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Are you looking for information on international trade? Do you want to know the latest news from Asia, India or the Middle East? Do you need current statistics on health, education, agriculture, or finance? Are you interested in environmental concerns around the world? Then the Eldis country database has just what you need.

Eldis is a free online database with news, reports, and information about nations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin and South America, and the Caribbean. Once you choose a region, you are taken to a page with the latest news articles and headlines from that area in all subjects. There is even an option to subscribe to an automatic RSS newsfeed—you can get the latest news delivered straight to your email or newsreader.

Choose a specific country and a more detailed breakdown appears, allowing you to narrow by subjects like health, education and the environment. Clicking on “online Eldis” will take you to full-text online articles, while clicking on the links listed under “other profiles” will take you to other authoritative websites with further information about the country in question.

So for all your international information needs, Eldis is your one-stop shop, because it aggregates news from around the world.

Reviewed by Library Staff Member - Rachel Clarke

Edie: Girl on Fire is a visual documentation of the life and times of Andy Warhol’s greatest muse and asset. Filled with never-before-published photographs and film stills, the reader witnesses the rise and fall of a young and eccentric girl who never fully got hold of her own life. Edith Minturn Sedgwick was born into a family of wealth and famous ancestors. Though to outsiders her life seemed one of luxury, Edie was the quintessential poor little rich girl. Her tumultuous relationship with her father would be the thorn in her side that she never learned to remove.

Both a debutante and a member of an elite social circle, Edie was well received anywhere. Her choice to relocate to New York would be the grand entrance into the world of Andy Warhol. It would actually be Edie’s own personal contacts that would help launch Warhol’s career into newfound levels of success and open doors to him to a high society. Andy indulged Edie into becoming a member of his own group of friends and characters; downtown men and women with a penchant for drugs. It would be the latter that would become a life long struggle for Edie (and eventually the cause for her death).

Edie’s extreme beauty, pixie-like figure, charm and natural approach to fashion, turned Edie into a style icon. Her chandelier earrings and bottles of applied make up along with a pageboy haircut, gave way to an important look that even still represents the 60’s. Though towards the end of her life, Edie felt exploited, her life in pictures to this day are cherished and stand as an inspiration to many. Edie: Girl on Fire captures the pretty side of a wild girl who meant well.

Reviewed by Library Staff Member - Francisco Murillo