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Faculty Bookshelf

2/28/2020

Editorial Staff

What are the faculty and staff members reading?

Dean Schneider

Middle School English

Infinite Hope

By Ashley Bryan

"Infinite Hope is a nonfiction book for middle school through adult about Ashley's experiences as a black artist during World War II, focusing on his experience on Omaha Beach during D-Day. Ashley is my friend who lives on Little Cranberry Island in Maine, where I go each summer. He is 96 years old and has two new books out this year."

Virgil Herring

Director of Golf / Head GolfCoach

Talking to Strangers

By Malcolm Gladwell

“This is one of the greatest books I have ever read, a true page-turner. It discusses the complicated factors of dealing with people we don’t know. I believe it should be mandatory reading for high school students, especially the section on dealing with the opposite sex in college and how drinking in excess can lead to 'misreads and oversights' of judgment. Very powerful and my book of the year for 2019.”

Brad Knopp

High School English

Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History

By Rodney Stark

"Stark is a Protestant scholar, lest anyone should suspect special pleading in this study. He also provides an extensive bibliography for those who'd want to examine his sources. I have approx 45 minutes a day for non-school-related reading and I finished this book in 4-5 sittings."

Sarah Buchanan

Associate Head of School; Director of Enrollment Management

Paris in the Present Tense

By Mark Helprin

"Recently, I have been spending time looking through books and travel guides centered on Paris in preparation for an upcoming trip to this glorious city. And so I stumbled upon Mark Helprin’s Paris in the Present Tense. If you are a reader of novels who appreciates fully-developed characters filled with compassion and humanity, and who enjoys novels that pull from a character’s past to explain and support actions and decisions that drive the story, then this is a book you will enjoy. It is a contemporary story that is brilliantly written and filled with interesting characters. It is truly a 'love letter to Paris' that continues to speak to me."

JJ Anthony

College Counseling

Why Does College Cost So Much?

By Robert B. Archibald & David H. Feldman

"While the title rightfully leads one to think about the rise in college tuition prices, there is an interesting discussion about how colleges offer services in-line with other industries operated By highly educated workers like healthcare and law. The authors place higher education on a similar rise in cost trajectory over time with these services to highlight how the rise in college costs is not dramatically out of touch with these services’ offerings."

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