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Below are previous editions of the Wise Guide, cataloged each month when the new edition is published.

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002


October 2008 collage

October 2008
Learning From Katrina . . . Gimme Some Candy! . . . Highlighting Hispanic Heroes . . . On the Lamb . . . Cutting a Rug . . . Ode to Autumn . . . Who Really Elects the President?


September 2008 collage

September 2008
Helping Hands Equal Happy Hearts . . . And the Night Shall Be Filled With Music . . . Meaning in the Manuscript . . . A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words . . . A Lifetime of Achievement in Fiction . . . Have You Been to Yoknapatawpha County? . . . If You Build It, They Will Come . . . Not Necessarily!


August 2008 collage

August 2008
Land of the Lost . . . Title, That Is . . . Ready. Set. Read! . . . It's Not a Beauty Pageant. It's a Scholarship Program! . . . Less is More for This Poet . . . Dapping Ducks and Drakes . . . When Inauguration Day Was in August . . . Leslie Townes Hope Also Known as 'Packy East.' Sound Familiar?


July 2008 collage

July 2008
Buy Fresh, Buy Local . . . Before Laurel and Hardy, There Was Joe and Carrie . . . The Changing Role of the Citizen-Soldier . . . Have Fun, Will Travel . . . A (Family) Tree Grows in the Library . . . How the West Was Won . . . Are You Doing All You Can?


June 2008 collage

June 2008
Just Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man! . . . ‘Cause This is Thriller, Thriller Night . . . Explore. Discover. Be Inspired. . . . One World, One Dream . . . In God We Trust . . . Show Me the Money! . . . The World's Oldest Culinary Art?


May 2008 collage

May 2008
H for Hebrew . . . H for Hero . . . Der Fuhrer's Fine Art . . . Safeguard with Sanborn . . . A Celebration of Leadership, Diversity and Harmony . . . The New Science of Addiction . . . Have You Been to the Polar Bear Garden? . . . Honor Your Mother


April 2008 collage

April 2008
America’s Pastime at America’s Library . . . Honestly Abe, is That You? . . . Are You Experienced? . . . Women of Four Wars . . . Microform . . . Macro Impact! . . . Thomas Jefferson Was a Poet, and We Didn’t Even Know It . . . A Goddess in the Library ... Minerva


March 2008 collage

March 2008
The World's Largest Inbox . . . From Mutiny to Freedom . . . From Russia, With Love . . . It's Curtains For Tony and Maria . . . Women's Art: Women's Vision . . . Get Your Irish Up! . . . They're Going "Out Like A Lamb" For the Lamb Day Celebration


February collage

February 2008
The Library Exposed . . . Meet the Kellys . . . Now Performing on the Main Stage . . . Sooner or Later, It’s Copenhagen . . . All Hail the Stinky Cheese Man . . . Can’t Buy Me Love? A Dime Could Buy You “Thrilling Love” . . . From Slavery to Freedom


January collage

January 2008
Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map . . . I Eat, Therefore I Am . . . On the Twelfth Night of Christmas . . . E.T., Phone Home . . . Conquest of Mexico . . . What’s Important About Jan. 8? . . . He's in Hog Heaven!