Research Guides: College 101 Resource Guide: Books and eBooks

Use the library catalog to search for books on your subject, or place holds on the books listed below:

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Connections Are Everything by Peter Felten; Leo M. Lambert; Isis Artze-Vega; Oscar R. Miranda Tapia
ISBN: 9781421443126
Publication Date: 2023
Shows simple steps students can take to make their own college experience meaningful and transformational. In short, practical chapters, this guide helps readers learn how to build relationships through various strategies.
Know That You Are Worthy by Adam J. Rodríguez (Editor); Yolanda Norman (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781538162408
Publication Date: 2023
Thirty-one alumni who were the first in their family to obtain a college degree share their experiences as first-generation students.
Taking Flight: the guide to college for diverse learners and non-traditional students by Perry LaRoque
ISBN: 9781642796063
Publication Date: 2021
Provides information students with disabilities may find helpful when navigating college. This book addresses college as a system that needs to be mastered and the strategies and self-awareness needed to be successful.
Your Pocket Therapist by Annie Zimmerman
ISBN: 9780063349605
Publication Date: 2024
A toolkit with advice on how to heal past trauma, build sustainable connections, and take ownership of your mental health.
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by Madeline Pendleton
ISBN: 9780385549783
Publication Date: 2024
Includes no-nonsense life and money advice, from negotiating pay and building credit to putting home ownership within reach.

Wake Tech students have access to thousands of eBooks. Try these databases or the titles below:

Ebook Central (opens in new window)
- Over 35,000 eBooks available to read and download.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) (opens in new window)
- This database allows you to use an online dictionary and create a citation for the eBook

Unfinished Business by Matt J. Bergman; Joann S. Olson
ISBN: 9781641138543
Publication Date: 2020
Highlights the stories of nontraditional students who successfully returned to school to earn their college degrees.
You've Got This by Rachael Alexander (Narrated by)
ISBN: 9781914171260
Publication Date: 2022
Guides you through your student journey from preparing to go to college or university, managing the academic pressures, finding a job, and everything in-between.
Relationship-Rich Education by Peter Felten; Leo M. Lambert
ISBN: 9781421439365
Publication Date: 2020
Provides readers with practical advice on how they can develop and sustain powerful relationship-based learning in their own contexts
Wabi Sabi by Nobuo Suzuki; Hector Garcia (Foreword by); Russell Calvert (Translator)
ISBN: 9784805316313
Publication Date: 2021
Wabi Sabi is the Japanese Zen philosophy that all things are imperfect, unfinished, and impermanent. This book shows readers how to apply this concept in the context of daily life and offers ideas on how to see it, embrace it and incorporate it into everyday thoughts, objects and situations.