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Leisure Reading for the Holidays

For your consideration, Central Library has a collection of best sellers in its leisure reading section, as well as a collection of travel guides. Want a quick book exchange? Exchange leisure reading books with the Gnome Tome (Peabody Library) or at the Stevenson Science & Engineering Library.

As you plan to pack up for the summer, please consider donating your gently used popular fiction to Peabody Library’s free book swap, Gnome Tome. Books may be dropped off at the Peabody Library’s service desk. Visitors may take a book from the shelf, located in the Fireside Reading Room, to read without check [...]

Note author Augusten Burroughs will be at Vanderbilt on April 8.
Augusten Burroughs books at the library
More info on the event: Brooks Fund welcomes New York Times Bestselling Author Augusten Burroughs to Nashville

Vanderbilt will be getting access to all Duke University Press publications in electronic format as we participate in a pilot program.  By subscribing to the front-list (2008 publications), we will also have access to all of the previously published titles, accessed via the Ebrary e-book reader platform.
Several features of the Duke UP model are improvements [...]

New Faculty Publication

Professor Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller, Department of French & Italian
Title: Envisager Dieu avec Edmond Jabès par Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller. Paris, Collection Cerf Littérature, 2007.
English Abstract from the publisher–
“Will my work [... ] be contained in the countless and contradictory definitions of God and my solitude, in the death of that word?’ This question is the anchor point of [...]