Timely Topics Reading Lists

Timely Topics

Specialized reading lists on topics of general interest.
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Australia
Adult Books
Australia \| Time-Life Books \| 994 AUS	Australia, the rough guide \| Daly, et al \| 919.4 AUS
Australia's Wilderness Heritage \| Leo Meier \| OVERSIZE 919.4 AUS	Beyond the Horizon: Adventures in Faraway Lands \| National Geographic \| 910.4 BEY
Christmas in Australia \| World Book \| 394.2663 Christmas-Australia	The Fatal Impact: an account of the invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840 \| Alan Moorehead \| 910 MOO
The Fatal Shore [penal colonies] \| Robert Hughes \| 994 HUG	In a Sunburned Country \| Bill Bryson \| 919.4 BRY
Kangaroo Dreaming: an Australian wildlife odyssey \| Edward Kanze \| 508.94 KAN	Linkletter Down Under \| Art Linkletter \| 919.4 LIN
Mosaic: a chronicle of five generations [Holocaust survivors in Australia] \| Diane Armstrong \| 940.53 ARM	Pacific Island Legends: tales from Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Australia \| Flood, Strong, & Flood \| 398.2 FLO
Peoples of the Earth [Vol. 1] \| 901.9 PEO	Surprising Lands Down Under \| Mary Ann Harrell \| 919.4 HAR
Wild Shores of Australia \| Ron Fisher \| 919.4 FIS	TOP OF PAGE
Junior Books
The Aboriginal Peoples of Australia \| Anne Bartlett \| J994 BAR	Animal Dreaming: an Aboriginal dreamtime story \| Paul Morin \| J398.24 MOR
Australia \| Michael Dahl \| E994 DAH	Australia \| Tracey Boraas \| J994 BOR
Australia Story Kit	Australia and New Zealand \| Elaine Landau \| E994 Landau, E
The Australian Aborigines \| Eleanor Baker \| J994.01 Baker, Eleanor / Australian	Children from Australia to Zimbabwe \| Ajmera & Versola \| J305.23 AJM
Destination Australia \| Jonathan Grupper \| J590.11 GRU	Dingoes at Dinnertime \| Mary Pope Osborne \| JF Osborne, Mary / Dingoes
Don't Pat the Wombat! \| Elizabeth Honey \| JF HON	Kangaroos & Other Creatures from Down Under \| Time \| 591.994 KAN
Uluru, Australia's Aboriginal Heart \| Caroline Arnold \| J994.01 ARN	Waltzing Matilda \| A.B. Patterson \| E PAT
Wombat Goes Walkabout \| Michael Morpurgo \| E Morpurgo, M	TOP OF PAGE
Websites
Global Road Warrior : Australia \| Everything you want to know and more!	Tourism in Australia
Australia's National Parks	TOP OF PAGE
Movies
Crocodile Dundee [video]	Crododile Dundee II [video]
Rescuers Down Under [junior video]	Wonders Down Under \| National Geographic [video]
Kangaroo Jack [video]	Rabbit-Proof Fence [DVD]
What's Up Down Under? [video]	The Thorn Birds [DVD]
Australia's Ancient Wilderness : Kakadu [video]	TOP OF PAGE

