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Graduate Books: Leave a Legacy @ your library ®

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Purpose of the program

Graduates honored in 2009 | Books purchased in honor of 2009 graduates

Graduates honored in 2008 | Books purchased in honor of 2008 graduates

Graduates honored in 2007 | Books purchased in honor of 2007 graduates

Graduates honored in 2006 | Books purchased in honor of 2006 graduates

Graduates honored in 2005 | Books purchased in honor of 2005 graduates

Graduates honored in 2004 | Books purchased in honor of 2004 graduates

Graduates honored in 2003 | Books purchased in honor of 2003 graduates

Graduates honored in 2002 | Books purchased in honor of 2002 graduates

Graduates honored in 2001 | Books purchased in honor of 2001 graduates

Graduates honored in 2000 | Books purchased in honor of 2000 graduates

Purpose of the program

The RBC Library Graduate Books program is designed to honor graduating students. Family members and friends of graduates can donate a minimum of $30.00 to the RBC library. The library will then purchase a book in honor of that graduate. A gift plate indicating the graduate, the year of graduation, and the donor is placed in each book. (The books are chosen by the library staff and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or preferences of individual graduates.) Sometimes a theme is chosen. For example, in 2002 books were chosen for the Virginia Room; in 2000 the theme was critical reviews of authors' works.

Graduates may search under their name in the online catalog to find out what has been donated in their name. The catalog record specifies in whose honor a book has been donated.

To both honor a graduate and support the library for years to come by participating in the Graduate Books program, please stop by, call or email the library for more information. The library's telephone number is 804-862-6226/6227/6228.

The library staff extend sincere thanks to Dr. LeAnn Binger and Jacqueline Harrison who promote the event by mailing letters to graduating students and process all donations to the Graduate Books program! In the past, it was Pat Tukiendorf in the President's Office who processed all donations to the program.

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Graduates honored in 2009

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Andrew Browning • Courtney Davis • Catherin Fortmuller • Amanda Elizabeth Hoebel • Travis J. Long • Courtney Link • Jennifer D. O'Dell • Meghan L. O'Dell • Antonia Priode

Books purchased in honor of 2009 graduates

  • AMERICAN-MADE : THE ENDURING LEGACY OF THE WPA : WHEN FDR PUT THE NATION TO WORK / NICK TAYLOR
  • THE BLUE HOUR : A LIFE OF JEAN RHYS / LILIAN PIZZICHINI
  • C.S. LEWIS'S THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • CHILD CARE TODAY : GETTING IT RIGHT FOR EVERYONE / PENELOPE LEACH
  • CRADLE OF AMERICA : FOUR CENTURIES OF VIRGINIA HISTORY / PETER WALLENSTEIN
  • GWENDOLYN BROOKS' MAUD MARTHA : A CRITICAL COLLECTION
  • HAMLET (BLOOM'S MAJOR LITERARY CHARACTERS)
  • J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S THE LORD OF THE RINGS (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • JOSEPH HELLER'S CATCH-22 (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • MAUD MARTHA / GWENDOLYN BROOKS
  • SHAKESPEARE AND WOMEN / PHYLLIS RACKIN
  • WHY SOCRATES DIED : DISPELLING THE MYTHS / ROBIN WATERFIELD
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Graduates honored in 2008

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Brittany L. Hargrave • Joshua B. Hughes • Brian J. Jones • Jeremy David Moore • Britney Anne Nichols • Jessica Rackley • Linda A. Trucchi • Krystal Dawn Zeiner

Books purchased in honor of 2008 graduates

  • ARTHUR MILLER'S DEATH OF A SALESMAN (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • BEOWULF, A VERSE TRANSLATION : AUTHORITATIVE TEXT, CONTEXTS, CRITICISM
  • CHARLES DICKENS (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • DISCOVERY! : UNEARTHING THE NEW TREASURES OF ARCHAEOLOGY
  • EDGAR ALLAN POE (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S THE CANTERBURY TALES (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • KATE CHOPIN (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • A NATURAL HISTORY OF QUIET WATERS : SWAMPS AND WETLANDS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC COAST
  • THE OPEN ROAD : THE GLOBAL JOURNEY OF THE FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA
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Graduates honored in 2007

