Rare Book Room

Rare Book Room
This "educational site [is] intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world." Includes digitized facsimiles of "some of the great books in science, including books by Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, [and] Darwin"; most of the Shakespeare Quartos; musical scores by Beethoven and Mozart; the 1455 Gutenberg Bible held by the Library of Congress; and many more. Searchable, or browsable by topic, author, or library. Very Interesting, enjoy.
URL: http://www.rarebookroom.org/

From the Librarians' Internet Index
Websites you can trust!

100 Best First Lines of Novels

100 Best First Lines of Novels: As chosen by the editors of American Book Review

1.	Call me Ishmael.	Herman Melville	Moby-Dick	1851
2.	It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	1813
3.	A screaming comes across the sky.	Thomas Pynchon	Gravity's Rainbow	1973
4.	Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.	Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa)	One Hundred Years of Solitude	1967
5.	Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.	Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita	1955
6.	Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.	Leo Tolstoy (trans. Constance Garnett)	Anna Karenina	1877

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Recipes (and even more recipes)

For all of you food lovers out there, there's a recipe search engine. FoodieView has been designed to search multiple websites to try to find the recipe you are searching for. You can search for anything from rhubarb crumble to clam chowder. One of the websites that it searches is RecipeZaar. This website even has a Nutrion Facts panel for many of its dishes.

Happy Cooking!

Summer Reading

Pour yourself a glass of ice cold lemonade, cozy up in a hammock in your yard, and read a good book.

Get a tan at the beach while reading a book on a lawn chair.

When it's so hot outside that merely looking out the window makes you sweat, turn up the AC and read!

Road trip? Bring something to read when it's not your turn to drive.

Need some ideas for great books? Check out the New York Times and Modern Library top 100 books of all time list.

Power of Art

• Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Wheatfield with Crows,
• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Guernica,
• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and David with the Head of Goliath,
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and The Ecstasy of St. Theresa,
• Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis,
• Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) and The Death of Marat,
• J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On),
• Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and the Seagram murals.

The POWER OF ART Web site allows viewers, students and educators to build upon the scholarship and research of the series, and to fully explore the artists, the paintings and the stories behind them.

Best Places to Get Free Books - The Ultimate Guide

From Friedbeef’s Tech:

Best Places to Get Free Books - The Ultimate Guide

Weeding Adventures

Recently, Kristen and I embarked on a weeding project for our main books collection. We pulled some of our older books from our shelves to make room for new ones. During this process, we encountered some outdated books that were really cool. One of the ones was a directory of the internet. The writer has now published an updated version of this book on the web at Harley Hahn's Internet Yellow Pages. It's very similar to the Librarians' Internet Index mentioned previously by Doreen.