Here We Are by Aarti Namdev Shahani E184 .E2 S535 2019The Shahanis came to Queens—from India, by way of Casablanca—in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they’d made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn’t; the…Continue Reading New Books for your Wish List
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley.Award-winning New…Continue Reading Need a book for the weekend?
She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement.For many years, reporters had tried to get to…Continue Reading New Additions – February 17th
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger 1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he…Continue Reading New Books – February 4th
In December 2019, Blough-Weis Library moved to a mediated access model for streaming films through Kanopy. This new model will still allow members of the Susquehanna community to browse the entire Kanopy collection but will now require a request to be submitted before a film is viewable. This will give the library an opportunity to review all purchase requests before they happen. Why did we make this change? Kanopy’s…Continue Reading Recent Changes to Kanopy Streaming Service
Blough-Weis Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of over 16,000 Oxford University Press titles across 20 subjects, through the Oxford Scholarship Online platform. This deal provides perpetual access to all 16,000+ published titles, as well as all frontlist titles published through 2022. You can browse the collection by the following subjects: Biology Law Neuroscience…Continue Reading 16,000 Oxford eBooks Now Available at Susquehanna University
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As the end of the semester approaches, the Blough-Weis Library will be offering a wide variety of fun and stress-relieving events in preparation for finals. On Thursday, December 12th, Paws to Relax will be happening from 2 to 4 PM For this event, local therapy dogs will be in the library, tails wagging and eager…Continue Reading De-stress at the Library
“It was only as we began to wind slowly down the drive, while I kept one eye out for a fleeting child among the trees, that I found myself replaying Maddie’s final remark, wondering if she had really said what I thought I’d heard.For the thing she had called over her shoulder seemed almost too…Continue Reading The Turn of the Key
Blough-Weis Library congratulates Susan Choi and Sarah M. Broom, winners of two of this year’s National Book Awards. Susan Choi won the award for fiction for her novel Trust Exercise. Sarah Broom’s memoir The Yellow House won the award for nonfiction. You can borrow either one by visiting the library. The Yellow House tells the…Continue Reading Read the 2019 National Book Award-Winning Novel and Memoir at Your Library
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