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

 

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 April!  You may also want to take a look at the new and old books on our National Mystery Month display near the front entrance.

We added 288 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: 

• The dean of Shandong : confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university / Daniel A. Bell
• A wing and a prayer : the race to save our vanishing birds / Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal
• Unruly therapeutic : Black feminist writings and practices in living room / Foluke Taylor
• Without children : the long history of not being a mother / Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
• How to paint without a brush : the art of Red Hong Yi / Red Hong Yi
• Carmageddon : how cars make life worse and what to do about it / Daniel Knowles
• Nine guiding principles for women in higher education / Karyn Z. Sproles
• This is not Miami / Fernanda Melchor   translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes"
• Poverty, by America / Matthew Desmond
• Leaving Atlanta / Tayari Jones

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.  

June's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Night of Many Endings (June 2)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, June 2.  Our title is Melissa Payne's The Night of Many Endings.  Here is a brief summary:

"As a winter storm buries Silver Ridge, Colorado, a collection of lonely hearts takes shelter in the library. They’ll discover more about each other, and themselves, than they ever knew. No matter how stranded in life they feel, this fateful night could be the new beginning they didn’t think was possible."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in 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 Dandelion Wine, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their May 5 meeting:

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne 
• The Around the World in 80 Days miniseries on PBS
• Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls
• The Lost City of Z, David Grann
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, Candice Millard
• An Immense World, Ed Yong
  
• I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai
• Below the Edge of Darkness, Edith Widder
• The Saints of Swallow Hill, Donna Everhart
• The Colors of the Cattle, Alexander McCall Smith
• The Husband Hunters, Anne deCourcy
• Circle of Treason, Jeanne Vertefeuille and Sandra Grimes
  
• The Sellout, Paul Beatty
• White Knights in the Black Orchestra, Tom Dunkel
• Debt, Mark Levine
• Mary Oliver's poetry
• Homesick for Another World and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh

We will meet at 12 pm on the 2nd both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 870836

‬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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