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AFTER YEARS OF PLANNING, four years of design, and two years of construction, a newly renovated Commons building opened in the fall. This holistic remaking of the historic and beloved center of campus community life combines dining, social, and academic areas within a collection of dynamic spaces. The building is animated by daylight, views, natural materials, and artwork. Like a Bennington education, Commons is a manifestation of learning by doing, of drawing on resources and inspiration from all around us, and is a building that embodies the merger of our work and social lives. Here the campus community can again eat and study in the same space, mentor, perform, and relax together. It is thrilling to be continuing an already rich and storied history in this breathtaking building.

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There has never been a better time to come back to campus than now. We invite alumni near and far to return and tour Commons to experience the space and the difference space makes. Or tour the difference online by visiting bennington.edu/ commonsbuilding for a gallery of images, floor-by-floor tours, and for more information on the many new, interconnected spaces including Roz’s Cafe; the Class of 1977 Lounge; Signa Lynch Read ’79 Bookstore; the Carolyn Crossett Rowland ’37 Forum; and the Atrium performance and lecture space below the cupola on the third floor.

An excerpt from the introduction to Michael Pollan's bestselling book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.

From top to bottom: A view of north campus from the Classroom 302 • Looking into the kitchen from the west wing of the dining hall • The Carolyn Crossett Rowland '37 Forum, a new peer-to-peer learning and study space on the third floor • A student looks out of the 14 foot tall dormer windows; facing east from the CCR'37 Forum Pictured left: The newly renovated north entrance of Commons.

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Kalayla (Nurturing Light; June 2019) by Jeannie Nichols ’63 Inheritance (Other Press; September 2019) by Evelyn Thal Toynton ’70 How to be a Better Online Writer Overnight (Better Writer Publishing; May 2019) by Richard Rotman ’73 The Salty River Bleeds (Finishing Line Press; September 2019) by Stephen Page MFA ’08 Stray Harbor (Finishing Line Press; August 2019)

by First-Year and International Student Advisor Rage Hezekiah The Future Is Feminist (Chronicle Books; February 2019) contributed writing by Claire Vaye Watkins, Writing Seminars faculty member Stamford ’76 A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s (University of Iowa Press; April 2019) by JoeAnne Hart MFA ’00 Behind the Stars, More Stars: The Tagus / Disquiet Collection of New Luso-American Writing (Tagus Press; March 2019) edited by Oona Patrick MFA ’01 Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making (The Operating System; March 2019) contributed writing by Remica Bingham-Risher MFA ’05 I Want More (Trade Paperback; July 2019) by Tracy Burkholder MFA ’05 The Davids Inside David (Terrapin Books; March 2019) by Sarah Wetzel MFA ’09 Undoll (YesYesBooks; September 2019) by Tanya Grae MFA ’13 Good Works Review 2018 (FutureCycle Press; January 2019) with contributed writing by Melissa McInerney MFA ’15

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THE GOLD BATON In June 2019, composer Joan Tower ’61 was awarded the 2019 Gold Baton Prize—the League of American Orchestras’ highest honor. Given annually since 1948 for distinguished service to America’s orchestras, the Gold Baton recognizes individuals and institutions whose far-reaching contributions to the field serve to champion and advance the cause of orchestras and symphonic music throughout the country. Previous Gold Baton recipients include, among many others, Leonard Bernstein (1959); The Ford Foundation (1966); Aaron Copland (1978); Beverly Sills (1980); Morton Gould (1983); William Schuman (1985); Betty Freeman (1987); Pierre Boulez (2000); Michael Tilson Thomas (2003); John Williams (2006); Ann Hobson Pilot (2017); and Yo-Yo Ma (2018).

Tower is widely regarded as one of the most important American composers living today. During a career spanning more than 50 years, she has made lasting contributions to musical life in the United States as composer, performer, conductor, and educator. Her works have been commissioned by major ensembles, soloists, and orchestras, including the Emerson, Tokyo, and Muir quartets; soloists Evelyn Glennie, Carol Wincenc, David Shifrin, Paul Neubauer, and John Browning; and the orchestras of Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Nashville, Albany, NY, and Washington, DC, among others. Tower was the first composer chosen for a Ford Made in America consortium commission of 65 orchestras. Leonard Slatkin and the Nashville Symphony recorded Made in America in 2008 (along with Tambor and Concerto for Orchestra). The album collected three Grammy awards: Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Best Classical Album, and Best Orchestral Performance. Nashville’s latest allTower recording includes Stroke, which received a 2016 Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. In 1990, she became the first woman to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Silver Ladders, a piece she wrote for the St. Louis Symphony, where she was Composer-in-Residence in 1985 to 1988. Other residencies with orchestras include a 10-year residency with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (1997–2007) and the Pittsburgh Symphony (2010–11). She was the Albany Symphony’s Mentor Composer partner in the 2013–14 season. Tower was cofounder and pianist for the Naumburg Award–winning Da Capo Chamber Players from 1970 to 1985. She has received honorary doctorates from Smith College, the New England Conservatory, and Illinois State University. She is the Asher Edelman Professor of Music at Bard College, where she has taught since 1972.

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In June 2019, Robyn Newhouse ’69 was named president of the board of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra located in Springfield, MA. Newhouse writes, “It’s a two-year gig.

It is an honor with lots of challenges. I would gratefully accept any and all creative fundraising and development ideas.”

The closing concert at the 38th Annual Vermont Spring Ring opened with “Prelude on Holy Manna” by Cathy Marker ’79.

Festival clinician Stephanie Rhoades of Dallas, TX conducted the 188-ringer massed choir.

Scored for 3–5 octaves of English handbells, “Prelude on Holy Manna” is published by AGEHR Publishing.

New York’s present, about New York’s future, is a work of sound art performed live by composer Dan Siegler ’84. It will have its full-length premiere at The Invisible Dog Art Center, NYC. An audio recording of Sacred Sands: A Play for Voices by David Hoppe MFA ’86 was installed as a permanent part of the Portage Riverwalk at the Indiana Dunes National Park in Portage, IN. Sacred Sands concerns the natural and cultural history of the Indiana Dunes and the struggle to preserve this extraordinary landscape.

The latest EP from Michael Chinworth ’08, Three Vapors, is now available. Seven Days VT wrote, “Three Vapors is a terse, raw but sonically complex EP that comes and goes in 20

minutes, yet leaves a strong emotional residue.”

To Gallery a Cloud Ground, a debut album by Ethan Koss Smith ’21, is available now. It was produced at Akin Studios in Hoosick Falls, NY with the help of Sam Clement ’08.

Bennington, A Vocal Ensemble, a group comprised of faculty member Tom Bogdan, Michael Chinworth ’08, Liam Dailey ’14, and Dane Whitman ’16, performed at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA. Decameron, a music/theatre piece developed by faculty member Nick Brooke, used earworms to create an immersive sound performance and installation in 2019. It was performed in September at Coffey Street Studios, curated by

Michael Sharkey ’95 and Andromache Chalfant ’94. Other alumni involved include Michael Chinworth ’08, Michael Rugnetta ’06, and Kerry Ryer-Parke ’90.

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In July, faculty members Susie Ibarra and Souleymane Badolo ’MFA 13 performed Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms with the Dreamtime Ensemble in partnership with Asia Society New York and Pioneer Works.

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Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Carmen Giménez Smith was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry. Her latest collection of poems, Be Recorder, was also shortlisted for a National Book Award in Poetry.

Image of America CLINTON, written by Peggy Adler ’63, won the Connecticut Society of Genealogists prize in their 32nd annual Literary Award Competition as a Genealogical Reference Publication.

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Cape Verdean Blues, a debut collection of poetry by Shauna Barbosa MFA ’17 was a finalist for PEN America’s 2019 Open Book Award.

Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Jill McCorkle won a 2018 Stack Award for Best Original Fiction. Her story “The Lineman” originally appeared in Ecotone magazine.

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WSB-TV anchor Jovita Moore ’89 was selected as an Atlanta Dream’s honoree for Women of Inspiration Night.

Wendy Button MFA ’96, a former speechwriter for John Edwards, wrote about her experience testifying before a federal prosecutor, political sex scandals, and the corrupt campaign finance system for USA Today.

Alan Elyshevitz MFA ’99 won the 2019 North American Review James Hearst Poetry Prize for his poem “Bread.”

“Marlena Learns to Drive” by Kathryn Milam MFA ’97 was published in Flash Fiction Magazine.

Julie Cadman-Kim ’05 won Sonora Review fiction contest.

Gail Hosking MFA ’97 had two essays and one piece of fiction published: “What Must Be Accounted For,” which appeared on terrain.org; “Saudade,” on Post Road; and “A Night of Fireflies,” a short fiction piece published in Adelaide Literary.

Stephen Page MFA ’08 won the First Place Award in Poetry for the 2019 Bravura Literary Journal.

Jessica Green ’09 won the 2018 Midsouth Regional Emmy Award in the Best Video Essay category.

Tori Malcangio MFA ’14 won the Cincinnati Review Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Prize for her story, “See What I Mean,” which appeared in The Cincinnati Review’s summer issue, 2019.

Nicolette Polek ’16 won a 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for her fiction. Polek’s short story collection, Imaginary Museums, will be published in January 2020 by Soft Skull Press.

Tara Ison MFA ’99 wrote the essay “How an Anti-Feminist Book Made Me Pause Before Criticizing Other Women” for O, The Oprah magazine.

Susan Barr-Toman MFA ’05 published a personal essay about her husband’s cancer diagnosis in “My Husband Used to Make Dinner Every Night. What Would We Do Without Him?” in The Washington Post.

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER I ONCE THOUGHT IT IMPOSSIBLE that our democracy would fail.

I now believe failure is not only possible, but happening.

I was in high school in the late 1960s, and there was a moment when we thought Richard Nixon was going to take over the country from the inside. The Vietnam War was raging, and Bob Haldeman and John Erlichman were as scary a couple of guys as anyone in Hitler’s cabal. Under Nixon, the National Guard shot students on Kent State campus during protests over the bombing of neutral Cambodia (something which, mercifully, has not happened since).

For the span of a few months, a fascist takeover loomed its ugly head. But we had institutions that held (or appeared to hold) fast. We believed more in the federal government than we do now. That belief and others were even more important than the realities. We had great faith in the media; figures such as Walter Cronkite were revered as gods. Unions were real organizations that seemed to help the common man. Religious institutions were much stronger. Corporations were paternalistic, but patriotic, and kept things moving. I believed in the country.

Yes, we had killed the Kennedys, but I believed we aspired to a better nature.

In 1973, Archibald Cox, the Special Council in the Watergate case who subpoenaed Nixon’s tapes, was fired for unmasking the aspiring dictator. Cox’s dismissal at Nixon’s hands contributed to the president’s sudden fall from power. His autocratic move signaled to the Republican leadership in the Congress that Nixon had lost his viability. His own party’s leaders informed Nixon that he did not have the votes. He would lose his impeachment trial in the Senate. Imminent checkmate persuaded him to step down before the trial.

After that, democracy seemed to be on a better, if wobbly, footing. Gerald Ford served out the remaining time of Nixon’s presidency.

Jimmy Carter was elected and seemed to be both strong and moral, an embodiment of American character.

And then Ronald Reagan was elected and declared government to be the problem rather than the solution.

The current era descended in November 2016, when an opportunist, who seemed to have no real intention of winning, was elected president with fewer votes than his opponent. People were surprised by Trump’s behavior, but he should have surprised no one. He told us what he was going to do—put right-wing judges on the bench, rescind trade agreements, cancel the Paris climate agreement, restrict immigration, deregulate industries that were regulated for a reason, and cut taxes for the wealthy—but we elected him anyway. And—surprise!—he did all these things.

Each step by Trump is more ominous than the last. And our institutions appear powerless to resist him, given their own corruption.

With Citizens United—the Supreme Court decision that permits corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on so-called “independent political communications”—the United States of America has become a dollar democracy, where dollars, rather than people, vote. Oh, technically, we can still vote, but our votes hardly mean anything. In many states, because of rules at the state and federal level—often benefiting the two incumbent parties at the expense of the populus—certain citizens’ votes simply don’t count at all. In winner-take-all states such as California and Texas, the minority party votes for president do not count. Most states still maintain winner-take-all rules, awarding all electoral votes statewide to the winner of the popular vote rather than by popular vote.

So, it is not even a discussion of the possible, but of the actual. Our democracy is failing.

My greatest fear is that our democracy may not be able to withstand a perceived external threat; and I feel confident that Trump is looking for an opportunity to mount a coup, or find a reason to evoke martial law. A lot of people are benefiting from his depredations of the future for the present. A lot of people are feasting on the here and now. And these people are motivated to go along with him, even with, and maybe because of, his terrible behavior. But as long as there is a chance of military resistance to his rule, Trump has to continue to play a longer game, moving people around, disabling resisters and rivals. I am confident that if he had the military in his pocket, he’d be all too happy to use them, despite his lack of appropriate experience. He knows just what he’d like to do. He’s already told us: be more like Kim Jong-un.

I never thought it possible that our system of government might end, but we’re well down that road. As a Baby Boomer, I take some responsibility for the current state of play. This mess is happening on our watch, and I feel bad that we’re handing it off to the next generation. B Roger L. Kay ’75 founded Endpoint Technologies Associates, Inc., an independent technology market intelligence company. Previously, he was a vice president at IDC and ran his own research and analysis firm. He has published in a variety of forums and is frequently tapped by media outlets for his expertise. Kay lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two children.

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Rutgers University premiered faculty member Allen Shawn’s “Concerto for clarinet, cello and orchestra (1983)” in September 2019. The 25-minute piece was the last commission from Benny Goodman. Shawn described the piece as “a big, brash, tuneful piece, very remote from the music I am writing now. It is the work of an ambitious (and somewhat reckless) 35-year-old composer, and I am now 71.” Shawn and his wife, Bennington piano instructor Yoshiko Sato, premiered his new 55-minute “Etudes for piano” at the College in early September 2019. In November, Shawn’s “Cello concerto No. 2” was performed at Williams College by Nathaniel Parke and the Berkshire Symphony.

