UVic VILSC Booksmack titles 2024

UVic's recommendations via Booksmark 2024 at the Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference.

Updated April 24, 2024
University of Victoria Libraries Tina Bebbington, History and Newspaper Librarian, UVic
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Stroud, Jonathan.
Presenting a thrilling new voice in children's literature-a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hotshot wizard named Simon...
Redwall
Jacques, Brian.
Hutchinson is reissuing the first REDWALL trilogy- REDWALL, MOSSFLOWER, MATTIMEO to co-incide with the publication of THE BELLMAKER and to once again make available the entire REDWALL series in hardback. Redwall Abbey, the tranquil home of a community of mice, is threatened by Cluny the...
Burning down the Haus : punk rock, revolution, and the fall of the Berlin Wall
Mohr, Tim
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY  Rolling Stone * BookPage * Amazon *  Rough Trade Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence "[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany." -...
Fitting in and getting happy : how conformity to societal norms affects subjective well-being
Stavrova, Olga.
Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being? Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in Fitting In and Getting Happy that to a large extent happiness depends on a match between individuals'...
Snow crash
Stephenson, Neal
Korean cooking favorites : kimchi, BBQ, bibimbap and so much more
Ford, Hyegyoung K.
Spicy, Salty, Sour, Sweet Create the Amazing Flavors of Korean Home Cooking Step into the kitchen of Hyegyoung K. Ford, founder of the blog Beyond Kimchee, and discover the delicious, fail-safe meals she ate growing up in South Korea and now cooks for her own busy family....
Horace and Boris
When Horace the horse meets a wily old elephant named Boris, and gets invited to visit Boris' circus, which has just come to town, he's very excited. For a single hoof-full of peanuts, he'll get to see amazing acts and even more incredible creatures! And he's not disappointed ... at least, not at...
Altered states of consciousness : experiences out of time and self
Wittmann, Marc
A groundbreaking study of what altered states of consciousness-the dissolution of feelings of time and self-can tell us about the mystery of consciousness, perfect for readers interested in psychedelics, brain science, and meditation. During extraordinary moments of consciousness...
The owl and the pussycat
Lear, Edward
Visions in Poetry is an innovative and award-winning series of classic poems re-interpreted for today's readers by outstanding contemporary artists in distinctively beautiful editions. The sixth Visions in Poetry book is The Owl and the Pussycat, a nonsense poem by Edward...
Stanley Park
Taylor, Timothy L.
A young chef who revels in local bounty, a long-ago murder that remains unsolved, the homeless of Stanley Park, a smooth-talking businessman named Dante - these are the ingredients of Timothy Taylor's stunning debut novel -Kitchen ConfidentialmeetsThe Edible Woman. Trained in France, Jeremy Papier,...
The blog of war : front-line dispatches from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
Burden, Matthew Currier.
Matthew Currier Burden foundedwww.blackfive.net, one of the most popular military blogs on the Internet. His blog began as an homage to a friend killed on duty in Iraq and quickly became a source of information about what was really happening in Afghanistan and...
The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's-maid, maid-of-all-work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, an
Beeton, Mrs.
The gallery of regrettable food
Lileks, James.
WARNING: This is not a cookbook. You'll find no tongue-tempting treats within -- unless, of course, you consider Boiled Cow Elbow with Plaid Sauce to be your idea of a tasty meal. No, The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a public service. Learn to identify these dishes. Learn to regard shivering...
The graveyard book
Gaiman, Neil.
The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.  Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place--he's the only living...

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