News The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown 12/9/2015 Reviewed by Chuck Samuels, Director of Publications The Boys in the Boat tells the true story of the American 8-man rowing team who competed in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. So much of this book… Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart 12/9/2015 Reviewed by Marian Fragola, Director, Program Planning and Outreach "When someone looks back and writes a history of this summer, two people they will almost certainly leave out are Sue and… Seveneves by Neal Stephenson 12/9/2015 Reviewed by Josh Wilson, Systems Librarian, NC Live Neal Stephenson's take on the consequences of the moon exploding (not a spoiler--it happens in literally the first sentence) employs him in his… Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, 3rd edition 12/9/2015 Reviewed by Madison Sullivan, NCSU Libraries Fellow This is the 25th anniversary edition of the first huge scholarly survey of the history of sexuality in the United States (I think it still… A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 12/7/2015 Reviewed by Dargan Williams, Friends of the Library Board Member The best book I have read this year is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. This 700 page novel tells the story of four college… Redeployment by Paul Clay 12/4/2015 Reviewed by Alex Carroll, Research Librarian for Engineering and Biotechnology, NCSU Libraries This book was recommended to me by a friend as "The Things They Carried for the wars in Afghanistan… All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 12/4/2015 Reviewed by Leia Droll, Executive Director of Development, NCSU Libraries This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a beautiful story about a boy and girl in occupied France during World War II… Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner 12/4/2015 Reviewed by Catherine W. Bishir, Curator, Architectural Records Special Collections, NCSU Libraries I really liked Angela Davis-Gardner's novel, Butterfly's Child . It begins with the plot of… The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook 12/4/2015 Reviewed by Kristin Wilson, Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery, NCSU Libraries My favorite book this year was The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook. It's all about… Seeing Things by Nancy Young 12/4/2015 Reviewed by Sharon Silcox, University Library Technician, NCSU Libraries I read this book in one day! Mary Catherine, the divorced mother who takes up ghost hunting in a haunted mansion in… Pagination First page « First Previous page Previous Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Current page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Next page Next Last page Last »