Shortly after that performance, Sage Sage City Symphony played Shawn’s “Five Orchestral Scenes,” written for them in 2002, in Greenwall Auditorium.

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“This seems to be a Frankenthaler moment,” CBS Sunday Morning reported in a feature profile of the life and work of Helen Frankenthaler ’49 that aired this past summer. Indeed, it is. This past year alone, Frankenthaler’s work was exhibited in several major shows: Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown shown at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity, an exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum; Pittura/Panorama: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1992 at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy; and Sparkling Amazons, an exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art. The latter show recognizes the often-overlooked contribution by women artists to the Abstract Expressionist movement and the significant role they played as bold innovators within the New York School during the 1940s and 1950s. The museum writes that the catalyst for this show was the groundbreaking 9th Street show arranged by avant-garde artists and gallerist Leo Castelli in 1951. Of the more than 60 artists included, only 11 were women. In the early 1970s, art critic Thomas Hess would refer to the 11 women as “sparkling Amazons,” the reference for the exhibition’s title.

Amazon Prime Video is developing a new series based on the pioneering art and lives of the 9th Street women in a series with the same namesake, Ninth Street Women. The series was developed based on the recent book by Mary Gabriel, Ninth Street Women (Back Bay Books, September 2019).

Helen Frankenthaler in her West End Avenue studio, New York, 1957.

Published in Life magazine on May 13, 1957. © Gordon Parks / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images.

What did you once believe to be impossible that you now think is possible?

FEATURING An excerpt from the prologue of Michael Pollan’s ’76 bestselling book, How to Change Your Mind • With selected contributions from Randie Denker ’72 • Ellen Bernstein Murray ’62 Erica-Lynn Huberty ’95 • Susan Butler ’53 • Roger L. Kay ’75 Joann Bromberg ’63 • Lynn Donovan McCann ’58 Kelsang Chenma (Linda Uram ’87) • Janis A. Pryor ’71 Tenara Calem ’15 • Nancy Harrow ’52 Teresa Booth Brown ’85 • Hope Clark ’87

The views and opinions expressed in the articles that follow are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Bennington College.

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It has been a remarkable 25 years in which to be a part of Bennington’s story—but then the next 25 promise to be even more remarkable.

When I became president in 1987 I said, “I accept and greet this charge with something resembling the alacrity and high expectations with which, to butcher Shakespeare, the young bridegroom ‘leaps to his death.’ Those of you unfamiliar with the wondrous meanings of Elizabethan English are cordially invited to come to Bennington College to discover them.”

This suggested an excess of confidence, an ebullience, a soaring order of expectation that verged on madness. But it turned out I was right. Presiding over Bennington has been more than I had dared to dream—exhilarating, tumultuous, challenging, heady—and always, always about things that mattered, things that mattered a lot, and about people of immense dignity, grace, intelligence, and courage.

Amongst the rich array of experiences that have defined this time, for me the most vivid and most treasured was participating in the reanimation of Bennington’s most powerful originating ideas—the teacher as practitioner; the student as shaper no less than as recipient of an education; and the ever-increasing commitment to assuring a rich and complex dynamic between the College and the world. Bennington’s maturity as an institution was achieved, in short, not by abandoning or softening its most radical principles, but by embracing and revitalizing them.

The Board of Trustees has already embarked on initiating the search for a new president and will contact you in the near future to assure your participation in that process. At the request of the Board of Trustees, as part of the transition I will serve as the first director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action for two years upon the completion of this academic year.

I look forward to the many occasions over the coming months we will have to celebrate this college, to talk, to remember, and to imagine its future.

In this special issue of Bennington we look at all that has been accomplished at Bennington College during Elizabeth Coleman’s presidency. And we look at the multiple dimensions of Liz’s leadership that has made her a match for Bennington from the start: the teacher, the torchbearer, the trailblazer.

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$ $75 million capital campaign concludes with $93 million raised

Major renovations begin on Dickinson Science Building

Liz joins former President Bill Clinton at a press conference to inaugurate the Clinton Global Initiative-University (CGI-U), in which Bennington is highlighted

Architectural Digest ranks Bennington among 10 colleges with the best architecture

UP! Applications to Bennington reach an all-time high International student population is as large as it has ever been

Bennington’s largest entering class ever matriculates

Commons restoration project launched

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Liz closes the 25th annual TED conference with a speech on higher education reform

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Elizabeth Coleman President

WORKING REFLECTIONS What it is to work with Liz

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Selection of courses taught by President Coleman (1987–present)

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Coleman once wrote, “Whenever I mention Bennington, something is bound to happen.” It’s true, and the same can be said about Liz. Take, for instance, the fact that most people have an opinion of her, and usually a strong one. Or that everyone seems to think they know her, or know someone who knows her. Reaction to Liz is usually almost always extreme—responses, in other words, that are typically reserved for politicians and celebrities.

Seven years into her tenure at Bennington, when most college presidents would be looking to move on, Liz Coleman became a household name as the leading figure in a major restructuring undertaken by the College, a year-long process known as the Symposium. The attention was astounding, maybe even historic. “No one could have imagined anything like it,” she says. “When it was clear that Bennington was contemplating changes that might be quite radical, I had no illusions. I knew it would be a rough course. But at the same time it was impossible to anticipate the firestorm, or that it would be focused laser-like on me.”

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Apple Barn. Fresh-picked apples and other Vermontmade pleasures, cider donuts among them. Route 7, Bennington.

Bennington Bookshop.

Bennington’s independently owned bookstore. Wi-fi. Main Street, Bennington.

Bennington Potters. Worldrenowned, handmade pottery.

County Street, Bennington.

*Extensive designer outlet shops are 25 minutes north of Bennington, in Manchester Center. The Crossgates Mall and Colonie Shopping Center are 45 minutes west, in Albany, New York.

Grab a Bite

CAFÉS + BAKERIES Bakkerij Krijnen. Authentic Dutch bakery famous for its stroopwafels. Daily soups, breads, and European pastries. Main Street, Bennington.

Camelot Village. Antiques, candles, cheeses, syrups.

Route 9, Bennington.

Crazy Russian Girls Bakery.

Cupcakes, cookies, breads, soups. Main Street, Bennington.

Catbird Studios. Artisan wrapping, stationery, and globally sourced items. Main Street, Bennington.

It’s All About the Bean. Onsite coffee roasting, serving breakfast and lunch. Wi-fi.

Route 9, Bennington.

Evan’s News. A Vermont tourist’s dream. Main Street, Bennington.

Nova Mae’s Café. Serving soups, paninis, baked goods, and Mocha Joe’s gourmet coffee. Vegetarian and gluten-free options. Open 7 days a week. Main Street, Bennington.

Fiddlehead. Gift shop meets gallery. Main Street, Bennington.

Hawkins House. Handmade gifts and jewelry. North Street, Bennington.

Panache. Boutique clothing and gifts with a funky twist.

Main Street, Bennington.

Studio ArtWorks. Fine art, sculptures, contemporary gifts and crafts. Route 7, Pownal.

Northshire Bookstore.

Everything you want in a bookstore: great staff picks, regional books and products, and vinyl. Home to the Spiral Press Café. Wi-fi. Manchester Center, VT.

South Street Café. Coffee, tea, espresso, lunch, and dessert. Wi-fi. South Street, Bennington.

PUBS + BREWERIES Carmody’s. Traditional Irish pub. Main Street, Bennington.

Kevin’s. North Bennington’s favorite sports bar and restaurant. Main Street, North Bennington.

Madison’s Brewery. A microbrewery serving lunch and dinner. Main Street, Bennington.

1 2 CASUAL DINING Blue Benn Diner. A 1945 Silk City classic serving New England diner staples. North Street, Bennington.

Pangaea Lounge. Lighter fare innovations and a full bar. Prospect Street, North Bennington.

Papa Pete’s Diner. A local favorite for breakfast and lunch. Route 9, Bennington.

Rattlesnake Café. Traditional Mexican with a modern twist.

South Street, Bennington.

The Bennington Station.

Traditional American cuisine in the ambiance of a historic railroad station. Depot Street, Bennington.

The Publyk House. Vermont dining with a spectacular view. Hardwood Hill Road, Bennington.

FINE DINING Allegro. Fine Italian dining.

Serving dinner only. Main Street, Bennington.

The Grill at Mount Anthony Country Club. American fine dining, seasonal menu. Country Club Road, Bennington.

Pangaea. “A fine dining salve for those used to the flawless choices in Manhattan.” —The New York Times. Prospect Street, North Bennington.

Powers Market. North Bennington’s oldest neighborhood deli. Wi-fi. Main Street, North Bennington.

Ramuntos. New York–style brick oven pizza, subs, entrees, and sports bar. Main Street, Bennington.

The Great Outdoors

SKIING + SNOWBOARDING Bromley Mountain. Voted first for family friendly skiing, 46 trails on 300 acres. Peru, VT (35 mi from Bennington).

Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort.

The only mountain resort in North America to generate its energy using wind power.

Hancock, MA (35 mi from Bennington).

Mount Snow. 135 trails, 633 acres, serviced by 26 lifts.

West Dover, VT (32 mi from Bennington).

Stratton Mountain Ski Resort.

600 acres of top-ranked terrain, 94 trails and 11 lifts. Stratton, VT (40 mi from Bennington).

GOLF The Golf Club at Equinox Named one of the “Top 75 courses in the U.S.” by Golf Digest, and the “#1 Golf Course in Vermont” by Golfweek. Main Street, Manchester, Vermont.

Mt. Anthony Country Club.

Voted one of the “Best Places to Play” by Golf Digest. Country Club Drive, Bennington.

Our Berkshire Neighbors

HIKING + SLIDING Hike the Long Trail, which continues the Appalachian Trail along the crest of the Green Mountain National Forest. Or embark on one of several great day hikes in the Bennington area.

The Danby natural water slide is an unmarked play spot in a gorge above Danby, Vermont.

A fast slope, slicked with algae plunges riders into a natural water swim hole.

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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Boasts an extraordinary collection of Renaissance to late 19th century French Impressionist paintings. Williamstown, MA.

*Canoeing, kayaking, back road tours, horseback riding, snowmobiling, dog sledding, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing are among the many other outdoor adventures available to visitors.

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• Bennington Museum and Grandma Moses Gallery.

Main Street, Bennington.

• The Old First Church and Robert Frost’s Grave.

Monument Avenue, Old Bennington.

• Robert Frost Stone House Museum. Historic Route 7A, Shaftsbury.

• Park-McCullough House.

Park Street, North Bennington.

• Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home. Hildene Road, Manchester.

QUICK + DELICIOUS Lil’ Britain. Authentic British fish and chips. North Street, Bennington.

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COMMONS Commons is ripe with history: ee cummings gave his first public reading here; Martha Graham’s Letter to the World premiered on the third floor stage; Bob Dylan performed twice on that same stage; writers and thinkers of every stripe—from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Robert Frost to Buckminster Fuller to Shirley Jackson—gave talks and readings in the lounge. Today, Commons houses the dining hall, the post office, health services, and a public lounge equipped with computers, pianos, couches, fireplace, an ATM, and vending machines.

STUDENT CENTER A multi-use complex housing the Snack Bar, a student café, and game room. Garage-style doors open onto a terrace for open-air concerts and performances.

COMMONS LAWN Commons lawn offers one of southern Vermont’s most breathtaking views—dubbed the End of the World—this is where modern dance was born. It was the backdrop and gathering space for leading abstract expressionists in the 50s and 60s, and is the staging ground for contemporary bands performing during the College’s Sunfest music festival. The houses that border the lawn were home to Bret Easton Ellis ’86, Jonathan Lethem ’86, Donna Tartt ’86, Michael Pollan ’76, and Kathleen Norris ’69, among others.

CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC ACTION (CAPA) Designed by award-winning architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) is a state-ofthe-art, green, academic facility blending the studio of the artist, the laboratory of a scientist, the workshop of a craftsman, and the think tank of a policy wonk.

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (VAPA) Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the Visual and Performing Arts Center (VAPA) is not just a building but a hub of campus activity and work.

VAPA boasts studios of every kind, four performance theater spaces, and a screening room. Visit Usdan Gallery to view the latest exhibitions.

THE SECRET GARDEN A magical outdoor performance space and sitting area, the Secret Garden was where Buckminster Fuller erected the first model of his Dymaxion House.

DEANE CARRIAGE BARN A performance and exhibition space, the Deane Carriage Barn was where Jackson Pollack held his first retrospective in 1952.

JENNINGS MUSIC BUILDING Thought to be the inspiration for Shirley Jackson’s House on Haunted Hill—Jennings today provides fertile ground for music-making at the College.

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MEYER RECREATION BARN A fitness center equipped with weight- and cardiotraining equipment, a rockclimbing wall, yoga studio, and sauna. It is located next to the College’s awardwinning Biomass facility, which supplies the campus with heat from locally sourced wood chips, drastically reducing the College’s overall carbon output.

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THE STICKNEY OBSERVATORY Equipped with high powered, state-of-the-art, computer controlled telescopes— boosted by the campus’ lack of light pollution—the Stickney Observatory is ideal for night-sky observation.

DICKINSON SCIENCE BUILDING Students test the laws of physics, build machines, explore amphibious mating behavior, compute and conceive laws of large numbers, and tease genetic abnormalities—among other probing activities.

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CROSSETT LIBRARY A “no-shushing” library, Crossett’s lively intellectual culture, architecture, and student-focused approach have been well honored. Led by ALA award-winning librarian, Crossett’s collection is driven by student and faculty recommendations, and is home to an array of diverse titles, rare collections, and a “secret” outdoor reading garden.

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THE BARN W.H. Auden, Peter Drucker, Erich Fromm, Howard Nemerov, and Theodore Roethke all kept faculty offices here.

Today it continues to house faculty offices, classrooms, and most administrative offices. It also is home to Barn East Gallery, an exhibition space for student work, and the Bookstore, where you can pick up Bennington gear.

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Bennington Underground TRANSLATIONS 24-Hour Play: Usually staged during the first 7 weeks of fall term, this annual event is organized by students and then cast, written, directed, designed, lit, performed, and struck within a 24-hour period.

