July's Middletown Book for Discussion: Perestroika in Paris (July 7)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, July 7.  Our title is Jane Smiley's Perestroika in Paris.  Here is a brief summary:

"Paras (short for Perestroika) is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall - she's a curious filly - and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance in the City of Light. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom among humans and animals alike. But how long can a runaway horse live undiscovered in Paris?"  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• 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 The Night Of Many Endings, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their June 2 meeting:

• The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
• Imitation of Life, Fannie Hurst
• Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (our discussion of this book led to a wider discussion of books written from an animal's POV, leading to our July read)
• Hang the Moon, Jeanette Walls
• This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
• I Let You Go, Claire Mackintosh
• American Dirt, Jeannine Cummins
• The Trackers, Charles Frazier
• Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane
• The Bird Hotel, Joyce Maynard

We will meet at 12 pm on the 7th both in Room 123 in the Library and 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 Horse Lost in Paris" by Gwenaël Piaser is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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

 

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 May!  You may also want to take a look at our diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility display near the InfoDesk.

We added 239 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: 

• Green card soldier : between model immigrant and security threat / Sofya Aptekar
• Up to speed : the groundbreaking science of women athletes / Christine Yu
• Break the wheel : ending the cycle of police violence / Keith Ellison
• I feel no peace : Rohingya fleeing over seas and rivers / Kaamil Ahmed
• TikTok boom : China's dynamite app and the superpower race for social media / Chris Stokel-Walker
• Young queer America : real stories and faces of LGBTQ+ youth / by Maxwell Poth
• Paved paradise : how parking explains the world / Henry Grabar
• The lost journals of Sacajewea : a novel / Debra Magpie Earling
• Unwired : gaining control over addictive technologies / Gaia Bernstein
• Sleeping beauties : the mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture / Andreas Wagner

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.