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Greetings!
Have you tried the cheddar curds for sale at the Dairy
Bar?
Yum!
David Dzurec, operations manager of the dairy plant
and
associate extension professor in the Department of
Animal
Science is now not only making cheese for UConn
but
teaching students how to make it. Fresh curds,
are
mild in flavor and can be used in lots of dishes. Later,
Dzurec and his
students will be offering aged cheese too. One of our
former booksellers who is
from Wisconsin told us that when she was a child,
they deep
fried cheese curds. Oh my!
This American Life, the popular NPR show, will feature
Ron
Mallett talking about his book Time Traveler. The
interview will air on Connecticut Public Radio on
Sunday,
January 28 at 4 pm. What fun, Ron.
The University of Chicago Press reports that The Medical
Malpractice Myth by Tom Baker, the Connecticut Mutual
Professor of Law and director of the Insurance Law Center at
the UConn School of Law, has been a strong bestseller.
Congratulations! The book will be out in paperback in July.
Lots of new books arriving both on our shelves and online. And
lots of interesting events coming up. Please pay us a visit.
Cheers!
Suzy
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A Perfect Mess
The Hidden Benefits of Disorder
A certain well known scientist on campus bounded
into the
Co-op during break looking for A Perfect Mess
by
Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman. He’d read
the review
in the Times and, believing whole-
heartedly in the premise, forwarded the story to
various
colleagues on campus. Apparently they needed a bit
of
education on the messy desk syndrome. Needless to
say, like
our scientist, I too subscribe to the authors’
contention that a
desk with papers, books, and a myriad notes and
pens is a
reflection of a busy, creative, perhaps brilliant mind.
It’s
true, people with layers on their desks are
multitasking.
I think everyone on campus deserves a copy of A
Perfect
Mess (either as self-defense or as a step towards
understanding the cluttering half), so we are offering it at
30%
off. This is one book you can leave lying about and no
one will dare tell you to put it away.
Click here to order A Perfect Mess .
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You Suck
and Other Events You Won't Want to Miss
We have an exciting lineup of events coming up,
starting with a screening of Ken Simon's Working the
Land tonight at 6.
We are thrilled about the upcoming visit of
Christopher Moore. Moore, a New York Times
bestselling author who enjoys a cult-like following,
will read from his new
novel, You Suck: A Love Story. Set in the
city of San Francisco, the novel is peopled with
wonderful characters. There's the wild and wacky
Safeway night staff who bowl with frozen turkeys, a
sixteen-year-old goth girl named Abby Normal, and
other endearing eccentrics. If you've read Moore's
prior novels, you've been waiting for this. If you
haven't read him yet, you are in for a treat.The
reading is free, but space is limited. He's been on
tour across the country and he's been a sell-out at
other bookstores. Please call to
ensure seating. 860-486-5027.
Other topics our authors and guests will be talking about
this semester include army ants, the Victorian
architecture of Willimantic, and women and sports. Plan
to be entertained and educated.
Complete Listing of Events
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MLK in CT
And Other Little Known Facts
Did you know that Martin Luther King, Jr. worked on
tobacco in Connecticut and it was a transformative
experience for him? Here's what he wrote, "Just
before
going to college I went to Simsbury, Connecticut, and
worked for a whole summer on a tobacco farm to
earn a little school money to supplement what my
parents were doing. One Sunday, we went to church
in Simsbury, and we were the only Negroes there. On
Sunday mornings I was the religious leader and
spoke on any text I wanted to 107 boys. I had never
thought that a person of my race could eat anywhere,
but we ate in one of the finest restaurants in Hartford.
"After that summer in Connecticut, it was a bitter
feeling going back to segregation. It was hard to
understand why I could ride wherever I pleased on
the train from New York to Washington and then had
to change to a Jim Crow car at the nation's capital in
order to continue the trip to Atlanta. The first time that
I was seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as
if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood. I
could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms,
separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly
because the separate was always unequal, and
partly because the very idea of separation did
something to my sense of dignity and self-respect."
Much has changed since Dr. King worked on tobacco in
Connecticut. Yet there is still much work to do, and to do
that, we can and must learn from history. We have
picked a few of the most intriguing titles from our
shelves for you to consider as Black History Month
approaches.
African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot
Venus by Andrew Blechman is the true story of
Saartjie Baartman who was snatched from her South
African home when she was just 21 and shipped to
London. There she was put on stage and exhibited
as a "specimen" of African beauty and sexuality.
Publisher's price, $23.95 Co-
op Pick
price $20.36
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Pulitzer Prize
Winner Edward P. Jones is a stirring collection of stories
by the author of The Known World. We have
signed first editions.
Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and
Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth
Heckley is the little known tale of a Virginia slave who
bought her freedom and went into business as a
dressmaker.
The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and
the Conspiracy that Set Its Sailsby Eric Calonius
chronicles the story of the slave ship that landed in
Georgia after the slave trade was outlawed and the
turmoil that ensued.
For these and other books for Black History Month, click here.
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