General Books
Your BMC Bookshop carries a wide variety of books beyond the curriculum, a curated selection handpicked by store staff. If you don't see what you're looking for here on on our shelves, we are happy to special order practically anything for you. Over 100,000 titles are available for fast shipment directly to your address from our partner warehouses. Enter a title, author or ISBN in the search box at the top of this page to see what's in stock. If the search doesn't work for you, please email us at bookshop@brynmawr.edu and we will be happy to research your request. It's no trouble -- we love helping folks find books they're looking for.
Thus Was Adonis Murdered
Not, strictly speaking, a campus crime novel, but it's hard to imagine a more academic investigation: the principle narrator is an Oxford don who is explict about applying the tools of scholarship to crime solving. This is the first of four thoroughly delightful mysteries by Sarah Caudwell featuring "a decorative little group" of lawyers in London. Mawrters will find the series irresistable.
- Jim Huang, Bookshop Director
Math Campers
by Dan Chiasson
October 20, 2021
Feminist Flashcards
Miss Pym Disposes
On any credible list of all time great mysteries, you'll find at least one novel by Joesphine Tey: Daughter of Time, Brat Farrar, The Franchise Affair. They're all fantastic. My pick is Miss Pym Disposes, a brilliant and uncommonly perceptive novel that takes place at a women's college. Pop psychologist Lucy Pym is an alum. She returns for a lecture and ends up staying on for a while, a respite from the hustle and bustle of fame, and she's enjoying the company of the young students. The novel is fascinating for so many reasons, not the least of which is the way in which Miss Pym applies her version of psychology to what she observes, and how the various characters are viewed sympathetically and unsympathetically. The blurb below, which comes from the publsiher, does not do justice to the novel's complexities, especially to its elegant, stunning ending, which leaves us with much to consider, long after we turn the last page.
- Jim Huang, Bookshop Director
100 Year Starship, The
Audition for Murder
Baby Feminists
What do Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mae Jemison, Frida Kahlo, Barack and Michelle Obama, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Billie Jean King, Yoko Ono, and Malala Yousafzai have in common? They're all feminists-- and they were all once babies! This irresistible and timely 7 x 7 board book invites you to lift the flap and discover what your favorite feminist icons might have looked like as babies and toddlers. With an inspiring message that any baby can grow up to make the world a better place for all genders, Baby Feminists makes the perfect gift for baby showers, baby-naming ceremonies, birthdays, holidays, and more.
Beautiful World Where Are You
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.