{"id":7839,"date":"2015-06-05T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T14:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2015-10-09T17:02:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:02:05","slug":"staff-reading-picks-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/staff-reading-picks-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Reading Picks 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staff Reading Picks 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking for some summer reading ideas? Below are selections of books recently recommended by staff members of the FAU Libraries. These books are now on display in the Wimberly Library’s main lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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All the Light we Cannot See
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Anthony Doerr. Scribner, 2014
\nCall Number: PS3604.O34 A77 2014 <\/a>
\nRecommended by Beth<\/p>\n

Courtesans & Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
\n<\/em><\/strong>By James Davidson. St. Martin’s Press, 1998
\nCall Number: <\/a>DF275 .D23 1998<\/a>
\nRecommended by Afra B., Access Services<\/p>\n

Earth as Art
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Lawrence Friedl, Karen Yuen, et al. NASA, 2012
\nCall Number: NAS 1.83:NP-2012-07-889-HQ<\/a>
\nRecommended by Bruce Barron, Government Documents
\n“A book of beautiful full-color pictures showing images from Earth-observing environmental satellites in orbit around the planet.”
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The Essential Calvin & Hobbes: A Calvin & Hobbes Treasury
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Bill Watterson. Andrews and McMeel, 1988
\nCall Number: PN6728.C34W383<\/a>
\nRecommended by Brian Wert, Technical Services
\n\u201cOne of the best comic strips ever! It mixed intelligent, thoughtful and mature humor with a childlike point of view about the world. Sometimes hilarious, yet other times poignant and insightful. How can you go wrong with an ornery, imaginative, energetic boy and his Tiger?”<\/p>\n

The Far Side Gallery
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gary Larson. Andrews, McMeel & Parker, 1984.
\nCall Number: NC1429.L32A4 1984a<\/a>
\nRecommended by Brian Wert, Technical Services
\n“Weird, wild and wonderful! How do you possibly describe the range of reactions experienced while reading a Far Side collection? You will at times snort, laugh out loud, put your head in your hands and think, ‘What?’, or stare blankly at the page grasping for understanding. All the while you are wondering what substances Gary Larson was abusing, if he was dropped on his head as a child or if you should report him to the authorities so they can isolate him from the general public.”<\/p>\n

The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Fawzia Koofi with Nadene Gourhi. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
\nCall Number: DS371.43.K66A3 2012<\/a>
\nRecommended by Renata Johnson, Access Services
\n\u201cThis was a book group selection and in reading the book, I was exposed to the political machine that makes up modern day Afghanistan. Society, as a whole, still has not fully accepted the role women play in the political system and this book depicts the trials and tribulations of a Muslim woman in the age of the Taliban as she struggles to keep her father’s political legacy alive.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Kurt Vonnegut. Seven Stories Press, 1999
\nCall Number: PS3572.O5G58 1999<\/a>
\nRecommended by Matthew, Access Services
\n“Features ‘interviews’ with Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, James Earl Ray, Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, and Kilgore Trout and more!”<\/p>\n

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By J.K. Rowling. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2000
\nCall Number: PZ7.R79835Hal 2000
\n<\/a>Recommended by Afra B., Access Services
\n“Harry Potter was a crucial part of my childhood that has contributed to my love of books. Prisoner of Azkaban<\/em> is my favorite book in the series, but it’s unavailable. Goblet of Fire<\/em> is a good second choice.”<\/p>\n

Jane Eyre
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Charlotte Bronte. Barnes and Noble Books, 1993
\nCall Number: PR4167.J3 1993<\/a>
\nRecommended by Zach English, Collection Development
\n\u201cJane Eyre <\/em>is one of my favorite books. Charlotte Bronte was a powerful writer with a very modern voice.”<\/p>\n

Kim
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Rudyard Kipling. Dell Pub. Co., 1959
\nCall Number: PR4854.K4 1959<\/a>
\nRecommended by Zach English, Collection Development
\n“Kim<\/em> is a novel about a young man who teams up with a Buddhist monk on a travel across India. Along their way they blend into this kaleidoscopic world, vividly described by Kipling.”<\/p>\n

The Man in the High Castle
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Philip K. Dick.
\nCall Number: PS3554.I3.M26 1992<\/a>
\nRecommended by Matthew, Access Services
\n“An alternate history where the Axis powers were victorious in WWII and now rule over the United States. The novel within the novel – The Grasshopper Lies Heavy – is about an alternate history where the Axis powers lose WWII. Oooh, weird.”<\/p>\n

On the Road<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Jack Kerouac.
\nCall Number: PS3521.E735O5 1993<\/a>
\nRecommended by Zach English, Collection Development
\n\u201cA great novel about bohemian life in post-war America. Kerouac lived his story first and then typed it up.”<\/p>\n

One Last Little Peek<\/em>, 1980-1995: The Final Strips, the Special Hits, the Inside Tips
\n<\/strong>By Berkeley Breathed.
\nCall Number: PN6728.O92B75 1995<\/a>
\nRecommended by Brian Wert, Technical Services
\n\u201cAnother great comic strip of the 1980s. It featured a wide range of offbeat characters: Opus J. Penguin, Bill the Cat, lawyer Steve Dallas. Entertaining and thought-provoking, sometimes very political and socially-aware subject matter. Plus you have to love any cartoonist with a name like Berkeley Breathed!”<\/p>\n

Patton: A Biography<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Alan Axelrod. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
\nCall Number: E745.P3A97 2006<\/a>
\nRecommended by Lawrence J. Mello, Jr., Reference and Instruction
\n“One of the most complicated military men of all time, General George Smith Patton, Jr. He was known for carrying pistols with ivory handles and his intemperate manner, and is regarded as one of the most successful United States field commanders of any war.”<\/p>\n

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Slaughterhouse-Five
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Kurt Vonnegut. Dell, 1991
\nCall Number: PS3572.O5S55 1991<\/a> (Jupiter campus library)
\nRecommended by Alethea Perez, Recorded Sound Archives
\n\u201cCentering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. I selected this book because despite being written in 1969, it still is so relevant to now and today. While it can be a tear-jerker at times, I enjoyed the brutal honesty the book had about the way things are.”<\/p>\n

Steal this Book<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Abbie Hoffman. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996
\nCall Number: HX843.7.H64A3 1996<\/a>
\nRecommended by Matthew, Access Services
\n“Strangely, this book has gone missing from the Wimberly Library. Reported lost, but it’s available at the Jupiter campus…for a limited time.”<\/p>\n

Student Body Art Exhibition<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Z. McCarthy-Koppisch. Blurb, 2011
\nCall Number: N6537.M22 2011<\/a> (Jupiter campus)
\nRecommended by Patzy Koppisch
\n“The book is located in the Jupiter library, but the Jaffe Center also has a copy. It is a catalog of photographs from the Stories on the Skin: Tattoo Culture at FAU project.”<\/p>\n

Voices of 1776<\/em>
\n<\/strong>By Richard Wheeler. Crowell, 1972
\nCall Number: E203.W45 1972<\/a>
\nRecommended by Lawrence J. Mello, Jr., Reference and Instruction
\n“Eyewitness accounts bring to life the turbulent events of the American Revolution from Paul Revere’s ride to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.”<\/p>\n

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