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

 

We are adding many new items to the collection each month, and making sure that you can see them on display! Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in July! We added 151 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: 

• Better to have gone : love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville / Akash Kapur
• The Appalachian Trail : a biography / Philip D'Anieri
• Creating a culture of innovation : design an optimal environment to create and execute new ideas / Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
• An ugly truth : inside Facebook's battle for domination / Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
• Female monarchs and merchant queens in Africa / Nwando Achebe
• The natural mother of the child : a memoir of nonbinary parenthood / Krys Malcolm Belc
• The Holly : five bullets, one gun, and the struggle to save an American neighborhood / Julian Rubinstein
• Razorblade tears / S. A. Cosby
• Cultish : the language of fanaticism / Amanda Montell
• Intimacies / Katie Kitamura

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.

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!

August's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Paris Library

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, August 31.  Our title is Janet Charles' The Paris Library.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of a library worker in Paris at the advent of World War II:

"Paris, 1939. Young and ambitious Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare a war on words and darkness falls over the City of Light, Odile and her fellow librarians join the Resistance with the best weapons they have: books. "  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• 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 July 27th, the members of the group discussed Outline, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Paris Architect, Charles Belfoure
• The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War, Halik Kochanski
• The Music of Bees, Eileen Garvin
• The Paris Library, Janet Charles
• The Big Finish, Brooke Fossey
• The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
• Tuscan Child, Rhys Bowen
• The Opposite of Fate, Alison McGhee
• America for Beginners, Leah Franqui
• Strange Birds, Celia Perez
• A Mosaic of Wings, Kimberly Duffy
• A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
  
• The Souvenir Museum, Elizabeth McCracken
  
• Analogia, George Dyson
  
• Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
  
• Memorial, Bryan Washington
  
• Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 31st both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

You may also join by calling +1 253-215-8782‬

Passcode: 893374
‬

Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom and calling information)

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

"La caverne aux livres" by gadl is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

July's Middletown Book for Discussion: Outline

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, July 27.  Our title is Rachel Cusk's Outline.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of a writer on a short-term trip to Greece:

"Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss."

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• 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 June 29th, the members of the group had a spirited discussion of The Widow's War, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• John Grisham – Sooley
• TaraShea Nesbit – Beheld
• Kristin Hannah – The Four Winds
• Ruth Hogan – The Keeper of Lost things
• Robin Wall Kimmerer  – Braiding Sweetgrass
• Hope Jahren – Lab Girl
• Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca
• R.A. Moss – King Robin
• Camille DeAngelis – Bones and All
• Susan Orlean - The Library Book
• Maggie O’Farrell – I Am, I Am, I Am / Hamnet
• Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
• Patrick Radden Keefe - Say Nothing
• Clare Pooley - The Authenticity Project
• Madhuri Vija - The Far Field
• Kristina McMorris - Sold on a Monday
• Ernest Hemingway – A Movable Feast
• Ayana Mathis - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
• Abbi Waxman - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
• Anne Tyler - Spool of Blue Thread
• Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
  
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 27th both in Room 124 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

You may also join by calling +1 253-215-8782‬

Passcode: 893374
‬

Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom and calling information)

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

"Athens" by Chris Ruggles is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

New Books (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in June!

We are adding many new items to the collection each month, and making sure that you can see them on display! Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in June! We added 62 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: 

• Americanon : an unexpected U.S. history in thirteen bestselling books / Jess McHugh
• The day the world stops shopping : how ending consumerism saves the environment and ourselves / J.B. MacKinnon
• Gentelligence : the revolutionary approach to leading an intergenerational workforce / Megan Gerhardt, Josephine Nachemson-Ekwall, and Brandon Fogel
• You're invited : the art and science of cultivating influence / Jon Levy
• Policing Black bodies : how Black lives are surveilled and how to work for change / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith
• Everyone knows your mother is a witch / Rivka Galchen
• Shape : the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else / Jordan Ellenberg
• Touring the climate crisis : saving the earth around the world / Osseily Hanna
• The plague year : America in the time of COVID / Lawrence Wright
• Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard

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.

We had a very successful 2020-21 academic year, adding 1512 items to our collection.  Thank you for all of your suggestions and requests!  We've started our new fiscal year on July 1, and we're ready for new requests for the 2021-2022 academic year.

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!