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Results for Date: November 2020
Cover of The Angel of the Assassination: Charlotte de Corday by Joseph Shearing
  • Vicki J Kondelik
This is a biography of Charlotte Corday, the young woman who assassinated the French Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat in 1793. The author, Joseph Shearing, was known for mystery novels based on true-life crimes. Even though this book is non-fiction, it reads like a political thriller or a novel of suspense.
Block print in blue and red with bird, hand, flowers, and leaves
  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Celebrate Indigenous heritage with memoirs and biographies in the University of Michigan Library collections.
Photograph of the two main characters in Please Remember Me
  • Dawn Lawson
The next Zoom film showing in the CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) series, Please Remember Me, will be held on Wednesday, December 2, at 7:45 PM.
Cover of The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
  • Vicki J Kondelik
The Long Call is an outstanding mystery by Ann Cleeves, best known for the Shetland and Vera series. This is the beginning of a new series, featuring Matthew Venn, a gay police officer in the seaside resort area of North Devon, England. Matthew lives with his husband, Jonathan, who runs the community center. He has left the strict evangelical Christian community in which he grew up. As he is standing outside the church during his father's funeral, Matthew receives a call about a dead body on the beach. It turns out the dead man was a cook at the community center, and Jonathan may be a suspect.
Stock photo of someone playing video games
  • Val Waldron
The University of Michigan is offering a rich variety of game-related courses during the Winter 2021 term, so we thought we'd highlight them here as well as on our research guide as you're choosing courses for the Winter term. If you're looking for ideas on how to play games online, we'd recommend taking a look at the Online Games page on our research guide.
Photography of a black woman wearing a peach colored dress in the foreground of a city background.
  • Autumn Wetli-Staneluis
Observe Transgender Awareness week (November 13-19) this year by checking out some of these autobiographical and memoir books by transgender authors.
Mich. Ms. 22, detail of fol. 83v. The Evangelist Mark, from a Book of Gospels Greece, end of tenth-beginning of eleventh century; miniatures: beginning of twelfth century
  • Pablo Alvarez
We are pleased to announce the launching of a new online exhibit: "Sacred Hands." This virtual display highlights an extraordinary selection of manuscripts containing the sacred texts of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It includes manuscripts that are highly treasured for their textual and artistic value, such as a tenth-century Torah, the earliest known papyrus of St. Paul's Epistles, early illuminated Byzantine manuscripts of the Four Gospels, and a wide selection of manuscripts containing the Qur'an.
Screenshot of recording of the Webinar on Book History in the Philippines, 1850-1950, (October 30, 2020) hosted by the University of Michigan Library and Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Pablo Alvarez
We are very pleased to announce that the video of the Webinar on book history in the Philippines (1850-1950) that we hosted last October is now widely available.