Below are examples of books available at the Skyline College Library. There are many more titles. Please check out the Graphic Novels, ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages), and Talisman: Skyline College magazine of student poetry, prose, & Art Collections.
The Black Angels
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Sitting Pretty
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Gamers at Work
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Wake
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Narrative by Numbers
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Move Like Water
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Writing for Their Lives
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 1: the Omega Files - Short Stories
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Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories
by
Growing up Muslim
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Trauma and Life Stories
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Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative
by
Mixed
by
The Art of Immersion
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Chamberlain, M. (2009). Diasporic Memories: Community, Individuality, and Creativity-A Life Stories Perspective. The Oral History Review, 36(2), 177–187. https://doi.org/10.1093/ohr/ohp039
Gloster, R. (2017). Survivors’ grandkids take up the mantle of preserving stories. The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, 121(16).
Hoeken, H., Kolthoff, M., & Sanders, J. (2016). Story Perspective and Character Similarity as Drivers of Identification and Narrative Persuasion. Human Communication Research, 42(2), 292–311. https://doi.org/10.1111/hcre.12076
Jones, J. (2021). The Stories that Shape Our World: The power of young storytellers in advancing initiatives. Alternatives Journal (Waterloo), 46(3), 80–81.
Julier, L. (2017). Revising The Stories We Tell Ourselves As We Live. Fourth Genre, 19(2), v–viii. https://doi.org/10.14321/fourthgenre.19.2.000v
Lehman, M. N. (2022). Interviews: A collection of stories and perspectives about the past and future of GnRH research. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 34(5), e13140-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/jne.13140
Long, E. C. J., Fish, J. N., Scheffler, A., & Hanert, B. (2014). Memorable Experiences between Fathers and Sons: Stories That Shape a Son’s Identity and Perspective of His Father. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 22(2), 122–139. https://doi.org/10.3149/jms.2202.122
McAdams, D. P. (2019). “First we invented stories, then they changed us”: The Evolution of Narrative Identity. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 3(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.3.1.110
Plank, C. A., Simon-Reynolds, M., Gutierrez, K. C., McKay, S., & Sawi, O. (2023). Building a Community Archive: Preserving and Uplifting Stories of Filipino Labor and Migration. Filipino American National Historical Society Journal, 11, 161–170. https://doi.org/10.1353/fil.2023.a912941
Thomsen, D. K., Pfattheicher, S., & Dunlop, W. L. (2021). Authoring esteem: Writing about vicarious and personal life story chapters boosts state self-esteem. Personality Science, 2. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7017
The Danger of a Single Story by Chimananda Adichie
Everyone Around You Has a Story the World Needs to Hear by Dave Isay
Humans of New York, The Series One Story a Time (multiple videos)
If I Should Have a Daughter by Sarah Kay
The Magical Science of Storytelling by David Phillips
The MOTH StorySLAM (multiple videos)
Telling Stories with Data by Daniel Posmik
Why Storytelling is more trustworthy than presenting data by Karen Eber
Streaming video database featuring the PBS Video Collection across various disciplines.
Streaming video database including over 28,000 documentary video titles covering topics in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics and Health & Medicine to name a few
Skyline College has purchased a small selection of films. For access, log in as you would to Canvas. Note: You may need to enable pop-ups for Kanopy to access it from off-campus.
You can also access Kanopy through your public library by following the instructions below. For more information visit Creating a Kanopy account page.
