The College Preparatory School Library has been the beneficiary of several generous donors, from former faculty to local organizations. This page is a tribute to those donors and the materials we purchased with their donations.
Several of our faculty, staff, and students have been published professionally; you can find their works in the College Prep Library as listed here under College Prep Authors.
Victor D. Rosen (1928-2007) was the first Chairman of the College Prep Board of Trustees from 1969 to 1972. His four children attended College Prep, and his family have funded this collection as a memorial.
Titles purchased with Rosen funds include the following:
| American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work Anti-Americanisms in World Politics Arguing the Just War in Islam China's New Confucianism The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies Environment, Scarcity, and Violence From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Hell Hath No Fury: True Profiles of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq A History of Iran How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World Iran Hostage Crisis King Hussein of Jordan Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia The Post-Soviet Wars Promises of Empowerment: Women in Asia and Latin America Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 Resources Under Regimes Revolutionaries to Race Leaders The Romani Movement Toussaint Louverture Team of Rivals Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief Voting Rights |
Titles in the Smith collection include the following:
| The "Racial" Economy Of Science : Toward A Democratic Future Alcatraz Is Not An Island (DVD) At Canaan's Edge : America In The King Years, 1965-68 Black Comedians On Black Comedy The Black Image In The White Mind Black Like You : Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation In American Popular Culture Chinese America Encyclopedia Of North American Immigration Eyes With Winged Thoughts The Forgotten Fifth : African Americans In The Age Of Revolution The Golden Road : Notes On My Gentrification Hollywood Asian : Philip Ahn And The Politics Of Cross-Ethnic Performance Hometown Chinatown : History Of Oakland's Chinese Community The Idea Of Race It's The Little Things : The Everyday Interactions That Get Under The Skin Of Blacks And Whites Just Americans : How Japanese Americans Won A War At Home And Abroad The Measure Of A Man : A Spiritual Autobiography Mecca And Main Street : Muslim Life In America After 9/11 Mixed : An Anthology Of Short Fiction On The Multiracial Experience Not A Genuine Black Man, Or, How I Claimed My Piece Of Ground In The Lily-White Suburbs Our Kind Of People : Inside America's Black Upper Class Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem : African American Literature And Culture, 1877-1919 The Race Beat : The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, And The Awakening Of A Nation Rough Crossings : Britain, The Slaves, And The American Revolution The Senator And The Socialite : The True Story Of America's First Black Dynasty U-X-L Asian American Reference Library When Affirmative Action Was White White Guilt : How Blacks And Whites Together Destroyed The Promise Of The Civil Rights Era |
Helen Green Turin was the mother of Abigail Turin '89, and wife of George Turin, who was a trustee at College Prep. Former College Prep librarian Betsy Schultz and Mr. Turin worked together to build a collection focused on visual arts and architecture. Mrs. Turin's daughter also designed the custom bookplates which were placed in the materials selected for this tribute.
Titles include the following:
African Masks
1900, Art at the Crossroads
Art Beyond the West
A History of Art in Africa
Art Cuba
American Art in the 20th Century
The Four Books on Architecture
Skyscrapers
Architecture And Cubism
A History of Russian Architecture
Modern Architecture Since 1900
The Triumph of the Baroque
Medieval Architecture in Western Europe
Ten Thousand Years of Pottery
Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art
Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers
Still Life
Victorian Painting
Impressionists Side By Side
American Impressionism
California Impressionism
The Impressionists at Argenteuil
Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting
Hokusai, Prints And Drawings
The Floating World of Ukiyo-E
An American Century of Photography
The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology
African Ceremonies
Becoming A Real School : The Story of The College Preparatory School by 
Bloom's How to Write about Jane Austen by 
Bloom's How to Write about John Steinbeck by 
Box of Bones: Book One by 
Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature by 
The Far Field: a novel of Ceylon by 
FontBook by 
Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative After 1848 by 
John Fante: his novels and novellas by 
The Last Count of Monte Cristo by 
The Liminal People by 
Lola, California by 
Lyrics: selections from the extant poems of Sappho by 
A Moral Alphabet of Vice and Folly by 
More Than Just a Game by 
Talisman by 
Tear down this wall by 
The Torah Codes by 
The True Account of the Death by Violence of George's Dragon by 