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We’re continuing with the next round of what has become a Core summer tradition: a book give-away.

We invite you — student, alumni, and friends of the Core — to peruse the list of books below. If you would like any of them, they are yours for the asking!

All you have to do is email the Core office, letting us know what book you want, and to what mailing address we should send it. (Or if you’re in the Boston area or plan to be soon, you can let us know that, and we’ll set the book aside for you to pick up in person.

If you’re feeling particularly thankful for the free book(s) from Core,we would be grateful if you’d consider making a donation to the EnCore alumni fund. By doing so, your donations to BU will go directly to support our community life programs, including the intellectual social activities of the undergraduate Word & Way Society, the monthly book club meetings of the alumni association, and the annual Devlin Award book prize for undergraduate writing. This donation isentirely voluntary;these books are genuinely available with no strings attached.It isn’t the amount that you donate that matters as much as that you donate at all. Alumni giving sends a powerful message to the University officers, that Core provides an experience for students that they stay connected to even long after graduation. To that end, even a donation of $5 is worth it.

BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR FREE:

1. In the Eye of the Sun, by Ahdaf Soueif
2. Under This Blazing Light, by Amos Oz
3. Triumphant Democracy, by Andrew Carnegie
4. The Shifting Tide, by Anne Perry
5. The Innocent Eye: The Life of Robert J. Flaherty, by Arthur Calder-Marshall
6. A.J. Ayer: A Life, by Ben Rogers
7. Spring Symphony Op44 Vocal Score, by Benjamin Britten
8. Voyagers to the West, by Bernard Bailyn
9. The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud
10. Hammarskjold, by Brian Urquhart
11. A Genius For War, by Carlo D’Este
12. The Nature of Blood, by Caryl Philips
13. Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit, by David P. Thelen
14. As we Are, by E.F. Benson
15. Secret Lives, by E.F. Benson
16. The White House Transcripts, by Edited by Gerald Gold
17. Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmund Rostand
18. Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform, by Eric F. Goldman
19. Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong
20. Broude and Garrard, eds., by Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany
21. Lake Wobegon Days, by Garrison Keilor
22. Linden Hills, by Gloria Naylor
23. Kabloona, by Gontran de Poncins
24. Reflets: Methode de francais, by Guy Capelle, Noelle Gidon
25. Pierre and Jean, by Guy de Maupassant
26. The Tiwi of North Australia, by Hart, Pilling, Goodale
27. The Getting of Wisdom, by Henry Handel Richardson
28. Wolfram’s “Parzival”: Five Essays, by Hermann J. Weigand
29. Vienna’s Golden Autumn, by Hilde Spiel
30. Serenade, by James M. Cain
31. The Hunger Wall (Uncorrected Proof), by James Ragan
32. The Blue Nowhere: A Novel, by Jeffery Deaver
33. Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age, by Jimmy Carter
34. Bringing Out the Dead, by Joe Connelly
35. Daniel Martin, by John Fowles
36. The Pelican Brief, by John Grisham
37. The Last Juror, by John Grisham
38. The Great British Bed and Breakfast, by Ken Plant (ed.)
39. Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World’s Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking, by Laurence J. Kotlikoff
40. The Idea of the City in Roman Thought, by Lidia Storoni Mazzolani
41. Scoundrel Time, by Lillian Hellman
42. Rates of Exchange, by Malcolm Bradbury
43. Stepping Westward, by Malcolm Bradbury
44. The Wilding, by Maria McCann
45. The San Juan Islands: Crown Jewels of the Pacific Northwest, by Mark Gardner
46. Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History, by Mark Girouard
47. Perspectivas, by Mary Ellen Kiddle et al.
48. Beaumarchais, by Maurice Lever
49. Introduction to Spanish for Translation, by Mildred Basker-Seigel, et al.