College Week: The weekly print calendar produced by Student Life and placed on all Dining Hall tables.

Costume Shop: Located on the ground floor of VAPA at the end of the photo hallway, the Costume Shop rents out clothing for performances and projects.

Alabama: The parking lot closest to First Street.

Cricket Hill: The Admissions Office.

BAD: Bennington Athletic Department, which is the big tent for all recreational and intramural sporting events.

Cricket Hill Barn: The small white building featuring a conference room is located next to the admissions office.

Bennington Card: Your ID card that gives you access to the Dining Hall, Meyer Recreation Barn, Crossett Library, laundry, and cashless purchases around campus.

Dinging: If you have an event or an announcement, you can “ding” in the Dining Hall.

Take a glass, gently tap a knife against it, and announce your event to people in each of the dining rooms.

BFP: Bennington Free Press, the student-run newspaper.

Bowl-a-Rama: Once a term Bennington Lanes (our local bowling alley) rents their space to Bennington students for a late-night bowling event.

DownCaf: The Downstairs Café.

End of the World: The vista at the end of Commons Lawn.

Cage: The video editing room in VAPA.

House Chair: A residential leadership position similar to a resident advisor at a large college. House Chairs are different from RAs at other colleges in that they focus on community development and are mentors, helpers, liaisons, mediators, and/or friends.

Coffee Hour: A weekly house meeting that takes place on Sundays (usually around 10 pm). House Chairs run the meeting and provide academic and administrative updates about the College. Residents sign up in pairs to cater each week’s meeting for their house. Good Coffee Hour food is a communal bragging right.

Key List: Some spaces on campus have key lists that allow approved students access even when the space is closed or unmonitored.

Speak to the appropriate faculty member or technician to be added to the list. If you are approved, you would get the key from Campus Safety in exchange for your Ben-

Brute Squad: Bennington’s fencing team, which participates in regional and collegiate competitions.

B C nington Card (until the key is returned).

Kinoteca: The video theatre in VAPA. Midnight Breakfast: Twice a year, at the end of each term, students are summoned at midnight by sirens from fire trucks. This is when you drop everything and head to the Dining Hall, where faculty and staff are waiting to serve you eggs, bacon, donuts, and other breakfast treats. Be prepared for music and dancing.

Ohio: The parking lot behind the Student Center.

PAC: The Program Activity Council is made up of selected representatives who plan social events for students. Anyone is welcome to attend meetings.

Pioneers: The College’s first group of graduates. Also the name of Bennington’s soccer team.

POD: The computer lab in VAPA. It is equipped with digital imagine and video software, but not word processing programs. Username and password is “user”. You may use the high-quality color printer for a small fee.

Rec Barn/MRB: The Meyer Recreation Barn is the campus gym. It houses cardio and weightlifting equipment, fitness and yoga rooms, and a sauna.

Rollerama: A twice-a-year roller skating extravaganza in Greenwall. PAC provides the skates and the candy.

SEA: Student Endowment for the Arts is a board of students

Bennington College Houses 24/7 SPACES VAPA, CAPA, Jennings, Commons Lounge, Dickinson Reading Room, the EAC, the Upstairs Cafe (Second floor of the Student Center complex), and the Crossett Library meeting room.

COMPUTERS + PRINTERS Computer labs can be found in Dickinson, Crossett Library, Commons, VAPA, CAPA, and Jennings. You can print in Dickinson or Crossett.

DOCTORS Health Services is located on the first floor of Commons.

There you will find a doctor, registered nurses, a nurse midwife, and a registered dietician. The office also offers free condoms and first aid kits. You can pretty much expect the same services here that you would be accustomed to in a family doctor’s office.

Psychological Services is located on the second floor of Commons. Your health fee covers initial evaluations and short-term psychotherapy.

A fee schedule for longer term psychological treatment is administered through Health Services. Treatment is confidential.

As part of the required health service charge most Health Service visits and tests are covered. The plan does not cover vaccinations or allergy injections. Only the first $75 toward prescription medications is covered. Any services that are not covered by the plan will be charged to your Bennington College bill.

Secret Garden: Walk down the path toward the Deane Carriage Barn, now look left.

See that brick wall with black doors? You’re there.

SEPC: Student Educational Policy Committee. Each discipline has two elected student representatives who act as liaisons between faculty and students.

The Green Mountain Express operates a shuttle into town, as well as to Manchester and Williamstown. The shuttle operates daily, but when it does not run the College provides a shuttle service. Vans leave from the Flagpole (in front of the Barn) and can be reached by dialing O. Schedules are in your house. Student Life manages a weekly shuttle service to Albany.

Silo: The student-produced and designed art and literary magazine, CD, and DVD. Anyone can submit work to Silo, however, work that is included in Silo is selected by art, literature, music, and video/performance panels comprised of students. The publication is distributed at the end of each year.

Bike share. Crossett Library has a fleet of 10 hybrid bikes and helmets. Just like a book, you can check these out at the front desk with your Bennington Card. Bikes can be out for 12 hours at a time.

Studes: The Student Center.

Study Breaks: Like manna from heaven, free food is brought to an advertised location during a few nights toward the end of term. Punctuality is important though, as food goes fast.

EAT-IN On campus you can grab a bite in the Dining Hall, the Student Center, the Bookstore, or snacks at any of the vending machines on campus.

UpCaf: The Upstairs Café on the second floor of the Student Center complex.

You’ll find comfy couches and chairs, a media system with DirectTV and a DVD player, as well as a collection of board games. There is also a pingpong table.

Restaurants that deliver to campus include Dominos, Ramuntos, Papa Pete’s, and Ann Marie’s.

Bring a mug. Admissions, Student Life, the Bookstore, and the Dining Hall all offer free coffee to students with a mug. Crossett and the Student Center offer coffee, but you’ll have to pay.

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Grocery stores in the area include Aldi (cheap, generic

food brands); PriceChopper, (open 24-hours and home to a great bakery and sushi shop); Hannaford (close to campus). They sell traditional groceries as well as bulk and organic items); Spice ‘n Nice (located in town, they sell organic and health food, as well as bulk nuts, spices and grains); Walloomsac Farmers’ Market (Bennington’s year-round farmer’s market.

Friend them on Facebook to keep up with their location and times).

LAUNDRY Commons: The laundry room is located near the back entrance to the Commons Dining Hall (behind the Post Office). A wash costs $2 depending on the cycle, and the dryer costs $1.50. All machines on campus take quarters or use the Bennington Card system.

Third Street Houses: Prices are the same as in Commons.

The Bennington Card. By putting money to use as a declining balance on your Bennington Card, you will be able to purchase items from the Bookstore, food outside of the meal plan, use the laundry facilities on campus, rent outdoor equipment from the Meyer Recreation Barn, pay for student trips, make oncampus shuttle reservations, and other activities.

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The residents of Longmeadow are dedicated to living in an intentional community on campus. Longmeadow gives upperclass students the opportunity to form and shape their own community standards and to design the type of community in which they would like to live. Students apply to live in the house each year, and are accepted based on space availability.

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The Colonial Houses were part of the original Bennington campus and make up First and Second Streets. They include Bingham, Booth, Canfield, Dewey, Franklin, Kilpatrick, Leigh, McCullough, Stokes, Swan, Welling, and Woolley. The Colonial Houses have hardwood floors, fireplaces in the living rooms, and kitchens; some feature porch swings or courtyards, and others open onto Commons Lawn. There are four floor plans, which means that there are a variety of rooms and layouts.

Students appreciate the unique personalities of the rooms. There are no washers or dryers in the Colonial Houses, so residents use the laundry facilities in the nearby Commons building.

Welling Townhouse is the off-campus co-op in North Bennington, about a 20-minute walk to Commons. The Townhouse is home to 14 people who share house responsibilities, such as cooking and cleaning. With the exception of room charges, the Townhouse is financially independent from the College—residents manage a shared house budget for food and other house supplies over the course of the year. The Townhouse has laundry facilities. The rooms are spacious, the food organic, and the people cooperative.

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The Barnes Houses, also known as the 70s Houses and Milk Crate Houses, make up the other half of Third Street and boast some of the biggest rooms.

The Barnes Houses include Fels, Noyes, and Sawtell. All have a kitchen with a dishwasher, laundry room, and regularly used living rooms.

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Banking. There are several banks in town, check the Bennington Chamber of Commerce website for an upto-date directory of Banks.

Check cashing. The Bookstore will cash a check up to $50 with a purchase. The Business Office will cash a check up to $200 with a valid Bennington Card.

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E + R Cleaners: This company offers pick-up-and-delivery service. A representative will be on campus at check-in to give you information about service and cost.

MONEY ATM. A People’s United ATM machine is located in Commons.

The Woo Houses, one half of Third Street, are the newest, built in 2001. They are Merck, Paris-Borden, and Perkins. Each Woo House has three floors with elevators, laundry facilities, living rooms with fireplace, and kitchens with dishwashers. The walls are soundproof, and the rooms get great sunlight and offer sunset views off the balconies. These award-winning houses have been featured in Architectural Record magazine.

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Change. Get your fill of quarters by using the change machine in the Commons laundry room.

STORAGE SPACE A limited amount of storage is available on campus to store your suitcases, packing materials, and other belongings during term. Your House Chair can provide access.

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Everything you will ever need and want to find on the Bennington website, in a single, organized space.

If you’re interested in joining a student organization, or interested in creating your own—both are encouraged. Contact Student Life x4330

House communities are shaped by whoever lives there, and these communities (and resources) change and grow each term as students move in, move out, enter, and graduate. What you bring to your house has a tremendous impact on the community you’re joining. Although certain houses may have different expectations regarding set quiet hours, all student houses are courtesy houses, meaning that residents are expected to respect requests made by fellow residents (regarding noise levels, for example, or use of the common areas). Smoking is prohibited in all houses.

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You can work out in the Meyer Recreation Barn, which has cardio and weight lifting equipment, an aerobics and yoga studio, rock climbing wall, and sauna.

Or get in shape by playing a sport. Student Life organizes basketball, volleyball, tennis, flag football, dodgeball, ice skating, laser tag, Ultimate Frisbee, and fencing. During the fall our co-ed soccer team plays again colleges from Vermont and Massachusetts. All levels of skill are welcome. Contact Student Life to get involved.

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Be sure to bookmark these pages, they will help you find everything you need to know.

IT’S ALL HAPPENING Find out what’s going on or promote your own events by visiting the College’s online calendar (refer to your Connections page). If you’re planning an event—everything you need will be on this page: space reservations, promotion and catering requests. Also check out College Week, Coffee Hour minutes, and posters.

HOUSE LIFE, ROOM ASSIGNMENTS, AND AMENITIES JOBS WorkLink is the College’s job application system, and where you will find most oncampus positions listed. If you are hired for an on-campus position, you must complete a work authorization form. If you are a Work Study student you’ll get the form in Financial Aid; if you’re a regular pay student you’ll get the form from the Business Office.

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Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top colleges for internships and noted by The New York Times as a college where students study “what it is to work,” Bennington’s annual Field Work Term sets the standard for immersive, integrated internship programs. Bennington is the only college to require—from the beginning—that all students take their academic interests to the field and on the job for two months each and every winter.

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CLAIRE BARBER is not a public administration student, she is not studying information technology (exclusively), and she is not a mediator, yet she drew on all of these skills working with the Office of New

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“A couple of years ago the Boston Mayor’s Office got together with a nonprofit called Code for America (CFA). The organization was created to site smart, young technologists and entrepreneurs to tackle problems facing cities. We presented our team with a tough challenge—build tools that would address needs that community members had around connecting to educational learning opportunities in Boston. We didn’t know what that would look like, but we knew that there was a desire for these tools.

“When you think about a project like this it became clear that what we needed was an ethnographer who could serve as an interpreter— someone who could interview families, capture what was working with the process and what was not, someone who could advise us how to improve, someone who had the capacity to think in general about how communities could solve problems. That is where Claire Barber came in.

“Claire was way beyond what we expected. In truth, we expected that she would support the project manager, who was a master’s in public administration graduate, but it turned out that we saw an entirely different experience unfold. Claire would improvise, deal with things as they happened, produce and communicate on the fly, she would jump in and collaborate with many different teams and constituents—and she was totally comfortable in this arena. Whereas our project manager was so accustomed to having well-defined problems, she found working with unknowns to be a real challenge.

“I have spent a long time working in industry and in government, and it’s a rare thing when you find someone who has this combination of abilities; it’s rare to find true collaborators, and especially so within young people, because, for the most part, they work on projects in isolation. It was clear that was not the case with Claire—she was accustomed to collaboration across all fields.

“We were totally blown away. We wanted her to stay longer.

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the interconnectedness of my work. We had to complete four projects working with cardboard, metal, and clay. Some of our assignments included

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workforce is internship experience. The survey, which targeted 50,000 employers who recruit and

or creating an apparatus that would move you from one place to another. Each assignment required me to really think about how my body interacts with spaces and to carefully consider the movements I made every day. I had to pay attention to

hire recent graduates, found that demonstrated capacities to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems are more highly valued than where an applicant studied, what an applicant

things you wouldn’t normally pay close attention to: What really holds me up in the

“Graduates from some of the country’s most revered institutions surround me, but I would hire a Bennington student again in a heartbeat.”

course of a day? What qualities do these structures embody? What do the structures look like? What do they really need in order to work? I was forced to substantially

studied, or even what grades an applicant received.

heighten my sensitivity to what was happening around me, how I related to space, what structures were about. And that relates to my work with Code for America and the Boston Mayor’s Office for New Urban Mechanics. The skills I have gained through

ENTER BENNINGTON. By the time they graduate, Bennington students have acquired at least four jobs or internship experiences and a deep understanding of what they want to do. They have developed a capacity

my work in the visual arts has informed my understanding of the way governments work. When you consider that government has so many agencies, many different partners, and many people coming from different backgrounds, experiences, approaching work differently and that all of these different elements need to come together in order for government to work, you might see how honing in on key questions, being observant, considering structures, needs, and reconsidering what you take in every day is valuable in the situation. My work in the visual arts was instrumental in allowing me to step back and look at what was successful and what was not, where the pain points were. I was comfortable thinking about how I could change something in one area to get a better result in another area and thinking about how I could help two people or different agencies work together.”

