Plan your Jolabokaflod Now: New Books at the Library

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It's sixteen days until Jolabokaflod*-- time to start planning what your December 24 read is going to be and to pick up some hot cocoa. Why not consider some of our new books? Maybe read something to complete your Read Great Things 2020 Challenge

A selection of new books, mostly nonfiction, at the Durham Tech Library. List of individual titles is below.

Books pictured (from bottom row to top):

To request one (or several) of these books, contact the library or you can put a hold on it yourself through the link provided in the title if you already have a Durham Tech Library account. Need more info? Check out our blog post. 


*It's a year of lots of new things, so why not start a new tradition--the Icelandic tradition of reading and drinking hot cocoa on December 24. True, the books are often given as gifts, but who says you can't read something from the library? Jolabokaflod (or Jólabókaflóðið) translates loosely as "flood of books" and has its origins after World War II, where paper was  one of the few things that were not rationed. Hence, the publishing industry pushed to make books the go-to gift for the holidays and a new tradition was born. 

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