 Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial drew a crowd of 75,000. Who was she, and why was she singing there?
12. Who printed the first copy of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers names?
13. Clara Barton (18211912) is best known for founding the American Red Cross, but she also played a vital role during the Civil War.
What did she do?
14. She is regarded as the greatest ballerina born in America. Her father was the Chief of the Osage Indians. Can you name her?
15. Why is Rachel Carson (19071964) considered the mother of the environmental movement?
Answers 1. Mary Harris Jones 2. Harriet Tubman 3. Dolores Huerta (b. 1930), a longtime Chicana labor activist, cofounded the United Farm Workers union in 19624. Madam C.J. Walker, 1905 5. Chien Shiung Wu 6. Eleanor Roosevelt 7. Jovita Idar, Laredo Texas 8. Queen Liliuokalani 9. Jane Addams 10. Sarah Winnemucca 11. Marian Anderson
(b. 1902), who had earlier been barred from the singing in the Washingtons Constitution Hall because she was Black. Her openair concert was a triumph over bigotry for this
international star.12. Mary Katherine Goddard 13. No provisions had been made for taking care of Union soldiers. Clara Barton (18211912) solicited donated supplies and took
them directly onto battlegrounds, to get food, bandages, and medical supplies to the wounded. She also helped document the 22,000 men killed or missing in action so their
families could be notified.14. Maria Tallchief 15. She is the author of Silent Spring (1962) The book became a bestseller and the foundation of modern ecological awareness.

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Hello from the Childrens Library

I am so excited to be here at Clarke
Library and specifically the Childrens
Library! I have lots of fun planned for
our children. In February I started
featuring a Childrens Author of the
Month. Every month we will focus on a
notable author who has done great

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things for childrens books. For the

month of March Dr. Seuss is our Author. His books will be specially displayed on the Cat in the Hat cart by
the Childrens Library desk. You will
also find Story Time themed books by
the desk. The Story Time themes for

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this month are Dr. Seuss for March 34, Rainbows March 10-11, Spring
March 17-18, Turtles March 24-25,
and Bunnies 31-April 1. We would
love to see you and your little ones,
come by and say hello!
Ms. Kimberly
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Novel Ideas.

March 2015

Adults

Jeffrey Archer's compelling

Clifton Chronicles continue
in Mightier than the
Sword. With all the trademark twists and turns that
have made him one of the world's
most popular authors, the spellbinding story of the Clifton and the
Barrington families continues.
Mightier than the Sword opens
with an IRA bomb exploding during
the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic - but how
many passengers lose their lives?

Any book by Neil Gaiman is

news, but Trigger Warning
is worthy of the hype. The
first collection of short works
by the Hugo and Nebula winner in nine years contains 400 pages
of stories, fairy tales, short takes,
and verse. Its mixture of genres,
tones, and lengths will please all takers. Its special attractions include
pieces about Dr. Who, Sherlock
Holmes, and an original story written exclusively for this volume.

Teens

In Department 19-Zero
Hour, by Will Hill, Dracula
continues his rise and the
men and women of Department 19 wait for good news.
But hope is in short supply until
familiar faces from the past bring
news that could turn the tide.
Something old and impossibly powerful waits for them in the darkest
corners of eastern Europe. Something that could stop Dracula for
good.

In The Sin Eaters Daughter by Melinda Salisbury

seventeen-year-old Twylla
lives in the castle. But although shes engaged to the
prince, Twylla isnt exactly a member
of the court. Shes the executioner.
As the Goddess embodied, Twylla
instantly kills anyone she touches.
No one will ever love a girl with murder in her veins. Even the prince,
whose royal blood supposedly makes
him immune to Twyllas fatal touch,
avoids her company.

Children
I survived- The Great
Chicago Fire- History reports that the fire of 1871
left an array of harrowing
statistics. The conflagration
that swept the Windy City over
three October days left more than
three hundred people dead and
100,000 homeless. Lauren Tarshis
translates those numbing numbers
into human experience, presenting
the unfolding disaster compellingly
through the eyes and experiences of
a single young boy.

But the clock is ticking.

Night is falling.
And Zero Hour is almost here
In the Kid President's
Guide to Being Awesome
Robby Novak strives to inspire the world. "This is
LIFE, people! You've got air
coming through your nose! You've got
a heartbeat! That means it's time to
do something!" In his book he puts
together lists of awesome ideas to
help the world, celebrity interviews,
and a step-by-step guide to make
pretty much everything a little bit
awesomer. Grab a corn dog and settle
in to your favorite comfy chair. Pretend it's your birthday! (In fact, treat
everyone like it's THEIR birthday!)

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And finally, in Laurie R.