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to grasp and enter complex situations; the ability to work and think independently as well as to collaborate; and the confidence to be mobilized—not paralyzed—by ambiguities, trade-offs, and uncertainties. When employers ask us how it is that undergraduates from a small liberal arts college are going head-to-head and toe-to-toe with seasoned professionals, we credit the Plan Process and Field Work Term—the foundation of every Bennington education from the beginning.

—Nigel Jacob, co-founder of the Boston Mayor’s Office for New Urban Mechanics.

Following Jacob’s experience working with sophomore Claire Barber and talking with other Bennington students during campus visits, he developed three Field Work Term positions for Bennington students at the Mayor’s Office for New Urban Mechanics.

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exceeding the sum of your parts

For her sophomore Field Work Term, EMMA HURST interned with filmmaker Rick Prelinger. During the seven weeks, Emma reviewed thousands of home movies from the 1920s through the 1970s for the filmmaker’s upcoming film, No More Road Trips? It was from that footage that she curated a collection of video stills on her blog, *Stills.

Every winter, every student at Bennington spends

The collection of stills went viral. Editors from The Atlantic and BoingBoing— the world’s most popular web and culture blog—were captivated. Alexis Madrigal, senior editor at The Atlantic, wrote, “Scrolling through these stills is… suspenseful.” BoingBoing discovered the collection and featured it on their blog, quoting Rick Prelinger. “Megan [Prelinger] and I were very fortunate that Emma Hurst chose to spend her Field Work Term with Prelinger Library and Archives, helping with Megan’s forthcoming book and my forthcoming movie. As she viewed and logged some two hundred hours of home movies, she curated a striking collection of still images that, like all great collections, exceeds the sum of its parts.”

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called the Plan Process, students explore their academic interests and progressively hone in on what binds their creative passions and connects their intellectual pursuits. The sequence of courses they take, the books they read, the research they conduct, and the kinds of field work they pursue are not predetermined by the College; instead, they are organized by the students themselves to relate directly to what they want to do—in their four years at Bennington and in the many beyond.

By building, articulating, and advocating for the substance of their education, Bennington students

The sequence of courses students take, the books they read, the research they conduct are not predetermined; they are organized by the students themselves.

More than 100,000 jobs and internships later, employers consistently report that Bennington students have a confidence, capacity, and drive that sets them apart.

seven weeks at work in the world pursuing jobs, internships, and entrepreneurial endeavors related to their studies and professional ambitions. From the very beginning, Bennington College understood that the work students do in the world would have a profound impact on the work they do on campus, and vice versa.

More than 100,000 jobs and internships later, employers consistently report that Bennington students have a confidence, capacity, and drive that sets them apart. They are able to navigate challenges, translate abstract ideas into tangibles; they have an uncanny facility for collaboration and communication; and they are comfortable negotiating the known and the unknown.

become confident self-starters, practiced in the art of working well in a world without givens and of harnessing talent and resources for maximum effect.

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we don’t usually take on interns JASON MOON loves public radio. During his four years at Bennington he has built a resume that will stand out in the field. He is proficient in Pro Tools, Adobe Audition, and SoundSoap. He is an experienced editor and interviewer with the ability to package and distribute stories. And he knows people. Jason has spent his Field Work Terms working with John Gregory from This I Believe; Jay Allison, who produces and airs stories for All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and This American Life; and Viki Merrick, producer of The Moth Radio Hour.

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“We don’t usually work with interns. In seven years we’ve had five interns altogether. We’re a small organization and we just don’t have the time to provide the guidance that interns usually need. But we hired JASON MOON because he stood out as a serious student. He was clearly dedicated and already making impressive audio at Bennington. Jason had developed some of the skills in his own work that would allow him to jump into our work—and he did.

“When he arrived at This I Believe he picked right up. He was mature and impressively selfdirected. In seven weeks he packaged more than 400 audio essays for the web, and helped produce several weekly podcasts. Needless to say, that is a huge undertaking and adds so much value to the work we’re doing here.” B

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“I should tell you that he spoke highly of Bennington— and I see why.

Whatever you’re doing, it is working.”

–John Gregory, vice president and editorial director for This I Believe

starting somewhere A student’s first Field Work Term is often a starting place. It is an opportunity to get exposure to the rhythms of work, to immerse yourself in the professional culture, or simply to live and work in a dream location. Because Bennington requires students to complete four Field Work Terms before they graduate, students can use each FWT opportunity for different purposes, building one experience on another.

B NATHAN PAUL interned with Sony Studios for his first Field Work Term. “I had an opportunity to learn about postproduction sound editing, what it is to work in these departments, and the politics of the industry. Beyond building contacts, which I will plan to do by pursuing other film industry internship opportunities for my future Field Work Terms, I learned a lot about how dedicated and devoted people have to be in order to find success in this field. It was obvious that if I wanted to continue to go after work in the film industry, I should be prepared to spend a lot of time at work in the trenches—a lot of time. You don’t learn that kind of thing in class; you figure that out in the field.”

“For my Field Work Term, I worked on a competitive research project at the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather,” SYD GONZALES says. “I didn’t expect to be given so much responsibility for my first FWT, but it taught me a lot and helped me practice my communications skills. It’s one thing to research, it’s another thing to translate what I found to a team of people and make sure they understand it.”

SARAH GOLDSMITH got a lot of entry-level library experience during her first Field Work Term at Viacom. She learned how to catalogue, archive, shelve—and she was enthusiastic about the opportunity. Her supervisor was delighted because Sarah found the internship that was made for her by being exact and specific about where she saw herself fitting in at Viacom—and as her supervisor said—that made all the difference. B

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A one-night-only benefit, created and produced by a talented cast and crew of Bennington alumni.

Six writers, six directors, and 24 actors creating, producing, and performing six short plays in just 24 hours, in tribute to Nicky Martin and to benefit Bennington College’s scholarship program.

An event bringing 10 alumni architects together to review 16 students’ final projects, followed by a reception with 20 alumni and friends.

This is the invitation that the Alumni Cooperative extends to all Bennington alumni. We have created a framework and are ready to help get it off the ground. We need you to give it life.

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COLLABORATE WITH US. The spirit of collaboration informed our Bennington experiences when we were students, and that principle will continue to guide us as alumni. We are thrilled to invite all of you to join us in shaping and building the new Bennington Alumni Cooperative. It is our collective aim that this revitalized alumni structure will deepen the ways that alumni be substantially involved in the life of the College.

Since President Mariko Silver’s arrival, she and the alumni relations team have been in conversation with us and with many of you as well, throughout the decades and across the country. It has been her priority, and ours, to explore how to expand the alumni network and increase the impact we have, as a group, on the College, on the world, and with each other.

With this goal in mind and with President Silver’s full support, we have reinvigorated the Bennington Alumni Cooperative. We have a name and we have outlined broad goals; we would now like to ask you to join us as we work to identify the best ways to channel the talents and passions of Bennington alumni to support Bennington’s myriad communities.

In order to establish a sustainable and inclusive program, the Alumni Cooperative will grow in three phases over the coming three years.

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We will build volunteer committees in four cities where we have the largest concentrations of alumni: New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco/Bay Area.

Although we are starting out in these cities, we will also look to create and support alumni activities, programs, and collaborations in other regions together with the College staff.

Build bigger. We will find and recruit Steering Committee members in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland, and Seattle.

Working together we’ll articulate key priorites and task forces to involve alumni in Admissions, Field Work Term, the Dean’s Office, and Communications.

It all comes together.

We will develop reunion plans and programs; continue to launch plans in progress; and identify Bennington alumni across the country and the world who are ready to begin their own regional cooperatives.

www.bennington.edu/alumni NEW YORK STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS “There is an instant kinship when you meet someone from Bennington—a kind of short-hand that you have when referencing people or experiences.

That connectivity to the College, to other alums, to the faculty, is like nothing else I have experienced.”

—Amy (Schweitzer) Hikida ’85 “There is not a Bennington-type, but there is something invisible in our DNA that links us from 1932 to the present.”

—Kent Hikida ’85 BOSTON STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS “I moved to Boston a few years ago without knowing very many people and the one thing I wanted was to be able to find ‘my community’ and that has meant Bennington at different times of my life.”

—Mimi (Gaber) Kantor ’92 “The friendships that I made at Bennington are a vital part of my life. Spending time with so many alums during reunions a few years ago was wonderful. I look forward to more.”

—Brendan Frank ’94

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N Y B L A S F COMING TOGETHER The Alumni Cooperative launch meetings will bring alumni together to build the foundation for this new structure.

NEW YORK CITY. . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday, February 24, 2015 BOSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday, March 15, 2015 LOS ANGELES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Saturday, March 21, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday, March 22, 2015 We will keep in touch by email, so look there for follow-up including locations and times.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES ● Facilitate alumni involvement in the life of the College in ways that celebrate the unique qualities of alumni worldwide ● Support new and creative efforts to connect alumni to one another, students, faculty, and staff ● Advance Bennington’s mission ● Provide meaningful programming that simulates the intellectual vitality of the campus experience ● Ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the College

LOS ANGELES STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS “Bennington people remain some of the most interesting people that I’ve known.”

—Matty (Sterenchock) Wilder ’00 “I don’t have a ton of free time but I feel compelled to connect again with a place that was so significant in making me who I am today.”

—Nicole Barnette ’93

BAY AREA STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS “I want to live and feel as I did during my days at Bennington. I want to recreate that environment around me.”

—Adnan Iftekhar ’97

Find the Bennington Alumni Cooperative plan, guiding principles, and Steering Committee roles and responsibilities on the website www.bennington.edu/alumni or call the Alumni Relations Office, 802-440-4893 to request materials be mailed.

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“I am excited to see how my peers and I work together to critically examine what it means to be a part of something larger.”

—Emily Tareila ’10

“Around every interesting corner is a Bennington alum with an ability to take up anything; now it is time to get together again, to forge new partnerships and collaborations, to connect across decades and borders.”

—President Mariko Silver

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Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy Lindstrom, Martin HF5415.32.L557 2011 The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies Page, Scott E. HF5549.5.M5 P34 2008

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FINANCE Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets Taleb, Nassim Nicholas HG4521.T285 2005

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SOCIOLOGY Monoculture: How One Story Is Changing Everything Michaels, F.S. HM548.M53 2011 Revolution Brand, Russell HM881.B73 2014

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SOCIAL HISTORY AND CONDITIONS, SOCIAL PROBLEMS, SOCIAL REFORM Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Diamond, Jared HN13.D5 2006 The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century Boggs, Grace Lee HN65.B634 2011

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PHILOSOPHY An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Hume, David B1481.B43 1999

THE CLASS OF 2019 BENNINGTON READING LIST At Bennington we read—a lot. We don’t just read, we talk about what we read, we blog about what we read, and we are always curious about what everyone else is reading, which is why we asked you to suggest a book that we all should read.

YOU RECOMMENDED 685 BOOKS! Every single book suggested by an enrolled student will be added (if it is not already there) to Bennington’s Crossett Library collection. In fact, this is exactly how Crossett builds its collection—fulfilling book requests made by Bennington students, faculty, and staff.

The Foucault Reader Foucault, Michel and Rabinow, Paul B2430.F721 1984 The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche, Friedrich B3313.G42 E55 1990

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PSYCHOLOGY Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain Eagleman, David BF315.E25 2011 The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business Duhigg, Charles BF335.D78 2012 Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder Louv, Richard BF353.5.N37 L68 2008 A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Pink, Daniel H. BF408.P49 2006 The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Tharp, Twyla BF408.T415 2003 The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence Sagan, Carl BF431.S2 1978 Thinking, Fast and Slow Kahneman, Daniel BF441.K238 2011 The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness Fromm, Eric BF575.A3 F77 The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work Achor, Shawn BF575.H27 A27 2010 The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of SelfAssurance—What Women Should Know Kay, Katty and Shipman, Claire BF575.S39 K39 2014 The Power of Life Mastery Rizk, Anthony BF632.R5 Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave Alter, Adam BF636.A48 2012 Who Moved My Cheese?

