Introduction
Are you looking for a book to read? In this guide you will find a selection of new books that were added to the Pardee Library collection over the past few months, both in print and as eBooks.
The print books can be found on the 3rd floor of Pardee Library on the Book Display shelves, near the front entrance and in the Periodicals area. You are welcome to browse the print books and borrow whichever books you like, by checking them out at the Services Desk. Books currently on display can also be borrowed. Click on the book titles or jacket images for more details about each book and to see if they are currently available to borrow.
If you want to look up a book by subject or title, use the advanced search feature of BU Libraries Search to find books or eBooks on the topic of your choice. Enter your search terms into the search box and select "Books/eBooks" as the material type.
Finding Post-Grad Success
Pardee congratulates the Class of 2025! Thank you for spending these years with us. We're sending off our seniors with books from the BU Libraries about post-graduation success -- strategies on how to achieve it, and insights on how to recognize it when it takes unexpected forms. Whether you are taking a gap year, entering the job market, starting a business, continuing your education, or embarking down any other road you choose, you will always be a Terrier and Boston University is proud to have had you.
For more information:
Featured Reading: Post-Grad Success
100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships, and Success
Location: Pardee Display Table
Journalist Liz Moody translates her years of experience interviewing the world’s leading doctors, scientists, and thinkers into a smart, choose-your-own-adventure-style read that offers concrete solutions to some of life’s biggest hurdles—physical, mental, emotional, or otherwise. This book offers powerful, habit-building tips across subjects ranging from mental health, careers, relationships, confidence, and physical health in 100 fun-to-read, easy-to-digest parts that provide highly actionable tools and mindset-shifting ideas that will change every part of your life.
Polished: The Guide to Excellence for the Modern Professional
Location: Pardee Display Table
Building relationship capital is the most important ingredient to career success. When one is keenly aware of how their behavior and words impact others, and in turn, how to make others comfortable, a lifetime of dividends get paid in the form of leadership opportunities and enhanced relatability and credibility. Modern business etiquette opens the door to a world where employees are empowered to be the finest ambassador of themselves and their employer that they can be. Through the fresh lens of modern business etiquette, this book offers a dynamic learning journey of strategies, tools, and real-life applications where readers smartly position themselves for advancement by becoming the very best they can be.
Career Coach GPT: The Complete Guide to ChatGPT Resume, Cover Letter, Interview, and Job Search Success
Location: Pardee Display Table
Combining the expertise of LinkedIn insider Jeremy Schifeling (a former kindergarten teacher who landed jobs at Apple and Google) with the revolutionary power of ChatGPT, get ready to find your ideal career path; turn your LinkedIn profile into a recruiter magnet; create resumes and cover letters that get interviews; and walk into those interviews with confidence. So if you're ready to go beyond generic advice from career blogs and get the bespoke guidance that only a private coach can provide, get ready for Career Coach GPT. And get ready to build a career - and a life - you love!
APIDA Heritage Month
May is Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month! Also known as APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander Desi American) Heritage Month, we're recognizing the vibrant diversity of people from hundreds of cultures who have shaped American history and continue to move the nation forward.
This year's theme is "A Legacy of Leadership and Resilience", shining a spotlight on the hard work of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders who established a foundation for future generations to thrive and adapt to change and adversity. Throughout history, AANHPIs have transformed adversity into opportunities for public service, efficiency, and innovation; resulting in lasting change that resonates all over the globe. For this list, we're spotlighting some of those leaders with books from our collection.
For more information:
- Ascend: Global LeadersThe largest non-profit Pan-Asian organization for business professionals in North America.
- Asian American Business Development CenterA nonprofit that promotes greater recognition of Asian American businesses’ contributions to the general economy. AABDC encourages Asian American businesses to be more actively involved in issues and policies that directly affect them at the federal, state and city levels.
Featured Reading: APIDA Heritage Month
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
Location: Online
Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaaka-haopulani Hobart charts the social history of ice in Hawai'i. From chilled drinks and sweets to machinery, she shows how ice and refrigeration underpinned settler colonial ideas about race, environment, and the senses. By outlining how ice shaped Hawai'i's food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can-and must-be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawai'i and beyond.
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival
Location: Howard Thurman Center E184.H55 H36 2023
Ia Moua was born into the Hmong minority of Laos and is promised in marriage at thirteen. After a brutal communist rule upends her life, and suffering with wounds inflicted by war and family alike, she builds a new existence for her and her children by growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories. This is the story of one woman's quest for survival--and for the nourishment that matters most.
The Unknown Great: Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History
Location: Online
An astounding new set of biographical portraits in Japanese American history by acclaimed scholar Greg Robinson. Through stories of remarkable people in Japanese American history, The Unknown Great illuminates the diversity of the Nikkei experience from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. This collection is sure to entertain and inform readers, bringing fresh perspectives and unfamiliar stories from Japanese American history and centering the lives of unheralded figures who left their mark on American life.
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