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February 2007
Recommended Reads
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The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. “Winner of the 2002 Booker Prize, this brilliant novel is highly imaginative and simply a delight to read. In this masterful story, we join 16-year-old Pi Patel as he and his ‘companions’ struggle to survive aboard a lifeboat in a story combining survival with adventure.”
– Father Tom O’Neill, vice president for mission and ministry
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A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor. “Allgor’s biography shows how Dolley’s charisma, political savvy, and social skills complemented her husband’s qualities and influenced a new government in a new capital.”
– Nancy Steinhoff, assistant director of the library and instruction and reference librarian
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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. “Set in the 1980s in northeastern India, this book tackles the issues of loss, cultural identity, nationhood, modernization, and class. This provoking, beautifully written book is a thoughtful study of families and how individuals cope with loss.”
– Glena Temple, associate professor of biology
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The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman. “This new biography provides exhaustive research, provocative revelations, and an extraordinary inquiry into one of the most remarkable, troubled, creative, and mystical minds of 20th century America.”
– Rev. Bill Reese, assistant professor of religious studies and philosophy
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Rubicon by Tom Holland. “Rubicon brilliantly captures the drama and historical lessons that permeate 1st century B.C. and the collapse of Rome’s republican governing order. The republic was transformed into a new imperial institution that continued for five more centuries.”
– Keith Knutson, assistant professor of history
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. “Full of mystery and suspense, the novel tracks three historians, in three different time periods, who find documentation that Dracula is still alive. The suspense artfully builds as they attempt to track his movements through the political upheavals of the Eastern Block.”
– Susan Cosby Ronnenberg, assistant professor of English
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My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey by John Wooden, with Steve Jamison. “John Wooden is a legend in American sports history. In this book, he summarizes his upbringing, his time in college, his family life, and his career, but the best parts are when he delves into his philosophy on life.”
– Bobbi Vandenberg, women’s basketball coach
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