Read the GHL Middmester Newsletter!

Hello!

Enjoy the Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester Newsletter! Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

• Upcoming interruptions to OhioLINK requests
• Changes to ILL services
• Events
• Information on research assistance

The library is ready to help you finish the semester strong! You can contact us by phone, email, chat, or in person. 

Have a great day!

GHL Library Staff

Join us for these April events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

 Mark your calendar for these great events happening this April at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

The Underground Academy Presents...

Wednesday, Apr. 2 | 4 p.m. Gardner-Harvey Library 014 TEC Space, Middletown | Zoom and In-person Composting: Take a tour through the Rumpke Landfill with Biology faculty member Janelle Allen. Learn about what happens to waste in our region and how we can partner in our community to reduce our waste footprint and increase human health and the health of our ecosystem. No RSVP is required. Visit MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries for the Zoom link Know Your Body! Wednesday, Apr. 9 | 4:30 p.m. Zoom Only Event Dem Bones, Dem Bones: Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of the human body. Get your biology questions answered as Cady shares the secrets of our insides! No RSVP is required.  Visit MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries for the Zoom link

National Parks

Tuesday, Apr. 22 | 4:30 p.m.  Zoom Only Event “The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed History” Join us this spring as Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, leads a book discussion of “The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed History” by William Klingaman and Nicholas Klingaman. Get your geology questions answered and participate in a lively discussion! Need a copy of  "The Year Without Summer"? Contact the Gardner-Harvey Library staff. No RSVP is required.  Visit MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries for the Zoom link

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April's Middletown Book for Discussion: How to Read a Book (April 29)

 

Now I knew that if I posted this yesterday, you would think this was an April Fool. A book club that needs to learn how to read a book? Ha ha!  But this is for real, and that's why I'm posting it on the 2nd. 8-)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, April 29.  Our title is How to Read a Book by Monica Wood.  Here is a brief summary:

"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland -- Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman -- their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in 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 Queen of Fives, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their March 28 meeting:

Housekeepers, Alex Hay
Three Days in June, Anne Tyler
Here One Moment, Liane Moriarty
The Anomaly, Herve Le Tellier

The Life Impossible, Matt Haig
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley
Joan, Katherine Chen
Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life, Sutton Foster
A Brew to a Kill, Cleo Coyle
The Mitford Years (series), Jan Karon

Verity, Colleen Hoover

Emma, Jane Austen

The Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Welcome to the School by the Sea, Jenny Colgan

Honor, Thrity Umrigar

Angel Harp, Michael Phillips

Gamache (series), Louise Penny

General of the Dead Army, Ismail Kadare

The Wolves of Eternity, Karl Ove Knausgaard

We will meet at 12 pm on the 29th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

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Passcode:  611126

‬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

"Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine" by Corey Templeton is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.