In loving memory of Jenny Colvin, Associate Director for Outreach Services (2006-2022)
Christy Allen
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
Robyn Andrews
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
Samantha Bailey
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Frances Choe
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez
Madeline Eastergard
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
Lauren Lundy
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
Jeffrey Makala
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
Caroline Mills
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Alyssa Nance
The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches edited by Amber Billey, Elizabeth Nelson, and Rebecca Uhl
Kathie Sloan
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Kristina Switzer
Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men’s Gender Activism by Emily K. Carian
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England by Keith Thomas
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Libby Young
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
The Widow’s Mite & Other Stories by Ferrol Sams
Alicia Zachary-Erickson
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love by Julie Sedivy
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
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.
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