What We’re Reading – June 2024

Christy Allen
Love, Lies & Hocus Pocus: Allies by Lydia Sherrer (Click the “Access from Your Libraries” link to request this for free via interlibrary loan)
How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

Robyn Andrews
Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. & Peter A. Schein
Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living by Rueben P. Job
Women Holding Things by Maira Kalma
There There by Tommy Orange

Ed Babinski
The Origins of Isaiah 24-27: Josiah’s Festival Scroll for the Fall of Assyria by Christopher B. Hays

Laura Baker
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Brittany Champion
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks

Frances Choe
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Best of World SF: Volume 1 edited by Lavie Tidhar

Madeline Eastergard
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Mary Fairbairn
Professors at Play PlayBook: Real-world Techniques from a More Playful Higher Education Classroom edited by Lisa Forbes and David Thomas
Time Management for the Creative Person by Lee Silber
How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

Rebekah Lawrence
Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management by A. Verminski & K.M. Blanchat
Electronic Resource Management in Libraries by C. Sean Burns

Dr. Jeffrey Makala
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Dr. Caroline Mills
The Outsider by Stephen King
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Earth’s Children Series by Jean Auel

Alyssa Nance
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
Lived Experience and Co-production in Philosophy and Mental Health edited by Anna Berqvist, David Crepaz-Keay, and Alana Wilde
How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

Kathie Sloan
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis
First Frost by Craig Johnson

Libby Young
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
Clara Reads Proust by Stephane Carlier

Alicia Zachary-Erickson
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

Getting the books shown here

Each of the titles underneath the name of the person reading them are links to the closest place (or potentially easiest way) to borrow a copy of the book for yourself. The link selected is prioritized in the following manner:

  • Furman has the book in some format.
  • Another academic library in South Carolina has the book, and you can request it through PASCAL DELIVERS via the given link at no charge to you. Just login with your network username and password, then click the SELECT WITH PASCAL DELIVERS button. The info about the book will be auto-populated in the form. You just click the agreement checkbox at the bottom and press SUBMIT. The book will be delivered to the main library by the PASCAL courier, and you can pick it up at the Circulation Desk.
  • The Greenville County Library System.
  • WorldCat shows a record through which you can access our interlibrary loan request form. We will find a library that has the book and have it snail mailed here at no charge to you. If you’re on campus or connected to the Furman network via VPN, you’ll see a box to the right that says ACCESS FROM YOUR LIBRARIES and a button that says VIEW ACCESS OPTIONS. Click that button and a box will open saying GET IT FROM FURMAN UNIVERSITY. Under that box title, you should see a link that says REQUEST ITEM THROUGH INTERLIBRARY LOAN. Clicking that link will bring up a pre-populated interlibrary loan request form. Just scroll to the bottom and click the SUBMIT button.