College Wide Reading 2023-24

Updated July 24, 2023
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Hello beautiful : a novel
Napolitano, Ann
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! From the author of Dear Edward comes a "powerfully affecting" (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? "Another tender tearjerker...
Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed
Gottlieb, Lori
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing."--Katie Couric "This is a daring, delightful, and transformative...
The brain behind pain : exploring the mind-body connection
Purvez, Akhtar
Paper Book
Explores the important role of the brain in both the experience of pain and its resolution. Pain is a product of the brain, which announces it after being warned by a small army of nocioceptors stationed throughout the body, always on alert for any threat to the overall system. But...
The power of regret : how looking backward moves us forward
Pink, Daniel H.
Paper Book
Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains. They're a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives. Drawing on research in social psychology,...
All in : an autobiography
King, Billie Jean
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice. "A story about the personal strength, immense growth,...
CTE, media, and the NFL : framing a public health crisis as a football epidemic
Bell, Travis R.
Paper Book
CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic examines the central role of mediain constructing an entangled relationship between chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and the National Football League (NFL), challenging a predominately symbiotic sports/media...
Shaken brain : the science, care, and treatment of concussion
Sandel, Elizabeth
Paper Book
A physician with thirty-five years of experience treating people with brain injuries shares the latest research on concussions and best practices for care. The explosion of attention to sports concussions has many of us thinking about the addled brains of our football and...
The book of boundaries : set the limits that will set you free
Urban, Melissa
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE WHOLE30 * End resentment, burnout, and anxiety--and reclaim your time, energy, health, and relationships. "Melissa Urban shows the way forward with clarity, vulnerability, and humor."--Gretchen Rubin, author of...
How to promote wellbeing : practical steps for healthcare practitioners' mental health
Thomas, Rachel K.
Paper Book
How to Promote Wellbeing is a timely resource designed to help all healthcare practitioners promote and protect their own and their patients' wellbeing and mental health. Focusing on practical strategies and guidance, this much-needed book explores approaches for reducing burnout, managing...
Mindfulness for Warriors: Empowering First Responders to Reduce Stress and Build Resilience (Book for Doctors, Police, Nurses, Firefighters, Paramedics, Military, and Others)
Colegrove, Kim
Paper Book
Coping with the Stress of First Responder Life "Mindfulness for Warriors is a work of major importance that offers practical approaches to self-care and serenity for our first responders..." --Louise Harmon, author of Happiness from A to Z #1 New...
The collected schizophrenias : essays
Wang, Esme? Weijun
Paper Book
Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected...
Lazy, crazy, and disgusting : stigma and the undoing of global health
Brewis, Alexandra
Paper Book
How stigma derails well-intentioned public health efforts, creating suffering and worsening inequalities. 2020 Winner, Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize,Shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Foundation for the Sociology of Health and...
The lonely century : how to restore human connection in a world that's pulling apart
Hertz, Noreena
Paper Book
A bold, hopeful, and thought-provoking account by "one of the world's leading thinkers" (The Observer) of how we built a lonely world, how the pandemic accelerated the problem, and what we must do to come together again  "A compelling vision for how we can bridge...
The end of trauma : how the new science of resilience is changing how we think about PTSD
Bonanno, George A.
Paper Book
With "groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience" (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is in and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals...
Healing a community : lessons for recovery after a large-scale trauma
Glaser, Melissa
Paper Book
Mass trauma has made entire towns and cities into monuments of heartbreak and loss. Here is a book to guide the communal recovery. After the horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, local caregivers, civic leaders, and first responders...
Under pressure : confronting the epidemic of stress and anxiety in girls
Damour, Lisa
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the author of Untangled "An invaluable read for anyone who has girls, works with girls, or cares...
Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace
Cervin, Georgia
Paper Book
How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women's gymnastics Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci helped make women's artistic gymnastics one of the most popular events in the Olympic Games. But the transition of gymnastics from a women's sport to a...
Disability, the Media and the Paralympic Games
Jackson-Brown, Carolyn
Paper Book
This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK's publicly-owned but commercially-funded Channel 4 network, coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities. It sheds important new light...
Mental health disorders on television : representation versus reality
McMahon-Coleman, Kimberley
Paper Book
  In past decades portrayals of mental illness on television were limited to psychotic criminals or comical sidekicks. As public awareness of mental illness has increased so too have its depictions on the small screen. A gradual transition from stereotypes towards more nuanced...
Lost connections : uncovering the real causes of depression-- and the unexpected solutions
Hari, Johann
Paper Book
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost...
Mind fixers : psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Harrington, Anne
Paper Book
In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry's repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists...
Legacy : trauma, story and Indigenous healing
Methot, Suzanne
Paper Book
Winner of the 2019-20 Huguenot Society of Canada Award "Powerful ... A deeply empathetic and inspiring work with insights of value to anyone struggling to overcome personal or communal trauma." -- Library Journal "[A] beautifully written book about...
Sports Injuries Sourcebook
Williams, Angela L.
Paper Book
"Provides consumer health information about sports injuries in various parts of the body, protective equipment and preventive measures, and treatment options. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
How art can change your life
Hodge, Susie
Paper Book
Brimming with upbeat guidance, this accessible handbook shows how anyone can use art to enlighten, uplift, calm and ease stress and anxieties. Visual art is enlightening, challenging, informative and arresting; but it can also be therapeutic, reducing anxiety and stress levels...
Heroes are human : lessons in resilience, courage, and wisdom from the COVID front lines
Delaney, Bob
Paper Book
In Heroes are Human: Lessons in Resilience, Courage and Wisdom from the COVID Front Lines, we read gripping first-hand accounts by those thrust into the depths of the crisis. This book is a must-read for health care workers who have been besieged by the ongoing pandemic,...
Futbolera : a history of women and sports in Latin America
Elsey, Brenda
Paper Book
Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbolera is the first monograph on women's sports in Latin America. Because sports evoke such passion, they are fertile ground for understanding the...
The expressive instinct : how imagination and creative works help us survive and thrive
Kaimal, Girija
Paper Book
Self-expression is a fundamental human drive. The need for self-expression can occur through many means both creative and mundane. The Expressive Instinct explains how the complexity of human experiences and the need to express them manifests more profoundly when distilled into artforms and dispels...
Playing on an uneven field : essays on exclusion and inclusion in sports
Kiuchi, Yuya
Paper Book
We expect sports to be fair and equal--everyone who tries out has a chance to play and everyone who plays hard has a chance to win. But is that really true? In reality, female athletes are paid far less than their male counterparts. Youth sports often cost too much for many families to...
About us : essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
Catapano, Peter
Paper Book
Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are-not as others perceive them-About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to those with disabilities, but also to their families,...

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