Amy Dionne, Executive Assistant, Treasurers Office is reading...

Through the Door
By: Jodie McIsaac

Through the Door by Jodi McIsaac weaves Celtic mythology and urban fantasy. This tells the story of a mom trying to reconcile her daughter’s unusual abilities and her feelings for the man who abandoned her. The book is heart wrenching, surprising, and full of magical wonder. Nothing is what it seems. Jodi is an Indie …

Dominique Wein '15 is reading...

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
By: Leymah Gbowee

Published last year, Pym by Mat Johnson was recommended to me by a colleague who, like me, teaches African American literature. The novel, however, is adamantly not a work of African American literature though it is all about African American literature. The story revolves around the life of Christopher Jaynes who has recently been denied …

Alida Snow, Circulation Assistant, HL Library is reading...

This Life is In Your Hands
By: Melissa Coleman

I’m easily lured to tales of pioneers who leave the comfortable and familiar to carve out lives on the frontier. I’m also fascinated by the U.S. counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Add my interest in organic gardening and a love of the Maine Coast, and this book becomes a must-read for me. Melissa …

Dan Robinson, Assistant Director of Annual Giving/Young Alumni is reading...

The Emperor of All Maladies
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Let me start by saying that I’m a hopeless addict to trashy fantasy and sci-fi novels. After finishing a particularly long and embarrassingly bad series I decided that it was time to push the boundaries of my comfort zone, so I committed to reading 10 non-fiction books before returning to my usual rubbish. To start, …