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 the New Media Display for some of the titles, or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in December! 

We added 148 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: 

• Madam C.J. Walker : the making of an American icon / Erica L. Ball
• A short history of queer women / Kirsty Loehr
• Mortal doubt : transnational gangs and social order in Guatemala City / Anthony W. Fontes
• Pests : how humans create animal villains / Bethany Brookshire
• Cybersecurity for small networks : a no-nonsense guide for the reasonably paranoid / by Seth Enoka
• You made a fool of death with your beauty : a novel / Akwaeke Emezi
• Sisters in the fire : the first African American women firefighters / Portia Rawles
• Disability pride : dispatches from a post-ADA world / Ben Mattlin
• The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class / David R. Roediger
• White torture : interviews with Iranian women prisoners / Narges Mohammadi   foreword by Shirin Ebadi   translated by Amir Rezanezhad"

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 Alan Kelley (kelleya@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. 

If you know some titles we should add, we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection.  

Happy Holidays to all from the GHL Library Staff and our book tree!

The Library building is closed on Friday, December 23, but our chat is open until 5pm

 

The building is closed, but you can still reach our staff with your questions from 8:00am to 5:00pm today.  Use our Contact Us page to send us a text, email, or to start a chat with us.  We're happy to help you out!

Stay warm and safe, and we'll see you on January 3, 2023 after the break!

January's Middletown Book for Discussion: When the Apricots Bloom (Jan. 20)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, January 20.  Our title is Gina Wilkinson's When the Apricots Bloom.  Here is a brief summary:

"At the turn of the millennium, three very different women must navigate the complexities of trust under the oppression of a brutal dictator."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, 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.  In addition to discussing Hour of the Witch, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their December 16 meeting:

• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 
• The Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson
• Golden Girl, Elin Hildebrand
• When Crickets Cry, Charles Martin
• Last Summer at the Golden Hotel, Elyssa Friedland
• The Gene, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
• China, Edward Rutherfurd
• Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, Anne Edwards
• Nanaville, Anna Quindlen
• Trust, Hernan Diaz
• In Love, Amy Bloom
• The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Makes Us Whole, Susan Cain
• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus

We will meet at 12 pm on the 20th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 921187

‬Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom 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

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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 the New Media Display for some of the title, or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in November! 

We added 249 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: 

• Smashing statues : the rise and fall of America's public monuments / Erin L. Thompson
• The Internet is for cats : how animal images shape our digital lives / Jessica Maddox
• Data cartels : the companies that control and monopolize our information / Sarah Lamdan
• Africa risen : a new era of speculative fiction / edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
• Psychopolitics / Peter Sedgwick   new introduction by Tad Tietze
• Tickets for the ark : from wasps to whales - how do we choose what to save? / Rebecca Nesbit
• Language and the rise of the algorithm / Jeffrey M. Binder
• Stories no one hopes are about them / by A.J. Bermudez
• Aesthetica / Allie Rowbottom
• I thought I heard a cardinal sing : Ohio's Appalachian voices / edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour

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 Alan Kelley (kelleya@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. 

If you know some titles we should add, we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection.  

Free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and snacks at the Gardner-Harvey Library! (Dec 5-Dec 9)

 

The Library will offer free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and snacks during the week of finals, starting on Monday, Dec. 5th and lasting through Friday, Dec. 9th. 

Stop by the GHL Lounge in Room 110 from 8:00am to 7:00pm, Monday through Thursday, and from 8:00am to 5:00pm on Friday. Please drop on by and enjoy a cup!

It's our way of making your end of semester studying and paper/project preparation a bit more relaxing. If we can help with any research, let us know.

We wish you well on your finals!  You got this!

Thanks for being a part of our library community!

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