January 2023
New Print Books
Featured new additions to our print collection:








New Ebooks
Featured new additions to our ebook collections:


  • How to Persuade: The Skills You Need to Get What You Want by Michelle Bowden | Access via O'Reilly

  • The Way Up: Climbing The Corporate Mountain as a Professional of Color by Errol L. Pierre | Access via O'Reilly

  • Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting With the World by Theodore Richards | Access via O'Reilly

  • Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus by Ali Green and Tamara Sanderson | Access via O'Reilly

  • Speak With Confidence: Overcome Self-Doubt, Communicate Clearly, and Inspire Your Audience by Mike Acker | Access via O'Reilly
How to access: To access O'Reilly titles select your institution as "Not Listed" and enter your academic email address ending in .edu. OSO, Wiley, Springer, and Taylor & Francis titles are available while connected to the RHEC network.
Featured Resource:
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Humanities International Complete is an essential resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly, and creative thought. The database includes 1,664 active indexed and abstracted journals, 1,402 of which are peer-reviewed.

How to access: if you're using the RHEC network, via wired connection or wi-fi, you automatically have access. If you would like to use these databases at home, you may create an account by clicking the Sign In link at the top while connected to the RHEC network. Sign in with your account at home to have full access!
This Month's Display:
Best Books of 2022
This month's display includes both fiction and non-fiction picks from "Best of 2022" lists from the New York Times, Amazon, Time, Goodreads, and more. It also includes winners and finalists of the year's big book awards, including the National Book Awards.

Check out our display and take home a guaranteed good read!
January 1st of every year marks Public Domain Day, when new works of literature, music, film, and more enter the public domain.

What does this mean? Public domain is when a work of art is no longer protected by intellectual property law, so it is free for anyone to use, modify, build upon, or copy without permission.

On January 1, 2023, works published in 1927 entered the public domain. A few of the book titles include:

  • To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Big Four by Agatha Christie
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Look for these titles to be available to read and download for free on sites like Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive in the near future.
Staff Pick of the Month
by Miriam Toews
(PR9199.3.T6113 W66 2019)

Inspired by true events, Women Talking is a 2018 novel about a group of Mennonite women who discover that the men in their community have been drugging and sexually assaulting them at night. First dismissed as just their imaginations, and then as the work of "ghosts and demons" punishing them for their sins, the truth finally emerges that the rapists are men from their Mennonite colony.

Meeting in secret, and not knowing how to read or write, the women must decide whether they should stay and fight, leave, or do nothing. During these conversations, the women reveal their thoughts about their families and religion, roles in society, hopes for the future, and how they want to survive, in or out of the only world they've ever known.

Read alikes:


Women Talking will soon be released as a film! Read the book first before heading to the theatre.