Kings Dreaming Spies
fans of the Mary Russell
series finally find out what
really happened during
those three missing weeks in Japan.
It is 1925, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes arrive home to finda
stone. A stone with a name, which
they last saw in the garden of the
future emperor of Japan. It is the
first indication that the investigation they did for him in 1924 might
not be complete. In Japan there
were spies, in Oxford there are
dreams. In both places, there is a
dark-haired woman and danger.
The epic conclusion to Richelle Mead's bestselling
Bloodlines series is here.
The Ruby Circle continues
with Sydney and Adrians
story. After their secret romance is
exposed, they find themselves facing
the wrath of both the Alchemists
and the Moroi. When the life of
someone they both love is put on the
line, Sydney risks everything to
hunt down a deadly former nemesis. Meanwhile, Adrian becomes
enmeshed in a puzzle that could
hold the key to a shocking secret
about spirit magic, a secret that
could shake the entire Moroi world.

A risky decision endangers

both Artim and Quill in
Island of Shipwrecks,
book five of the bestselling
Unwanteds series by Lisa
Mcmann. Alex and his friends from
Artim are stranded on a newly discovered island after barely surviving a storm that destroys their ship.
Back in Quill, Aarons power base
grows as he aligns himself with an
unlikely ally. Together, the two enact a drastic, risky plan to finally
conquer Artim.
Source Goodreads.com

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Author Spotlight- Jodi Picoult

Photo by Adam Boushka

Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author

of twenty-three novels. According to
jodipicoult.com her last eight novels
have debuted at number one on the
New York Times bestseller list and
her books are translated into 34 languages in 35 countries. Four titles
The Pact, Plain Truth, The Tenth Circle, and Salem Falls - have been made
into television movies and a 5th title,
My Sisters Keeper, was a big-screen
release from New Line Cinema.

In her early years Picoult studied

creative writing with Mary Morris at
Princeton, and had two short stories
published in Seventeen magazine
while still a student. Realism - and a
profound desire to be able to pay the
rent - led Picoult to a series of different jobs following her graduation: as a
technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad
agency, as an editor at a textbook
publisher, and as an 8th grade English teacher - before entering Harvard
to pursue a Masters in education.
She then met and married Tim Van
Leer, whom she had known at Princeton, and it was while she was pregnant with her first child that she
wrote her first novel, Songs of the
Humpback Whale.

Picoult refused to sweat the small

stuff. She's concerned with love and
truth, the blurry boundary lines implied by both. She forces the reader to
look, however uncomfortable the experience might be, at complacent people
who discover, much too late, the sad
disparity between what they thought
they knew and what they know now.
(Orlando Sentinel Tribune)

Titles (starting with the most recent)

Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Between
the Lines, Lone Wolf, Sing you Home,
Over the Moon, House Rules, Handle with
Care, Change of Heart, Wonder Woman,
Nineteen Minutes, The Tenth Circle, Vanishing Acts, My Sisters Keeper, Second
Glance, Perfect Match, Salem Falls, Plain
Truth, Keeping the Faith, The Pact, Mercy, Picture Perfect, Harvesting the Heart,
Songs of the Humpback Whale

Throughout her career Picoult never shied away from controversial topics. Beginning with her first book

Source www.jodipicoult.com

Tech Talk..
Do you want to learn French? Maybe
you need to know German or Arabic
for an upcoming trip? Do you want to
plump up your resume or expand a
child's understanding of the world
with a second language skill? Whatever the reason, if you want to learn a
new language the library can help.
Mango Languages is a film and conversation based language learning
program offering over 60 languages
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Learn from anywhere
You can log in from your tablet, phone
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There are no downloads or installations required. All lessons are available in your browser or through the
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free Mango for Libraries app available for iOS and Android devices.
Conversation in context
Resources teach through real conversation and according to Mangos website learning in this way gives you an
edge in understanding your new language. You'll learn the vocabulary,
pronunciation, grammar, and culture
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Bit by bit
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incorporating previously learned vocabulary and grammar lessons into

your current one. This makes your
You'll learn the vocabulary,
pronunciation, grammar, and culture of
your chosen language all in one
integrated multi-sensory experience

new language skills extremely flexible, useful, and fun.

And speaking of fun
Mango offers lessons in 25 specialty
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Source www.mangolanguages.com

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Fun and Games-

Puzzle created with- Discovery Education.com

SEUSS SCRAMBLE
Unscramble the boxes below to reveal a quote from Dr. Seuss!

Answer- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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Credits and Sources

Newsletter compiled by Salena N. Jones.

Content credits: Salena N. Jones, Jerry W. Wallace, Kimberly L. Jones

Filmography links, images and data courtesy of IMDb, Goodreads.com, Amazon.com, and Barnesandnoble.com. All links used in this publication are for informational and non-profit purposes
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