Johnson, Dr. Spencer BF637.C4 J64 1998 Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person Prather, Hugh BF637.C5 P7 1990 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Covey, Stephen R. BF637.S8 C68 2004 Outliers: The Story of Success Gladwell, Malcolm BF637.S8 G533 2008 The Secret Byrne, Rhonda BF639.B97 2006 Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work Kroeger, Otta and Thuesen, Janet M. BF698.3.K93 1988 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Cain, Susan BF698.35.I59 C35 2012 The Changing Nature of Man: Introduction to a Historical Psychology van den Burg, J.H. BF708.D8 B43 1961

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ETHICS Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved de Waal, Frans BJ1311.W14 2006 The Great Divorce Lewis, C.S. BJ1401.L4 1946 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Ruiz, Don Miguel BJ1581.2.R85 1997 Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today’s Challenges Walters, J. Donald BJ1581.2.W336 1997 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Covey, Sean BJ1661.C666 2014b

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RELIGIONS, MYTHOLOGY, RATIONALISM The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West Huxley, Aldous BL51.H98

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SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDES The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women Valenti, Jessica HQ29.V338 2010

The World’s Religions Smith, Huston BL80.2.S645 1991 A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose Tolle, Eckhart BL624.T635 2006

HOMOSEXUALITY Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire Daring, C.B.; Rogue, J.; Shannon, Deric and Volcano, Abbey HQ76.25.Q3855 2012

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Tolle, Eckhart BL624.T64 2004 The Mahabharata Vyasa BL1138.25.R3 1983

THE FAMILY, MARRIAGE, HOME The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts Chapman, Gary D. HQ734.C4665 2010

Tao Te Ching Tzu, Lao BL1900.L26 E5 1991 The Age of Reason Paine, Thomas BL2740.A1 1893

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life Lareau, Annette HQ767.9.L37 2011

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Hitchens, Christopher BL2775.3.H58 2007

I Am Nujood, Aged 10 and Divorced Ali, Nujood HQ784.C55 A4513 2010

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BUDDHISM How To See Yourself As You Really Are Lama, Dalai BQ7935.B774 H69 2006 My Land and My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet Lama, Dalai BQ7935.B777 A3 1997b

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CHRISTIANITY The Inspirational Writings of C.S. Lewis Lewis, C.S. BR121.2.L48 1987

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THE BIBLE The Bible BS185 1999.N48 1999

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PRACTICAL THEOLOGY Think Big: Unleashing your Potential for Excellence Carson, Ben BV4509.5

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BIOGRAPHY Death Be Not Proud Gunther, John J. CT275.G855 G8 1949 Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Pirsig, Robert M. CT275.P648 A3 1999 Into the Wild Krakauer, Jon CT9971.M38 K73 1997

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WORLD HISTORY Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga Evola, Julius D16.8.E8513 1995 WORLD WAR II Remember the Holocaust: A Memoir of Survival Farkas, Helen D804.F36 1995 Unbroken Hillenbrand, Laura D805.J3 Z364 2010 Escape from Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War Lukacs, John D. D805.P6 L85 2010

Why Men Love Bitches Argov, Sheri HQ801.A724 2002 HISTORY OF AFGHANISTAN The Places in Between Stewart, Rory DS352.S74 2006 HISTORY OF PAKISTAN Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West Bhutto, Benazir DS389.22.B48 A3 2008 HISTORY OF NEPAL Maile Dekheko Darbar Shaha, Bibik Kumar DS495.S92 B57 HISTORY OF CAMBODIA First They Killed my Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Ung, Loung DS554.8.U54 2001 HISTORY OF VIETNAM Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram Tram, Dang Thuy DS559.44.D36 2007

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HISTORY OF KENYA Out of Africa Dinesen, Isak DT434.E2 B6 1952 HISTORY OF SIERRA LEONE A Long Way Gone Beah, Ishmael DT516.828.B43 A3 2007 HISTORY OF ZIMBABWE Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Fuller, Alexandra DT2990.F85 2001

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OCEANIA Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback Davidson, Robyn DU105.D38 2014

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AMERICAN HISTORY Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival Wallis, Velma E99.K84 W35 1994 I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project Aster, Paul E169.02.I22 2001 A People’s History of the United States Zinn, Howard E178.Z75 2005

If This Is a Man Levi, Primo D805.P7 L4413 1987

The Warmth of Other Suns Wilkerson, Isabel E185.6.W685 2010

Night Wiesel, Elie D810.J4 W513 1982

Notes of a Native Son Baldwin, James E185.61.B2 1963

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HISTORY OF GREECE Alexander the Great Fox, Robin Lane DF234.L3 1973

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HISTORY OF NETHERLANDS Infidel: My Life Hirsi Ali, Ayaan DJ292.H57 A3 2007

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HISTORY OF RUSSIA, SOVIET UNION, FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS POLAND Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Massie, Robert K. DK170.M34 2011

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HISTORY OF ASIA Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Weatherford, Jack DS22.G45 W43 2004 HISTORY OF ISRAEL (PALESTINE). THE JEWS The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East Tolan, Sandy DS126.6.A2 T65 2007

The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, as told to Haley, Alex E185.97.L5 A3 1973 Dreams from My Father Obama, Barack E185.97.O23 2004 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jacobs, Harriet E444.J17 1973 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Douglass, Frederick E449.D74905 1993 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Larson, Erik E748.D6 L37 2011 The 40s: The Story of a Decade The New Yorker Magazine and Finder, Henry E806.A123 2014 Unwind Shusterman, Neal E839.P28 2013

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LOCAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. LATIN AMERICA The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home Colt, George Howe F72.C3 C57 2003

A Walk in The Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Bryson, Bill F106.B92 1998

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement Brooks, David HQ801.B76 2011

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Moore, Wes F189.B153 M66 2010

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men Kimmel, Michael HQ1090.3.K5 2008

Rain of Gold Villaseñor, Victor F870.M5 V548 1991

WOMEN, FEMINISM Feminism is For Everybody hooks, bell HQ1190.H67 2000

Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle Everett, Daniel L. F2520.1.M9 E94 2008 Wizard of the Upper Amazon Lamb, F. Bruce F3430.1.A5 C6 1971

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GEOGRAPHY Eat, Pray, Love Gilbert, Elizabeth G154.5.G55 A3 2007 Two Years Before the Mast Dana, Richard Henry G540.D2 1947

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FOLKLORE Women Who Run with the Wolves Estés, Clarissa Pinkola GR470.E88 1992

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty Etcoff, Nancy GT499.E85 1999 The Omnivore’s Dilemma Pollan, Michael GT2850.P65 2006

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HIKING Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Krakauer, Jon GV199.44.E85 K7 SPORTS Where Is the Limit?

Ajram, Josef GV697.A2 I Am Zlatan: My Story On and Off the Field Ibrahimovic, Zlatan GV942.7.I27 A3 2014 The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game Sheridan, Sam GV1102.P75 S54 2010

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ECONOMIC THEORY, DEMOGRAPHY The Worldly Philosophers Heilbroner, Robert L. HB76.H4 1980 The Wealth of Nations Smith, Adam HB161.S655 2004 Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered Schumacher, E.F. HB171.S384 1989

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ECONOMIC HISTORY AND CONDITIONS The Truth Always Prevails Hashwani, Sadruddin HC440.5.A3 2014

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INDUSTRIES, LAND USE, LABOR Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food Kaufman, Frederick HD9000.5.K3725 2012

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COMMERCE Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder Huffington, Arianna HF5386.H9125 2014

Bad Feminist Gay, Roxane HQ1421.G39 2014 Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender Steinem, Gloria HQ1421.S74 1994

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SLAVERY The History of Mary Prince Prince, Mary HT869.P6 A3 1997

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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid Alexander, Jessica HV555.S73 A44 2013 PROTECTION, ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF. CHILDREN A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive Pelzer, Dave HV883 .C2 Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity Solomon, Andrew HV888.5.S65 2012 ALCOHOLISM, INTEMPERANCE, TEMPERANCE REFORM The Glass Castle Walls, Jeannette HV5132.W35 2006 Orangutan: A Memoir Broderick, Colin HV5293.B76 A3 2009 DRUG HABITS, DRUG ABUSE Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution McKenna, Terence HV5801.M35 1992

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FRENCH LITERATURE Candide Voltaire PQ2082.C3 E5 2005

Palpasa Café Wagle, Narayan PK2598.V26 P3513 2008

The Flowers of Evil Baudelaire, Charles PQ2191.F6 E47 1958

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles PR4560.A1 1987

PERSIAN LITERATURE The Subject Tonight is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz Hafiz PK6449.E5 F33 2012

The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas, Alexandre PQ2226.A33 1988

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis PR4611.A4 1931

The Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandre PQ2228.A355 2007

Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan PR4622.A7 1993

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Verne, Jules PQ2469 .V5

The Valley of Fear Doyle, Arthur Conan PR4622.V35 1993

Story of the Eye Bataille, George PQ2603.A695 H4813 2001

Frankenstein Shelley, Mary PR5397.F7 2009

The Stranger Camus, Albert PQ2605.A3734 E813 1946

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis PR5485.A1 1991

SPECIAL ASPECTS OF EDUCATION This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life Wallace, David Foster LC1011.W25 2009 Three Cups of Tea Mortenson, Greg LC2330.M67 2006 I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Yousafzai, Malala and Lamb, Christina LC2330.Y69 2013

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INDIVIDUAL INSTITUTIONS UNITED STATES Tuesdays with Morrie Albom, Mitch LD571.B418 S383 1997

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LITERATURE ON MUSIC Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story Klosterman, Chuck ML394.K567 2005x Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix Cross, Charles R. ML410.H476 C76 2006 Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove Thompson, Ahmir “Questlove” ML420.Q45 A3 2013 Just Kids Smith, Patti ML420.S672 A3 2010 Magical Mystery Tours: My Life with The Beatles Bramwell, Tony ML421.B4 B73 2005 Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with that Axiom, Eugene!

Reisch, George A. ML421.P6 P54 2007

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FINE ARTS What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art Gompertz, William N6447.G667 2012

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ARCHITECTURE Workscape: New Spaces for New Work Borges, Sofia; Ehmann, Sven and Klanten, Robert NA6230.W67 2013

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DRAWING. DESIGN. ILLUSTRATION The Art and Flair of Mary Blair Canemaker, John and Blair, Mary NC1766.U52 B5733 2014

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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) Klosterman, Chuck P96.V48 K58 2013 The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image Shlain, Leonard P211.7.S57 1999

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GREEK LITERATURE, LATIN LITERATURE Odyssey Homer PA4025.A5 A5 1953 The Iliad Homer PA4025.A2 F33 1990

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ROMANIAN LITERATURE The Novel of The Nearsighted Adolescent Eliade, Mircea PC839.E38 Z476 1988

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Nafasi, Azar PE64.N34 A3 2003 Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose Hale, Constance PE1408.H298 2001x

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SERBO-CROATIAN LITERATURE The Bridge Over The Drina Andric, Ivo PG1418.A6 N35 1945 Sarajevo Marlboro Jergovic, Miljenko PG1419.2.E74 S2713 2004

CRIMINAL CLASSES The Tears of My Soul Kim, Hyun Hee HV6248.K516 A3 1993

RUSSIAN LITERATURE The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky, Fyodor PG3326.B7 2003b

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TURKIC LANGUAGES Şimdiki Çocuklar Harika Nesin, Aziz PL248.N43 S5 JAPANESE LITERATURE Crackling Mountain and Other Stories Dazai, Osamu PL825.A8 A26 1989 The Sea and Poison Endo, Shusaku PL849.N4 U4513 1980 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Murakami, Haruki PL856.U673 N4513 1998 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Murakami, Haruki PL856.U673 S4513 1993 Colorless Tsukuru and His Years of Pilgrimage Murakami, Haruki PL856.U673 S5513 2014 Kafka on the Shore Murakami, Haruki PL856.U673 U4813 2005 Kitchen Yoshimoto, Banana PL856.U673 U4813 2005 A Personal Matter Oe, Kenzaburo PL858.E14 K613 1969

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LITERATURE GENERAL Writing Down The Bones Goldberg, Natalie PN145.G64 1986 How to Get Ideas Foster, Jack PN147.F66 2006 MOTION PICTURES The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made Sestero, Greg and Bissell, Tom PN1997.R57565 S47 2013 Rebel Without A Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player Rodriguez, Robert PN1998.3.R633 A3 1995 DRAMATIC REPRESENTATION, THE THEATER A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theater Bogart, Anne PN2053.B59 2001 COMEDIANS Hyperbole And A Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened Brosh, Allie PN2287.B6955 A3 2013 Seriously... I’m Kidding Degeneres, Ellen PN2287.D358 A3 2011 Bossypants Fey, Tina PN2287.F4255 A3 2011 Yes Please Poehler, Amy PN2287.P565 A3 2014 Everything I Ever Needed To Know about _______, I Learned From Monty Python Cogan, Brian and Massey, Jeff PN2599.5.T54 C64 2014 JOURNALISM Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Thompson, Hunter S. PN4874.T444 A3 1998 POETRY COLLECTION A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry Milosz, Czeslaw PN6101.B585 1996 WIT AND HUMOR Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) Kaling, Mindy PN6165.K35 I8 2011 COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art McCloud, Scott PN6710.M335 1994 Fun Home Bechdel, Alison PN6727.B3757 Z46 2006 Asterios Polyp Mazzucchelli, David PN6727.M2476 A77 2009 Cages McKean, Dave PN6727.M29 C34 2002 Safe Area Goražde Sacco, Joe PN6727.S33 S3 2000

The Plague Camus, Albert PQ2605.A3734 P413 1991 The Sea Wall Duras, Marguerite PQ2607.U8245 B313 1986x The Phantom of the Opera Leroux, Gaston PQ2623.E6 F213 1987 In Search of Lost Time Proust, Marcel PQ2631.R63.A713 2001 No Exit Sartre, Jean-Paul PQ2637.A82 H82 1989 Les Jeux Sont Faits (The Chips Are Down) Sartre, Jean-Paul PQ2637.A82 J4 1996 The Elegance of the Hedgehog Barbury, Muriel PQ2662.A6523 E4413 2008 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Sijie, Dai PQ2664.A437 B3513 2002b Hector and the Search For Happiness Lelord, Francois PQ2672.E489 V6913 2010 Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda Combres, Elisabeth PQ2703.O47 M46 2007 Scarlet Song Ba, Mariama PQ3989.2.B23 C513 1994 So Long a Letter Ba, Mariama PQ3989.2.B23 S5 2001 ITALIAN LITERATURE The Inferno Alighieri, Dante PQ4315.2.N53 D5 2010 The Divine Comedy Alighieri, Dante PQ4315.S57 2008 Invisible Cities Calvino, Italo PQ4809.A45 C513 1978 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Calvino, Italo PQ4809.A45 S3713 1993 Novecento Barrico, Alessandro PQ4862.A6745 N68 1994 Ocean Sea Baricco, Alessandro PQ4862.A6745 O2513 1999 My Brilliant Friend Ferrante, Elena PQ4866.E6345 A8113 2012 SPANISH LITERATURE Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel PQ6329.A2 2003b The Shadow of the Wind Zafón, Carlos Ruiz PQ6668.U49 S6613 2004 Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies Esquivel, Laura PQ7298.15.S638 C6613 1992 The Secret in Their Eyes Sacheri, Eduardo PQ7798.29.A314 P7413 2011 One Hundred Years of Solitude Márquez, Gabriel García PQ8180.17.A73 C513 2003 Of Love and Other Demons Márquez, Gabriel García PQ8180.17.A73 D4513 1995 Los Sangurimas de la Cuadra, José PQ8219.C8 S3 PORTUGUESE LITERATURE The Book of Disquiet Pessoa, Fernando PQ9261.P417 Z462 1998 Blindness Saramago, José PQ9281.A66 E5713 2008 The Double Saramago, José PQ9281.A66 H6613 2004 Near to the Wild Heart Lispector, Clarice PQ9697.L585 P413 1990b The Alchemist Coelho, Paulo PQ9698.13.O3546 A4513 2002 The Dreamseller: The Calling Cury, Augusto PQ9698.413.U586 V4613 2011

