FIU GREEN LIBRARY NEW BOOKS DISPLAY

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FIU Language Day 2019 is upon us!  Check out the “Best Event on Campus” this year and begin by picking up a book at FIU’s Green Library’s New Book lounge/area!

https://library.fiu.edu/fiulanguage

Friday November 15, 2019

​11am - 2pm​

GL 220, GL 1st Floor TV Lounge, GL Breezeway

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Time Travel--choose your flavor--the science or the science-fiction, we have it all in our Time Travel book display at FIU Green Library!  

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What’s in the cards for you this Halloween?  A good book!  Happy Halloween from the FIU Libraries!  Choose a book from our selection of spooky fiction and non-fiction on the Green Libraries’ New Books shelves.

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A misfit wizard, dragons, and a dire prophecy...

“Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City Of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident." So begins the Verania tales series by T.J. Klune. Available in e-book format.

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Tales of terror from Trinidad!  

“The figure of the loup-garou, the violent rhetoric of the Midnight Robber - or even cannibalism lurking far off the beaten track...In Mc Ivor's stories they become real and terrifying daylight presences, monsters who pass among us. Her great gift as a writer is to take us to unexpected places, both to seduce us into a kind of sympathy for her monsters of greater and lesser kinds, and sometimes to reveal a capacity for redemption amongst characters we are tempted to dismiss as shallow, unlikable human beings. The problem, in a world of masks and disguises, is how to tell the difference. In these carefully crafted stories, with room for humor, though of a distinctly gothic kind, Breanne Mc Ivor reaches deep into the roots of Trinidad folk narratives to present us with very modern versions of our troubled selves.”

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Give yourself a treat this Halloween!  Read Mur Lafferty’s Ghost Train to New Orleans! 

Zoe Norris writes travel guides for the undead. And she's good at it too -- her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Shambling Guide to New York City, Zoe and her team are sent to New Orleans to write the sequel. Work isn't all that brings Zoe to the Big Easy. The only person who can save her boyfriend from zombism is rumored to live in the city's swamps, but Zoe's out of her element in the wilderness. With her supernatural colleagues waiting to see her fail, and rumors of a new threat hunting city talkers, can Zoe stay alive long enough to finish her next book?"-- Provided by publisher.

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When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, John Rafferty wonders if there is a connection between his death and a notorious cold case, a triple homicide dubbed "The Goddess Murders," in which three young women, all descended from accused Salem witches, were slashed on Halloween night in 1989. He finds unexpected help in Callie Cahill, the daughter of one of the victims newly returned to town. If they cannot discover what truly happened, will evil rise again?

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An Essex Witch Museum Mystery e-book!

“Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It’s no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run. Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There’s the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there’s curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can’t decide if he’s tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayed, just for a while. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horror, the secrets of the past come with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelope them all.” (from the Amazon description)

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Can’t make it to the library to see our Halloween display?  Check out this e-book by a fantastic fantasy writer Patricia C. Wrede!  Volume 2 of the Lyra series. (We have Shadow Magic, and other volumes in electronic format as well.)

“Drinn is not a safe place to be a witch. Ranira knows that better than most, for when she was just a child, the temple guards burned her parents at the stake for practicing magic. Now an indentured servant for a brutal innkeeper, she lives every day with the shame of her parents’ alleged crime. There is no worse time to visit Drinn than during the Midwinter Festival, when the city gates are sealed so that no outsider can witness the temple’s secret rituals. And at Ranira’s inn, three guests have overstayed their welcome. Attempting to protect Ranira from her master’s cruelty, the three reveal their magical powers and attract the attention of the temple guards. Now, to save her new friends from certain death, Ranira must unleash the power that cost her parents their lives.” (from Amazon description)

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"A single event in its 400 years of history--the Salem Witch Trials of 1692--forever changed the city's character and reputation in America. Salem has never left the shadow of those days but instead thrives as a haven of the bizarre and a modern outpost for the weird. Despite its year-round eldritch spirit, Salem is a seasonal town--and its season happens to be Halloween."

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Happy Halloween from the FIU libraries!  We have all 3 books of the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness, on display for your reading pleasure!  (Also a hit TV series "A Discovery of Witches!”)

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Banned Books Week 2019!  This year, write or tweet a banned book author and tell them how their book made a difference in your life!

See the list at the Green Library display by the Check out desk!

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Win a prize package for The Goldfinch by entering at the Green Library display--look for The Goldfinch poster close to the 2nd floor Check-out desk!

OR

Get advance screenings for The Goldfinch courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and FIU!  

For your chance to get a pass log on to 

WBTickets.com and enter code: FIUGOLDFINCH

LOCATION:

AMC Aventura 24

19501 Biscayne Blvd.

Aventura, FL 33180

DATE AND TIME:

September 10, 2019

Tuesday 7:30 pm

(Have your pass ready to show at the door)

OR

Read the book the film was based on:  Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch available as an ebook, a recorded book on cd and a print book (only at the Hubert Library.)

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Win a copy of the book the film was based on!  Enter to win at the New Books lounge area in MMC’s Green Library, 2nd floor.  

(We also have an ebook version, in case you don’t win and still want to read it! Click on the book cover image for a permanent link.)

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In honor of Toni Morrison’s passing, we have collected some of her titles for display in the New Books lounge area.  Ms. Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

We have also own many of her books in ebook format, including one of her latest titles:  Home

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FIU students, enter to win 2 tickets to see Annabelle Comes Home!  See the displays at or near the Check Out desks at both campus libraries!  Free posters and masks while supplies last. 

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Win a Shaft prize pack!  Visit the Warner Bros. display at both FIU campus libraries and enter to win tickets and other prizes!

Read a book about fathers or the original book the film Shaft is based on by Ernest Tidyman at our Green Library Father’s day display!

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!