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The Refugees By Viet Thanh Nguyen Call number:  PS 3614 .G97 A6 2017 Review from National Public Radio Publisher's description : Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees , is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer , in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live w...

Due to a new UW System-wide Library policy, faculty and staff are now limited to three renewals for most library materials. This essentially allows materials to be checked out for two years. After three consecutive renewals, we ask that you return the materials to the Library. This policy has been put into effect to help keep our collection available not only to users at UWSP, but also to users across the UW System. In return, UWSP faculty, staff, and students enjoy the benefit of access to collections across the entire UW System. Any item that has been supplied by another UW System Library will be re-routed back to its home institution.  We are not able to extend loan periods for these items beyond the two-year limit.  We are able to issue new loans for any items that belong in our collection.  The materials must be brought back to the Library, however, in order for a new loan to be issued.   This process allows us to verify the item’s location, chec...

We are happy to announce that the James Albertson Collection is now available on the Digital Collections page through University Archives. James Albertson was the President of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1962-1967. During the Vietnam War, Albertson led a mission of 8 educators to Vietnam to study their educational system and to try and better it. Albertson and his entire team would be killed on their way back from that mission as their plane crashed. Alberson was honored recently at UWSP on the 50th anniversary of his death. His legacy continues to live on at UWSP.    Included in the Collection: Records of the eighth president of Wisconsin State College-Stevens Point. Records related to Albertson’s service in the Coast Guard (1939, 1943-1950) and his work for WSU-Stevens Point in the Philippines (1964) and Vietnam  (1967) including correspondence, notes, his personal diary, and a scrapbook.  Also included is the preliminary and comp...

The Upstarts:  How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World By Brad Stone Call Number:  HD 62.5 .S76 U67 2017 Review from The Globe and Mail Publisher Description :  A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from t he   New York Times   bestselling author of The Everything Store.  Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business, and changing the way we travel. In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. These are the upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-conf...