You Are What You Carry: What’s in Your Pocket or Purse Right Now?
Abbi Jacobson wants to know what you carry with you in your everyday life. She is interested in what we can learn about someone by seeing their belongings. She imagines … Continued
Strong Black Women
Inspiring and sometimes difficult accounts written by or about comedians, diplomats, activists, and other trailblazing African American women who changed or are changing their own futures and those of others.
New Books About Black History
These are just a few of our newest titles helping to paint a more complete picture of the role African Americans have played throughout the history of the United States.
Breaking Tradition: Women Code Breakers
Code-breaking heroines of WWII.
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
In Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, Karen Abbott introduces readers to women who were anything but victims during wartime.
This Land Is Your Land…
A journalist reports from the less comfortable side of “retirement” in American culture.
Five Notable Recent Non-Fiction Graphic Novels
These five titles are standout books both within their format and as non-fiction in general.
Herding Schrodinger’s Cats
Cham and Whiteson start at the very beginning (literally!) and use entertainment and art (and cats!) to get you to the very reaches of our understanding, and they do it with humor and familiarity.
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
“Rabies coevolved to live in the dog, and the dog coevolved to live with us – and this confluence, the three of us, is far too combustible a thing.”
Children’s Historical Books That Adults Will Love!
Children’s books that adults will enjoy!