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Kaysee Michelle Kohler • Lindsay Michelle LeGrand • Amy Bernadette Parent • Kevin Yale Specter • Jonathan Uzzle • Kristin Ashley White • Christine M. Woodman

Books purchased in honor of 2007 graduates

  • THE BRONTES (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • CHARLES DICKENS' GREAT EXPECTATIONS (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • JANE AUSTEN (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • JANE AUSTEN'S PERSUASION (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • THOMAS HARDY (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
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Graduates honored in 2006

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Dale Allen Baake • Jason William Costanzo • Dana Lyn Eckert • Paula D. Gee • Manuel Haenggi • Lauren Brooke Palmore • Shana M. Ruiz • Rebecca E. Russell • Jessica B. Wray

Books purchased in honor of 2006 graduates

  • C.S. LEWIS (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • EUDORA WELTY (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
  • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • FLANNERY O'CONNOR (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
  • GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ'S ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS)
  • KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • KURT VONNEGUT (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • POCHANTAS, POWHATAN, OPECHANCANOUGH: THREE INDIAN LIVES CHANGED BY JAMESTOWN
  • WILLIAM FAULKNER (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
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Graduates honored in 2005

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Jennifer Baird • Marshall Carrington Billings • Heather M. Carty • Kristen Lee Cerny • Molli Opal Channell • Michael Paul Church • Stephanie Leigh Creech • Blake Escue Cunningham • Thomas A. Dennard • Jeremy Dunn • Sara Elizabeth Edwards • Julie Anne Reyes Elopre • William Joel Ernst, IV • Tia D. Fairley • Jonathan Flack • William Justin Hastings • Jason Ryan Holc • Jerad D. Horning • Eren M. Kelly-Wallace • Lauren Kanusek • Whitney Meredith Link • Mary Lyons • Aronda V. Mayes • Michael Mills • Vanessa Rochelle Phelps • Lori Beth Williams

Books purchased in honor of 2005 graduates

  • ALICE WALKER (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
  • ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION
  • THE CAPITOL OF VIRGINIA
  • DICTIONARY OF VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY (2 VOLS)
  • ERNEST HEMMINGWAY (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
  • HEALTH CARE MELTDOWN
  • KAREN HORNEY
  • KATE CHOPIN : A STUDY IN THE SHORT FICTION
  • LANGSTON HUGHES (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
  • LIBERATION ROAD
  • MARGARET ATWOOD (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • MARGARET ATWOOD : A CRITICAL COMPANION
  • MAYA ANGELOU
  • MERCHANTS OF IMMORTALITY
  • OXFORD AMERICAN WRITER'S THESAURUS
  • PANDORA'S BABY
  • RALPH ELLISON (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
  • REGARDING ELLEN GLASGOW
  • RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI
  • SEEKING COMMON GROUND
  • ST. DALE
  • STUDENT COMPANION TO JOHN STEINBECK
  • STUDENT COMPANION TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
  • STUDENT COMPANION TO TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
  • TONI MORRISON (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
  • TONI MORRISON (BLOOM'S MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS)
  • TRAGEDY AND PHILOSOPHY
  • VIRGINIA WOOLF (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
  • WE CAN STILL BE FRIENDS
  • WOMEN AT THE EDGE OF DISCOVERY
  • ZORA NEALE HURSTON (BLOOM'S BIOCRITIQUES)
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Graduates honored in 2004

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Craig Alan Alberg • Duong Cunningham • Lucinda Ayres Edwards • Ashley Joan Eavey • Evelyn Hamlin Lockhart • Tamichia M. Morris • Michelle Nicole Myrick • Douglas Leighton Pauley • Jessica Renee Pauley • Robert Douglas Primmer • Christy Campbell Stokes • Shawndra Nicole Wray