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ENGLISH LITERATURE The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan PR115.G5

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles PR4558.A1 2004

The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar PR5819.A2 A75 2003 ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1900–1960 Murder on the Orient Express Christie, Agatha PR6005.H66 M88 Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph PR6005.O4 H4 Lord of the Flies Golding, William PR6013.O35 L6 Brave New World Huxley, Aldous PR6015.U9 B65 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James PR6019.O9 P64 The Ladybird; The Fox; The Captain’s Doll Lawrence, D.H. PR6023.A93 L38 The Fifth Child Lessing, Doris PR6023.E833 F54 Under the Volcano Lowry, Malcolm PR6023.O96 U5 Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset PR6025.A86 O32 The Tao of Pooh Hoff, Benjamin PR6025.I65 Z68 Animal Farm Orwell, George PR6029.R8 A5 1984 Orwell, George PR6029.R8 N49 George Orwell Bowker, Gordon PR6029.R8 Z58928 An Inspector Calls Priestley, J.B. PR6031.R6 I6 I Capture the Castle Smith, Dodie PR6037.M38 I2

Too Much Happiness Munro, Alice PR9199.3.M8 A6 2009 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Bradley, Alan PR9199.4.B7324 S94 2010

ENGLISH LITERATURE, KENYA Weep Not, Child Thiong’o, Ngugi wa PR9381.9.N45 1987 ENGLISH LITERATURE, NIGERIA Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua PR9387.9.A3 T5 1994 Americanah Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi PR9387.9.A34354 A44 2013 Purple Hibiscus Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi PR9387.9.A34354 P87 2004

The Passion of New Eve Carter, Angela PR6053.A73 P3 The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen’s Champion Chadwick, Elizabeth PR6053.H245 G74 But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz Dyer, Geoff PR6054.Y43 B88 2009 The Magus Fowles, John PR6056.O85 M3 1965 American Gods Gaiman, Neil PR6057.A319 A84 2011 Never Let Me Go Ishiguro, Kazuo PR6059.S5 N48 2005 The Remains of the Day Ishiguro, Kazuo PR6059.S5 R46 1989 When We Were Romans Kneale, Matthew PR6061.N37 W47 2007

Cloud Atlas Mitchell, David PR6063.I785 C58 2004 At Swim, Two Boys O’Neill, Jamie PR6065.N4194 A92 2003

Let the Great World Spin McCann, Colum PR6063.C335 L47 2009 Atonement McEwan, Ian PR6063.C4 A88 2002

Discworld series Pratchett, Terry PR6066.R34 I84 2010 His Dark Materials trilogy Pullman, Philip PR6066.U55

Watchmen Moore, Alan PN6737.M6 W35 1987

ENGLISH LITERATURE, 19TH CENTURY Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane PR4034.P7 2009

Blue is the Warmest Color Maroh, Julie PN6747.M36 B5413 2013

Peter Pan Barrie, J.M. PR4074.P4 1911

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Stoppard, Tom PR6069.T6 R6 1968z

Persepolis Satrapi, Marjane PN6747.S245 P47 2007

Jane Eyre Bronte, Charlotte PR4167.J33 2001

Whale Nation Williams, Heathcote PR6073.I4278 W4 1988

Arcadia Stoppard, Tom PR6069.T6 A84 1993

Who Fears Death Okorafor, Nnedi PS3615.K67 W48 2010

The Education of Bet Baratz-Logsted, Lauren PZ7.B22966 Edu 2010

The Harry Potter series Rowling, J.K. PZ7.R79835 H37 1999

Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt PS3572.O5 S6 2005

The Little Prince de Saint-Exupery, Antoine PZ7.S14 L5 2003

A Man Without a Country Vonnegut, Kurt PS3572.O5 Z473 2005

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish Rakoff, David PS3618.A436 L68 2013

Valhalla Bach, Ari PZ7.B334

On Writing King, Stephen PS3561.I483 Z475 2002 Animal Dreams Kingsolver, Barbara PS3561.I496 A86 2005

Infinite Jest Wallace, David Foster PS3573.A4256 I54 1996

The Name of the Wind Rothfuss, Patrick PS3618.O8685 N36 2007

Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books Block, Francesca Lia PZ7.B61945 Dan 1998

The Lord of The Rings Tolkien, J.R.R. PZ7.S14 L5 2003

Looking for the Gulf Motel Blanco, Richard PS3552.L36533 L66 2012

The Good Earth Buck, Pearl S. PS3503.U198 G6 1944

The Mists of Avalon Bradley, Marion Zimmer PS3552.R228 M5 1983

The Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara PS3561.I496 B44 1989

Angels and Demons Brown, Dan PS3552.R685434 A82 2001

The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver, Barbara PS3561.I496 P65 1999

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions Wallace, Daniel PS3573.A4256348

Eurydice Ruhl, Sarah PS3618.U48 C57 2006

Breakfast at Tiffany’s Capote, Truman PS3505.A59 B7 1958 My Ántonia Cather, Willa PS3505.A87 M9 1954

The Da Vinci Code Brown, Dan PS3552.R685434 D3 2003

Interpreter of Maladies Lahiri, Jhumpa PS3562.A316 I58 1999

Collected Poems: 1909–1962 Eliot, T.S. PS3509.L43 A17 1963

Inferno Brown, Dan PS3552.R685434 I54 2013

Far Lancelotta, Victoria PS3562.A4669 F37 2003

The Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph PS3509.L47 I6 1952

The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 Bukowski, Charles PS3552.U4 P584 2007

To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper PS3562.E353 T6 1960

As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William PS3511.A86 A85 Go Down, Moses Faulkner, William PS3511.A86 G6 1942 Taps at Reveille Fitzgerald, F. Scott PS3511.I9 A6 Howl and Other Poems Ginsberg, Allen PS3513.I74 H6

Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston, Zora Neale PS3515.U789 T5 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Jackson, Shirley PS3519.A392 W4 The Dharma Bums Kerouac, Jack PS3521.E735 D48 On The Road Kerouac, Jack PS3521.E735 O5 The Subterraneans Kerouac, Jack PS3521.E735 S9

The Thing Around Your Neck Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi PR9387.9.A34354 T55 2010

The Collected Stories of H.P. Lovecraft Lovecraft, H.P. PS3523.0833 A14

Death and the King’s Horseman Soyinka, Wole PR9387.9.S6 D4 1975

Rosemary’s Baby Levin, Ira PS3523.E7993 R67

ENGLISH LITERATURE, INDIA The God of Small Things Roy, Arundhati PR9499.3.R59 G63 1997

White Fang London, Jack PS3523.O46 A6

ENGLISH LITERATURE, NEPAL Summer Love Bhattarai, Subin PR9570.N43 B49 2013

The Book Thief Zusak, Markus PR9619.4.Z87 B66 2007

A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony PR6052.U638 C5

Cat’s Cradle Vonnegut, Kurt PS3572.O5 C3 2010

The Stand King, Stephen PS3561.I483 S83 1980

The Stars my Destination Bester, Alfred PS3552.E796 S73 1996

In Watermelon Sugar Brautigan, Richard PS3503.R2736 I5

The Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest PS3515.E37 S9 1954

Shantaram Roberts, Gregory David PR9619.4.R625 S53 2005

Any Human Heart Boyd, William PR6052.O9192 A64

It King, Stephen PS3561.I483 I8 1986

Beast Benchley, Peter PS3552.E537 B4 1991

The Martian Chronicles Bradbury, Ray PS3503.R167 M37

The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest PS3515.E37 O4 1952

What Alice Forgot Moriarty, Liane PR9619.4.M67 W48 2011

Watership Down Adams, Richard PR6051.D345 W38

Syrup Barry, Max PS3552.A7424 S97 2000

Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury, Ray PS3503.R167 F3

ENGLISH LITERATURE, SOUTH AFRICA A Dry White Season Brink, Andre PR9369.3.B7 D7 1984

The Waves Woolf, Virginia PR6045.O72 W3 ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1961–2000 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas PR6051.D3352 A6

The Dream Songs Berryman, John PS3503.E744 D7

The Beautiful Mystery Penny, Louise PR9199.4.P464 B43 2012

Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia PR6045.O72 M5

ENGLISH LITERATURE, 17TH & 18TH CENTURY The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Johnson, Samuel PR3529.A2.J64 1931

POLISH LITERATURE The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 Herbert, Zbigniew PG7167.E64 A2 2007

Life of Pi Martel, Yann PR9199.3.M3855 L54 2001

The Book of Merlyn White, T.H. PR6045.H2 B6

Othello Shakespeare, William PR2829.A2 H65 2001

CZECH LITERATURE The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan PG5039.21.U6 N413 1991

ENGLISH LITERATURE, CANADA The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret PR9199.3.A8 H3 1986

Jam Croshaw, Yahtzee PR9619.4.C735

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Chabon, Michael PN6728.E83 A432 2004

Seconds O’Malley, Bryan Lee PN6733.O43 S43 2014

The Secret Lives of People in Love Van Booy, Simon PR6122.A53 S43 2007

The White Tiger Adiga, Aravind PR9619.4.A35 W47 2008

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Watterson, Bill PN6728.C34 W38525 2005

Gulliver’s Travels Swift, Jonathan PR3724.G7 1945

Golden Boy Tarttelin, Abigail PR6120.A487 G65 2013

The Power of One Courtenay, Bruce PR9619.3.C5964 P69 1996

Number9Dream Mitchell, David PR6063.I785

Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon Fraction, Matt PN6728.H378 F73 2013

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Rennison, Louise PR6118.E596 A54 2006

Brideshead Revisited Waugh, Evelyn PR6045.A97 B7

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare, William PR2827.A2 B68 2002

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich PG3488.O4 O3 1972

The Bees Paull, Laline PR6116.A87 B44 2014x

A Story Like the Wind van der Post, Laurens PR6043.A378 S8

Blankets Thompson, Craig PN6727.T48 B58 2005

We Zamyatin, Yevgeny PG3476.Z34 W4 1972

One Day Nicholls, David PR6114.I27 O54 2010

The Silmarillion Tolkien, J.R.R. PR6039.O32 S4

ENGLISH LITERATURE, RENAISSANCE Hamlet Shakespeare, William PR2807.A2 J52 2001

Invitation to a Beheading Nabokov, Vladamir PG3476.N3 P7313 1989

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Joyce, Rachel PR6110.O98 U55 2012

ENGLISH LITERATURE, AUSTRALIA Obernewtyn Chronicles Carmody, Isobelle PR9619.3.C373 O34 1999

The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Spiegelman, Art PN6727.S644 M2 1997

The Master and Margarita Bulgakov, Mikhail PG3476.B78 M313 1992

ENGLISH LITERATURE, 2001– Little Bee Cleave, Chris PR6103.L43 L58 2010

The Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.R. PR6039.O32 H6

Stitches: A Memoir Small, David PN6727.S54465 Z46 2009

SOCIAL PATHOLOGY, SOCIAL AND PUBLIC WELFARE, CRIMINOLOGY The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration of the Age of Colorblindness Alexander, Michelle HV9950.A437 2012

HISTORY OF EDUCATION Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life Deresiewicz, William LA227.4.D74 2014

GEORGIAN LITERATURE Short Stories Pshavela, Vazha PK9169.V38 A9 1961

Bleak House Dickens, Charles PR4556.A1 1926

Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo PG3366.A6 G37 1965 The Complete Plays Chekhov, Anton PG3456.A19 2006

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Flight from the USSR Turashvili, Dato PK9169.T89 J517 2011

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A Hero of Our Time Lermontov, Mikhail PG3337.L4 A2 1958

CRIMES AND OFFENSES The Burn Journals Runyon, Brent HV6546.R86 2004

POLITICAL THEORY The Prince Machiavelli, Niccolò JC143.M38 2006

Wuthering Heights Bronte, Emily PR4172.W7 1991

Jeewan Kaada Ki Phool Ghimire, Jhamak PK2598.G497 Z4613 2012

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Death and the Dervish Selimović, Meša PG1419.29.E43 D413 1996

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A Drifting Life Tatsumi, Yoshihiro PN6790.J33 T38 2009

INDO-IRANIAN LITERATURE Muna Madan Devkota, Laxmi Prasad PK2598.D37 M8 2002

Pedagogy of the Oppressed Freire, Paulo LB880.F7313 1974

A Million Little Pieces Frey, James HV5831.M6 F74 2003

VICTIMS OF CRIMES, VICTIMOLOGY The Socio-Cultural Context of Rape Sanday, Peggy Reeves HV6250.4.W65 G48 2007

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THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EDUCATION Experience and Education Dewey, John LB875.D3943 1997

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AMERICAN LITERATURE Stories: All-New Tales Sarrantonio, Al and Gaiman, Neil PS648.S5 S75 2010 Best American Essays 2006 Atwan, Robert and Slater, Lauren PS688.B47 2006 AMERICAN LITERATURE, 19TH CENTURY The Awakening Chopin, Kate PS1294.C63 A64

Gone with the Wind Mitchell, Margaret PS3525.I972 G6

Complete Tales and Poems Poe, Edgar Allan PS2600.F38 Walden Thoreau, Henry David PS3048.A1 AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1900–1960 Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life Anderson, Sherwood PS3501.N4 W52 1947

The Basketball Diaries Carroll, Jim PS3553.A7644 Z464 1995 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Chbosky, Stephen PS3553.H3469 P47 1999 The Hours Cunningham, Michael PS3553.U484 H68 2000 House of Leaves Danielewski, Mark Z. PS3554.A5596 H68 2000 The Red Tent Diamant, Anita PS3554.I227 R43 2005 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Díaz, Junot PS3554.I259 B75 2007 This Is How You Lose Her Díaz, Junot PS3554.I259 T48 2012 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dick, Philip K. PS3554.I3 A6 2007

Einstein’s Dreams Lightman, Alan PS3562.I45397 E38 1993 The Family Man Lipman, Elinor PS3562.I577 F36 2009 The Giver Lowry, Lois PS3562.O923 G58 2006 Wicked Maguire, Gregory PS3563.A3535 W5 A Game of Thrones: Song of Ice and Fire series Martin, George R.R. PS3563.A7239 G36 2011 The Road McCarthy, Cormac PS3563.C337 R63 2006 Little Kingdoms Millhauser, Steven PS3563.I422 A6 1993 Beloved Morrison, Toni PS3563.O8749 B4 1987 The Bluest Eye Morrison, Toni PS3563.O8749 B55 1979 Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni PS3563.O8749 S69 1977 Bluets Nelson, Maggie PS3564.E4687 B56 2009

Slouching Towards Bethlehem Didion, Joan PS3554.I33 S55 2008

The Time Traveler’s Wife Niffenegger, Audrey PS3564.I362 T56 2003

Not Fade Away Dodge, Jim PS3554.O335 N6 1987

The Things They Carried O’Brien, Tim PS3565.B75 T48 1998

The Five People You Meet in Heaven Albom, Mitch PS3601.L335 F59 2003 Thirteen Reasons Why Asher, Jay PS3601.S547 T5 2007 My Name is Memory Brashares, Anne PS3602.R385 M92 2010 Up High in the Trees Brinkman, Kiara PS3602.R53185 U6 2007 Red Rising Brown, Pierce PS3602.R7226 R43 2014 Egghead: Or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone Burnham, Bo PS3602.U7638 E34 2013 Everything Matters!

