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Access the latest hurricane news, find out what to do before and after a hurricane, learn about hurricanes and how they work, get hurricane apps for android and iOS or access our historical hurricane guides on Ike, Katrina, and the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Go to the Guide! Features   Get the top free apps that can help during a hurricane. Get live feed on current hurricanes from the National Hurricane Center, NASA and Google news. Get great advice for preparing before a hurricane and what do after. Watch a video on how hurricanes. And don't forget to check out our Hurricane Preparedness display in the library!  

Memorial Day, May 30th, 2016. Honoring America's wartime veterans.  Go to the guide . Features Stream Ken Burns’ classic Emmy Award–winning nine-part series The Civil War . Read the book No way out : a story of valor in the mountains of Afghanistan . Read the eBook In Enemy Hands : Personal Accounts of Those Taken Prisoner in World War II Read an eyewitness account of Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945 . And don't forget to check out our Memorial Day display in the library! 

Mexico, the 5th of May in the Plaza de Armas, 1862 Cinco de Mayo, when the Mexican army beat the French. Get the best articles, books, eBooks, media and open access sources for Cinco de Mayo. Go to the guide . Features Stream a video from Films on Demand, Cinco de Mayo. Get Cinco de Mayo recipes. Find out more about the Battle Puebla from the History Research Center. And don't forget to check out our Cinco de Mayo display in the library! 

Pet Hall of Fame Your Pet Can Be a Star!  Print out a picture of your pet and it post it on the Pet Hall of Fame in COM Library or email your digital picture to kpark@com.edu and we will post it on our Facebook and Instagram . Be sure to include the name of your pet and yours if you'd like them included. National Pet Week on Display National Pet Week is widely celebrated throughout the United States and other parts of the world. In 2016, National Pet Week is celebrated from May 1-7. The goals of National Pet Week are to promote responsible pet ownership, celebrate the human-animal bond, and promote public awareness of veterinary medicine. Check out our great Pet book display in the library!

Send Us Your Photos! Have you taken any pictures that you feel are particularly unique, or funny, or interesting, or artistic?  Anything that really demonstrates the old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”? Print out a picture and it post it on the window in COM Library above the book display (or bring it to the Circ desk, we can do it for you), or email dl-library-reference@com.edu your digital picture and we will post it in our Camera Day Hall of Fame album on Flickr and Facebook . If you want your print picture back after the display ends, just leave a note with your name on it. If you have a Flickr account you can join the group Camera Day Hall of Fame and add you photo to the group. National Camera Week on Display June 29th is Camera Day (yes, there is a Camera Day), and the library is recognizing it by having a display starting Monday, June 25th that will feature books about photographic art and technique. 

COM Library celebrates Black History Month. This year it's all about the music. See the display in our Flickr slideshow , also posted in our African American History LibGuide . The books you see in the slideshow are available for check out in COM Library. You may also be interested in this great collection: Library of Congress Gottlieb Jazz Photos .

 College of the Mainland celebrated International Education Week in November.  Come to the Library and check out our International Poetry books and novels from Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa!

Halloween arrives this Sunday, but it still isn’t too late to get in the “spirit” of this Holiday.  If you are looking for books to help you get ready, or to get you in the Halloween mood, check out the display at the library entrance.  It features horror books – classics and recent bestsellers.

Come and check out our new display in the Library Leisure Reading area!

 Read Banned Books--It's Your Freedom We're Talking About! Learn what banned books are and the history of banned books. Many classics have been banned or challenged in the past and continue to be challenged at other libraries or even by governments. Find out which of your favorites have been banned and why. COM Library call numbers are included so you can check them out and read them. Go to the Guide! Features: Watch a video made by a real COM student with interviews of COM faculty and local teachers. Download free eBook versions of classic banned books  View the interactive Google Map of banned books.  Watch COM Library's YouTube Playlist on banned books. Students and faculty can leave a comment on any box on any page, review the entire guide or suggest more resources on the topic. Please don’t hesitate to provide feedback!

"Which Came First? The Movie or the Book?" Come and check out our new display in the Library Leisure Reading area!

New Books in the Leisure Collection COM Library Rarian's favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with COM Library, and even join a book club on Goodreads.

Supernatural fiction is very popular lately, especially when it involves vampires. If you’re in the library, be sure to check out our vampire fiction display in the Leisure Reading area! Here are two of the most popular vampire novels from COM Library: Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark is the first book in Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as the Sookie Stackhouse series. In this page turner, set in fictional backwoods Louisiana town, Harris creates a fantasy world where humans and vampires coexist (somewhat) successfully, if not entirely believably. If you enjoy this genre and can suspend some serious disbelief, this book might be for you. The HBO series True Blood is based on this series of novels; fans of the book might like to check out the television show, and vice versa. The Twilight Saga, by Stephenie Meyer Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling “vampire love saga” features vampires, werewolves, forbidd...

COM Library's New Leisure Books COM Library Rarian's favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with COM Library, and even join a book club on Goodreads.

Frank Skinner delivers a perfect performance of Osbourne's memoir of his long and colorful career—from his humble beginnings to his days fronting Black Sabbath and rise as a successful solo artist. Skinner captures Osbourne's slurry drawl in an intimate performance that transports the listener to a quiet pub where Ozzy is holding court and swapping stories about family, factory jobs, stints in prison, drugs, sex, alcohol, guns, chickens, more drugs, band breakups. Equally compelling are Skinner's renditions of Osbourne's friends and bandmates—his Geezer Butler is a knockout. A must for fans of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, and the rock 'n' roll memoir; highly memorable and recommended. A Grand Central hardcover. (Jan.) from Publisher Weekly. Title: I am Ozzy Call number: ML 420 O825 A3 2010 Leisure Book Shelf

The Leisure Collection contains popular and recently released books that can be checked out primarily for entertainment, whether you are looking for something to take along on a trip or simply for a break from course readings. The collection reflects a wide variety of reading interests, to meet the various tastes of our students, staff and faculty. The focus of the collection is fiction best-sellers and popular fiction genres, such as mystery, science fiction, fantasy, romance, adventure, and historical fiction. The books are arranged in alphabetical order by titles. Check out our Leisure Collection on GoodReads or come on in and pick up a good story! You are welcome to offer suggestions for additions to this collection. A suggestion box is located on the Circulation Desk. Please provide the title of the book, the author's name, and any additional information you have that would help us identify the book and its publisher. Though it is not possible to acquire every book suggested ...