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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho; Alan R. Clarke (Translator)
ISBN: 9780061122415
Publication Date: 2006-04-25
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different, and far more satisfying, listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

Recommended by Kathy Meagher, Director of Campus Facilities and Security
At Home by Bill Bryson
ISBN: 9780767919388
Publication Date: 2010-10-05
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.

Recommended by Jim Allen, Dean of Instructional and Institutional Effectiveness
Atomic Habits by James Clear
ISBN: 9780735211292
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
A leading expert on habit formation reveals practical strategies to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

Recommended by Anna James, Assistant Professor of English
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 9780060837020
Publication Date: 2005-08-02
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine, her increasingly strained relationships with her mother and the boy she dated in college, and eventually, devastatingly, into the madness itself. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies.

Recommended by Jenny Meslener, Director of the Learning Commons
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
ISBN: 1524798622
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she's pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next willbecome the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

Recommended by Stacy Holler, Director of Marketing and Creative Services
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
ISBN: 9781592407330
Publication Date: 2012-09-11
Based on twelve years of research, thought leader Dr. Brené Brown argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagement, and meaningful connection.

Recommended by Kelli Sisler, Director of Analytics and Institutional Research
Dear Bob and Sue by Matt Smith; Karen Smith
ISBN: 9780985358150
Publication Date: 2012-11-01
Dear Bob and Sue chronicles the journey of Matt and Karen Smith, who took a mid-career break to travel to all 58 U.S. National Parks. Written as a series of emails to their friends, Bob and Sue, they describe their sense of awe in exploring our national parks, and share humorous and quirky observations. The national parks are among the most stunning places in America -- pristine wilderness, geologic wonders, and magnificent wildlife -- places everyone should put on their must-see-before-I-die list. Matt and Karen take you along as they visit them all. Unlike a traditional guidebook, this is one couple's perspective on the joys and challenges of traveling together. This is a story of discovery and adventure: chased by a grizzly, pushed off the trail by big horn sheep, they even survived a mid-air plane collision.

Recommended by Cherie Krug, Director of Garrett College Foundation / Director of Development
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
ISBN: 0393326152
Publication Date: 2004-10-17
In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art and science of survival, will change the way you see the world. Everyone has a mountain to climb. Everyone has a wilderness inside.

Recommended by Terry Peterson, Associate Professor of Adventure Sports
Draplin Design Co by Aaron James Draplin
ISBN: 9781419720178
Publication Date: 2016-05-17
Draplin Design Co. is a mid-career survey of work, case studies, inspiration, road stories, lists, maps, how-tos, and advice.

Recommended by Chad Yoder, Graphic Designer
Educated by Tara Westover
ISBN: 0399590501
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Tara Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

Recommended by Stacy Holler, Director of Marketing and Creative Services
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
ISBN: 9780735220683
Publication Date: 2017-05-09
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kind of friends who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one

Recommended by Jenny Meslener, Director of the Learning Commons
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; Rosemarie Morgan (Introduction by, Notes by); Shannon Russell (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0141439653
Publication Date: 2003-04-29
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.

Recommended by Steven Baker, Coordinator of Safety and Security
Fences by August Wilson
ISBN: 9780452264014
Publication Date: 1986-06-01
From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him numerous critical acclaim including the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilson's ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.

Recommended by Jack DuBose, Professor of English
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
ISBN: 1401308589
Publication Date: 2006-03-01
Weaves three stories about 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement park. Eddie meets 5 individuals in heaven each with a story to share, a secret to reveal and a lesson. The have profound meanings for Eddie on the real purpose of his life.

Recommended by John Chambers, Head Wrestling Coach / Baseball Assistant / Athletics Academic Coordinator
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
ISBN: 1401303277
Publication Date: 2006-09-26
After years of drinking, being rejected by his wife and daughter, and a suicide attempt, ex-baseball star Charley Benetto returns to his childhood home where he encounters the ghost of his mother, who tells him family secrets and guides him in making his life better.

Recommended by John Chambers, Head Wrestling Coach / Baseball Assistant / Athletics Academic Coordinator
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
ISBN: 9781592858491
Publication Date: 2010-08-27
In this work, the author, a leading expert on shame, authenticity, and belonging, shares ten guideposts on the power of wholehearted living, a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.

