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Herman Koch is a Dutch author and actor who has written both short stories and novels. His latest, Dear Mr. M, is one of our recent acquisitions for the Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection – a collection of popular fiction and non-fiction best-sellers available at both the Lincoln Park and
One of the most fascinating new books about brain science and how our minds work is this recent addition to our Unwind the Mind collection: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin. Levitin is James McGill Professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill
This month’s featured author from our Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection is Bill Bryson, author most recently of The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain. Bryson is known for humorous travel accounts like The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America and A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on
With spring break right around the corner, consider checking out a book from our Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection. We are holding a pop-up shop Tuesday, March 15th from 11:00am to 1:00pm in the SAC pit (across from the Bean) and on the 11th floor of the DePaul Center
This month’s featured author from our Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection is David McCullough, author most recently of The Wright Brothers. McCullough is a prolific author, lecturer, and historian. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book John Adams and also for Truman, both of which were adapted for TV by HBO. He
This month’s featured writer is Lucia Berlin. Her collection of short stories, A Manual For Cleaning Women, made several “Best of 2015” lists, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Publisher’s Weekly. This posthumously published volume (Berlin herself passed away in 2004) highlights some of her most intriguing and vibrant
Welcome to the first installment of our monthly series highlighting authors in our Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection. Unwind the Mind contains contemporary fiction, popular non-fiction and best sellers and is located in the John T. Richardson Library’s Haber Lounge and at the entrance of the Loop Library. This month’s featured writer is Sarah Vowell. You may