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Updates & Notices

May 3, 2017: Restricted Access to FAU Wimberly Library After 10:00pm

The FAU Wimberly Library has installed a new security gate, requiring card access after 10:00pm.

PBSC students must visit the library's Circulation Desk before 10:00pm to obtain after-hours access. Call the FAU Wimberly Library Circulation Desk for more information (561-297-6911) or email Library Tom O'Brien at thomasobrien@fau.edu.

February 13, 2017: Books by African American Authors

The books on this list were highlighted at a lecture given today by Dr. Africa Fine, Associate Professor of English & Literature at the Boca Raton Campus of PBSC. Each of these books is owned by the FAU Wimberly Library, and the Call Numbers are included.

While this lecture occurred in February, you are encouraged to Celebrate Black History All Year Round.

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin; Edward P. Jones (Illustrator)
Call Number: E185.61.B2 1964
ISBN: 9780807064313
Publication Date: 1984-07-09
A Black writer records his response to the conditions of Black life and white racism. (PBSC students may also view this in eBook format while using computers in the Wimberly Library).
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Afterword by)
Call Number: PS3563.O8749B55 1994
ISBN: 9780452273054
Publication Date: 1994-09-01
The Bluest Eye (1970) is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: PS3573.A425C65 1983
ISBN: 9780671019075
Publication Date: 1998-02-01
The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.
The Color Purple (Streaming Video)
The streaming video of the movie, The Color Purple, may be viewed by PBSC students from within the FAU Wimberly Library.
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Call Number: HQ1421.G39 2014
ISBN: 9780062282712
Publication Date: 2014-08-05
One of our most indispensable writers . . . on everything that matters
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615.C6335 2015
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States."

Bonus: I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (Not owned by the FAU Libraries; see here for PBSC or PBCL holdings)