Century

On the Occasion of the End of the Century...

Understandably, lots of books published during this last year of the 1900s invite us to look back at the century just winding down. Here is an assortment of fin de siecle collections available at the library---images, words, chronicles of our blunders and accomplishments. Most can be checked out except for Century conceived and edited by Bruce Bernard. Too cumbersome to circulate, this huge collection of memorable photographs, tracking events year by year, from Oscar Wilde on his deathbed in 1900 to Kosovo refugees in 1999, can be browsed in the Reference Rooms at Porter, Salem Church, and Headquarters branches (R 909.82 Ce).

on order	American Photography: A Century of Images	Vicki Goldberg and Robert Silberman
779.9973 Bu	Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives	Bruce I. Bustard
Fic Bes	The Best American Short Stories of the Century	edited by John Updike
796.008 Be	The Best American Sports Writing of the Century	edited by David Halberstam
973.9 Le	Letters of the Century: America, 1900- 1999	edited by Lisa Grunwald & Stephen J. Adler
R 423.1 Ay	Twentieth Century Words [a dictionary]	John Ayto
973.91 Ce	Centenarians: The Story of the 20th Century by the Americans Who Lived It	Bernard Edelman
on order	People of the Century	Time/CBS News
808.882 Qu	Quotable Women of the Twentieth Century	edited by Tracy Quinn
940.55 Ma	Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century	Mark Mazower
355 Co	Days of Infamy: Great Military Blunders of the 20th Century	Michael Coffey
909.82 Gi	A History of the Twentieth Century [in 3 volumes]	Martin Gilbert
530 Su	Physics in the 20th Century	Curt Suplee
609 Vi	Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines, Systems and the Human World	edited by Richard Rhodes
817 Cu	Our Dumb Century	by the editors of The Onion

prepared by Ann Haley, Coordinator of Adult Services, Central Rappahannock Regional Library, 12/99

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