Books

#SeawolvesReadEverywhere

Do Seawolves read everywhere? Apparently they do, as evidenced by the new Twitter campaign just launched by @SBULibrary and featuring a book loving Wolfie. Join the fun by tweeting your own photo reading the book of your choice to @SBULibrary with the hashtag #SeawolvesReadEverywhere .  And don’t forget to follow Stony

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The Write Stuff

Aspiring authors, if you aren’t able to attend this year’s Southampton Writers Conference,  Stony Brook’s annual summer program of stellar writing workshops taught by world class novelists, playwrights, and poets, do not despair….you can still avail yourself of the University Library’s rich collection of resources for creative written expression.  A

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Melville Library Book Sale

Melville Library Book Sale in the Main Stacks on the 3rd floor of the Melville Library. Updated inventory including fiction and non-fiction titles in subjects such as art, science, history, Chinese studies, math and psychology.  Paperbacks are $.50 and hard covers are $1.00 unless otherwise marked.  

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Banned Book Week

Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in

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Reader’s Advisory

Stony Brook University Libraries offers a helpful tool to assist you in researching a number of popular books and films found in our collection. Throughout the Main Stacks, patrons may find small signs posted on random aisles providing a title that can be located in that section.  Have you recently been assigned an essay on

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