Recommended by Kelli Sisler, Director of Analytics and Institutional Research
Girls with Swords by Lisa Bevere; John Bevere (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0307457818
Publication Date: 2013-02-12
It's time for women to take up their swords and use them to connect heaven to earth. Worldwide, women are the targets of prejudice, sex trafficking, abuse, and even gendercide. Lisa Bevere says that these attacks say more about who women might be in the future than who they have been in the past. In Girls with Swords she explains a spiritual enemy is seeking to disarm women on every level. It's time for women to become the heroes God created them to be and stand--courageous, discerning, forgiving, and wise.

Recommended by Donna Bittinger, Program Associate ABE WFD
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
ISBN: 9780446675536
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Scarlett O'Hara, the beautiful, spoiled daughter of a well-to-do Georgia plantation owner, must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

Recommended by Christine Upole, Enrollment Management & Marketing Assistant
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
ISBN: 9353450705
Publication Date: 2019
Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable. In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect and show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of the day. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

Recommended by Anonymous
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
ISBN: 9780434003488
Publication Date: 1995
When Earth is destroyed to make way for a Hyperspatial express route, Arthur Dent discovers that space is big, as he is taken on a hair-raising tour of the Galaxy and its very strange inhabitants, by his friend Ford Perfect. This is a new edition which incorporates the fifth part of the trilogy.

Recommended by Ashley Ruby, Director of Advising & Academic Success
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
ISBN: 0385495226
Publication Date: 1999-06-15
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. "The Hot Zone" tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, "The Hot Zone" proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.

Recommended by Andrew Harvey, Director of Financial Aid
Inferno by Dan Brown
ISBN: 0385537859
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science.

Recommended by Keela Pfaff, Student Records Specialist
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
ISBN: 9781101874936
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.

Recommended by Kevin Dodge, Director of Natural Resources & Wildlife Technology
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
ISBN: 0385737947
Publication Date: 2009-10-06
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

Recommended by Dallas Ouellette, Dean of Business & Finance
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
ISBN: 0007119313
Publication Date: 1934
Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

Recommended by Ashley Ruby, Director of Advising & Academic Success
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
ISBN: 9780446676090
Publication Date: 1999-12-01
In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their fifty-year journey to happiness.

Recommended by Ashley Wilt, Financial Aid Counselor / SCO
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
ISBN: 1250237238
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.

Recommended by Anonymous
The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown
ISBN: 9781604078589
Publication Date: 2012-11-15
In these sessions, Dr. Brené Brown discusses how people generally associate vulnerability with weakness and undesirable emotions such as fear and shame. But vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, creativity, authenticity, and love. When we open ourselves to being vulnerable, we open ourselves to experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives.

Recommended by Kelli Sisler, Director of Analytics and Institutional Research
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
ISBN: 9780001000391
Publication Date: 1923
The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.

Recommended by Kathy Meagher, Director of Campus Facilities and Security
Queer: a Graphic History by Meg-John Barker; Jules Scheele (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781785780714
Publication Date: 2016-09-08
Barker and Scheele invite you to question the status quo and to start seeing things more queerly.

Recommended by Jack DuBose, Professor of English
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
ISBN: 9780307887436
Publication Date: 2011-08-16
Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

Recommended by Will Avery, Residence Life Manager
Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
ISBN: 9780446363259
Publication Date: 1992-10-01
The timeless tale continues... The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once larger than life but as real as ourselves. Now bestselling writer Alexandra Ripley brings us back to Tara and reintroduces us to the characters we remember so well: Rhett, Ashley, Mammy, Suellen, Aunt Pittypat, and, of course, Scarlett. As the classic story, first told over half a century ago, moves forward, the greatest love affair in all fiction is reignited; amidst heartbreak and joy, the endless, consuming passion between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler reaches its startling culmination. Rich with surprises at every turn and new emotional, breathtaking adventures, Scarlett satisfies our longing to reenter the world of Gone With the Wind, and like its predecessor, Scarlett will find an eternal place in our hearts.

