Henry Buhl Library: Faculty/Staff Library Newsletter: May 2021

In this issue:

Library Renovation Update

The Library will be closed from May 12^th through mid-August.

There will be no access to the library during the summer. Please plan to gather all books needed for the summer prior to May 11^th.

Please watch the Library’s webpage to stay up-to-date with specific information during the summer and throughout the 16 month renovation project. Stay up to date by following us on social media too.

Library staff will still be available to help you. Our temporary location for the summer will be in the Curriculum Library in HAL beginning May 17th.

Visit us in person to return materials during our open hours Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4pm. We will also be available by phone 724-264-4729 or email refdesk@gcc.edu.

Thank you for your understanding and patience as we update Buhl with new spaces that we think you're going to love!

Read Around the World this Summer

Have you ever heard of the Around the World Reading challenge? The idea is to read a book from a certain country or area around the world to experience books that you may have never heard of before or from countries you're not familiar with. For Jules Buono who created the challenge above it can be quite a challenge (hence the name!) to read a book from every country so if you're looking for something less challenging you could try reading a book from each continent. Here's one called Read Around the World.

If you want to try your hand at reading around the world this summer we have many fiction works from different countries to add to your list. Check out these titles below! To search for more, use HENRY and use the search terms: country name AND fiction. For example Japan AND fiction.

The Light Between Oceans - Australia

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind...

Homegoing - Ghana

The story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indelibly drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day...

Cutting for Stone - Ethiopia

A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution...

Raven Black - Scotland

Inspector Jimmy Perez, is a very private and perceptive man whose bailiwick is a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter’s eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man...

The Lowland - India

A tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death. Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead...

The Calligrapher's Daughter - Korea

A sweeping debut novel, inspired by the life of the author's mother, about a young woman who dares to fight for a brighter future in occupied Korea In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother-but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country...

The Shadow of the Wind - Spain

Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel's father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves. He chooses The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax. He sets out to find the rest of Carax's work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written....

Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Antarctica

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is her best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette vanishes.

Prague: a Novel - Hungary

Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune - financial, romantic, and spiritual - in an exotic city newly opened to the West. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague, where the atmospheric decay of post-Cold War Europe is even more cinematically perfect, have it better. Still, they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making. What they actually find is a deceptively beautiful place that they often fail to understand.

Test Your Library Knowledge

For something fun to end the semester, we're calling on all library lovers to test your knowledge of some of the world's most famous and well known libraries. Can you guess the six libraries below correctly from a picture of the inside or exterior of their buildings? Once you have your answer click on the yellow question mark to see if you're right. If you need a hint, click on the grey book icon in the bottom left corner.