New Books in the Library

 

It's the end of March (Spring is coming!), COVID-19 has been an unwelcome guest around the world for over a year (time to move without a forwarding address), and Jessup Library has a tremendous selection of NEW BOOKS.  If you are looking for book recommendations in specific areas, including fiction and non-fiction, we have a Book Recommendations Playbook that you can access here.  We have just updated it with selections from books recently cataloged and added to the collection.

If reading several hundred pages doesn't fit your schedule, we have some new "Very Short Introduction" books, including:

• Scepticism
  
• Superstition
  
• Emotion
  
• Aesthetics
  
• Buddhist Ethics
  
• Korea
  
• Canada
  
• The Maya
  
• Tides

If none of those appeal to you, you might try a book which may have been ghostwritten by the Blockbuster employees who spurned a Netflix acquisition offer: That Will Never Work: the birth of Netflix and the amazing life of an idea. Disagreements about anything from corporate takeovers to what you will order for dinner takeout don't have to be unpleasant. Why Are We Yelling?: the art of productive disagreement can guide you to the best way to handle the disappointment when the restaurant forgets to include your salad dressing. Notes on a Nervous Planet gives a look at how to feel happy, human, and whole in the twenty-first century even when your order is incomplete.

Do the books mentioned about all sound too serious?  Do you need an escape? Jessup Library has new graphic novels: Reckless, Superman: Phantom Earth, Black Panther Book 3, and Wonder Woman Dead Earth.

Our final recommendation for today is a very satisfying title: The Answer is ...: reflections on my life by Alex Trebek, and we leave it up to you to come up with the question.