News Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann 12/4/2015 Reviewed by Silvia Sheffield, Library Technician, Natural Resources Library, NCSU Libraries Mother of Sorrows is a novel (or perhaps a collection of short stories) about a gay man growing… Welcome to the 2016 "The Best Book I Read This Year" Reviews 12/4/2015 Just in time for holiday reading and gift giving, NCSU Libraries has reprised its popular "The Best Book I Read This Year" blog with new entries from 2016. We asked NCSU Libraries staff, Friends of… Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 12/3/2015 Reviewed by: Jamie Bradway, Preservation Librarian, NCSU Libraries I've been around long enough to have developed a pretty fixed world view, to have become less intellectually malleable than I'… The Cobra Event by Richard Preston 12/3/2015 Reviewed by Joe Hightower, Friends of the Library Board Member The best book I read this year was The Cobra Event by Richard Preston. It isn't a recent novel (1998, actually) but I only… All the Truth is Out 12/8/2014 Book: All the Truth is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid Author: Matt Bai Reviewer: Will Cross, Director, Copyright and Digital Scholarship, NCSU Libraries Growing up in the 1980s, I knew Gary… The Book of Mormon 12/8/2014 Book: The Book of Mormon Author: Transl. Joseph Smith Reviewer: Elizabeth Hassell, Student, College of Science The Book of Mormon is the centerpiece of a major religion and a compelling historical… Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 12/8/2014 Book: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 Author: Francine Prose Reviewer: Jody Herring, Graduate - English (American Literature), NC State This book came out of Prose's love of the work of… The Secret Place 12/5/2014 Book: The Secret Place Author: Tana French Reviewer: Kristen Wilson, Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery, NCSU Libraries Tana French's The Secret Place is quite possibly the best of her… The Book of Dolores and Livability 12/3/2014 Book: The Book of Dolores Author: William T. Vollmann Reviewer: Jason Jefferies, Project Coordinator, North Carolina Literary Festival 2014 I have been a fan of Vollmann since I lived in the San… Chasing Chaos 12/3/2014 Book: Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and out of Humanitarian Aid Author: Jessica Alexander Reviewer: Gwynn Thayer, Associate Head and Curator of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries I picked… Pagination First page « First Previous page Previous Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Current page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Next page Next Last page Last »