Picks for Summer Reading at Stonehill

July 06, 2010

When we asked what people at Stonehill are reading this summer, we received close to 40 recommendations. In the previous article, we reported on 14 of the top picks, but here is the whole list of reading choices.

Darcy Lynch (Career Services) The Condition by Jennifer Haigh

David Sander (Religious Studies) The Golden Bough, by James George Frazer and The Arabian Nights, Translated by H. Haddawy

Andrew Leahy (Career Services) A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Betsy Dean (Library) Nigel Tranter's works about Scotland

Kevin Spicer (History) Sparrow Rock

Jane Nash (Psychology) Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor

Stefanie Martin (Enrollment Management and Marketing) The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Kathy McNamara (Education) Little Bee by Chris Cleave Now reading The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Peter Beisheim (Religious Studies) 61 Hours: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child,  Storm Prey by John Sandford, and First Rule byRobert Crais

Joyce Vacchi (Library)  Just Take my Heart by Mary Higgins Clark

Shelly Leahy (Academic Services) Are you there Vodka? It's me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

Kathy Fedorchuk (Facilities) Sniper by Stephen Hunter

Geri Sheehan (Library) The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Diane Leary (Health Services) Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

Jessica Greene (Wellness) Valentine by Adriana Trigiani

Jane Cartier (Library) The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd

Jen Matthews (Controller) A Drinking Life by Pete Hamel

Donna Vivar (Student Affairs) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

Andrea Barry (Switchboard) City of Thieves by David Benioff

Bob and Diane Peabody (Biology) Wish you Well by David Baldacci

Donna Vrana (Student Affairs) The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

Warren Dahlin (Healthcare Administration): The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherford

Patricia Leavy: (Sociology) Open by Andre Agassi

Andrea Opitz (English) & Andrea Barry (SCPD) : City of Thieves by David Benioff

Pat Anzelmo (HR) & Ann Coulter (Controller's Office) : The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Greg Shaw: (Religious Studies) The 40 Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

Fr. Rick Gribble (Religious Studies): The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs

Geoff Lantos (Business): A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life by Antwone Fisher

Ashley Sullivan (Advancement) & Maureen Boyle (Communication): Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

J.P. Kitson (Videography): Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

Jean Hamler (Institutional Research): Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit

Anne Mattina (Communication): Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott

Rick Anderson (Business) : A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers by Lawrence McDonald and Patrick Robinson 

Shannon McDonough (Web): Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite by Frank Bruni

Liza Talusan (Intercultural Affairs): Born to Run: A Hidden tribe, Superathletes, and The Greatest Race the World has Ever Seen by Christopher McDougall 

Doug Smith (Development): Ted Williams by Leigh Montville

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