The days are getting shorter, and school is just around the corner. Next time you're in the library, check out the new display by the check out desk, "It's Time to Exercise Your Mind." Here are some of our latest arrivals that will help do just that:

Unearthing the Dragon: The Great Feathered Dinosaur Discovery by Mark Norell. (567.9095/NOR) The discovery of feathered dinosaur fossils in Liaoning, northeastern China, is profoundly altering currently accepted theories about dinosaurs, blurring the distinction between these creatures and birds. - Library Journal Review

Profiles in Audicity: Great Decisions and How They Were Made by Alan Axelrod. (920/AXE). Prolific author Axelrod (Profiles in Leadership) examines 46 individuals who, in choosing a particular course of action, distinctly influenced history as we know it. - Library Journal Review

How to Be a Perfect Stranger: A Guide to Etiquette in Other People's Religious Ceremonies (291.38/HOW). For those who want to get their bearings while attending a wedding, a funeral, or a religious service in a faith community other than their own. This user-friendly resource provides answers to questions about the basic beliefs of 20 of the largest religions and denominations in America. - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, "Spirituality Practice"

Grayson by Lynne Cox (797.2009/COX). What if you were swimming alone in the ocean one morning and encountered a whale? That's what happened to long-distance swimmer and writer Cox (Swimming to Antarctica) when she was 17 and training off the southern California shore; she was picked up by a baby gray whale that had become separated from his mother. In this short book, Cox tells the story of her ultimately successful effort to reconnect the whale, whom she called Grayson, with its mother. - Library Journal Review

Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper (921/Cooper). Writing with vivid memories of his childhood and early career as a roving correspondent, Cooper reveals for the first time how deeply affected he has been by the wars, disasters, and tragedies he has witnessed, and why he continues to be drawn to some of the most perilous places on earth."-BOOK JACKET.