Academic Year 2017-2018
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Call Number: PS3562.E42 A6 2017ISBN: 9781328661593Publication Date: 2017Discussion Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018.
A collection of thoughts on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. YBP Core Collection Titles 2017.
Borderlands - La Frontera by Call Number: PS3551.N95 B6 1999ISBN: 1879960567Publication Date: 1999Discussion Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2018.
Experimental, inventive, provocative and above all visionary, this work is widely recognized among scholars of Chicano/Latino, Gay and Lesbian, Women's, Postcolonial, Ethnic and Cultural Studies as a foundational elaboration of the politics and poetics of cultural hybridity. A "Best of 1987" Library Journal selection; One of the 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century - Hungry Mind Review (Spring 1999).
A Wrinkle in Time by Call Number: PZ7.L5385 Wr 1962 (Juv Lit - 2nd Floor)ISBN: 9780374386139Publication Date: 1962Discussion Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018.
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Newbery Medal Winner, 1963.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Call Number: PN6727.F4646 M9 2016ISBN: 9781606999592Publication Date: 2016Discussion Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018.
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s Chicago, this fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes is filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. She tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
The Remains of the Day by Call Number: PR6059.S5 R46 1989ISBN: 0394573439Publication Date: 1989Discussion Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2017.
A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England.
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Call Number: D810.W7 A5313 2017ISBN: 9780399588723Publication Date: 2017Discussion Date: Tuesday,October 24, 2017.
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2017.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Call Number: PR9387.9.A34354 H35 2006ISBN: 9781400044160Publication Date: 2006Discussion Date: Tuesday, September 5, 2017.
A masterly, haunting novel that re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.
Celine: A Novel by Call Number: PS3608.E454 C45 2017ISBN: 9780451493897Publication Date: 2017Discussion Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2017.
A luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Call Number: PS3610.A35447 S73 2015ISBN: 9781594205958Publication Date: 2015Discussion Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
This lyrical novel of community, betrayal, and love centers on an unforgettable matriarchal family in Barbados. Two sisters, ages ten and sixteen, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados (where the family has lived for centuries) after their mother can no longer care for them.
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by Call Number: PS3569.A7897 L56 2017ISBN: 9780812995343Publication Date: 2017Discussion Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2017.
Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a novel - in its form and voice - completely unlike anything you have read before. It is also, in the end, an exploration of the deeper meaning and possibilities of life, written as only George Saunders can: with humor, pathos, and grace. Man Booker Prize winner.
