LC Reads Collection
All the books in this collection were donated to the library from various LC departments
who suggested titles and voted for a winner.
who suggested titles and voted for a winner.
TITLE: The Cellist of Sarajevo
AUTHOR: Steven Galloway WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gal - NOVELS SUMMARY: Follows the lives of four people--a baker, a young father, a sniper, and a cellist who commits to playing Albinoni's "Adagio" once a day for twenty-two days in memory of his neighbors who were killed--trying to adjust to their new daily routines in war-torn Sarajevo. DONATED BY: Orchestra (2020-21) |
TITLE: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
AUTHOR: Edited by Alice Wong WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.9 Dis SUMMARY: A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience. DONATED BY: Special Education Department (2020-21) |
TITLE: Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
AUTHOR: Adam Rogers WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 152.14 Rog SUMMARY: A lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the world. DONATED BY: Visual Arts Department (2020-21) |
TITLE: Hamnet
AUTHOR: Maggie O'Farrell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC O'Fa - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Presents the evocative story of a young Shakespeare's marriage to a talented herbalist before the ravaging death of their 11-year-old son shapes the production of his greatest play. DONATED BY: English Department (2020-21) |
TITLE: Love in the Time of Cholera
AUTHOR: Gabriel García Márquez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gar - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Florentino Ariza engages in hundreds of liasons over the course of fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days, while waiting to finally possess Fermina Daza, a woman who once promised Florentino her love, but then jilted him in favor of another. DONATED BY: World Language Department (2020-21) |
TITLE: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
AUTHOR: Jessica Bruder WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 331.3 Bru SUMMARY: Author Jessica Bruder goes on a journey to discover the dark underbelly of the American economy, and the community of transient elderly people, often underwater on mortgages and the greatest casualty of the Great Recession. DONATED BY: CTE Department (2020-21) |
TITLE: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra
AUTHOR: Wendy Lichtman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Lic - NOVELS SUMMARY: Tess has always loved math, and she uses mathematical concepts to help her understand things in her life, so she is dismayed to find out how much math--and life--can change in eighth grade. DONATED BY: Math Department (2020-21) |
TITLE: Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
AUTHOR: John Higgs WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 909.82 Hig SUMMARY: In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialism, Stalin, psychedelics, chaos mathematics, climate change and postmodernism. Higgs invites us along as he journeys across a century "about which we know too much" in order to grant us a new perspective on it. DONATED BY: Social Studies Department (2020-21) |
TITLE: Street Art: Famous Artists Talk About Their Vision
AUTHOR: Edited by Alessandra Mattanza WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 751.7 Mat SUMMARY: Art has moved from the museum into the streets, with visionary artists using their creativity to convert the spaces of everyday life and, often, to address social and political issues. Journalist Alessandra Mattanza interviews 20 of the most renowned figures in the street-art scene, from painters to sculptors to stencilists, who reveal their stories and their inspiration. DONATED BY: Visual Arts Department (2020-21) |