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 entertainment. 

If the new year and new semester have got you thinking about resolutions and new-you's, you might check out one of the dozen self-help titles in this set of books: from  Catherine Price's The Power of Fun to Mark Brackett's Permission to Feel, we've got the book to help you be all you can be. Or, if you're just looking for something different to kick you out of a rut, check out Riley Blacks' The Last Days of the Dinosaurs. This elegant novelisation reads like classic fantasy but is actually full of science-backed facts to bring back out your inner dino-kid. 

Come check out these books and more in the New Books section of the Betty Sue Jessup Library!