Fertility
Before Your Pregnancy \| Amy Ogle \| 618.2 OGL	Fertility and Conception \| Karen Trewinnard \| 618.2 Trewinnard, Karen / Fertility
The Infertility Diet \| Fern Reiss \| 618.17 Reiss, F	Making Babies: the science of pregnancy \| David Bainbridge \| 618.2 BAI
New Hope for Couples With Infertility Problems \| Theresa DiGeronimo \| 616.6 DIG	Older Mothers: conception, pregnancy and birth after 35 \| Julia Berryman \| 618.2 BER
Overcoming Infertility \| Robert Jansen, M.D. \| 616.692 JAN	Overcoming Infertility Naturally \| Karen Bradstreet \| 616.692 BRA
The Fertility Diet: groundbreaking research reveals natural ways to boost ovulation and improve your chances of getting pregnant \| Chavarro, Willett, & Skerrett \| 618.17 Chavarro, Jorge / Fertility	Planning Parenthood: strategies for success in fertility assistance, adoption, and surrogacy \| Clark, Rebecca A. \| 618.178 Planning
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For Children
Baby on the Way \| William Sears, M.D. \| 612.6 SEA	Everybody Has a Bellybutton: your life before you were born \| Lawrence P. Pringle \| 612.63 PRI
Hello Baby! \| Lizzi Rockwell \| 612.6 ROC	How You Were Born \| Joanna Cole \| 612.6 COL
Human Reproduction Backpack \| Primary Level	What's Inside \| Jeanne Ashbe \| E 618.2 Ashbe, J
When You Were Inside Mommy \| Joanna Cole \| J612.6 COL	TOP OF PAGE
For Women
101 Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy with Diabetes \| American Diabetes Association \| ON ORDER	Baby to Be \| DVD 618
Balancing Pregnancy and Work: how to make the most of the next nine months on the job \| Nancy Wilson Hall \| 618.24 HAL	Barefoot in the Kitchen: a pregnancy survival cookbook \| Jennifer Evans Gardner \| 618.2 GAR
Conception, Pregnancy and Birth: the childbirth bible for today's parents \| 618.2 Stoppard, Miriam / Conception	A Bun in the Oven: the real guide to pregnancy \| Kaz Cooke \| 618.2 COO
Carrying a Little Extra: a guide to healthy pregnancy for the plus-size woman \| Paula Bernstein \| 618.2 BER	A Child is Born [photography] \| Lennart Nilsson & Lars Hamberger \| 612.6 NIL
Dr. Miriam Stoppard's New Pregnancy and Birth Book \| 618.2 Stoppard, Miriam / Dr.	Diabetes and Pregnancy: what to expect \| American Diabetes Association Council on Pregnancy \| 618.3 DIA
Easy Labor: every woman's guide to choosing less pain and more joy during childbirth \| William Camann & Kathryn J. Alexander \| 618.2 Camann, William / Easy	Eating Expectantly: a practical and tasty approach to prenatal nutrition \| Bridget Swinney \| 618.2 SWI
Gestational Diabetes: what to expect \| American Diabetes Association \| 618.3 GES	The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy, or everything your doctor won't tell you \| Vicki Iovine \| 618.2 IOV
Feed the Belly: the pregnant mom's healthy eating guide \| Frances Largeman-Roth \| ON ORDER	Miscarriage, Medicine, & Miracles: everything you need to know about miscarriage \| Bruce Young & Amy Zavatto \| 618.3 Young, Bruce / Miscarriage
The Legacy of Dr. Lamaze \| Caroline Gutmann \| 618.2 LAM	Losing Weight After Pregnancy \| Elisabeth Bing \| 613.04 BIN
Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy \| Roger W. Harms & The Mayo Clinic \| 618.2 Mayo-Pregnancy	Misconceptions: truth, lies, and the unexpected journey to motherhood \| Naomi Wolf \| 618.2 WOL
The Everything Get Ready for Baby Book: from buying the right gear to preparing a room \| Katina Z. Jones \| 618.2 JON	The New Parent \| Miriam Stoppard \| 649 STO
Planning for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond \| American College of Obstetricians & Naomi Wolf \| 618.2 WOL	The Post-Pregnancy Handbook: the only book that tells you what the first year after childbirth is really all about physically, emotionally, sexually \| Sylvia Brown \| 618.6 BRO
The Pregnancy Bed Rest Book: a survival guide for expectant mothers and their families \| Amy E. Tracy \| 618.24 TRA	Pregnancy for Dummies \| Joanne Stone & Keith Eddleman \| 618.24 Stone, J
Pregnancy to Parenthood: your personal step-by-step journey through the childbirth experience \| Linda Goldberg \| 618.2 Goldberg, L	Pregnant for 100 Years: from conception to contractions \| Jeanne Benedict \| 618.2 BEN
The Modern Girl's Guide to Motherhood \| Jane Buckingham \| 649.122 Buckingham, Jane / Modern	What Only a Mother Can Tell You About Having a Baby \| K. C. Cole \| 612.63 COL
Planning for Pregnancy: prenatal nurturing for your baby \| Miriam Stoppard \| ON ORDER	What to Expect When You're Expecting \| Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff, & Sandee Hathaway \| 618.24 Murkoff, Heidi / What
The Smart Mother's Guide to a Better Pregnancy: how to minimize risks, avoid complications, and have a healthy baby \| 618.2 Burke-Galloway, Linda / Smart	You Know You're Pregnant When. Reflections on the longest nine months of my life \| 618.2 Rinehart, Kim / You
Full of Life: mom-to-mom tips I wish someone had told me when I was pregnant \| 618.2 O'Dell, Nancy / Full	The 30-Minute Pregnancy Workout Book: the complete light weight program for fitness \| 618.2 Aberg, Anna / Thirty
Your Pregnancy Week by Week \| Glade B. Curtis \| 618.2 Curtis, Glade / Your	You're Pregnant! A guide for longest nine months of your life \| Kathryn Hammer \| 618.54 HAM
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth \| REVISED EDITION ON ORDER (have older)	TOP OF PAGE
Pregnancy, Birth and the First Weeks (video) \| VID 618	Pregnancy Plus Workout (video) \| VID 613
For Men
The Birth Partner: everything you need to know to help a woman through childbirth \| Penny Simkin \| 618.2 Simkin, P	A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy: preparing for parenthood together \| Frank Mungeam \| ON ORDER
How Men Have Babies: a pregnant father's survival guide (audiobook) \| Alan Thicke \| AUD 818.54 THI	The Guy's Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the First Year of Fatherhood \| 618.2 Crider, Michael / Guy's
Teens / Pregancy / Adoption
Love, Sex & God: for young women age 15 and up \| 306.7 Ameiss, Bill / Love	Teenagers: everyone is not doing it \| 306.8743 Long, Mike / Teenagers
Dating, Relationships, and Sexuality: what teens should know \| 306.7 Beckman, Wendy / Dating	What Do I Do Now? Talking about teenage pregnancy \| 306.8743 Kuklin, Susan / What
Teens and Pregnancy \| 306.8743 Byers, Ann / Teens	Teen Pregnancy \| 306.8743 Teen
Teen Pregnancy and Parenting \| 306.8743 Teen-Parenting	The Unplanned Pregnancy Book for Teens and College Students \| 306.8743 Williams-Wheeler, Dorrie / Unplanned
Your Pregnancy and Newborn Journey: a guide for pregnant teens \| 306.8743 Lindsay, Jeanne / Your	Adoptions Today: questions and controversies \| Ann E. Weiss \| YA362.73 WEI
Teen Pregnancy \| Jennifer A. Hurley \| YA306.87 HUR	Youth Coping With Teen Pregnancy: growing up fast \| Docalavich & Livingston \| 306.8743 Docalavich, Heather / Youth
Issues in Adoption \| 362.734 Issue
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Caldecott Medal Winners and Honor Books Clicking the title above takes you to the ALA/Caldecott homepage where all the Caldecott winners and honor books are listed. Below are the 2009 winners.
2009 Medal Winner The House in the Night \| illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson
2009 Honor Books A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever \| written and illustrated by Marla Frazee How I Learned Geography \| written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz \| E Shulevitz, Uri / How A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams \| illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant \| ON ORDER