Currie, Jr., Ron PS3603.U774 E94 2009 Wolf in White Van Darnielle, John PS3604.A748 W65 2014 The Tea Rose Donnelly, Jennifer PS3604.O563 T43 2002 The Girl Who Fell From The Sky Durrow, Heidi W. PS3604.U757 G57 2010 What is the What Eggers, Dave PS3605.G48 W43x 2006 Water Bound Feehan, Christine PS3606.E36 W38 2010 Gone Girl Flynn, Gillian PS3606.L935 G66 2012 Everything is Illuminated Foer, Jonathan Safran PS3606.O38 E84 2003 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Foer, Jonathan Safran PS3606.O38 E97 2005 Still Alice Genova, Lisa PS3607.E55 S75 2009

Fight Club Palahniuk, Chuck PS3566.A4554 F54 1997

The Belgariad series Eddings, David PS3555.D38 B45 1995

Survivor Palahniuk, Chuck PS3566.A4554 S87 1999

Dark of the Moon Richardson, Howard and Berney, William PS3535.I3264 B3

A Visit from the Goon Squad Egan, Jennifer PS3555.G292 V57 2010

The Moviegoer Percy, Walker PS3566.E6912 M6 1980

Will Grayson, Will Grayson Green, John and Levithan, David PS3607.R43293

Less Than Zero Ellis, Brett Easton PS3555.L5937 L4 1985

My Sister’s Keeper Picoult, Jodi PS3566.I372 M9 2004

Color of the Sea Hamamura, John PS3608.A549436 C65 2006

Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph PS3555.L625 I5 1995

The Magic Box Pintauro, Joseph PS3566.I56 R3

The Art of Fielding Harbach, Chad PS3608.A72513 A87 2011

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey PS3555.U4 M53 2002

The Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia PS3566.L27 B4 1999

Love and Obstacles Hemon, Aleksander PS3608.E48 L68 2009

White Oleander Fitch, Janet PS3556.I8155 W47 2000

Gravity’s Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas PS3566.Y55 G7 2006

The Corrections Franzen, Jonathan PS3556.R352 C67 2001

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Quinn, Daniel PS3567.U338 I8 1995

What To Do When Dreams Go Bad Hill, Anne PS3608.I55

The Kitty-Cat Bird Roethke, Theodore PS3535.O39 1966 The Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D. PS3537.A426 C3 Franny and Zooey Salinger, J.D. PS3537.A426 F7 Nine Stories Salinger, J.D. PS3537.A426 N5 1953 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Smith, Betty PS3537.M289 T7 1943 East of Eden Steinbeck, John PS3537.T3234 E3 Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John PS3537.T3234 O2 Lust for Life Stone, Irving PS3537.T669 1962 Johnny Got His Gun Trumbo, Dalton PS3539.R928 J6 Daddy Long Legs Webster, Jean PS3545.E365 D3

Essays of E.B. White White, E.B. PS3545.H5187 A16

Moby Dick Melville, Herman PS2384.M6

Ender’s Game Card, Orson Scott PS3553.A655 E5 2002

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack Leyner, Mark PS3562.E99 S84 2012

Geek Love Dunn, Katherine PS3554.U47 G4 1989

Théodora Wellman, Paul I. PS3545.E52859 F4515

The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman, Charlotte Perkins PS1744.G57 Y4

Kindred Butler, Octavia E. PS3552.U827 K5 1988

Boy Meets Boy Levithan, David PS3562.E922175 B69 2005

S. Abrams, J.J. PS3601.B7367 S47 2013

Anthem Rand, Ayn PS3535.A547 A5

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson, Ralph Waldo PS1602.A86

Self-Reliance Emerson, Ralph Waldo PS1614.A1

Naked Lunch Burroughs, William S. PS3552.U75 N3 2001

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Wilson, August PS3573.I385 J64 1990

The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn PS3535.A547 F6

Essays and Poems Emerson, Ralph Waldo PS1602

Nature Emerson, Ralph Waldo PS1602.A86

Running with Scissors: A Memoir Burroughs, Augusten PS3552.U745 Z477 2003

You Good Thing Wier, Dara PS3573.I357 Y68 2013

The Glass Menagerie Williams, Tennessee PS3545.I5365 G5 The Caine Mutiny Wouk, Herman PS3545.O98 C3 1952 AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1961– The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Alexie, Sherman PS3551.L35774 L66 1994

Grendel Gardner, John PS3557.A712 G7 1989 Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur PS3557.O35926 M45 1997 The Princess Bride Goldman, William PS3557.O384 P75 2007 Ordinary People Guest, Judith PS3557.U345 O73 1976 Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David PS3557.U846 S65 1995 Catch-22 Heller, Joseph PS3558.E476 C3 2011

Doc Russell, Mary Doria PS3568.U76678 D63 2011 Contact Sagan, Carl PS3569.A287 C6 1985 Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World Sanders, Scott Russell PS3569.A5137 S7 1993 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Sedaris, David PS3569.E314 D68 2005 Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris, David PS3569.E314 M4 2000 Naked Sedaris, David PS3569.E314 N35 1998

Mrs. Caliban Ingalls, Rachel PS3559.N38 M7 1983

When You Are Engulfed in Flames Sedaris, David PS3569.E314 W48 2008

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya PS3551.N464 Z466 1969

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kesey, Ken PS3561.E667 O5 1963

Lexicon Barry, Max PS3552.A7424 L49 2013

A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled PS3608.O832 T56 2007

Skylight Confessions Hoffman, Alice PS3558.O3447 S59 2007

The Known World Jones, Edward P. PS3560.O4813 K58 2003

Giovanni’s Room Baldwin, James PS3552.A45 G56 2000

The Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled PS3608.O832 K58 2003

The Memory of Whiteness: A Scientific Romance Robinson, Kim Stanley PS3568.O2893 M4 1996

The Outsiders Hinton, S.E. PS3558.I549 O88 2003

All in the Timing Ives, David PS3559.V435 A82 1995

Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel PS3561.E925 F6 1967 Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption King, Stephen PS3561.I483 D5 1982

And The Mountains Echoed Hosseini, Khaled PS3608.O832 A53 2013

Interview with the Vampire Rice, Anne PS3568.I265 I58 1997

Dune Herbert, Frank PS3558.E63 D8 2005

Phenomenal Woman Angelou, Maya PS3551.N464 P48 1994

The Madness Vase Gibson, Andrea PS3607.I2638 M33 2012

Yellow Crocus Ibrahim, Laila PS3609.B27 Y45 2014

The World of Water Ray, Amelia PS3618.A9

Vampires in the Lemon Grove Russell, Karen PS3618.U755 V36 2013 Mistborn trilogy Sanderson, Brandon PS3619.A533 M57 Crush Siken, Richard PS3619.I48 C78 2005 Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore Sloan, Robin PS3619.L6278 M77 2012 The Help Stockett, Kathryn PS3619.T636 H45 2009 The Bookseller Swanson, Cynthia PS3619.W35945 B66 2015 How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past, Present, and Future Swirsky, Rachel PS3619.W585 H68 2013 The Space Between Us Umigar, Thrity PS3621.M75 S67 2005 Deathless Valente, Catherynne M. PS3622.A4258 D43 2011 Mr. Burns Washburn, Anne PS3623.A754 Salt Waheed, Nayyirah PS3623.Aa54 S25 2013 The Golem and the Jinni Wecker, Helene PS3623.E39775 G65 2013 John Dies at the End Wong, David PS3623.O5975 J64 2010 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski, David PS3623.R63 S76 2009 No Matter The Wreckage Kay, Sarah PS4611.A887 N6 2014

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GERMAN LITERATURE Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm PT921.K5613 2004 Demian Hesse, Hermann PT2617.E85 D45 2008 Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann PT2617.E85 S513 2003 Jugend Ohne Gott: Luchterhand Taschenbucher von Horváth, Ödön PT2617.O865 J93 1999 Metamorphosis Kafka, Franz PT2621.A26 V413 1972 The Magic Mountain Mann, Thomas PT2625.A44 Z2313 2005 Night Train to Lisbon Mercier, Pascal PT2673.E6827 N3313 2008 The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear Moers, Walter PT2673.O293 A1313 2005 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Suskind, Patrick PT2681.U74 P313 2001 The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade Weiss, Peter PT2685.E5 V43 1965 DUTCH LITERATURE Hersenschimmen Bernlef, J. PT5881.12.E73 H47 1984

Fifty Shades of Grey James, E.L. PS3610.J364 F548 2012

NORWEGIAN LITERATURE Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy Gaarder, Jostein PT8951.17.A17 S6413 1996

The Queen of the Tearling Johansen, Erika PS3610.O326 Q44 2014

My Struggle Knausgaard, Karl Ove PT8951.21.N38 M5613 2013

The Opposite of Loneliness Keegan, Marina PS3611.E3335 A6 2014

SWEDISH LITERATURE The Millennium trilogy Larsson, Stieg PT9876.22.A6933 M3613 2008

The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk PS3611.I44 S38 2003 Please Ignore Vera Dietz King, A.S. PS3611.I5657 P54 2010 The History of Love Krauss, Nicole PS3611.R38 H57 2005 The Dry Grass of August Mayhew, Anna Jean PS3613.A956 D79 2011b

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Larsson, Stieg PT9876.22.A6933 M3613 2008 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonasson, Jonas PT9877.2.O537

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This Song Will Save Your Life Sales, Leila PZ7.S15215 Thi 2013 The Invention of Hugo Cabret Selznick, Brian PZ7.S4654 I68 2007

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle, Eric PZ7.C21476 V4 1994a

The Sneetches and Other Stories Geisel, Theodore PZ7.S48 S6 1989

Summerland Chabon, Michael PZ7.C3315 Su 2002

The Giving Tree Silverstein, Shel PZ7.S588 Giv 2004

The Mortal Instruments series Clare, Cassandra PZ7.C5265 2007

The Missing Piece Silverstein, Shel PZ7.S588 Mi3

City of Bones Clare, Cassandra PZ7.C5265 M6 2010 Lunch Money Clements, Andrew PZ7.C59118 Lun 2005 The Hunger Games trilogy Collins, Suzanne PZ7.C6837 H8 2009 Skinny Cooner, Donna PZ7.C78285 Sk 2012 Miss Rumphius Cooney, Barbara PZ7.C783 M5 1985 Fantastic Mr. Fox Dahl, Roald PZ7.D1515 F36 2007 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane DiCamillo, Kate PZ7.D5455 Mi 2006 Mandy Edwards, Julie Andrews PZ7.E2562 Man 2006 My Side of the Mountain George, Jean Craighead PZ7.G2933 My The Fault in Our Stars Green, John PZ7.G8233 Fau 2012 Paper Towns Green, John PZ7.G8233 Pap 2008 The Missing series Haddix, Margaret Peterson PZ7.H1164 Fo 2008 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Haddon, Mark PZ7.H1165 Cu 2004 Once Dead, Twice Shy Harrison, Kim PZ7.H2526 On 2009 Martin the Warrior Jacques, Brian PZ7.J15317 Mas 2004 Howl’s Moving Castle Jones, Diana Wynne PZ7.J684 H6 2008 The Guardians of Childhood series Joyce, William PZ7.J857 Nic 2011 The Phantom Tollbooth Juster, Norton PZ7.J9865 Ph 1996 The Green Glass Sea Klages, Ellen PZ7.K6768 Gr 2008 A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle, Madeleine PZ7.L5385 W7 1997 Every Day Levithan, David PZ7.L5798 E8 2012 Rot and Ruin Maberry, Jonathan PZ7.M11164 Ro 2010 The Black MacHale, D.J. PZ7.M177535 Bk 2011 Sold McCormick, Patricia PZ7.M43 S65 2006 Departure Time Matti, Truus PZ7.M43542 De 2010 Thirty-One Brothers and Sisters Mirsky, Reba Paeff PZ7.M675 Th Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy Meyer, L.A. PZ7.M9795 Bl 2002 Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking, Book One Ness, Patrick PZ7.N43843 Kni 2009 Wonder Palacio, R.J. PZ7.P17526 Wo 2013 Maximum Ride series Patterson, James PZ7.P27653 Max 2005 Wild Magic Pierce, Tamora PZ7.P61464 Wi 1997 Heart of a Samurai Preus, Margi PZ7.P92434 He 2010

We Need To Talk about Kevin Shriver, Lionel PS3569.H742 W4 2003

The Brother/Sister Plays McCraney, Tarell Alvin PS3613.C38625 B79 2010

FICTION AND JUVENILE BELLES LETTRES The Wanderer Alain-Fournier, Henri PZ3.F8263 Wa2

