Lebanon Valley College Reveals 2016 Summer Book Review Series

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Twenty members of Lebanon Valley College’s faculty and staff will participate in the College’s annual book review series this summer.

ANNVILLE, PA (04/28/2016)(readMedia)-- Twenty members of Lebanon Valley College's faculty and staff will participate in the College's annual book review series this summer. Individually, they will read selected books and facilitate a discussion from the audience at the presentation. This year, the series will take place in Cornwall and Mount Gretna. All events are free and open to the public.

The Cornwall series will be held Mondays at 1:45 p.m. from June 6–August 15 in the Freeman Auditorium at Cornwall Manor. The second series will run on Tuesdays at 9:45 a.m. from June 14–August 16 at the Pennsylvania Chautauqua Community Building in Mt. Gretna. Each event begins with refreshments followed by the book review session. A full schedule and book list follows:

Cornwall Manor

June 6: Dr. Michael Schroeder, associate professor of history, reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me"

June 13: Dr. Karen Walker, associate professor of education, reviews Stacy Schiff's "The Witches: Salem, 1692"

June 20: Sally Clark, visiting assistant professor of English, reviews Lily King's "Euphoria"

June 27: Dr. Michelle Niculescu, associate professor of psychology, reviews Adam Rogers' "Proof: The Science of Booze"

July 11: Dr. Mary Pettice, associate professor of digital communications, reviews Rabih Alameddine's "An Unnecessary Woman"

July 18: Todd Snovel, director of student engagement, reviews Emily St. John's "Station Eleven"

July 25: Robert Vucic, lecturer in English, reviews "Us "verses" Them: Poems by Them That Have Inspired You; Poems by You to Inspire Us"

August 1: Dr. John Kearney, professor emeritus of English, reviews James Shapiro's "The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606"

August 8: Dr. John Norton, professor emeritus of political science, reviews Jon Meacham's "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush"

August 15: Dr. Courtney Lappas, associate professor of biology, reviews Wes Moore's "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates"

Mount Gretna

June 14: Dr. Jeffrey Robbins, professor of religion and philosophy, reviews Richard Kearney and Jens Zimmermann's "Reimagining the Sacred: Richard Kearney Debates God with James Wood, Catherine Keller, et al."

June 21: Dr. Owen Moe, professor emeritus of chemistry, reviews Elizabeth Kolbert's "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History"

June 28: Dr. Lewis Chasalow, associate professor of business, reviews Robert Reich's "Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few"

July 5: Dr. Kevin Pry, associate professor of English, reviews Karin Wieland's "Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives"

July 12: Dr. Stacy Goodman, professor of biology, reviews Paul Kalanithi's "When Breath Becomes Air"

July 19: Dr. Paul Heise, professor emeritus of economics, reviews Noam Chomsky's "Understanding Power" and "The Essential Chomsky"

July 26: Dr. Jim Broussard, professor of history, reviews Thomas Slaughter's "Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution"

August 2: Dr. Holly Wendt, assistant professor of English, reviews Paul Kingsnorth's "The Wake: A Novel"

August 9: Dr. Grant Taylor, chair and associate professor of art history, reviews John Nici's "Famous Works of Art-And How They Got That Way"

August 16: Dr. Diane Johnson, chair and associate professor of politics, reviews Linda Hirshman's "Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World"

About Lebanon Valley College

Lebanon Valley College is a private, coeducational college founded in 1866 and dedicated to the liberal arts. The College offers 36 undergraduate majors plus self-designed majors and a range of minors, concentrations, and pre-professional options, as well as graduate degree programs in athletic training, business administration, music education, physical therapy, and science education.

The College has 1,573 full-time undergraduate students and 106 full-time faculty. Students can choose from more than 90 clubs and organizations, and 12 study abroad programs. LVC awards generous academic scholarships to those whose high school records demonstrate a commitment to challenge and achievement.