Collections
Classic Poetry, an illustrated collection \| Michael Rosen, ed.	The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America \| Donald Hall, ed.
Oxford Treasury of Classic Poems \| Michael Harrison & Christopher Stuart-Clark, comp.	A Child's Garden of Verses \| Robert Louis Stevenson
Poetry for Young People \| Alfred Lord Tennyson	Poetry for Young People \| Emily Dickinson
Poetry for Young People \| Robert Frost	When We Were Very Young \| A. A. Milne
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book \| Langston Hughes	Something Rich and Strange: a treasury of Shakespeare's verse \| Gina Pollinger, ed., Emma Chichester Clark, illus.
Shout! : little poems that roar \| Brod Bagert	Poems for the Very Young \| Michael Rosen, ed.
What I Like: poems for the very young \| Gervase Phinn	Home to Me: poems across America \| Lee Bennett Hopkins, ed.
Good Morning Sweetie Pie and other poems for little children \| Cynthia Rylant	Big Talk: poems for four voices \| Paul Fleischman
Riddle Road: puzzles in poems and pictures \| Elizabeth Spires	Some from the Moon, Some from the Sun: poems and songs for everyone \| Margot Zemach
Here's a Little Poem: a very first book of poetry \| Yolen & Peters, ed.	TOP OF PAGE
Humorous Poetry
Don't Forget Your Etiquette! : the essential guide to misbehavior \| Dave Greenburg	Animal Poems \| Valerie Worth
Hey, You! : poems to skyscrapers, mosquitoes, and other fun things \| Paul Janeczko, ed.	A Light in the Attic \| Shel Silverstein
The New Kid on the Block \| Jack Prelutsky	Please Don't Squeeze Your Boa, Noah \| Marilyn Singer
Knock on Wood: poems about superstitions \| Janet Wong	Candy Corn \| James Stevenson
I'm Gonna Tell Mama I Want an Iquana \| Tony Johnston	Bing Bang Boing \| Douglas Florian
Making Friends With Frankenstein \| Colin McNaughton	I Invited a Dragon to Dinner, and other poems to make you laugh
Scranimals \| Jack Prelutsky	Rhyme and Punishment: adventures in wordplay \| Brian Cleary
Vile Verses \| Roald Dahl	TOP OF PAGE
Nonsense Poetry
A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me \| Wallace Tripp	The Tale of Custard the Dragon \| Ogden Nash
The Complete Nonsense Book \| Edward Lear	Book of Pigericks: pig limericks \| Arnold Lobel
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Haiku
Cricket Never Does: a collection of Haiku and Tanka \| Myra Livingston	Fat Polka-Dot Cat and Other Haiku \| Betsy Maestro
Wing Nuts: screwy Haiku \| Paul Janezcko	If Not for the Cat: Haiku \| Jack Prelutsky
Haiku! Gesunheit: an illustrated collection of ridiculous Haiku poetry \| Kenny Scharf	Dogku \| Andrew Clements
Nursery Rhymes
My Very First Mother Goose \| Iona Opie, ed.	A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
Mary Engelbreit's Merry Mother Goose \| Mary Engelbreit	Monster Goose \| Judy Sierra
Mother Goose Rhymes \| CD Hullinger	Classic Nursery Rhymes \| Weber & Gerlings
Videos
A Zooful of Poetry [video]	A Quiet Evening With Mother Goose [video]