50. Coolie, by Mulk Raj Anand
51. The Pity of War, by Niall Ferguson
52. The Crisis of Industrial Society, by Norman Birnbaum
53. The Visitor’s Guide to France: Provence & Cote d’Azur, by Norman Brangham
54. The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker
55. James Miranda Barry, by Patricia Duncker
56. Division of the Spoils, by Paul Scott
57. Staying On, by Paul Scott
58. The Day Of The Scorpion, by Paul Scott
59. Babyhood, by Penelope Leach
60. The Life of Berlioz, by Peter Bloom
61. True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey
62. The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, by Peter Schickele
63. The Mechanics of Submission, by Phil Tabakow
64. Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, by Pico Iyer
65. Poodle Springs, by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker
66. Moments in Eden; Garden Photographs, by Richard Brown
67. The Return of a Native Reporter, by Robert Chesshyre
68. Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy, by Robert Howard Russell
69. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, by Robert S. McNamara
70. On the Frontiers of Management, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
71. Poor White, A Novel, by Sherwood Anderson
72. The Sun Never Sets, by Simon Winchester
73. Illegal Action, by Stella Rimington
74. The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
75. The Emperor of Ocean Park, by Stephen L. Carter
76. Mademoiselle de Maupin, by Theophile Gautier
77. Keep the River on Your Right, by Tobias Schneebaum
78. A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe
79. Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi
80. Guerrillas, by V.S. Naipaul
81. Mount Vernon: An Illustrated Handbook, by Various Authors
82. Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
83. The Harvard Book, by William Bentinck-Smith
84. The Rich Man’s Table, by Scott Spencer
85. Blu’s Hanging, by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
86. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
87. Red Pottage, by Mary Cholmondeley
88. Mirror, Mirror, by J. D. Robb, ed.
89. Meanings of Madness, by Richard J. Castillo
90. The Debt to Pleasure, by John Lanchester
91. Getting Saved from the Sixties, by Robert N. Bellah
92. Sports illustrated: Racquetball, by Victor I. Spear, M.D.
93. Box Man: A Professional Thief’s Journey, by Bill Chambliss
94. Season Ticket, by Roger Angell
95. Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, by George Crile
96. Aloft, by Chang-rae Lee
97. Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
98. Don’t Stop the Carnival, by Herman Wouk
99. Pigs for the ancestors : ritual in the ecology of a New Guinea people, by Roy A. Rappaport
100. Carlyle: Selected Writings, by Thomas Carlyle and Alan Shelston
101. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind, by Amos Oz
102. Congressional Anecdotes, by Paul F. Boller, Jr.
103. Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico, by Burkhart
104. Falconer, by John Cheever
105. The Celebration of Heroes , by William J. Goode
106. Easy French Phrase Book
107. Akwe-Shavante Society, by David Maybury-Lewis
108. Coming of Age in New Jersey, by Michael Moffatt
109. Life in a Turkish Village, by Joe Pierce
110. Nest in the Wind, by Martha Ward
111. Mountain people, by Colin Turnbull
112. Savage and the Innocent, by Maybury-Lewis D
113. Italian Hours, by Henry James
114. The London Life , by Henry James
115. Blackberry Winter: My earlier years, by Margaret Mead
116. Hometown, by Peter Davis
117. The Reverberator, by Henry James
118. Paul Scott: Images of India, by Patrick Sweden
119. Nonverbal communication , by Ruesch and Kees
120. Epicoene or The Silent Woman, by Jonsona dn Holdworth
121. Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville , by Mary Perry
122. The Quest for El Cid, by Richard Fletcher
123. The New Oxford Annotated Bible w/ the Apocrypha, by
124. New Heaven, New Earth: A Study of Millenarian Activities, by Kenelm Burridge
125. Mambu Paperback, by Kenelm Burridge
126. Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, by Hayden White
127. Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People 1st Edition, by Jean Comaroff
128. French Feminist Thought 1st Edition, by Toril Moi (Editor)
129. Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation , by Paul Ricoeur
130. Encounter: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Korea (Voices from Asia) Hardcover – October 30, 1992, by Moo-sook Hahn (Author), Ok Young Kim Chang (Translator)
131. The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox, by Kenji Ekuan
132. Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism, No 4) , by Alan Sponberg, Daniel B. Stevenson, Bernard Faure, Carl Bielefeldt, David W. Chappell, and Jr. Robert E. Buswell
133. The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra: A Discussion, by Daisaku Ikeda, Takanori Endo, Katsua Saito
134. The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self, by Woody Hochswender, Greg Martin, Ted Morino
135. Shinto and the State, 1868-1988, by Helen Hardacre
136. Saffron Days in L.A.: Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America, by Bhante Walpola Piyananda and Dalai Lama
137. Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, by Helen Hardacre
138. The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, by Palden Gyatso
139. Black Jack Vol. 1, by Osamu Tezuka
140. The Snow Lion and The Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama, by Melvyn C. Goldstein
141. Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism, by Richard Hughes Seager
142. On Religion: Speeches to its cultured despisers, by Friedrich Schleiemacher
143. Action in Late Ming Thought: The Reorientation of Lu K’un and Other Scholar- Officials , by Joanna F. Handlin
144. The Awakened Self: Encounters with Zen, by Lucien Stryk
145. Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan, by Winston Davis
146. Religious Reflections on the Human Body , by Jane Marie Law
147. Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet, by Melvyn C. Goldstein and Matthew T. Kapstein
148. Japanese Culture, by Paul Varley
149. Falun Gong: Principles and Exercises for Perfect Health and Enlightenment , by Li Hongzhi
150. Constituting Communities: Theravda Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia , by John Clifford Holt and Jacob N. Kinnard and Jonathan S. Walters
151. The Zen Monastic Experience, by Robert E. Buswell
152. SACRED TIBETAN TEACHINGS On Death and Liberation, by Giacomella Orofino
153. Zen Buddhism: A History , by Heinrich Dumoulin
154. The Ghost Festival in Medieval China , by Stephen F. Teiser
155. Warring States, by liu xiang
156. Encounters with Qi: Exploring Chinese Medicine, by David Eisenberg and Thomas Lee Wright
157. Personality in nature, society, and culture , by Clyde Kluckhohn and Henry Alexander Murray
158. The Pursuit of Lonliness , by Philip Slater
159. Teppztlan Village in Mexico , by Oscar Lewis
160. Behind the Mud Walls, by Wiser and Wiser
161. If not now, when?, by Levi and Weaver?
162. Portrait of Max An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm, by S.N. Berhman
163. Falun Gong’s Challenge To China: Spiritual Practice or Evil Cult?, by Schechter, Danny
164. The Monkey as Mirror , by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
165. CLAIMED: Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, by Lawrence James
166. CLAIMED: Around the Shores of Lake Michigan: A Guide to Historic Sites, by Margaret Beattie Bogue
167. CLAIMED: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
168. CLAIMED: World’s Fair, by E. L. Doctorow
169. CLAIMED: Barron’s 501 Spanish Verbs, by Christopher Kendris, Ph.D., and Theodore Kendris, Ph.D.
170. CLAIMED: The Wisdom Teachings of the Dalai Lama, by Matthew E. Bunson
171. CLAIMED: Ethics for the New Millennium, by Dalai Lama
172. CLAIMED: Jacob’s Room & The Waves: Two Complete Novels, by Virginia Woolf
173. CLAIMED: New Mexico, by David Muench
174. CLAIMED: Germinal, by Emile Zola
175. CLAIMED: Out of the Shelter, by David Lodge
176. CLAIMED: The British Museum Is Falling Down, by David Lodge
177. CLAIMED: The Best American Poetry 1995, by David Lehman
