Monthly Archives: November 2019

New Books for Break

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There is still time to check out one (or two or three or four!) of these new books to read over Thanksgiving Break. Books are a great conversation started at dinner and a great way to get some peace amidst the hectic Thanksgiving hubbub.

We have SO MANY great new books that I can’t include all of them. Some of the books not pictured are written by or about such notable people as Jackie Chan, Stan Lee, Harvey Milk, Malcolm Gladwell, Lois Lowry, Dapper Dan, and Edward Snowden.  So come grab a book!

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What We’re Reading: Dominicana by Angie Cruz

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Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Available in the Orange County Campus Library on the New Books shelf

This book was read by Meredith Lewis, the [mostly] Orange County Campus Librarian.

Title: Dominicana 

Author: Angie Cruz

Genre: Historical Fiction, Coming-of-age stories [a Bildungsroman]

#ReadGreatThings2019 Category: A book about an immigrant or immigration

Dominicana has been selected as Good Morning America’s Cover to Cover book club‘s inaugural pick. 

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Library Staff Picks!

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The end of 2019 is approaching so now is the time to look at what we’ve read and watched this year and determine the best of the best. We’ve chosen some of our favorite books and movies from our collection that we read or watched this year to highlight in a display inside the library. 

I’d like to give a shout out to one of my personal favorites from this year: 

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By Caroline Criado Perez

This book made me angry on every page and I’m so glad that I read it. Apparently, everything in the world is gendered. Including snow plow routes and heart surgery recovery rates. I learned so many new things and will be gifting it to at least two people this holiday season. If you read it we can be angry together! Yay! It also counts for the social science category in the Durham Tech Library Read Great Things Challenge 2019. It’s not too late to finish!

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