WHAT WE'RE READING - November 2024
In loving memory of Jenny Colvin
Associate Director for Outreach Services (2006-2022)
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Christy Allen
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
- Anima/l by Fiona Owens
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Robyn Andrews
- Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
- White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation by Naa Oyo A. Kwate
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Ed Babinski
- The Origins of Isaiah 24-27: Josiah's Festival Scroll for the Fall of Assyria by Christopher B. Hays
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Samantha Bailey
- The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
- How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas by Jeff Guinn
- The Great Santa Search by Jeff Guinn
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Brittany Champion
- American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
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Frances Choe
- The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device by Kevin Brockmeier
- Edith Holler by Edward Carey
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The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen
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Miles Dame
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Dust by Hugh Howey
American War by Omar El Akkad
Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigel
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
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Madeline Eastergard
- The Shining by Stephen King
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
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Mary Fairbairn
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Rebekah Lawrence
- Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work by Robyn Gobbel
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Dr. Jeffrey Makala
- The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
- A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Susanna Ashton
- The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross
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Dr. Caroline Mills
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
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Alyssa Nance
- Acting the Part by ZR Ellor
- The Maid by Nita Prose
- Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
- The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
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Kathie Sloan
The Lady Astronaut Series by Mary Robinette Kowal:
The Calculating Stars
The Fated Sky
The Relentless Moon
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Redshirts by John Scalzi -
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Kristina Switzer
Gullah Culture in America by Wilbur Cross
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Jean Thrift
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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All About Asset Allocation (2nd edition) by Richard A. Ferri
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Libby Young
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- ¡Santo!: Varieties of Latino/a Spirituality by Edwin David Aponte
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Alicia Zachary-Erickson
- We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole
- How to Leave the House by Nathan Newman
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
- The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
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Getting the Books Shown Here
Each of the book images in the gallery at the top and each of the titles of the books next to the person reading them are links to the closest place (or potentially easiest way) to borrow a copy of the book for yourself. The link selected is prioritized in the following manner:
1) Furman has the book in some format.
2) Another academic library in South Carolina has the book, and you can request it through PASCAL DELIVERS via the given link at no charge to you. Just login with your network username and password, then click the SELECT WITH PASCAL DELIVERS button. The info about the book will be auto-populated in the form. You just click the agreement checkbox at the bottom and press SUBMIT. The book will be delivered to the main library by the PASCAL courier, and you can pick it up at the Circulation Desk.
3) The Greenville County Library System.
4) WorldCat shows a record through which you can access our interlibrary loan request form. We will find a library that has the book and have it snail mailed here at no charge to you. If you're on campus or connected to the Furman network via VPN, you'll see a box to the right that says ACCESS FROM YOUR LIBRARIES and a button that says VIEW ACCESS OPTIONS. Click that button and a box will open saying GET IT FROM FURMAN UNIVERSITY. Under that box title, you should see a link that says REQUEST ITEM THROUGH INTERLIBRARY LOAN. Clicking that link will bring up a pre-populated interlibrary loan request form. Just scroll to the bottom and click the SUBMIT button.