Library News for Faculty and Staff
New Books in our Collection
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
"The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal."
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
"The captivating first novel by the best-selling, National Book Award nominee George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War...written as only George Saunders can: with humor, pathos, and grace."
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
"A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future."
New Audiobooks
The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
"What would you do if your four-year-old son claimed he had lived another life and that he wants to go back to it? That he wants his other mother?"
"Gorgeously written and fearlessly provocative, Sharon Guskin’s debut explores the lengths we will go for our children. It examines what we regret in the end of our lives and hope for in the beginning, and everything in between."
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
"In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape."
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
"Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa's tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. "
Some Fun Book News
Ludacris raps Llama Llama Red Pajama
If you are looking for some variation in your night time read aloud routine, maybe Ludacris will inspire you.
New Movie of Fahrenheit 451
HBO is remaking the Ray Bradbury classic which will star Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon.
Emma Watson is a book fairy
Emma Watson, star of the Harry Potter movies, embarks on a magical crusade as a book fairy.
Margi Putney
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