Our first Silent Book Club was a huge success! Thanks to all that came to participate! Our next meeting will be Wednesday, October 30th at 8PM. Details below! This semester, we’re doing things a bit differently. We’re introducing the Silent Book Club to gather friends & spend time reading our own books and talking about them as…Continue Reading The Books are Back in Town!
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father’s death, Erasmus Kemp has had…Continue Reading New To Us
SU Students, come meet all the library staff and learn about our services at our 5th annual Open House, happening on Tuesday, September 3rd from 12-5PM. The Open House highlights all the resources, services and spaces we offer for students in a fun and interactive way! If you’re a first-year student just settling in or a senior…Continue Reading The Library is Open for Business
“There are plenty of things that a teenage boy doesn’t tell his mother. As we get older, there are more and more things we hold back, things too hard to say or too embarrassing to explain. We do this to protect our mothers as much as ourselves, because let’s face it – most of our…Continue Reading The Impossible Fortress
Blough-Weis Library has recently acquired the Westlaw Campus Research tool to aid Legal Studies, Political Science and other departments with legal research, news and business/industry information. To access the new database, click here! While Westlaw provides research in nearly every academic discipline, it’s focus is on its vast list of law-related sources, including: 800+ law reviews &…Continue Reading Blough-Weis Library Acquires Westlaw Campus Research; Thousands of Legal Research Resources
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, AN ORCHESTRA OF MINORITIES tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso…Continue Reading And Introducing . . .
Sometimes I dream that I’m drowning. It’s always in a big, blue ocean that’s too deep for me to see the bottom. But I tell myself I’m not going to die no matter how much water gets in my lungs or how deep I sink, I am not going to die. Because I say so.Suddenly,…Continue Reading On The Come Up
Susquehanna University students, faculty & staff are getting access to a huge collection of best-selling ebooks and audiobooks thanks to a collaboration between Blough-Weis Library and our friends at Snyder County Libraries. The regional eBranch2Go OverDrive collection is now available to anyone with a valid SU ID card online at https://ebranch2go.overdrive.com or by downloading the Libby app via your mobile app store….Continue Reading OverDrive Collection of Ebooks and Audiobooks Now Available to SU
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. In a moment of…Continue Reading Break With a Book
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of…Continue Reading Read More This Year!
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