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February is Black History Month, and these exceptional books from the past year explore Black culture and history from new perspectives: Imani Perry’s book tells the story of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” from its roots as a school song composed in 1900 for an assembly honoring Abraham Lincoln’s birthday
Named a New York Times and New Yorker Top 10 Book of 2018, Small Fry is the story of Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ childhood, as the daughter of Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. She chronicles her early years spent bouncing between her emotional, at times unstable mother, and her distant,
Lethal White is the fourth novel in the Cormoran Strike series, written by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The lead character, Cormoran Strike, is a war veteran turned private detective with a practice in London. You might also know the characters and story-lines from the BBC Crime
The Feather Thief tells the strange but true story of how hundreds of rare bird skins and feathers – many collected during the 19th century – were stolen in 2009 from the Tring Museum, a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. The thief, 20 year old Edwin
In the autobiographical I Am, I Am, I Am, Seventeen Brushes With Death, Maggie O’Farrell chronicles 17 personal near-death experiences. Each of the events is recounted in its own essay; some stories are short and fleeting, some are more complicated, with far-reaching consequences. In telling these tales, she creates a full narrative
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we recommend Women and Power by Mary Beard, a Cambridge Professor of Classics. This “Manifesto” is a short volume – only 115 pages – and is based on two lectures, the first given in 2014 and the second in 2017. Beard opens her book by recounting
In her debut novel, Angie Thomas crafts a story about sixteen year old Starr Carter who witnesses a police shooting of her unarmed best friend. In the aftermath, Starr is torn between the two different worlds she inhabits — the deeply impoverished neighborhood she grew up in, and the upper-crust
Everyone is raving about Naomi Alderman’s new novel, The Power. This book tells the story of an alternate future, where women around the world have developed a new ability, an electric force that can inflict great pain on others. The impact of this new power upends gender norms, and the new
Forest Dark is Nicole Krauss’ latest novel. She is the award winning, best-selling author of The History of Love, (also available at the library). In Forest Dark, Krauss tells the story of an older lawyer and a younger novelist who both find themselves on a journey of metamorphosis and self-realization.
Are you looking for the newest thriller? Do you crave a good detective novel that will keep you up all night turning the page? Look no further! New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf’s latest, Not a Sound, is now available for check-out in our Unwind the Mind : Popular Reading Collection. Read reviews