New Books!

 

Today is the summer solstice and you know what that means -- it's the longest day of the year for book-reading! Jessup Library can help if you are looking for suggestions. Myths of the World has 240 myths and yet not one explains how calories eaten while standing over the sink do not count. Does this "myth" remind you of an episode from "The Office?" If so, check out Welcome to Dunder Mifflin : the ultimate oral history of The Office. You might find tips on how to start your own candle business. If a candle business sounds incendiary, try reading Good Economics for Hard Times. You have to spend money to make money! Also, don't limit yourself - take the advice of Range : why generalists triumph in a specialized world.

Thus ends the dubious career advice portion of this blog post. Feeling up to a restaurant meal to recover? The next supper : the end of restaurants as we knew them, and what comes after probably isn't referring to the dessert menu and the check, please. If you'd rather eat and home, Jessup Library has many cookbooks, and these three are on the New Books Shelves: Beat Bobby Flay : conquer the kitchen with 100+ battle-tested recipes, Aloha kitchen : recipes from Hawai'i, and Veggies & fish : inspired new recipes for plant-forward pescatarian cooking.

If you are not tired of COVID-19 at this point, we can offer Viral : the search for the origin of COVID-19, The vaccine : inside the race to conquer the COVID-19 pandemic, and Immune : a journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive. It has been a hard two years and Jane Goodall's The Book of Hope : a survival guide for trying times and Brene Brown's Atlas of the Heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience may offer some relief.

Interested in new electronic books?  Try these:

• The Eternal City : A History of Rome in Maps
  
• Camping Grounds : public nature in American life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement
  
• Along Came Google : a history of library digitization
  
• Restart : designing a healthy post-pandemic life
  

If you are looking for new fiction, we recommend the following:

• Lore Olympus, volume one (by Rachel Smythe, located on the GRAPHIC shelves)
  
• Gilded (by Marissa Meyer, located on the NOOK shelves)
  
• The Sentence (by Louise Erdrich, located on the POPULAR shelves)
  
• Behold the Dreamers (by Imbolo Mbue, located on the POPULAR shelves)
  
• Deacon King Kong (by James McBride, located on the POPULAR shelves)