The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once…Continue Reading New Additions – October 22nd
No longer hidden behind paywalls and blocked by publishers, open access content is free, immediately available, and accessible by anyone, anywhere in the world. Tell me if you’ve heard this before: You start an internet search on a topic for class or for your own personal research and you stumble on an article that seems…Continue Reading Open Access Week 2019
Grab one of these new additions for Fall Break!…Continue Reading Fall Break with a Book
While Lois’ story inspires readers to try something new in their lives, it also makes it clear that no journey will ever be like hers. Robin Sloan’s writing has improved so much since Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. I was impressed by the depth and stylistic choices he made in Sourdough. For example, there’s the lovely…Continue Reading Sourdough
Grab one of these new titles just recently added to the Leisure Reading Collection at Blough-Weis Library!…Continue Reading This Week’s New Additions
when the space program kicks into gear after the meteorite disaster, the program’s leaders assume that only men can be astronauts. Elma York challenges this assumption, determined to become the first “lady astronaut” Imagine if a meteorite were to destroy the place you live, killing nearly everyone you know and love, but you survive because…Continue Reading The Calculating Stars
In the Country of Women by Susan Straight In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American…Continue Reading Leisure to the Rescue!
Join us Wed., Oct. 2 at 7PM for to kick off this semester’s Bechdel-Wallace Film Series!…Continue Reading Bechdel-Wallace Film Series
“What do you want?” I demanded. “A moment of peace and quiet,” he snapped, rubbing his temples. Book one in the Court of Thorns and Roses series is a staple to any fantasy bookworm’s shelf. From start to finish the series is groundbreaking and illustrative, with beautiful language for everyone to love. A Court of…Continue Reading A Court of Thorns and Roses
Libraries are, at their core, institutions that fight against censorship and support the freedom to seek and express ideas, so this year, from September 22nd to the 28th, we will be celebrating Banned Books Week by having our annual Banned Bookmark Scavenger Hunt. Each day from the 22nd-28th, we’ll be putting up daily clues on our social media channels…Continue Reading Library’s Banned Bookmark Scavenger Hunt Highlights Challenged Books in the Collection
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