May's Middletown Book for Discussion on Zoom: The Lost Man

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, May 25.  Our title is Jane Harper's The Lost Man.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of brothers and a mystery in the Australian outback:

"Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet. In an isolated belt of Queensland, Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another's nearest neighbors.  While they grieve Cameron's loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced to examine secrets the family would rather leave in the past. Because if someone forced Cameron to his death, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  All of our statewide delivery services are up and running.  We do have our curbside pickup operating as well as in-house pickup.
  
• Amazon has the paperback, Kindle, and audiobook available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  On April 27th, the members of the group had a spirited discussion of The Sun Also Rises, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Ken Burns Hemingway documentary on PBS
• A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
• The Survivors, Jane Harper
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison
• Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
• Bright Ray of Darkness, Ethan Hawke
• The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer
• The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
• The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
• Apeirogon, Colum McCann
• Snow White Must Die, Nele Neuhaus
• Devolution, Max Brooks

We will meet at 12 pm on the 25th in Zoom at 

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Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

John

"'A Looming Threat', Australia, The Outback, Pine Creek" by WanderingtheWorld (www.ChrisFord.com) is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Put the library on your resume! The Gardner-Harvey Library is hiring student assistants.

We have openings for two student assistants in the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown Campus.  Read the detailed job description and apply today! 

New books (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in March!

 

If you've been thinking about reading a book, we have many new ones (plus a lot of older ones) ready to go!

Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection during March 2021! We added 133 books, e-books, DVDs, and other items during that time, thanks to your selections and suggestions. The list can be sorted by call number, area of our collection, or by title.  There is definitely something here for everyone!

Here are ten titles from the list, to give you an idea of what we've been buying: 

• Nuestra América : my family in the vertigo of translation / Claudio Lomnitz
• Microintervention strategies : what you can do to disarm and dismantle individual and systemic racism and bias / Derald Wing Sue [and four others]
• The world turned upside down : a history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Yang Jisheng
• Oneness embraced : reconciliation, the kingdom, and how we are stronger together / Tony Evans
• Broke in America : seeing, understanding, and ending US poverty / Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox
• Rituals roadmap : the human way to transform everyday routines into workplace magic / Erica Keswin
• Global aging : comparative perspectives on aging and the life course / Frank J. Whittington, PhD, Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD, Kate de Medeiros, PhD
• Moms don't have time to : a quarantine anthology / edited by Zibby Owens
• The blue view : the uncut journal of an Ohio police chief / Rodney Muterspaw
• Approaching (almost) any machine learning problem / Abhishek Thakur

This tag will show you all of the prior lists of new materials, in reverse chronological order. We are eager to hear from you about individual items you would like us to buy, or types of items we should be on the look out for, or general subject areas we should build up in the collection.

Thank you for all of your suggestions and requests!  If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email Amy Carmichael (carmicae@miamioh.edu), or drop by the library with your request. And pass your general suggestions or comments about the collection to us in those same ways.

Thanks again for keeping our collection vibrant and your information needs met!