Lynn Austin Hannah Alexander Rachel Basch James Scott Bell Terri Blackstock Stephen Bly Lori Copeland Jessica Draper Linda Dorrell Richard Paul Evans Sharon Ewell Foster Philip Gulley Robin Lee Hatcher Kristen Heitzman Dee Henderson Angela Elwell Hunt Jerry B. Jenkins Jan Karon Karen Kingsbury Al and JoAnna Lacy	Beverly LaHaye Tim LaHaye Beverly Lewis Kathleen Morgan Gilbert Morris Nancy Moser Janette Oke Catherine Palmer Judith Pella Jane Peart Tracie Peterson Michael R. Phillips Francine Rivers Marilynne Robinson Gary Smalley Lauraine Snelling Penelope Stokes Bodie and Brock Thoene Lori Wick Linda Windsor

Books \| Audiobooks \| Large Print
The Killer Angels \| Shaara, Michael / Killer & AUD Shaara, Michael / Killer	Yankee Stranger \| Thane, Elswyth / Yankee & LP F Thane
Cold Mountain \| Frazier, Charles / Cold & AUD Frazier, C & LP F FRA	Andersonville \| Kantor, MacKinlay / Andersonville
Love and War \| Jakes, John / Love	Don't Know Much About the Civil War \| Davis, K* \| 973.7 DAV \| AUD 973.7 Davis, K
The Civil War: an illustrated history \| * \| 973.7 WAR	The American Heritage New History of the Civil War \| * \| 973.7 CAT
The Photographic History of the Civil War (8 volumes) \| 973.7 PHO	Reflections on the Civil War \| * \| 973.7 CAT
Rebel (The Starbuck Chronicles) \| Cornwell, Bernard / Rebel	The Blue and the Gray: the story of the Civil War as told by participants \| * \| 973.7 COM
Civil War Battlefields: a touring guide \| * \| 973.7 EIC	The Civil War: Master Index, an illustrated guide \| * \| 973.7 TIM
Civil War in Pictures \| * \| 973.7 PRA	Fields of Fury: the American Civil War \| * \| YA 973.7 MCP
Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks \| * \| YA 973.7 Highsmith, C	Civil War Battles and Leaders \| * \| J973.7 MUR
Videos \| DVDs
The Civil War (9 videos) \| *	Red Badge of Courage \| *
Shenandoah \| *	Gone With the Wind \| *
Gettysburg \| *	Little Women \| *
Glory \| *	North and South (parts 1 & 2) \| *
Internet Sites
www.civilwartalk.com	www.civilwar.com
www.civil-war.net	www.americancivilwar.com
www.historyplace.com/civilwar	www.civilwarclipart.com
www.sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war	US Civil War Information

