February's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Guncle (Feb. 23)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, February 23.  Our title is Steven Rowley's The Guncle.  Here is a brief summary:

"Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly, overwhelmed. When tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. The Guncle is a moving tribute to the power of love, patience, and family in even the most trying of times."  (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, 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 Lessons in Chemistry, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their January 26 meeting:

• Tom Lake, Ann Patchette
  
• Absolution, Alice McDermott
• Rebels of Ireland, Edward Rutherfurd
• Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
• For One More Day, Mitch Albom
• Horse, Geraldine Brooks
• Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, Andrea Elliott
  
• The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading, Dwight Garner
  
• Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher
• I Hope You Fail, Pinky Cole
• Profit First, Mike Michalowicz
• Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
• The Greatest Beer Run Ever, John "Chick" Donohue
• Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson
• Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
• This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger
• Jazz, Toni Morrison
• The Morning Star, Karl Ove Knausgaard

We will meet at 12 pm on the 23rd 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

"Man and two children" by anyjazz65 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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 to help guide you to titles,  or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in December!  

We added 50 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 kingdom, the power, and the glory : American evangelicals in an age of extremism / Tim Alberta
• Be your best you : the ultimate research-based guide to outstanding leadership / Mary Kovach, Ph.D.
• A history of fake things on the Internet / Walter J. Scheirer
• Ordinary people : portraits from LGBTQ Armenia, Georgia, and Russia / Ksenia Kuleshova
• Centers for teaching and learning : the new landscape in higher education / Mary C. Wright
• The synthetic university : how higher education can benefit from shared solutions and save itself / James L. Shulman
• Outrageous : a history of showbiz and the culture wars / Kliph Nesteroff
• The intuitionist / Colson Whitehead
• Yesterday : a new history of nostalgia / Tobias Becker
• Blackouts : a novel / Justin Torres

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!