178. CLAIMED: The World at Night, by Alan Furst
179. CLAIMED: A Venetian Affair, by Andrea Di Robilant
180. CLAIMED: Snow in August, by Pete Hamill
181. CLAIMED: French Vocabulary, by Christopher Kendris and Laurie Martin
182. CLAIMED: The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration, by Jack Goldsmith
183. CLAIMED: The Price of Loyalty, by Ron Suskind
184. CLAIMED: Nixon: An Oral History of His Presidency, by Gerald and Deborah Strober
185. CLAIMED: Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi, by Jonathan D. Spence
186. CLAIMED: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang
187. CLAIMED: Still Life, by A.S. Byatt
188. CLAIMED: Religions of China: The World as a Living System, by Daniel L. Overmyer
189. CLAIMED: What is Scripture? A Comparative Approach , by Wilfred Cantwell Smith
190. CLAIMED: Jim Starlin with Steve Oliff, by Gilgamesh Volume One Graphic Novel
191. CLAIMED: The Cheese and the Worms, by Carlo Ginzburg
192. CLAIMED: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
193. CLAIMED: August Heat: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery, by Andrea Camilleri
194. CLAIMED: The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
195. CLAIMED: Great Short Works of Herman Melville, by Herman Melville
196. CLAIMED:  Joseph the Provider, by Thomas Mann
197. Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, by Thomas Mann
198. CLAIMED: Vietnam (Country Guide), by Nick Ray
199. CLAIMED: Three Novels by Samuel Beckett, by Samuel Beckett
200. CLAIMED: The Greek Myths: Volume 2, by Robert Graves
201. CLAIMED: Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer
202. CLAIMED: Ragtime, by E. L. Doctorow
203. CLAIMED: Jewel in the Crown, by Paul Scott
204. CLAIMED: The Reign of the Phallus, by Eva C. Keuls
205. CLAIMED: The Rainbow, by D. H. Lawrence
206. CLAIMED: The Foucault Reader, by Edited by Paul Rabinow
207. CLAIMED: The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
208. CLAIMED: Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by Caroline B. Brettell, Carolyn F. Sargent
209. CLAIMED: Four Plays by Aristophanes, by Aristophanes, trans by Arrowsmith, Lattimore, and Parker
210. CLAIMED: The Four-Gated City, by Doris Lessing
211. CLAIMED: Amish Society, by John a Hostetler
212. CLAIMED: The Middle Passage, by V. S. Naipaul
213. CLAIMED: An Introduction to Go, by James Davies and Richard Bozulich
214. CLAIMED: The Tower of Silence, by Paul Scott
215. CLAIMED: Days and Nights in Calcutta, by Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee
216. CLAIMED: The Long Song, by Andrea Levy
217. CLAIMED: Maurice, by E. M. Forster
218. CLAIMED: Tell Me A Riddle, by Tillie Olsen
219. CLAIMED: The Life of Johnson, by James Boswell
220. CLAIMED: The Life of an Amorous Woman, by Ihara Saikaku
221. CLAIMED: When Time Shall Be No More, by Paul Boyer
222. CLAIMED: Dr. Wortle’s School, by Anthony Trollope
223. CLAIMED: Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
224. CLAIMED: The Name of Rose, by Umberto Eco
225. CLAIMED: Islands of History, by Marshall Sahlins
226. CLAIMED: Then and Now, by W. Somerset Maugham
227. CLAIMED: An Area of Darkness, by V.S. Naipaul
228. CLAIMED: Love’s Labor Lost, by William Shakespeare
229. CLAIMED: Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
230. CLAIMED: Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel, by Elenore Smith Bowen

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We have hundreds more books available, and will be posting updates to the list of give-away titles via Facebook, Twitter, and email. If you’d like to be sure you are notified when a new batch is announced, visit our Alumni page to make sure your contact information is up-to-date.

These books come to Core as donations from faculty and alumni, and it is our pleasure to put them into your hands if you can give them a good home. In addition to our give-away scheme, we’re also selling some donated books for their cash value. Check out the list of the books on sale at Amazon; if you buy one there, proceeds will go directly to the Core as well.