The Art of Racing in the Rain Stein, Garth PS3569.T3655

The Host Meyer, Stephanie PS3613.E979 H67 2010

Crank Hopkins, Ellen PZ7.5.H67 C7 2010

The Secret History Tartt, Donna PS3570.A657 S4 1992

The Anatomy of Being Moon, Shinji PS3613.O55 A5 2013

Speak Anderson, Laurie Halse PZ7.A54385 S6 2001

The Southern Reach trilogy VanderMeer, Jeff PS3572.A4284 A82 2014

The Night Circus Morgenstern, Erin PS3613.O74875 N54 2010

Wintergirls Anderson, Laurie Halse PZ7.A54385 Wi 2009

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Riordan, Rick PZ7.R4829 Li 2005

Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut, Kurt PS3572.O5 B7 1999

His Majesty’s Dragon Novik, Naomi PS3614.O93 H57 2006x

Ashes of Roses Auch, Mary Jane PZ7.A898 As 2002

Divergent Roth, Veronica PZ7.R7375 Di 2011

The Golden Compass Pullman, Philip PZ7.P968 G6 2006 Percy Jackson Riordan, Rick PZ7.R4829 Li 2005 Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief Riordan, Rick PZ7.R4829 Li 2005

The Moon Key Stampfl, J.R. PZ7.S78613 First Light Stead, Rebecca PZ7.S80857 Fi 2007 Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf Storr, Catherine PZ7.S8857 Cl Daughter of Smoke and Bone Taylor, Laini PZ7.T214826 D37 2011 The Spectacular Now Tharp, Tim PZ7.T32724 Spe 2008 The Arrival Tan, Shaun PZ7.T36 A7 2007

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BOTANY Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants Goodall, Jane QK46.5.H85 G66 2014

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HUMAN ANATOMY Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Shubin, Neil QM26.S58 2008

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PHYSIOLOGY The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind Kaku, Michio QP360.K325 2014 The Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons Kean, Sam QP376.K35 2014 Sleep Thieves Coren, Stanley QP425.C62 1996

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MEDICINE Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World Kidder, Tracy R154.F36 K53 2003

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PUBLIC ASPECTS OF MEDICINE Emerging Epidemics: The Menace of New Infections Drexler, Madeline RA653.D74 2010

The Boxcar Children series Warner, Gertrude Chandler PZ7.W244 Bo 1924

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Pollan, Michael RA784.P643 2008

Leviathan Westerfeld, Scott PZ7.W5197 L48 2010

The Hospital: A Social and Architectural History Thompson, John D. and Goldin, Grace RA967.T5 1975

Uglies series Westerfeld, Scott PZ7.W5197 Ugl 2005 Charlotte’s Web White, E.B. PZ7.W5827 C53 1952 Leftovers Wiess, Laura PZ7.W6372 Lef 2008 Belzhar Wolitzer, Meg PZ7.W8338 Bel 2014 The Monstrumologist Yancey, Rick PZ7.Y19197 Mon 2010 I Am the Messenger Zusak, Markus PZ7.Z837 I35 2006 The Lorax Geisel, Theodore PZ8.3.G276 Lo 1971 Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Geisel, Theodore PZ8.3.G276 O35 1990 Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales Andersen, Hans Christian PZ8.A54 1984 Cho tôi xin mộ t vé đi tuổi thơ Ánh, Nguyễn Nhật PZ90.V5 N4464 2008

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SCIENCE What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Munroe, Randall Q173.M965 2014 Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 Kaku, Michio Q175.5.K257 2011 Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder Taleb, Nassim Nicholas Q375.T348 2012

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SURGERY Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Carson, Ben RD592.9.C37.A3 1996

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FORESTRY, ARBORICULTURE The Wild Trees Preston, Richard SD397.R3 P74 2008

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ANIMAL CULTURE Dewey’s Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions Myron, Vicki SF445.5.M974 2010

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MACHINERY The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope Kamkwambe, William and Mealer, Brian TJ820.K36 2009

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, ELECTRONICS, NUCLEAR ENGINEERING Edison: A Biography Josephson, Matthew TK140.E3 J75 1959

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Steve Jobs Isaacson, Walter QA76.2.J63 I722 2011

MOTOR VEHICLES, AERONAUTICS, ASTRONAUTICS Horizons Unlimited: A Graphic History of Aviation Johnston, Samuel Paul TL515.J63

The System of the World Newton, Isaac QA803.N49 M3 1960

Flight of Passage: A Memoir Buck, Rinker TL721.B83 A3 1997

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ASTRONOMY Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Sagan, Carl QB500.262.S24 1997

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PHYSICS Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) Feynman, Richard P. QC16.F49 A37 1997

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NATURAL HISTORY, BIOLOGY My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald QH151.D8 2000 On the Origin of Species Darwin, Charles QH365.O2 2006 The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told about Genetics, Talent, and IQ is Wrong Shenk, David QH447.S53 2010

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HANDICRAFTS, ARTS AND CRAFTS Shocking Life: The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli Schiaparelli, Elsa TT505.S3 A3

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NUTRITION, COOKING Eating Animals Foer, Jonathan Safran TX392.F58 2009 An Everlasting Meal Adler, Tamar TX715.A2423 2011

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ermont is a food-lover’s paradise. We are locavores. We seek and appreciate fresh foods grown locally. In fact, no other state does farm fresh better. Not only do we rank number one on the 2017 Locavore Index, but our government has legislated Farm-toPlate strategies to strengthen our commitment to increasing jobs in farms and food production, and to ensure that every Vermonter has access to healthy food.

Here in Manchester and the Mountains the food and venue choices are boundless, from rustic to refined, all focusing on Vermont-sourced ingredients whenever possible. Being a locavore here is easy and delicious.

My fieldwork for this newly redesigned dining magazine, Good Taste, included a busy few days of eating, drinking, and chatting my way through Manchester, Dorset, Stratton Village, and surrounding towns – a very tough job! The people I met are engaging and passionate about their product, be it bread, sausage, cocktails, cheese, or anything else.

I spoke with an innkeeper and farmers who had collaborated with other restaurants to create a market for special ingredients that are not readily available. The result: farms are guaranteed a market for their products, and chefs are guaranteed a source for the foods they desire – win, win! In the end, consumers like you and me are the ultimate beneficiaries.

Southern Vermont is well known as a destination for art, theatre, and all types of outdoor play. It is also a dining destination. There are many urbane, chef-driven restaurants here – sophisticated and original, in historic and cosmopolitan settings. Plan to eat well while you’re here.

Enjoy!

Yours, in Good Taste, ELLEN OLTMAN KELLNER

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POWERFUL Photographs by Timothy Peters

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Fresh produce is as nutritious as it is beautiful.

With nutrients ranging from vitamins and minerals to phytonutrients and antioxidants, the colors and flavors of vegetables and fruits make meals delicious as they keep us healthy and glowing. A general rule of thumb when shopping is the deeper the color, the denser the health benefits.

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BREAD

What we knead Bread, it is well known, is the Staff of Life. While we cannot live by bread alone, we break bread together, sharing food and companionship. Bread is the most fundamental of created foods – not as easy as picking greens and eating them, but not much more work.

Finely ground wheat, water, and leavening – this is the simplicity of basic bread. Breads are limited only by the imagination of their bakers. With the addition of other grains, flavorings, herbs, seeds, and oils, the possibilities for creating artisanal breads are endless.

Bread’s versatility lays the foundation, the groundwork, for numerous toppings, dips, meats, cheeses, and vegetables, expanding the possibilities of simple, perfect eating. In one day in and around Manchester, I sampled a variety of distinctly different loaves.

We look forward to breaking bread with you!

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BY CHERISE MADIGAN Photographs by David Barnum, courtesy of The Stratton Foundation

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here’s nothing like that crisp “pop!” that precipitates a celebratory bottle of champagne or that first refreshing gulp of an IPA on a hot day. In Vermont, a vibrant culinary landscape encompassing countless craft beer, wine, and spirit producers awaits those seeking a taste of the Green Mountains.

But what about those who don’t drink, or just aren’t in the mood?

Recently, a wellspring of local producers who craft their elixirs sans alcohol have begun to offer up equal portions of fun and flavor for all. While craft beer and spirits have historically generated the most buzz, these sustainable and sophisticated refreshments allow everyone to join the party.

With commitment to sustainability, quality, and flavor, brands such as Venetian, TreTap, Cold Brewtus, and TÖST have begun to define the nonalcoholic niche within Vermont’s growing beverage market. Regardless of preference, these local libations ensure that you’ll always have something special in your glass for every occasion.

TÖST, for example, presents the same dry and sophisticated elegance often found in fine wine, with notes of white cranberry and ginger within a sparkling white tea. Crafted specifically to evoke the finer attributes of an alcoholic beverage— including a distinct nose, a smooth finish, and a meaningful connotation—the concepts underlying TÖST are both compelling and complex.

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verything about the culinary scene in Manchester and the Mountains screams of nature’s inspiration. The connection with the seasons and surroundings make this a perfect environment to be on the cutting edge of culinary innovation. With world-class cuisine from every corner of the globe, one of the top training programs in the country, and access to the freshest cultivated and wild ingredients, Vermont’s connection to food runs as deep as its independent spirit.

Like a badge of honor, restaurant owners and chefs will brag about how local and organic their food is (usually giving you a distance per dish, meaning some dishes include only ingredients located within five miles of the restaurant). In addition to dining out, explore our local supermarkets, general stores, and farmers’ markets and choose wisely to receive the most nourishing bang for the buck. We are so very fortunate to have such high-nutritive-value fruits and veggies literally right at our fingertips from our own backyards.

Put on your list established local markets such as Earth & Sea for fish straight from the pier and New Morning Natural Foods for all of your organic needs. For any occasion, Vermonters have created innovative non-alcoholic Vermont beverages such as TÖST, Cold Brewtus, TreTap Sparkling Water, and Venetian Ginger Ale. In this issue we celebrate our state vegetable, the Gilfeather turnip—one that has its very own festival. See you there in October to sample the amazing variety of dishes all made from this surprisingly sweet root!

No place does farm-to-table like we do, and as part of our cover story, “Wild Foods,” we are excited to present the printed excerpts of a filming collaboration between Good Taste, Wild Foods Productions, and local restaurants The Dorset Inn and The Reluctant Panther Inn and Restaurant. This project will take you on a journey from foraging for wild produce in the fields and streams of Vermont through to chefs’ preparation at some of our finest professional kitchens. Read the article in this issue and watch the episodes online at goodtastedining.com.

In good taste!

Marcia Lissak & Kevin Chap

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WILD Foods

As spring settles upon the wildlands of Vermont, the heavy blanket of winter’s snow recedes, leaving only speckles of white patches scattered across the highest elevations. These early days create an opening, not just for Mother Nature and her brood, but for the hearts of food adventurers as the foraging season commences. During this time, crops such as fiddleheads, ramps, and morels all begin awakening from the rich soil in staggering abundance.

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SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER In the heart of the Green Mountains, SVAC has beautiful indoor and outdoor spaces. Three venues—the historic Yester House filled with regional artwork, the contemporary Wilson Museum, and the 400-seat Arkell Pavilion—offer a variety of locations for any wedding or event. All catering is by Church Street Hospitality. 930 SVAC Dr., Manchester. 802-362-1405 or Colleen Palmer, cpalmer@svac.org or svac.org STRATTON MOUNTAIN RESORT Stratton Mountain Resort offers alpine elegance with a choice of ceremony and reception venues. Whether your wish is rustic charm or sophisticated style, the natural beauty of this majestic setting provides an ideal backdrop for your wedding. Breathtaking views, unique spaces, and our welcoming and experienced staff make this the perfect place to celebrate your special day. 5 Village Lodge Rd., Stratton. 1-800-STRATTON or stratton.com

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West Mountain Inn has been hosting weddings for more than 25 years and provides a caring and experienced staff for your special day. Specializing in catering weekend-long wedding events with rehearsal parties, ceremonies, receptions, and brunches using the beautiful 1850s barn for receptions, gardens for ceremonies, lawns for tents, overnight lodging for guests, and 150 mountainside acres for truly private celebrations. 144 West Mountain Inn Rd., Arlington.

802-375-6516 or westmountaininn.com WILBURTON INN Create the Manchester, Vermont destination wedding of your dreams at the Wilburton Inn’s majestic mansion and 30-acre hilltop estate.

Gorgeous views. Receptions for up to 250. Year-round rehearsal dinners, ceremonies, bonfires, and brunch. Organic, farm-to-table fare by Earth Sky Time Farm. Marble tented pavilion. Lodging for 185 guests in elegant inn rooms and vacation villas. Pets welcome.

257 Wilburton Dr., Manchester. 802-362-2500 or wilburtoninn.com

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MANCHESTER MERRIMENT Tree Lighting & Tractor Parade!

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Frosty the Snowman Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found, For when they placed it on his head he began to dance around Oh Frosty the snowman was alive as he could be And the children say he could laugh and play just the same as you and me Thumpity thump thump, thumpity thump thump Look at Frosty go…

Thumpity thump thump, thumpity thump thump Over the hills of snow!

Frosty the snowman knew the sun was hot that day So he said Let’s run and we’ll have some fun now before I melt away Down to the village with a broomstick in his hand Running here and there all around the square saying Catch me if you can He led them down the streets of town right to the traffic cop And he only paused a moment when he heard him holler “Stop!”

For Frosty the snow man had to hurry on his way But he waved goodbye saying Don’t you cry I’ll be back again some day thumpity thump thump, thumpity thump thump Look at Frosty go… thumpity thump thump, thumpity thump thump Over the hills of snow!

Jingle Bells Dashing through the snow In a one horse open sleigh O’er the fields we go Laughing all the way (HA HA HA ) Bells on bob tails ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to laugh and sing A sleighing song tonight Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh HEY Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh A day or two ago I thought I’d take a ride And soon Miss Fanny Bright Was seated by my side The horse was lean and lank Misfortune seemed his lot We got into a drifted bank And then we got upsot Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh!!

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, You know Comet, and Cupid, and Donner, and Blitzen, But do you recall The most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say, Rudolph with your nose so bright, Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight Then how the reindeer loved him, As they shouted out with glee, Rudolph the red-nose Reindeer You’ll go down in history

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