Books purchased in honor of 2004 graduates

  • AGATHA CHRISTIE A TO Z
  • BLUES FOR MR. CHARLIE
  • BRONTES A TO Z
  • BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER'S SMILE
  • CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY MADE RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLE
  • COURTHOUSES OF EARLY VIRGINIA: AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
  • EDITH WHARTON A TO Z
  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NOVELS INTO FILM
  • ERNEST HEMINGWAY A TO Z
  • FEARSOME FAUNA: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE CREATURES THAT LIVE IN YOU
  • FORBIDDEN FILMS
  • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD A TO Z
  • FURTIVE FAUNA: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE CREATURES THAT LIVE ON YOU
  • GUIDE TO MICROLIFE
  • JAMES JOYCE A TO Z
  • LAKE FISHING IN VIRGINIA
  • MARGARET ATWOOD REVISITED
  • MARK TWAIN A TO Z
  • MICROGAMES AND PUZZLES
  • ROMAN'S NOTES ON DNA
  • VIRGINIA WOOLF A TO Z
  • VIRGINIA'S CIVIL WAR
  • A WALK THROUGH TIME: FROM STARDUST TO US: THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH
  • WILLIAM FAULKNER A TO Z
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Graduates honored in 2003

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Robert J. Amirault, Jr. • Alissa Aronovici • Matthew Blackmon • Jennifer Lynn Bowe • Sochinda Chleng • Andrew Scott Davis • Douglas Alan Donavan • June T. Edge • Richard Thomas Elder, III • , Megan Elizabeth Farrell • Kerstin Bianca Fort • Matthew Edward Harvey • Shanika Shantel Myles • Michael Russo • Sonya E. Schneider • Stephanie Elaine Sheffield • Jessica A. Smith • Leslei Jordan Stewart • Philip Russell Stewart, Jr. • Kevin Lee Wilson

Books purchased in honor of 2003 graduates

  • BLOOM'S NOTES: MAYA ANGELOU'S I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
  • BLOOM'S NOTES: KATE CHOPIN'S THE AWAKENING
  • BLOOM'S NOTES: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
  • BLOOM'S NOTES: ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
  • CLONING
  • DOES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT DETER CRIME?
  • EASTERN SHORE INDIANS
  • HOME SCHOOLING
  • HUMAN EMBRYO EXPERMENTATION
  • IS GLOBAL WARMING A THREAT?
  • ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM
  • MISSILE DEFENSE
  • MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS: MAYA ANGELOU'S I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
  • MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE
  • MODERN CIRTICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF AMY TAN'S THE JOY LUCK CLUB
  • MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF MARGARET ATWOOD'S THE HANDMAID'S TALE
  • MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF TONI MORRISON'S BELOVED
  • MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET
  • NATIONAL SECURITY
  • ORGAN TRANSPLANTS
  • PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS
  • SEASHORE CHRONICLES
  • SHOULD THERE BE LIMITS TO FREE SPEECH?
  • WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK
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Graduates honored in 2002

Nicole Tysee Bayless • Kimberly A. Brown • Curtis Jackson Day Cabrinha • April Joy Carter • Charles (Chuck) Patrick Cartin • Sarah Hunter Dovel • James W. Friauf • Terry L. Hahn Jr. • Mark David Klimek • Allison Rae Krauth • Eric Joseph Ludgate • Monica Massey • Jason Allen Newman • Wayne Scott Spencer • Ashley Kay Tharp

Books purchased in honor of 2002 graduates
(Many Petersburg books)

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN CEMETERIES OF PETERSBURG
  • AMERICAN SON A PORTRAIT OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, JR.
  • BAYONET! FORWARD
  • BIOETHICS, HEALTH CARE & THE LAW
  • CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND
  • CONSERVATION & THE LAW
  • DANCING WITH THE TIDE
  • GRAHAN'S PETERSBURG, JACKSON'S KANAWHA, & LURTHY'S ROANOKE HORSE ARTILLERY
  • HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SUFFRAGIST MOVEMENT
  • JAMES BALDWIN COLLECTED ESSAYS
  • KATE CHOPIN COMPLETE NOVELS AND STORIES
  • PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN
  • PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT CITY POINT
  • PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN THE BATTLE OF OLD MEN AND YOUNG BOYS
  • PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN THE BATTLE OF THE CRATER, THE HORRID PIT
  • PETERSBURG: OUT OF THE TRENCHES
  • PROFILES IN COURAGE FOR OUR TIME
  • SEIGE OF PETERSBURG
  • WILLA CATHER, EARLY NOVELS & STORIES
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Graduates honored in 2001

