Winter Break 2011

What’s on Your Reading List this Winter Break?

I asked the SCC Library Staff to share their reading list during the Winter Break.

I just read and LOVED, A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron. 

 Janet Ward, Library Specialist (Cherokee County Campus)

I will be reading books with and to my children during this break:

The Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney

Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Princess and the Goblin by Arthur Hughes

Patricia Jordan, Library Director

 

I’ll be reading the new Janet Evanovich book, Explosive Eighteen.

Katherine Stiwinter, Public Services Librarian

I’m reading Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson.

 A retired Major leads a quiet life as a proper Englishmen until he meets a Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. They are drawn together by a shared love of literature and the loss of their spouses. They become romantically interested in each other, but the village can’t accept the relationship of this native and a foreigner.

 Judy Parham, Adjunct Librarian/Lib Specialist (Cherokee County Campus)

I will be reading The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work by Jon Gordon. An AOT 254 student recommended this book to me. The book revolves around a guy name, Josh.

Josh has lost his passion at work and his boss challenged him to take two weeks off to think about his future at the company. During Josh’s time off, he meets a farmer and the rest you must read for yourself.

Leverne McBeth, Library Specialist

I am currently reading  Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.  I hope to read The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (fiction) and Catherine the Great (biography) by Robert K. Massie.

 Barbara Scala, Technical Services Librarian

Winter Break 2010

What’s on Your Reading List this Winter Break?

I asked the SCC Library Staff to share their reading list during the Winter Break.

I just started a newly released title called My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira. It is about Mary Sutter, a midwife during the Civil War, who wishes to become a surgeon. During this time in history, women did not become physicians or surgeons. I can see that she is going to have a struggle!

Judy Parham, Adjunct Librarian (Cherokee County Campus)

I am reading Faithful Place by Tana French and The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold.

Barbara Scala, Technical Services Librarian

I just started reading Train Your Dog in No Time by Ellen Whiteley. I just got a puppy and who loves to bite objects. I will devote part of my winter break training him. I am planning on reading A Stranger for Christmas by Carol Lynn Pearson for my pleasure reading. This book is a short read about having the Christmas Spirit. Two women in a nursing home are determined to find goodness in others during the holiday season.

Levenre McBeth, Library Specialist

Winter Break 2009

What’s on Your Reading List this Winter Break?

I asked the SCC Library Staff to share their reading list during the Winter Break.

I am currently reading Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosany. In this Holocaust novel, 10 year-old Sarah locks her 4 year-old brother in a cabinet to save him from the French police who are rounding up children to be sent to Auschwitz. This is a moving novel based on a real event. The characters are fictitious, however.

Judy Parham, Adjunct Librarian

I am planning on reading Empire Falls by Richard Russo and The Sisters: the Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell.

Barbara Scala, Technical Services Librarian

I am currently reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. This novel is received The Caldecott Medal in 2008. This novel was recommended to me by a SCC student. Hugo Cabret is an orphan living at a train station in Paris. The illustrations in this novel are amazing and will transport you into the mystery of this story. I am planning on reading The Shack by W. Paul Young.

N. Leverne McBeth, Library Specialist

I will be reading books by Mildred Taylor The Land and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Debra Cohen, Library Technical Assistant

I am almost finished The Clan of the Cave Bear by Auel.  For those not familiar it takes place in prehistoric times and is the first in a series. This was a banned book at one time.

Susan, Library Specialist (Cherokee)

 I am planning on reading “An Amish Christmas” by Beth Wiseman and “Home for the Holidays” by Rebecca Kelly.

Louise McFadden Pritcher, Library Assistant

Winter Break

What’s on Your Reading List this Winter Break?

I asked the SCC Library Staff to share their reading list during the Winter Break.

I will finish The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wrobleswki – a wonderful coming-of-age story of a mute boy who copes with his father’s death and an uncle disrupts his peaceful home.  As Edgar grieves for his father, he seeks solace in company of a fictional breed of dog.  This book will be a modern classic.

 After that, I will read the nonfiction book, Good to Great; Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by Jim Collins.

 Judy Parham,

Adjunct Librarian

 

Debra Cohen’s favorite Christmas book is “Christ In Christmas: A Family Advent Celebration” by James Dobson.

Debra Cohen,

Library Technical Assistant

 

Right now I am reading The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty.  It was published in 2004 and has a “quirky hero,”  279 pounds Smithy Ide, who rides his Raleigh bicycle from ME to CA meeting many interesting and humorous characters along the way. I have my name on the request list for the Story of Edgar Sawtelle, an Oprah Book Club selection, by Wroblewski which I hope will come available during semester break.  The Sparrow, a fantasy by Mary Doria Russell is the next book for discussion in my monthly Bad Girls’ Book Club.

Susan Boynton,
Library Specialist

Right now I am reading “Making Change: a transformational guide to Christian money management” by Kenneth Hemphill. This nonfiction book provides readers with the essential tools of money management for Christians. I will be reading “Skipping Christmas” by John Grisham, and “Eclipse” and “Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer during the Christmas Break.

Leverne McBeth,

Library Specialist

 

Still Don’t know what to read during the Winter Break?

Try these titles…….

The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans

PS3555.V 259 C48 1993

 

Good Harbor by Anita Diamant

PS 3554. I227 G66 2001

 

Between Father and Son: an African-American Fable by Eric V. Copage

PS 3553. O634 B48 2005

 

In the Image by Dara Horn

PS 3608. O4945 I6 2002

 

Comfort and Joy: Nine Stories for Christmas by Kirk H. Neely

PS 3614. E35 C66 2006

These titles are available at the SCC Libraries. Happy Holidays.