New Books Are In!
The beginning of the fall semester is behind us, but its
end lies even farther ahead. You’ve a few months to go before you can start
catching up on all that sleep you’re missing. But there’s no reason why you
shouldn’t treat yourself to a few new books in the meantime.
Learn how to maximize your experience here at PVCC with
the The
Community College Career Track: How to Achieve the American Dream without a
Mountain of Debt by Thomas Snyder and Community
College Success: You Are Not Alone: How to Finish with Friends, Scholarships,
Internships, and the Career of Your Dreams by Isa Adney. And don’t stop
there: check out How
You Can Maximize Student Aid: Strategies for the FAFSA and the Expected Family
Contribution (EFC) to Increase Financial Aid for College by Tracy Foote
and Paying
for College without Going Broke by Kalman A. Chany to discover
strategies for navigating the important but often complex subject of financial
aid.
As the leaves turn and the weather
chills, nature—and all of its creatures, whether it’s a herd of deer springing
across the highway or an army of stinkbugs (happy fall!) clogging up the
ceiling light—is making one last comeback before hibernation. Explore the
intersection between us and (terrifying) Mother Nature in The
Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects by Jeffrey A.
Lockwood, The
Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild by Lyanda
Lynn Haupt, and Mother
Nature is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Journey through the Dark Side of the
Natural World by Dan Riskin.
Wherever you are in the 2014-2015 choice for the PVCC One
Book program—Breaking Night by Liz
Murray—supplement your reading with books such as Homeless:
Poverty and Place in Urban America by Ella Howard and Poverty
in America: A Handbook by John Iceland.
Take a break from your studies with Super
Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe by Tim Leong or a
novel or two. Check out China
Dolls by Lisa See, the story of a fraught friendship between three
young women during World War II, as well as Ransom Riggs’s creepily
atmospheric Miss
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and its sequel, Hollow
City. Be warned: the chilling photography in those last two books might
set your brain on Halloween-mode ahead of schedule.