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Memorial Day!

The library will be closed on Monday, May 30 even though CLASSES ARE IN SESSION. Have a wonderful, safe and fun-filled Memorial Day as you celebrate responsibly.

Books, books and more books!

Gear up for the summer with some great new books from the library. Here are just a few to tease your taste buds! Work -- everyone does it. Sometimes it's enjoyable; sometimes it's exhausting. Explore the various aspects of this time-consuming activity with Alain De Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work . You think math is scary? Only if you're a zombie, according to The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse by Jennifer Ouellette. Admit it, you'd be lost without your GPS. Now you can find out why: You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon but Get Lost in the Mall by Colin Ellard. Thought provoking answers to one of life's more interesting studies of motion: Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?: Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different by David E. Alexander. Big fan of graphic novels? Try The Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Luen Yang. Summer might be the mo

Library Hours

The library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday this week. Summer hours wwill begin on Monday, May 23. Have a great week!

Graduation Day -- Friday, May 13

The library, along with all other offices at PVCC, will close at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 13 for graduation. Graduation services will be held at John Paul Jones arena this year -- so don't forget! We also wish all our soon-to-be gradutes success! For the rest of you -- see you in the summer!

Bon voyage!

As the semester draws to a close and transfer decisions are announced (congratulations to everyone who was accepted to their college of choice), the library would like to make an announcement of its own -- we have a brand-new batch of highly-engaging and summer-ready books! With all of your new-found free time, consider spending a moment or two reading the following: 3rd Degree by James Patterson American Wife: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Bone by Bone by Carol O'Connell Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922 by Michael Crichton Fault Line: A Novel by Barry Eisler Shadow Tag Louise Erdrich Vaudeville! by Gaetan Soucy The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam If you're a history buff, then what about: The Attack on Pearl Harbor by Laurie Collier Hillstrom Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England by Michael Alexander The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Noto