Staff at the Betty Sue Jessup Library offer a warm welcome to new and returning faculty and students with over one hundred new books just added to our collection. If you're still coming off cozy movie days with family, you might want to check out Scott Meslow's From Hollywood, With Love. This new history of the Romantic Comedy movie details the highs and lows of the genre, from its heyday in the 1980's—when rom-coms were the bread-and-butter that kept producers afloat, despite critical failure—to its current resurgence on streaming services. If you're a fan of days spent with Netflix on auto-play, you might also pick up Binge Times by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski. This engrossing work of investigative journalism takes you into the world of business executives, intellectual property lawyers, and software engineers jockeying for viewer's attention and venture capital's investment as the COVID-19 pandemic generates an unprecedented demand for at-home entertain...
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📖 Read A New Book Month
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D ecember is a good time to start a new book. The holidays approach, winter closes in and makes us feel cozy in fuzzy socks and under a warm blanket on the couch--and a new story awaits! That is why at Jessup Library we are celebrating Read A New Book Month this December. Whether you wish to fall into a fictional story about time-traveling in Outlander, or curl up with classic murder mystery writer P.D. James's The Mistletoe Murder , we have a new book for you! Start with a comfort novel, such as Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women , and try a good accompaniment book in Geraldine Brooks' March about the father of the March family followed in Little Women. If non-fiction is more up your alley, check out Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island , an entertaining journey through Britain, or delve into Antonia Fraser's book Cromwell , a biography of the complex figure Oliver Cromwell. Whatever your preference, we have many options to keep you entertained during...