MGCC Library Blog

 We're excited to announce that several new books have arrived at the MGCC Library! These books can all be found in the Popular Reading section at the front of the library. Here are just a few of these awesome new books. Stop by and check one out today! :) Please also be sure to check out the MGCC Library LibGuide ! New arrivals are shown along the bottom of the page. Clicking on a book will take you to our catalog, where you can see if the book is available to be checked out.   Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar: Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of dea...

March is Women's History Month ! Stop by the Library to browse our Women's History Month book display, which features incredible books by women authors, as well as books about important figures and events in women's history. All of these books (and more!) are available for checkout. "You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try." -Dolly Parton   We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders : A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour: Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour shares her intimate coming-of-age story of how growing up Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the country. It was a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn when a nineteen-year-old Linda Sarsour stared at her reflection, dressed in a hijab for the first time showing the woman she was growing to be--unapologetic in her faith and her activism. A young Palestinian Muslim Amer...

To celebrate Black History Month this year, we have compiled a list of fantastic books by Black authors that you can find in our Popular Reading Section. This section is located in the front of the MGCC Library. Feel free to browse our Black History Month display, too, which is also located at the front of the Library! Please remember that all of these books are available for checkout. If you need any assistance locating a book, or if there are any others that interest you, please be sure to let us know. :) Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward: “‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’” —  Inferno , Dante Alighieri Let Us Descend  is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white ...

Spring is here, which, of course, means beautiful sunny afternoons, as well as soothing rainy days. And what better way to pass the time outside or inside than with a good book! Here are some new additions to our Popular Reading section. Come check one out today!   Lebron by Jeff Benedict: LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he’s in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. The reigning king of the game and the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it. Yet his ascent has been anything but effortless and predetermined— the truth is vastly more interesting than that. What makes LeBron’s story so compelling is how he won his destiny despite overwhelmingly long odds, in a drama worthy of a Dickens novel. As a child, he was a scared and lonely little boy living a nomadic existence in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was sixteen, would so...

This week, we're continuing our list of new arrivals to our Popular Reading section. Feel free to stop by and browse today !   Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver: Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have ye...

Here are some of the new arrivals in our Popular Reading section. Be on the lookout for even more new books in the coming weeks. Stop by and check one out today! 😊   The Villa by Rachel Hawkins: As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician, Pierce Sheldon to join him, as well as Pierce’s girlfriend, Mari, and her stepsister, Lara. But he also sets in motion a chain of events that leads to Mari writing one of the greatest horror novels of all time, Lara composing a platinum album––and ends in Pierce’s brutal murder. As Emily digs into the vi...