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Staff and faculty share their recent readings as part of the Reading Critically for Success campus-wide effort to encourage an environment of reading. Some include notes for our readers' benefit.
| Laura Meder |
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| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rachel Skloot. (NF) |
| The story of a line of cancerous cells that has been used to make important medical breakthroughs and fortunes for some but taken without knowledge, or consent from a poor African American woman in 1951. Unusual in that these cells continue to live, long after the normal programmed cell death of most cell lines, this is the story of how they have changed medical research and the effect their immortality has had on the family of Henrietta Lacks. A very good read. | |
| Mavis Brantley-Lloyd |
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| Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film | Kelley Conway (NF) |
| An historical perspective on French film and French women in film (pre-Piaf). Fascinating read and I enjoyed discovering the parallels between singers in French film and realism. | |
| Isadora, My Life | Isadora Duncan (NF) |
An autobiography of a true revolutionary who changed the entire concept of dance, a feminist far before it became popular. Thoroughly enjoyed! |
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| The Help | Kathryn Stockett (F) |
A story set in the 1960's of the beginnings of social awareness as seen from both sides of the racial divide. I couldn't put this one down. |
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| Toujours Provence | Peter Mayle (NF) |
| Stories of life in the south of France. Peter Mayle is delightful to read, humorous and charming. | |
| Janice Griffith |
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| Breaking Dawn | Stephanie Meyer (F) |
| Vampires | |
| A Thousand Hills | Stephen Kinzer (NF) |
| Paul Kagame's life in Rwanda | |
| Lee Sandstead |
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| A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino de Santiago | John Brierley (NF) |