TO: ENC 3250 Professional Writing Students

FROM: One Campus, One Book Committee

DATE: September 21, 2015
SUBJECT: Request for One Book, One Campus Recommendations
The three books I recommend to all freshman to read are the following. The first
one is Whered You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple. The second book I
recommend is Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a
Nation, by John Carlin. Last but not least is the third book I recommend is by Naomi
Oreskes' and Erik Conway's The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the
Future.

Author, Title

Publisher,
Publication Date

Cost/ Number of
Pages

Maria Semple
Whered You Go,
Bernadette

April
2, 2013

10.38

John Carlin
Playing the
Enemy: Nelson
Mandela and the
Game that Made a
Nation
Naomi Oreskes'
and Erik Conway's
The Collapse of
Western
Civilization: A View
from the Future.

August 5, 2008

Free online

July 1, 2014

9.50

Summary
The story of Bee
Branch as she tries
to find her mother
Bernadette Fox
Talks about the
fight of Nelson
Mandela to gain
equal rights and
how everything
played out.
Talks about the
important role that
climate change
took in the collapse
of this civilization.

The three universities I got my information from where USC (University of South
Carolina), Clemson and HBU (Houston Baptist University). This universities provided
the book that I thought where right for every freshman to read because of the
variety and the importance that each book has. Each one of them will give you
pleasant reading and also one you will remember because of the knowledge you get
from them.
Whered You Go, Bernadette By Maria Semple is a great book where Bee Branch
goes through a lot to find her missing mom, Bernadette. Eventually she finds out
that she went on a trip to Antarctica in search of adventure and the novel gives a

fun experience to read. John Carlin Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the
Game that Made a Nation is a great book where reading it makes you aware of the
conflicts that people had to go through to have equal rights and how it all helped to
get where we are now as a civilization. Naomi Oreskes' and Erik Conway's The
Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. Is a book that I found
interesting because it talked about the sudden collapse of western civilization and
what a huge role the climate change played in the book.
The book by John Carlin Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that
Made a Nation for me is one that every freshman coming to FGCU should read.
Learning how to embrace different cultures and races is something that is basic in
FGCU. The diversity of cultures and races that FGCU give is like no other. You can
find people from every corner of the world here. Talking to a stranger in the bus can
be as good of a learning experience as going to class. There is some much to learn
from other people and culture. We need to learn how to embrace it and I think this
book will help us do that.
CC: Nicolas Samayoa, FGCU Student