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Fair Weather Friends
Summer is finally here so stop back soon for a few extra book companions to hang out with you in the sun at the beach or by the pool.
Recent Online Listings
Customers are welcome to use the computer in our Sunset Room to search through thousands of books that are not displayed on the shelves in our store but are still available in our warehouse. Here are a few recently added listings:
> Great Floods of Pennsylvania;
Very Good Soft Cover, Book # 6341,
Price: $4.95
> Circus: Led Zeppelin's Golden Boy
Robert Plant; Good Soft Cover,
Book # 6323, Price: $7.50
> One Hundred Years of Banking: The History of Mellon National Bank and Trust Company; Very Good Hard Cover, Book # 6348, Price: $25.00
> Southern Appalachian Mountain Cookin' (Authentic Ol' Mountain Family
Recipes) Very Good Soft Cover,
Book # 6227, Price: $1.95
> The 1997 M Kunstler Civil War Calendar; Very Good Soft Cover,
Book # 6259, Price: $10.00
> Dolls of Famous Women in History, Vol. 406, Good Soft Cover,
Book # 6274, Price: $4.95
> Using Popular Literature To Teach Reading and Writing Skills, Book 3;
Very Good Soft Cover
Book # 6207, Price; $5.95
> Specialties from the Southern Garden; Very Good Soft Cover,
Book # 6228, Price: $3.95
> Sugar Babies: The Burlesque Musical;
Very Good Soft Cover, Book # 6324, Price:$10.00
> The Complete Guide to Automotive Refinishing; Very Good Hardcover, Book # 6100, Price: $4.95
> Essentials of Chinese Calligraphy;
Very Good Soft Cover,
Book # 6130, Price: $6.95
> Inspirational Songs for the Sunday School, Social Worship, Missionary and Evangelistic Work - Good Hardcover, Book # 6196, Price: $4.95
Deaver...Jeffrey Deaver
Crime writer Jeffrey Deaver, best known for his Kathryn Dance and Lincoln Rhyme books, has already started to write the outline for the new authorized James Bond story, which will be published in May, 2011 and set in the present day. The forth coming novel is known only as "Project X" until a title is chosen, and plot details are being kept strictly under wraps.
Traditional books provide more positive parent-child interaction (by Preston M. Moretz)
Parents and pre-school children have a more positive interaction
when sharing a reading experience with a traditional book as opposed to an electronic book, accord-ing to researchers at Temple University's Infant Laboratory and Erikson Institute in Chicago. This shared positive experience from traditional books characteristically promotes early literacy skills.
The first-of-its-kind study was conducted by Julia Parish-Morris, a graduate student in developmental psychology at Temple University, and Molly F. Collins, assistant professor at Erikson Institute. Parish-Morris and Collins collaborated with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Professor of Psychology and director of the Temple Infant Lab.
"It turned out that reading electronic books became a behaviorally oriented, slightly coercive parent-child interaction as opposed to talking about the story, relating it to the their child's life, or even talking about the book's pictures or text," Parish-Morris said. "Parents were under the impression that when you are sitting down with a book, you are supposed to read it," she added. "But what was happening with the e-books is that reading was not even part of the process, probably because these books literally read the story to the child. So parents are not needed. The book makes commands and tells the child what to do; it encourages them to play games and reads to the child, so parents are essentially replaced by this battery-operated machine."
"Parents who are talking about the content with their child while reading traditional books are encouraging early literacy, whereas parents and children reading electronic books together are having a severely truncated experience."
"This research does suggest that parents should be aware of some of the limitations of e-book reading," added Collins. "We shouldn't use e-books to replace traditional books, and we shouldn't expect them to do something that they don't. They're not substitutes for a human being."
Summertime
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
- William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)
