Just a few of our new books, just in time for your summer reading. 

Alan Lomax : The Man Who Recorded the World / John Szwed.  ML423.L6347S98 2010

American Eden : From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards : What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are / Wade Graham  SB451.3.G718 2011

Armed Humanitarians : The Rise of the Nation Builders / Nathan Hodge.  JZ6369.H63 2011

 

Battle of Britain : Five Months that Changed History, May-October 1940 / James Holland.  D756.5.B7H66 2011

Beirut / Samir Kassir ; foreword by Robert Fisk ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.   DS89.B4K3813 2010

Branch Rickey / Jimmy Breslin. GV865.R45B74 2011

Every Man in This Village is a Liar : An Education in War / Megan K. Stack.  DS63.1.S696 2010 

For All the Tea in China : How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History / Sarah Rose. HD9198.G72R67 2010

In the Shadow of the Buddha : Secret Journeys, Sacred Histories, and Spiritual Discovery in Tibet / Matteo Pistono. BQ978.I88A3 2011

The Invisible Line : Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White / Daniel J. Sharfstein.  E184.A1S5724 2011 

Jerusalem, Jerusalem : How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World / James Carroll  DS109.9.C367 2011

Joseph Brodsky : A Literary Life / Lev Loseff ; translated by Jane Ann Miller. PG3479.4.R64Z76513 2011

Livia, Empress of Rome : ABbiography / Matthew Dennison.  DG291.7.L5D45 2010

The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life / by Bettany Hughes. B316.H84 2011

The Memory Palace / by Mira Bartok.  RC464.H67 2011

The Most Human Human : What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means To Be Alive / Brian Christian.  BD450.C5356 2011

The Neoconservative Persuasion : Selected Essays, 1942-2009 / Irving Kristol ; edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb ; foreword by William Kristol.  JC573.K6658 2011

A Promise at Sobibór : A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-occupied Poland / Philip “Fiszel” Bialowitz, with Joseph Bialowitz. DS134.72.B527A3 2010
        
 The 100 Best African American Poems : (*but I cheated) / edited by Nikki Giovanni.  PS591.N4A15 2010  Book and DVD

The Philosophical Breakfast Club : Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World / Laura J. Snyder.  Q141.S5635 2011

Queer (in)justice : The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States / Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock.  KF4754.5.M64 2011

The Return : Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev / Daniel Treisman. JN6695.T74 2011

Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees / by Malcolm T. Sanford and Richard E. Bonney.  SF523.S36 2010

21st-Century Gothic : Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 / edited by Danel Olson.  PN3435.A16 2011

 

Will Rogers : A Political life / Richard D. White, Jr.  PN2287.R74W45 2011

Will Eisner : A Dreamer’s Life in Comics / Michael Schumacher.  PN6727.E4Z78 2010

“It was a pleasure to burn,” begins Ray Bradbury’s science fiction classic, Fahrenheit 451. In celebration of Pittsfield’s Big Read, the BCC library will display over 50 works appearing on the American Library Association’s Banned and Challenged Classics list. Highlighting Bradbury’s theme of censorship, the display represents well-known titles that have come under fire at libraries, schools and communities for decades. Come celebrate your intellectual freedom and check out a challenged book at the BCC library from April 1^st through 30^th.

The Book Art Project  By Benigna Chilla’s past students.  JUST IN –  THE NEW EXHIBIT at the Intermodal Center.  Yes, Berkshire Community College will present the exhibit “Art of the Book:  Visual Arts Class Projects” from April 1 to April 30 at the Intermodal Gallery in Pittsfield.  Gallery hours are from 2:30 to 4:30 pm Mon., Wed., and Fri.  The show features student work from classes taught by Professors Benigna Chilla and Lisa Griffith. The exhibit is presented in connection with Pittsfield Reads!, a community reading project focusing this year on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Read more about how old books have been recycled and transformed into unique sculptures HERE.     Let us know what you think!

Berkshire Community College’s Pastoral Antecedant.

If you drove up to 1350 West Street in 1967 you’d see a barn instead of our library. Click here for more pictures and a little BCC history.

Online Exhibit of the Daryll English Collection  

Selections from the collection of World War II memorabilia of Darrell English, a lifelong collector whose materials have been featured in exhibits at many institutions, including the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center in Springfield and at BCC.

Ever wonder who Jonathan Edwards was?  Read about the person our library is named after.