Pick Up Your Finals Care Kit!

• During the week of December 2nd - 6th, the Library will give away free "Finals Care Kits" to RHEC students. These kits contain goodies to help students through their final exams and will include snacks, study tools, stress relievers, and words of encouragement. Stop by to pick up yours!

Disability in the Modern World is a landmark online collection that fills the gap in academic literature about the community and contributions of people who experience disability, with a comprehensive and international set of resources to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy. Disability in the Modern World includes primary sources, supporting materials, archives, documentaries, and interviews.

We've scoured literary award winners and lists from across the internet to bring you a list of the Best Books of 2024! Stop by the Library before Winter Break to pick up a guaranteed good read!

James

by Percival Everett

Awards & Accolades: National Book Award Winner • Kirkus Prize Winner • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize • Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024 • Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2024 • Time 100 Must Read Books of 2024

Summary:

From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

Awards & Accolades:

Shortlisted for the National Book Award • Kirkus Prize Winner • Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2024 • Time 100 Must Read Books of 2024

Summary:

SA newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

The God of the Woods

by Liz Moore

Awards & Accolades:

Kirkus Prize Winner • Shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024 • Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2024 • Time 100 Must Read Books of 2024

Summary:

When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp--as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight.

Wandering Stars

by Tommy Orange

Awards & Accolades:

Kirkus Prize Winner • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize • Time 100 Must Read Books of 2024

Summary:

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.

All Fours

by Miranda July

Awards & Accolades:

Kirkus Prize Winner • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize • Time 100 Must Read Books of 2024

Summary:

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.

Playground

by Richard Powers

Awards & Accolades:

Kirkus Prize Winner • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize • Time 100 Must Read Books of 2024

Summary:

Pulitzer winner Powers delivers an epic drama of AI, neocolonialism, and oceanography in this novel set largely on the French Polynesian island of Makatea, where a mysterious American consortium plans to launch floating cities into the ocean.

The Rest of the Best!

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

• Kirkus Prize Winner and one of Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2024

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

• Kirkus Prize Winner and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

• Kirkus Prize Winner and one of Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2024

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

• Kirkus Prize Winner and one of Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2024

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

• Kirkus Prize Winner and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

• One of Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2024 and a Time 100 Must Read Books of 2024

The Women by Kristin Hannah

• Shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024 and one of Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2024

There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib

• Shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024 and a Time 100 Must Read Books of 2024