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Book Display - July 2025

Disability Pride Month

Disability Pride Month celebrates the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was passed on July 26, 1990.

Find related materials on our Together for Justice resource guide, or consult with a librarian by visiting our Ask a Librarian page.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Call Number: HV1568 .P54 2018
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Call Number: RC552.P67 M3555 2018
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong (Editor)
Call Number: HV1552.3 .D57 2020
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
Call Number: RC406.P3 T38 2020
The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius by Gail Saltz
Call Number: HV888 .S25 2017
Becoming Disabled: Forging a Disability View of the World by Jan Doolittle Wilson
Call Number: HV1568 .D66 2021
Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice by David S. Tatel
Call Number: HV1792.T38 A3 2024
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke
Call Number: RC108 .O765 2022
Do You Read Me?: Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia, and the Denial of Meaning by J. F. Miller
Call Number: RC394 .W6 M55 2015
Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability by Michelle Jarman (Editor); Leila Monaghan (Editor); Alison Quaggin Harkin (Editor)
Call Number: HV1568 .B36 2017
But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World by Claudia Marseille
Call Number: HV2380 .M37 2024
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seven Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
Call Number: PR6065 .F36 Z46 2018
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer
Call Number: HV1568 .M37 2006
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan; Caren Zucker
Call Number: RC553 .A88 D67 2016

ISBN: 9780307985675
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Call Number: RC280 .L8 K35 2016
Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness by Molly Margaret Kessler
Call Number: HM1131 .K47 2022
A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia by Sandy Allen
Call Number: RC514 .A4415 2018
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Call Number: RD661 .G74 A3 1995
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown
Call Number: RC388 .B763 2019
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann; Kristen Joiner
Call Number: JC571 .H49 2020
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
Call Number: PN4587.2.I73 A3 2023
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
Call Number: RC935.A8 W66 2022
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa; Alison Watts (Translator)
Call Number: PL869 .O75 A513 2017
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Call Number: PR6059 .A245 C87 2003
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
Call Number: PR6111.A547 G63 2023
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
Call Number: PR9230.9.J66 H69 2021
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Call Number: PS3604 .O34 A77 2014
Panpocalypse by Carley Moore
Call Number: PS3613.O55454 P36 2022
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
Call Number: PS3615.K67 N66 2021
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Call Number: PS3619.O43724 S67 2022

Book Display - June 2025

Timely Topics: Alumni Publications

In celebration of Alumni Weekend (June 13-15), check out one of these books published by Dickinson alumni from reunion classes. This display features books published by Dickinson graduates from 1955-2020!

For more information, you can consult with a librarian by emailing ask@dickinson.libanswers.com.

Footsteps: In Love with a Frenchman by Susan M. Tiberghien '55
Call Number: PS3570 .I24 Z46 2015
Repression, Resistance, and Democratic Transition in Central America by Ariel C. Armony (Editor); Thomas W. Walker (Editor); Mark Ruhl '70
Call Number: JL1416 .R47 2000
Italian Christian Democracy by Robert. Leonardi; Douglas A. Wertman '70
Call Number: JN5657.D43 L43 1989
Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy by Gregory A. Staley '70
Call Number: PA6685 .S73 2010
God and Government: Twenty Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom of Conscience by Rev. Barry W. Lynn '70
Call Number: BR516 .L96 2015
The Tao of Socrates by Stefan Schindler '70
Call Number: B111 .S35 2011
Reflections and Undercurrents: Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940 by Eric Denker '75
Call Number: NE962 .V45 D46 2012
Germany at the Crossroads: Foreign and Domestic Policy Issues by Gale A. Mattox (Editor); A. Bradley Shingleton '75 (Editor)
Call Number: DD290.25 .G48 1992
The Raw Food Lifestyle: The Philosophy and Nutrition Behind Raw and Live Foods by Ruthann Russo '80
Call Number: RM237.5 .R874 2009
The Brontës: A Family Writes by Christine Nelson '85
Call Number: PR4168 .N45x 2016
The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple '85
Call Number: PS3604 .A4232 S45 2013
The Surgeon and the Cowgirl by Heidi Hormel '85
Call Number: PS3608 .O758 S87 2015
The Stress Solution: The Complete Guide to Winning in Business without Sacrificing in Life by David A. Weiman '85
Call Number: HD38.2 .W45 2005
Heat and Light by Jennifer Haigh '90
Call Number: PS3608 .A544 H43 2016
Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? by Brock Clarke '90
Call Number: PS3603.L37 W48 2019
Babymouse #1: Queen of the World! by Jennifer L. Holm '90; Matthew Holm (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN6727 .H592 B33 2005
Growing up Old: Child of an Addict by Melissa Vayda, EdD '00
Call Number: HV5805 .V39 A3 2016
Trees of Stone by Sean D. Mooney '00
Call Number: PS3613 .O6529 T74 2016
Boundary Lines by Nichole Finger '00
Call Number: PS3606 .I544 B6 2001
How to Play Video Games by Matthew Thomas Payne (Editor); Nina B. Huntemann (Editor), Jeremy Barnes '15 (Contribution By)
Call Number: GV1469.34 .S52 H68 2019
Targeted Tracks: The Cumberland Valley Railroad in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Scott L. Mingus; Cooper H. Wingert '20; Scott L. Mingus
Call Number: F157.C9 M56 2019

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Book Display - June 2025

Immigrant Heritage Month

This display of memoirs and fiction honors the stories, experiences, and lives of immigrants in the United States.

Find related materials on our Together for Justice resource guide, or consult with a librarian by emailing ask@dickinson.libanswers.com

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
Call Number: HQ75.8.C456 A3 2023
Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement by Sarah C. Bishop
Call Number: JV6475 .B57 2019
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN6790 .A84 T36 2007
Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin
Call Number: CT275.I43 A3 2019
A Cup of Water under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez
Call Number: CT275.H5862 A3 2014
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Call Number: JV6456 .P33 2016
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: PR9387.9 .A34354 A72 2014
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Call Number: PS3562 .A316 N36 2004
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran
Call Number: F159.C2 T73 2020
The Making of a Dream: How a Group of Young Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change What it Means to Be American by Laura Wides-Muñoz
Call Number: JV6483 .W528 2018
Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez
Call Number: PS3551 .L845 Z47 1998
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj
Call Number: PS3604.A75 B45 2024
Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
Call Number: E184.K6 C4733 2021
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Call Number: E184 .I5 D86 2006
Museum of the Americas by J. Michael Martinez
Call Number: PS3613 .A78644 A6 2018
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Call Number: PS3614 .G97 A6 2017
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Call Number: ML420.Z3913 A3 2021
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
Call Number: PS3619 .H79 Z46 2014
My Name Is Iris by Brando Skyhorse
Call Number: PS3619.K947 M9 2023
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
Call Number: PS3605.N4427 I64 2021
A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Call Number: F869.S394 N58 2023
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Call Number: PS3613 .B84 L66 2016