An Affair to Remember (1957) \| starring Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr \| *	The African Queen (1951) \| starring Humphrey Bogart & Katherine Hepburn \| *
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) \| directed by Frank Capra \| *	Ben Hur (1927 silent) \| directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramon Navarro \| *
The Blue Angel (1930, German) \| directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich \| *	Bringing Up Baby (1938) \| starring Cary Grant & Katherine Hepburn \| *
Casablanca (1942) \| starring Humphrey Bogard & Ingrid Bergman \| *	Citizen Kane (1941) \| directed by Orson Welles \| *
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) \| directed by Michael Gordon \| *	Cyrano de Bergerac (1990, French) \| directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, starring Gerard Depardieu \| *
Dracula (1931) \| directed by Tod Browning, starring Bela Lugosi \| *	Fantasia (1940) \| producted by Walt Disney \| *
Fiddler on the Roof (1971) \| directed by Norman Jewison \| *	Gone With the Wind (1939) \| starring Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh \| *
Gigi (1958) \| directed by Vincente Minnelli \| *	Godzilla (1956) \| directed by Inoshiro Honda \| *
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) \| directed by John Ford \| *	Guys and Dolls (1955) \| produced by Samuel Goldwyn \| *
Hamlet (1948, British) \| directed by Laurence Olivier \| *	Hamlet (1990) \| directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Mel Gibson \| *
Hamlet (1997) \| directed by Kenneth Branagh \| *	High Noon (1952) \| starring Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly \| *
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) \| starring James Stewart & Donna Reed \| *	King Kong (1933) \| starring Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, & Robert Armstrong \| *
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, British) \| directed by David Lean, starring Peter O’Toole \| *	Life is Beautiful (1998, Italian) \| directed by Roberto Benigni \| *
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) \| directed by Vincente Minelli, starring Judy Garland \| *	Mr. Lucky (1943) \| directed by H. C. Potter \| *
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington \| directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart \| *	Romeo and Juliet (1968, British) \| directed by Franco Zeffirelli \| *
Sabrina (1954) \| starring Audrey Hepburn \| *	Singin' in the Rain (1952) \| directed by Stanley Donan, starring Gene Kelly \| *
Some Like It Hot (1959) \| directed by Billy Wilder \| *	The Sound of Music (1965) \| directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Andrews \| *
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) \| directed by Elia Kazan, starring Marlon Brando & Vivian Leigh \| *	The Ten Commandments (1923, silent, & 1956) \| directed by Cecil B. DeMille \| *
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) \| directed by Robert Mulligan \| *	Top Hat (1935) \| starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers \| *
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1942) \| directed by Elia Kazen \| *	Vertigo (1958) \| directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart \| *
West Side Story (1961) \| directed by Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins \| *	TOP OF PAGE

Aesop's Fables

Baba Yaga (Witch in Russian folk tales)

Beauty and the Beast

The Bremen Town Musicians

Chicken Little / Henny Penny

Cinderella

Collections of Characters & Stories
The Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Emperor's New Clothes
The Fisherman and His Wife
Frog Prince
Gingerbread Boy
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Hansel and Gretel
The House That Jack Built
Humpty Dumpty
I Know an Old Lady...
Jack and the Beanstalk
King Midas
The Lion or the Tiger
Little Red Hen
Little Red Riding Hood
Mother Goose
Old MacDonald
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
The Princess and the Pea
Puss in Boots
Rapunzel
Rumpelstiltskin
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
Stone Soup
Teeny Tiny Woman
Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Little Pigs
Tortoise and the Hare
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Twelve Dancing Princesses
or, try these original tales...