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Books that Change Lives: a Display Series: Meg Streepey Smith, Geology, March 2015

Each month, a member of the Earlham community offers the top 40 books that have most influenced him/her, personally and professionally.
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Meg Streepey Smith, Geology

Meg's Selections

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9781400044160
Publication Date: 2006
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess S. Aldrich
ISBN: 9780140384284
Publication Date: 1997
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
ISBN: 9780684811079
Publication Date: 1996
Women's Ways of Knowing by Mary F. Belenky; Blythe M. Clinchy; Nancy R. Goldberger; Jill M. Tarule
ISBN: 9780465092130
Publication Date: 1988
Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson
ISBN: 9781559212328
Publication Date: 2005
How to Build a Habitable Planet by Charles H. Langmuir & Wallace Broecker
ISBN: 9780691140063
Publication Date: 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
ISBN: 9780767908184
Publication Date: 2004
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
ISBN: 9780743272933
Publication Date: 2004
The Complete Claudine by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
ISBN: 9780374528034
Publication Date: 2001
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9780140434118
Publication Date: 1995
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
ISBN: 9780307474407
Publication Date: 2010
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
ISBN: 9781442489677
Publication Date: 2013
I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin; James Dean (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780061906220
Publication Date: 2010

Meg's Selections

Collapse by Jared Diamond
ISBN: 9780143036555
Publication Date: 2005
Backlash by Susan Faludi
ISBN: 9780307345424
Publication Date: 2006
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
ISBN: 9780393346787
Publication Date: 1963
Death Be Not Proud by John J. Gunther
ISBN: 9780061230974
Publication Date: 2007
Damage by Josephine Hart
ISBN: 9781453258323
Publication Date: 2010
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
ISBN: 9780312965785
Publication Date: 1998
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
ISBN: 9780679457527
Publication Date: 1997
Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz
ISBN: 9781439148815
Publication Date: 2009
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN: 9780618101368
Publication Date: 2000
Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott
ISBN: 9780679435211
Publication Date: 1997
Making Their Own Way by Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
ISBN: 9781579220914
Publication Date: 2004
The Control of Nature by John McPhee
ISBN: 9780374522599
Publication Date: 1990
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
ISBN: 9780812551525
Publication Date: 1995
The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer
ISBN: 9780787910587
Publication Date: 1997

Meg's Selections

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN: 9780670037605
Publication Date: 2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
ISBN: 9780143038580
Publication Date: 2007
I'll Take It by Paul Rudnick
ISBN: 9780345362254
Publication Date: 1990
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
ISBN: 9780062096951
Publication Date: 2014 [1943]
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
ISBN: 9780547550299
Publication Date: 2011
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780140186390
Publication Date: 1992
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
ISBN: 9780585184739
Publication Date: 2011
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
ISBN: 9780802135193
Publication Date: 1997
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
ISBN: 9781400031702
Publication Date: 2004
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
ISBN: 9780345434876
Publication Date: 2001
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780192806628
Publication Date: 2006
Little House by Laura Ingalls Wilder
ISBN: 9780064400404
Publication Date: 2008
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
ISBN: 9780141325309
Publication Date: 2009 [1937]

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