Director's Review- Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

I've been on a big WWII fiction reading kick lately; add Young Adult to it, and I'll probably read it. As soon as I realized Girl in the Blue Coat took place in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, I added it to my To Be Read pile. Hanneke has many reasons to detest the unwanted Nazi invaders; they've taken over her country and she's lost her boyfriend, Bas, in the war. As an act of defiance against the Nazis and to help support her family, Hanneke acquires and delivers Black Market items to paying customers, but she's thrown for a loop when, instead of asking to find meat or cigarettes, she's asked to find a missing Jewish girl. The mystery of the girl's disappearance mixed in with the stories of the Resistance workers and the glimpses into the daily lives of those living in a Nazi-occupied country make for a great read.

"Girl in the Blue Coat" is available in the SCCC Library.

The SCCC Library will be forming an online book club! If you love to read, we would love to have you participate! Stay tuned for details!

The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen traveling display is coming to the SCCC Library for Black History Month! Stop in the library for more details.

Just in

February 6, 2017 People magazine

Special Report:

The Inauguration & Women's March

Exclusive! Katherine Heigl article

New Prison Interview 

Menendez Brothers

"Dance Moms' Abby Lee Miller,

Will she go to jail?"

Read all about it! 

Super Bowl LI Preview is in the

January 30, 2017 issue of 

Sports Illustrated Magazine 

just arrived

"SHOOTOUT Brady vs. Ryan 

Footballs will fly; Points will be scored. History will be made"

An article by Tim Layden regarding the Patriots on page 31 and an article by Jonathan Jones regarding the Falcons on page 24

TRiO Information Literacy Workshop

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, January 25th, at 1:00 PM in the Math Resource Center for our Information Literacy Workshop, hosted by TRiO and led by Library Director, Lindsay Tuman. During this session you will learn how to identify credible online sources and use the library's databases. If you are unable to attend, handouts and more info from the session will be available in the library.

Director's Review- Matched by Ally Condie

"Matched" is the first installment of Ally Condie's best selling "Matched" trilogy. While the series, as a whole, has been wildly popular, I just couldn't get into this one. After reading the synopsis, it sounded so promising, as did the first several chapters, but approximately half-way through the story, my interest started to wane. Nothing really seemed to be happening, and the love story between Cassia and Ky, which basically became the entire focus of the story, had no basis or explanation other than "insta-love" to make it believable.
However, despite this, I enjoyed the disturbing post apocalyptic world Condie created. I was both interested and disgusted at different points throughout the book, especially in regards to the storyline of Cassia's grandfather and the society's elder population.