Recommended by Christine Upole, Enrollment Management & Marketing Assistant
A Season on the Wind by Kenn Kaufman
ISBN: 9781328566423
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment. Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes unnoticed, except in a few places where these small travelers concentrate in large numbers. One such place is along Lake Erie in northwestern Ohio. There, the peak of spring migration is so spectacular that it attracts bird watchers from around the globe, culminating in one of the world's biggest birding festivals. Millions of winged migrants pass through the region, some traveling thousands of miles, performing epic feats of endurance and navigating with stunning accuracy. Now climate change threatens to disrupt patterns of migration and the delicate balance between birds, seasons, and habitats. But wind farms--popular as green energy sources--can be disastrous for birds if built in the wrong places. This is a fascinating and urgent study of the complex issues that affect bird migration.

Recommended by Kevin Dodge, Director of Natural Resources & Wildlife Technology
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
ISBN: 9780743253970
Publication Date: 2003-09-30
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, [this book] is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

Recommended by Kathy Meagher, Director of Campus Facilities and Security
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
ISBN: 0671708635
Publication Date: 1990-09-15
A leading management consultant outlines seven organizational rules for improving effectiveness and increasing productivity at work and at home.

Recommended by Brandon Jackson, Coordinator of Community Outreach
Should the Tent Be Burning Like That? by Bill Heavey
ISBN: 9780802127105
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
From a celebrated writer on the outdoors, hilarious stories about the joys and pitfalls of hunting, fishing, family, and adventure.

Recommended by Rich Schofield, Director of Student Development
The Stand by Stephen King
ISBN: 9780385199575
Publication Date: 1990-05-01
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen.

Recommended by Steven Baker, Coordinator of Safety and Security
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
ISBN: 9780671741037
Publication Date: 1987-06-01
In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity: Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets ... Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Nebraska gas station ... and Swan, a young girl possessing special powers, who travels along Josh to a Missouri town where healing and recovery can begin with Swan's gift. But the ancient force behind earth's devastation is scouring the walking wounded for recruits for its relentless army, beginning with Swan herself.

Recommended by Steven Baker, Coordinator of Safety and Security
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
ISBN: 9780385338608
Publication Date: 2004-03-15
Criminal lawyer Jake Brigance faces the fight of his life when he is asked to defend Carl Hailey, who, in a rage of anger, shot and killed the men on trial for the rape of his daughter.

Recommended by Christine Upole, Enrollment Management & Marketing Assistant
Training Camp by Jon Gordon
ISBN: 9780470462089
Publication Date: 2009-05-18
Training Camp is an inspirational story filled with invaluable lessons and insights on bringing out the best in yourself and your team. The story follows Martin, an un-drafted rookie trying to make it in the NFL. He's spent his entire life proving to the critics that a small guy with a big heart can succeed against all odds. After spraining his ankle in the pre-season, Martin thinks his dream is lost when he happens to meet a very special coach who shares eleven life-changing lessons that keep his dream alive--and might even make him the best of the best. If you want to be your best--Training Camp offers an inspirational story and real-world wisdom on what it takes to reach true excellence and how you and your team (your work team, school team, church team and family team) can achieve it.

Recommended by Eric Hallenbeck, Assistant Athletic Director / Head Baseball Coach
Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom
ISBN: 0751529818
Publication Date: 2008
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.

Recommended by John Chambers, Head Wrestling Coach / Baseball Assistant / Athletics Academic Coordinator
Valvano by Jim Valvano; Curry Kirkpatrick; Doug Grad (Editor)
ISBN: 9780671732547
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Colorful, controversial, and outspoken basketball coach Jim Valvano recalls nearly a quarter century as a coach, including North Carolina State's 1982 Cinderella NCAA championship and the 16-month rollercoaster ride that led to his resignation.

Recommended by Will Avery, Residence Life Manager
Vulture by Katie Fallon
ISBN: 9781611689716
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
Perfectly adapted to its place in nature, the vulture retains its bad reputation. But is it deserved?

Recommended by Kevin Dodge, Director of Natural Resources & Wildlife Technology
Watership Down by Richard Adams
ISBN: 9780380395866
Publication Date: 1972
Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.

Recommended by Christine Upole, Enrollment Management & Marketing Assistant
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
ISBN: 9780735219113
Publication Date: 2018
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens.

Recommended by Lois Anderson, Bookstore Manager
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
ISBN: 0091883768
Publication Date: 2002-02-07
The problem is that the cheese keeps moving.In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change in their search for the cheese. You'll learn how to anticipate, adapt to and enjoy change and be ready to change quickly whenever you need to.

Recommended by Will Avery, Residence Life Manager