Are you an instructor looking to assign a reading to your class but want to
The Library can help you! Below is a list of our Course Support Collection of titles. NSCC instructors can request use of a title for the semester. Is there something you're interested in assigning your class and don't see it below? Contact your liaison librarian!
Titles in the Course Support Collection are non-serial books that fall under a certain cost threshold and the library holds enough copies for a typical section of a course.
Use our course support request form to get started.
Current Course Support Collection Titles
| Title | Notes |
| All souls : a family story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald | Initially provided to support FFL courses. Kindly donated by English department. |
| Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson | Initially purchased to support ESL courses |
| Dear Martin by Nic Stone | Initially purchased to support Gateway to College courses |
| Go ask Alice, Author anonymous | Initially provided to support FFL courses. Kindly donated by English department. |
| Limbo : blue-collar roots, white-collar dreams by Alfred Lubrano | Initially provided to support FFL courses. Kindly donated by English department. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. : warrior for peace by Tanya Savory | Initially provided to support FFL courses. Kindly donated by English department. |
| Night by Elie Wiesel ; a new translation by Marion Wiesel | Initially provided to support FFL courses. Kindly donated by English department. |
| The boy who harnessed the wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer | Initially purchased to support ESL courses |
| The four agreements : a practical guide to personal freedom by Miguel Ruiz | Initially provided to support FFL courses. Kindly donated by English department. |
| The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | Initially provided to support FFL courses. Kindly donated by English department. |
| The Pearl by John Steinbeck | Initially provided to support FFL courses. Kindly donated by English department. |
| They called us enemy : written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott ; art by Harmony Becker | Initially purchased to support Gateway to College courses |
| Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom | Initially provided to support FFL courses. Kindly donated by English department. |