Friends of the Library READING LIST
Compiled by Phyllis Acree Mahoney ’76 and Julie Tomas Walton ’91
Every year Friends of the Library hosts Holiday Books & Coffee with special guests Sally Brewster and Frazer Dobson from Park Road Books. Sally and Frazer share their highly anticipated “Must Read Holiday Recommendations” with our members, and this year FOL is sharing it with the Queens community. Enjoy!
All books are available to purchase from Park Road Books.
parkroadbooks.com. For information about Friends of the Library, please visit
library.queens.edu/fol.
Brandon Stanton Humans
Tana French Te Searcher
Marilynne Robinson Jack
Bryan Washington Memorial
Vivian Howard Tis Will Make it Taste Good
David Sedaris Best of Me
Ron Rash In the Valley: Stories and a Novella based on Serena
David Menconi Step it Up & Go: Te Story of North Carolina Popular Music
Peace Adzo Medie His Only Wife
Ken Follett Te Evening and Te Morning
(Left to right) Nathaniel Tomas, Grace Tomas, Lily Tomas, Donzetta Workman Tomas ’92 and Joy Tomas attend a peaceful protest organized by Donzetta’s daughter, Joy, on June 19 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
of the English Department since 1996. Tis summer she completed a PhD in rhetoric and composition at UNCG, finishing a dissertation titled Making Protest Matter: Bodies, Objects, and Rhetorical Assemblage in Social Justice Movements. She, her husband, Adam Owensby ’08, and their two daughters live in Plaza Midwood and look forward to seeing more friends when the pandemic is over.
Te class expresses sympathy to Michelle McIntire on the death of her mother, Barbara McIntire, who passed away on August 31.
Hannah, as well as reminiscing about their days at Queens. Te fun continued when the wedding day arrived, and this same group of fabulous ladies boogied the night away with Hannah and her bridesmaids!
Te class expresses sympathy to Lachlan Collins Bertaux on the death of her husband,
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David Bertaux, who passed away on September 2.
Te class expresses sympathy to Julie Moseley on the death of her father, James R. Moseley, Jr., who passed away on May 28.
1991 Andrea McCrary continues to teach at Queens, where she has been part
Julie Tomas Walton has been teaching group exercise classes at the Dowd YMCA in Charlotte for 10 years. Julie is on the Alumni and Friends of the Library boards at Queens and is a member of Te Learning Society. She has enjoyed catching up with fellow classmates Amy Lohr Gaffney, Andrea McCrary, Adrienne McCormick, Lisa Bynum and Amanda Knox Vestal over quarantine with regular Zoom calls. Julie is looking forward to the upcoming reunion in 2021!
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Te class expresses sympathy to Derek Painter on the death of his father, Larry Neal Painter, who passed away on March 24.
Donzetta Workman Tomas and her husband, Nathaniel, have enjoyed quality quarantine time with their three girls. Donzetta was recently promoted to branch chief with the U.S. EPA, Region 3 Office of Regional Counsel and is the first Black female attorney to serve in this role. Tis fall, she will be teaching Environmental Law and Sustainability at Temple University’s Fox Business School. In response to the murder of George Floyd, her 17-year-old organized a peaceful protest march.
Christy Vance married Feodor Bijkersma on November 9, 2019 in Lewisville, North Carolina.
Christy Vance ’92 married Feodor Bijkersma on November 9, 2019 in Lewisville, North Carolina. Tey adopted his five-year-old granddaughter, Scarlette, in March.
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