September's Middletown Book for Discussion: Between the World and Me (Sept. 22)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, September 22.  Our title is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me.  Here is a brief summary:

"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies (of either the 2019 or 2022 printings) available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle 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 Gender Queer, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their August 4 meeting:

• All Boys Aren't Blue, George M. Johnson
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib
• Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 22nd 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

"A THOUGHT FOR TODAY from A.Word.A.Day" by Wordsmith.org is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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

 

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 July!  You may also want to take a look at our monthly book display (on the topic of "Time to Travel" in August) near the front entrance.

We added 102 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 Paradox of Svalbard:  Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic.
• Eight bears : mythic past and imperiled future / Gloria Dickie
• Skin-close computing and wearable technology / Andrews Samraj
• The librarianist : a novel / Patrick deWitt
• Crook manifesto : a novel / Colson Whitehead
• Owlish : a novel / Dorothy Tse   translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce"
• Transclasses : a theory of social non-reproduction / Chantal Jaquet   translated by Gregory Elliott"
• When crack was king : a people's history of a misunderstood era / Donovan X. Ramsey
• Erasing Palestine : free speech and Palestinian freedom / Rebecca Ruth Gould
• Global dishes : favorite meals from around the world / Caryn, E. Neumann, Lori L. Parks, and Joel G. Parks

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!