This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":13324,"date":"2020-11-16T17:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=13324"},"modified":"2020-12-01T15:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T19:47:14","slug":"relax-over-the-holidays-and-read-a-good-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/relax-over-the-holidays-and-read-a-good-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Relax Over the Holidays and Read a Good Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you read a good book lately? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/leisure-reading\">HSLS Leisure Reading Collection<\/a> has several hundred newly published fiction and nonfiction books. The Collection is located on the main floor of Falk Library with <a href=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/december-2020\/falk-library-winter-recess-hours\/\">limited open hours<\/a> in December and January.<\/p>\n<p>Recent bestsellers includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Anxious People<\/em> by Fredrik Backman<\/li>\n<li><em>Becoming<\/em> by Michelle Obama<\/li>\n<li><em>The Book of Two Ways<\/em> by Jodi Picoult<\/li>\n<li><em>The Vanishing Half<\/em> by Brit Bennett<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->Other popular books in the Leisure Reading Collection include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Becoming a Nurse<\/em> by Sonny Kleinfield<\/li>\n<li><em>Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel<\/em> by Christy Lefteri<\/li>\n<li><em>Deacon King Kong<\/em> by James McBride<\/li>\n<li><em>Dot Con: The Art of Scamming a Scammer<\/em> by James Veitch<\/li>\n<li><em>Fifty Words for Rain: A Novel<\/em> by Asha Lemmie<\/li>\n<li><em>Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family<\/em> by Robert Kolke<\/li>\n<li><em>Girl is a Body of Water<\/em> by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi<\/li>\n<li><em>Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition<\/em> by Buddy Levy<\/li>\n<li><em> Everything: A Novel <\/em>by Jennifer Weiner<\/li>\n<li><em>This Won\u2019t End Well<\/em> by Camille Pagan<\/li>\n<li><em>Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church<\/em> by Megan Phelps-Roper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can easily browse the collection, or use <a href=\"https:\/\/newpittcat.pitt.edu\/\">PittCat<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/\">Pitt Resources Quick Search box<\/a> to locate specific titles. Multiple books may be borrowed for a three-week period and may be renewed. If a book you want to read is checked out to another person, place a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/items-in-use\">hold<\/a> on the book and you\u2019ll be notified when it is returned. We welcome recommendations; send your suggestions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/ask-a-librarian\">Ask a Librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~Jill Foust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you read a good book lately? The HSLS Leisure Reading Collection has several hundred newly published fiction and nonfiction books. The Collection is located on the main floor of Falk Library with limited open hours in December and January. Recent bestsellers includes: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Becoming by Michelle Obama The Book of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-13324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2020","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13326,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions\/13326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}