The Foundations Book, sixth edition.  Not fifth edition. Available only from the 2 local stores.

Woman at Point Zero, by al Saadawi (one of the books on the summer reading list)

A good, college-level dictionary.  Not some namby-pamby paperback.

You'll have to provide for printing your own copies of some readings from the Web or the library later on; so save some money for this purpose.

Materials for taking notes and keeping track of projects.

An operating brain, awake.