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Cruise on downwards through the LRC newsletter pipeline (brah) and catch a video dedicated to Valentine's Day, some beautiful books that will wrench your heart strings, and a web tool that that you should absolutely check out.
Happy early Valentine's Day!
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YouTube Pick of the Week
Just in time for Valentine's Day, a tale of true love and magic: a cat and a turtle
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Books
Everything, Everything (2015) by Nicola Yoon
Location: FIC Yoon
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black-black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster.
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Goodreads
The Perks of Being A Wallflower (1999) by Stephen Chbosky
Call Number:
FIC Chbosky
Charlie is a freshman.
And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it.
Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mix tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But he can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.
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Goodreads
Columbine
(2009) by
Dave Cullen
Call Number:
LB 3013.33
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine."
Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal.
The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy's tapes and diaries, Cullen gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy.
In the tradition of Helter Skelter
and In Cold Blood
, Columbine
is destined to become a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers--an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.
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Goodreads
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Tech Corner
Clone Zone
This website is perfect for class projects, so teachers, listen up!
Clone Zone allows users to "clone" existing websites, edit them and then share them via email or social media. Put another way, it's a tool that allows you to create fake websites using the formats and appearances of websites we all know and love. For example, you can clone the New York Times homepage and edit the text and images to create fake news stories. Or, you can clone a Wikipedia page to say whatever you want.
Check out the website, and use it for free by clicking
here.
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