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October eBooks

Business Mathematics and Statistics

The book is written for the dtudents of Commerce undergraduate and MBA. Matrices and determinants have been written from the viewpoint commerce students.

October Program Related Books

Meat Smoking and Smokehouse Design

Call Number: TX 609 M37 2009

This complete reference on curing, smoking, and cooking meats delivers the technical know-how behind preparing meats and sausages, explaining differences between grilling, barbecuing, and smoking. The sections on smokehouse design include more than 250 construction diagrams and photos.

The Social Fact

Call Number: PN 4888 S6 W55 2019

How the structure of news, information, and knowledge is evolving and how news media can foster social connection. While the public believes that journalism remains crucial for democracy, there is a general sense that the news media are performing this role poorly. In The Social Fact, John Wihbey makes the case that journalism can better serve democracy by focusing on ways of fostering social connection. Wihbey explores how the structure of news, information, and knowledge and their flow through society are changing, and he considers ways in which news media can demonstrate the highest possible societal value in the context of these changes....

October Entertainment Reads

The Poet X

Call Number: ACE OHS

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers--especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about...

Greenwood

Call Number: CHR OHS

A propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world. In 2038, scientist Jake Greenwood is working as an overqualified tour guide to ultra-rich eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. As the rest of humanity chokes on the dust storms that follow the environmental collapse known as the Great Withering, Jake finds temporary refuge on Greenwood Island, a place whose connection to her own family name she had thought just a coincidence -- until someone from her past reappears with a journal that might give Jake the family story she's long craved...

Highwire Moon

Call Number: eBook

A young Mexican mother struggles to reconnect with her child in America. At three years old, Elvia was placed in foster care when her mother, Serafina, an undocumented migrant worker, was deported. Twelve years later, Serafina risks everything to return to the United States and the daughter she was forced to abandon.

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