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

We add many new items to the collection each month, and we hope you'll check some out! Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in December! We added 118 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: 

• Rockstar manager : from theory to practice / Mary Kovach, Ph.D. [forward by: Rocco DiSpirito]
• When I grow up : the lost autobiographies of six Yiddish teenagers / Ken Krimstein
• In the eye of the wild / Nastassja Martin translated from the French by Sophie R. Lewis"
• The story paradox : how our love of storytelling builds societies and tears them down / Jonathan Gottschall
• Sludge : what stops us from getting things done and what to do about it / Cass R. Sunstein
• Reconstructions : architecture and Blackness in America / edited by Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson
• Swan and shadow : an ordinary sorcery tale / A.R. Henle
• The immersive reality revolution : how immersive technologies will change society - for better or worse / T.P. Ffiske
• The sleeping beauties : and other stories of mystery illness / Suzanne O'Sullivan
• How the other half eats : the untold story of food and inequality in America / Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD

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 John Burke (burkejj@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!

January's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Kitchen Front (Jan. 18)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, January 18.  Our title is Jennifer Ryan's The Kitchen Front.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of wartime experiences on the homefront:

"Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is putting on a cooking contest--and the grand prize is a job as the program's first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the contest presents a crucial chance to change their lives."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, 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 December 21st the members of the group discussed Skipping Christmas, and also shared a few titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
  
• Vanderbilt: the rise and fall of an American dynasty, Anderson Cooper
• Later, Stephen King
• I Was Told It Would Get Easier, Abbi Waxman
• The Tie That Binds, Kent Haruf
• Allegedly, Tiffany Jackson
• People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry
• Women Rowing North, Mary Pipher (not recommended)
• Black Buck, Mateo Askaripour
• The Startup Wife, Tahmima Anam
• The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi
• Belfast (the movie)
• Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld
• A Psalm for the Wild Built, Becky Chambers

We will meet at 12 pm on the18th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

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

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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

"File:Blitz and Pieces Kitchen.jpg" by Jack1956 is licensed under CC0 1.0

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

We add many new items to the collection each month, and we hope you'll check some out! Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in November! We added 103 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: 

• Hurts so good : the science and culture of pain on purpose / Leigh Cowart
• Born in Blackness : Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War / Howard W. French
• The 1619 Project : a new origin story / edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
• How to be animal : a new history of what it means to be human / Melanie Challenger
• Hail Mary : the rise and fall of the National Women's Football League / Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo
• The nutmeg's curse : parables for a planet in crisis / Amitav Ghosh
• The evidence liberal arts needs : lives of consequence, inquiry, and accomplishment / Richard A. Detweiler
• Everything and less : the novel in the age of Amazon / Mark McGurl
• H of H playbook / Anne Carson
• Navigating autism : 9 mindsets for helping kids on the spectrum / Temple Grandin, Debra Moore

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 John Burke (burkejj@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!