Gabriel Wayne Anderson • Terrie Ihlefield Barrett • Constance Carol Gilliam • Brian Anthony Griffin • Lori Beth Hendricks • Joseph Kirk Henry • Jennifer Marie Hirn • Donald A. Howell • Sarah Anne Kanusek • Mable C. Lewis • Julie K. Mason • Katharine Thayer Meredith • Christa Leigh Minnicino • Melinda Beth Oliver • Sarah C. Rose • Joshua Andrew Rowley • Paola Andrea Valencia • Lance Edward Williams • Whitney Blake Yarchin

Books purchased in honor of 2001 graduates
(Many Virginia authors represented)
  • ACCOMMODATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION
  • ART OF THE X-FILES
  • BIG CHERRY HOLLER A BIG STONE GAP NOVEL
  • BRUSHING BACK JIM CROW
  • CENOTAPH: POEMS
  • CHRISTMAS LETTERS
  • CIVIL WAR GHOSTS OF VIRGINIA
  • DRESS LODGER
  • DROWNED CITY
  • EUDORA WELTY
  • EYE OF THE STORM; A CIVIL WAR ODYSSEY
  • FANCY STRUT
  • FAT LIGHTNING
  • FIVE SISTERS: THE LANGHORNE SISTERS OF VIRGINIA
  • GERMAN BOY
  • GHOSTS OF VIRGINIA
  • GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC
  • HATBOX BABY NOVEL
  • I ALWAYS WANTED TO FLY
  • IS THERE SEX IN HEAVEN
  • KEENELAND A NOVEL
  • LAMB IN LOVE
  • LEE SMITH, ANNIE DILLARD & THE HOLLINS GROUP
  • NEUROMANCER
  • NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH
  • PAGAN VIRTUE AN ESSAY IN ETHICS
  • PRINCES OF IRELAND, PLANTERS OF MARYLAND
  • PUTT AT THE END OF THE WORLD
  • REAL PRESENCE
  • RIVER SWIFT & DEADLY
  • ROSE'S GARDEN
  • STARTING FROM SCRATCH A DIFFERENT KIND OF WRITER'S MANUAL
  • TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY
  • UNWISE PASSIONS: TRUE STORY OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN
  • VIRGINIA'S GHOSTS HAUNTED HISTORIC HOUSE TOURS
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Graduates honored in 2000

Emily Dawn Armishaw • Jeffery L. Creed • Kathy Lynn Harris • Amanda Elizabeth Hoitt • Leonard Jefferson, IV • Lindsey Brooks Johnson • Derek Jason Jolley • Jarrett Orlander Kamosky • Stacey Jane McCoy • Kimberly M. Miller • Harry Monroe Parent, III • Michael Shane Protka • Bryan Keith Rhodes • Emily Susanne Smith • Anne Carree Smith • Christopher W. Spencer • Laura Katherine Watkins • Carol Ann Widdicombe

 

Books purchased in honor of 2000 graduates

  • CRITICAL ESSAYS ON ROBERT BLY
  • DENISE LEVERTOV: THE POETRY OF ENGAGEMENT
  • DORIS LESSING THE POETICS OF CHANGE
  • FIRST SNOW ON FUJI
  • JAMAICA KINCAID
  • JOHN DONNE: COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH AND STUDY GUIDE
  • LESLIE MARMON SILKO
  • MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS: CONTEMPORARY POETS
  • MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS: JAMAICA KINCAID
  • MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS OF AMY TAN
  • NIKKI GIOVANNI
  • READINGS OF EMILY DICKINSON
  • READINGS ON ERNEST HEMINGWAY
  • READINGS ON JOHN STEINBECK
  • READINGS ON MAYA ANGELOU
  • READINGS ON NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
  • SHIRLEY JACKSON: A STUDY OF SHORT FICTION
  • TONI MORRISON
  • UNDERSTANDING LUIGI PIRANDELLO
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